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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20 Friday, May 16, 197S
Israel-Romania Ties Seem Firm, But U.S. Jews Knock Trade Pact
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Foreign Minister Yigal Al-
lon will visit Romania
shortly — possibly before
the end of this month — to
return the visit to Israel last
September by the Roman-
ian Foreign Minister George
Macovescu.
An official announcement
of the visit is expected here
and in Bucharest shortly.
Allon received the Ruman-
ian Ambassador, Ion Covaci,
at his office last week and
they are understood to have
finalized details of the trip.
Romania is the only Com-
munist bloc country to
maintain normal diplomatic
relations with Israel al-
though they diverge sharply
on most aspects of the Mid-
dle East conflict. The two
countries also maintain
trade relations and have
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JERUSALEM SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE
JULY 18-21, 1975 in Jerusalem, Israel
With the Participation of
The President of the State of Israel
The Prime Minister
The Chief Rabbis
Cabinet Ministers
exchanged visits on the min-
isterial level.
Meanwhile, in Washing-
ton, two Jewish leaders
asked a House subconunit-
tee to withhold "most fa-
vored nation" trade status
for Romania, which has
been requested by Presi-
dent Ford, until the Ro-
manian government dem-
onstrates "convincingly
that it is moving toward a
freer emigration."
Rabbi Israel Miller, chair-
man of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Ameri-
cdn Jewish Organizations,
and David M. Blumberg,
president of Bnai Brith
claimed, in testimony be-
fore the House Ways and
Means Committee's sub-
committee on trade, that
Jewish emigration from
Romania had diminished to
less than 100 a month al-
though "Many thousands"
of Romania's estimated
100,000 Jews have "signified
a desire to emigrate."
Assistant Secretary of
State Arthur Hartman, re-
sponding to questions from
sub-committee chairman
William Green ,(D-Pa.)
conceded that the present
emigration rate-from Rom-
ania was negligible and as
such was not in compliance
with the requirements of
the 1974 Trade Act But he
said he anticipated "sub-
stantial improvement" and
offered assurances that the
Administration "will not
accept a static trend" as
compliance. .
Miller and Blumberg, in a
joint statement said they
opposed the White House
request that Romania be
granted concessions under
the 1974 Act with waiver of
the Jackson Vanik amend-
ment.
The legislation permits
waiver when the President
has "assurances" that a
"favored" nation will "sub-
stantially" liberalize its
emigration policies.
"If the Jackson-Vanik
amendment means any-
thing — and we insist that
it means a great deal — it
means that Romanian
emigration practices must
change substantially for
the better, not the worse,"
the statement said.
They suggested that the
House postpone a decision
on the trade agreement un-
til just before the statutory
limit of 60 days for Congres-
sional action expires, during
which Romania could dem-
onstrate its willingness to
accelerate emigration.
`Kruschev Ordered Trials' Former Romanian Charges
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Nikita Krushchev ordered
the holding of show trials
against Jews on trumped-up
economic charges in Ro-
mania in 1958, it was re-
vealed here by Mirzia Ofri-
shan, a former Romanian
minister of foreign trade.
According to Ofrishan,
many of the Jews charged
were sentenced to long
terms of imprisonment.
They were later paroled and
subjected to heavy fines.
(Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen
of Romania, said he was
"astonished with Ofrishan's
statement. He never had
anything to do with Jewish
life in Romania.
racity of his story.")
Ofrishan represented Ro-
mania in COMECON and
made aliya five months ago.
"Indeed, he went so far
as to change his original
Jewish name and now I
see he is suddenly speak-
ing of Jewish problems
after all these years. All of
a sudden Ofrishan ap-
peared in my office 18
months ago asking me to
help him emigrate. Until
then I never even knew
that he was a Jew. I am
very doubtful as to the ye-
Ofrishan was one of the
political-economic elite in
Romania at the time. He
traveled to the People's Re-
public of China and North
Korea in his official capac-
ity and twice visited Israel
as a member of Romanian
trade delegations.
dent, Adrian Dumitriu
later became Justice Min-
ister and is presently
chairman of the Romanian
Bar Association.
Asked why he was not
among those tried in 1958,
Ofrishan replied that he
didn't know, and that he
knew nothing about the af-
fair until years later. Only a
few interior and justice
ministers knew about it, he
added. Romania at that
time was not independent of
Moscow as it is today, Ofris-
han noted, but very much a
satellite.
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Ofrishan said the then-
Interior Minister, Dragh-
itz, personally supervised
the trials. The court presi-
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NEW YORK — "America
bore him, Germany traihed
him, Italy inspired him."
This -is -how the "Dictionary
of American Biography"
characterizes the famous
sculptor Moses Jacob Ezek-
iel (1844-1917). Toward the
end of his life Ezekiel wrote
a lengthy autobiography
which shows in his own
words how these three coun-
tries had shaped his life.
