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Signs of Religious Revival at Jewish Collectives Stirs Soviet Organ’s Ire

August 11, 1937
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SIGNS OF REVIVAL OF RELIGION AMONG JEWS IN COLLECTIVE FARMS AROUSED THE YIDDISH COMMUNIST DAILY, EMES, TO VIGOROUS CONDEMNATION TODAY.

A FORMER COMMUNIST NAMED RABINOVICH, SECRETARY OF THE VILLAGE SOVIET AT ORDJONIKIDZE ORGANIZED THE BAKING OF MATZOS (UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR PASSOVER), THE NEWSPAPER CHARGED, ADDING, “IT TRANSPIRED LATER THAT RABINOVICH WAS A DOUBLE-FACED TROTSKYIST RENEGADE.”

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