THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, December 24, 1976 SI,

Interpol as Moscow's Connection Can It Harm Soviet Jews_?_-_: _t

At this point in time
or activities of a political, activities are clandestine files, reports and dossiers ness of Interpol to cotlabo-
military, religious or ra- and concealed and the are kept on nationals of rate with the Russian there is no conclusive
Special to The Jewish News
originators of disinfor- many countries and from police and the very na- evidence that, in fact, the
LONDON — A little cial character."
riiation carefully protect there they are distrib- ture, structure and or- Soviet Union uses Inter-
Hiding behind Article 3,
and disguise the source uted through the organi- ganization of Interpol pol's communication lines
news item appeared on
zation's communication would provide a relatively for its own political ends.
Oct. 6, 1976 in the London Interpol does not trace
and channels of it.
Daily Telegraph on a Nazi war criminals, in-
But even the most criti-
In view of the attitude lines across the world. facile conduit for disin-
the Soviets have ex- There is ample evidence formation to the West. cal observer, in the light
"Moscow Connection" be- eluding those in its
tween the International hierarchy (see series in
hibited towards non- that unverified reports Another contributing fac- of the data at hand, can-
Criminal Police Organi- The Jewish News, Sept.
conformists, dissidents originated from various for is the membership of not escape concluding
and Jewish refugees, police organizations on Cuba, Romania and that the "Moscow Con-
zation (Interpol) and the 5-Oct. 3, 1975).
I contacted the Russian character assassination individuals and organiza- Yugoslavia, plus several nection" is not only a
Soviet law enforcement
of Russian emigres tions have been dissemi- friendly Communist coup- matter of international
agencies, which raised embassy in London and
some disquieting ques- was informed that the law
seems more than feasible. nated from the Paris tries, where the KGB has a concern, but in the case of
bons in regard to the enforcement agencies in
At Interpol's head- headquarters to other strong footing such as the United States, poses
status of those Jews who Russia collaborate
with countries.
Somalia, Singapore and constitutional problems.
quarters, near Paris,
have been permitted to Interpol and that the col-
The apparent willing- Vietnam.
hundreds
of
thousands
of
laboration is reciprocal.
- leave the Soviet Union.
Jordan Considered
It seems that an ex-
The Daily Telegraph
Using Port of Gaza
---i-ported
that the change of intelligence be-
e
•
"Moscow Connection" tween the Soviet police
JERUSALEM (ZINS)
which led to the arrest of and Interpol exists. It
— King Hussein of Jor-
a number of Britons, poses an intriguing ques-
Americans and other tion: What kind of "crimi-
establishment of lib- dan had considered the
of modern Yid-
BY ALLEN A. WARSEN
raries, unions of writers possibility of using the
Westerners, involved in nal" intelligence could be
An historic world con- dish literary diction. It
at Gaza for Jorda-
dru g smuggling during fed by the Soviets to the
of and artists, a circulating Port
nian ships, because of the
ference
for
Yiddish
and
marked
the
emergence
o
the last year, was in fact West,
via
Interpol?
The
Russian
law en- Yiddish culture attended Yiddish as a standard model theater, and a body great congestion at the
Interpol. Interpol, lo-
to serve as an authority
on questions of Yiddish Port of Akaba. According
sated in a Paris suburb, for cement agencies and by 400 delegates from 16 literary tongue.
the mayor of
Another architect oforthography,
the administration of justice countries was held in
tipped-off
had
ography, grammar to reports,
expressed his
Moscow law enforcement do not differentiate be- Jerusalem in August. Its Yiddishism was Nathan
and other language ques- Gaza
categorical opposition to
tween property and polit- high point was the resolu- Birnbaum (1864-1937). He
agencies.
tions.
that
possibility. He based
terms
the
The news item of the ical crime.. Dissidence is tion proclaiming Yiddish coined
Peretz, the great Yid- his position
on his belief
and
Hebrew
the
national
"Zionism,".
"Political
tip-off from Interpol regarded as a crime
dishist, felt a profound af- that such a step would be
of the Jewish Zionism," "Yiddishist" finity
for Hebrew. In an
caused grave concern in against the state, as are people.
and "Yiddishism." Orgi-
essay on education, he interpreted in many
Western countries as well ordinary crimes.