Co-edited by Prof. Stan-
ley F. Chyet of the Hebrew
Union College faculty and
Prof. Joseph Gutmann of
the Wayne State University
faculty, the manuscript,
long on deposit in microfilm
at the American Jewish
Archives, is scheduled for
publication in mid-May by
the Wayne State University
Press. Its text runs to some
600 pages, and it includes
about 70 plates.
Ezekiel, who came of a
partially Sephardic family
which had migrated from
Holland early in the 19th
Century, was born in Rich- ,
mond, Va. He offers a color-
ful picture of the ante bel-
lum life of a Jewish family
in what was to become the
Confederate capital.
When the Civil War
broke out, Ezekiel went to
the Virginia Military In-
stitute. He took part with
his fellow-cadets in the
Battle of Newmarket and
vividly recounted the ad-
ventures and tragedies of
the war years, the hard-
ships endured by Southern
families, and his relations
with the Robert E. Lees
after General Lee returned
to civilian life.
When the war ended, the
Ezekiels found it economi- von Hohenlohe, Franz Liszt, Hebrew Union College.
cally necessary to leave Gabriele D'Annunzio, Pie- While visiting Cincinnati in
Richmond for Cincinnati. tro Mascagni and Queen 1899, the younger Ezekiel
Ezekiel studied medicine in Margharita. Ezekiel's out- executed the bust of Isaac
Richmond for a time, but put as a sculptor was exten- Mayer Wise which is now a
soon turned to art. His ar- sive, and examples of his valued part of the HUC-
tistic abilities had long work' are found in many JIR's Museum collection.
shown themselves, and, in countries.
Ezekiel recalls his con-
1869, having raised a little - They include a marble
money by selling a diamond group; "Religious Liberty," versation with Wise while
he was modelling the -bust
pin, he set out for Berlin
commissioned by the Bnai
where he gained entry into Brith for the national Cen- and describes how he
urged on Wise the view
the Royal Art Academy.
tenary of 1876 and installed
Ezekiel tells of the -diffi- in a Philadelphia park, and that a Jewish state would
culties besetting a strug- the monument to the Con- be re-established one day.
gling art student in-the un- federate dead at Arlington Wise was antagonistic,
familiar surroundings of National Cemetery. His but Ezekiel had long been
the Prussian capital. A year work is well represented in interested in reviving Jew-
after his arrival, the Franco- the Hebrew Union College's ish life in what was then
Prussian War broke out in Skirball Museum in Los still Ottoman Palestine.
1870.
Angeles as well as on the
The Ezekiel volume, enti-
He tried to earn a little Cincinnati campus of-the tled "Moses Jacob Ezekiel:
HUC-JIR,
money as a war correspond-
Memoirs from the Baths of
ent for the New-York Her-
Some years after Ezek- Diocletian," derived much of
ald, but his journalistic ac- iel's family moved to Cincin- its material from the files of
tivities were cut short when nati, his father, Jacob, be- the American Jewish Ar- -
the suspicimis Germans ar- came the first secretary of chives on the Cincinnati
rested him as a French spy. the governing board of the campus of the HUC-JIR.
For a time, Ezekiel lan-
guished in a military prison
NY Women's Grou p Aids Elderly Jews
at Koenigsberg, haunted
daily by visions of being
NEW YORK (JTA) j- A
shot for espionage.
Federation's Jewish Asso-
new Jewish women's com- _ ciation for Services for the
The prowess which
mittee is helping to educate Aged. Members also cover
Ezekiel showed at the Ber-
elderly New York Jews on special telephones at the
lin Academy won him a
limited incomes on means of Women's Organization
prize enabling him to con-
stretching their dollars by headquarters to help clients
tinue his studies in Rome.
learning how to protect confronted with consumer
Though he returned to the
their rights as consumers. deception or fraud.
United States several
The committee consists of
times, he made Rome his
20 women volunteers,
headquarters for the rest
The committee has ar-
trained at the Federation of ranged refunds for damaged
of his life, and his recollec-
tions reflect the fact that Jewish Philanthropies by merchandise, persuaded
his studio in the Baths of the New YOrk City Con- stores to honor "rain-check"
sumer Affairs Department. agreements on advertised
Diocletian became a rec-
Committee members products not available,
ognized rendezvous for the
cosmopolitan society of the provide slide-lecture presen- helped to restore heat and
tations at Federation Ys hot water for residents of
Eternal City.
and Jewish community cen- old tenements and corrected
In Rome he enjoyed the
friendship of such diverse ters and at senior citizens deceptive food pricing in
figures as Gustav Cardinal centers supervised by the supermarkets.
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