Vicious Circle in Russian Jewry's Plight; Anti-Semitism Traced in Nationalist Aims Oxford University Press has is- • genev, one of the most enlightened sued a volume dealing with Rus- and most westernized of all Rus- sian Jewry, containing a compila- sian 19th-century writers, and one tion by authoritative writers, for whom Christianity seems to outlining data regarding Biro- have had little meaning, had no Bidzhan, Zionism, occupational inhibitions against expressing anti- patterns, anti-Semitism, religious Semitic views in private." aspects, and numerous other socio- The manner in which the anti- logical and political elements. Semitic virus has spread, the Edited by Dr. Lionel Kochan, endorsement given to the Proto- University of Warwick Bearsted cols of the Elders of Zion, the Reader in Jewish History, this prejudices that are inherent in volume's noteworthy merits are the Russian mind—these and outlined in an introductory essay other factors are reviewed both by Prof. Leonard Schapiro of the in Dr. Schapiro's and the other London School of Economics. essays that outline the Jewish It is especially to be noted position. Dr. Schapiro describes that Dr. Schapiro states at the the manner in which the eman- outset that Russia is in "clas- citation of Jews was adopted, sical home of anti-Semitism." in 1917, by Kerensky, whose policies are highly acclaimed Prof. Schapiro states in review- here, and afterward, but he ing the historical perspectives shows the case of the Jew which commencing with the policy of called for a "special kind of Alexander II, enunciated in 1856 tolerance" and he indicates: in his aim to bring Jews "into har- "The Soviet regime is intoler- mony with the general policy of ant of all minorities and all merging this people with the na- non-conformists, but the Jew is tive population": more vulnerable than most to "There is no doubt that a large this intolerance." element in Russian anti-Semitism, Soviet anti-Zionism, the impact both official and popular, arose from the fact that the Jew fol- of the forgeries contained in the lowed a faith alien to the nation- Protocols, the anti-religious pol- al Russian Orthodox Christianity. icies combine to create the sad Dostoevsky openly voiced the view plight of Russian Jewry. Dr. Schapiro states that the ex- that the Jew was a harmful and alien element in the Orthodox pose of Russian prejudices and in- community. Some of the anti- tolerance has led to abandonment Semitic comments in his private of some policies aimed against letters are so sharp that they em- Jews. He is also of the opinion that barrased the Soviet editors of his the cause of legal order which is correspondence sufficiently to ex- "the cause of the Jew" is gaining cuse them. At the other end of recognition and adherents and he the spectrum lay the fact that tie commends the contents of the Jew who . adopted Christianity, book he introduces because the however formally, immediately be- issues are iet forth so soundly. came free of all legal restructions He expresses the hope that "his- and limitations. But in my view tory will give the Soviet Jews an- this anti-Semitism was as 'the Jew other chance to work side by side did not belong to the Russian way with non-Jewish Soviet church- of life, that the aims and ideals men, intellectuals and scientists associated with him—such as cap- for a return to the ideals of 1917." italism, or a progressiVe philo- Besides Prof. Kochan, who has sophy—made him a creature apart edited the book and has written in the traditional Russian world, an epilogue, and Dr. Schapiro, au- less than human, even. Even Tur- thors of essays evaluating the Rus- sian-Jewish situation include Y. A. Gilboa, Prof. M. Friedberg, Prof. S. Ettinger, Dr. C. Abramsky, R. Ainsztain, Prof. E. D. Weinryb, Dr. J. Rothenberg, Dr. J. Schecht- man, Dr. Z. Katz, Dr. W. Korey, Prof. A. Nove, Dr. S. Levenberg, Prof. J. Miller, Prof. A. Q. Newth. In his epilogue, Prof. Kochan INC poses serious questions: The fact OF HARVARD ROW is that Soviet treatment of the nationality question has been Designers of Fzne Furs bedeviled by an inner conflict; Complete Fur Service is it to create opportunities for 11 MILE AND LAMER nations and national minorities Phone: 358-0850 to express themselves in condi. M LTER 2ND ANNIVERSARY SALE Boys' Sport Coats Men's Sport Coats 20-50% OFF 20% OFF Spring Jackets Men's SS Dress Shirts Knit Shirts Summer Wear Shorts 1 /3 off THE-TOGG[RY Men's & Boys' Wear Lahser at 11 Mile Harvard Row Mall Open Thu re., Fri. & Sat. Evenings 353-1027 tion of cultural freedom; or is it to suppress national differences as obsolete remnants of a re- actionary past in the interests of a unified and homogeneous communist society? The effect of this contradictory policy has been more deleterious in