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Tiff DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 16, 1969-13
Yeshiva U. Creates College Senate
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NEW YORK — One of the most a new era of participatory demo-
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! Jewish awareness that was a dent, Yakow Kazakov, who p ro- peaceable yet successful "revolu-
cracy in our univerities."
The appeal was adopted by the residue of the Stalinist anti-Jewish claimed himself
89 college faculty members at- purges of 1948-53 and "Soviet letter written to an Israeli in a tions" on a college campus has
the
Suprem
e
taken
place
at
Yeshiva
University,
tending the parley for submis- tactics of anti-Jewish discrimina- Soviet a year ago.
sion to the Soviet Communist I tion in education and employment tion was ever taken No punitive a c- where a unique college senate has
Party, the Council of Ministers over the past 20 years which con- Kochubiyevsky and against him . been established with the approval
of President Dr. Samuel Belkin.
his non
of the Soviet Government, and stantly remind the Soviet Jew who Jewish wife were promised
em
The Yeshiva College Senate, far
the president of the Soviet Aca- he is."
gration visas last November bu t more advanced than other student-
demy of Sciences.
More recent events, Dr. Decter Soviet authorities reneged and h e faculty councils in this country, is
These actions followed two days a added, were: the anti-religious was charged with slandering th e expected to start functioning next
of discussion during which a panel campaign that swept through the Soviet Union. The charge wa s month, when it will begin to formu-
of academic specialists in Soviet Soviet Union in the early 1960s based on his denunciation o f late policy for the university.
affairs maintained that the USSR directed against all religious faiths Soviet propaganda attacks on Is , The body is composed of five
had invoked anti-Semitism to ra- and institutions but giving par- rael after the June, 1967 war.
members of the administration,
tionalize its invasion of Czechoslo- ticular emphasis to Judaism; the
six students and seven full-time
vakia last August. political penetra- "economic trials" of the same
faculty members. An eighth faculty
25
Yiddish
and
Hebrew
tions in the Mid East, and similar period in which Jews were specifi-
, member will serve as chairman
foreign policy strategy. The panel, cally singled out for punishment: Writers in Polish 'Lexicon ! but will vote only in case of a tie.
which included Professors Hans and the aftermath of the 1967 war
Included in the Senate's pow-
LONDON (JTA) — A recentl '
produced the same feeling
J. Morgenthau of the University of 4
ers will be jurisdiction over
of Jewish kinship among Soviet published Polish "pocket lexicon
Chicago. Alex Inkeles of Harvard,
academic
standards, admissions
o
of
world
famous
writers
carrie
as it did among
and John A. Armstrong of the Jews
,
Western the names of 25 Yiddish an d policy, curriculum and require-
University of Wisconsin, described jeW6'"
ments
for
degree;
establishment
Dr. Friedbere renorted that na- Hebrew writers among the 1,500
the Soviet tactic as "a pragmatic' tionalist
-
of new majors and new courses;
literary greats listed. The lexicon
approach compounded of fanciful tionalist elements in non-Russian published
and determination of policy on
Warsaw, was pre
myths about, and accusations republics of the Soviet Union " ap- pared by the in late
standards of scholastic perfor-
Prof. Ben Mark
against, Zionism and Zionists." The peared to be making a conscious head
of
_
mance,
student attendance, grad-
the
Jewish
Historical
In
attacks on Zionists were intended e effort to promote Jewish cultural stitute.
ing system and academic
.- s s - causes" as a means of strengthen-
as a political strategem and a di
honors:
Among the Jewish writers listed
claimer of anti-Semitism, the panel- mg their own linguistic and
Kenneth Hain, president of the
cultural autonomy and "demon- are Mendele Mocher Sforim, I. L
fists said.
stratively declaring their opposi- Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, Leib Yeshiva Student Council, who first
proposed
the policy-making body
tion to the Russification which Kvitko, Peretz Markish, Abraham
the Academic Committee and threatens their peoples. This de- Goldfaden, H. Leivick, Jacob in his campaign for office last
circulated at the conferences sug-1 velopment has been evident in Glatstein, Y i t z h a k Katznelson year, commented: "We have
gested that in July. 1967, follow- , the Ukraine and in Byelorussia," Zalman Shneur, Joseph Opatoshu ' brought about peacefully what
ing the Arab-Israel war, "a high i he said. Dr. Friedberg also re- Alter Kazisne, Yehuda Halevy 'Iothers could not achieve with vio-
level decision was taken for a mss- I , ported, as strong evidence of Jew- S o I orn o n Ibn-Gabirol, Shmue 1 lence." He called it the "dawn of
sive internal and external prop-
the fact that Hanagid, Emanuel Haromi, S. J.
