Eshkol Tribute Slated Sunday Ex-Czech Prime Mi 'lister, Dr. Ota Sik, Denies He Has Jewish Origins LONDON (JTA) — Jews here reports of his Jewish origins were rini Praha" warned in an article that there was danger of a new wave of anti-Semitism in Czecho- slovakia and urged that all anti- Semitic utterances be made il- legal. The article, by Josef Lastuvka, were startled to learn that the "fabrications," as were the rumors Czech economist and former Prime of his wartime 'collaboration with Judge Lawrence Gubow, presi- Minister, Dr. Ota Sik, has denied the Nazis. Soviet newspapers al- dent of the Jewish Community any Jewish origins and has pub- leged that he - lad changed his Council of Metropolitan Detroit, licly stated that he could not pos- name from "Karpeles," a common will deliver the eulogy at a me- sibly be termed a Jew "even by Jewish name in Central Europe. morial tribute to Levi Eshkol as the Nazi standards." Czech newspapers, taking up the the community pays its last re- Prof. Sik, the architect of Czech I issue, said that one Karpeles had -- --, economic reforms in the regime in fact changed his name to Hajek of Alexander Dubcek and who fled but it was not the former foreign Czechoslovakia in the wake of the minister. Soviet-led invasion last summer, The Prague newspaper "Vece- has been widely identified as Jew ish in his country and abroad and has been a frequent target of at- tacks in Soviet and other East European newspapers. He is now a visiting lecturer at the University of Basle. for a lifetime of proud possession He returned to Czechoslovakia briefly last year, as did Dr. Eduard Goldsteucker, the Czech- Jewish author and academician. i appeared on the 30th anniversary of the Nazi occupation of Bohemia. 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Shaarey Shomayim; Movsas Goldoftas, who In an interview published in will present a reading of "After My Mlada Fronta, the Prague Commu- Death" in Yiddish; and Cantor nist ..oath daily, Dr. ilajek said Simon Bermanis, who will chant - - ---- -- the El Mole Rahamim. Isadore Shrodeck, chairman of the Zionist Council of Detroit, will officiate at the tribute, sponsored jointly by the Zionist Council and Jewish Community Council. ■•■ THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS OMEGA In Czech newspaper reports of a similar denial by Prof. Jiri Ha- jek, a former foreign minister who also has been the target of attacks in Pravda and other Soviet papers as an alleged last August's Soviet - led invasion. The writer said, "Everyone has the right to disagree with the views of Sik and Goldstuecker, but no one is entitled to spread anti-Jewish hysteria in this country and to call for pogroms against the Jews." 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