Word “zhid” Been Expunged from Russian Dictionary Says Moscow Judge in Sending Woman to Prison for U

The word “Zhid” (the insulting form of the word Jew) has been expunged from the Russian dictionary, the judge in one of the Moscow courts declared when a case came up before him this week in which a Jewish woman, Rachel Weinberg, complained that Helena Marzinowska, a non-Jewish neighbour, had called her a Zhidovka.

You, Citizen Marzinowska, should know, the Judge said, that the word “Zhid”, which is a heritage from Czarist days, is now used only by such elements who desire in that way to hurt the feelings of Jewish workers. A fortnight’s compulsory labour will be a good lesson to you not to use such words again.