Warning Against 'Protocols' Renewed in New
Norman Cohn's 'Warrant for Genocide'
Rights Within All Its Borders Expose,
This point is well made and
Still utilized by anti-Semites and from earlier French fabrications,

Soviet Oppression of Jewish

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must register their offspring as
Russians. The same holds true for
citizen Muhamadov, registered as
a Uzbek, and for citizeness Mu-
hamadova, registered as Uzbek,
and for all the numerous na-
tionalities. Incidentally, it mat-
ters not whether citizen Ivanov
resides in Moscow, which is in the
Russian Republic, or in Tbilisi, the
capital of Georgia, for he, and his
children as well, must register in
Tbilisi as Russians. And if Mu-
hamadov moves from Tashkent to
Leningrad and settles there, he
and his offsprings are required to
register as Uzbt.*:s. The only means
whereby a man can break the
connection with his original na-
tionality insofar as his children
are concerned (Ina not in his own
case) is thoru,d1 intermace;age. If
comrade Kirichc; lc, registered as
a Ukrainian. marries Teftldze, a
Georgian, they are entitled to reg-
ister their offspring as Ukrainians
or Georgians, as they wish.
The Jews are therefore regis-
tered as Jews insofar as national-
ity is concerned. But if we evalu-
ate their status by the criterion of
form (in other words, by that
complex of cultural advantages
we discussed above), they are in
fact a shadow people, because in
exchange for their assigned na-
tionality they have been given
nothing. They have no recognized
language. no educational system of
their own, no press, radio, poetry.
literature. or history; in short
nothing at all. The few Yiddish
booklets and newspapers, and the
two or three Yiddish singers who
appear today in the Soviet Union,
will be dealt with in another con-
text, for they are maintained
mainly for display and foreign
consumption.
The most important of these
missing elements is, of course,
the language and educational
system. In this respect Jews
live in a total wasteland. About
three and a half million Jews
in the Soviet Union (half a mil-
lion of whom speak Yiddish, ac-
cording to the Soviet records,
and tens of thousands of whom
had a Hebrew education in their
youth) are deprived not only of
schools where the Hebrew alpha-
bet is taught, but even of a class
where Yiddish or Hebrew teach-
ing is allowed, if only once a
week, or once a month.
Whenever someone asks a top
Soviet official, who might be vis-
iting the West, to explain this
astounding situation, the imme-
diate response given is that the
reasons are to be sought among
the Jews themselves, as "they
simply do not want to learn, and
certainly do not want to teach
their. children, Yiddish or Hebrew.
Otherwise they would merely have
to do a very simple thing, namely,
collect a few dozen signatures from
parents who really want their chil-
dren to learn these languages and
present their petition to the Minis-
try of Education. The latter would
then be required to grant their re-
quest, and everything would be in
order. Why, therefore, blame the
Soviet athorities?"
The fact is, however, that
among all the thousands of Jews
living in Kovno and Vilna, in
Bukhara and Samarkand, in Riga
and Chernovtsy, in Kishinev, Tbi-
lisi, and in the numerous other
centers where Jews grew up and
were educated in Yiddish or He-
brew, there cannot be found twen-
ty or thirty Jewish parents who
would dare to sign such! a peti-
tion. For they are simply afraid.
They know only too well that the
government is unequivocably op-
posed to such a step. Jewish par-
ents, like other citizens, are well
aware that in the land of the
Soviets no one dares to do any-
thing that opposes the will of the
government.
What actually happened
to Jewish culture during the Stalin
regime? Why was it subjected to

