Opens officially at a dinner meeting Tuesday evening at the Jewish Center . . . This serves as a call to the entire community to share in the great responsibility to the United Jewish Appeal in its efforts in behalf of the mass migrations to Israel and the relief efforts in behalf of expatriated refugees from many lands, and in support of more than 50 other local, national and overseas causes . . . Make your contribution now and enroll as a volunteer worker by calling the Allied Jewish Campaign, WO 5-3939. . . . Detailed story, Page 3 . . . Editorial, Page 4 Allied Jewish Campaign Auto-Da-Fe: Distortion of History Data Exposing Soviet Anti-Semitism Commentary Page 2 Vol. XLV, No. 6 L7 ~ TROIT A Weekly Review NEWS N/I I C I—I I G A IV Jewish Events iSUN. APRIL 19. WAYNE, OAKLAND, MACOMB Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 10 0 PTor tjt:iVinS T, p 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 35—VE 8-9364—April 3, 1964—$6.00 Per Year; Single Copy 20c Sale of Ukrainian Antii-S•mitic Book Stoppe in Moscow; Seder Without Matzoth in USSR Capital Parley in Washington Against Soviet Anti-Semitism Creates Concern Among USSR Officials WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Soviet authorities are appar- ently displaying considerable concern over the forth- coming two-day meeting of the American Jewish Confer- ence on Soviet Jewry, which is to open here April 5. - The Soviet Embassy transmitted to the Jewish Tele- graphic Agency office here two releases from the Soviet Novosti press agency on this subject. One is published in the name of a number of Soviet rabbis and "Jewish community leaders in the Soviet Union"—the usual method employed in refuting charges of anti-Semitic actions in the USSR. The other is a statement by the Jewish workers of the Krasny Proletary plant in Moscow, describing the Washington conference as an "insult" to the Soviet Jews. The Jewish workers are quoted as saying "the aim of the Washington conference is to ascribe to our state what is not to be found in it, which means to slander the Soviet Union. A discreditable undertaking! We protest against it." The "protest," signed by the Soviet rabbis and Jewish community leaders, asks: "In whose interests are you acting, spreading lies about the Soviet Union, about our life?" Asserting that "we fully enjoy the civil rights enjoyed by all Soviet people," the statement concludes, "On behalf of the congregations in Moscow, Kiev and Minsk, we strongly protest against slanderous attacks on our Soviet country which has done so much for the Jewish people." Russian Synagogues Crowded; 57 at' Seder of Israel Envoy LONDON, (JTA)—Religious Jews throughout the So- viet Union observed the seder but without matzoth since only a few families succeeded in baking matzoth for them- selves, it was established here on the basis of reports from Moscow. Most of the matzoth parcels sent by relatives from abroad to Jews in Moscow, Leningrad, F;lev, Odessa, Minsk, Kishinev and other Soviet cities rehiained unde- livered. The Central Synagogue in Moscow, as well as the two smaller congregations in the capital and its environs, were reported filled beyond capacity for services during the first two nights and days of Passover. Large crowds of Worshippers were reported having attended synagogue serv- ices also in the other principal Jewish centers around the USSR. The Israel ambassador in Moscow, Yosef Tekoah, con- ducted a seder in his Embassy Friday evening, with 57 persons in attendance. But not one Moscow Jew had been invited to the Embassy seder this year, as had been the custom in previous years. (Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim's office in Jerusalem dis- closed that it has received a cable of Passover greetings from Moscow Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin.) (Michael Garber, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, received a letter from the Moscow Chief Rabbi extending Passover greetings to Canadian Jewry and ex- tending hope for peace in the world. The letter acknowl- edged the Canadian Jewish community's greetings to the Moscow chief rabbi on his 70th birthday. The exchange of letters was in Hebrew.) Detailed Stories of Passover Celebrations in Israel and Pilgrimages to Mount Zion on Pages 2 and 32 LONDON, (JTA)—Obviously perturbed over the protests which the anti-Semitic book "Judaism Without Embellishment" — published by the Ukrainian Academy of Science in Kiev—has provoked