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THE JEWISH YOUTH OF RUSSIA
By PROFESSOR GEORGE LEIKIN,
Chief Rabbi of Central Russia.
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Almost the entire new generation various schools and institutions for
children under the supervision of the
.f ysung Jews in Russia is being torn
Jesish Commissary, the children ge
away from the Jewish community and
Jewish education or, at least, instruc-
insrally corrupted. Not only are Jew-
tion in the Jewish language and
ish children becoming estranged from
literature. It is true that in many
' Jewish life but they are even raised schools the instruction of the various
I as enemies of the Jew is prop e ,
subjects is carried on in Yiddish. But,
disrespect and hate toward everything
; Jewish. If they were brought in con- ito give you a clear idea of what is
s t with some other spiritual firer 'taught in those schools and what views
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.'.1.1ch stimulated them to he noble and of Jewish history, bterature and
of cul-
th e
ove facts would ture a re planted in them
inds lec ture i n
honorable men the ab
oung, let me tell oa
t so deplorable. But the trouble
ewish
history
which
l
heard
in
one
is that the communism they are J
of the schools.
taught is a cheapened interpretation
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-
the transition perioa. AR soon as chil
ness how instructi'm is carried on,
dren reach the age of 12 they become something we could not have done in
"free people" who betake themselves our own towns. The subject hap-
into all those ugly paths permitted pened- to be Jewish history and the
them by the "new freedom." Than teacher, a very enthusiastic young
only a co-
the new genera tion is a
not distinct mm- man, was leeturing in Russian on
t i t
plete loss but e ven
MOWS and the Jewish Exodus from
and
danger
to
the
Jewish
fortune
E •pt This is how he characterized
C)•
communal life. And when we are con-
to the young children:
sidering ways Of caring for the Moses
a splendid
'At first, Moses Wax
(-commie ills of the Russian Jews, it young
revolutionary who freed the
is equally incumbent upon us to give Jews in Egypt from slavery and
l e moralJe w-
conside ration to th come
- treated Pharoah in approvel revolu-
r ov er the
demie which has
tionary style. Later, however, he
ish
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 frorn
danger that there will remain no Jews the Ten Commandments that he
to carry the Jewish cultural traditions issued. Take, for instance, the Com-
and communal interests in the next mandment, Thou shalt honor thy
generation.
father and mother! What were our
Moses and the Bourgeoisie.
fathers and mothers that they de-
MAX LIEBERMAN
There is a general belief that, in the serve our respect? Nothing but
superstitious barbarians who lived in
a system that idealized selfdom, sup-
ported the despotic rule of Czarism
and oppressed the working people.
Should we hom
tm for that? On
er he
,
the contrary, we m ust 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 arc our only means of defense,'
what does he mean by saying, Thou
shalt not kill?'
In this tone the Communist teacher
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,emenmase
continued to harangue his pupils. The
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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,
ing else. The sante method is applied
schools is only I
he highest he
:
in teaching Jewish literature. Into today in t
intermediate
a• ctint • in t
1
the
writings
of
Mende
le,
ool's, GO per cent ; and in the
.s
=-
h
5 per cent.
• Aleich( ra and Perez are put inter- sc imary sc ho ol0
potations for the most debased forms
pr This
,
s stha the impoverished!'
mea nt
,
c
an li ense. . .
of communism and
m eans of send- ii
be; Jewi$h masses have no
'commo
in
thi
The '
no
school.
re is
chool.
