THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Professor Trying to Win Release of Jailed Soviet Jews
Herbert Paper, professor of lin-1 rassment. Let Mikhail Zand's name
guistics and Near Eastern lan- be added to those magnificently
guages at the University of Michi- valiant who have been publicly
gan, is actively seeking the release demanding their rights as human
of the 40 Soviet citizens—one a per- beings in the Soviet Union. I call
sonal friend—who were arrested specifically on fellow scholars to
while participating in a peaceful appeal to the Soviet government
protest in Moscow Saturday. Two to rectify this reprehensible treat-
were sent to an insane asylum and ment of those individuals and espe-
the other 38 to for 15 days prison cially to call attention to the plight
on a charge of "minor hooligan- of Mikhail Zand. What will it harm
the mighty USSR if the Zands are
ism."
They were protesting against the permitted to live and flourish in
practice of Soviet authorities of Israel?"
holding a number of persons, con-
Paper and Zand have corre-
trary to Soviet law, beyond a cer- sponded in Yiddish since meeting
tain time without bringing charges at a conference in Iran several
against them.
years ago.
With the help of Abraham Udo-
The professor is trying to get
vich, a professor at Princeton now further information from England
on research leave in England, that he can submit to scientific
Paper was able to learn that Mik- organizations in the Soviet Union
hail Zand, a young specialist in in Zand's behalf.
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Arabic and Persian literature and
a mutual friend, was involved in
Siberian Dancers Met
the Soviet action.
Paper has sent a letter to the by Protest at U-M
New York Times protesting the
According to varying reports,
Soviet charges against the Jews between 50 and 100 adults and
and said he hopes to enlist the students picketed the performance
aid of his U. of M. colleagues of the Siberian Dancers of Omsk
and other scholars in a state- last Saturday night at the Univer-
ment.
sity of Michigan.
In his letter, Dr. Paper wrote
A number of protestors bearing
that Zand is well known for his placards manned doorways at in-
scholarly accomplishments. termissions, and some 2,500 leaf-
"Those who know him person- lets were distributed, calling at-
ally can attest that hooliganism tention to the plight of Soviet
and Zand are simply not a pos- Jewry.
sible combination. He is a warm,
The peaceful protest was organ-
gentle soul who exemplifies the ized by the Committee for Soviet
best in scholarship. His letters to Jewry of Washtenaw County, and
me have been models of profes- half the demonstrators were
sional probity and full of per- adults, it was reported.
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sonal warmth about his family
and his hopes for his son and
Legislation
Would
Admit
daughter. It happens also to be a
30,000 USSR Jews
fact that he is in poor health.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. F.
"Not unrelated to Zand's arrest
must surely be the news that on Bradford Morse (R-Mass.) said
March 12 he formally submitted Tuesday that the legislation to pro-
the required papers requesting vide 30,000 special refugee visas
exit visas for himself and his fam- for Soviet Jews was "a challenge
ily to be united with relatives in to the Soviet Union to permit those
Jews who wish to leave to do so
Israel," Dr. Paper said.
"My appeal on Mikhail Zand's and to show that the United States
behalf would be as strong and would welcome them here."
Morse noted that while "many"
passionate if he were only an ordi-
nary Russian Jew who had never Soviet Jews would prefer to go to
published a word, and my protest Israel, "enactment of such legisla-
is indeed registered on behalf of tion at this critical time will re-
all who were arrested with him. main an act of American genero-
I protest with all my heart against sity and concern in a time of
this further example of Soviet har- need."
Morse is a member of the House
Foreign Relations • Committee and
a cosponsor of the visa legislation,
originally introduced March 4 by
Reps. Edward I. Koch (D-N.Y.)
and Gilbert Gude (R-Md.) That bill
was subsequently withdrawn and
amended to provide visas for eth-
nic or cultural associations or na-
tionalities. The proposed legislation
has 47 cosponsors to date.
More pointed out that Congress
had in the past put through special
legislation to aid refugees, as in
the cases of Hungarians in 1956,
Czechoslovakians in 1968 and Cu-
bans since 1967. He contended that
even if the Soviets permitted Jew-
ish emigration on a modest scale,
the present American quota for
Eastern Hemisphere refugees —
10,200 a year — would be inadequ-
ate.
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(From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
40 Years Ago This Week: 1931
The 101st desecration of a German Jewish cemetery in recent
years was committed in -Herrnsheim.
Five Jews died and others were injured when an unemployed
engineer shot up a Budapest synagogue at Passover "to take revenge
on the Jews, who are responsible for Hungary's misfortunes."
Unknown assailants killed three Jews and wounded four others
riding in a laborers' car along the Haifa-Nazareth road.
Top Yiddish writers said America's Yiddish press need not worry
about its existence for decades. -
Rev. George Stockdale of St. James Methodist Episcopal Church,
Harlem, N.Y., declared: "We must be rid completely of the age-old
stigma that Christians have so often laid upon Jews for the crucifixion
of Jesus."
"There is more religion in Sing Sing prison that there is in Pales-
tine," said Rabbi Jacob Katz, Jewish chaplain of the jail.
Cpl. Solomon Jessel, oldest Jewish veteran of the Crimean War,
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10 Years Ago This Week: 1961
Preparations were completed for the start of the Eichmann trial
April 11. Premier Ben-Gurion stated: "The heavy burden of the Nazi
Holocaust . . . rests not only on Nazi Germany. It rests also on
England, France and the United States, which could have saved those
Jews who fled toward Israel but were not permitted to land here . . .
Eichmann's personal fate is unimportant. It is the unveiling of the
entire extermination program against the Jews that matters."
West German Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss ordered the
Army's education authorities to teach German soldiers about Jewish
contributions to their country, so as "to restore the record of history."
Gunther Fuchs, former Gestapo "Jewish expert" in Lodz, Poland,
was indicted in Frankfurt for responsibility in the murder of "about
100,000 Jews." Otto Haupt, former SS medical officer, was arrested
near Stuttgart and charged with complicity in 1,000 Jewish deaths.
'Brazilian President Janio Quadros ordered public school dic-
tionaries cleansed of terms "offensive to various races, nations or
religions," such as "swindler . . . loan shark" for "Jew" and "devil"
for "rabbi."
The Ashkenazi Jewish community of Amsterdam marked its 325th
anniversary.
Dr. Emmanuel Weyss-Levi warned Italian Jewish women against
using lipstick made with insect powder, noting that "since part of the
cosmetic is often involuntarily swallowed by its users, and often by
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