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The Detroit Jewish News, 1961-08-11

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, August 11, 1961

Approves Aid Prograni for Bolivia
Hingius 'House Without a Roof Describes Israel
niversities in the
JERUSALEM, (J
culture of each
„language a
Cabinet a
Plight of USSR Jewry, Tells of Intensified aid
olivia under country.
el will send experts
Jewish Consciousness Among Young Jews
the Bolivian

LEAR
0 DRIVE
rde-
The very title of the chapter ket place; policemen on their left for a revival of Jewish n
Hour $36
dealing with the Jews—:"Jew- beat, casual strangers I met papers and the theater.
essons
Professional
was
Russia's Stepson" — in Maurice during my walks, or the clus- makes this interesting
Instructors
also provides
Hindus' "House Without a Roof," ters of boys and young people son to show the ex t
ast
SAFEWAY
the 14th of his books to be pub- that daily gathered around crimination against Yews:
for the training of a
DRIVER TRAINING
eli
lished by Doubleday, at once ex- Americans all over the city."
of Bolivian
"Up in Northern Siberia
_ TO 9-7600 — LI 2-6742
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+$3:
ons.
poses the tramiip
In the 29-page special chapter the Mongol tribe of Chukchi,
is position
The Cabinet also ratified a
"Jew—Russia's Stepson," Hindus whom there are no more than
the Jews in
confirms all the horrifying re- 12,000 men, women and children. cultural agreement between the
SS ATLANTIC
the Soviet
ports that have come out of Rus- In 1930 the Soviet government two countries under which Is-
termite*
Union.
sia in recent years about the ex- gave them a written language, rael and Bolivia will establish
Nop
Hindus' thor-
panded Soviet anti.- Semitism. opened public schools, a pede-
7--
171,6NGTO6WAlif.RIOUristAti-P
ough study of
Throughout the book, also, there gogical college, a medical and a
the situation
are references to Soviet discrimi- musical institute, all in their na-
in the SoVie
nations against Jews and to the tive tongue. Since then the pub-
Union de
tragic status *(3f Jewry even un- lishing house of Magadan in
scribes "Russiz
der improved conditions since northern Siberia has been ing-
today — after.;
ing out the literary w
the death of Stalin.
* * *
Chukchi authors in thei
43 years 0,
s?. .SPIY'RelittY??Mc It-al
language. But the 2,268,000 Jews
t h e mighties
Hindus refers to many inci-
revolution in
(census of January 1959), over
dents to show that as workers
history." Hindus
one fifth of whom giVe Yiddish
Jews are accorded the same
The book's title also is explain. rights and benefits as non Jews, as their mother tongue; have
We are pleased to announce the following
ed without keeping the reader in that they are not segregated in since 1948 been, deprived of all
additions
to our sales personnel as registered
publishing
facilities."
suspense. In the very first para- housing,_ that they face no dis-
graph in the book, in his fore: crimination in the ministration
I resentatives
word, Hindus tells of having vis- of social services. Yet there is
"Onl
ited Russia twice since Stalin's an antagonism that is making Russ
ationali
cause
death, in 1958 and in 1960, and even young Jews who know noth- of
HARRY M. MOSS
ism,"
dus
et an
that:
-
t
s in
ing about their Jewish back-
DUKE SINGER
onistic
"As I-trayeled about the coun- ground Jewishly conscious.
"o
ael. He .y
try observing the progress and
The "doctors 'plot" of Januar
ROBERT MONDOR
wri g
he
achievement, especially in indus- 1953, the bans that have bee pose"
a -"is o justify
in
try, I began to feel that I was placed on Jewish publishin on Isr•
moving from room to room houses and theaters and on He Sovie nmity toward the Jewish
through a spacious house with brew and Yiddish, and discrimi- tate and to discouraging- Je
migrating there
no roof over it. Though the foun- nation resulting from the "fifth
. . .
dation was solidly constructed, point" in passports, stamping they
Detroit
1316 Penobscot Bldg.
iously pursu-
walls were being torn down, re- Jewish holders as Jews, are The Krem
built, or newly put up. Without among the factors contributing to ing a double purpose: to dis-
permanent support, no roof could Russian Jewry's insecurity and abuse Soviet Jews of all thought
be raised.
constant fear of reprisals. The of a good life in Israel, indeed
"State ownership of the means fifth point in the passports, Hin- to frighten them of the fate that
of production, which is the foun- dus explains, is "the ever pres- awaits them there, and to pose
on these BRAND NEW CARS
dation of Soviet society, has re- ent reminder" that Jews cannot as the one true friend of the
mained unshaken. But—the ma- escape their . Jewish origin, that Arab peoples and the one true
Full Size 1961
chine tractor stations which domi- Soviet law does not permit change champion of their independence
nated the collective farms and of name or nationality, and only and sovereignty."
which to Stalin were 'fortresses in -the . instance of children of
Now Jews who w
of socialism' have vanished. The mixed marriages can they be reg- lically respon
State Security Police has been istered - as nationals of either hopes. t
revolution
Stripped of its instruments of parent. But intermerriage also had
out," who had be-
ter4or, but there is no assurance either _lias declined or Is now
horoughly assimilated,
