Disclose Revival of 'Blood libel' in Soviet Union
Mizrachi, Day School's Founder
Rabbi Isaac Jacob Reines, an
early Zionist and founder of the
Mirachi movement, pioneered
the modern system of Jewish
day school education when he
founded a yeshiva in Russia
which offered both secular and
rabbinic courses.
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had minimized the extent of the with a minor mishap on April
In August 1960, a blood libel
In the two pogroms in Uzbek, destruction in Jewish homes.
30. Azizov's young daughter, was disclosed in Buinaksk, a
where Moslems are the domin-
The judge ruled that the leaving Mrs. Bangieva's shop,
ant religious group, the libel was searches and arrests were illegal. had slipped and fallen, suffering town in the Daghestan Autono-
altered to refer to the use of He halted the trial and directed a slight cut on her ear. The Jew- mous Republic—across the Cas-
Moslem blood, Katz said.
the prosecutor to correct his file ish community since then has pian Sea from Uzbek.
He said the violence in Mar- of evidence for submission at lived in apprehension.
The local Communist t Party
gelan, a city of more than 50,000, another trial.
Katz said there is no evidence newspaper published the fraudu-
In the 14 months since, there that the central Soviet authori- lent story, creating an atmos-
continued for almost a week.
HAVE YOU HEARD
The details of the outbreak has been no word of a, second ties encourage the blood libels phere of panic and intimidation
WHAT
or the violence that flows from in the Jewish community.
there, as gathered by Bnai Brith, trial, Katz said.
On the other hand, he added, them. "They may well be em-
are:
Though
the
paper
subsequently
1YOUitti
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is known that the police who barrassed by the mob action," he published a repudiation, neither
On Sept. 14, 1961, an inflamed it
were
involved
in
the
anti-Jewish
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added.
group led by a man named Ab- riots have retained their posts,
the author of the article nor the
dusatarov seized a Jewish and that the Jews of Margelan
But the "crucial point," he newspaper editor — both Party
IS PLANNING FOR
woman, Mazol Yusupova, and ac- live in an atmosphere of fear said, is that "neither the pogrom- officials—was ever publicly repri-
FEBRUARY 1 3th???
ists nor the local police and manded or punished.
cused her of having kidnapped and insecurity.
who abetted them
and slain Abdusatarov's two-
Katz reported the following prosecutors
have ever been punished or
year-old son as part of a "ritual details
of
the
blood
libel
in
murder." The terrorized woman Tashkent which, he said, oc- reprimanded."
was forcibly dragged to the local curred May 9, 1962:
He also scored the "complete
militia where, in the presence of
absence of publicity in the Soviet
An
Uzbek
Moslem
named
Azi-
police officials, she was formally zov • (address: 22 Zagorskaya) led press," saying that silence on the
AS LOW AS
charged with abduction and mur- a band of ruffians that broke part of Soviet leaders leads local
der.
into the home of Abigai Ban- officials—who invariably act ac-
On instructions of a Captain gieva, a 70-year-old woman who cording to the will, or what they
consider the will, of central
Akhmedov, a militia officer, operates a small shop.
members of the militia, accom-
Includes full factory
The attackers accused Mrs. authorities—to believe they must
panied by the rowdies, conducted Bangieva of having taken blood side with the persecutors of the
equipment; Sales Tax;
and '63 License.
a wild search of Mrs. Yusupo- from the ear of Azizov's young Jews.
va's home, damaging the furni- daughter "for use in a Passover
"If top-level Soviet officialdom
MILT LEVIN Immediate Delivery ALLEN CHARNES
ture and other possessions in her ritual."
was truly committed to eradi-
house and yard, and confiscating
On the basis of this charge, cating grass-roots anti-Semitism,
foods and kitchenware, ostensibly the local prosecutor ordered her these riots could have served as
for further . investigation.
arrest. Her home was searched the basis for an educational and
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Similar searches were con- and ransacked by the police, and legal campaign "against anti-
& Greenfield
Jewish prejudice," Katz said.
ducted in dozens of Jewish homes she was held in prison.
in the area.
She was not released until
News of the alleged kidnap- three weeks later. To this day
ping (although without mention legal complaint against her has
of the religious ritual aspect) not been dismissed.
Following the arrest, a variety
was broadcast that day over the
local radio. It was also communi- of inflammatory rumors swept
cated to the Moslem community the city, which has a Jewish
population of 50,000.
in the local mosque.
One report said that Azizov's
•The following morning police
also arrested Dzhuru Israelov, wife, a member of the local
Mrs. Yusupova's 90 - year - old Soviet, had loudly demanded the
expulsion of all Jews frOm the
father.
city.
As word spread through the
Another quoted the prosecu-
city that Jews had been arrested tor as asserting, in private con-
for kidnapping and murdering a versation, that Jews customarily
Moslem child for Jewish ritual use Moslem blood for religious
purposes, mob fury broke out in purposes.
waves of violent assaults against
The wild stories led to uncon-
Jews in
..• the streets and in their trolled assaults on Jews and cre-
homes.
•
ated panic in the Jewish quarter
Given no protection by the of Tashkent.
local authorities, the Jews of
It was later discovered that
Margelan hastily organized their the blood libel had originated
own guard to protect the Jewish
quarter. This led to an increas-
ing fury in clashes between them Mapam Proposal
and gangs of Uzbeks roaming the
streets. Finally, the authorities to Institute Civil
felt compelled to post police
guards to restore order in the Marriages Fails
city.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
• The riots lasted until Sept. 20
JERUSALEM—Another
—six days in all.
On Oct. 7, the first official ex- parliamentary clash over the
planation of the abduction ap- role of religion in Israeli life
peared in "Margelan Khakikati," ended in defeat Wednesday for
a Leftist proposal to institute
the local Uzbek newspaper.
The story reported that the civil marriages. The vote was
boy had been kidnapped by an 37 to 13 against the proposal
Uzbek woman named Usmanova presented by Mapam's Mrs.
who lived in a nearby village. Emma Talmi.
The proposal received the
Her motive had . been to hide
from her husband the fact that backing of Mapam, the Commu-
she had undergone an abortion. nists and some Liberal Party
The couple had separated dur- deputies. It was opposed by Dr.
ing her pregnancy. When they .Zerah Warhaftig, the Minister
were reunited several years for Religious Affairs, replying
later, she feared disclosure of for the government.
Dr. Warhaftig said the pro-
the abortion. On a visit to Mar-
gelan she abducted Abdusatar- posal would conflict with sev-
oV's child and presented him to eral existing laws which pro-
vide exclusive control to the
her husband as their own.
Beyond these bare facts, the Israel rabbinate in all matters
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