The literary digest . on the East Sideand undeistand the people. Dr. Simonss statement before the Senate Committee makesan implied distinction between orthodox and apostate Times thus quotes his testimony: I should like to make it plain that among my best friends andamong the finest Americans •! have known are men of Jewishblood. The unpleasant facts that I shall have to disclose innowise refer to them. The persons that have gone into Russiaand joined in this diabolical thing over there are apostate Jews,men who deny their God and who have forsaken the religionand the teachings of the
The literary digest . on the East Sideand undeistand the people. Dr. Simonss statement before the Senate Committee makesan implied distinction between orthodox and apostate Times thus quotes his testimony: I should like to make it plain that among my best friends andamong the finest Americans •! have known are men of Jewishblood. The unpleasant facts that I shall have to disclose innowise refer to them. The persons that have gone into Russiaand joined in this diabolical thing over there are apostate Jews,men who deny their God and who have forsaken the religionand the teachings of their fathers. I have talked over thismatter with some of our leading Jewish citizens and they fullyrealize the situation, and among those who are helping us tofight it are great numbers of rabbis and other splendid citizensof the Jewish faith Within two months after the March (1917) revolution pro-Germanism was found to be at work in every phase of Russianlife. The agitators came from all parts, hundreds of them, and. DR. GEORGE A. SIMONS, Who blames Yiddish agitators from theEast Side of New York for a large partof Russias troubles with the Bolsheviki. these latter included many of the most active from the EastSide of New York. These Yiddish agitators from the New York East Sidefollowed in the trail of Trotzky, who Avas himself on the EastSide at tlie time of the Czars overthroAV. I have met hundredsof these East-Siders. I have seen them on the NcAsky Prospect, and some of them called on me at myhome in Petrograd. Let me make it plain that these menare apostate Jcavs. I dont like this un-pleasant feature of the case, but it hap-pens to be the truth, and must thereforecome out. And so the rcA^olution was but a fewweeks old before some of us became im-prest with the fact that there was astrong apostate Yiddish element at workin the Bolshevik machine. Likevvdsethere was a very strong German elementin it, and that such was the case is shownin an able thesis Avorked out by Nicholas
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