PHINEAS J BIRON

70 residents of the Soviet Union
is Jewish, but one of every nine
Soviet scientists is a Jew . . .
These statistics come from Sovi-
et official sources and yet it is
also a fact that the Soviet gov-
ernment doesn't like to admit
the preponderance. of Jewish
scientific brainpower in Russia.
"Cultural Construction in the
U.S.S.R.," a Soviet handbook,
in its Oct. 1, 1955, issue states
that out of a total of 223,893
Soviet scientific research work-
ers 24,620 were Jewish . . . This
was officially admitted in 1955
but since • then and especially
during the Sputnik days noth-
ing more was said about this
extraordinary percentage o f
Jews . . . Whitney points out
that while the Ukrainians out-
number the Jews in the Soviet
Union by 10 to 1, they have
contributed only 21,762 scien-
tists . . . And moreover no oth-
er among the dozens of Soviet
nationalities had as much as a
quarter the number of scien-
tists as the Jews, even though a
number of these nationalities
outnumber the Jews in total
population . . .
The A.P. man made a most
interesting discovery . . . The
Serving on a scholarship committee recently established
publication "Soviet Power for
by the Businessmen's Council of the Beth Yehudah Schools
are, left to right, seated: CHARLES E. FEINBERG and MAX 40 Years in Figures," published
a few months ago, omits Jews
BIBER, chairmen; DANIEL A. LAVEN, chairman of the
from its statistics about scienti-
Yeshivah executive committee; and MEYER WEINGARDEN,
fic workers . . . It mentions the
treasurer; standing, HARRY G O L D B E R G, WILLIAM
White Russians, Uzbeks, Kaza-
SCHWARTZ, MILTON /GILMAN, Rabbi MORRIS GREENES,
kis, Georgians, Azerbaijanians,
Yeshivah executive director; SAUL LEFTON, Rabbi JOSEPH
I
Lithuanians, Moldavians, Latvi-
ELIAS, principal; and JOSEPH LEE. The committee will
OR
A CUP,
ans, Kirgiz, Tadzhiks, Armeni-
attempt to raise funds for 150 children who attend the Beth
ans,
.Turkmenians
and
Estoni-
Yehudah Schools as full scholarship students, at a cost of
A TRADITION IN
ans_ . . It does NOT MENTION
$365 per student per year, by enrolling 300 full or half scholar-
the Jews . . . This should give :. \ 11/- JEWISH HOMES
ship patrons. A goal of 50 scholarships has been set for the
us food for thought . . . In-
next meeting in mid-March.
formation about the present re- "° SINCE 1837
lations between the Jewish pop-
Served in a glass or a cup ...
ulation and the Soviet govern-
There's Yom Tov spirit in this
ment is rather sparse these
BY AHARON ROSEN
famous tea ... "flavor crushed"
days . . . One hears all kind of
for fullest strength and stimu-
conflicting stories about the re-
lation ...richer taste andpleas-
month
nothing
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elf, .196
habilitation of Jewish culture
ure with your fleishigs and
116h-desk
and the government's strong
milehigs and between meal
leloom (loh kh'loom)
date
hand in fighting anti-Semitism
refreshment.
.197 juice
p .192 . . . Even the head of the Po-
tah-ahreekh
meets
litbureau, Khrushchev, whose Certified Kosher under strict Rabbinical Supervision
other
Vitt .198 orange
for Jews is notorious,
.193 dislike
ah-ljehr
was quoted recently as having
tah-pooz
apologized and retracted his re-
of
.199 grapefruit
rrt?ivrix .194 marks made in Poland some-
oh
time ago . . . But this very in-
esh-koh-leer
of'
teresting omission of Jews from
3 77., .200
moment
171-1
.195
the honor role of Soviet scien-
Mel
re-gah
tists in a 1957 book which
boasts of scientific achieve-
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ments cannot be merely an er- • ... and PLAIN
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ror . . . It must be taken as a
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of the Soviet Government at
present
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Soviet press is spilling over
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taboo?
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science and does not discrimi-
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and that kind of politics is cer-
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be commended for hav-
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ing brought this attitude to
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— light . all
these stories about a
that
change in the treatment of the
*rib
Jewish population — if it real-
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ly has occurred — is not adver-
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want its population to know
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that Jews are contributing to
the advance of science . . . Such
an admission would be consid-
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Jewish Scientists in USSR
Soviet citizens of Jewish na-
tionality make a contribution to
Soviet science out of all propor-
tion to their comparative num-
bers, according to Thomas P.
Whitney, Associated Press for-
eign news analyst . . . We don't
know whether this interesting
story has been published, for
we received an advance tele-
type copy by courtesy of Theo-
dore R. Racoosin, the newly

elected chairman of the execu-
tive of the American Commit-
tee of the Weizmann Institute
of Science . . . . It is a very
timely contribution to our
knowledge of what goes on in
the Soviet Union, especially at
a time when we hear so much
about the dominating role Ger-
man scientists have played in
the advance of scientific re-
search in Russia . . . According
to 'Whitney about one of every

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