Goldmann Sees Hope in Soviet
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determine German-Jewish rela-
handling the matter based on world, always the victim of inter- ish history, culture or religion;
said Dr. Goldmann, who has been tions from the historic point of his 30 years' experience in deal- national tension, is now ready for . and, obviously, such books are
attacked recently for his stand re- view. The solution of that issue
ing with the Soviet Union and fruitful cooperation in the cultural prevented from being published.
garding the treatment of Soviet will require time, as only time
the Jewish issue.
and religious fields. We are ready No school, nor a single class in
Jewry, ''would be a historic tragedy can solve the great psychological
Dr. Goldmann's request for con- to receive from you Jewish educa- which Yiddish or Hebrew is or
and moral questions involved. The tained confidence came after a tors, teachers and rabbis."
for our people."
can be taught. This, in spite of
Dr. Goldman expressed his con- existence of Germany now cannot number of the delegates criticized
He warned, however, that practi- the fact that about 500,000 Jews,
according to the Soviet Union's
viction that the anti-Jewish dis- be ignored by the Jewish people, him during the executive commit- cal details for such close, inter-
criminations in the Soviet Union but neither can what happened tee's political debate. They ex- communal cooperation will have census of 1959, declared that
"are not a result of Communist during the Nazi period be forgot- pressed dissatisfaction with the to be worked out in negotiations. Yiddish was their mother tong-
the WJC
ue."
dogma, but a specific Russian ten. Germany must express by its manner in which Presenting
a short presi-
survey of the
phenomenon, due to centuries-old deeds its intentions to eradicate dent had summarized the Soviet situation of Romanian Jews, Rab-
Soviet delegate Arkadyev accus-
traditions among many sections of all remnants of Nazi tendencies Jewish situation in his opening bi Rosen said his community now ed the Israeli ambassador of
and
all
attempts
to
revive
Nazi
the population." On the positive
address to the executive meeting numbers about 110,000. The figure, being the representative of the
side, he added, are the prominent ideology. On the other hand, the on Sunday.
he said, is not precise, but comes world Zionist movement and of
role which Soviet Jews play in arts Jewish people should appreciate
Isi Leibeler of Australia called : from calculations based on per the enemies of the Soviet Union.
what
Germany
has
tried
to
do
in
and science and the equality of
on the Congress to "Dramatize" : capita matzo consumptiton during ; He stated that the Israeli dele-
the spheres of indemnification and the issue of Soviet Jewry in world I the last year, at the
rights they enjoy in many fields.
ra te of a bout gate's speech was full of distor-
restitution, and not make every forums and to cease adopting th ree
pounds per person. : tions. "Why shouldn't we speak
"Another positive factor which
German of the younger generation a passive attitude toward the en- ;
we welcome," he stated, is that
houses . about the situation of the Arabs
responsible for what their fathers tire problem of the religious and ' Synagogues and smaller
Russia's Jews are officially re-
of ' worship ' he re orted , are now in Israel, without mentioning even
had done."
cultural oppression of Jewry in functioning throughout Romania the 1,200,000 Arab refugees that
cognized as a national minority,
He added, as chairman of the
and carry this recognition in-
the
USSR. Among the opponents i and several Jewish communi- were thrown out of the country by
Conference of Jewish Material of Dr.
Goldmann's views on the is ties. Their principal lack, he stat - : the Zionists."
scribed in their passports. Rus-
Claims Against Germany, that the sue was Bezalel Sherman, one of
sian Jews are not physically en-
ed. is rabbis and spiritual leaders. ! The Soviet delegate then said
Conference has informed the Ger- the American delegates.
dangered through annihilation or
and thus he was appealing to that his Government was not
man Government, now, it has no
persecution but as the result of
Meanwhile, Hillel Storch, sec- i world Jewry, through the WJC, going to change anything in the
further
claims.
