Streicher Influence on USSR News
(Continued from Page 1)
"It now appears that the
Soviet authorities have turned
their policy of discrimination
and deprivation into a cold war
against the Jews."
ly American, "imperialism."
their captions, the report contains
"Within this context, and in the1a selection of declarations by So-
prevalent atmosphere of the Soviet I , viet leaders and articles from the
Union, such cartoon images can Soviet press comparing Israeli tac-
only incite to hatred of Israel and 'tics and behavior with those of
the Jews," Decter declares. 1Nazi Germany.
According to the Soviet affairs I The report also reprints a no-
specialist, "reliable reports have 1 torious anti-Semitic cartoon that
already emerged to indicate that appeared in 1963 in the Soviet
this inflammatory propaganda is study, "Judaism Without Embel-
having its effect." Decter cites lishment," by Trofim K. Kichko of
"reports of a near-pogrom atmos- the Ukranian Academy of Sciences
phere, of assaults upon Jews in in Kiev, depicting Jewish collabo-
the streets of Tashkent, of enor- ration with and subservience to
mous pressure upon Jewish con- the Nazis.
gregations in their synagogues to
"The odious caricature and the
pass resolutions condemning Is- unspeakable theme" of that car-
rael, of letters to the press from toon, the report notes, have "been
Jews 'volunteering' to condemn Is- Far from being an innovation of
rael, of Jewish mothers in Moscow Far from being an inovation of
and other cities being fearful to Soviet policy arising out of the
send their children to school for 1967 Middle East crisis, the re-
The result, according to the
statement, has been to jeopardize
the position of the Soviet Jewish
community, "long regarded with
suspicion and hostility," and give
their plight "a new and even more
ominous dimension."
The "vicious anti-Israel theme"
of the cartoons and their "overtly
anti-Semitic motifs and stereo-
types," Bishop Pike and Thomas
charge, has heightenee. the ten-
sion under which Soviet Jews
live and served "to inflame the
deep-rooted anti-Jewish prejudices
in the USSR."
The cartoons, all published after fear of their encountering anti- port notes, "they are, unhappily,
Arab-Israel hostilities began on Semitic humiliation at the hands recurrent themes of Soviet public
June 5, originally appeared in Iz- of their classmates."
expression — which, in turn, have
vestia, the Soviet government or-
"These cartoons bring Soviet constituted an ominous facet of
gan; Pravda, the Communist Party propaganda almost to the end of the wide-ranging, oppressive So-
daily; Trud, the trade union news- the line," the report declares. viet policy against the Jews."
paper; Krasnaya Zviezda, publish- "Virtually nothing has been left
The letter of Bishop Pike and
ed by the Soviet Defense Ministry; to the Soviet public's imagina- Thomas closes with a protest
and other leading Soviet journals. tion — nor of ours as we con- and condemnation of "this frenzied
A foreword to the report by
template the fate of 3,000,000 anti-Jewish assault" and a call on
Decter describes the Soviet
Soviet Jews, silent and isolated." the leaders of the USSR "to re-
captions as characterized by:
In addition to reproductions of
Stereotyped anti-Semitic the cartoons and translations of Related Stories on Page 7
(1)
caricatures "even Uncle Sam
Is made out to look 'Jewish,'
serving to reinforce the popular
image of the U.S.A. as controlled
by the Jews;" (2) the presenta-
tion of Israel and its defense
minister, Moshe Dayan, as a
"wanton murderer and bloody
thug;" (3) the equation of Israel
and the Jews with the Nazis;
and (4) the identification of Is-
rael as a tool of Western, chief-
Buenos Aires Rally
Disrupted by Bomb
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 18, 1967-5
store to Soviet Jewry the rights Jewish Conference on Soviet Jew-
ry, called upon the Soviet Union
to "lift the death sentence the re-
gime has imposed upon Jewish
culture."
As a memorial to those execut-
Anniversary of Execution
ed, the conference, which is com-
of Jewish Intellectuals
posed of 25 major national Jewish
in USSR Observed in N.Y.
NEW YORK (JTA) — On the organizations, issued a special pub-
15th anniversary of the execution lication tracing the strangulation
of 24 Yiddish writers, actors and of Jewish culture by successive
intellectuals by the Soviet Union Soviet regimes. The conference
on Aug. 12, 1952, Rabbi Israel called for an end to -forcible as-
Miller, chairman of the American similation."
and institutions — and the con-
comitant dignity — to which Soviet
law entitles them."
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The Soviet "cold war" against the Jews is evidenced in the
samples of Streicher-like cartoons from three Russian newspapers
that are fomenting hatred and instigating to the vilest type of anti-
Semitism.
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to The Jewish News)
BUENOS AIRES — A bomb ex-
ploded here Monday night in a
tearoom next door to a theater
where a mass meeting was being
held condemning Soviet anti-Semi-
tism. There were no casualties,
but the tearoom suffered heavy
damage.
The mass meeting was called to
commemorate the Jewish writers
and intellectuals murdered by the
Soviet Union, in 1952, under the
Stalin regime. Heavy police guards
had surrounded the theater and, it
was believed, those who planted
the bomb put the explosive as near
the auditorium as possible because
of the presence of police.
The speakers at the meeting in-
cluded Tobias Kamenszain, presi-
dent of the Buenos Aires Jewish
community, and a number of pro-
minent writers, among them the
Yiddish author, Simcha Sneh, and
two prominent Argentine writers,
Jorge Louis Borges and Fryda
Schultz Mantovari. They denounc-
ed the "spiritual and cultural as-
phyxiation" suffered by Jews in
the Soviet Union.
* * *
Memorial Services in Mexico
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — Me-
morial services were conducted
here Sunday night at Congregation
Nidche Israel, an Ashkenazic syna-
gogue, in honor of the Jewish writ-
ers and other intellectuals execut-
ed in the Soviet Union under the
Stalin regime 15 years ago. The
services were conducted under the
sponsorship of the congregation's
cultural committee and the Mexi-
can Jewish Writers Union. Jacob
Glantz, chairman of the Writers
Union, presided.
Electricity Through Atomic Power
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Israel's
lack of oil resources accentuate
the need for spurring the produc-
tion of electricity with the aid of
nuclear power stations, Dov Sha-
piro, head of the Electric Corpora.
tion Construction Division, stated
here. He said that the use of atom-
ic power would bring down the
cost of electricity as compared
with the cost of conventional pow-
er. Israel must begin the building
of nuclear power stations to begin
operating not later than the end of
1973.
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