Bnai arid]. Accuses Soviet Reds
of Backing Second Nazi-Style
Book Against Jewish Religion.
NEW YORK.—The Soviet Communist Party was accused
Thursday of approving an anti-Semitic book as a "useful
publication" for promoting atheism.
Bnai Brith said that the party gave its endorsement to
"Catechism Without Embellishment," a volume filled with
Nazi - style statements about
"Jews, at the very time it was 23," biweekly organ of the Soviet
denouncing another antireligi- Communist Party's Central Com-
ous book that had been ex- mittee. "Agitator" has a circula-
posed in the West for its tion of 590,000.
• Vilification of Judaism as
crudely anti-Jewish content.
Disclosure of the party's con- "an instrument for the enslave-
tradiction came from Label A. ment of Jewish workers" in a text-
Katz, president of Bnai Brith. book used by students of pedago-
Katz reported that an analysis of gic schools of higher education.
recent books and articles on Ju- The textbook was published last
daism published in the USSR year in Yaroslavl.
• Condemnation of Jews for
"shows that anti-Jewish stereotyp-
"lacking
all morals and blinded
ing continues to be used on a wide
by superstition" in a reprint of
scale in Soviet publications."
"A Gallery of Saints," an ob-
He said that the Ideological
Commission of the Soviet Com- scure anti-Semitic work by Baron
munist Party's Central Committee, Holbach, an 18th Century
which met early in April specific- French atheist philosopher. The
ally to take up the anti-Semitic book was reprinted in 1962 by
the Political Department of the
and widely condemned "Judaism
Without Embellishment," publish- Soviet Ministry of Culture in an
edition of 175,000 copies and is
ed by the Ukrainian Academy of
currently in circulation.
Sciences, had praised the book of
• A satirical article in the
almost similar title as a correct
example of propaganda for Sept. 21, 1963 edition of the Kiev
newspaper, "Vecherny Kiev." por-
atheism.
traying
two cantors as swindlers
Katz said that "Catechism With-
out Embellishment," put out in and extortionists.
An article in "Znamia Kom-
1963 by the Moscow State Publish-
ing House for Political Literature, munizma" of Odessa (Oct. 27,
has had a publication run of at 1963) depicting the rabbi, cantor
least 105,000 copies compared to and congregation chairman of
the edition of 12,000 for the now- Odessa's Jewish community as
greedy, immoral profiteers. Last
suppressed Kichko book.
The Moscow volume lists A. Jan. 24 the same newspaper re-
Osipov as its author. It does not peated the theme, denouncing
have the Streicher-like cartoons synagogue leaders "who became
caricaturing Jews as Nazi colla- rich . . . under the cover of the
borators, black marketeers and dis- religious mask."
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loyal citizens which illustrated the
Ukrainian book.
`Fate of Soviet Jewry
But its text material is similar
Resting
on Moscow
to the Kichko book, accusing
Judaism of preaching "the bloody Relations With Israel'
extermination of peoples of PARIS (JTA) — Raymond
other faiths," urging "real ra- Schmittlin, vice president of the
cial discrimination" and propa- French National Assembly, said
gating the notion that God will here that "Israel's relations with
"destroy other nations." the Soviet Union are entering into
Similarly, it interprets the Pass- a crucial phase which might be
over and other Jewish festivals as decisive for the future of Russia's
a device for "the enrichment of Jews."
the synagogue and rabbis," de-
Addressing a "Solidarity with
scribes the rabbinate as "greedy, Israel" meeting organized by
silver-loving clergy" and vilifies the Alliance France Israel Asso-
Jewish ritual and the "Command- ciation, the parliamentarian ex-
ments" as designs for profiteering. pressed the belief that "the fate
• An article titled "The Truth of Soviet Jewry rests on the re-
About Contemporary Judaism," lations between Israel and the
filled with distortions of Judaism. Soviet Union."
and Jewish ethics that appeared
The meeting, which was attend-
last December in "Agitator No. ed by several dozen French depu-
ties and senators from all French
political parties, had been called
to express France's support for
Israel following Soviet Premier
Khrushchev's recent visit to Egypt.
Schmittlin began his address by
expressing France's shock at the
recently published book, "Judaism
Without Embellishment," which,
he said, was "reminiscent of the
period of the Nazi publication,
"Der Stuermer." Although he be-
longs to the right wing Gaulist
party, Schmittlin also serves as
president of the Parliamentary
Committee for Soviet-French Frie
Committee for Soviet-French
Friendship. As such he has close
contacts with a number of Soviet
leaders.
Rome Organ Repeats Criticism of Hochhuth
ROME (JTA) — The official
organ of the Vatican again criti-
cized Rolf Hochhuth's play about
Pope Pius XII and European Jewry
and defended the late pontiff's
conduct during the Nazi slaughter
of 6,000,000 European Jews. The
play, "The Deputy," contends that
the pontiff failed to speak out
against the Nazi mass murders.
The critical article in L'Osserva-
tore Romano, written by an Italian
Jesuit historian, Rev. Angelo Mar-
tini, was the longest to appear in
the Vatican press on the contro-
versy.
Charging the West German play-
wright with bias, the historian
wrote that "with the honor of an
historian aiming at seeking truth,
I do not believe that RoLf Hoch-
huth's representation of Pope Pius
XII is true."
The Jesuit called the play's rep-
resentation "on the Pope's silence
*
on the massacre of the Jewish
people contrary to official docu-
ments and the truth."
The historian questioned whether
Hochhuth had enough time to
study enough documents, and ac-
cused him of a biased point of
view. Rev. Martini asserted that a
protest by the pontiff against the
Nazi mass annihilation of Jews
would have been considered a poli-
tical move which would have re-
duced the .Pope's effectiveness.
Lawrence A. Weingarten, veter-
an MGM producer, has been re-
elected for a third term as presi-
dent of the Screen Producers
Guild.
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KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (JTA)
— A resolution condemning the
Soviet Union "for its calculated
and deliberate repression and har-
assment of its 3,00,000 Jewish citi-
zens," was adopted by the 34th
annual convention of the Depart
ment of New York, Jewish War
Veterans of the United States.
In another resolution, the
American government was called
on to stop aiding Egypt until
Washington is assured that the
money is being used for peace-
ful purposes and not for manu-
facturing weapons intended for
use against Israel.
In other major resolutions, the
delegates urged the defeat of
the proposed Becker amendment
to the U.S. Constitution which
would lift the ban on Bible read
ing and prayer in public schools.
Convention delegates also strongly
endorsed the passage of the civil
rights bill. Murray G. Gherman
of Brooklyn was elected state
commander.
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