British Labor Party
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Anti-Semitic Threat
Facts About= Israel, Directories
Enhance State's I 958 : Year Book
Now Ready for the Holidays
Published during_ the state's scribes Israel's legal systalk in
LONDON (JTA) — Resolu-
year, "The
tions dealing with the threat of tenth
1958 anniversary
Israel Year Book"
has a one of the longest and most
illuminating - _ articles in - the
anti-Semitism
Britain
and great
deal
of valuable-material
with
proposals iri
fOr
contribution
that
offers
a resume of that book.
I s r a e s demography is re-
to a solution of the Middle East nation's accomplishments dur-
viewed by H. S. Halevy. Immi-
Conflict will be among the ma-
the first decade of its ex- gration to Israel, population by
jor items considered at the 57th ing
istence.
ages, death rates, marriages
annual conference of the British
Published
in cooperation
Labor Party which opens at with
the Jewish
Agency's and divorces and specific fer-
tility
rates are among the facts
Scarborough later this month.`
Among the resolutions to be economic department, the Year- given here. -
The position of Israel's de-
has an illuminating
presented to the parley is one book
by Finance
Minister report
Levi
fense fordes is outlined by Lt.
by a London branch which con-
Eshkol who describes "How - Col. Dr. Israel Ber.
K: Menahem, writing on
demns the growth of anti- Israel Uses Its Capital Import."
"Minorities in Israel," tells
Semitism and urges that the He shows that "much is being
of the positions of the Chris-
Laborites press for realization created that is invisible to the
tians, Beduins and others.
of the Socialist aim of the eye as yet" and that " a mighty
Science and research, public
equality of all men., Recent accumulation of spiritual and
manifestations
of anti-Jewiih
sentiment
included
the publi- economic forces is seething and health:, sport 5, Israel's mer-
chant
fleet, the State's stamps,
cation of a number of communi- forming in all walks of life,
it will burst various educational and eco-
cations from supposed British and
forth in
in due
full time
strength."
nomic,activities are• outlined in
branches of the Ku Klux Klan.
Israel's industrial problems a score of other articles.
Informed Jewish sources, how-
The activities of the Jewish
ever, are not inclined to take a r e revitwed- by Minister of Agency also are‘ described -in
seriously a threat of anti- Commerce Pinchas Sapir. "The special articles.
Impact of Monetary Policy" is
Semitism from the KKK.
The Year Book opens ap-
, From Leeds came a Labor outlined by David Horowitz,
propriately with the list of
Party resolution to the party Governor of the Bank -of Israel.
members of the Knesset and -
conference stressing the need
Of special interest is the
the text of the Israel Decla-
for "a concerted effort by the article on the activities of
ration of Independence.
United Nations to bring the the U.S. Operations Mission,
Surveys of various Israeli
Arab states and Israel to direct in which John Y. Haggerty,
communities are parts of this
USOM director, tells not only
peace negotiations without prior
informative volume. The de-
negotiations and without prior of assistance already given
scriptions of the political
by the U.S. to Israel, but
conditions prejudicing to either
parties add to the volume's
also describes the proposed
side. The same resolution fur-
values. There are many direc-
new
aspects_
of
the
program,
ther urged the establishment of
torial lists, of organiaztions and /
large-scale development plans t h r ough the Development
religious groups. Many illustra-
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Loan
Fund.
for the Middle East under UN
tions add color to the book.
auspices.
