Celebration of the Jewish New Year passed off quietly in Moscow as the annual anti-religious campaign sponsored by the Society of the Godless failed almost completely to obtain support.
The society issued a brochure and other propaganda material, but the Yiddish newspapers generally disregarded it.
Emess, Yiddish Communist paper, sharply criticized the society and the character of its brochure which it assailed particularly for referring to the Arab anti-Jewish disorders as programs inspired by British imperialism. The paper pointed out indignantly that “that was no way to refer to the Arabs’ heroic struggle for freedom.”
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