scholars and authors of repute. Not cannot do such things in Russia
all of them have been disowned; without the authorities being pre-
only one, the one which was pared to tolerate it. There is un-
BY S. J. GOLDSMITH
Let me not keep you too long the way a 'Mongrel dog worries a
Streicher - like with its cartoons. controlled press in the Soviet
(JTA Correspondent in London)
in suspense.
b • with no meat on it—just i n
(Copyright 1964 JTA, Inc.)
But others, glaring anti-Semitic
Yael Kuldanova, Goryainov tells case there is still something to pamphlets and books, are still Union. The authorities seem to
LONDON — This time it comes
tolerate it because it suits their
be
gained.
us
at
the
outset
of
his
piece,
be-
form Samarkand, of all places. The
printed and sold.
purpose. Attacks on Israel and,
came a widow early in life. Need-
The
tone
and
mood
of
these
What is happening is this: Latent Zionism please the Arabs, and you
author is M. 0oryainov. The
less to say, the Soviet Union Moth- pieces is more repulsive than their
dramatis personae are not all in er Russia, would not let down a contents. When analyzed, they con- anti-Semitism, never far from the have a good press in the Middle
surface in some -parts of Russia, East very cheaply.
Samarkand. One is in Israel. Who poor widow. Yael had a pension tain nothing worth writing about. is being fanned by ahti-Semitic
says that Soviet writers are con- and also a good job with good pay.
Again, in an article about a legal journalists and authors, and the
He that prolongs his meal, pro-
fined to their own horizons? Look She was able to give her three problem, the example quoted is of
authorities look the other way. You icings life.—Berachoth 54.
at Goryainov.
children a good education. But she a man called Sherman, Yossif
was ungrateful. She rumbled (even Abramovieh Sherman, obviously a
widows are not supposed to grum- Jew. He "and two engineers" had
ble in Russia; this is a Western been taken into custody. The names
habit.) What is more, she was a of the two engineers—who were,
religious fanatic "and instilled in prima facie, more guilty than Sher-
her children the idea that their man—do not appear. And this in
• -1- , I ' 1 0;464 1,1,Li iidlit,i,),tt
real home was Israel." She brought Izvestia, if you please. Printed just
11_44,4i
them up in the Zionist sprit. (I before Khrushchev's son - in - law,
wonder why the Zionists have Adzhubei was made to resign the
never thought of inviting Yael Kul- office of editor-in-chief.
NOBODY UNDERSELLS
danova to address meetings for the
* * *
ZOA. Fancy being able to bring
There is a ptory in Komsomol-
up young children in a Zionist skaya Pravda about a shifty musi-
spirit in this day and age. I know cal family. Their first names are
some Hadassah leaders who admit given, but not their surname: How-
"And Don't Ever Forget It!"
to being unable to do so.)
ever, when a Jew appears in the
As soon as Yael was entitled to story, he is fully named as Dr. G.
her old-age pension, she went to Gershfeld. Even on the evidence
Israel and lived there happily ever of the Komsomolskaya Pravda, Dr.
after on her Soviet old-age bene- Gershfeld is not very blameworthy,
fits.
but this is another matter.
* * *
And so it goes on—Vercharnaya
Like Galsworthy, Goryainov goes Moskva, Sovietskaya Rossiya, press
on to the next generation. "The reports. satire, fiction—a Jew often
See the new 1965 Pontiac at
poisoned seed of Zionism left their creeps in, somehow. It is wrong to
traces." One of the boys, Samuel. assume, as some people do, that
simulated mental illness to get out a campaign' to discredit Jews is
SAVE 58e—DELICIOUS
of the war and to await hard work. conducted from the Kremlin. But
However, Mother Russia forgave the instances are too many to be
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him. He is now a teacher. His dismissed as pure coincidence. And
106 pieces of Barton's Con-
Half Mile South of Davison .
brother,
Gabriel,
sent
mother
vari- there are those books by so-called
tinental Chocolates. Fruits,
, ous articles, such as hair clips and
cuts, truffles and crunches,
electrical gadgets. He was working
Cordials, crèmes, caramels
as a labor inspector, was dismissed
in holiday gift box, 1 lb. 5
"for plundering the property of
oz. reg. $2.87, NOW S2.29.
his department but later on rein-
Double size - 2 lbs. 10 oz.-
stated to the same job with the
reg. $5.74, NOW ONLY
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same seniority (sic.) He also grum-
$4.58.
bled and even accepted matzoth
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from abroad, though other Jews
refused such alms. Worst of all, •
"he spread tales about the wonder-
ful life in Israel."
The story does not run so
smoothly in the Russian original.
Not so much because the present
writer is such a fabulous story
teller, but because Goryainov is
SAVE NO— FRUIT CAKE:
such a miserable hack. He cannot
Juicy cherries, pineapple,
even write decent anti-Semitism.
dates, pecans and almonds
His stuff is of the Alexander III
In a luscious rum-flavored
:vintage; anti-Semites in the days
cake. Two pounds in a gay
of Nicholas II did better.
gift tin, reg. $298, NOW
* * *
$2.29.
That this is a clumsy piece of
anti-Semitic libel is obvious. Other-
wise, Yael Kuldanova would not
have been permitted to go to Israel.
Samuel Kuldanova would not have
been given a teacher's job (the
Russians, to be sure are rather
fussy about education, rightly so);
and Gabriel would not have been
reinstated as a labor inspector, a
very responsible job in Russia, one
with educational implications.
It is good to know that the of-
cial authorities are more percep-
tive
than this hack; but this piece
SAVE 50¢—
has appeared in a widely read So-
TANGY FRUIT-FILLED
viet newspaper, Pravda Vostoka,
HARD CANDY:
and was written by a correspond-
Six tempting varieties of
ent of the local Samarkand paper,
real fruits in paper-thin
Leninski Put. It is not an isolated
bard candy shells. Apricot,
instance, either.
pineapple, raspberry,
Here is a story in Pravda about
orange, lemon, lime. 2 deli-
a rumpus in Kirovgrad. It is a long
cious pounds, reg. $2.19,
and involved story about a man
NOW $1.69.
who built himself a house for 11,-
000 rubles, while his earnings
This sweet deal at these
could not justify such lavish ex-
low prices is good till De-
penditure. The story had provoked
cember 3rd only! (What's
2 satirical note in Krokodylv, the
more, we'll take orders at
humorous paper, and this in turn
these prices through De.
caused a protest from Kirovgrad,
comber 3rd and make de•
and so the fat was in the fire, as
livery any time you name
they say.
_before Christmas.)
* * *
All this is not important. It
could happen anywhere. American
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provincial politics are equally fun-
ny. But there are two names ban-
died about in the story — B. E.
Smelianski and his uncle, I. M.
Prilutski. These are Jewish names,
of course, and everybody in Russia
1 Block N. of Curtis
knows that these are Jewish names.
There were other people involved
in the fracas, including judges of
at 10 Mile Rd.
the People's Court, but only these
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