He
noted
that
the
1 retary
the World the
Jewish
enforced assimilation, which is the
gress, of informed
WJC Con-
that for aid in that direction. "Help status of its Jewish minority. The
German decision to spend S300,-
precise policy of the USSR."
us," he pleaded. "Help us reli- issue may come up again in the
000,000 for further indemnification
the USSR has for some time per-
"I am more hopeful at this
piously and culturally. The time debate at the Social Commission
will
take
years
for
full
implementa-
milted Russian Jews to emi-
moment than ever before," he
has come for close cooperation of the Economic and Social Cowl-
tion. "It will be the duty of the , .
declared, "that some change may
grate to Sweden for purposes of I between us." He also reported that cil.
Jewish organizations," he caution-
come about by the process of
family reunification and that the Jewish community, which
(In New York, the Herald Trib-
ed, "to watch the implementation
liberalization in the Soviet Union
"several hundred more are due used to have only a monthly mag- une reported Monday in a dispatch
and
see
to
it
that
it
is
generously
which has not been interrupted by dealt with."
to arrive in Sweden from the azine, now has a fortnightly pub- from Birobidjan that the Jewish
the fall of Khrushchev, but is prog-
Soviet Union in the next few
lication with a readership numb- population of that area is now
ressing in increasing measure. Urges Ecumenical Council
months."
ering 30,000.
less than 15,000, or about 10 per
Approve
Declaration
on
the
Jews
Another reason for a possible
Storch said he received this
cent of the total population, that
Rabbi
Rosen
praised
the
Rom-
On
the
subject
of
relations
be-
change for the better is the in-
Yiddish appears only on the rail-
anian
Government
for
assisting
tween
Christians
and
Jews,
the
information
from
Swedish
Prime
creasing interest taken in this
Jewish
Minister
Tage
Erlander
had the Jewish religious community. road station sign, that a Yiddish
problem by powerful progressive World
eulogized
the Congress
late Pope leader
John first
visited
Moscow
earlier
this who
month.
"I do not want to make publicity newspaper there is published three
forces in the world, whom nobody
or
propaganda for the Romanian times a week, and that there are
XXIII,
whose
passing
he
called
"a
The
Stockholm
premier
informed
could suspect of being anti-Rus-
him, Storch said. that Soviet lead- Government," he declared, "but no schools in the area teaching
loss
to
the
Jewish
people."
Then,
sian."
ers assured him the emigration of
Yiddish.)
He called on all "to remain referring to the forthcoming ses- Russian Jews who want to be re- the truth must be told. There is
religious persecution in my
The United States challenged
hopeful that the day is not too far sion of the Ecumenical Council, united with their families in
hopeful
country.
Jews
are
free
to
worship
the
Soviet Union to join an
distant when the Soviet Jewish I he warned that, should the Council Sweden would continue. Erlander
community will regain its right to fail to vote satisfactorily on the ' : said he had pointed out to the and to practice their religious' America-Soviet report about vio-
lations of human rights, both
remain Jewish however it wishes last session's approval of the dec- Soviet leaders that this policy had rites. The government contributes
"the remaining vestiges" of
to do so, to become an organized laration on Jews, "we should not been begun after the visit to Stock- funds for the upkeep of the rabbi-
racialism in the U.S.A. and docu-
group, to establish contact with only deplore such failure." Suc h ;holm by former USSR Premier nate and for ritual slaughter."
mentation relating to the denial
Dr.
Max
Nussbaum,
of
Holly-
world Jewish organizations and adevelopment, he said, "will Nikita S. Khrushchev. Under
of religious and cultural rights to
with Israel, and again taking its bring about deterioration between Khrushchev. Erlander said 300 wood, former president of the
Jews in the USSR. The challenge
position within the Jewish world the Catholic Church and the Jew- persons had emigrated from the Zionist Organization of America,
—which the USSR ignored—was
w ho conferred a week ago in
as one
one of its main, creative com- ish people."
i USSR to Sweden, and last year 165
many with leaders of the Bonn made before the Economic and
munities."
