The Central Anti-Religious Museum will open a Jewish department for the announced purpose of “exposing the exploitary Jewish religion and the close contact which existed between the Czarist police and Jewish clericals.”
The museum, says the announcement, intends to “prove by documents” that rabbis and religious teachers were employed by the Czarist government. It proposes to do so by exhibiting a permit issued by the Ministry of Education to one Moishe Leibov. This official permit from the Ministry is interpreted as meaning that Leibov was employed by the Ministry.
Another exhibit is to be a Torah scroll which the Jews of Kishinev presented to Czar Nicholas when he visited Kishinev in 1914. The Torah decorations consist of the Torah Crown, the Star of David, and also the Czarist Crown and a double-headed eagle. This too is to be used to prove the alleged relationship between the Jewish religion and Czarism.
A medal received by Rabbi Dublizki from General Solonin, in recognition of twenty-five years of faithful rabbinical service, will also be exhibited.
All the exhibits are to be designed to show the danger for the revolution of the Jewish religion.
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