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by Jewry's enemies as a weapon he condemned the shameless pla- should be properly taken, because
aimed to harm, even to destroy, the giarism and lack of authenticity. of the menace such outrageous lies
The linking of the "Protocols" represent in a civilized society.
Jewish people, the lunacy inherent
The effects of the "Protocols"
in the forgeries known as the Pro- and the fictitious Elders of Zion
tocols of Elders of Zion has not with Zionism is exposed in Cohn's during the Nazi era, under the
been erased. The idiotic fabrica- very impressive study. The author Black Hundreds in Russia, as
tions are used as anti-Israel propa- of "Warrant for Genocide," point- elements in campaigns of hatred
ganda by Arabs, they have been ing to the unbelievable spread and that were conducted by Coughlin
and the elder Ford, serve as the
distributed in Latin American coun- acceptance of the libel, even by so
tries and often appear again in this great a newspaper as the London warnings suggested by the author
of
this book.
country, in spite of the fact that Times which had asked whether
they have been exposed as lies.
"we escaped a 'Pax Germanica' Among the documents repro-
A noted scholar has made an- only to fall into a 'Pax Judaeica' " duced by Cohn in his revealing
other study of this myth which —a statement for which it later book is the forged "Rabbi's Speech"
which was used in fanning the
charges Jews with a conspiracy to apologized—declares:
"The `Protocols' are such a flames of anti-Semitism. To em-
control the world, and in "Warrant
for Genocide," published by Harper transparent and ludicrous for- phasize the extent of the psycho-
& Row, Norman Cohn, director of gery that one may well wonder pathological lies Cohn offers among
the Center for Research in Collec- why it was ever necessary to the appendices excerpts from the
"Protocols" parallel with those
tive Psychopathology in the Uni- prove the point."
Indeed, the point was proven— from the earlier fabrication "Dia-
versity of Sussex, England, traces
the origin of the faked documents
evi- logue aux Enters" and he shows
dential
documents
gathered by the extent of a long-range accumu-
the have become the bible of the by
Graves,
in the numerous
Cohn, in the expose in "Warrant lation of bigoted viciousness rooted
lunatic fringe.
As a work of research and as for Genocide" of the workings of in hatred for Jewry.
An important chapter in Cohn's
the international anti-Semitic or-
an analysis of the developing
"Warrant for Genocide" describes
steps in the making of a vicious
ganizations.
They spread everywhere. Anti- the Berne trial at which the "Pro-
document, Cohn's "Warrant for
Semites used the "Protocols" as a tocols" were examined. In this
Genocide" serves a very import-
means of inciting hatred against chapter, entitled "Forgery Pushers
ant purpose--of presenting the
world Jewry. It was the Nazi wea- on Trial," the tactics of the anti-
truth regarding a vicious lie that
has spread worldwide and as a pon after it was used as a means Semites are revealed. Cohn asserts:
of attacking the Jews in Russia. "The Berne trial achieved all
guide to those who still need to
t be warned about a vile fabrica-
it could reasonably have been
As Cohn indicates in his vol-
expected to achieve: the proceed-
ume, "the myth ... served as a
many
massacres,
ings
had revealed the 'Protocols'
Hitler was influenced by the Pro- warrant for
culminating in attempted geno-
as a fabrication designed t o
tocols, Ford and Coughlin utilized
cause persecution and massacre,
cide in the middle of the present
them, there was a time, back in
century."
and they had been reported at
1920, when the London Times and
the London Spectator believed the The ritual murder libel was length in hundreds of newspa-
Protocols to be genuine. Then linked with the myth of Jewish pers throughout the world. It is
came the expose in a series of ar- world domination as charged in hardly necessary to add that this
made not the slightest difference
tides in the London Times by these fabrications.
Philip Graves. They appeared in
to the y Nazis and their accom-
"The story of the 'Protocols,'" p
the Aug. 16, 17 and 18, 1921, is- Cohn states, "is the story of how in
sues, and on Aug. 18, in what Cohn 20th-Century Europe a grossly de-
Indeed, the trial, having ended
calls
"a admitted
resounding
editorial,"
the lusional view of the world, based on May 14, 1935, had no effect on
Times
its original
error.
on infantile fears and hatreds, was the Holocaust and on the worst of
Graves'
articles
remain repudia-
to this able to find expression in murder the world's genocides.
day
the most
devastating
and torture beyond all imagining. Even now these fabrications are
tion of a lie. He showed how Serge It is a case-history in collective being circulated. And that is why
Nilus"Trotocols" were copied psychopathology, and its deepest the Cohn volume assumes such
implications reach far beyond anti- great significance now and serves
des, cousins, and so on. And right Semitism and the fate of the fate. such an important purpose of
then, at the end of the war, and Is it utopian to suggest that the again revealing the truth and of
immediately thereafter, these rela- more fully and widely these impli- issuing a warning to be on guard
tives began to seek each other out. cations are faced, the better the lest these vicious falsehoods again
Hundreds of thousands of Jews at- chance of recognizing and limiting, gain adherents as they did in Rus-
tempted to locate those members perhaps even of forestalling, simi- sia and Germany, and in Dearborn
of their families who might have lar aberrations in the future?" and in Royal Oak.
survived. 'Jews began to wander
from place to place, both within
the Soviet Union and outside. And
thus it was said that the Jews
were "wandering around too
much" from town to town, from
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Israel's 30 students, some of whom are
village to village, with the Red
Army and in its wake, and that High Rabbinical Court of Appeals abroad.
The High Court rented quarters
became
the first Jewish institution
they "poked and sniffed around
to establish its headquarters in previously occupied by a Moslem
too much."
Furthermore, wtih the end of East Jerusalem—the former Old. school for girls. Sephardic Chief
Rabbi Itzhak Nissim affixed a
the war and the final annexation City.
Yeshiva Benei Aldva also moved mezuza to the front door of the
of the Baltic states, eastern Po-
land, and Northern Romania, to Old Jerusalem, to a site near building, and it became officially
"new" Jews by the hundreds of the Zion Gate made available to the High Court's headquarters. The
thousands were added to the Jew- the institution by the ministry of first case heard by the court
ish population of the Soviet Union, religious affairs. The yeshiva has concerned a divorce.
and these had ever more relatives
in and family ties with the "out-
side," the West. They stormed ev-
ery barrier in an effort to escape;
they beat their fists relentlessly on
the barred doors; then they cor-
responded avidly with their rela-
tives. And they brought with them
a new burden of a "perverted" na-
tional Jewish culture which would
"poison" the established Jewish
residents in the Soviet Union.
The events which followed, be-
ginning in 1947, intensifed the sus-
picions already aroused against the
Jews of the Soviet Union: the
struggle for the establishment of a
Jewish state and the Israeli War
of Independence had begun. One
can hear, to this day, echoes of the
excitement that gripped the Jews
of the Soviet Union as they heard
about the war of the Jews against
their enemies and about the estab-
lishment of the new State of Israel.
It is well to remember that the
Jews of the Soviet Union were still
in shock: they had just emerged,
Danny Kaye visited Israel immediately after the recent war and
broken and shattered, from the gave a benefit performance to an overflow audience in behalf of
Holocaust. Virtually all of them
the children of Jerusalem. Shown above, Kaye receives a set of
had tasted during the war years
Bibles from Nissim Shababo, a student of Boys Town Jerusalem,
the bitterness of being a Jew.
who represented the children of Jerusalem in this presentation.
The Bibles were printed in the printing shops of Boys Town, which
(Next week: Paul Robeson in-
is Israel's largest vocational training center with an enrollment of
spires nationalism among Soviet
1,000 students studying trades in six separate divisions of the school.
Jews.)
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

