David Pinski, New York Yiddish author and playwright, arriving yesterday in Moscow on a European tour, declared:
“Soviet Russia is the only country I can visit where I don’t feel myself insulted because I am a Jew. It is the only country where I can permit myself the pleasure of forgetting for a little while that I am a Jew.”
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