Solomon Mikhoels, chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Russia, today broadcast from here a direct appeal to the Jews of the United States and England to intensify their aid to Russia in order to help the Red Army defeat the Nazis.
“We are not calling for charity,” the noted Jewish artist, who has been decorated by the Soviet Government, said in his appeal to the Jews in the democratic countries. “We are calling upon you to fulfill your duty.” A similar request was made by a Polish-Jewish writer, Bunim Heller, who stated that Jewish writers who escaped from Nazi-occupied Poland are given all possible aid in Russia and are having their works published here by government publishing houses.
The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee also announced today that the Jewish State Theater of Kharkov has settled in Samarkand where it is continuing to give performances for thousands of evacuated Jews and Jewish refugees from Poland, and that “hundreds of thousands of Jewish books have been sold by the Jewish publishing house ‘Emes’ during the last six months, as a result of increased interest in Jewish literature.”
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