Newsmen's Questions on 'Jewish Problem' Ruffle Soviet Feathers

(Continued from Page 1t
a quip in Russian that was par- , In front of the New National Hotel
of the Novosti Press Agency, and , tially lost in the laughter. He had but who never showed up. The
announced the conference was ! apparently said, however. that vicinity of the hotel for blocks
'Jews residing in the United States I around had been sealed off by
concluded.
do not consider themselves as !Soviet security police.
It was the last in a series of r
"citizens of the United States but , 1 Security was so tight that even
four long sessions designed to'
of some kind of f worldwide corn-I members of President Nixon's of-
disseminate information on Soviet ,
munity."
1 ficial party were prevented on
life to foreign correspondents here ,
Chakovsky also spoke of the i many occasions from crossing po-
for the American-Soviet summit :
I
Birobidjan
newspaper,
The
Star,
I
lice lines.
conference.
i
Observers remarked that if such
Prof. Boris Bielek, a specialist and Moscow's Sovietishe Heim-
l.
and He g
statistics on bookstough restrictions exist for Amer-
on Soviet literature, was among :
officials
and
newsmen, they
the intellectuals who had respond- ican
, published
in Yiddish and of
the
I
ed to reporters' questions A Jew,
, Yiddish theater and musicalare probably even more severe
groups. Chakovsky then turned for Jews.
-
he suggested that the JTA cor- . -

respondent facilitate publications to what he termed Jewish life in , Many newsmen here believed
America.
.
saying: ''As far as I that most Moscow Jews were either
in the U.S. of Soviet literature to
end the "non-existent Jewish ques- know acts of arson have occurredin hiding or in jail during Nixon's
Soviet Union. Bielek in 39 or 40 synagogues, 15 ceme-
tion" in the
stay in the capital.
three centers , and
six
•
tortes.
was res po
riding to a question on
J
Jewish
sources in the Soviet
schools." Laughter followed this
the absence of schools for Soviet
Union
reported that a group of
report .
Jews
Chakovsky said. attributing his Kiev Jews headed by Prof. Vladi•
- tie Barboy sent a telegram to
Bielek referred to the " information to ''our own comes-
ish Autonomous Region of Biro-
, pondent." that in East Flatbush . President Nixon at the Kremlin.
hidjan" in Eastern Siberia which
asking
him to meet them during
Brooklyn. Jews complained of liv- '
he said was created for Jews.
ing in "a reign of terror" After his visit to Kiev.
He said only 13,000 have settled several more such reports, the
They also wrote to the mayor
in Birobidjan while 210,000 live
Soviet journalist concluded "]t is " of Kiev, informing him that they
in Moscow, 170,000 are in Lenin-
high time you pay attention to af- were trying to arrange for a
grad and 150,000 in Kiev.
, meeting with Mr. Nixon and ask-
fairs in your own country."
Itielek riot rmt e xplain whv a
A Soviet Jew, Aleksander Dem• ing him to put at their disposal
remote Eastern Siberian area schitz. a 60-year-old Soviet Jewish a public hall, in accordance with
lacking a Jewi.,h tradition ant set• poet and critic, responded to a Soviet law. Barboy served 10 days
t le in eat should has e been select suggestion by the Jewish Telegra- • in jail recently after attempting
ed for Jew, instead of an area in ohic Agency correspondent that ' to enter the Kiev synagogue. Kiev
Boss!,, prom•r close to their con- , •oond table talks should be held .Iews have also protested the ter-
ters of population for many gee- between American and Soviet ar- ' mination of telephone servic to
e rat ion. tests inn the subject of Judaism. , Jewish activists' homes.
The wives of Soviet Jewish ac.
Ile stud the Soviet government Domschitz said. "I know that NA Li .
did not close down Jewish schools, are prepared to discuss any ques- livists arrested during Mr. Nixon's-
but that ''they closed down them , tions beneficial to human, beings. , visit went on a hunger strike in '
..,Ise.
J el.% 1 r,h parents naturally I must add that we Jews don't I Moscow in protest of the deten-
55 ant their children to attend the have problems different from corn- lion of their husbands.
Roth-
Baroness Bethsahee de
hest universities
and
conser‘a• , mon problems facing the Soviet
schild cabled President Nixon to
tortes. ..rid in these the language iteople as a whole. "
intervene
personally
for
the
im
, p:■ken is Russian Only three or
Stringent S o s i e t
securit y
lour children uould attend a Jew-
measures prevented Soviet Jews ; mediate release of the Soviet Jew-
ish school. - he said
from contacting President Nixon , ish dancer Valeri Panov, arrested
Ilielek's contentions cmtra lict.
and made it virtually ; ni p., ' last Friday when a policeman
came to his home and asked him
rd statements by the head of the sible for American newsmen to
to accompany him to a police sta- I
Sos iet Cha other of Nationalities.meet or telephone Soviet Jews.
non for a "short inquiry."
Mrs Vadgar Nasretdinm. a, an
As a result, L' S. reporters and
Other personalities and artists'
I 'zbek from Tashkent
Earlier,
photographers covering the sum-
mit conference gave up hope of organizations cabled Soviet lead-
she pointed out how' peitple who
ers as well as internationally known
had no written language or litera-
obtaining interview's with Jewish ,
tore before the Revolution now activists. American TV crews artists to take up the matter of
;
•
.
Panov's arrest.
have their own culture, language
■
f i I m e d services at Moscow's ,
i
and schools.
Bethsabee
de
Rothschild,
a
Saturday. •
' Choral Synagogue on
founder of the Batsheva Dance
Similarly, Mrs. Ekaterina Fart-
No more than 300 worshipers
!Company of Israel, had announced
seva, minister of culture. had said .
resent although Jewish !
Si
earlier in a cable to Panov that
l Soviet nationalities have their
pre- '
sources had told newsmen
he and his wife would be accept-
own language. She did not say
tend
viousl y that about 1,000 usually at.
Russian was a requirement in the
ed by the group when arriving •
. Reporters believe that word •
best universities.
there.
had been passed that Jews ap-
When Panov did not return,
In turbulent scenes that rock-
gearing on TV films at this time
his wife,
dancer, tele-
ed the international press cen-
could harm other Jew's.
ph6ned the police and was told
ter, world-famous author James

