About 20,000 Asian Jews currently reside in the city of Tashkent, the capital of Soviet Asia, it is reported today from Tashkent by the New York Times. The report adds that “several thousand” Jews who were evacuated to Tashkent during World War II also remained in the city. There are three or four synagogues in the city, the correspondent reports.
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