The Ukrainian Canadian Committee, representative body of the Ukrainians in the Dominion, issued a statement denouncing “Judaism Without Embellishment,” the anti-Semitic book published in Kiev, capital of the Soviet Ukraine, as “a shameless provocation.” The committee condemned the book “as an attempt to bring disunity and mistrust “among Jews and Ukrainians.”
The committee’s condemnation of the book, under the signatures of the Rev. Dr. B. Kushnir, its president, and W. J. Sarchuk, general secretary, appeared in the Jewish Post, local Jewish weekly. “This type of publication,” stated the committee, “cannot serve any good purpose.”
Referring to the fact that the book had been issued by the Ukrainian Academy of Science, the committee declared: “The Ukrainian scientists and their highest scientific institutions are now the object of an accusation of anti-Semitism, and this can throw an unfavorable light on the entire Ukrainian nation. The publication inflicts a cruel and unjustifiable blow to the Jewish people and their religion.”
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