A. Michener walked out of a
news conference on the Soviet
creative arts after cha - ging a

Soviet political and literary lead-
er with "making fun of a very
;erious question"—the Jewish
issue. Michener, who is not Jew-
ish. was representing Reader's
Digest.

'

The Soviet speaker accused by
Michener
is
Alexander It Cha-
kovsky, editor of the "Literary Ga-
zette." a member of the Supreme
Soviet and a Jew. 11,, w as replying
to a question by an American
Jewish new sman pertaining to the
absence of .1 esstsh newspapers in
the Soviet Union and the need tc
increase news about "other world
Jewish corn m unities."
In reply, Chakovsky started
reading sarcastic passagee about
the Jewish issue from a 1935
satirical novel about the U. S.,
"The Golden Calf," written by
two Soviet Jews. The passages he
read drew long applause and loud
daughter from the Soviet journal-
ists present in the hall. It was at
this point that Michener walked
out in anger and protest.
Chakovsky obviously cams pre-
pared. Typical of the atmosi ere
was the translator's remark which
accompanied the American jour-
nalist's, question—"Ilere comes
the notorious Jewish question" —
hile
Chat,. sky
responded with

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10 -Friday, June 2. 1972

An example of the efforts made

by American correspondents to
contact Jew's and the fruitless re-
sults was the case of one reporter 1
who tried 70 times to reach seven
people by phone without obtain- .
ing a single response.
In Leningrad, three U. S. news- !
men managed to contact a local I
Jew who promised to meet them

Panov was under arrest

The arrest of Aleksander Slepak
reported by Jewish sources.
father, Vladimir,
(Continued on Page Ii)

charges of a "hooliganistie lout-
burst" in which he was alleged
to have assaulted a man.

was

Slepak — whose

Panov and his wife were ousted
from the famous Leningrad litrov
Dance Group after they b sked

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