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{span}###gro{/span}-yid Faces {span}###ureya{/span} Crisis

A crisis was ###ted in the Agro-Yid, Polish ###ish organization for the colo###tion of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ###n it became known that OZET, ###ial Soviet Jewish colonization ###p, had issued a statement de###ing Polish Jewish immigration Biro-Bidjan is “unfeasible at ### present moment.” Several ###ers of the Agro-Yid immedi###y resigned their posts. ###fter an interview […]

January 21, 1935
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A crisis was ###ted in the Agro-Yid, Polish ###ish organization for the colo###tion of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ###n it became known that OZET, ###ial Soviet Jewish colonization ###p, had issued a statement de###ing Polish Jewish immigration Biro-Bidjan is “unfeasible at ### present moment.” Several ###ers of the Agro-Yid immedi###y resigned their posts. ###fter an interview with Presi### Michael Kalinin of the Soviet ###n, Dr. Suritz, leader of the ###o-Yid, recently announced that Soviet government was favor### disposed toward the settle###t of Polish Jews in Biro-Bid-###### He stated that 1,500 Polish ###s and their families would ###e for Biro-Bidjan beginning ###ch 1.

###wing to the severe economic ###rty of Polish Jewry and the ###ssibility of emigrating to Pal###e, many Polish Jews have ex###sed the desire to go to Biro###an. Plans of the leaders called the settlement of 100,000 spe-### selected Polish Jews in the ###nomous Jewish area.

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