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Soviet Jew Renounees Citizenship
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Assailing the Soviet Union's
LONDON (JTA)—A Moscow Jew
who was denied an exit visa to be "continued attitude and active
reunited with members of his fam- ; discrimination against Soviet
ily in Israel, and who said he was ' Jews," Rep. Petty said that there
threatened by the Soviet authori- could be no peace in the world
ties when he sought the required "when a powerful nation such as
document, has written a letter to the Soviet Union condones and
President Nikolai V. Podgorny of practices racial hate and seals.
the USSR renouncing his Soviet its borders to those Jews who
citizenship and proclaiming him- would seek their freedom by
self "citizen of the Jewish State of emigrating to Israel."
Israel."
He called the new Kichko book
The text of the letter was pub- one containing the anti-Semitic
lished in Focus on Soviet Jewry, a "slanders of the Stalinist era."
bulletin on Soviet Jewish affairs
The Washington Star noted that
edited by Joel Cang, former War- "Judaism Without Embellishment"
saw correspondent of the Manches- was disowned by the Soviet gov-
ter Guardian. There was no ex- ernment and ordered withdrawn.
planation of how the text of the The editorial noted that in the
letter was received in London.
Soviet Union books, like tractors.
The writer of the letter is a "are the product and instrument
Moscow Jew named D. S. Drab- - of the state." Approval of the sec-
kin who gave his address as 32 and Kichko book, the Star declar-
Fadeyev Street. The letter is ed, "gives the official change of
dated April 18, 1969.
heart" on Kichko's status "a sin-
Drabkin wrote the president: "On
the 7th of December, 1968, I ap-
plied for permission for myself.
my wife and 12-year-old daughter
to join my family in Israel. On the
10th of April. 1969. I received a
post car asking me to telephone
OVIR (a department of the secret
police which screens people for
visas and exit permits). When I
telephoned, I was told that no per-
mission was granted and when I
expressed my disappointment, a
female voice on the other side of
the line said 'There are too marry
of you Jews. We shall finish you
off here.' "
Drabkin went on to say that
This was probably the voice of
Catherine Pavlova Archipova, who
usually answers such inquiries."
He then asked President Podgorny
if this was an expression of gov-
ernment policy and concluded his
letter with the statement: "I am
thus kept forcibly here and threat-
ened with destruction of myself and
my family. I can no longer con-
sider myself, therefore, a citizen. of
the Soviet Union. I consider myself
a citizen of the Jewish state of
Israel."
In Washington, a new anti-
Semitic book by Ukrainian author
Trofim Kichko, published with
apparent official sanction in the
Soviet Union. was sharply criti-
cized in Congress and by a lead-
ing Washington newspaper.
The new work, "Judaism and
Zionism." last week was described
by the Academic Committee on
Soviet Jewry as equal in anti-
Semitic slurs to Kichko's first book,
"Judaism Without Embellish-
ment."
Rep. Thomas M. Petty, Wash-
ington Republican, cited in a
House statement Kichko's new
book as an "example of the cam
paign of hate" against Soviet Jews
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ister aspect."
The editorial also saw a link be-
tween the Mid East deadlock and
approved publication of the new
Kichko book. "Kichko sees the
state of Israel as embodying what
he calls the vengeful and destruc-
tive nature of the 'God of the
Jews.' " The editorial added that
"as the Middle East hovers on the
edge of a new war, as conversa-
tions continue about the interven-
tion of the major powers, it is
deeply distressing that the Soviet
state should see fit to present such
tired old travesties of thought as
Kichko's."
The treatment of Jews in the
Soviet Union will be brought to
the attention of the United Na-
t-ons, other international bodies
and the national parliaments of
the 18 nations represented in the
Council of Europe in accordance
with a series of resolutions
adopted in Strasbourg by the
council's plenary assembly.
The assembly acted on a report
prepared by a committee headed
by Dr. Bruno Pitterman, former
Austrian vice chancellor, which
had previously been apps owed by
Where Was Israel
at Milan Fair?
By JULIO DRESNER
(Copyright. 1969, JTA, Inc.)
ROME — Israel, which imported
855.000.000 in Italian goods in 1968 ,
but sold Italy only $10,000,000
worth of Israeli products, has
missed a good chance to narrow
the wide trade gap.
Israel's participation in the Milan
International Trade Fair was token
and perfunctory. The fair drew
3,500.000 visitors and reached mil-
lions more through daily television
coverage. But Israel was repre-
sented by a small information stall
in the Palace of Nations and noth-
ing on the vast fair grounds out-
side.
Instead of proud displays of Is-
rael's industrial and artistic output
for prospective buyers to admire,
Israel dispensed a catalogue of
what was available.
Instead of free samples of wines,
juices, meats, cheeses and a thou-
sand-and-one other edibles with
which the representatives of more
than 70 nations plied the visitors,
Israel contented itself with pretty
posters depicting it as "a link be-
tween continents."
Most important, Israel missed
out on the main business of a
trade fair which is to collar pros-
pective buyers and take orders
"off the floor." The information
booth was staffed by one person
who obviously couldn't leave his
post and was clearly not expert.
in all branches of Israel's econ-
omy.
Israel has held some pretty im-
pressive international trade fairs
on its own soil. Last year it turned
up at the agricultural fair in Ver-
ona and the fair in Bari with fine
displays, though both are provin-
cial cities compared to Milan. One
wonders what happened to Milan.
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The report quoted Soviet Jews serve as the supervising agency
directly in testimony on discrimi- for a new anti-poverty program on
nation against Jews in the Soviet the city's west side, according to
Union as well as anti-Jewish state- President Stanley V. Goldin. As
ments appearing recently in the delegate agency to the Westside
Soviet press. Members of nine na- Neighborhood Center program, the
tional delegations took the assem- center assumes responsibility for
bly floor to speak on the report supervision and coordination of the
and to urge action by the Council program and for helping the pro-
of Europe. which is a nonofficial. ject to the point where its partici-
advisory body seeking the unifica- pants can carry on without such
tion of Europe.
assistance.
Resolutions adopted by the ses-
sion also called on the Soviet Union
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Prof. Leonard Shapiro of the
London School of Economics. here
to lecture at Tel Aviv University.
told an audience that while the
Soviet government disregarded pub-
lic opinion on major issues like the
invasion of Czechoslovakia, in
which it considered major Soviet
interests to be involved, the Rus-
sians did not seek to be labelled as
anti-Semites or to be exposed in a
bad light on matters of secondary
importance to them like Jewish
education and the practice of the
Jewish religion.
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