Judge Henry E. Baker de-
The 350-page plastic-bound,
Israel Year Book, as a refer-
ence book for correct, standard
and up-to-date information on ,
Israel, can be purchased for
$5 from Israel Publications, 2
Bar K o c h b a St., Tel Aviv,
Israel. •
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at Halperin's
DuMont Gold Label Suits
English worsted charcoals in
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Jewish women receive medicine at the Clinique Mater-
nelle, medical center serving the Jews of the ghetto in Casa-
blanca, Morocco. The clinic was set up with the aid of the
Joint Distribution Committee, major American agency aiding
distressed Jews overseas, in an effort to stem the enormously
high mortality rate in the area. The Joint Distribution Com-
i
mince is a beneficiary
agency of the United Jewish Appeal,
which in 1958 - conducting a multi-million dollar Rescue
Fund campaign n addition to its campaign for the regular
_budgetary requirements of member agencies providing relief,
_resettlement and rehabilitation for Jews in 25 countries, in-
cluding Israel.
Study Analyzes USSR 'Genocide' Policy on Jews
MUNICH (JTA)—A detailed they led in the end to the ap-
study of the liquidation of Jew- plication of measures involving
ish life in the Soviet Union was genocide," the study points out.
published here by the Institute The study reviews in- detail
for the Study of the U.S.S.R. the ups and downs - of the So-
as part of a series of studies viet policy toward Jewish cul-
of persecutions of national mi- ture and presents numerous
norities by the Soviet govern- facts shoWing how, in addition
ment. to executing several hundred
The study, entitled "Genocide Jewish writers and cultural lead-
in the USSR." opens with the ers in the Soviet Union. Soviet
assertion that "Soviet Commu- - authorities also liquidated all
nist policy in , regard to the -Jewish cultural and scientific
Jewish question has always been -institutions in thci newly an-
guided by one ultimate aim— nexed territories if Lithuania,
liquidation of the Jews as a Latvia, Estonia, Eastern Gali-
national community and their cia, Bukovina and Bessarabia.
assimilation as units in other It brings out the fact that the
national groups of the Soviet latest edition of the Large So-
State."
viet Encyclopedia defines Yid-
In practice, the study estab- dish as the 'former" language of
lishes, this policy of liquida- Russian Jews.
tion has not been followed con-
The study also . reveals that
sistently. It has zigzagged back `harsh measures of repression"
and forth and has been marked were taken against Polish Jews
by periods of retreat which con- who stubbornly refused to be-
tributed to the development of come Soviet - citizens. It esti-
processes directly opposed to mates that about 600,000 of
the ultimate goal. "Since such them were forcibly evacuated
retreats were based upon utili- to the Urals and Siberia from
tarian or tactical considerations territories annexed from Po-
and slowed down the process of land. It also refers to data pub-
liquidation and assimilation, lished by the Joint Distribution
Committee estimating that be-
tween a fifth and a -third of the I
refugees perished:-
Dwelling on the present "final
state of liquidation" of Jewish
communal and cultural life in
the U.S.S.R., the study comes
to the conclusion that "it is very
probable that the tragedy of the
Russian Jews is coming to an
end before our eyes." At the
same time, the study points out
that linguistic assimilation has
not killed, the national con-
sciousness of the majority of
Jews in the Soviet Union.
"At all events the anti-Semi-
tic measures of recent years.
such as the staging of the 'doc-
tors trial,' the mass removal of
Jews . from responsible positions
in- the state, economic, military
and party ariparatus, the threat
of the introduction of a percent-
age ratio in the universities, and
finally4he existence of the State
of Israel, to which all Jews are
attracted, are factors which are
impeding the efforts of the
Communists to extinguish the
national and religious ties of
Soviet Jewry," the study em-
phasizes.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The
eight-member delegation of the
American Jewish Committee.
headed by Irving M. Engel and
Jacob Blauste3n, returned from
its 22-day visit to Latin Ameri-
can countries where the AJC
leaders established closer con-
tact with local Jewish commu-
nities and discussed problems
of interest to Jews with the
heads of local governments.
Engel, AJC president, report-
ed that there is praaieglly no
anti-Jewish discrimination in
the countries which they visited
and that sincere efforts are be-
ing made to foster democratic
regimes devoted to the mainte-
nance and strengthening of hu-
man rights, particularly in the
countries whch have been dom-
inated by dictatorship in recent
years.
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