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Suffering is not new foi* Jews
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American-born Jews know
very little of their poet-Biblical
history. They know almost
nothing of the mass-killing of
Jews centuries ago in various
parts of Western Europe. They
have vague knowledge of the
mass-slaughter of Jews by the
Crusaders though they are
better acquainted with the
period of the Spanish Inquisi
tion. But what do they know of
the wiping out of more than 500
Jewish communities in Europe
during the “Black Death” yean
1348-51? ... What do they knew
of the pogroms on Jews in
France, Germany and other
countries in the Middle Ages?
How many Jews in this coun
try know of the mass-burning of
many thousands of Jews in the
buildings of their synagogues in
the 13th and 14th centuries in
cities like Basel, Bern,
Nuremberg, Brussel Is, Trent
where not a single Jew was left
alive? How many know that in
those tragic years all Jews in-
Vienna had, at the advice of
their rabbi, gathered in their
synagogues where they committed
mass-suicide? Such collective
Jewish suicides also have taken
place in Frankfurt, Worms,
Oppenheim, and other cities, but
what does the present genera
tion of Jews in the United States
know about this colossal mass-
destruction of Jews?
How many American-born
Jews know of the terrible
Chmelnitzky pogroms on Jews in
the Ukraine less than 400 years
ago in which more than 100,000
Jews were massacred in hun-
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drtds of towns and Villages.
Chmelnitsky, the leader of those
pogroms, is now a .national hero
in Soviet Ukraine and one of the
main streets in Moscow — less
than one minute’s walk from
Moscow’s Great Synagogue — is
named after him.
How many of the present
generation of American-born
Jews know even of the notorious
Petlura pogrom in the Ukraine
that took place in 1919 — a
matter of contemporary history
— in which many thousands of
Jews were slain? ... Some Jews
in this country still remember
paragraph in Jewish history ror
the future generations of
American Jewry.
Jewish organizations — both
national and local — are
therefore concentrating now
more and more on implanting
vividly in the minds and hearts
of American Jewish youths all
the horrors of the Holocaust so
that when they grow up into
maturity, they could perpetuate
the story of the horrible fate of
the Jewish victims of the Nazis
in Germany and in Nazi-held
countries.
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Perhaps some day in our time a Book of Lamen
tations on the Holocaust mil be written to be
recited every year in synagogues.. .on the anniver
sary of the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
the three-day pogrom on Jews in
Kishinev in Czarist Russia in
1903, but what about the Czarist
pogroms in Odessa, Kiev and
other cities in earlier years? And
what about the 1906 pogroms in
which Jews were pillaged and
many of them murdered in 600
places under the Very eyes of the
Czarist police? Who in America
remembers them now? Who
commemorates their memory?
Many Jews in this country —
especially those whose ancestors
lived for centuries in Eastern
Europe where the Jewish life
was wiped out so brutally by the
Nazis — fear that as time
proceeds, the barbaric annihila
tion ef the 6,000,000 Jews in
Europe may become merely a
Perhaps some day in our time
a Book of Lamentations on the
Holocaust will be written to be
recited every year in synagogues
and in public gatherings on the
day of the anniversary of the
Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw
Ghetto, just like the “Kinoth” —
the Book of Lamentations on the
destruction of the Temple — is
read on Tisha B’Av. The com
memoration of the destruction
of the 6,000,000 Jews and their
communities would then receive
perpetuity and become a part of
Jewish tradition for all the
generations to come. At present
however, American Jewry com
memorates the memory of the
slain Jews by holding anniver
sary memorial meetings during
the week when the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising broke out and
by efforts to roach the youth
with the Holocaust story.
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Incorporating a number of
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