Kozlov Barred Jewish
Press Here; Denied Bias
`Win Back Jews,' Reform Parley Urges Delegates
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News
NEW YORK (JTA)—Follow- The author, Yakov Gurevich,
ing Soviet First Deputy Prem- described as assistant editor of
ier Frol Kozlov's tour through- the Yiddish newspaper, Birobid-
out the United States, he held janer Stern, reported that Biro-
a press conference at the head- bidjan has a teachers' school
quarters of the Soviet delegation which has graduated more than
to the United Nations to which 2,000 students—but there was
no representative of the Jewish no indication as to how many
and Israeli press was invited. of these graduates were Jews.
Entrance to the conference was
He said that the town has a
by invitation cards only.
Sholem Aleichem Library, con-
Representatives of the gen- taining "some 100.000 volumes
eral press• however. did not fail of political and scientific works.
to ask Kozlov why Jewish cul- as well as fiction, a great many
ture is being suppressed in the of which are in the Yiddish
Soviet Union and why syna- language."
gogues are being closed when
Jews are mentioned through
religious instituitions of .other
nationalities in the USSR are out the article, but only in gen-
eral context, without any details
as to numbers. Jews are re-
d giving
giving a
a reply,
reply, and re- portedly among the workers in -
iterated his denial of last week the village of Waldheim, in
that synagogues are being liqui- Amurzet. and on a nearby col-
dated in his country. lective farm named after Stalin.
During his stay in Chicago. Jewish names were listed among
Kozlov visited the International the founders of these villages.
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Trade Fair, but carefully
avoided the Israeli pavilion Ignore Pleas to Protect
there. On the other hand. he
stopped at the Egyptian exhibit Nazi Victims' Remains
to chat and to be photographed TEL AVIV (JTA)—Nearly 15
examining products made in years after World War II, Rus-
Egypt. sian Jews are still being denied
In Pittsburgh. Kozlov was tak- permission to fence a huge
en by Vice Admiral Hyman G. grave in the Russian Ukraine
Rickover on a comprehensive holding the bodies of some 10.-
tour of the nearby atomic 000 Jews slaughtered by the
power station. At the plant. Nazis. according to information
Adm. Rickover. who is director received here.
of naval reactors there. asked
In recent years, the report
Kozlov whether he thought that
he. Rickover.
r.. could be elected says, peasants digging in the
to office in
Soviet Union. area of the former Polish town-
This was a reference to Adm. ship of Krzemieniec have found
Rickover's Jewish background. gold teeth and other valuables
"Certainly." Kozlov replied. where the Nazis had dug a huge-
'You would be president or ditch, thrown in the bodies of
vice-president of the Academy their victims and covered them
of Sciences in our country. loosely with dirt.
Members of the Academy of Repeated rains have washed
Sciences get the highest salary." . away some of _sthe, ear_11_ ' ,.., ex'
Adm. Rickover then asked the w ing ews
wnes ` "
asked f r o permis-
Soviet Deputy Premier if money Local J
was the most important consid- stun to fence the area and, with
their own funds, place a monu-
oration. Kozlovjdid not reply.
ment on it.• Local Soviet au-
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, pthoersi.ties have given evasive re-
LONDON — Reform Judaism
should make a "great effort"
to win back to Judaism those
who have become indifferent
to it and also offer the Jewish
faith to the "spiritually home-
less" outside the Jewish com-
munity. Rabbi Bernard J. Bam-
berger, former president of the
Synagogue Council of America
declared here Monday night.
Speaking before 400 delegates
and visitors from 20 countries
attending the Conference of the
World Union for Progressive
Judaism, Rabbi Bamberger said
it was also urgent that Reform
Judaism undertake a re-think-
ing and re-statement of Jewish
! liefs and evolve a new form of holding the biennial conferences
Jewish piety based on Torah
outside the United States to
and Avodah (faith and work).
maintain the international
The delegates, after hearing character of the organization.
The resolution expressed the
a report on the work of the
World Union with the United hope that the next conference
Nations, approved a resolution would be held in Israel. An ex-
calling for greater support of pression of sympathy with the
the Union's work with UNICEF. aims of World Refugee Year
The delegates elected Dr. tion. contained in another resolu-
Solomon Freehof, of Pittsburgh,
as World Union president, suc- Produce Israel 'Originals'
ceeding the Hon. Lily Montagu,
TEL AVIV. ( A.JP) A. new
who was named honorary vice- theater company named -Sdare•
president.
—meaning Anvil—has been cre-
Previously, the delegates ap- ated here by playwright Yigael
proved a resolution to transfer Mossinsohn. The company plans
the headquarters of the World to produce only original Israel
Union to New York City and plays.
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Start Probe on Merger
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet Embassy circulated to of Neo-Nazi Youth
WIESBADEN (JTA) — Dr.
the press this week an article
by a Jewish writer in Birobid- Fritz Bauer. Attorney General
jan aimed at showing that Jew- of Hesse. has launched an inves-
ish life is going on in the former tigation of seven ultra-national-
ist youth groups which recently
Jewish autonomous region.
formed a coalition "German
However, aside from generali•
ties about the economy and edu•
cational institutions of the re-
gion. the artii-le did not indicate
any specific Jewish activities in
those fields.
The article asserted that one
of the main streets of the city
of Birobidjan was named after
the Yiddish writer. Sholem Alei-
chem. and that the railway sta-
tion bears the name of the
town - in Yiddish and Russian."
Youth Movement."
He said the investigation was
to determine whether the
groups were violating West
German laws against anti-
Democratic and anti-Semitic
activities.
West German youth leaders
estimated that from 40.000 to
70.000 German youths were or-
ganized in the neo-Nazi and
militarist groups led by former
SS and Nazi party members.
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