After a five-year tour of the world, Peretz Hirschbein, the noted Jewish writer, returned Tuesday to New York with his wife. Hirschbein had visited all of the countries with large Jewish populations, namely, Palestine, Russia and Poland.
In an interview with the representative of the Jewish Daily Bulletin, he expressed great enthusiasm for the Jewish colonies in Russia and for the new Jewish life which is being created through this colonization work. He admitted the existence of hardships among all the declassed Jews in the Russian villages but expressed the hope that in time all of the declassed Jews would be industrialized.
Hirschbein painted a dark picture of Jewish life in Poland. “It is impossible to describe how bad the Jewish situation in Poland really is. He said that he could not speak about the situation in Palestine because since he left there the conditions had changed greatly. He will remain in this country for some time in order to prepare some of his works for publication.
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