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Russian Authorities Decide to Form Jewish District in Cherson

March 8, 1927
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

The creation of a Jewish administrative district in the region of the Cherson Jewish colonies was finally decided upon at a meeting of the praesidium of the Ukrainian Central Executive Committee held on March 5. The hundred-year-old Jewish colony, Large Sadeh-Menuchah, is to be the center of the Jewish district.

The district has a population of 180,000. The Jewish population amounts to 87 per cent.

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