Planned Talk With Khrus hchev Told in Arab Group in Memorandum to UN,
Statement of 21 U.S. Jewish Organizations Rejects Integration of Refugees
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Twen- the Jews are the only religious constitute a great contribution
ty-one national Jewish organiza- group which has no nationwide towards better understanding
tions which were prepared to religious association.
between peoples."
send a delegation to Soviet
The organizations which
"Jews are not permitted to
Premier Nikita Khrushchev, to maintain religious associations signed the statemente are:
discuss with him the status of with Jewish religious organiza- docericAffa - Isra el mCeormem
e ni t t ewf or
Soviet Jewry, issued a lengthy tions outside the Soviet Union,
irs;
ish
Congress;
American
Trade
Union
statement giving the back- such as the relationship per-
nf rLabor
Lo I s rCoun
ael - t a tuati
ground of their decision • and mitted between the Russian American
cil;
emphasizing that they have rea- Orthodox Church and the World Brith; Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis; Hadassah; Jewish
son to believe that, although Council of Churches. Soviet Agency tefeo. r JeIwsisatel.kvaJewish r eLnasboer
Khrushchev refused to see their Jews are not permitted to teach
the • United States; Labor Zionist
five-man delegation, their views their children the Hebrew lan- Assembly; Mizrachi - Hapoel H miz-
did reach the Soviet Premier. guage, without which Jewish rachi; National Community ;.ela,
tions Advisory Council; National
Reviewing the history of religious observance is impossi- Council
of Jewish
h Women; Rabbini
deliberations to enlist the co- ble, for them. While some syna, cal Assembly of America; Rabbini-
of America;. Synagogue
operation of Jewish organiza- gogues have been allowed to cal aue Council
nrci e i le ' n H m
ew
ericaUnion of
tions for the formation of a function on a local basis, there American
C ongregations;
Union
of
Orthodox
Jewish Con-
single delegation _to, meet with have been disturbing reports in gregations of America;
United
Kiirushchev, the statement of recent months, even in this Synagogue of America; and
Zionist Organization of America.
the 21 organizations reads:
regard. There is authentic in-
* * *
"The co-operating organiza- formation of the closing of Labor
cOmmittee
Publishes
tion.s faced two tasks: a. To synagogues and prayer groups
agree on the issue and the posi- in a number of provincial cities. Charges Against Khrushchev
NEW YORK, (JTA)--Soviet
tion to be taken; b. To select a
"3. From the point of view
delegation in the event that Mr. of group culture, the position Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev,
Khrushchev heeded the strong of the 'Jews in the Soviet Union as political boss of the Ukraine
representation of the State De- has deteriorated sharply in the after World War II, "tolerated
open anti-Semitism and anti-'
' partment.
past 20 years. In the 1930's,
"The necessities of the situa- Soviet Jew's had a widespread Jewish riots in Kiev" againSt re-
tion were such as to make system of cultural and educa- turning Jewish survivors, it is
ongoing releases of news, as to tional institutions in the Yid- Charged in a review published
steps taken, inadvisable. Now dish language, including by the Jewish Labor born-.
it can be stated that- it had schools, theaters, newspapers, mittee.
The review, entitled "The
been agreed to limit the num- a large literary output, cultural
Fate
of Soviet Jewry," asserts
ber of the delegation to five, and literary clubs and associa-
and that the organizations had tions. The process of elimina- that it was only after the late
indeed reached substantial tion of these institutions reach- JoSeph Stalin "realized that
agreement on the five. Then it ed its climax in the years such riots could be turned
became clear that Mr. Khrush- 19484953, when these institu- against the government that he
chev would not • find time for tions were cloSed. In 1952, sent Kaganovitch to restore
the meeting. Earlier the organ- scores of leading Jewish writers order in the Ukraine." The re-
izations had reached- common and other cultural leaders were view declares that the Soviet
government "continued its
ground as to conclusion con- liquidated.
policy of removing all Jews
cerning the position of Soviet
"4. There also exists a hu- from government agencies."
Jewry as follows:
manitarian problem of broken
*
*
"1. The estimated number of families, which has resulted
Jews in the Soviet Union is from the migrations of recent
approximately three million and generations and the dispersed
the government of the USSR condition of the Jewish peo-
has always regarded them as a ple. Many Jews in the Soviet
The status of Jews in the
distinct national and religious Union are separated from their
Soviet Union was one of the
group.
families elsewhere. Any action issues raised by President
"2. However, despite the de by the Soviet government to
Eisenhower in his talks with
jure recognition of their status, alleviate this situation would
the Soviet leader at Camp David
two weeks ago.
This was disclosed in a White
House letter to Label A. Katz
of New Orleans, president of
Bnai Brith, made public this
Week.
Gen. Wilton B. Persons; as-
sistant to the President, advised
Katz that the controversial
topic had been posed to the.
Soviet Premier by_ Eisenhower.
"Khrushchev stated that he
was aware of the" question,"
en. Persons wrote, • "but . that
it was his position that so far
as possible the Jewish people
in the - Soviet Union are treated
like everyone else."
"The President," Gen. Per-
sons added, "then informed,
Khrushchev of the concern that
had been expressed to him by
representatives of the Jewish
people in the United 8-tates over
the situation of the Jewish peo
ple in the Soviet Union."
(See Boris Smolar's
Column on Page 2)
,
Ike Intervened
for Soviet Jews
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — The General Assem-
bly's Special Political Commit-
tee convened here for the first
meeting of this year's session
with the Arab refugee problem
one of the main topics on its
a g e n d a. The Arab League
promptly jumped into another
anti-Israel fray, by presenting
to Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold a memorandum in-
sisting on the return of all the
refugees to Israel as the only
solution to that problem.
The memorandum, given to
Hammarskjold by Abdel Khalek
Hassouna, Secretary General of
the Arab League, made these
points:
1. The League rejects the
Hannmarskjold plan for integra-
tion of the refugees into. the
economies of the Middle East.
2. The memorandum called
the UN's attention to "the dan-
ger of Jewish immigration to
Palestine which constituted a
major obstacle to the implemen-
tation of the United Nations
resolution on the repatriation
of the refugees."
3. The League endorses Ham-
marskjold's - proposal that the
work of the United Nations Re-
lief and Works Agency for Pal-
estine' Refugees be continued
beyond the agency's present ex-
piration date, June 30, 1960.
The League warns, however,
against any plan "to transfer
any of UNRWA's responsibility
to the host Arab states."
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