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APR li 195:
VOL. XXVIII
A i lmi t i.(0, 1953
UNIVERSITY Of GtQittIA
No. 15
Reversal on Persecution Hinted in Moscow; Not in Sattelites
ADL Doubts New Soviet Decision
Will End Soviet Anti-Semitism
“Soviet Anti-Semitism did not
begin with recent events in Czech
oslovakia and Moscow and is not
likely to end with the sudden ad
mission of the Soviet Regime that
the case against the so-called ‘ter
rorist Jewish Doctors’ was com
pletely false and was fabricated by
‘Diversionists’ for political pur
poses," it was declared in Atlanta
Wednesday by Abe Goldstein,
chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Southern Regional
Board of the Anti-Defamation
League.
“It is undoubtedly true," Mr.
Goldstein said, “that the sudden
reversal of the past few days is
part of a general softening of at
titude by the Malenkov Regime
toward the free world. It is part
of the pattern which has led to
amnesties in the Soviet Union, to
offer to settle the Korean War
Prisoner question, and toward the
possible establishment of peace in
Korea. This should be encouraging
to all who hope for World Peace,
but these moves must be viewed
with caution and reserve.
“Whatever political purposes
may be served by the new policy,
Former Alabamian Feted
by A.D.L. in New York
NEW YORK—Irving M. Engel,
noted New York attorney, who is
a native of Birmingham and broth
er of William Engel, President of
the Birmingham Chamber of Com
merce, was honored by the Joint
Defense Appeal in New York at a
testimonial dinner April 9, at the
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.
Mr. Engel, who is chatrman of
the executive committee of the
AJC, headed the JDA New York
campaign last year. Community
leaders from all parts of the coun
try attended the dinner, which in
augurated JDA’s 1953 independent
campaign in New York. Also hon
ored was Max J. Schneider^ vice-
president of the Chemical Bank
and Trust Company of New York
and chairman of the ADL Eastern
Region Board.
Chairman of the dinner were
Jacob Blaustein, head of the
American Oil Company of Balti
more and president of the AJC,
and Leon Lowenstein. ,
“Irving Engel has contributed
many loyal years of statesmanlike
leadership and selfless devotion to
the advancement of community
welfare,” the dinner chairman
stated. “It is particularly fitting
at this time that we pay homage
to his distinguished guidance and
service in behalf of the JDA agen
cies, which today are helping to
meet growing threats to our se
curity and freedom and which are
leading our nation’s march to ex
tend our democratic legacy."
Mr. Engel, who is senior mem
ber of the law firm of Engel,
the Soviet Government has al
ready tipped its hand that it is
ready to use Anti-Semitism as a
political and propaganda weapon
whenever it finds it useful, The
free world is not so naive as to be
lieve that the Soviet authorities
were not at all fimes fully aware
of the falsity of the charges against
the Doctors in Moscow. A recent
analysis by the Anti-Defamation
League revealed how closely these
charges followed the classic anti-
semitic forgery known as the Pro
tocols of the Learned Elders of
Zion.
“It is interesting indeed to note
that the Malenkov Government
has suddenly found it convenient
to remember that the Soviet Con
stitution contains a clause express
ly forbidding Anti-Semitism — a
clause which has been honored
only in the breach since it became
a formal part of the Russian Con
stitution in 1936. Throughout the
years, Jews as well as Catholics
and Protestants in Russia have
been persecuted on one pretext or
another—for religious, political,
economic or cultural reasons. To
day, Jewish life we understand
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Gurion Hopes
Relations Again
With Soviet
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Premier Da
vid Ben Gurion said Sunday that
there is hope for renewed diplo
matic relations between the Soviet
Union and Israel and there might
also be a possible change in the
attitude of Soviet Government
with regard to permitting Jews to
migrate to Israel.
Mr. Ben Gurion made this state
ment at Tiberias where he spent
his Passover vacation. He was ad
dressing a group of new immi
grants who stopped off to greet the
Premier while on their way to a
Tel Hai memorial meeting for vic
tims of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The statement by Premier Ben
Gurion followed an official state
ment issued by the Israel Govern
ment yesterday after it was learn
ed here that Moscow had released
the doctors who were arrested on
charges of killing high Soviet of-
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New “Plot”
in Hungary
VIENNA (JTA)—A new Jewish
medical plot has been found by
the Communist authorities in
Hungary, the Budapest Communist
organ Szabad Nep reported last
week. In this case, the head and
two directors of a Budapest hos
pital were accused of revealing
"party secrets.”
The paper reported that Dr.
Imre Zador, head of the hospital,
had already been convicted of the
charge. Two hospital directors, Dr.
Babies and Dr. Lenhof, were said
to share the “heavy responsibility"
with Dr. Zador and to have been
dismissed from their posts. Dr.
Zador’s punishment was not in
dicated.
According to the paper, Dr. Za
dor allegedly obtained party se
crets from a highly placed Com
munist official who was a patient
j at the hospital, while the patient
was under the influence of drugs,
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Noted Rabbi Will Address
Welfare Fund Dinner
IRVING ENGEL
Judge, Miller and Sterling of New
York, practiced law in Birming
ham until 1924. He was the foun
der and first president of the Ala
bama Junior Chamber of Com
merce. He was appointed by
President Truman as a member of
the Committee on Government
Compliance. Last October he rep
resented the United States in a
Special Mission at the inaugura
tion ceremonies of the President
of Panama. He has played a lead
ing role in behalf of major social
issues and especially in the fight
for liberal immigration legislation.
