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Article: Anti-Defamation League Calls on Ciga Hotels Magazine to Apologize for "Insensitive Description" of Jews

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November 10, 1993
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NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Outraged by the flippant treatment of Jews and Jewish history in a Ciga Hotels Magazine article about Venice, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called on the magazine to print an apology.

In a letter to Ettore Della Giovanna, director of Ciga Service, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL national director, said the League "continues to be inundated with letters from Americans" complaining about the characterization of Jews in an article on "Venice and its Synagogues" in "Ciga Hotels Magazine 107." Describing an American Jewish couple, the article says, "his apperance and gait may well remind one of Chico or Groucho Marx, she will probably be heavily made up and ...

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