While ing their children to
der
theparents an d ngchildren.
tween
the young showed nothing but con- schools that are open to them any
tempt and ridicule upon their parents,' such that the parents prefer seeing I NE
the latter must look on silently for their children in the streets rather MB
f new
than se nding t hem the re. O
rotest.
it is not permit ted them to ev p
there to say?
erything Jewish schools what is
a
Naturally, parents
do
possible to keep their children from While other nationalities are given
ea
these schos. But in the orphan the mns
to conduct their own
the Jewish Section of the
hol . is no one to take an schools,
Communist Party saw to it t a every
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interest in the Spiritual upbringing Jewish school not under their direct
of the orphans, and they grow up control should be closed as counter-
anti-Semities. This is one of the rea- revolutionary. While the Russian
sons why the American Joint Distribu- church and the Holy Synod have re-
tion Committee, which has done such gained their powers, while Christian
is so unpopular
gimel work in Jews. The Joint theological sem inaries once more
among the Russian
flourish in excellent condition, the
n Committee was instru-
that 2-
Ili
mental in bringing about the par- Jewish C ommunists too care
ticipation in anti-kwish demonstra- even modern Jewish schools should nut
lions of thousands of Jewish orphans be permitted it not entirely con-
The re is no oubt
who did not even know why their trolled by them.
responsible
n s
-
n is respo
parents, nv st of whom were pogrom- that the Jewish Sectio
t for for the anti-Semitism which is be- Er-_
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lei
.
victims,
had
vic Joint, the Jewish section would ginning to spread in the Russian goy
the
not have been in a position to lord ernment circles. Today it is no secret
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 from carrying on spiteful I and more of their Jewish officials.
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sell :ties asainst their parents who, Budhenny has openly stated that he
for their Judaism. To wishes to rid the Red Army of all
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dying
were
reins t, therefore, although there is Jews. The failure of the Jewish See-
y e seen by those symp-
m one to take a real interest
in the lion can easilnob matter how glad t he
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orphans, the children o
- are prevented as far as possible from Jewish masses of Russia may be over
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- - • falling into the hands of the above- i the weakening of the Jewish Section, —
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schooling at all and. while other nationalities are gaining St-
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that
they up
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grow
the streets. in prestige and are progressing on
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their road to free national develop- p
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Almost Non.Existent.
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Compulsory education is almost non- sent, the Jews are constantly losing -7- .
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Moral Condition of Youth.
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and parents must
education in
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These are e facts of education
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send their children from the kiner-
ion, ' general and thf
o Jewish
glisten to the university. In addit
prospective
students
particular.
No
sooner
do
the
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= 1 the parents of
ist the soaw
in dren
on their belief un-
"Le leave school un than
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Youth"
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if suspected of
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If the marriage records show in-
stances of let-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
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
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-
I 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
transition period.
counteracted with outside help."
What Can Be Done.
Today in Russia, therefore, it is a
question not solely of religious schools
or of special Jewish national culture
I which is suppressed. It is rather •
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• question of maintaining that degree
! of spiritual human responsibility
' which is so absolutely necessary lest ded the panorama of Spanish-Jewish
1 the demoralized youth of Russia be- history from the eighth to the middle
' come a menace to the whole world, and of the twelfth century. Each one of
them brought precious gifts upon the
thus bring new misfortunes on the altar of Spanish-Jewish culture. Many
I Jewish race. And this danger exists. of them impressed themselves lasting-
The irresponsible young generation of ly upon the civilization that in subse-
Russia will go out into the world and quent centuries flowered in Italy,
carry destructive ideas wherever it France and England. We cannot, how-
will go, and will become a source of ever, at this time say more than this,
new troubles for the Jews of the that in the four centuries under the
I world. If not for our own sakes, this Moorish monarchs, the Jews created
generation must be saved on account one of the most magnificent civiliza-
of its nienace to others—especially tions that the world has ever known,
since there are ways of combatting one which, sad to say, general history
this menace.
in a measure ignores. We Jews, how-
If you will ask: 'What can outside ever, must know this period more. We
auistance accomplish?' I will in re- may get much from it. lie who seeks
ply tell you of the old Jewish legend delight will find it in abundance when
of the spiders who were bringing fire he steeps himself in the history of this
while the Jewish Temple was burning moat enchanting period of Jewish his-
g
and the birds which were brining
tory.
water. Although the birds did not
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