The deepening of the economic crisis may lead to outbursts of violence against Jews." The resurgence of antiSemitism in the USSR was a major threat at an international conference on Soviet Jewry in Moscow last week. It was the first such major gathering since Just after the Bolshevik Revolution. when Lenin actively sought Jewish support to further his drive for control. The conference ended Friday with new resolutions calling for eased emigration procedures. But because the Jewish emigration rate is the highest in decades. with 11.000 departing in November alone. Soviet delegates accorded far greater significance to a declaration that antiSemitism at home is visibly on the increase. They called attention to the dozens of roughnecks gathered outside the conference hall all week who jostled and jeered at participants. calling them "Jewish prostitutes" and worse names.
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