His wife is president of the Na
tional Council of Jewish Women.
Georgia B'nai B’rith Lodges
Will Convene in Columbus
COLUMBUS—The Georgia As
sociation of B’nai B’rith Lodges
will hold its annual convention in
Columbus during the weekend of
April 11 and 12, it was announced
by Arthur J. Levin, Atlanta, state
secretary.
Delegates from Atlanta who will
attend, in addition to Mr. Levin,
include Harvey L. Cohen and Dr.
Irving Goldstein, state vice presi
dents, Hyman S. Jacobs, state
treasurer, Dr. Marvin Goldstein
and Sidney Haskins of the Atlanta
Lodge, Norman Frankel and Na
than Lipton of the Gate City Lodge
and Mrs. Joseph Pintchuck, Mrs.
Irving Goldstein and Mrs. Louis
Piassick of the B’nai B’rith Wom
en.
Among the matters to be discus
sed will be Soviet anti-Semitism,
revision of the McCarran Immi
gration Act, the Hillel Foundation
at the University of Georgia, and
State Association-supported proj
ects such as service to the inmates
of the Milledgeville State Hospital
and the Federal Penitentiary and
to the students at Riverside Mili
tary Academy and the patients at
the Warm Springs Poliomyelitis
Foundation.
Dr. Max Nussbaum, noted rabbi
of Temple Israel of Hollywood, will j
be the guest speaker at a dinner
meeting at the Progressive Club at
7 p.m. Monday, April 13, in be
half of the Atlanta Jewish Wel
fare Fund. Those who will attend
this dinner constitute Advance
Gifts Group Group II. Elliot Gold
stein, Stanford Makover and Hy
man Melta are the co-chairmen.
The dinner will be preceded by
a cocktail party at 6:30 p.m., ten
dered by A. L. Feldman and Da
vid L. Slann, Campaign General
Chairmen, in honor of the guest
speaker and ail those attending
the dinner.
Rabbi Nussbaum attained na
tional prominence when he deliv
ered the eulogy at the funeral of
the late A1 Jolson. He is a dynamic
speaker who brings a vital mes
sage to his hearers regarding pres
ent conditions facing Jews over
seas.
Dr. Nussbaum has recently re
turned from an inspection tour of
tain. He was known as the young
est rabbi in Germany, his first
post being Berlin’s Great Jewish
Congregation where he was the
spiritual leader from 1934 to 1950,
when he was forced out of Ger
many by the Hitler regime.
Before his trip to Israel, Dr.
Nussbaum has visited the country
in 1948, when it was still under
the rule of the British Mandate.
Because of war conditions prevail-
DR. MAX NUSSBAUM
Israel where he met with leading
Government officials to discuss
problems connected with the ar
rival of thousands of refugees,
many from behind the Iron Cur
FROM OXFORD, ENGLAND, COMES
AJ.W.f:S FEATURE tt WEEK
Atlanta and the academic serenity of the Oxford University
campus are a long ways apart—but the sequested life has not made
Rhodes Scholar Elliott H. Levitas forget the annual campaign of
the Jewish Welfare Fund in his home city.
lie took time off from his studies to write the Youth Division
in which he has long been active:
“I assume the Jewish Welfare Fund Campaign must be un
derway now or fust about to begin and l wanted to send my con
tribution in, fust in case I do not receive notification of the exact
dates of the drive.
“No doubt this years drive will be a great success since all
j people—Jew and Gentile—must realize how important greater aid
than ever is needed for Eastern Europe's re-persecuted Jews and
for the vital support of the State of Israel. These increased needs
on the international sphere do not, I imagine, decrease the impor
tant work that the J.W.F. does in our own American and local
community. Recognizing this necessary and urgent demand for
funds, I only regret that I am personally unable to give more."
Mr. Levitas is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Levitas.
See other news of At
lanta Jewish W elf are
Fund Campaign, Page 7.
ing at that time, he made his en
tire trip in an armored car driven
and guarded by members of the
Haganah, the Israel defense organ
ization. On his latest tour Dr.
Nussbaum interviewed recent ar
rivals from Communist-dominated
countries and then flew to Berlin
where he passed the Passover fes
tival with escapees from East Oar-
many in the same congregation
where he served as rabbi before he
came to the United States.
All through the early critical
years of the Hitler regime, Dr.
Nussbaum commuted between
Berlin and London, bringing re
ports to English leaders, including
Dr. Chaim Welzman, late president
of Israel, and others, about the
situation of German Jewry. While
he was in London in 1939 to at
tend the Arab-Jewish Conference
there, he met the late Dr. Stephen
S. Wise who prevailed upon him
to come to this country.
A noted scholar, Dr. Nussbaum
once lectured extensively through
out Europe and was a regular con
tributor to the German and Euro
pean press. During those years he
published books on the “Philoso
phy of Max Adler,” well known
German-Jewish sociologist of the
late nineteenth century, and the
“Nationalism of Yehuda Ha’Levi,”
greatest Hebrew poet of the Mid
dle Ages and one of its outstand
ing philosophers.