Unprecedented Anti-Jewish Propaganda Arabs Boycott Turkish Cigarettes
Reported in Areas Acquired by Moscow Because of Turco-Israel Trace Pact

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — letters and radio broadcasts di-
Soviet newspapers from terri- rect the clergy living in the
tories acquired by the Soviet Soviet Union to sabotage the
Union after the war—especially Communist Party and the Soviet
Galicia and the Baltic states— regime."
are indulging in unprecedented
The paper, in its inciting
anti-Jewish propaganda under anti-Jewish article, claims
the pretext of fighting religion, that the rabbis in the Soviet
it was established here follow- Union "oppose the Commu-
ing a study of a number of nist system of education of
Soviet publications from these children." As example, it
areas. cites a Jewish preacher in
The Latvian newspaper Mogilev who "not so long
Sovietskaya • Daugava, pub-
ago" allegedly told mothers
fished in Riga, carries an
in the • synagogue to "better
article attacking the local
lead your children • to the
rabbi, Baruch Eliashberg, for
slaughter house, rather than
selling hand-written Jewish
to let them rot in Communist
calendars. The article avoids
Pioneer units."
indicating that the Soviet au-
Declaring that "the Jewish
thorities do not permit the religion teaches Jews who live
printing of Jewish religious among other nations never to
calendars, but accuses the wish these nations peace and
rabbi of "amassing" money by happiness," the Ukrainian news-
sellin g the hand-written paper says that the Jewish reli-
calendars to "many visitors to gion "is now, and always has
the synagogue."
been, the enemy of science,
Calling this income "illegal," culture and progress," and that
the article carefully avoids say- "it emphasizes the things which
what happened to the rabbi, divert the minds of people from
but implies that the practice active participation in the build-
of disseminating_ hand-copied ing of Communism."
Jewish calendars has been
Asserting that "the leaders
stopped by the Latvian Soviet of Judaism in Stanislav are
authorities.
ardent liars," the Soviet news-
The rabbi, according to the paper alleges that pious Jews
Soviet newspaper, was checked in the city held "illegal meet-
after he had purchased "several ings and floated provocative
dozens of ordinary copy books rumors to the effect that GcS
at 15 kopecks apiece, split them - Jehovah was soon going •1t,
into two, and produced so-called gather together the. scatter
religious calendars which he Jews from all the corners of
sold at 5-10 rubles each." Ad- the earth and unite them."
mitting, thus, that it was only "Israel," the article continues,
a question of "several dozens" "is, according to the Judaists,
calendars, the paper neverthe- a sacred temple of the God
less charges the rabbi with Jehovah. On the other hand,
pocketing the "amassed" in- it is known to all people of the
come.
world that Israel is now a pup-
A more inciting article pet of the • American-British im-
against Jewish religious leaders perialists. Ben-Gurion, the lead-
appears in the Ukrainian Soviet er of the Israel government, a
newspaper Prikarpatska Pravda, veteran Zionist, is already long
published in Stanislav, which known as an ultra-reactionary.
was a Polish city until World He is the leader of one of the
War II. "Rabbis, tzadiks and Zionist organizations which de-
their like" the Communist pa- veloped in the United States,
per writes, "on the other side and which have the unlimited
of our frontiers, try to now send support of the multi-millionaire
special agents into our country Rockefeller Brothers and other
for anti-Soviet activities. Their grabbing monopolists.

"That is why the reaction-
aries in Israel are so impudent
and organize provocative attacks
on the countries of the Arab
East, and try to send their
agents to Socialist countries,"
the paper goes on to say. At the
same time, the newspaper
points out that "the working
masses of Israel have no con-
nections with these criminal
actions." It mentions the Secre-
tary of the Israel Communist
Party, S. Mikunis, as the leader
of the "working masses" in
Israel who "oppose the Ameri-
can-oriented policy of leading
Israeli circles."

RICHMOND, Va., (JTA) --
Tobacco industry officials here
have received word that an
Arab ban will soon be imposed
on Turkish tobacco and ciga-
rettes because of Turkish to-
bacco business with Israel.
It was reported that the Arab
conference held in Beirut, Leb-
anon, decided that all Arab
states would boycott all kinds
of Turkish tobacco, and _ ciga-
rettes containing Turkish to-
bacco, because of the "the estab-
lishment of joint Turco-Israeli
cigarette factories."
The restrictions on Turkish
tobacco would be .lifted only if

Turkey severed its bUsiness
connections involving tobacco
with Israel, the report said.
Arab League Blacklists
75 Ships for Ignoring
Anti-Israel Boycott
LONDON, (JTA) — Seventy-
five more ships, including ves-
sels flying the flags of the
United States, Britain, France,
West Germany, Greece, Norway
and Denmark, have been placed
on the Arab League's blacklist
for ignoring the League's anti-
Israel boycott. The additions to
the blacklist were made at the
last meeting of the Arab boycott
committee at Beirut, Lebanon.

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were the Jewish historian Hein-
rich Graetz, who taught at the
Theological Seminary in old
Breslau, and the German phil-
osopher of Socialism, Ferdinand
Lasalle. The Theological Semin-
ary does not function now.
By contrast with the situation
he found at the synagogue, the
Folkshtimme writer reported
lively activities at the Jewish
Folk Club, the local head-
quarters of the Jewish Social
and Cultural Union, the Yiddish
Theatre, and ' the vocational
training classes conducted by
ORT.
The writer reports that the
Jewish library in Wroclaw con-
tains 6,000 volumes, of which
2,000 are in Yiddish, and also
displays Yiddish newspapers
published not only in Poland
but also in Romania, the United
States and Argentina. The li-
brary has registered 450 regu-
lar readers, of whom about a
third read Yiddish.
Economically, the Jews of
Wroclaw are reportedly "getting
by." There are Jews at work in
the big railroad car factory in
the city, and in some plants
making precision instruments.

Israel Army Chaplain
Goren Gets Torah Scroll
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
The Chief Chaplain of the Israel
armed forces, Rabbi Shlomo
Goren, presented a Torah scroll
from Israel to the Argentine
Jewish community at the Israel
Embassy here, attended by all
rabbis of this city and the Jew-
ish communal leaders.

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Wroclaw, Largest Polish Jewish
Community, Can't Muster Minyan

VIENNA, (JTA)—Social, cul-
tural and other secular activities,
are • very vigorous among the
Jews in Wroclaw, Poland, which
is the largest center of Jewish
population in Poland, but the
synagogue can barely muster
a quorum of 10 male adults for
Sabbath services, according to a
report in the latest issue of
Folkshtimme, Warsaw Yiddish-
language newspaper, received
here.
One of the two synagogues
that were the pride. of German
Jewry when the city was known
as Breslau, a part of. Germany,-
is still in existence, according to
the report. The "New" Syna-
gogue of Breslau was destroyed
by the Nazis in 1938. The syna-
gogue in use now had been
gutted inside under the Nazi
rule. Services are held every
Saturday, but the sexton com-
plained to the Folkshtimme
writer "it is difficut to assemble
a minyan."
The two old Jewish ceme-
teries in Wroclaw are intact,
but • many of the tombstones
are reportedly in "sad" disre-
pair. Among famous men in-
terred in one of the cemeteries

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