Whole hearted support to the Jews in Soviet Russia in their fight against Hitlerism was pledged in a half-hour broadcast over stations WMCA and WRUL today by Jewish speakers, in a program sponsored by the Committee of Jewish Writers and Artists in the United States.
The broadcast, which was addressed to “Our fellow-Jews in the Soviet Union,” stressed the point that, “American Jewry is prepared to make the greatest sacrifices in order to help the Soviet Union and its allies to destroy the enemy of mankind and the Jewish people, and to wipe off the last trace of Hitlerism and fascism from the face of the earth.”
The committee consists of more than 175 Jewish writers, artists, clergymen, scientists, educators, musicians, playwrights, and includes Dr. Albert Eiastein, Sholem Asch, M. Lincoln Schuster, Louis Boudin, and Benjamin Winter.
Their broadcast was the first reply by American Jews to a radio appeal some time ago by the Soviet Jewish intellectuals. Speakers on the program, which was beamed to Europe over short wave by WRUL, included Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, long director of the American Jewish Joint Agricultural Corporation, which settled 250,000 Jews on farms in the Crimea between 1924 and 1938; Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein, leading orthodox rabbi in the United States; Dr. Chaim Zhitlowsky, prominent Jewish writer; Waldo Frank, author; and others.
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