NEW YORK (AJP)—Hebrew and taking many courses
Union College bulletin features offered first year rabbinic stu-
a story in its current issue on dents."
anese student" to
With Okamoto in Cincinnati
the "first Jap anese
enroll in the College-Institute is his attractive wife, Kyoko.
at Cincinnati.
Okamoto is only one of thou-
The HUC - JIR publication sands of Japanese who are in-
states that 32-year old Hiroshi terested in the Hebrew faith as
Okamoto, after meeting Jewish a philosophy of life.
chaplains in Tokyo, had be
come interested in their reli-
gious and philosophic ideas.
FUEL OIL
GASOLINE
"A desire to learn more about
Judaism prompted him to apply
to HUC-JIR for a fellowship,"
the picture story continued.
"A graduate of the Japanese
Naval Academy where he took
his BA, he holds an MA de-
gree in comparative literature
SERVING
a
from Sophia University,
HOME AND INDUSTRY
school under Catholic auspices.
WITH STANDARD OIL
For the past several years he
has been teaching English and
COMPANY PRODUCTS
Japanese grammar at a Tokyo
TO. 8-0001
Junior High School. At HUC-
JIR, he is studying Hebrew

well as young adults, teen-
the Leningrad faculty of medi-
Continued from Page 1
agers and school children —
USSR protested this freedom of cine, in various technical insti-
attended the High Holiday
movement and the Polish tutes, and in the philology fac-
services this year. "Especi-
authorities clamped down on it. ulty, where foreign languages
ally striking," he reports,
However, the JTA report are being taught.
was the appearance of these
adds, , repatriated Jews, return-
"In Moscow, the number of
ing to cities, towns and villages Jews in Moscow University is people during the Simhat
Torah celebration in Moscow.
which once had been their said to have been reduced
homes, were unable to find a again this year although it was The narrow land on which
place. Unwanted, in most cases, already much less than 10 per the Moscow central syna-
gogue is situated was crowded
they could not recover apart- cent, the percentage of the Jew-
to capacity, so that traffic
ments or homes, could find no ish population in Moscow to
jobs and became relief clients. the general population. Yet in had to be suspended; and. in
In these circumstances, the Kiev, where discrimination addition, there were groups
ORT and JDC were invited by against Jews is believed to be assembled in the adjacent
the Polish government to oper- greatest there are a number of main street.
"I spoke to several people
ate again in Poland. In the past Jewish students in many uni-
year, these two allied Jewish versity schools, although prob- and asked them the reason for
services have helped thousands ably the figure is less than the their coming. The explanation
retrain for work and get on relation of Jewish and non- they offered amounted in fact
their feet. Jewish populations in the town to an admission of a feeling
Dr. Goldmann and Ben-Gurion would warrant. There are also that they belonged to the Jew-
reiterated their views, in state- Jewish students in Riga and ish people, although they did
not have this feelin a few
ments in Jerusalem, in the past Lvow."
years before." Mr. Ben writes.
few days, that emigration of
The report reveals that
"They admitted, though not
Jews from Russia is imminent. "in the Ukraine the anti-Sem-
very willingly, that there were
Meanwhile, the New Repuh- itic current, always very
external reasons for an increas-
lie, liberal American weekly, this strong, has now been further
week published an eye-witness
stimulated." It says that there ing consciousness of their Jew-
ishness; but the most they
report on Jewish life in the
is apparently a trend in the
would say about this was that
Soviet Union. establishing that Ukraine to demonstrate to
most people in Russia still have
"there is no doubt that the public opinion that too many
some anti-Jewish feeling."
