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Signs of Religious Revival at Jewish Collectives Stirs Soviet Organ’s Ire

August 11, 1937
See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date

SIGNS OF REVIVAL OF RELIGION AMONG JEWS IN COLLECTIVE FARMS AROUSED THE YIDDISH COMMUNIST DAILY, EMES, TO VIGOROUS CONDEMNATION TODAY.

A FORMER COMMUNIST NAMED RABINOVICH, SECRETARY OF THE VILLAGE SOVIET AT ORDJONIKIDZE ORGANIZED THE BAKING OF MATZOS (UNLEAVENED BREAD FOR PASSOVER), THE NEWSPAPER CHARGED, ADDING, “IT TRANSPIRED LATER THAT RABINOVICH WAS A DOUBLE-FACED TROTSKYIST RENEGADE.”

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