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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, May 20, 1966
Fa*e Two
As We Were Saying
By ROBERT E. SEGAL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
If you happen to be on the
mailing list of the Embassy of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Repub
lics in Washington, you may have
received by now a slick little
pamphlet, “Jews In USSR,” tell
ing you how comfortable and
fruitful Jewish life is for the
2,300,000 or more Jews in that
vast Communist land.
Should you have doubts, should
the protests of thousands of Jews
outside the USSR have penetrat
ed your consciousness, you could
be reassured by reading in the
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Soviet pamphlet about the glories
of Birobidjan, the Jewish auto
nomous region. Established 32
years ago in Khabarovsk terri
tory, Birobidjan, according to the
official Soviet documents, is
humming with industrial, educa
tional, and cultural activities;
and Yiddish newscasts, songs,
and literary readings are coming
forth joyfully from the regional
broadcasting stations.
Inasmuch as every competent,
objective student of the Russian
scene has long since concluded
that Birobidjan, situated in sub
zero, unviable territory right
next door to a hostile People’s
China, is a colossal delusion and
flop, this patent misrepresenta
tion by the Soviet embassy will
fool few people.
But if that is not enough to
convince those alarmed over the
Soviet’s slow but steady garrot-
ing of a once vibrant Judaism,
then you are free to look at Page
40 of this mischievous Russian
catechism on the Jews and read
this direct from the propaganda
mill:
“Are Jews being assimilated in
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ly normal . . . that in the Soviet
Union where the Jews enjoy full
equality, 'both legally and factu
ally, there natural assimiliation
should be a permanent process
taking place most intensively. It
is indicative that fewer and fewer
Jews now speak Yiddish. In 1926,
726 out of 1000 knew their mo
ther tongue. In 1939 the figure
was down to 397 and in 1959—
200. Jewish writers, scientists,
artists and public leaders bring
all that is progressive and ad
vanced in the national culture of
the Jewish people to the general,
multi-national Soviet culture.”
Despite this lapse, this admis
sion by the Kremlin itself that
there is no future for Judaism in
the USSR, the major theme of
the pamphlet is to get across the
jdea that Russia’s Jews never had
it so good. If that is so, we need
to ask why the Soviet Union con
tinues to supply arms to Israel’s
Arab neighbors. If Moscow has
such benign * attitude toward
Jews, why should Moscow help
Premier Nasser achieve his de
clared objective of driving the
fsraelis into the sea Did not many
of these beleaguered Jews orig
inate in Russia in the days of the
Czars? And do not the contem
porary leaders of the USSR tell
now how bitter life was under
the Czars and would they not be
expected to cheep and help, ra
ther than destroy, those who did
manage to escape the czarist hell?
Or why did Moscow’s delegates
to the United Nations fight so
hard recently to keep the UN
Commission on Human Rights
from adopting a proposal calling
upon all member states to com
bat anti-Semitism. For months,
Soviet envoys at the UN had op
posed that simple and overdue
declaration. Knowing from the
start that they would lose their
fight to block the move, the So
viet diplomats adopted the stra
tegy of insisting that if world
opinion — as represented by
statesmen at the UN—were going
to condemn anti-Semitism, they
had an obligation to condemn
Zionism also. The Soviet argu
ment was that Zionism, the dy
namic force that did so much to
provide a haven for the victims
of Nazism (that obvious foe of
the Soviet), was really a com
bination of “colonialism and race
hatred.” The USSR actually in
sisted that Zionism be equated
with Nazism in the UN convent.
Beholding such perverse be
havior, religious and political
leaders the world over are now
demanding that the USSR cease
its diabolical cam p a i g n to
strangle Judaism. Such careful
observers as Thurston N. Davis,
editor of the Catholic magazine,
“America,” Episco pal Bishop
James A. Pike of California, and
many others have appealed to the
Soviets to alter their course. Fa
ther Davis, following a recent
trip to Russia, publicly declared
that his party found signs of hope
for various Christian denomina
tions in the USSR but “little to
contradict the charge of Soviet
anti-Semitism.”
Little — so little — that many
Christians undoubtedly joined
with Jews this year when the
Fourth Matzoh, the Matzoh of
Oppression, was distributed at
the Passover table. For only by
this kind of display of symbolic
solidarity perhaps can the civil
ized world convey to the USSR
the political wisdom Soviet
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