Summarizing the progress made by Russian Jewry during the past year, Jewish leaders in Moscow stress two main lines of development. First, the past year saw Jews making decided progress in the direction of becoming farmers, the Jews now forming a defiinite, if small, entity of agriculturists in Russia. In the second place, upwards of fifty thousand Jewish youths have been drawn into the five-year plan, which for the first time has opened the big industries of the country to the Jews.
This is expected to have a far-reaching change upon Jewish life during 1931, which is expected to show a trend definitely away from trading toward production. An important fact in connection with Jewish progress in Russia during the past year is considered to be the establishment of a large number of artels of small industries in the Jewish centres of White Russia and Ukrainia with the aid of local and American money, which has resulted in the improvement of the economic condition of a large number of declassed Jewish families.
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