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Soviet Editor Vergelis' Defense of Attitude
on Jewish Question Assailed by Lord Russell

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do not," he stressed. "Authority
"coldwar attitude" dismissal by
LONDON (JTA)—Lord Bertrand
imposes upon them conditions
Moscow of the expression of con-
Russell, the British philosopher
of assimilation in which they
cern for Soviet Jews in progres-
who has repeatedly spoken out
have virtually no choice but sub-
sive pro-Soviet and even Com-
against Soviet discriminations of
mission."
munist circles in the West. He de-
Such conditions, he added, re-
Russian JeN.vry, charged that "con-
nounced "the ridiculous charge"
quire "all of us to explain the need
that the motive for such concern
ditions of assimilation" were be-
for an enlightened Jewish policy
was "the diversion of attention
ing imposed on the Jews in the So-
to the Soviet government." He re-
from 'the racist and anti-semitic
viet Union "in which they have
called that, more than two years
orgy rife in some countries
virtually no choice but submis-
ago, he had told Soviet authoriti
across the water.' "
sion."
o ted that "this situation would do much
Declaring that he was speaking
The British philosopher
h
to the reputation of the So-
"as a sincere friend" of the Soviet that "Communist parties in Italy, harm
Union and its "policy of co-exis- France, the United States, Canada, viet Union. This indeed has proved
true.
It will be unfortunate for
tence," Lord Russell made his Scandinavia, Australia and else-
charge in a letter to Aaron Ver- where have publicly criticized anti- both the Soviet Union and the Jew-
gelis, editor of the Sovietishe Semitic literature in the USSR, ish people if something is not done
quickly to accord dignity and in-
Heimland, only Yiddish-language discrimination against the Jewish
publication in the USSR. The let- religion and degradation of Jew- justice to Soviet Jews," he empha-
ter dated Oct. 29, made pub- ish culture." He accused Vergelis sized.
lic here by. Lord Russell, charged of "grossly misleading" his readers
that he had written earlier to the "if you suppress this important Early 19th Century Soldier
Adolphe Abraham, a 19th Cen-
Sovietishe Heimland for publica- fact and misrepresent honest criti-
tion, but that its editor did not cism of the inequality experienced tury Jewish soldier in the French
publish that letter.
by Soviet Jews."
army, was one of the few Jews to
Lord Russell assailed as a
Lord Russell criticized assertions attain the rank of colonel in the
by the Soviet Yiddish editor that
Soviet Jews today "have less of a early part of that century. He
yearning for Jewish culture than in served with distinction in the Cri-
the 20s and 30s and that "one can- mean War and the Franco-Prus-
not artificially expand without sion War.
rhyme or reason the scope of cul-
tural work done in Yiddish in the
Soviet Union."

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"During the personality cult
of Stalin, Jewish culture and its
leading exponents were assassi-
nated," Lord Russell pointed out.
"Restitution since has been quite
inadequate. This seems to many
of us an unacceptable way of
diminishing the yearning for
Jewish culture," he stressed.
He noted that "only five or six

books in Yiddish have been pub-
lished in the Soviet Union since
1948, and not one by a living writ-
er." Adding that he was fully aware
"of the cultural facilities accorded
to Soviet Jews since 1956," Lord
Russell said he welcomed them as
"some mitigation of the crimes of
Stalin committed against the Jew- I
ish people."
"But," he added. "they are
meager, grudging and inadequate
to the needs of a vigorous intellec-
tual community of some 3,000,000
Jews of whom almost a half mil-
lion speak Yiddish as their mother
tongue. Cultural amenities sup-
plied to even the smallest Soviet
national and linguistic minorities
illustrate the injustice at present
imposed on Soviet Jews."
IHe expressed concern "that

little has been done to reunite
survivors of Jewish families
broken up by the war and so to
terminate their prolonged suf-

ferings."
The charge of forced assimila-
tion was made by Lord Russell in
reply to a question in an "Open
Letter" by Vergelis published in
the Moscow Yiddish magazine, ask-
ing why the philosopher had not
expressed anxiety about the un-
availability of Jewish and Yiddish
cultural institutions in Britain.
Lord Russell retorted that the Brit-
ish Jewish Yearbook of 1964 listed
hundreds of Jewish organizations
of every kind, scores of institutions
and a wide selection of book titles
on Jewish history, sociology, poli-
tics
tics and philosophy, and that many
of the listed institutions "have
facilities in both Hebrew and
this
sell stressed that "all
Russell
r a total Jewish
exists
of 450,000 less than the num-
ber of Soviet Jews whose mother
tongue is Yiddish and about one-
sixth of the whole Soviet Jewish
community." Moreover, he noted,
Jews in Britain "are clearly at lib-
erty to decide for - themselves if
they wish to assimilate, what form
that assimilation shall take and in
what way they shall express their
interests as Jews."
He added that, if Jews in the
Soviet Union had a comparable
choice within the framework of
the society—or if they had op-
portunities equal to those of
other Soviet nationalities--ont-
side interventions would be pre-
sumptuous. "Unfortunately they

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