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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Establish' 1
XXXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1957
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Goal A t $1,455,000 To Meet Emergency
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Jerusalem municipality, by a vote
of 11 to 9, on January 27 banned
the breeding of pigs and sales of
pork in the Israeli capital and its
environs.
The council overrode a sug
gestion by Mayor Gershon Agron
which would have permitted spec
ial licenses to sell pork products.
Representatives of the General
Zionists, Herut and WIZO joined
with religious councillors to car
ry the day against Mapai, Mapam,
Achdut Avodah and Progressive
representatives.
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — More
than 600 Egyptian Jews who had
spent the Sabbath aboard the
vessel S. S. Mediterranean out
side the port of Haifa were taken
off the vessel yesterday. The im
migrant ship arrived off the port
Saturday morning, but since the
port was closed for the Sabbath,
the vessel was not docked. The
S. S. Artza, with another 500 im
migrants, is expected to arrive to
day.
An overall goal of $1,455,000
for the 1957 campaign of the At
lanta Jewish Welfare Fund was
announced by General Chairmen
Bernard Howard and Max L. Ku-
niansky after meeting with the
Board of Campaign Planning and
Strategy this week.
The goals announced by the
chairmen represent the combined
totals of the regular campaign
of continued vital overseas and
home services ($705,000 — 10%
over 1956) and the Emergency
Rescue Fund ($750,000). It was
pointed out that the latter figure
represents Atlanta’s share of sav
ing 100,000 lives — a quota of
750 lives to be saved at a cost
of $1,000 each.
“ Atlanta raised over one million
dollars in 1948,” the chairman
stated, “and we are determined
to surpass this effort to meet
the grave needs that confront us
in 1957!
“Not in a decade have events
abroad stirred American Jewry
as has this present emergency.
Europe and the Middle East are
ablaze with the intrigues of com
munism on the one hand, and
the persecution by Nasserism on
the other. And the Jews, as usu
al, are caught in the middle.
“Unless we respond now with
the fullrealizatlon that the things
we read about on the front pages
of the daily press — and see on
our television screens and hear on
our radios — are actually hap
pening daily to our fellow Jews
. . . and unless we respond now
in the same heroic proportions
as we have in the past in times
U. S. Favors Assurances for Israel
AtUnited Nations Assembly Debate
ROME, (JTA) — Four hun
dred Jewish refugees from Egypt,
all Italian nationals, staged a de
monstration in Naples January
26 in protest against inadequate
assistance and reports that the
Italian authorities were planning
to resettle them in Sicily. The 400
originally lived in Port Said.
The Italian Cabinet will dis
cuss the problem of Italian na
tionals fleeing Egypt or exiled
from that country, it was an
nounced here this week-end. Ru
mors are circulating to the ef-
fest that the government plans
to extend rights and privileges to
these exiles similar to those grant
ed Italian nationals who left Tri
este areas now under Yugoslav
rule.
Meanwhile, the Union of Italian
Jewish Communities has issued a
nationwide appeal asking all
Italian Jews to contribute funds
for the assistance of Jewish re
fugees from Egypt. It has asked
that jobs be found, particularly
for Jewish refugees who are
Italian citizens. Some 7,000 in this
category are expected to quit
Egypt in the near future.
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) —
Israel firmly reasserted before
the General Assembly Monday
its demands for assurances against
renewed Egyptian belligerency
simultaneously with withdrawal
of troops from the Gaza and
Akaba sectors. At the same ses
sion of the Assembly the United
States for the first time spoke of
the need for assurances to Israel
and insisted that Egypt must com
ply with all past resolutions, in
cluding those adopted by the Se
curity Council.
At an all-day session of the
Assembly discussing Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold’s
latest report on Israel’s “failure”
to comply with previous troop
withdrawal resolutions, a brief
but succinct statement by Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., chairman of the
U. S. delegation, evoked great in
terest here.
Starting out by declaring that
the U. S. still thinks “that Israel
must withdraw its forces without
further delay,” Mr. Lodge implied
that the United Nations Emerg
ency Force should stay in the
Gulf of Akaba area as long as it
is necessary for full freedom of
passage through the waterway.