Ee also dealt with some dangers . entered Sweden under that policy.
government, , reported that Ger- Social Council of the UN by
Dr. Goldmann also appealed which, he said, threaten the Jew- The fact that a relatively small
Washington's chief delegate to
to the leaders of the Arab states ish community from within. These, number had come into Sweden many ei. s Chancellor Ludwig Er-
ECOSOC, Ambassador Franklin
"to heed the advice of Presi- he said, are not only of an assi- under the policy, Erlander told
H. Williams.
dent Habib Bourguiba (of Tuni- milationist and cultural nature, Storch, was the fault of neither
Ambassador Williams had open-
sia) and give up their attempts but are also due to the isolationist i the Russians nor the Swedes.
ed the discussion of human rights
to annihilate Israel and, above character of certain Jewish corn-
A Charge that the USSR is "step-
by ECOSOC, by expressing re-
all, not to try to enlarge the munities. Among these he singled i ping up" its suppressions of the
grets over "shocking violations of
Arab-Israel conflict."
out particularly tendencies within Jewish religion was made in an ad-
human rights by the apartheid
"Within the past year," he said, American Jewry. He said that i dress by Dr. Erich Goldhagen,
policy in South Africa, the cultural
"the Arab leadership has been at- such communities, especially the director of the Institute of Eastern
deprivation suffered by the Jew-
tempting to enlarge the conflict American, "do not participate in European Jewish Affairs at Brand-
ish community in the USSR, and
with Israel into a more general direct action with other communi- eis University. Calling for intensi-
the remaining vestiges of racial-
struggle with the Jewish people ties, either through the instrument fication of the drive to aid Rus-
ism in the United States." "These
throughout the world." He warned of the World Jewish Congress or sian Jewry, he said that world
Dr. Goldhagen
Dr. Nussbaum
shocking violations," he said, "still
that, if the quarrel with Israel of the World Conference of Jewish Jewry must undertake "a race
were to be extended into a general Organizations, but act on their against time" if the Soviet op- hard, who favors normalization of mark many areas in our world."
relations between his country and He deplored "the fact that in-
Arab-Jewish conflict, "this would own and set themselves up as the pressions are to be halted.
protectors of other, weaker Jew-
be a tragic development."
The Jewish situation in the USSR Israel, "still feels the full weight ternational concern with human
Touching on relations between ish communities."
is so serious now, Dr. Goldhagen of German's moral debt to the rights has not stood at the center
the Jewish people and Germany,
Dr. Goldmann singled out the said, that "it would be difficult Jewish people." of all our activities." He called on
the United Nations "to coordinate
he referred to the German parlia- American Jewish Committee, to find a Jew in the Soviet Union Problem of Soviet Jews
the human rights activities of the
ment's final vote on granting in- whose activities, he said, "are in capable of conducting a religious Raised at UN Parley;
United Nations family into a co-
demnification to Jewish victims of contradiction with the theoretical ceremony. The Jewish spirit in Moscow Policy to Stay
Nazism who could not escape from basis." He said that the American the Soviet Union;" he declared, "is I GENEVA (JTA) — The Soviet herent whole, beacuse without the
East European countries until af- Jewish Committee "acts, de facto, more severely enchained now that government does not intend to recognition of human rights and
as an international Jewish organ- I the Jewish body. The Soviet Jews change anything in the present respect for human dignity, we
ter October 1943.
(Dr. Goldmann was referring ization dealing with Jewish prob- are condemned to be and to re- status of the Jewish minority in have no peace."
Ambassador Arkadyev delivered
to the action taken in Bonn dur- lems in various parts of the world main dumb. The Jewish commun- the USSR, a United Nations con-
ing the past weekend by the without observing basic principles ity does not exist even if there are ference dealing with human rights what he v oc iadlilns
g ath'e'reispslyue" otfo Jew
of the World Jewish Congress still some synagogues or some Was told by Soviet delegate G. C. hams.
