Five workmen at the government shipyards in Petrokow were sentenced today to varying terms in prison for anti-Semitism and for insulting their Jewish fellow-workers.
The leader of the group was sentenced to a three-year term. The others received milder sentences.
The government today decided to erect in Biro-Bidjan a mining metallurgical institute, the building of which should be completed not later than 1937. The institute will also include living quarters for the students.
Eight hundred Jews in the district of Vinnitza, in the Ukraine, registered this week for emigration to Biro-Bidjan during the next three months. Seventy-five Jewish families in the same district have registered to go to the Jewish collective farms in Crimea
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
