THE DETRO IT JEWISH NE WS — Friday, May 11, 1962 —
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Algerian Crisis Creates Emigration Problem;
Absorption Process May Double French Jewry

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and metal bars. The invaders
were driven back but not be-
fore at least four others were
seriously injured and one
Jew, Elie Dijian, 64, a retired
school teacher, had been
murdered.
The news came here Saturday
night, just as the Fonds Social
Juif Unifie, the central French
Jewish welfare organization,
convened here for its annual
general conference. In attend-
ance was Grand Rabbi Rahmin
Naouri, of the Algerian city of
Bone.
"I cannot find words to de-
scribe to you the anguish and
misery of the Algerian Jews
after seven years of murder,
tears and mourning," the
white-bearded grand rabbi
told the conference. He pre-
dicted that most of Algeria's
150,000 Jews will be driven
into emigration, abandoning
their homes and possessions,
going to France "deprived of
the barest necessities." "They

their identities are being rately budgeted and used ex- of the denial made it possible sion of peaceful intentions
checked. A house curfew was clusively for absorption of to believe that it was the exact ward Jewish communities to-
can
imposed on the Jewish district, North African Jews. He paid wording of the Middle East be politically damaging."
and residents were barred from tribute to the Joint Distribution News Agency report which was
leaving their homes. All shops Committee, the Central British being contested. What was sig-
in the district were closed. The Fund and the Jewish Coloniza- nificant—and Algerian Jews are
The School Board,
curfew apparently was to re- tion Association for their aid in not missing the point—is that
main in force until the house- dealing with the situation.
Staff and Students
Moslem opinion is such that a
to-house search was completed.
"We must not conceal the declaration of war against Juda-
Of The
At least two Jews were fact," M. Kellerman warned, ism was hailed while an expres-
Young Israel Center of
among the score of Europeans "that should there be a mass
Oak Woods
known to have disappeared exodus, all our projects as
Religious School
from their homes in Algiers, well as the government's pro-
Wishes
principal metropolis of the be- gram will be outdated and
Maul Toy to
leagured country, during the out-grown." He pledged
A
Heartfelt
Masel-Toy
Rabbi Jerry Godfrey
last few days, it was learned French Jewry to do its utmost
to
here. It is still not known for Algerian Jewry, and said
Upon His Engagement to
Rabbi Jerry Godfrey
whether the missing men were it would continue to encour-
kidnaped by the Ntaional Lib- age their emigration to Israel.
Upon his engagement to
Esther Schey
eration Front (FLN), the Mos- "Israel should not serve, how-
Esther Scbey
lem independence movement, ever, as an alibi for our own
Yeshivetft Checluney Lublin
Leonard Servetter,
or were seized by the French shortcomings," be asserted.
Harry Stelsky, Secretory
School Beard Chairman
secret police who have been op-
Jacques Kaufmann, chairman
Robbi Israel Zama
erating in Algeria under direct of the FSJU reception commit-
Robb: M. Rothenberg, Dean
Principal
instructions from Paris.
tee, which maintains reception
The two missing Jews have centers in Paris and Marseilles,
beeen identified as Pierre told the assembly that the
Levy, 47, a police inspector, Paris bureau had received 1,300
who was born in Saigon; and heads of families, representing
Gerrard Levy, 27, a university
will need," he said, "not only assistant. The latter disappeared more than 4,000 people. Most
social help but also Jewish en route to the university labor- of them, he said, were from
Presents
Tunisia but the number and
warmth and kindness." He atory from his home.
origin of cases, he said, would
reminded the French Jews,
In Paris, OAS bombers blew
however, that the Algerian up the shop of an Algerian change "dramatically" during
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Jews will bring with them Jewish refugee whom the OAS the coming months. He paid tri-
st
°
also "a great spiritual heri- had accused of having "de- bute to OSE, the Jewish health
tage and traditional Jewish serted" from Agleria "without organization, and to ORT, the
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Jewish rehabilitation organiza-
values."
SUNDAY, MAY 20th, 8:00 P.M.
permission," and with having
Baron Guy de Rothschild refused to contribute to the tion, whose provincial schools,
0
At
•
he
said,
were
80
percent
of
the
presided at the FSJU meeting, OAS war chest. The bomb at-
as well as France's Chief Rabbi, tack was carried out on Jacques students of North African ori-
Dr. Jacob Kaplan; Israel's Min- Ramoli's shop, on the Left gin. He said teams of welfare
ister to France, Zeev Shek; and I Bank, despite a police guard on workers would be sent to inter-
7045 CURTIS at SANTA ROSA
a representative of the French it. Ramoli had been the target view and offer assistance to
S.
Ministry for Repatriates. The of two previous bomb attacks in refugee families which had not
$2.00
Algerian report electrified and Paris, one of them having de- registered with the reception
Tickets Available at Synagogue Office,
bureaus. It was also announced •
undescored dramatically t h e molished his home and store.
that refugees f r o m North •
UN 4-7474; or frown Joseph Koenig, YE 7-7851
main theme of the conference,
The
FSJU
will
concentrate
Africa will be invited to mem-
which was concerned with plans
on long-term measures and bership on a new
commission 9••••••••wwoutas000mm000moosoosimmweimmoodt
to absorb the influx of Jewish
for
development
of
an
ex-
to deal with to problems created
immigration from Algeria.
