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| Title | Soviet "anti-semitism": the big lie |
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| Publisher | Jewish Life |
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| Date | 1949 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 31 pages: illustrations; 20 cm |
| Original Item Location | DS146.R9M54 1949 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8321003~S5 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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| Transcript | not had it any too well in the course of the two decades of the Soviet dictatorship." Truth Breaks Out But it seems that, like all of the other Jewish newspapers, the Forward was being deluged with letters from hundreds and hundreds of Jews who had been saved by the Red Army, until it couldn't ignore them any longer. On February 4, the Forward again editorialized with: "Many American Jews have lately been receiving letters from their relatives in that part of Poland which has been taken by the Bolsheviks. The writers of these letters thank God that they have saved themselves from the nazi hell and they express great satisfaction at the fact that they now find themselves in a country where they are sure of their lives and are no longer insulted or persecuted as Jews." While the Forward was engaged in its contortions, reports of what was taking place were pouring in. On February 26, 1940, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency was reporting that: "the Soviet government takes into consideration the tragic position of the refugees and gives them the opportunity to move deeper into Russia. Despite that, the number of refugees [in Western Ukraine] does not let up. Thousands of Jewish refugees from nazi Poland continue to come into Russia. Their number is growing daily and among them are not only Polish Jews, but Austrian, German and Czechoslovak Jews as well, who are fleeing from nazi terror." There are many stories that could be told of those trying days for the Jews and of the scandalous slanders made by the American Jewish press against the Soviet Union. One, that of Dr. Joseph Nover, a Polish refugee, will serve. Toward the end of November, 1948, Dr. Nover grew so incensed by the lies printed in the Forward that he wrote a protesting letter to the Forward which that paper refused to print. Dr. Nover then sent it to the 19 |