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Russian Jews Repo •tediv Evidencing I nereased Desire for Faith Identification
LONDON (JTAI, — There is a
greater desire for Jewish identifi-
cation among Jews in the USSR
than ever before, and that- wish
is increasing. an American rabbi
who just returned from the Soviet
Union reported here.
The report was brought by
Rabbi Raphael G. Grossman of
Long Branch, N.J., on his way
home after a tour of principal
Jewish centers in the USSR as
one of the nine rabbis who visited
the Soviet Union on behalf of the
Rabbinical Council of America. an
Orthodox
-oz.up. Rabbi Grossman
was among the Jewish spiritual
leaders from the United States
who visited the Central Synagogue
in Moscow a week ago Saturday,
when three of the rabbis were
given the rare prix liege of preach-
ing five-minute sermons to the
Moscow congregants.
Emphasizing that he was
speaking as an individual, and
that the nine-rabbi delegation is
still to prepare a collective re-
port dealing with their visit to
the Soviet Union, Rabbi Gross-
man said the delegation of
rabbis was received graciously
wherever it went in the USSR.
In addition to Moscow. the
rabbis visited Leningrad, Tbilisi
in
the Caucasus (formerly
Tiflis) and Kiev. "We consider
that the visit was of great im-
portance both to Jewry as a
whole and to Russian Jewry in
particular. - he said,
There is more 'Yiddishkeit'
among Russian Jews than we real-
ize." he said. "Communication be-
tween Jews in Rus s ia and Jews
in other countries, on the relieous
level, would be of great benefit,
and we could perhaps do more in
this respect than we are doing.
For example, there is room for
more visits to Soviet Russia by
religious Jews- I do not mean
visits by investigators or by nego-
tiators. I mean visits by religious!
Jews to seek their brethren in
communion of prayer.
"This is what our delegation
has done and it was a great mo-
meat for us—and. I hope. for the
congregation at the Moscow Cen-
tral Synagogue—when three of us
preached in the synagogue at the
invitation of Rabbi Levin," the
American rabbi declared. He said
that, after the visit to Thais',
"there were scenes of genuine
emotion as we boarded our bus
to leave. Oriental Jews from the
Caucasus came up to shake hands;
they virtually mobbed us in af-
fection. It was an expression of
a common faith."
Rabbi Grossman also said he
felt that Sovietisch Heimland the
Yiddish language monthly pub-
lished in Moscow, while a good
literary magazine "does not meet
the needs" of Soviet Jewry. He
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Poet Allen Ginsberg Hailed by -Youth
Around World cis 'Cultural Envoy'
A new "prophet' with a Hassidic- • Hebrew Anthem, ar the Buddhist
like beard is being acclaimed by ' Book of Answers—and my own
youth throughout the world. He
imagination of a withered leaf—
is New Jersey-born poet Allen
at dawn--
Ginsberg, at 39 well known to
The son of a poet, Louis Gins-
university students from East Side, berg, he entered Columbia at age
New York, to the Eastern coun- 17 and won several prizes for
tries of India. Czechoslovakia and poems. He was
dismissed Partly
the Soviet Union.
for writing an obscenity defaming
Richard Kostelanetz, Pulitzer the Jews atop a skull and cross-
at Columbia University, de- bones, which he drew in the dust
scribed in the New York Times of his dormitory window. One
Magazine the impact Ginsberg has critic interpreted his action as a
had on campuses, in coffee shops
and poetry readings. "Other poets,"
said Kostelanetz. "have greater
reputations at home, but to the
world at large Allen Ginsberg is
the most famous and admired of
_contemporary American poets."
Ginsberg's mass of black earls
and thick beard make him re-
semble a Hassidic rabbi chant-
ing Hebrew prayers, and his
outlook ("What's necessary is
tender communications between
two people") is Hassidic.
But its obvious from his poem
"Kaddish." that his views are quite
contemporary:
Strange now to think of you,
gone withant corsets and eves,
while I walk on the sunny pave-
ment of Greenwich Village.
downtown. Manhattan, clear,
winter noon, and Pre been up all
night, talking, talking, talking,
reading the Kaddish aloud listen-
ing to Ray Charles blues shout
rejection of the Jewish middle
class; he insists he was merely
trying to shock an ant-Semitic
cleaning woman.
Ginsberg was later readmitted,
graduating with a BA degree in
1948. The work of the "interna-
tional poet" came only after he
had held down jobs from dish-
washing to book reviewing. -Ead-
dish", written in 1958-60, is con-
sidered his best poem.
He will receive a Guggenheim
Fellowship next year to travel and
write poetry.
"Second to John F. Kennedy,"
Kostelanetz w r o t e, "Ginsberg
would seem to be the most widely
acclaimed American cultural am-
bassador, hailed particularly by the
young, which is to say, the fu-
ture . . . He contradicts the per-
vasive image of an endless, vulgar-
ly mindless suburbia that our
movies present to Europe and
which too many of our official re-
presentatives confirm."
blind on the phonograph
the rhythm the rhythrn--and
your memo - ry .yny head three
years afterAnd read Adonais' - "Polities has got so expensive
last tripmvhont stanzas aloud— that it takes a lot of money to
wept, realizing how we suffer— even get beat
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