Wil
Bundesrat, the upper house of
the West German parliament, against interfering in Jewish cemeteries. Ninety percent of the Arkadyev. He spoke at the meet- ish cultural deprivation in the
questions in other countries with- Jews can not read a Jewish news- ing of the UN Economic and USSR, he told the Council about
which approved a final indemni-
fication bill previously passed by out being asked to do so by the paper. Communism opposes the Social Council during a general research facilities given to Jewish
the Bundestag providing a fund representative bodies of these Jewish religion essentially be- debate on human rights at which i scientists in the USSR, about
communities."
of S1,200,000,000 deutschemarks
cause it sees in Judaism a com- the Israeli delegate, Ambassador school facilities offered to Jewish
"There is a similar tendency on peting ideology."
(3300,000,000) for the compensa-
Moshe Barter, raised the prob- children there, and noted that
Jewish children "attend school
tion of those Nazi victims who the part of other Jewish organiza-
Chief Rabbi Moshe Rosen, of lem of Soviet Jews.
were unable to file claims by tions too," he declared, "and, if Romania, who is also a deputy in
"There seems no reason, in gen- with other nationalities, and ride
the Oct. 1, 1953, deadline be- this continues, it will increase the Romanian National Assembly, eral, to question the. performance buses alongside other children.
cause they were in Iron Curtain chaos in Jewish life, bring Am- where he represents the country's of the Soviet Union for cultural "He contrasted those facts with
countries. West German Presi- erican Jewry into conflict with Jewish community, declared here and linguistic rights of national, i " r a c i a 1 discrimination in the
dent Heinrich Luebke is now other Jewish communities, and l‘londay that his country is ready cultural and ethnic groups," the United States."
Returning to the debate, Wil-
create undesirable political prob- for close cooperation with interna- Israel representative said. "How-
expected to sign the measure
lems." He appealed to the Ameri- tional Jewish organizations. He ever, there is the striking, puz- liams noted that he himself re-
into law, and it will probably
can Jewish Committee "to recon- also appealed to the World Jew- zling and extremely moving ex- ferred to remaining racialism in
come into effect this month. The
sider its ideology and cooperate ish Congress — whose executive ception of its large Jewish min- the United States. Then he issued
measure was first opposed by
with other Jewish organizations committee session he is attending ority. May I illustrate by some his
the Bundestag, but was given
. challenge to the Soviet delega-
ton. He cited a document report
approval by a mediation com- with regard to Jewish questions." here as an observer—to help his facts.
Dr. Goldmann appealed to the community in the Jewish educa-
mittee of the two houses of the
"In 1962, 109 books were pub- on anti-Jewish discriminations is-
Bonn parliament) .
WJC executive committee Tues- I tional and religious fields.
lished in the Soviet Union in the sued last May by the Consultative
day to continue giving him its
This action, however, Dr. Gold-
Speaking in Yiddish, the Rom- Bashkir language, an ethnic Assembly o f the Council o f
mann declared "does not repre-
confidence in the handling of the anian leader told the 100 WJC del- group of 989,000 persons. There is Europe, which had noted that "the
sent a final answer to the great,
problem of Soviet Jewry. Saying egates that "the divisions creat- not one single daily journal in freedom of Jewish life in the Sov-
complex, tragic problems which that the Congress must use "a ed by the cold war have now come
Yiddish or Hebrew. There are no let Union to practice their cultural
discreet but efficient policy" on to an end. "The world," he stat- textbooks at all available either traditions is especially restricted."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
the issue," Dr. Goldmann noted ed, "is no longer divided into two
Related Stories,
in Yiddish or Hebrew, nor even
32—Friday, July 16, 1965
that he deserved confidence in opposite camps. Thus, the Jewish
in Russian, on subjects of Jew- ;
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