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that these will remain in disuse. unthinkable as a result of anti-
icipate in Jewish holiday
• lay-
Management of in _ dustry and ag- Semitictendencies through°
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elebratio
eat
riculture and the state apparatus the land. ,
ishn s
ing an
r.
have been largely decentralized,
as a r
.‘!The complete collapse
but the- -persistence of bureaucra- -Soviet internationalism
from
zed Imperial, Chrysler, Plymouth & Valiant
cy and parasitism make further - the rise of a flaming Ru
how
on ><n
reconstruction inevitable.
Torah cele E
Sim
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nationalisin are - among
~ d, Hdus was told
Leni
"Stalin's policies of Russifica- mere pronounced causes
Below 7 Mile
that hev were eager t
tion, which had strengthened the Soviet anti-Semitism," Hin
nationalism of the minorities, writes. "in reaction to Russian
the
have been softened, but the na- nationalism, the nationalism of
tionalist problem still awaits an Soviet minorities . . . has only
"Khrushchev him s elf may
been heightened. They, too, again and again officially deny
equitable solution . . "
have
begun
to
discriminate
In this vein Hindus shows how
that there is a Jewish problem
Russian communism has devel- against Jews in professional in the Soviet Union," writes
oped into a monster nationalism, careers. The , exceptions are Hindus, "but the problem is
a revival of Czarist nationalism. Soviet Armenia and Soviet .there, attesting to the failure of
To Your Relatives and Friends
It is this nationalisin that has de- Georgia, which, though among Kremlin communism to fulfill
the
most
nationalistic
peoples
stroyed the hopes of Russian
the original ideals and promises
Through the Columns of
Jews for total emancipation and in the Soviet Union (or maybe of the bolshevik revolution with
has made them aware of their because of that), have visited respect to the emancipation of
no discrimination on Jews. But Jews from all inequalities and
being Jews.
Thus, Hindus reports that he then, the number of Jews in discriminations."
refrained from calling old ac= these republics is small: 52,000
Hindus maintains that "there
M ICHIGAN
DETROIT
quaintances on his recent visits, in Georgia and about 1,000 in is no evidence that, the Kremlin
Armenia."
Weekly
Review
V.
:
of
Jewish
Events
A
but when he met with them, in
has a realistic approach to the
In Russia it is now "they" - and Jewish problem." Will the pres-
privacy, they were happy to talk.
They were cautious, remember- "we" when Russian officials and ent laws be changed "so that the
For a small cost, you will be able to reach
those influenced by them speak fifth point will no longer count
ing the purges.
all of your relatives and friends . . . and
_ The status of Russian Jewry is of Jews. A Jewish intellectual in against them?" Hindus believes
the most tragic of all. Hindus Moscow told Hindus: "Once my "nothing is beyond the Krem-
wish them a Happy New Year !
• re- ten-year-old son came home from lin," that "it may even allow
relates among t
school crying. Russian children some Jews to emigrate," that
n
experie
corded by
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ganged up on him, insulted him, Yiddish may be restored as a
writer, whom
with a
and
told
him
he
has
no
business
minority
literary
language.
He
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had or 25 years, but w
r
going to their school. He and the reaches the conclusion that con-
I
want to meet with hi
likes of him, they said, should go ditions have improved for Jews
the anti-
to
Israel,
where
all
Jews
belong-
since Stalin's death and he adds:
phere that ema
I
17100 West 7 Mile Rd.
ed. The strange part of it is that "They no longer go to bed fear-
remlin an
I
the boy had never before even ing a knock on the door, the
ichigan
Detroit 35,
I
of the
heard of Israel and now he wants dread signal of arrest or deporta-
I
Sovi
ew Year
insert
I
Ple
tion to some remote part of the
ew. to know all about it."
consc•
I
Describing the plight of the country. SkeptiCal of further im-
iter
But thoug he osco
close check for
1 gr
synagogue as "the sorriest provement in their lot in the
ns, he
was a R an of R
I
house
of
worship
in
the
Soviet
$10
$25
foreseeable
future,
their
hope
is
o talk to
didn't
Union, Hindus states: "Though that it will not worsen."
in the mar-
as did pe
I
much worsened, the problems
—P.S.
and Family U
I Mr. and Mrs
of the religious Jews in the
I
IF YOU TURN THE
Soviet Union are not new. Britain Says Israeli
I Address
What is - new in Jewish life,
NE MI — EMI
111111
MI IN
startlingly new to me after an Imports Have Dropped
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
absence since early 1945, is the
LONDON, (JTA) — United
This will be the only means of obtaining a form
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intensification of Jewish con- Kingdom imports from Israel for
sciousness even among young a four-month period ending in
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Jews."
April totalled $20,770,800, com-
While 500,000 Russian Jews pared to $29,971,200 during the
ACCOMPANIES THIS COUPON
registered Yiddish as their moth- same period in 1960, making for
er tongue, there seems no hope a decrease of some $9,200,400.

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