The Christian-Jewish Friendship Committee reported here today that 159 primary school textbooks have been revised to eliminate references offensive to Jews. Some of the phrases eliminated from the texts referred to Jews as “usurers,” “national spendthrifts,” “ungrateful people” and “ceremonial criminals.”
Officials of the committee said the campaign against “false” interpretations of Jews would be continued in the interests of greater harmony between Catholic Spain’s various religious groups. There are about 6,000 Jews in Spain and a slightly larger number of Protestants. Spanish non-Catholic religions recently were given freedom to worship under a new religious law.
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