the case of the Jews than in that of other nationalities within the Soviet Union. It has revealed an altogether anomalous position in that a Russian Jew, acknowl- AJCongress Attacked for 'Conspiracy' as Gerald L. K. Smith Project Thwarted NEW YORK — Gerald L. K. Smith has accused the American Jewish Congress of conspiracy in stopping a federal grant for the construction of a road leading to his Christ-of-the-Ozarks statue and Passion Play amphitheater, in Eureka Springs, Ark. An AJCon- gress spokesman denied the con- spiracy charge but said the or- ganization was otherwise "de- lighted" to accept Smith's accusa- tion, made to the Associated Press. When reports of the pending federal grant—$182,000—reached AJCongress late last year, it pro- tested to Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, assert- ing that it would be "monstrous" for the federal government to assist Smith's bigotry. The Commerce Department worldwide plot "to prevent Chris- tian people from observing Christ's last days on earth." Smith's Passion Play is modeled on the Oberammergau Passion Play in Bavaria, West Germany, which has been condemned as anti- Semitic by Christians as well as Jews and has been the subject of AJCongress protests since 1958. Have An Affair to Remember edged as such in his passport, lacks the territory and the means of cultural self-expres- sion available to his fellow cit- izens." The many issues that affect the Russian Jew's position include the request for emigration to Israel as well as for. cultural and reli- answered that no federal funds had yet been spent and that gious freedoms. Dr. Kochan makes Congress' protest would receive this important concluding observa- "the most serious investigation tion: and consideration." Other organ- Might the Soviet government izations also pretested the grant. not be better advised to offer op- The decision to withho'l ap- portunities for emigration to those proval for constructicn of the Jews so inclined? This would meet road was announced by Volpe the needs of those Jews who are June 21. anxious to maintain their Jewish On learning that the grant had identity. The demand for an op- portunity to maintain a Je,wish been held up idefinitely, Smith differentiation in Russia would denounced the American Jewish thus diminish and perhaps, in Congress and declared that his time, completely disappear. Such attorney would give the Justice a policy, already remote in itself, Department the names of "11 to must also necessarily wait on the 16" persons who he said had par- solution of the Middle Eastern ticipated in a "conspiracy of organized Jews" against the road question, in which the Soviet Union project. He linked this with a is so heavily engaged on behalf of the Arab states. Yet it may well appear a reasonable objective. Failing such a turn of events, there seems no likelihood but that the vicious circle will continue to encompass the inter-relationship of Soviet Jewry and the Soviet government." MORI LITTLE And Orchestra KE 4-5980 WE DO EVERYTHING! 11,000 Nurses Go on Strike in Israel TEL AVIV (JTA) — A strike of 11,000 nurses employed at all Is- raeli hospitals began Sunday morn- ing despite 11th hour attempts by the government to avert it. The strike shut down all but emergency medical services and threatened to destroy the wage- price package deal painstakingly worked out by the government earlier this year to fight inflation. The government claims that if the nurses' wage demands are met, the delicate economic balance be- tween wages, prices and taxes would collapse. The nurses say their demands are not outside the framework of the package deal. They say they are not demanding higher wages but that the nature of their work entitles them to be placed in a higher wage category. According to the government. this would be the "first crack" in the carefully maintained status quo on wages. The government proposed to establish a special committee to "measure" the volume of work performed by nurses. Premier Golda Meir added her own weight with a fervent plea to the nurses not to strike. But the strike was declared nevertheless, beginning at 7 a.m. local time Sun- day. Authorities said e mer gen c y medical services were being con- tinued, but many surgcal cases were not treated because patients in wards were not being prepared for the operations. Meanwhile, doctors worked over- time trying to perform work usu- ally done by the striking nurses. It was stated that if the strike con- tinued much longer it would cause hardships which may result in serious consequences. Michigan State University at East Lansing was the first land grant college. THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS Friday, July 10, 1970-31 Party Services Co. 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