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Friday, March 23, 1956
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Rumanian Zionist
Held Under Severe
Jail Conditions
ISTANBUL, (JTA) — A. L.
Zisu, leader of the outlawed Zi
onist movement in Rumania, is
now confined under severe con
ditions in the Rumanian prison
town of Pitesti, according to a
report reaching here. The report,
brought by a non-Jewish Ruman
ian escapee in jail. Both of them
are confined in a small cell with
eight other prisoners. The cell has
only five beds and Zisu and Bere-
stanu are allowed out of the cell
only twice a week for ten min
utes. The escapees said that Zisu
told him he had been sentenced
to 25 years’ imprisonment.
According to the report the drive
against Zionists began in 1951.
At that time, a Rabbi Pushstein,
who was then teaching Hebrew
to the children of the Israel Con
sul in Bucharest, was arrested.
Under torture, the report con
tinued, he was forced to denounce
80 Zionist leaders, all of whom
were immediately arrested. Mean
while, the security police produc
ed a letter sent by Zisu to Rabbi
Pushstein, with the request that
it be handed to the Israeli Con
sul. The letter asked the Consul
to appeal to American Zionists to
intervene on behalf of the Jews
of Rumania. Zisu was arrested at
that time.
May, Persky Selected
Delegates To World
Zionist Congress
Robert A. Persky of Augusta,
Georgia, will be on the ZOA Del
egation to the 24th World Zionist
Congress which will be open on
April 24 in Jerusalem. He is a
past president of the Southeastern
ZOA Region.
Their selection was approved at
the last meeting of the National
Zionist Administrative Council,
the ruling body of the Zionist
Organization of America between
conventions. The ZOA will be
represented at the Congress by 34
delegates and an equal number of
deputy delegates. The delegation
will be headed by Dr. Emanuel
Neumann and Mortimer May.
H. Spitzer Accepts
Position In Miami
Harry Spitzer hhas been ap
pointed sales promotion manager
of Richards Department Store in
Miami, according to Ben R. Gor
don, president of City Stores.
Mr. Spitzer recently resigned
from Rich’s, Inc., where he served
in several sales promotion and
advertising capacities. He was ad
vertising director of Rich’ from
1951 to 1954, succeeding to that
position from the basement ad
vertising manager’s post, which
he had held from 1948. Mr. Spitzer
previously was basement adver
tising manager of Davison-Paxon
Co.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., he
attended Brooklyn College, serv
ed with the Army Air Forces,
and graduated with honors from
the University of Georgia. He was
active in civic and professional
organizations, is currently presi
dent of the Atlanta Advertising
Club; member of the public in
formation committee of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce;
Sigma Delta Chi, professional
journalism fraternity; Alpha Del
ta Sigma, professional advertising
fraternity; and vice-president of
Atlanta Lodge B’nai B’rith.
He is also a director of Th»
Southern Israelite.
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Dulles Withdraws
Assertion That Jew
Killed Mohammed
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Sec
retary of State Dulles has cor
rected the Congressional Record
to withdraw a remark he made
to the effect that the Prophet Mo
hammed had been assassinated by
a Jew, thereby explaining Saudi
Arabian discrimination against
Jews. The Secretary also with
drew remarks to the effect that
a settlement between Israelis and
Arabs was made more difficult
by the “bargaining proclivites of
both sides."
On February 24, under ques
tioning about American accession
to Saudi Arabian refusal to ad
mit American Jewish troops to an
American air base in Saudi Arab
ia, Secretary Dulles told the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee
that the Saudi Arabians “have
felt for a long time — it goes back
centuries — a very particularly
animosity toward the Jews be
cause they credited the assassina
tion of Mohammed to a Jew.”
When his advisers, at his elbow,
told him that he was wrong about
this, Mr. Dulles told the Senate
committee that he had been told
he was wrong and that “I will
ask leave to correct the record in
that respect later on if it proves
I made a mistake." The correction
yesterday deleted part of his tes
timony, which now reads that the
Saudi Arabians feel a ‘‘very par
ticular animosity towards the
Jews, since the time of Moham
med.”
3 Authors Win 1955
Kessel Prize For
Jewish Literature
MEXICO CITY, (JTA) — Yitz-
chok Berliner, Mexican Yiddish
poet, Jacob Pat, New York author
of many books in Yiddish, and
S. Shalom, a Hebrew poet resid
ing in Israel, have been named
as winners of the Zvi Kessel
prizes for Jewish literature for
1955, it was announced here.
Each of the prizes is in the amount
of $250. The current awards mark
the ninth year since the founda-
tiop of the prizes by Mr. Kessel,
a Mexican Jewish industrialist.
Mr. Berliner was -awarded a
prize for his book, “Gezang Fun
Mensh,” while Mr. Pat’s award
was for his work, “Shmussen Mit
Yiddishe Shreiber.” The honor
for Mr. Shalom was awarded for
his “Hayinu Kecholrnin.”
Toscanini Forest
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Plans
for the planting of a forest to
honor conductor Arturo Toscan
ini on the occasion of his forth
coming 89th birthday were an
nounced here, by the Jewish Na
tional Fund. The forest will also
commemorate the 20th anniver
sary of Mr. Toscanini’s first visit
to Israel to conduct the Israel
Philharmonic Orchestra.
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