Anti-Zionist Prejudice
`Voices of Silent' Exposes USSR Anti-Semitism,
from Soviet oppressive rule,
"Babi-Yar." Then she states: ulty of the University Tartu
so. Some are waiting in pris-
(formerly Dorpat) 'who "is such important figures as
Soviet Russia's intellectuals the intelligentsia was Mos-
ons and 'insane asylums,'
"The critical reaction to supposed to have expressed Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn,
cow's
position
during
and
are not silent. They are pro-
which so far have proved to
testing against indignities. after the Six-Day War." She be the only place their desire this occurrence bristled with his discontent at the large and the data quoted, make
indignation, particularly since number of Jewish students the Gerstenmaier book, "The
They risk being called "crim- states that "the intellectuals
to leave the Soviet 'paradise' a group of several anti-Se-
were
probably
not
alone
in
inal" and are often declared
in his faculty with the follow- Voices of the Silent," one of
in favor of their old home- mitic functionaries consider-
ing words: 'I am naturally the most revealing compila-
"insane." But they speak out. their distrust of the unilateral
support of the Arabs and the land has brought them. This ed the poem an intolerable no anti-Semite, but one must tions of facts regarding the
Cornelia Gerstenmaier has
revolt against Soviet domina•
disparagement of Israel exodus, and the still unfulfill- provocation. The critics re- be an internationalist'."
compiled a record of the
(which went hand in hand ed requests to emigrate, has proached Yevtushenko with
The fame of the dissenters tion and discrimination.
courageous voices against the with an anti-Zionist cam- become a difficult problem a lack of 'internationalism'
indignities. In an impressive
paign, in truth and uncontrol- for the Soviet regime mostly and labeled his politics ado-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
and revealing volume, "The
because it demonstrates to the lescent. He was accused of 32—Friday, Sept. 28, 1973
led anti-Semitism)."
Voices of the Silent," issued
There is this additional rest of the world more than presenting a one-sided des-
by Hart Publishing Co., Miss
statement on the subject in the simple failure of its ra- cription of the sufferings of
Gerstenmaier has incorpor-
cial policies. It gives evi- the Jews while ignoring the
Miss Gerstenmaier's book:
ated the record of the pro-
"It was reported from dence of the failure of its so- sufferings experienced by
tests by Pasternak and Solz-
Russians, Ukrainians and
many regions that during the cial order."
henitsyn, the Daniel trial,
There is an interesting ref- other national groups during
war of June of 1967 not
the scores of other evidences
only representatives of the erence to Yevtushenko and the German occupation."
FOR RETIRED PEOPLE
of persecutions and oppres-
intellectual classes — who the Babi-Yar tragedy. Miss However: "Russian intellec-
sions and the condemnations
were often Jews themselves Gerstenmaier reports that tuals were moved by Yevtu-
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from the resisters against the
— but also a great number at the Day of Poetry celebra- shenko's `Babi-Yar' to adhere
Communist tyrannies.
tion,
Oct.
8,
1961,
the
crowd
even
more
strongly
to
their
RATES INCLUDE:
of the workers and collective
In a translation from the farmers sided with the op- recited Yevtushenko's poem own frequently pro-Jewish at-
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German by Susan Hecker, pressed Israelis, despite the
titudes. Though hardly in-
this record draws upon many otherwise traditional anti-
tending to grant the Jews a
• Wall to Wall Carpeting
experiences — the Soviet Semitism one usually finds Solomonic Fable:
privileged position, they did
schemes to hush up the Babi- in peasant circles. In several
oppose discrimination against
• Color T.V. and Phone
Yar tragedy, the role of Yev- universities, there were re- Daughter's Love
any minority and saw, in
geny Yevtushenko in his ex- ported incidents of money
King Solomon had a most anti-Semitic remarks espec-
• Individually controled heat and
pose of anti-Semitism, the having been collected to aid beautiful daughter, concern- ially, another symptom of in-
air conditioning
Kremlin anti-Israel cam- the Israeli cause."
ing whose fortune he was humanity and cultural back-
exceedingly a n x i o u s. He wardness."
vaign.
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Additional interest attaches prayed that he be shown her
Miss Gerstenmaier states
Exposing the "insidious
that "a factor which led to a to Miss Gerstenmaier's com- intended mate, and it was anti - Semitism poorly dis-
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rift between the rulers and ments on the Soviet anti- revealed to him in a dream guised as anti-Zionism, which
Zionist policies. She states:
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that her mate was a youth
"Most important was the born of the poorest of the condoned the scandalous dis-
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crimination of Jews in the
fact that the Six-Day War— poor in Israel.
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USSR, "Miss Gerstenmaier
that is, the oppression of Is-
"Let me test God's inten- describes the prejudices and
Jewish Home Atmosphere
rael at the time, even more
tions," thought the King (to oppressions of the Boris
than the subsequent Soviet
see if they cannot be foiled). Kochubievskys, the radio
• Traditional Synagogue 1/2 Block
anti - Zionist' campaign—
technician
and
his
non-Jew-
He
built
a
palace
on
an
strengthened more clearly
UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP
than ever the personal iden- island and erected round ish wife who were charged
Call or write Nathan Litvin
with
"Zionism"
and
sent
to
a
tity many Russian Jews felt about it a high wall. He
with Israel. This was the ac- brought to it his daughter concentration camp as pun-
tual beginning of the Zion- and her servants, left provi- ishment for applying for visas
Mt. Clemens, Mich. 48043
30 South Gratiot
ist movement in the Soviet sions with them, locked the to go to Israel.
Her expose of anti-Semi-
Union. Since then thousands gate, and departed with the
(313)
465-6271
tism includes a reference to
of Soviet Jews have under- key.
20811 W. 8 Mile
A poor youth was wander- the rector of the physics fac-
taken the arduous procedures
between Southfield & Telegraph
for a journey to Israel de- ing one cold night on a de-
spite innumerable obstacles serted road and lost his way.
and dangers. The authorities Observing the open carcass
have surrendered to growing of a large bull, he crept be-
pressures and allowed thous- tween the ribs for warmth
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of others, however, are still snatched up the carcass,
waiting for permission to do flew away with it, and de-
posited it on the roof of the
palace. When the Princess
went up to the roof, as was
her daily morning custom,
she beheld the youth. She
commanded that he be
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Carolyn Mann, Auxiliary President
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Harry A. Davidoff, Commander
King arrived on his periodic •
Donna Green, Auxiliary President
Belle Cohen, Auxiliary President
•
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August 1973, against the same
Adele Lipson, Auxiliary President
David
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1974 would show another in-
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Morton Oppenheim, Commander
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Helen Dresser, Auxiliary President
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