Reports reaching here today state there are presently 70,000 Jews living in Tashkent, capital of the Uzbekistan Soviet Republic, a Central Asian city of some 594,000 inhabitants. The community numbers three Yiddish writers, Yossef Itzkov, Max Tanenzap and Mendel Goldman, the latter originally from Bialystok. A number of the Tashkent Jews are Bukharan but the majority came to Tashkent during World War II from European Russia and the Baltic states.
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