Word was received today from Moscow of the suspension of Emess, Yiddish daily and an official organ of the Communist Party. This was taken as substantiation of widespread reports of a purge of Jewish Communists. Reports had been received in Warsaw that Moishe Litvakoff, former editor of Emess, had been arrested some months ago and had died in prison.
Other Jews reported to have been seized in what Warsaw Jewish newspapers described as mass arrests of Jewish communists are Simon Dimanstein, for many years president of the Ozet, Jewish land settlement society, and Israel Zinberg, well-known historian. Mr. Dimanstein early this year was ousted as head of the Ozet’s organ, Tribuna, for “misleading the masses” and the paper was banned.
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