(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The recent banishment of Leon Trotzky and other prominent Jewish Communists is viewed as a sign of the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Russia by Dr. Daniel Pasmannik, one time leader of Zionism in Russia, now living in Paris. Dr. Pasmannik expressed his view in a letter to the “Borba za Rossiiu” Russian weekly appearing in Paris under the editorship of Burzev.
Anti-Semitism, he states, is steadily permeating even the Communist party which has hitherto been free from anti-Semitism.
Dr. Pasmannik reiterates his urge to Russian Jews to renew an active campaign against Bolshevism. He feels convinced, he says that “Bolshevism implies absolute economic ruin for Russian Jewry, as well as the spiritual massacre of Judaism.” Reminding his readers that “even in the times of the Tsar the Zionists were not made to suffer a hundredth part of the persecution to which they are now subjected” by the Soviet authorities, he goes on to say that the rising generation of Russian Jews is growing up utterly without a Jewish cultural and religious background, and that the traditional cohesion of the Jewish family is rapidly becoming a thing of the past under Soviet rule.
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