A giant mural portraying the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union and the imprisonment of Jewish artists there was mounted today on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry called it a “counter art exhibition” to a Soviet Folk Art exhibit on display inside the museum. The mural was prepared by students of the Ramaz School.
Malcolm Hoenlein, director of the Conference which sponsored the demonstration, said. “Our presence here is not to disrupt the display or prevent passersby from entering the exhibit,” but “to serve as a reminder that the same energies exerted to encourage Soviet culture abroad are channeled toward the suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union.”
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