“We believe,” Mr. Lodge told
the Assembly, “that it is essen
tial that units of the United Na-
ions Emergency Force be station
ed at the Straits of Tiran in order
to achieve there the separation of
Egyptian and Israeli land and sea
forces. This separation is essen
tial until it is clear that the non
exercise of any claimed belliger
ent rights has established In prac
tice the peaceful conditions which
must govern navigation in waters
having such an International in
terest.”
The American position, as stat-
Communist Leader Describes
Mistreatment Under Stalin
ed by Mr Lodge, is that UNEF
should cooperate with the UN
Truce Supervision Organization,
as suggested by Mr. Hammarsk-
jold, and should be deployed on
both sides of the Egypt-Israel ar
mistice lines, especially in the
“sensitive positions in the Gaza
and el Auja sectors.” However,
he told the Assembly that not
only Israel but Egypt as well
must strictly observe the armis
tice agreement and must give
“fullest respect” to the resolu
tions of the Security Council and
the General Assembly which “are
the keys to the restoration of
peace and stability.”
“Surely this Assembly would
not be satisfied with the return
to the unsatisfactory conditions
which helped to bring about the
recent hostilities,” the head of
the American delegation said. In
sisting that Israel must complete
the withdrawal of its forces be
hind the armistice lines, Mr.
Lodge declared that following
such withdrawal “assurances that
are sought in this connection can
be given effect — and they must
be given effect.” He emphasized
very strongly his government's
position that “the United Nations
Emergency Force is carrying out
its important mission for the ben
efit of both Israel and Egypt.”
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of grave danger, everything we
have done to date stands to be
undone.
“For Nasserism is Hitlerism all
over again and is, in fact, Inspir
ed by the same source. Their a-
vowed purpose is the complete
destruction of Israel — the one
oasis of democracy in the Mid
dle East — the haven for Jews
— worn, weary, homeless and
stripped of their possessions —
the Israel which keeps Its doors
open wide for immigrants with
out question or equivocation.
“The American Jewish Com
munity continues to be the great
est source fpr help of the Jews
in Israel and those who are flee
ing from Egypt, Hungary, North
Africa — and all the other trouble
spots of the world.”
“This is a massive job we are
called upon to do today — and
it calls for a massive response.
We are certain that the Atlanta
Jewish Community will respond
as it has always responded in
the past — and that we will not
only meet, but will surpass, the
important goal that has been set
before us this year.”
To Demolish
Birthplace of
Moses Mendelssohn
BERLIN, (JTA) — The East
German municipal authorities in
Dessau are preparing to tear
down the house, slightly damag
ed in an air raid during the last
war, in which philosopher Moses
Mendelssohn was born in 1729.
The ‘father of Jewish emancipa
tion” and the first Jew to trans
late the Bible into German, Men
delssohn was commonly known
as “Moses Dessau” when he came
to Berlin as a young Rian.
A monument to Mendelssohn
used to stand outside the Des
sau railroad station, but the Naz- .
is carted it away to the local Jew
ish cemetery after their advent
to power and demolished it dur
ing the November pogroms of
1938. At the house on whose
grounds Mendelssohn was born
there is at present a memorial
plaque.
I
LONDON, (JTA) — An auth
oritative report on the persecu
tion of Jewish cultural leaders
and the firing of Jews from im
portant posts in the Soviet Union
during the 1949-52 period is pub
lished in the current issue of the
British Communist journal “World
News.” The article was written
by Prof. Hyman Levy, outstand
ing scientist, philosopher and
Marxist, who investigated charg
es of mistreatment of Jews in the
USSR when he visited that coun
try last October.
Prof. Levy reported that Rus
sian Jews regard the years from
1949 to 1952 as the “black years”
in which many Jews were dis
missed from their jobs, Jewish
poets and writers arrested charg
ed with treason and executed, and
Yiddish disappeared from the
street and the market place. The
Jewish population became tense
and nervous, Prof. Levy declar
ed.
Reporting that he found diffi
culty in contacting “special peo
ple” whom he had wanted to
interview on this subject, Prof.
Levy said that he found such
testimony unnecessary since in
dividual Jews gave him all the
information he needed. Relatives
of cultural workers who had been
liquidated explained the proce
dure that was followed in those
years.
“Shortly after his arrest,” Prof.
