Fri day, March 28, 1958—T HE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS-1 6

Reports from Behind Iron Curtain Indicate Struggle
i le of Jews to Exist

Open Yarkon Bridge

TEL AVIV (JTA)—A new
One unresolved problem in bridge over the Yarkon River
LONDON, (JTA) — Jews in cannot be checked by the So- learned new trades, the Lithu-
Lithuania and Latvia, the Baltic viet authorities because this anian and Latvian Jews are still this program is the shortage of was formally opened by U. S.
needed to reestablish in- Ambassador Edward B. Lawson
countries which were . annexed would require the deportation mainly ruined and declassed funds
dependent artisans both on the and" Ministerof Labor Mordecai
traders
living
on
petty
semi-
by the Soviet Union in 1939, are of whole communities.
The local authorities there- legal commerce, and artisans part of the government in de- Namir. The 150 foot long span
reported still struggling to re-
whom are barely sur- veloping workshops and on the was financed in part by an
sist assimilation, to maintain re fore do not hinder the Jews in most of
part of the artisans to buy ma- American grant-in-aid funds. "
ligious traditions and to con- their cultural and religious ac- viving, the report asserts.
The Communist - controlled chin-ery and raw materials.
tinue Jewish cultural activities tivities and have even opened a
Some Jewish and even non-
Social and Cultural Union of
under Soviet rule despite many Yiddish section in the Vilna
Jewish authorities are planning
i
Polish
Jews,
the
formal
or-
library.
Nor
do
they
pre-
state
difficulties.
ganization of Jews in Poland, to ask landsmanshaften and oth-
The report says that Judaism, vent attendance at synagogue
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hampered its cultural activi- raw materials, the report said.
of young people.
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proporon
Kovno districts and that their
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it
was
reported
in
the
Prior
to
the
apparent
deci-
is increasingly felt in-
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side Russia where the Jews have sion to permit the repatriation
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for 40 years lived under the of Jews from these annexed
ton, a Jewish communal leader i
daily, to arrive in London.
districts,
cases
were
reported
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assimilating pressure of the
Birmingham,
has
made
a
gift
0
major of
in, which single Jewish fain-
The union has three article
Communist steamroller.
of 70,000 pounds sterling I
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Hies of Polish, Romanian, sources of funds, the
Uni-
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Premises
to
the
Hebrew
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encoun-
($196,000)
assimilation
Forced
Lithuanian or Hungarian on - noted: a government subsidy, versit of Jerusalem for the ii Unconditionally Guaranteed o
ters strong opposition from Jews gin were removed from Jew- dues from members and fund- endowment
for 1 Year
of a chair in archi- I
in the incorporated Baltic states
and only stimulates them tbish communities in central raising activities in the local tecture and fine arts.
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Russia to isolate such com- branches. The government sub-
dreams of emigration to Israel
munites from
rom the " "nationalist sidy continues' to be paid regu-
repatriation
to
coun-
through
and religious
fanatical
ti
influ- larly, but virtually no funds
f
lii
of
which
they
were
former
tries
ences"f o Jews determined to come in from the other sources
citizens, the report states.
keep Jewishness alive, the re- —indicating a lack of interest
This is especially true of the port states.
or funds among Polish Jews.
Jews in the Vilna district where
While anti-Semitism was offi-
The paper also reports that
the Soviet authorities reluc- dally banned in the incorpo-
publishing
the Polish state
tantly agree to their repatri- pression
li- house has just issued a new
rated territories, use of the ex-
ation to Poland rather than have
rootless
cosmopo
"
Stalin's Yiddish textbook to be used in
these Jews "disturb" the proc- tans," dropped in describing
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Jewish schools in Poland. Pre-
ess of Jewish assimilation with Russian Jewry after
pared by L. Olycki, the volume;
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Detroit Piston Coach
in the Soviet Union.
death, con
continues to be used to-
The revival of Jewish cultural Ward the "liberated" Jews, ac - "Step by Step," is intended as a
primer for Jewish children re-
activities and religious practices cording to the report.
SoViet distrust has resulted patriated from the Soviet Union.
in the Vilna and Kovno districts
in the banning of these Jews Thousands
of Jews
repatri-
ated from Russia
to Poland
have
not only from government serv- been severely hit by the deepen-
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ice but also from the profes-
sions and universities and even though
ing unemployment
situation,
the Polish government_
nopn