restrictive decrees in the thirties,
and why was it condemned to the
gallows in his last years? We must
look for the answer in the dark
world of Stalin's private suspici-
ons, a world that transformed
Stalin during his last years into a
demented tyrant. It is doubtlessly
here that some of the origins of
the present tragedy confronting
Soviet Jewry may be found.
It seems that certain processes
and events led Stalin, in the
thirties, and especially toward the
end of his life, to suspect that the
Jews of the Soviet Union were not
totally loyal to him and his re-
gime and that they had to be re-
garded collectively as a threat to
the security of the nation. During
the thirties, at the time of the
sweeping liquidations, some of
whose chief victims were Jews
from the top leadership of the
Bolshevik party, there began a
systematic shutting down of Jew-
ish schools, and an undermining
of Jewish theaters and publishing
houses. During the Second World
War, however, while Stalin sought
every available support and as-
sistance from the peoples of the
Soviet Union and the Allies, Jew-
ish culture — now close to the
brink—was given a short reprieve.
Stalin gave impetus to the organi-
zation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee, which included some
of the best Jewish writers and in-
tellectuals. The committee tried
to gain Jewish sympathy among
the Jews of Russia as well as those
outside, particularly in the United
States. The Jews were again
granted the opportunity to express
themselves through their own
press, literature, 1 and poetry,
though these opportunities were
meager compared to what they
had enjoyed before the liquida-
tions.
Two years after the end of the
war, the old tyrant's suspicions
appear to have been aroused
once again. Some of these sus-
picions may have been caused
by Jews who had served in the
Red Army during the war. Jew-
ish soldiers fought the Nazis
with great courage and were
often brave to the point of reck-
lessness. As the Red Army broke
through to the West, Jewish sol-
diers established contact with
those who had survived the war.
They threw open the death
camps and met relatives and
brethren who had somehow lived
through the Holocaust. Amid the
ruins of European Jewry, they
also met Jewish soldiers of other
armies, as well as the men of
the Jewish Brigade and other
Jewish units in the British Army
who had come from Palestine.
There is no doubt that these
dramatic and tragic encounters
were charged with an intensity
of feeling far greater than that
which typified the mere chance
contact between a Soviet and an
American soldier in the line of
duty. This was the meeting of
brothers over the family grave.
It is not at all unlikely that dis-
torted accounts of these encoun-
ters containing anti-Semitic un-
dertones found their way to the
dictator's ear. And thus was cre-
ated a fertile ground for the sus-
pician that the Jews entertained
some kind of double allegiance.
They were not merely Soviet
soldiers but, deep in their hearts
and souls, they were also Jewish
soldiers concerned with their
own people and its fate; and
their attitude toward their Jew-
ish brethren, even though they
came from the friendly West,
had overstepped all permissable
bounds.
Another characteristic of Rus-
sian Jewry, which had undoubted-
ly been taken for granted all along
by the government, was now
brought glaringly to the force
with increased sharpness: the Jews
of the Soviet Union had millions
of relatives throughout the West-
ern world—brothers, parents, un-

Headquarters Set Up in Old City
by Israel's Rabbinical High Court

Bibles for Danny Kaye

