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THE JEWISH YOUTH OF RUSSIA
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By PROFESSOR GEORGE LF.IKIN,
Chief Rabbi of Central Russia.
Almost the entire new generation various schools and institutions for
,f yang .hews in Russia is being torn I children under the supervision of the
undry, '
, away from the Jewish community and Jewish Commissary, the children get a
Jew- Jewish education or, at least, instruc.'
morally corrupted. Not only are •
ish children becoming estranged from tion in the Jewish language and
I Jewish life but they are even raised literature. It is true that in many
enemies of the Jewish people, with schools the instruction of the various
disrespect and hate toward everything subjects is carried on in Yiddish. But,
Jewish. If they were brought in con- to give you a clear idea of what is
these schools and what views
tact with some other spiritual force taught in history, literature and cub
Jewish
which stimulated them to be noble and of
r plantedll in y th e minds of the
honorable men the above facts would to re ae
let me te o u a of lecture in
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bled young,
Jewish history which I heard in one
is that the communism they are
of
the
schools.
a cheapened interpretation
taught is
In Bogorodsh, not far from Moscow,
of the genuine article replete with together with a prominent rabbi, I
the irresponsibility and corruption of visited the Communist schools to wit-
Sounds impossible—but it's
the transition period. As soon as chil- ness how instructbm is carried on,
dren reach the age of 12 they become something we could not have done in
true. For now through a
phone call wash day becomes
"free people" who betake themselves our own towns. The subject hap-
another seventh day of rest.
into all those ugly paths permitted pened to he Jewish history and the
them by the now freedom." Thus teacher, a very enthusiastic young
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the new generation is not only a com- man, was lecturing in Russian on
plete loss but even a distinct mis- Moses and the Jewish Exodus from
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fortune and danger to the Jewish Egypt. This is how he characterized'
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communal life. And when we are con- Moses to the young children:
sidering ways of caring for the
'At first, Moses was a splendid
economic ills of the Russian Jews, it young
revolutionary who freed the
is equally incumbent upon us to give Jews in Egypt from slavery and
consideration to the terrible moral epi- treated I'haroah in approve! revolu-
demic which has come over the Jew- tionury style. Later, however, he I
ish youth of Russia. Should we ig- sold himself to the capitalists and his
nore this problem there is grave new bourgeois views are evident from
danger that there will remain no Jews the Ten Commandments that he
to carry the Jewish cultural traditions issued. Take, for instance, the Com-
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and communal interests in the next mandment, Thou shalt honor thy
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generation.
father and mother! What were our
Moses and the Bourgeoisie.
fathers and mothers that they de-
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There is a general belief that, in the serve our respect? Nothing but
superstitious barbarians who lived in
a system that idealized selfdom, sup-
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ported the des potic rule of
people.
and oppressed the working
Should we honor them for that? On
the contrary, we must show the great-
est hate and contempt for everything
that belonged to them. We must free
ourselves from them and show them
that we will have nothing in common
with them. Or, take another of
Moses' Commandments: Thou shalt
not kill! What does that mean? At
a time when the capitalist world and
the dark forces of reaction stand
ready to put down every movement of
liberation and when the sword and
rifle are our only means of defense,'
what does he mean by saying, Thou
shalt not kill?'
In this tone the Communist teacher
continued to harangue his pupils. The
other rabbi and I could not help
nudging each other in comment on
this farce, but, as silence is the only
thing permitted us, we' could do noth-
i
ing else. The same method is applied
the highest schools is only
in teaching J ewish literature. Into today in
Menclele, Sholem 70 per cent; in the intermediate
the writings of Pvrez are put inter- schools, 60 per cent ; and ill. the
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for the most debased forms primary schools 50 per cent.
of communism and license. No won- I This means that the impoverished
der there is nothing in common tie- I Jewish masses have no means of senti- ii
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tween parents and children. While ing their children to school.
the young showed soothing but con- schools that are open to them are
tempt and ridicule upon their parents, such that the parents prefer seeing III
the latter must look on silently for their children in the streets rather En
than sending them there. Of new
it is not permitted them to protest.
Naturally, parents do everything Jewish schools what is thereto say?
possible to keep their children front While other nationalities are given
the means to conduct their own
these schools. But in the orphan
asylums there is no one to take an schools, the Jewish Section of the
interest in the spiritual upbringing Communist Party saw to it that every
of the orphans, and they grow til Jewish school not under their direct
anti-Semities. This is one of the rea- control should be closed as counter-
sons why the American Joint Distribu- revolutionary. While the Russian
thin Commttee, which has done such church and the Iloly Synod have re-
i in Russia, is so unpopular gained their powers, while Christian
od work
go
among
the Russian Jews. The Joint theological seminaries once more
Distribution Committee was instru- flourish in excellent condition, the
mental in bringing about the par- Jewish Communists took care that
ticipation in anti-Jewish demonstra even modern Jewish schools should not ---.
lions of thousands of Jewish orphans be permitted if not entirely con- I -Z
trolled by them. There is no doubt
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who did not even know why their
parents, mist of whom were pogrom- that the Jewish Section is responsible
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victims, hail died. Were it not for I for the anti-Semitism which is be- '-
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the Joint, the Jewish section would' ginning to spread ih the Russian goy- '..7._
ernment circles. Today it is no secret
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not have been in a position to lord
it over the Jewish communities and that the various departments of the "="--
the Jewish orphans might have been , government are getting rid of more
restrained front carrying on spiteful and more of their Jewish officials.
acti .lties a•; : their
parents who , Budhenny has openly stated
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were
dying
for
repel t,
therefore,
although there is Jews. The failure of the Jewish Sec-
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orphans,
the children of living parents toms And no matter how glad the -
Jewish masses of Russia may be over
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into the hands of the above-
that , ,
falling into
it is nevertheless pain f u l t o see
mentioned teachers, with the result while other nationalities are gaining ..7.
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that they get no schooling at all and in prestige and are progressing on
grow up in the streets.
their road to free national develop-
Education Almost Non-Existent.
ment, the Jews are constantly losing '
Compulsory education i s almo
their influence in government circles. I
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Moral Condition of Youth.
abolished and parents most pay to
These are the facts of education in
send their children from the kinder- general and of Jewish education in
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are crest-examined on their belief in "League of Communist Youth" awaits
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intermediate and higher schools. boys— and reduces them to such a ra
recent statement. Lunacharsky• low state of moral corruption lhnt it
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of Educatbm, admitted is impossible to describe. The Com-
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cording to their tastes and interpre-
tations.
If the marriage records show in-
stances of 16-year-old girls who marry
three times a year, no record is kept
to show the conduct of the young
people who ignore entirely such bour-
geois institutions as marriage, divorce
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and records. Their attitude toward succeed in putting out the fire, the
the whole subject of sexual relations historical gratitude of the Jewish peo-
is one of absolute irresponsibility. If ple remains. Again it is to be re-
they do marry they rarely consent membered that if the burning of the
to have children. If children are temple were only a result of the fire
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I born, the young parents do not raise brought by the spiders, it is possible
them, but give them to public in- that the birds might have been suc-
', stitutions to raise. The birth rate is cessful in their work. Since the gov-
terribly low, the instincts of parent- ernment itself is not now taking steps
hood, of motherhood, have basely de- in opposition to Jewish education, the
' generated. In short, the youth of destructive activities of the Jewish
Russia are the worst victims of the Section may possibly be eliminated or
H. E. SCHUCK, Gen. Mgr.
counteracted with outside help."
transition period.
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or of special Jewish national culture
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spiritual human responsibility
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' the demoralized youth of Russia he-
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