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REVIEW OF THE YEAR 5690
(Continued from Preceding Page-) I ed several of their number as a
special committee to study this
lutes 11 per cent of the total should [natter and to prepare a tax pro-
pay 10 per cent of the direct lasso., ject which would give relief t
and why in spite of bearing this commerce and industry. The Jew-
heavy burden, the Jews do not ish deputies warned the Govern-
have elementary schools in propor- ment over and over again that the
tion to their numbers, and certain- impoverishment of the Jewish pop-
ly not to the taxes which they pay; ulation could not be achieved with-
the interpellation pointed out that out irreparable damage to the en-
while 70 per cent of the German tire economic fabric of the coun-
children, and 6U per cent of the try. Early in the spring of 1935,
White Russian children, are pro- the Government announced that
vided with elementary schools, there was to be a reduction in the
there is such provision for barely turnover tax. The encouragement
151 per cent of the Jewish children, which this awakened in the hearts
the Jews thus being forced to of Jewish merchants was short-
maintain supplementary private , lived, for, before the beginning of
schools at their own expense. The the new fiscal year, the propised
interpellation also pointed out that reduction was cancelled.
the law which provides that where
The Polish universities also were
Jewish children are in a majority,
the scene of anti-Jewish demon-
they are to he given instruction in strations. These took place at the
the Jewish religion, is being vio-
lated in many places, and that in
schools where the Jewish religion
,
is taught, the teacher's must b
paid by the Jewish communities,
whereas the teachers of the Chris-
tian religions are paid out of th
general budget; furthermore, less
than half of the elementary school.
excuse Jewish children from at
tendance on Saturdays; discrimi
11;16011 against Jews in the matte
of appointment as teachers wit.'
also charged in the interpellation.
In January, Deputy Cruenbaun
presented figures which show that
while the languages of other iii
norities were used as languages of
instruction, Yiddish was not used
in a single public school in Poland
and that an overwhelming major
ity of the teachers in the govern-
ment schools attended by Jewish
children are non-Jews; the subject
of the inequality of the taxatilo
burden was seriously gone into by
the Jewish deputies. Thoy appoint
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ish Communists to interfere with 1 'sited States before that section
the celebration of the Iligh Iluli- was cleared by pioneers; the land
days and of the Passover were was fertile am possessed ninny
more unsuccessful during the past n atural resources, but there is a
year than ever before, In August, h vary rainfall all summer long,
the Jewish Section of the Commun- t which precludes the raising of
ist Party appointed Yont Kippur as wheat but is favorable to the cul-
a day on which Jewish workingmen tivation of rice. In January, how-
should go to work and contribute ever, the Far Eastern Council of
e Party openly
their day's earnings toward the th I ommunist
industrialization funds of the So- charged that the Bira Bidjan col-
viet; later they changed the day Ionization scheme has thus far
to the sector's] of Rosh Ila•Shanah.
The High Holidays were widely
celebrated, although a number of
Jewish workers did work on them.
Efforts to discourage the obser-
vance of Jewish rites were also
made. In December, two Jewish
physicians were sentenced to three
months' imprisonment, each, far
having circuntsized a Jewish child
in the municipal hospital of the
town in which they were employed;
they were accused of performing a
"Barbaric rite," and violating
thereby the law which calls for
the separation of church and state;
the defense of the physicians was
that the operation was made fo
hygienic and not for religious rea-
sons. If we are to believe the Yid-
dish t'oniniunist newspapers, many
Jewish women in Russia have aban-
doned the ceremony of candle bless-
ing on the eve of Sabbaths and
festival, and have donated their
candlesticks to the industrialization
fund; other ritual articles of gold
and silver Well. IIISO contributed,
as well as rings, pearals, (orrings
and samovars. In the city of Pas-
tes, the local 1.14111Seatitil
lire matzoth-liaking machines fur
the benefit of the industrialization
fund. Throughout Ukraine, pray-
ing shawls, phylacteries, and books
Jimish
were collided to be
sold as junk, the proceeds to he
used for the purchase of tractors.
In the matter of kashrut h the
l•kiiiinian 111,1 . 1111111'llt was fared
withthe dilownst last December.
The
141'1,1'141 to b uy
a large quantity of kosher goo's('
fat for the coming Passover, pro-
' vided a representatise of its own
were permitted to supervise the
piepiitition of the fat. On the one
cavil . the Ukrainian Department
of Commeive (vas anxious to ac-
quire the gold; on the other hand,
it was reluctant to recognize the
religious requirements of the
roma kehillah; the latter consid-
eration prevailed in the end.
been a failure owing to the mis- !not especially as a region for Jew-
management of the Out's repre- iah agricultural colonization.
Although anti-Semitism did not
sentativrs• the latter admitted that
only 2,506 hectares were being attract as much attention as In for-
met.
years and the Soviet newsna-
tilled and that only 400 families
were actually permanently settled ' pees were not as eager to publish
on the land. At the same time, facts regarding it, yet a number
control of Bira Bidjan was given of cases were reported which
to a government commission
eon- showed that the situation did not
.
sisting of representatives of var-. change during the past year. In
ions economic bodies, for the par-1 Septmher, Maxim Gorki, the dig-
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pose of general development and
Rosh Hashonab Greetings
We extend to our many friends greetings of the
New Year. Having served Detroit for many years, we
feel an obligation to our customers for their continued
patronage. It is only occasionally that we are able to
express our appreciation publicly and so in the col-
umns of the Jewish Chronicle we bestow a small meas-
ure of our gratitude and our hearty good will.
