The number of books in Yiddish distributed in Russia for Jewish readers during the past five years reached 765,000 copies, according to the representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency here. These were copies of 170 books published during this period.
Alphabets were compiled for national minorities who, before the revolution, did not have their own alphabets. A newspaper is being published for the benefit of the Caucasian mountain Jews, the chairman of the publishing office stated.
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