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Soviet Approves Society to Study Jewish Literature

September 4, 1928
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The Jewish Scientific Society, which has for its purpose the study of the Jewish literature, language and history, has been approved by the Soviet Government.

The Soviet Education Commissariat has assigned an annual subsidy to arrange a Yiddish Section in the Moscow People’s Museum. A commission will have the task of gathering data on folk fore and ethnography in Jewish towns.

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