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Publish Jewish Communist Membership Figures

October 21, 1929
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Official figures on the number of Jews in the states of Soviet Russia who belong to the Communist party were made public today. In Russia proper, 13,806 Jews are members of the Communist party. Of this number more than 8,000 reside in Moscow, only 5,000 in the surrounding provinces.

In White Russia there are 7,049 Jewish members and candidates for membership and in the Ukraine 20,306 members and candidates.

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