Soviet government discriminates Jews occupy important posts
Emphasizing that "one may
against its Jews even though and that they "misuse their
expect that the position of the
the precise rules of such dis- authority." Wide publicity
Jews in Russia will get increas-
crimination are obviously con- was given lately in the Uk-
ingly more difficult," Mr. Ben
sidered top secret."
rainian press to a trial in
believes that it is not true. how-
Kiev of 35 people. The pub-
"On the basis of my ex-
ever, that European Jewry in
lished list of names of the
perience and my conversation
the USSR is facing the danger
defendants indicated that 32
with Jews of different stand-
of physical extermination
of them are Jews.
ing in the Soviet Union, I
can affirm that Jews are
"The trial provoked a new through mass deportation or
t.' Jewish feelings any other means. "Even should 1
barred from the Air Force
f
and great uneasiness among the the present regime be willing to
and Navy officers' corps," the
Jews all over the Ukraine," the return to Stalin's master plan in
author of the report, Phillipe
Ben. a French journalist, report says. It discloses that order to find a "final solution" I
MANY MORE TOO NUMEROUS TO LIST
writes. "Exceptionally, they sentences in this trial ranged for the Jewish problem, this
are permitted in the regular from 5 to 20 years. and a few could hardly be done without
REMNANTS — MILL ENDS — PART ROLLS
women
got
very
long
prison
returning
to
the
most
sinister
Red Army officers' corps in
SHARPLY REDUCED!
terms. The defendants. all em- practices of the Stalin era.
those professions where Jews
There
are
no
indications
that
still predominate greatly, that
ployes of a factory. were ac-
• Home
is, the medical profession and cused of "stealing goods worth the present regime either wants
in certain scientific research millions of rubles." They in- or is able to do this." he re-
Service
groups. eluded the general manger, sev- ports.
•
Budget
"Jews are also barred from eral of his assistants, a number
Terms
membership in various Com- of engineers and some of their Free ZIM Israel Hotel
Stay for Passengers
munist Party units, especially wives."
With regard to the ban on
the cadre and propaganda sec-
Effective until March 14
CARPET COMPANY
tion. It is quite certain, too, Jewish culture, the report brings round-trip passengers sailing on
the
following
facts:
In
the
out
that no Jews are being admit-
the SS Theodor Herzl between
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ted to the central party papers, whole Soviet Union there is only Marseilles or Naples and Haifa
2 Blocks West of Liverpool:
and they are particularly ex- one newspaper in Yiddish, a will receive 5-10 days free hotel
n Birobidjan, printed accommodations in Israel.
eluded from the foreign section weekly in
of the Soviet press. They are on four tiny pages and carrying
never sent abroad as correspon- only reprints from the local
dents for Soviet papers, radio Russian paper. The circulation
or Tass Agency. Old-timers in of this weekly is only a few
the press, however, are not dis- thousand, a n d subscriptions
criminated against. from any other part of the
"While the number of Jewish Soviet Union are not accepted.
students being admitted to uni- The local radio station in Biro-
versities is obviously restricted bidjan broadcasts only a one-
and limited. the application of hour program in Yiddish once
this measure varies from place a week. The only other instance
to place and even from school where Yiddish is permitted is
to school. Despite all restric- in concerts of Yiddish songs.
tions, Jewish students are to be These take place in many of the
found everywhere, sometimes main Soviet towns. usually a
even in fair numbers. For ex- few times a year. The number
ample. Leningrad's school of of the singers is very limited.
music has a considerable num- Only three have appeared in
ber of Jewish students and Moscow in recent years. The
there are also many Jews in songs seem to haxe been selec-
ted to make the audience real-
ize how miserable and back-
IF YOU TURN THE
ward Jewish culture was, the
report says. "The ban on any-
thing printed in Yiddish is so
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
strict that even announcements
Current
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of the Yiddish song concert ap-
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pearing on the walls in Moscow
and other towns are in Russian
Savings Accounts Insured to
only and the Yiddish names of
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the songs are being printed in
Russian characters. The fiction
• DEXTER AT CORTLAND
is maintained that Russian Jews
• LIVERNOIS AT W. 7 MILE
no longer understand Yiddish.
• W. 9 MILE NEAR COOLIDGE
So, at every concert of Yiddish
Main Office
songs there is an announcer in
Woodward at Congress
Russian who explains the sub-
3 Other Branch-es
ject of every song.
says in his report
Ben
Mr.
OTHER
that an unusual number of
Jews in Moscow who have
never been to a synagogue
before, who had no previous
connection with religion, and
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who did not understand the
meaning of the religious rit-
ual or prayers --- people in
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HUC-JIR Enrolls Japanese Student

Wave of Anti-Jewish Attitudes in
Russia Exposed by French Journalist

