Nixon Asked to Intervene for Iraq •Jews

WASHINGTON (JTA) —
President Nixon has been
urged to intervene person-
ally on behalf of Jews in
Iraq and Syria.
Aresolution was intro-
duced in the House of Repre-
sentatives Wednesday calling
for an extension of the attor-
ney general's parole author-
ity so that Jews from those
countries can be admitted to
the United States.
Pennsylvania's senators,
Hugh Scott and Richard S.
Schweiker, and eight Phida-
delphia area representatives
urged Mr. Nixon to intervene
personally "to halt the in-
human treatment of Jewish
minorities in Iraq and
Syria."
In a letter to the President.
the bipartisan group said it
recognized that the United
States government does not

have diplomatic relations
with Iraq and Syria and that
the State Department has
made substantial efforts on
behalf of the Jews in those
two countries. "Now, how-
ever," the letter added, "is
a time when your personal
intervention would be ex-
tremely helpful. We urge you
to use your good offices,
through whatever means you
consider appropriate, to aid
these helpless persons."
Rep. Edward
I. Koch

'from 12 states are cospon-
sors of the resolution. Both
the letter to the President
and the resolution referred
to the hangings in 1969 of
Iraqi Jews and the reported
recent executions in an Iraqi
prison of nine or 10 Jews.
In Montreal, more than 500
persons attending a commu-
nity prayer rally demanded
that the Iraqui government
reveal the fate of nine Jews
imprisoned in Baghdad last
fall who are believed to have
(D.-N.Y.), introduced a reeo- been executed.
The Canadian Jewish Con-
lution condemning the Iraqi
and Syrian governments "for gress, whose Eastern Region

alive or, if they are dead,
to return their bodies for
burial according to Jewish
ritual.
The participants in the
rally recited prayers for

Jews in mortal danger in
Iraq and other Arab coun-
tries and kadish for those
believed executed.
Seventy members of the
Federation of Jewish Youth
in Belgium demonstrated in
front of the Iraqi Embassy
in Brussels on behalf of
lraqui Jews. Police arrested
the 70 demonstrators but re-

their harsh and inhuman sponsored the rally at the
Syna- leased them. There were no
treatment of their Jewish Spanish - Portuguese
countrymen" and urging ex- gogue, has asked the Iraqi other incidents.
tension of the Justice De-
partment's parole authority
to admit Jews from those
two countries into the U. S.

ZOA Federation Rift
Remains Unresolved

,

Twenty - six congressmen

Boris Smolor's

'Between You
and Me'

...

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1973, JTA Inc.)

YIDDISH IN ISRAEL: In the early years of the establish-

(J T A) —
The Zionist General Council
(Actions Committee) wound
up its annual meeting with-
out resolving a major inter-
nal conflict over whether the
Zionist Organization of
America should be compelled
to re-join the American
Zionist Federation from
which it bolted last year.
A resolution that would
have expelled the ZOA from
the World Zionist Organiza-
tion if it remained obdurate
was abandoned at the last
minute in favor of a com-

JERUSALEM

ment of Israel, Yiddish was unwelcomed there by the gov-
ernment as a language. While daily newspapers in various
other languages were permitted to appear there, no daily
in Yiddish was tolerated, The only Yiddish daily which
existed then, Di Letzte Nyes, had to circumvent the ban by
being published as a bi-weekly—under one name and on promise proposed by WZO
three other days under a different name. This camouflage Treasurer Arye Dultzin to
refer the issue to the WZO
helped the paper comply formally with the regulations pro-
Executive.
hibiting the issuance of a daily in Yiddish.

Herman Weisman, preal-
The situation is different today. The ban on the Yiddish dent of the ZOA, and Rabbi
daily press was lifted following an energetic fight conducted Israel Miller, president of
by Mordecai Tsanin, editor of Di Letzte Nyes in Tel Aviv, the AZF, formally pledged
who was backed by David Dubinsky, the then powerful to abide by whatever deci-
head of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, sion is reached by a two-
and other friends of Israel in the United States. They were third majority of the WZO
in a position to indicate to Ben-Gurion—then Premier of Executive.
Israel—their dissatisfaction with the discrimination against
The compromise was ad-
Yiddish in the fledgling Jewish state. As a result, Di Letzte opted after a session last-
Nyes now appears daily and enjoys a larger circulation ing into the wee hours of the
than some of the Hebrew daily newspapers. It is inde- morning, marked by tension
pendent and is not the organ of any political group in Israel. and mutual recriminations
There are several Yiddish theaters in Israel today, and between the various Zionist
Yiddish book publishing houses. Last year about 75 books, parties.
novels and poetry were published in Yiddish in Israel. The
Louis Pincus, chairman of
best Yiddish literary quarterly in the world is now pub- the WZO Executive, seemed
lished in Israel and its publisher is none other than Ilista- adamant on forcing the ZOA

drut, the Israeli Federation of Labor. There is a Yiddish
chair at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There is an
association of Yiddish writers in Tel Aviv. Recently a Com-
mittee for Yiddish Culture was formed in Israel which
started the publication in Yiddish of works of the newly-
arrived Jewish authors from Poland and the Soviet Union.
The breakthrough against the taboo on Yiddish, achieved
by Mr. Tsanin—who, in addition to being an able editor
is also the author of a number of books—has served well
the interests of many thousands of Jewish immigrants from

