(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
“Zhid,” the insulting term applied during Czaristic times to Jews, has again become current among Russian students in Soviet educational institutions, reports coming from various parts of the Soviet Union show.
The Yiddish Communist paper of Minsk. “Oktiabr,” reports that the term “Zhid” is frequently applied to Jewish students who seek to enter the White Russian Music Conservatory.
The paper charges the dean of the Conservatory. Prochoroff, with deliberate discrimination against Jewish students.
The Charkov “Stem” cites a number of incidents showing the intense anti-Semitism prevalent among the students at the Charkov Technological Institute, despite the fact that the Communist Youth Organization has a membership of 400 at the Institute and exercises a strong in?.
Even the Communist students are affected by anti-Semitism and often ask why no numerus ?ausus against Jewish students is introduced. They also demand why the government devotes so much amention to the Jewish question.
Three students at the University of Moscow. B?, Botenshuk and A?, were found guilty of maltreating two Jewish students who were their roomates.
The three students were expelled from the Communist party and suspended from the University. The suspension was at the request of the Communist Students Organization.
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