Soviet newspapers reaching here today from various sections of the Soviet Union continue to carry anti-Jewish innuendo aimed at or eating the impression that Jews are behaving in an “unsocialist manner.”
The Moscow daily Leninskoye Znamia, in its issue of March 17, attacked the practice of some factories that farm out their work to be done by housewives at home and cited the names of several Jewish women, doing factory work at home. The chief engineer of the administrative unit giving out such work, Comrade Borukhovin–another Jewish-sounding name–had reportedly been fired for his practices.
Rabochaya Gazeta, a Kiev daily, cited a man identified as 70-year-old Samuil Yakovlevich Bykov–obviously Jewish–for renting equipment to fishermen from whom he allegedly elicited half of their earnings. An ordinary automobile accident, in which a woman was killed, was reported in Vecherny Leningrad, an evening paper, in such a manner as to cast aspersions of lying against several persons with names that sound Jewish.
Kmosomolskoye Znamia, of Kiev, told the story of a Jewish youth, named Yankelevich, who had been expelled from the Kharkov Medical Institute in his last year of study for having failed to participate in work on collective farms during his vacations. The article pictured the youth as a “parasite,” conceded that he was a good student but employed anti-Semitic terms to characterize him as an intellectual who shirks hard work.
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