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. 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