There are today about 120, 000 Jews residing in Odessa, one of the largest cities in the Soviet Union, and they constitute about 17 per cent of the entire population, the New York Times reported today in a cable from Odessa. The correspondent added that this is the fourth largest Jewish. population among Soviet cities.
“The city has only one synagogue,” the report said.”The big building, next to the gasworks in one of the city’s leading quarters, is run down on the outside, but inside it is well kept.” The correspondent found about 90 Jews in the synagogue last Saturday, all of them elderly.
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