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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, October 15, 1965
Senate Body Issues Report
On Red Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet Union regards adherence
to Judaism as incompatible with
loyalty to the state and for that
reason is attempting to eradicate
the Jewish religion, according to
a report released this week by
the United States Senate Sub
committee on Internal Security.
The report was prepared by the
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A finding of the report was
that Soviet hostility against Ju
daism derives from multiple
sources, the primary one being
conventional Communist attitudes
toward religion. This “inevitably
imposes upon religious minded
Soviet Jews a tremendous bur
den,” the report stressed pointing
out that in addition to the basic
incompatibility between all re
ligions and the Communist doc
trine, “the historic tradition of
anti-Semitism, rooted in Russian
life and never really eradicated
in the Soviet era, has had a last
ing influence on shaping Soviet
attitudes.”
In addition to the intellectual,
economic, and social phenomena
inherent in the causes of anti-
Semitism is the idea, seemingly
never accepted by the Russians,
that adherence to Judaism could
be compatible with loyalty to the
state,” the report states. A typ
ical slogan in the Soviet press, ac
cording to the official U. S. study,
is that “Judaism kills love for
the Soviet motherland.” Another
is that Judaism is a “servant of
bourgeois nationalism, Zionism,
and Israel.” Reinforcing this no
tion of “disloyalty” is the univer
sality of Judaism “with its ties
to the outer capitalist world —
Western Europe the United
States, and especially Israel."
All of these factors converge,
said the report, in creating ‘a gen
eral attitude of open and un
diluted hostility against Judaism,
its doctrine, and its institutions.”
The report charged that the Yid
dish theater in the USSR was
used to ridicule the Jewish re
ligion and customs. The ancient
allegation of Jewish ritual mur
ders has been revived, according
to the report, and used to discred
it Judaism and inflame anti-
Semitic riots.
The report said that “direct at
tacks on Jewish religious life
Moscow Publishes
Aseh in Russian;
Rook on Mikhoels
LONDON, (JTA)—The Soviet
Government Publishing House
for Belles Lettres has announced
publication of 50.000 copies of a
volume by Sholem Asch, the
noted Jewish writer, in a Rus
sian translation. The volume in
cludes several of Asch’ longer
short stories. The prospectus call
ed the writer ‘‘one of the great
novelists of our time.”
A book commemorating the
life and work of Solomon
Mikhoels, the Russian-Jewish
actor who was murdered by
members of Stalin’s secret police,
was published in Moscow by the
Isskustvo Publishing House. The
work is in Russian and no Yiddish
version has appeared despite the
fact that Mikhoels was a Yiddish
actor.
The book contains critical
studies of Mikhoel’s portrayals of
Shakespeare’s King Lear and
Sholom Aleichem’s Tevye the
Milkman as well as excerpts of
anti-Nazi speeches Mikhoels de
livered during the second world
war. There is no mention in the
book of the manner in which the
noted actor met his death.
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have been frequent, persistent,
and harsh.” According to the re
port the baking of matzoh is for
bidden. Raids on private prayer
meetings (minivanim) have taken
place, and synagogues are being
systematically closed. Publication
of all religious material is for
bidden, and no Jewish religious
book of any kind has been pub
lished since the early 1920’s.”
“The study of Hebrew has
been outlawed, even for religious
purposes,” the report emphasizes.
The main aim is to destroy the
Jewish spirit and Jewish contin
uity, the report said, noting that
religious Jews are more severely
impeded in adhering to their
faith than are persons of other
religious convictions in Russia.
Another aspect of Soviet dis
crimination, the report said, is
the proscription against emigra
tion from the USSR. “It proved
to be particularly burdensome to
Soviet Jews, many of whom have
wished to leave the Soviet Union
to join families in Israel.” Emi
gration is denied to Jews, accord
ing to the report, because it would
embarrass Communism interna
tionally to admit that there are
pressures to escape “the home
land of Socialism.” Also, if Jews
are permitted exit rights, other
oppressed nationalities might also
press with greater vigor to leave.
“Former Premier Nikita
Khrushchev has been outspoken
ly anti-Semitic, and his position
has been that top Soviet echelons
must be as Judenrein as possible,”
the study says. Under Mr.
Khrushchev, it reports, the num
ber of Jews in the party and gov
ernment was drastically reduced
and “as far as is known there are
no Jews in the upper echelons
of the party or government, with
the exception of V. E. Dymshits,
first deputy chairman of the
Planning Office.”
Before World War II, 41.1 per
cent of deputies to the Supreme
Soviet Parliament were Jewish;
by 1958, the figure had dropped
to 0.25 percent according to the
study. The Jews, the study con
tinues have “virtually disappear
ed from sensitive areas of gov
ernment such as diplomatic serv
ice and the Armed Forces. In
general, Jews are considered a
security risk group; suspected of
actual or potential disloyalty.”
Though the study concedes
that in general there is a “de
clining coercion’ in the Soviet
Union, it adds that “the Soviet
Jew has not shared in full mea
sure this new spirit of “declining
coercion.” The Jewish world in
Russia is one of “fear, anxiety
for the future; and suspicion for
the governing elite,” the report
asserts.
Soviet propaganda attacks on
Jews have been marked by “a
combination of crudity and sub
tlety, vigor, consistency, and vir
ulence. The plan of attack has
been all inclusive. The effect of
these converging propaganda
themes has been to isolate the
Jew from society psychologically
and perhaps even in reality,
making him appear to the other
Soviet peoples as a hostile
stranger,” the reports states.
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