throughout the world, even among Communist parties in the free world, the Soviet authorities have stopped the sale of the book in Moscow book stores. However, the book is still sold in Soviet Ukraine, it was reported here from Moscow. The stoppage of the sale of the book. in Moscow is of no importance, since the book, with its Nazi-like anti-Jewish cartoons, is printed in the Ukrainian language, which Russian residents of Moscow do not understand. It has been printed in 12,000 copies, and was intended primarily for distribution among Ukrainians who maintain their own language, their own newspapers, their own schools and other cultural institutions. In Kiev, where the book was published, -the Ukrainian-language newspaper Radyanska Kultura published an article criticizing the drawings in the book as beina "of b by low artistic standard and can only insult believers." This criticism was disseminated Tass, official Soviet news agency. Last week, another Soviet news agency, Novosti, distributed an article citing the book as an example of the constitutional right of an atheist to engage in anti-religious propaganda. The article disseminated by Tass criticized the book for linking its attack against Jewish religion with "criticism of the internal life of the State of Israel." The article said that Israel has "democratic, progressive institutions of workers who support peace, peaceful coexistence and democratic freedom and who are against colonialism and imperialism." French Communists Insist on Moscow's Formal Repudiation of the Book PARIS, (JTA)—The storm among Communist and pro-Soviet groups in France over the Soviet anti-Semitic book, "Judaism Without Embellishment," continued as leftist groups took the lead in what amounted to a plea to the Soviet Union to speak out and ease the popular hostility evoked by the book and its anti-Semitic cartoons. For the third time, L'Humanite, the organ of the French Communist Party, continued its unprecedented criticism of the Soviet Union by the technique of reprinting without comment the wide-ranging protests of other organizations over the Soviet Union's refusal to repudiate the book, published last year by the Ukrainian Academy of Science, written by T. K. Kitchko. Among the protests which have been pouring into the Soviet Embassy in Paris were denunciations from the leftist Deportees and Resistance Volunteers. The left-wing "Liberation," normally an apologist for the Soviet Union, printed a lengthy editorial citing the long history of anti-Semitism in the Ukraine. The editorial said that: "Even while saying we know what the Soviet Union has done against this—had the brochure been an individual manifestation of anti-Semitism, there would have been no reason to become excited. Unhappily, this is not the case." •. "Kitchko's book involves not only its author," the editorial declared, "but numerous other persons who certainly read it. It received the approval of the authorities, and that is what we do not understand. We do not understand either why, until this day, the only Soviet reaction to the feelings aroused by this affair has been a commentary by a press agency which, as far as can be seen, does not deal at all with the true problem." Reproductions of anti-Semitic caricatures on Page 5. Protests against the anti-Semitic book, "Judaism Without Embellishment," published by the Ukrainian Academy of Science, mounted this week. In its newspaper, Paesa Sera, the Communist party of Italy declared editorially that no excuses could justify the pamphlet's "classical anti-Semitic cartoons" that are reminiscent of Julius Streicher's Stuermer. In the same issue the newspaper's Warsaw correspondent, who warned that "bureaucratic restrictions" on matzoth provisions tended to deny the value of Soviet affirmations of religious freedom, reported that the quantities of matzoth baked in Moscow would not satisfy the needs of the city's Jews. In Melbourne, an executive member of the Australian Communist Party declared Tuesday that the author of the anti-Semitic Kiev book "should be prosecuted under the law. The JTA Bureau in Washington received a copy of the Soviet news agency Novosti's statement in defense of the anti-Semitic Kiev book. The statement, written by a Jewish Communist named Shimon Katz, claimed that Continued on Page 10 I! The Test of a Successful Campaign An- analysis of communal responsibility and the meas- ure of response from the generation of the future. Editorial, Page 4