At a meeting of more than one thousand non-Jewish residents of Borscha, the town that was badly damaged by a fire of anti-Semitic origin last July, a demand was made for a municipality apart from the Jewish population. “We do not want to pay taxes where Jews live. We want an administration separate from the Jews,” the resolution says, urging that the new non-Jewish municipality be established at Payana, six kilometres from Borscha.
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