A demand that efforts towards improving the status of the Jews of Russia by settling them on the land and industrializing them be concentrated in Crimea and not in Bira Bidjan, Far Eastern Republic, was voiced today by J. Larin, president of the Ozet, the society for settling the Jews on the land, in a lecture at the Communist Club.
Bira Bidjan is the region where an independent Jewish republic had been planned by the Soviet government but the mismanagement of the Ozet officials entrusted with the job of developing the territory together with the unwillingness of Jews to go to Bira Bidjan brought about a change in the plans and Bira Bidjan is now being administered as an independent economic unit instead of as a Jewish Republic.
The appeal of Larin to lay stress on the work in Crimea instead of in Bira Bidjan was criticized by M. Litvakoff and other Jewish Communist leaders as weakening Jewish interest in Bira Bidjan.
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