J
aganda campaign depicting Zion- fish
- the consciousness,
Jewish people in the Soviet A g no n, Saul Tchernichovsky,
ism as a major threat to the Com- Union, a forbidden
r en subject in of- Yosef Chaim Brenner and Abra
munist world." The conclusion ficial Soviet journals, has become ' ham Shlonsky.
was supported by examples of a one of the favorite - themes of
Reports from Warsaw said the
continuing and growing series of underground Soviet literature."
Yiddish State Theater in Poland
anti-Jewish themes that have,
Prof. Inkeles, a specialist in is now concluding its season with
since the Six-Day War, appeared Soviet
sociology, predicted an in- a production of "God, Man and
in Soviet newspapers, books and crease "in the number, form and the Devil," an old play by Jacob
periodicals, and on Soviet broad- intensity" of Soviet restrictions Gordon, based on Dr. Faustus. No
casts.
against its Jews. He suggested modern plays were included in the
Dr. Armstrong, past president that "leverage" against such Soviet repertoire this season and the
of the American Association for policy might be applied through theater's fate seems to be hang-
the Advancement of S I a v i c Western Communist movements, I ing in the balance. The former
Studies, also contended that the non-aligned nations and Eastern directress of the Yiddish State
"official character" of anti-Semit- European satellite states."
t Theater, the actress Ida Kaminska,
ism in the Soviet Union went be-
Prof. Nforgenthau also described left Poland permanently last year
yond foreign policy considerations the Soviet Union as "defensive" and now resides in the U.S.
and was rooted in "an inherent op- about charges of anti-Semitism. '
position of Communist totalitarian- He said that - under certain condi-
WE DO
ism to any group distinguishable tions. American diplomacy could
from the masses." Such groups as also have a positive effect in
TOO
theJews. "distinguishable
an
by their persuading the Soviets to ease
ethnic solidarity,
eth
rity, are
re anathema ao
t ; their anti-Jewish policies. "
;
the totalitarianism ethos." he said. Philadelphia Students Hold
Passport Photos
I
Dr. Morgenthau declared that'Chain-In',
Fast to Protest
Soviet anti-Semitism was an in Book, Soviet Jew's Arrest
evitable development because I PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Stu-
"the moral and religious loyal- dents from Philadelphia area uni-
ties in Jewish tradition" are versities chained themselves to
regarded by Soviet authorities the memorial monument for the
"as a rival to the basic pretense six million martyrs here and held .
a fast in protest against a new 1
of totalitarianism that it is the
only source of truth and virtue." book by Trofim Kichko con-
Notwithstanding the almost total sidered to be anti-Semitic and
suppression of their Yiddish against the arrest of a Soviet Jew
schools, newspapers and books, who sought to emigrate to Israel.
and Jewish cultural institutions, The "chain-in" and "fast-in" began
Soviet Jews are retaining their at sundown Saturday and lasted I
group consciousness and ethnic until sundown Sunday, according
i dentity, two other specialists in to Nelson Berman, a member of
Soviet affairs reported. Prof. the sponsoring organization known
Lapid (Torch).
Maurice Friedberg, director of the as Despite
rain, the students pass-
Russian and East European In-
ed
out leaflets throughout the
stitute at Indiana University, and
night
dealing
with the new book
Dr. Moshe Dector of New York,
director of Jewish Minorities Re- "Judaism and Zionism" and told
passers-by
about
the arrest of
search, which conducts ongoing
studies on the status of Soviet Jew- Boris L. Kochubiyevsky, a 30-
, attributed this "profound de- year-old Kiev engineer. (The Jew-
velopment" to a series of historical ish Community Council of Greater
events: Washington also protested the
book and the engineer's arrest.
The Nazi Holocaust, which It d escribed the volume as "repeti-
slaughered some 1,000,000 Rus- tions of the anti-Semitic slanders
sian Jews; the creation of Israel, of the Stalinist period at
its
"which even secularist Jewish worst.")
Communists regarded as a mes-
According to reliable sources,
sianic event"; and a "heightened Kochubiyevsky wrote an impas-
sioned letter to Soviet Communist
Party chief Leonid Brezhnev de-
manding the right to live in Is-
rael "just as it is the right of a
Ukrainian to live in the Ukraine,
the right of a Russian to live in
Russia, the right of a Georgian to
live in Georgia." He reportedly
said that if he were released from
jail he would be ready to go "even
on foot to the fatherland of my
ancestors." A copy of his letter
was reportedly smuggled out of
Russia by friends after his arrest
in order to contrast his treatment
with that of another Jewish stu-
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