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NEW YORK (JTA)—The con- Odessa for being, as one source
troversy which surrounded the life put it, "too Jewish." -
of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin fol-
On March 3, 1970, an atticle
lowed him in death.
titled "Shame. On The Invaders
Jewish leaders praised hint for And Slanderers," published by
maintaining. Jewish communal life Izvestja, the Soviet government
despite the restrictions imposed by newspaper, condemned "interna-
the Soviet government. Tass, the tional Zionist circles" for being
Soviet government's news agency. "reactionary" a n d "spreading
lauded him as an anti-Zionist and evil and calumny" about the So-
a champion of peace and friend- viet State. The article was signed
ship.
by various Jewish . figures who
4 spokesman for the American called themselves "religious lead-
Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry ers and not politicians," They in-
said that "In spite of the many cluded Rabbis Levin, Lubanov and
pressures and handicaps placed Schwartzblatt.
on him by the Soviet Union,with
Other expressions of sympathy
its repressive policy toward Jews were expressed by Rabbi Irving
and its denial of their - religious Lehrman, president of the SyniP
freedom, Rabbi Levin saw his role gogue Council' of America; Bnai
as that of a servant of the re- Brith President David M. Blum-
ligious Jews of. Moscow. As the berg; and -Bernard 'L. 'Berzon,
only rabbi in the Soviet capital, president of the Rabbinical Council
the spokesman continued, he of ' America. - - li
helped the Jews there carry on,
at least nominally, their religious . Tass, in a dispatch from ' MOs. '
cow, stated that the "Soviet public
heritage."
knew Levin as an actilie peace
The spokesman added that champion and a worker of stronger'
"Rabbi Levin's departure now
leaves the nearly half million
Jews of Moscow without a
rabbi."
friendship between peoples." --
He was, Tass reported, a mem:-
her of the Soviet Peace Commit-
tee, a group of Soviet public fig-
tires, and he was "decorated with
a medal for peace activities." - _
• Rabbi Moshe Sherer, executive
president of, •Agudiith - 'Israel_ of ,
America. said the: death 'of Chief
Rabbi Levin is a greet loss to the
cause- of Russian - Jewry because
his departure cuts one- of the last
links of Jews throughout the world
with this symbol of Jewlah•-iteniitY
which he represented.'"',,•.-- -- -;- - , - •
Dr. Nahum Goldmann;ireskicient
of the . World Jewish. Congress,
sent -4- telegram -41t- etaidoidnees,
to_ the -Waco* Central 'Sinegighe.
Dr. -- --Zetaiii Warhaftig, Una:-
There are no more than 10 prac-
ticing rabbis left in the Soviet
Union, it is esUmated, only .two
of them are in the European por-
tion of the country: —Rabbi" Chaim
Lubanov of Leningrad, who is 91,
and Rabbi Israel Schwartzblatt
of Odessa, who is in his late 50s.
Rabbi Lubanov's concern for his
congregants has gained him a
reputation As "a saint," but' he
has become enfeebled and isolated
from the Jewish community be-
cause of the congre- gintstjeir of
reprisals. R. a filiSebieartsblatt
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Rabbi Mordechai nankin,, for.
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ish' comm nity, labeled u Rabbi'
Levin a - tragic -figure, recalling
th at after the 1956 Sinai campaign '
Rabbi. Levin was forced -to read a
sermon excoriating Israel Premier
David Ben-Gurion and "the one-
eyed devil"--Chief -Of 'Staff Gen.
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Rabbi Levin read the sermon.
Rabbi•Hankin said, but with tears
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