Jew Gets Three-year Prison Term in Russia for Reading Yiddish Paper

The Yiddish-language “Unzer Stimme” reported today that a Jew in the Soviet town of Grodno was given a three-year prison term for receiving from Warsaw the Yiddish-language “Folkstimme,” which is a Communist newspaper.

The “Unser Stimme” account was based on an eye-witness report from a Jew arriving here from behind the Iron Curtain. His name was withheld by the newspaper. According to his report. A. Aberman, an elderly Jewish war invalid, was at a factory meeting where the errors of the Communist regime were being criticized. Aberman asked when the Yiddish press would again be permitted in the Soviet Union. The next day Soviet police appeared at Aberman’s home and arrested him on a charge of possessing the Warsaw Yiddish daily, according to “Unzer Stimme.”