A scheduled performance of J.L. Peretz’ play “Bontze Schweig”–which deals with the entry of a humble Jew to Heaven–at the St. Georges Church at Bloomsbury, London, was cancelled today by the Bishop of Stepney, on the advice of the censors of the Church of
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