A special radio program to combat anti-Semitism was broadcast this morning over all Soviet stations, in connection with the growing anti-Jewish movement throughout Europe.
The speakers cited the pogroms which took place in Russia under the Czarist regime and denounced anti-Semitism as a “counter-revolutionary tool” and as a means to “incite workers against workers.”
Gifts valued at 100,000 roubles (approximately $60,000) were sent today by the city of Kharkov to Biro-Bidjan, the autonomous Jewish region in the Far East, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the proclamation of the region as an autonomous part of Soviet Russia.
A new Jewish daily newspaper, the fifth in the Soviet Union, started publication in the city of Vinice, Ukraine.
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