Joseph Weill, chairman of panded structure that will fa- by the immigration.
the FSJU absorption commit- cilitate the absorption of the
Andre Khayst, a representa-
newcomers into the life of the
tee, told the conference he has community. Most of the tive of the French Ministry for
investigated the situation of efforts will
be therefore, along Repatriates, explained the ma-
Algerian J e w r y. "at great
the lines of the social, reli- chinery set up by the Govern-
length." With great emotion, he
gious and cultural absorption ment to grant aid to refugees.
told the conference: "Most of
He warned, however, that
us ignore the facts behind the of the repatriates who are in "should the gates of Algeria
danger of feeling lost or de-
Algerian tragedy. We know
serted in their new surround- suddenly break open, the Gov-
Given by
nothing or little about the ings.
ernment services themselves
gradual but incessant infiltra-
The French government has will be overwhelmed."
tion of the Arab masses into
Jacques Lazarus, an Algerian
the Jewish quarters, where they enacted legislation to assist the Jew representing the World
murder the Jewish inhabitants. economic integration of all the Jewish Congress, told the as-
so as to drive them out and refugees from Algeria, but the sembly: "I have been in France
Sunday, May 20, 1962 — 5:30 pan.
occupy their homes and busi- FSJU will try to supplement only two days, and I am scared
this assistance in certain hard-
nesses."
—scared
when
I
think
I
shall
core cases.
Weil predicted that Jewish
The plans adopted by the have to go back." He is going
children from Algeria will start
General
Assembly placed great back. He is one of the Jewish
pouring into France during the
18451 Wyoming
weight
on
the establishment of eaders in Algeria who has not
next few weeks. He said that
forsaken his community.
new
youth
centers,
Jewish
day
many Jewish parents, still de-
Other Algerian Jews de-
Music by Dave Diamond and
termined "to stick it out, - do schools, synagogues and clubs. cribed the horrors facing the
not wish to endanger the lives The organization foresees crea- Algerian Jewish community at
Presenting
Alan Merrien of Chicago
of their children and will ship tion of a large youth movement present. They said the Jews
encompassing native-born as
them to France.
there were in constant, physical
Make your reservations at once. Call
Baron de Rothschild reviewed well as refugee children. The danger, one of them stating "we
the FSJU finances, declaring movement, which it is hoped to are in extreme anguish." One
launch
this
autumn,
will
be
TE. 4-6670 or BR. 3-5567
that the goal this year of 4.000,-
told of the effects of the situa-
000 new French francs ($800,- based on the Soviet movement tion on the Jewish children
but
with
modifications
to
adapt
000) will be "far from suffi-
who "suffer daily physical and
cient" for the immediate needs it to the special chircumstances moral shock, caused by the day-
of the Jewish refugees from here.
to-day
experiences, witnessing
A. Kellerman. introducing the
Algeria. The conference voted
unprecedented violence a n d
report
on
resolutions
at
the
to re-examine the problem and
bloodshed."
try to work out concrete plans : assembly, stressed that all funds
Jews in Algeria View Future
raised
through
a
special
emer-
for the absorption of the refit-
I gency campaign will be sepa- With Apprehension
gees.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Jews
A powerful French force
in Algeria are viewing their
swept down on the Jewish
British Financier
future with as much apprehen-
To prevent serious misunderstanding we
quarter of Oran, in Algeria,
sion over what is not being said
early Monday morning, cor- Gives $1 Million to
as
in
regard
to
what
is
being
doned off the entire area and Weizmann Institute
wish to emphasize that:
said, it was reported by the
enforced a rigid curfew, as
Charles Clore, British finan- Washington Post.
security units began a house- cier, business magnate and phi-
Waverly Root, a Washington
to-house search and an iden-
la nthr op is t,
Post correspondent, reported
The Company Located
tity check of every inhabitant has contrib-
from Tunis that Algerian Jews
of the district.
uted $1,000,000
view the situation as a threat
on the premises formerly occupied by
The security action was be- for the new
to their future as a result of a
lived to be a result of develop- Clore Interna-
statement attributed to — and
ments in the quarter when the tional House
Holiday Manor at 18641 Wyoming,
later denied by — Mohammed
existence there of well-organ- at the Weiz-
Ben Bella, Vice Premier of the
ized .Jewish defense units and mann Institute
does not offer Kosher catering.
Algerian Provisional Govern-
commando units of the French of Science at
ment. Ben Bella had been quoted
Secret Army Organization Rehovoth,
r
by the Middle East News Agency
(OAS) was revealed as they re- Israel. The
f •
of Cairo as saying that Algeria
pulsed an armed attack on the building will Clore
(Signed)
would send troops to fight Israel,
quarter by Arabs.
serve as a residence hall for but he denied it this week.
Several inhabitants of the students of the Institute's Grad-
"The denial of Ben Bella's
Oran Jewish quarter have been uate School in Natural Sciences.
words," reported Root, "was re-
arrested, and are believed held
ceived in Tunis with some skep-
by the French authorities while
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