Maxim Gorky, famous Russian novelist, in a letter to the Ozet, society for settling Jews on the land, condemned the rise of anti-Semitic propaganda in Soviet Russia.
Gorky was recently elected an honorary member of the society. In accepting the election, he wrote: “I hope the Jewish settlement on the land will somewhat sober up the petty bourgeois anti-Semities, whose brains are again being planted with unsound ideas.”
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