Poland, Romania and various parts of the Soviet Union.
They arrived in Israel with no knowledge of Hebrew, but •
with a good mastery of the Yiddish language. Through
reading Di Letzte Nyes they were able :o follow the day-
by-day life in Israel and to become closer to it They were
also helped much in their integration by Tsanin's two-vol-
ume Hebrew-Yiddish dictionary published in Israel—the I
first modern dictionary of its kind.
literary
Now Mr. Tsanin has embarked on a colossal

project, of a Tolstoyan caliber, that puts Israel on the map
as the first country' publishing the largest Yiddish novel
ever written. It is a seven-volume work by Mr. Tsanin

presented against the background of Jewish history and en-
titled "Artapanos Comes Home." Five parts of this monu-
mental novel have already appeared, the latest being a
300-page volume "Love in Storm" which reads like a sep-

arate novel in itself.
LOVE IN STORM: Tsanin's volume "Love in Storm"—like
Home -
his previous volumes in the series "Artapanos Conies
-shows the author's fundamental knowledge of Jewish his-
tory of all times and in great detail as well as his deeply
rooted Jewish learning. Also his modern approach to litera-
ture. Ile is a great modern novelist and a Jewish historian
at the same time.
His "Love in Storm" brines out vividly the horrible
were mas-
decade 1648 - 1658 for Jews in Poland when they
sacred and their homes set on fire during the Cossack
economically
Pogroms from which the Jews did not recover
for a very long time. Their hopelessness in that period led
followers
of
Shalitai
Zevi, the
many of them to become
false Messiah. The Chmielnicki massacre: and the subse-
Jewish communities
quent years of unrest left numerous

destroyed and Impoverished.

authorities to give the prison-
ers a fair trial if they are

back into tine in the inter-

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, Feb. 23,197=

First Israeli Warship Launched

2 Hands Handle This NIVIlopper

HAIFA (JTA) — Premier
GoIda Meir tried to break a
bottle of champagne across
the bow of the first Israel-
built gunboat, but when the
; bottle didn't break, a sailor
at the launching ceremonies
stepped up to help. It took
three swings before the sailor
could break it.
The warship, a $10,000,000
missile boat named Reshef
(Flash), slid down the ways
of Israel Shipyards Ltd. into
Haifa Bay as bands played
and several thousand specta-
tors and shipyard workers
cheered.
The 450-ton diesel-powered
vessel, armed with Israel's
Gabriel surface-to-surface
missiles, depth charges and
anti-aircraft guns, is regard-

Weisman also said there
were signs on both sides of
a readiness to discuss the
issues which led to the split
with a view to healing the

ISRAEL'S

the compromise but disap-
proved of the way it came

about.

Thaw Viewed

in Spain-Israel
Relations

world.
Mrs.

Mcir stressed that

launching Israel once
again reduced its dependence
on foreign sources (or weap-
ons of war.

with the

The Reshef and her sisters
under construction are devel-
opments of the Saar-class
gunboats built for Israel in
France several years ago.
According to Rear Adm.
Benjamin Telem, commander
of the Israeli Navy, they are

far superior.
The Reshef will carry a
crew of 45 and will have a
speed of 40 knots, 46 land

miles per hour.

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WASHINGTON (JTA) — A

'per person [lout". oc cup•n< y

definite break in the diplo-
matic impasse between Spain
and Israel was seen here in
the statement by a leading
Spanish journalist that the
two countries establish "for-
mal relations."
For political and economic

plus 1 0% tau and liArvvr.•

reasons, the Spanish govern-
ment has refused to have
diplomatic relations with
Israel.
Spain has held steadfastly
to Arab positions in the
United Nations and in the in-
ternational forums regarding
Middle East issues ind strict
controls to suppress inter-
national terrorism such as

ests, he said, of building a
united Zionist movement in
America.
Weisman was equally ad•
amant. He warned the coun-
cil not to use "the axe" on
the oldest Zionist organiza- that waged by the Arab
tion in the U.S. "You can• Black September.
not build unity with a sledge•
Jose Maria Armero, chair

hammer," he said.

Above All, Be Honest

Above all, my children, he
honest in money matters
with Jews and non-Jews
alike. If you have money or
possessions
belonging to
other people, take better
care of them than you would
if they were your own. The

first question that is put to
a man on entering the next
World is whether or not he
was faithful in his business
dealings. A man may work
ever so hard to amass
money dishonestly; he may,
during his lifetime, provide

his children with rich dow-
ries and leave them a gen-
erous inheritance at his

death; and yet, I say, woe
shall it be to that wicked
man who, because he tried
to enrich his children with
dishonest money, has for-
feited his share in the world
to come! In one fleeting
moment he has lost eternity!
—From the Memoirs of
Glueckel of Il•melin.

news
agency Europa Press, said in
a statement in Madrid that
Spain should stop "ignoring"

roan of the Spanish

Israel.

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Armero, who recently
visited Israel, said that the
two countries have common
economic problems, particu-
larly regarding relations with
the European Economic
Community.
According to a news dis-
patch received here report-
ing Armero's statement, the
Spanish journalist also said
that in his view no other na-
tion in the world was "as
prepared as Israel to receive
Spain's cultural message "
Spain imports approxi-
mately 512,000,000 in goods
from Israel, mainly crude
copper, and exports to Israel
about $4.000.000 in commo't
Ries, principally processed
products.
About 9.000 Jews dividcd
almost evenly, between Sep

harditn and Ashkenazim live ;
In Spain, the majority in
Barcelona and Madrid

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