RJ11
1/20/2009 8:31:00 AM
In article <46a4f7f6-c46c-417e-ba1c-b8d1ca36cd33@p29g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
Istvan Lippai, posting as "TurkeyBoy <ataturkey@hotmail.com>", wrote:
> STALIN'S JEWS
These "Jews", Istvan?
On the persecution of Jews by the Communists:
<quote>
In August 1919, all Jewish religious communities [in the Communist
USSR] were dissolved, their property confiscated and the overwhelming
majority of synagogues shut for ever. The study of Hebrew and the
publication of secular works in Hebrew were banned. Yiddish printing
was permitted, but only in phonetic transcription, and Yiddish
culture, though tolerated for a time, was placed under careful
supervision.
</quote>
RJ.