Soviet Press Indicates Sensitivity
of USSR to Charges of Anti-Semitism
LONDON (JTA) — In an un-
precedented move indicating to
experts here the extreme sensi-
tivity of highest Soviet authori-
ties to Western criticisms of
the USSR's policy of anti-Sem-
itism, Moscow's two leading
newspapers printed in full the
exchange of letters on the Rus-
sian-Jewish problem between
Lord Bertrand Russell, the
British philosopher, and Prime
Minister Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Both Pravda, the official or-
gan of the Communist Party of
the USSR, and Izvestia, the offi-
cial organ of the USSR govern-
ment, printed Lord Russell's
letter seeking clemency for the
Jewish victims sentenced to
death during the Soviet Union's
recent wave of "economic
crime" show trials.
Khrushchev's reply cited the
Soviet constitutional guarantees
of freedom for all religious
"cults," insisting the Jews and
others who had been sentenced
to death were punished only be-
cause they were "economic
criminals."
Soviet sensitivity on the issue
was seen here as illustrated in
another example. The "Daily
Mail" carried a two-page ad-
vertisement, paid for by the
Russian authorities, reporting
the full text of Khrushchev's
speech at an election meeting
last week.
In that text, the Premier was
quoted as referring to the main
subject on which he touched in
his reply to Lord Russell. Mr.
Khrushchev mentioned that he
had received a letter from a
Soviet citizen in Turkmenia,
asking him to intercede in the
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Clergymen to Intervene for Jews
DENVER, (JTA)—High So-
viet Russian clergymen, headed
by Archbishop Nikodim of the
Russian Orthodox Church, met
here with a group of Denver
rabbis and promised to convey
to Soviet officials the concern
of the American rabbinate over
the lack of the freedom to
pursue their religious rights and
practices endured by the Jews
in the USSR.
Announcement of the meet-
ing, believed to have been the
first of its kind, was made here
by Rabbi Samuel Adelman,
president of the Rabbinical
Council of Denver.
The Russians, guests here of
the National Council of
Churches at its annual board
meeting, included representa-
tives of the Orthodox Church
of Georgia, the Armenian
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case of a person sentenced to
death for an "economic crime."
His reply was that he could do
nothing in the matter because
the judgment against the crim-
inal had been just.
(In Rome, Alevei Adjubei,
editor of Izvestia, and son-in-
law of Khrushchev, stated at a
press conference, as the Pre-
mier had in his letter to Lord
Russell, that "anti-Semitism is
absent in Russia." He sought to
prove this "fact" by listing
names of Jews who were his
own colleagues and mentioning
other leading Soviet personali-
ties who, he said, were Jewish.)
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Church, the Evangelical Chris-
tian-Baptist Union and the
Lutheran Churches of Esthonia
and Latvia. The Denver rabbis
welcomed the Russians on their
behalf, as well as on behalf of
the Synagogue Council of Amer-
ica, and made these points,
among others:
American Jewish religious
leaders cannot meet with their
counterparts from the Soviet
Union, although Christian
clergymen do not suffer such
restrictions; Russian Jews have
been forbidden to obtain mat-
zoth from State bakeries;; there
is a lack of Jewish prayer
books, prayer shawls, phylac-
teries and other religious arti-
cles needed by practitioners of
the Jewish faith in the Soviet
Union; nine synagogues in the
USSR have been closed recent-
ly; there are only four students
at the single yeshiva in the
Soviet Union, in Moscow, and
two young rabbis ordained
there recently have not been
given pulpits.
In general, according to
Rabbi Adelman, the replies
were that the visiting clergy-
men would convey the protests
to higher authorities in the
USSR. The Russians insisted,
however, that they had no "spe-
cial status" with the Soviet Min-
istry of Cults. At one point,
Archbishop Nik o di m, who
spoke in fluent Hebrew asked
why the problems mentioned
were not being tackled by Mos-
cow's Chief Rabbi Yehuda Le-
vin.
The Soviet churchmen left
Denver and will visit, under the
auspiCes of the National Coun-
cil of Churches, in San Francis-
co, Indianapolis, Austin, Tex.,
Atlanta, Des Moines, Dayton,
Minneapolis, Chicago Buffalo
and Boston. In addition to
Rabbi Adelman, the group that
met the Russians included Rab-
bis Robert Hammer, Daniel
Goldberger, Earl Stone and
Manuel Laderman.
Israel's Parliament Is Platform
for Attack on Soviet Anti-Semitism
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — A deputy of
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion's . Mapai Party made a
scathing attack in parliament
Tuesday on anti-Jewish discrim-
ination in the Soviet Union.
Deputy Yonah Keese, in a
statement assumed to have the
official backing of Mapai, de-
nounced Soviet anti-Jewish poli-
cies during debate on the budget
presentation by Mrs. Golda Meir,
Quoting from a Soviet publica-
tion which carried an apparent
incitement of the local popula-
tion against the Jews, the deputy
declared that "the silent cry" of
Soviet Jewry was now reaching
the entire world. He said the
outcry would not come to an end
until Soviet Jewry was restored
to full equality with the right
given to those who wanted to
emigrate to Israel to do so.
Mrs. Meir, speaking at the
conclusion of the debate on her
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Nazi regime that• if the German
middle class had objected in
time prior to 1933, the develop-
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could have been avoided. Hitler
came to power in that year.
The Rabbi also told the meet-
ing, which was sponsored by the
Offenbach Town Council, that
the process of purging Germany
of its Nazi elements after the
war did not take place effec-
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policy was oriented to a "Paris-
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charge unrealistic and therefore
that there could not be any sug-
gestion of conflict with the
United States in this phase of
Israel's foreign policy.
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