from factory work, creating se- h a d attempted to stimulate
were job problems.
handicraft industries in an at-
One of the major factors ce-
4apl? rprIntp
napn
menting Jewish solidarity in the tempt to create jobs, it was re-
ported from reliable sources.
districts is an anti-Semi- p • The report said that, at first,
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tism
which
is
stronger
than
in
Russia proper because it was Polish officials thought that job-
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anti-Semitic as ever, the report from
ORT and other Jewish or-
ganizations,
with the sympathet-
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also
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Stated.
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increased by the expected
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Translation of Hebrew column
arrival next month of still
on left. Published by Brit Ivrit
mn Olamit.
more Jewish repatriates from
About a fortnight before the Russia. The best efforts of
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festival of Passover my wife * Jewish organizations and the
into the grocery store to Communist regime are ham-
1 . - prir4 arixttp. Kill .x 17- went
buy a few things. The owner of pered by. the time required
the grocery told her that his for re-training the Jewish
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shop would be closed the whble newcomers and for establish-
week of the festival. He ex- ing new cooperative work-
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plained that he had two sons, shops.
The Polish government seeks
one in a kibbutz and the other
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in the army. Neither of them to re-build specifically Jewish
"Yostefr.„z,
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not come home) for the night of cooperatives to provide ready-
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the Seder and therefore he was made clothes, hats, shirts and
closing the shop for a week and underwear which the increas-
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going (travelling) to the kib- ingly restive Polish population
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These branches of predomi-
"And what about the other
Does he also come to you nantly Jewish light industry
noP son?"
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in the kibbutz?" my wife asked. were liquidated during the war
"No. He will remain in the and destroyed again, after being
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Army camp. A year ago already rebuilt, during the post-war pe-
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I had an argument with him riod in efforts to force all able-
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about the (that) matter. I bodied workers into heavy in-
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wanted him to come home for clustry. During this period, it
Makes
delicate,
Seder, but he says that he was called "unpatriotic" to work
tpiv nri- the
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likes the Seder in the army very in crafts or light industry.
fluffy sponge
The effort to build industrial
much (the Seder in the army
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giants for whose output there
cake that
finds favor in his eyes).
Ivcrinp ; ti rorrlin "An army rabbi visits every was no market at home or
melts in
camp. Passover Hagadot are dis- abroad ended with the Poznan
;7. 17M tributed among the soldiers and riots when the Gomulka govern-
your mouth.
a traditional Seder is held. Sol- ment decided to re-build con-
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diers
of
all
communities
and
of
sumer
goods
industries.
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So delicious
4rin
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This development, followed
every rank, from private to
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up by the new ORT vocational
and
brigadier, take part in it."
"And what do the soldiers training program, was reported
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inrintg
so easy!
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who want to go home to their a blessing for Jews as well as
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parents
or
their
relatives,
do?"
for
a
country
starved
for
con-
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.nr)`'4; 1 wPial ritPr 1 '7 47? my wife asked. sumer products.
Among t h o s e thus being
"Don't
worry
about
them,"
Passover!
frs'Plvn tr'?." T ri "OR
the shopkeeper replied. "Every -brought back to handicrafts pro-
pn 774 soldier who wishes to spend the duction, are not only Jewish re-
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night of the Seder with his fam- pat.riates who had .no occupa-
ily gets leave and goes home. tional experience but also Jew-
Distributed by
But thousands of soldiers prefer, ish workers who worked in steel
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like my son, to spend the seder industry in the Soviet Union
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