Levy wrote, “the immediate rela
tives of the arrested man would
be deported to some distant place
and there set to work and often
at low wages. Finally the husband
would be shot, perhaps after tor
ture to try to force him to confess
or incriminate others. In this
way, practically the whole of the
Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
was liquidated,” Prof. Levy
charged, “and this procedure was
carried through by the secret po
lice under the direct authority of
(Lavrenti) Beria and with the
agreement of Stalin himself.”
In the same article, Prof. Levy
reported that the delegation to
the USSR, of which he was a
member, was satisfied that the
crimes had now been admitted,
the dead publicly rehabilitated
and the survivors restored to free
dom. However, the delegation re
gretted the continued absence of
Yiddish publications, the cutting
of the Soviet Encyclopedia’s re
ference to Jews from 160 columns
in 1932 to four columns in 1952.
Soviet Communist Party secre
tary Suslov told the British Com
munists delegation that unless
there was a specific demand for
the reinstatement of Jewish
newspapers and Jewish theatres
“these things will not be rein
stituted.”
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Cleve
land, noted Reform rabbi and
former CCAR and ZOA presi
dent, who will speak at the
Progressive Club in Atlanta
Feb. II, at the dedication of
“Our Story," a volume telling
the story of Israel and the part
played In its development by a
score of Atlanta leaders.
Barr Guest Speaker Feb. 3
Atlanta War Veterans Banquet
Joseph F. Barr, national admin
istrator of the Jewish War Vet
erans, past national commander
and the present national repre
sentative to the NCRAC, will be
the guest speaker at the fifteenth
annual commander's banquet and
dance honoring Meyer Balser as
the 1956 “Outstanding Citizens.”
The. Banquet and Dance is tak-
Donors Pledge $117,500 For
Addition to Jewish Home
At a dinner meeting held on
Wednesday, Jan. 23, sponsored by
Lawrence Fox, Abe Goldstein and
Thomas Makover, approximately
$85,000 was raised for the build
ing of the addition to the Jew
ish Home. Together with $32,500
pledged by the three communi
ties affiliated with the Home, the
total came to $117,500.
The outstanding contributions
announced at the dinner were the
following: the Garson Family $20,
000, Mandel and Erwin Zaban
$15,000, Mrs. Mollie W. Tartikoff
$10,000, the Saul Family $10,000,
Lawrence Fox $6,000, Ed Fagel-
son, J. B. Jacobs, A. J. Weinberg,
Alterman Brothers $2,000 each.
Other contributions included
Louis Aronstam $1,000, Meyer L.
Balser $500, Jack Berchenko $1,
000, William Breman $1,000,
Jacob Butler $100, M. Cohen
$500, Joseph and Max Cuba $500,
Alfred A .Davis $500, Alex Dit-
tler $1,000, Mike Ellman $1,000,
Clarence Elsas $500, Free Loan
Association $1,000, Joseph and
Esther Freitag $500, Freedman
and Zion $600, Abe Goldberg
$500, Abe Goldstein $1,000, Dr.
and Mrs. Irving L. Greenberg
$250, Elliot L. Haas $1,000, Hy
man Jacobs $500, Mr. and Mrs.
Moise N. Kaplan $600, Pincus
and David Koplin $1,000, Max L.
Kuniansky $1,000, Abe Levitt
$1,000, Estate of Dora Loeb $1,
000, Barney Medintz $500, Sam
uel Rothberg $1,000, Abe Schwartz
$1,000, Harry Spector $1,000, Mil-
ton Weinstein $1,000.
ing place at the Progressive Club
Sunday, Feb. 3, at 6:45 p.m.'lSW
is open to all members of the
community. Reservations can be
made until midnight Saturday by
calling JAckson 3-3902.
Irving Libowsky will be toast
master. Department Commander
Coleman Medintz will present the
award to Mr. Balsa-, National
Executive Committeeman - Mack
Frankel will introduce the guest
speaker, Mr. Barr. Philmore
Teper is ticket chairman. Alfred
Schwartz will be introduced as
the new Commander. Irving
Singer is the outgoing Command
er. The Atlanta Post 112 is the
largest Jewish War Veteran Post
in the nation.
Mr. Barr has been widely
known for his leadership in the
Jewish community for many
years. He is also chairman of the
Armed Services Committee of the
Jewish Welfare Board and a vice
president of the Jewish
munity Council of Greater
ington.