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SANTIAGO (JTA) — Two
leaders of the Chilean Jew-
ish community sought with-
out success recently to con-
vince President Augusto Pin-
ochet Ugarte that the film
"Fiddler on the Roof" is
not Marxist-inspired and
should not be banned in
Chile.
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The issue was taken up by "Fiddler" after censors had
Gil Sinay, president of the passed it, on grounds that it
Chilean Jewish community, contains 'disruptive ele-
and Rabbi Angel Kreiman at ments" harmful to the
a private luncheon in August nation.
with Gen. Ugarte, leader of
The two Jewish ieaders
the ruling military junta.
noted in their conversation
The JTA reported on Aug. with Ugarte that the ban
27 that Rear Admiral Hugo could be construed abroad
Castro prohibited release of
sis.
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anti-Semitic
basis.
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The president said it should
be made clear that the film
had not been prohibited but
suspended and would be sub-
jected to a new review and
analysis of its message, Sin-
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Two days before the meet-
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ing with the president, the
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government Secretary, Col.
Pedro Ewing Hodar, wrote
to Sinay "to inform you and
assure you categorically that
said measure has nothing at
all to do with the world-wide
Jewish community, nor much
less with the resident com-
munity with which the gov-
ernment maintains and
wishes to continue to main-
tain the most cordial rela-
tions."
Hodar's letter added: "The
prohibition of the picture
("Fiddler") obeys the fact
that it was considered to con-
tain a message clearly fav-
orable to the Marxist tenden-
cies, of which the Jewish
people as well as our coun-
try have been the victims."
According to Sinay, Ugarte
said he did not deny the ar-
tistic merit of the film but
did not consider it favorable
to the Jewish tradition be-
cause one of the hero's
daughters married a person
of a different faith and an-
other married a student with
revolutionary ideas who did
not accept the traditional
marriage bonds.
Ugarte took exception to a
sequence in which he said
the intervention of the mili-
tary forces was magnified
with the clubbing of young
students who carried red
banners.
He said that this might not
be important in other cir-
cumstances, but considering
the present situation in Chile,
"the junta cannot accept any
factor of dissension," Sinay
reported.
Sinay said that neverthe-
less, he and Rabbi Kreiman
stressed that it would be
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very difficult to correct im-
pressions abroad that the
ban on "Fiddler" did not
have an anti-Semitic basis
and that this view would
only create a false image of
events in Chile.
They also pointed out to
the President that "Fiddler"
has been banned in the Sov-
iet Union but exhibited with
great success in countries
like Spain and Brazil. The
latter two governments are
vehemently anti-Marxist.
It also was reported that
the rabbi of the Chilean Jew-
ish community, Dr. Angel
Kreimart, says he acted
solely in an ecumenical and
humanitarian spirit when he
signed a petition, with cler-
gymen of other faiths, asking
the ruling military junta to
grant amnesty to political
prisoners, among them four
persons of Jewish origin who
were not identified.
Rabbi Kreiman, stressed ,
that the Jewish community
had no problems or quarrels
with the regime.
The petition drew sharp
attacks from official quart-
ers after it was published in
newspapers here. It was
signed by the Cardinal of
Chile, Raul Silva Henriques,
and the . Lutheran Bishop,
Hellmuth Frenz, in addition
to Rabbi Kreiman.
The rabbi stated that his
membership on the Commit-
tee for Peace in Chile and
his signature on the clem-
ency petition had no other
reason but to act in accord
with the other religious
bodies.
U.S. Publishers
Honor. Kollek.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Sev-
enty New York publishers
met here at a reception in
honor of Teddy Kollek,
mayor of Jerusalem, to invite
continuing involvement of
American publishers in the
bi-annual Jerusalem Interna-
tional B'(-- ok Fair.
The reception, held in the
Harvard Club, was hosted by
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publishers on behalf of the
book fair.
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ternational Book Fair will be
held from. April 28 to May 5,
1975, in Jerusalem. The sixth
fair drew 625 publishers from
29 countries with 29,000 books
exhibited and an attendance
of 63,000 people.
Kollek said the fair has be-
come the place for visiting
publishers to meet publishers
from all over the world to
buy and sell rights, to pre-
sent and examine co-publish-
ing and co-production possi-
bilities,. to expand interna-
tional sales of their lists, and
to arrange co-publishing
projects.