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September 08, 1972 - Image 68

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1972-09-08

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S.molar Report on USSR

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(Continued from Page 14) lieve. as commissar of reli-
solicit my assistance. This gious affairs. in violent ai-

lions. I used to meet Lunat-
charski, who as commissar
I knew in advance that
would not have any difficulty of culture, had to do with the
persuading Smidovitsh and workers' clubs—which were
Lunatcharski to oppose turn- considered cultural institu-
ing the Moscow Synagogue tions—at official receptions
into a Workers' Club. Smi- which the government gave
dovitsh, to whom I had fre- for important foreign guests.
quent access, never did be- as well as on other occa-
sions We would engage in
pleasant conversations about
HAPPY NEW YEAR
the Jewish State Theaters
which were then in existence
not only in Moscow but also
in other Soviet cities which
had large Jewish popula-
liras. He had studied abroad
18326 Woodward, Detroit
883-1900 for a number of years and
had a great love for modern
at t and for such modern
Jew ph painters a, Chwtall,
N en '
G r eet lo p s
and 1 ar1,1-
mad
'in

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GEORGE W. GRAY
INSURANCE

ADVANCE GLOVE
MFG. CO .

Experience

fact that the leaders of the
Moscow Choral Synagogue
were resolved to begin a
counter-campaign by collect-
ing no less than 60.000 signa-
tures to a petition opposing
the liquidation of their syna-
gogue and to hand the peti-
tion to the Moscow Munici-
pal Soviet.

On July 2, 1928, I cabled
the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency in New York that
Jewish community leaders in
Moscow had begun gather-
ing signatures to a petition
to the government not to
transform their largest syna-
gogues into a Workers' Club,
and that they had set a goal
of 60.000 signatures. The So -
viet censors let the cable
through. and the foreign
errITIn11,SZITIal
took
r . 1,
that fact
So .< 7:t}

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The greater the man, the
more powerful his Evil Ins-
pulse.
—Sukkah, 52...

New Year Greetings

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for a Happy Neu' Year

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Holiday Greetings

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Year

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"The
demdrid on the
part of Jewish Com m un
ists in Moscow that the
Great Choral Synagogue
there he turned into a
Workers' Club has been
rejected by the Soviet go,
et lament. At the same time
a decision was made to
consider mad.isable an.
further conserting of s.na-
goldues to dubs anywhere
in the country."

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'Chu, the wave of comer:-
int:. synagogues
into clubs
w a, hailed. In Smolensk the
local Soviet had already de-
cided to liquidate the s.na-
L'ogue
there and use the
building for a clubhouse, but
in Smidovi,ch's office I was
shown specific instruction ,
to the Municipal Soviet lit
Smolensk orderin,1 the
re-
opening
of the synagogue
Characteristic of the atti
tude of Lunatcharski ryas a
speech he delivered in Mos
cow a short time later—on
Nov. 13—at a celebration of
the 100th birthday of the
world-renowned great flu,-
‘-ian writer, Lev Tulstoy.
Lunatcharski compared Tol-
stoy's liberal ideals with the
Pentateuch . ''Just as Tolstoy
took the part of the peasant,
against their enslavers. so ,
also did the Bible... Lanai
charski told the large
fes
ti.e audience.

Such a reference to the
Bible in Moscow at that tints
was t.articularly significant.
e,Mecially since the speaker
was the commissar of cul-
ture

Mr. & Mrs.
WALLY FRIEDMAN

Cindee & Gordy

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IL.:er

Friends and Patrons

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CLAPSADDLE

BRADY TRUCK PAINTING
& LETTERING CO.

33•VernIcr Rcod
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Best Wishes for a
Happy New Year

Happy Holiday

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CUSTOM TAILOR

SOBERMAN & MILGROM

Manufacturers of Mercur. Pants

Southf,e'd Rd
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