USSR Issues Report Outlining Russian Jews' Status 6-Friday, yrm The' WASHINGTON t Soviet Embassy released what may ' to the most comprehensive coin ; pilation of purported data on So- viet Jewry ever to conic from the Soviet propaganda apparatus. The study of Soviet Jewry. titled "So- viet Jews As They Are," was pre- pared by the Novosti Press Agen- cy, Russia's external propaganda organization. It is intended for publication in the United States and Western Europe. The• study appeared to he an effort by Soviet authorities to answer r i s i n g charges of anti-Semitism. It de- tailed Czarist anti-Semitism, but it omitted any mention of Stalinist atrocities against Jews and more' recent anti-Jewish actions by the Soviet government. The study in- cluded a detailed report on the current Jewish population of the USSR and demographic data. A projection based on the forthcom- ing 1970 census indicated a total Jewish population of about. three million. Novosti said that had it not been for World War It. "the Jew- ich pomdation would have been no less than four million. About two million Jews were annihilated on USSR territory temporarily oc- cupied by the Nazis . . The num- ber of victims would have been greater if the Soviet authorities had not taken timely and ener- getic measures to evacuate the population in areas adjacent to the front . . . About two million citizens of Jewish nationality were evacuated deep into the Soviet rear," Novosti said. The study traced I enin's ef- forts for equality for Jews. But it quoted Lenin as stating that "this Zionist idea is absolutely false and reactionary in its es- sence." It was alleged that Zion- ism and Jewish nationhood merely perpetuated a "ghetto spirit" whit ,. Jews were truly liberated by Communism. Surveying the vocational achieve- ments of Jews. Novosti said that to all Jews made contributions branches of the Soviet economy The so-called Jewish callings ha y e long since gone out of existence " the agency stated. It listed among such callings tailoring. medicine and law and asserted that Jews have now achieved prominence across the broad snectrum of vo- cations. Novosti emphasized that there was a disproportionally large number of Jews, per capita. in scientific pursuits as compared with the general emulation. In the total of scientific workers. Jews ranked third after Russians and Ukrainians although Jews are far fewer in numbers and comprise only 12 percent of the ceneral population. Novosti said. The lat- est figu r e s available 1967) showed at least 58,952 Jews in scientific professions, it said. The Noyosti study contained long lists of Jews in executive positions in industries. government and mili- tary sere-ies. "There are about 8.000 Jews ,who are deputies to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and of the Union of Republics. as well as local Soviet," it said. It sought to debunk charges that Jews were not given equal educa- tional opnortunities. According to Novosti, there are 315 Jewish college students to every 10,000 Jews in the General Zionists Urged to Further Membership NEW YORK (ZINS)—Dr. Em- anuel Neuman, president of the World Union of General Zionists and chairman of the American Section of the Jewish Agency, has issued a call to all national or- ganizations of thee Zionist move- ment to strengthen their member- ship and to make adequate prepar- ations for the forthcoming Zionist Congress. The last meeting of the Zionist Actions Committee decided that representation to the forthcoming World Zionist Congress 28th would he strictly on the basis of democratic vote. country. There are only 182 non- Jews in college for every 10,- 000 non-Jews, the report said. Novosti explained that Jews at- tended college in greater num- bers because Jews tended to live in urban centers. Novosti also listed Jewish writers, artists, musicians and others distin- guished in Soviet cultural life. Novosti went to some length to try to refute charges that Jewish cultural and religious life was sup- pressed in Russia. It mentioned the Yiddish monthly. Sovietish Heimland, and claimed that a Yid- dish drama ensemble in Moscow and various musical corn9anies of- fered Yiddish entertainment. It said that many books were pub- lished in Yiddish in 1968 and 1969 and listed the names of their au- t' - ors. At least 50,000 Jews were said to attend Yiddish cultural programs every year. Novosti said that "about 100 synagogues" are functioning in the Soviet Union and that 300 - minyans are known to pray regularly in va- rious places. Novosti also claimed that a yeshiva was attached to the main synagogue in Moscow to train rabbis and ritual slaughterers. It added however. "it should be re- membered that most people in the Soviet Union have long turned away from religion . . Jews are no exception." • Novosti said there was "no official registration of believers" in the USSR. But selective so- ciological investigation h a s shown that the number of Jew- ish believers in the territory of the Russian Federation and the Ukraine is between 3 and 6 per cent o f the total; 5 to 9 per cent in the Baltic Republics (Lithu- ania, r.atvia and Estoina): be- tween 7 and 12 per cent among the north Caucasus and Bukhara Jews. The overwhelming ma- jority of these are elderly peo- ple, Novosto said. It said that Jews "have every opportunity to practice religion" and maintain- that "synagogue libraries have collections of books on religion running into thousands." - Commenting on the assimilation of Jews. Novosti said "this is not a specifically Soviet phenomena." It said there was a reduction in numbers o persons who regard Yiddish as their native tongue. Novosti observed that "hardly more than 20 per cent of the Jews in the United States consider Yid- dish their native language." It said that "in the Soviet Union. the process of natural assimilation is taking place among many peo- ples. - High honors bestowed on Jews were listed as disproportionately !„ high. The highest honor, the title is of Hero of Socialist Labor, was conferred on 55 Jews, four of whom won the order twice. three winning it three times. Of the 844 winners of Lenin Prizes, 96 were Jews, Novosti said. It noted that the city of Sverdlovsk was named for a Jew and that there were - many streets in Soviet cities named for Jews. and that many Soviet ships sailing the seas bear the names of distinguished Jews. No- vosti e x pressed the hope that "the facts and figures cited in the pre- sent article show how far from reality is the gloomy picture usual- ly drawn by Western bourgeois propagandists." 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