1:niversitt- of C•aelow, in Novem-
ber, and at the Anatomical Insii-
tu o
)larch. The trootilde at the latter
was caused by the demand of the
The !mist notorious cage of per-
non-Jewish students that the Jews
provide their own corpses for dis- secution of religious functionaries
was the arrest, in February, of 11
,ectien. The question of providing
leaders Of the :Minsk community,
Jewish medical students with ca-
including several rabbis; in scums'
davers was a topic of lively dis-
manner t he report reached M'ar-
cussion in the.lewish community.
saw that these persons were to be
After the disorders at the Anatom-
executed, and the Warsaw rab-
ical Institute and the declaration
binate sent frantic appeals to Jew-
ad-
not
of the dram that he would
ish leaders in various western
mit the Jewish students unless they
countries for intervention to pre-
provided their own cadavers, the
, vent the threatened executions.
Jewish burial society of Warsaw
Eleven of the 11 persons arrested
decided, with extreme reluctance,
seers , soon released, while the others
tai provide corpses. The Kehillah
were freed some time later. After
shwided to turn our to the Ana-
their release, the rabbis signed a
t• mical Institute the corpses of
statement which was made public,
those Jews who drool in hospitals
denying that there ws
a any perse-
and mite, bodies were rod claimed
cution of the Jewish religion in
by relatives within Is hours of
Russia and expressing indignation
their death.
at Jewish leaders abroad and at
Lithuania and Latvia.
the Pope for their attacks upon the
The economic status of the Jews Soviet attitude toward religion.
of Lithuania is even worse than Obviously, these rabbis signed this.
that of their brethren in Poland. document under duress.
A fact-finding commission which
In December, the Soviet Govern-
visited the country in the summer . ment dissolved the two leading
of 1029, under the auspices Of the Jewissh cultural associations in
Federation of American Jews of • Russia — Op°, the Society fur
Lithuanian Descent, reported thut Spreading Culture Among the
the situation of the slew's is almost
which had been in existence
helpless. The country, which is for over seventy years, and the
largely an agricultural one, has ;Jewish MUStO1111 of the Ethnograph-
practically no trade relations with ical and Ilistorival Society; a spec-
important European centers, rind , ial C0111111iSSilill WAS appointedto
has very little domestic commerce, take over the 'tinge library of the
with the result that the Jews, who ,Ope, considered one of the most.
were to a great extend traders be- famous of its kind in the world;
fore the War, have almost no the exhibits at the Jewish Museum
means of earning a livelihood. "It were made part of the Government
is hardly an exaggeration to say," :Museum. In February, the Jewish
said the Commission, "that about Telegraphic Agency stated that a
seventy-five per cent of the Jew's large number of the religious books
await impatiently the funds which which had been confiscated by the I
are sent from America."
Soviet Government in its war on
religion, had been shipped to So-.
Russia.
, The world-wide protest against viet agents in the United States
the persecution of religion in So- for sale to Jewish libraries and I
viet Russia during the past year private collectors.
The Russian press published
'served to bring the religious phase
very few items regarding the Zion-
of the Jew's to the foreground.
Under Soviet law, the confisca- ists during the past year. In De-
tion of synagogues, as of the cember, it was reported that nearly
houses of worship of other faiths, 100 Zionists had been arrested and
is legal on various pretexts; the imprisoned in Odessa, and in Jan-
alleged failure of the congregation uary, n report reached Berlin that
to maintain the synagogue, the pre- atfer the anti-Jewish riots in Pal- '
sentation of a petition bearing a estine during the preceding sum-
certain number of signatures, mer, the persecution of Zionists in
which be easily obtained, to the Russia was intinsified. On Janu-
effect that the building is r., long- ary 10, 13 prominent members of
mist (leg, aizations in Moscow
er required by the community, the
charge that the edifice is inn dan- were 0. - 1, - ,ted and fta others com-
gerous state of disrepair, are pelled to give their parole not to
among the many grounds upon leave the city; the arrested Zion-
which these buildings revert to the ists had been found with copies of
State and are converted to the uses the report of a meeting of the
of the proletariat. In July, 1929, American Jewish Congress, includ-
a new form of conversion was in- ing a speech by Rabbi Stephen S.
troduced when a synagogue in Wise attacking the Soviet anti-
Keneshma, the Ukraine, was turn- Religious policy.
The work of settling Jews on the
ed into an apartment house.
In
the following month, 13 synagogues land made considerable progress
in the Ukraine were taken over in during the year. In February, Dr.
addition to 30 small buildings Joseph Rosen, the director of the
which were turned into workmen's Agro-Joint and of the American
homes. Statistics published in De- Society for Settling Jews on the
cember showed that a total of 6-16 Land in Russia, announced that in
synagogues have been seized since 19311 a total of over fifteen million
the Revolution. In February, the roubles was to be devoted by the
League of the Godless made great government to this work, in addi-
efforts to secure the Great Choir tion to four million roubles which
Synagogue in Leningrad for head- were to be contributed by foreign
quarters. In March, following the organizations; the program on
world-wide protest, the Central which the placing of over :10,000
Executive Committee of the Com- persons in industry or under train-
munist Party issued a public an- ing to work if factories.
The Bira Bidjan project in the
nouncement demanding moderation
in the mutter of the confiscation of Far East, which is a pet scheme
church edifices. The Ukrainian of the Ozet in Russia and of the
Central Executive Committee or- Icor (Jewish Colonization Organi-
dered its legal department to make zation in Russia) in the United
up a list of the local Soviets which States, appears to have all but
had closed churches without the failed. The Icor had sent a com-
sanction of the Government, r, stabs mission of American experts to
fishing the fact that in some canes look into the agricultural possibil-
the local authorities had acted ar- ities of the region; this commission
had reported that the territory was
bitrarily in this direction.
Efforts on the part of the Jew ..I similar to the western part of the
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