... were written in both Yiddish and Russian, Jews were serving in prominent government posts, Jewish libraries and a theater were opened and most impressively schools were opened where only Yiddish was the language of instruction (35). Optimism was growing so quickly that Jewish columnists wrote in 1936 " The ... intellectual activity (47). Culturally much was to be destroyed in Birobidzhan. All Jewish institutions were closed down. Yiddish books were burned and all schools, libraries and museums containing Jewish culture were closed (48). The horror of this time in the Jewish Autonomous R...

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... to arms; even if the will to fight was present, the lack of resources held back the Jews. Fighting meant giving up loved ones to actively pursue a violent organization. The alternative form of non-violent resistance became the prominent way of standing up for themselves, and this form of resistance was enacted in several ways. Evasion, theft, education, and underground publications ... hundred illegal minyanim, groups of Jews praying together, who gathered on a regular basis. Also, at least fifty underground newspapers were circulated in the Warsaw ghetto. Exams were held for undergroun...

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... into Palestine began in earnest. The rise of Hitler to power in Germany and the low immigration quotas into the United States made the Jewish communities in Palestine a very attractive alternative to the horrors that European Jews faced by staying where they were (Noble 41-42). Golda Myerson held other Zionist talks in the United States to bolster support from Americans ... Holocaust as a battle cry for a Jewish state. A Jewish homeland would assure that there would never be another Holocaust. During a meeting of Jewish leaders, Golda made the statement, "We have no alternative" (Noble ...

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