Aimar
similar
co
nally,
he
was
a
Herzl
sup-
wrote: "We want every countries as signifying
as at Interpol headquar-
Could Interpol be used
to know Hebrew . . . that Jordan had accepted
ters near Paris, as it yin- by Russia as a covertunder different condi- porter. Later, he became
(Diaspora) J It, is the
Golus
he n cement which Israel's presence in the
dicated the critics of channel for continued bons was held in 1908 in a
During binds together our scat- Gaza Strip and had put
Interpol who for a long harassment of defectors, Czernowitz, the capital of Nationalist.
time claimed exchange of dissidents and Jewish Bukovina, then a con- World War I he turned tered units . . . The He- down the foundation for
between refugees by providing stituent country of Orthodox, and for a time brew language also holds economic relations be-
intelligence
Interpol and the Soviet criminal records,which Austria-Hungary. The 40 served as general secre- together the ringlets in the tween the two countries
follow them after they delegates who partici- tary of the world organi- chain of time . . . The He- at the expense of the Pal-
police.
pated in it included zation of Agudas Israel.
Russia is not a member leave the Soviet Union?
brew language knits us estinians.
Birnbaum,
In
1908
while
on
a
visit
to
. . . with the martyrs
Dezinformatsiya, or dis- Nathan
of Interpol. Collaboration
Zhitlovsky, the
United
from a police organization information is one of the Chaim
States, whose last words at thee
in the West with the Soviet most powerful tools of the Matisyohu Mieses, H. D. Birnbaum proposed to a stake were SHMA YIS-
Noah group of Yiddish writers /WEL."
police, which does not dif- KGB. It is an instrument of Nomberg,
ferentiate between polio-- deception. The term in- Prilutsky, Y. L. Peretz, that they help convene a
There were other ar-
cal and property crime; is eludes the distribution of Esther Frumkin, Sholom world conference for Yid- chitects and builders of
of
-
Re-
incompatible with the forged documents on indi- Asch and Abraham
dish culture. This propo- Yiddishism. To comment TEL AVIV (JTA) —
isen.
principles of democratic viduals, groups, institu-
sal resulted in the Czer- on all of them would be Koor, the Histadrut-
The climactic point of nowitz Conference.
police procedures and ad- tions and even foreign
beyond the scope of this owned industrial enter-
ministration of justice.
The master architect of review. We will note, prise, has completed, to-
governments, false let- that conference was the
The little news item in ters, manuscripts ' and delcaration proclaiming Yiddishism was the great however, that the two gether with another Is-
the Daily Telegraph photographs as "legiti- Yiddish the national lan- poet Yitzkhok Leybush outstanding architects raeli and an Iranian firm,
*hose life stories are in - construction of a jetty in
seems
to indicate
that mate"
of the of the Jewish Peretz. His interest in
Interpol
has violated
its weapons
KGB. guage
Yiddish resulted from his terestingly and p ro- the Iranian Persian Gulf
people.
The purpose of these
These conferences were affection for the Jewish foundly recorded in the port of BandarLShahpur,
constitution.
Article 3 of forbids
Interpol's
activities
is to undermine
constitution
"for
the reputation
of those important occurrences in common people whose book were Chaim Zhit- which will lower the wait-
y
n- who "oppose" the Soviets. the Yiddish cultural inner lives and ex err- lovsk (1865-1943)
and ing time for Israeli shops
of ences he masterfully por- Matisyohu Mieses (1885- unloading Israeli prod-
the organization to tt
prod-
dertake any intervention Unlike propaganda, these movement.
The history is trayed in his stories.
1945). The latter perished ucts in Iran.
movement
this
Although Peretz had • in Auschwitz.
Imports have increased
eloquently described by
of Yiddish- so much in Iran that the
Dr. Emanuel S. Goldsmith ure at the Czernowitz ism "Architects
at the Beginning of harbors are congested,
in "Architects of Yiddish- been the dominating fig
ism at the Beginning of the Conference, his proposal the Twentieth Century" causing delays of up to
Twentieth Century," sub- to establish an agency to , is an effective account of three months for ships to
"Central an important movement be unloaded.
called
titled "A Study in Jewish be
NEW YORK (JTA) — media and on the IsraelCultural History" (Fair- Agency of the Conference in Jewish cultural his- The new jetty will ena-
leigh Dickinson Univer- of the Yiddish Language" tory. Its author, Dr. ble a ship carrying 80 con-
Jacobson, state radio.
CITarlotte
was rejected. The Agen- Emanuel S. Goldsmith, is tainers to be unloaded
chairman of the Ameri-
Although there has sity Press).
cy's objectives, as proj- assistant professor o f within 48 hours, which
can Section of the World been, no official comment
An
early
architect
of
ected
by Peretz, provided Hebrew and Judaic means the waiting time
Zionist Organization in Jerusalem
sources
Jerusalem,
ere
reported that Pre- the Yiddishist movement for the creation of Yid- studies at the University will have a minimum ef-
Executive, who left there
last week on a visit to mier Yitzhak Rabin be- was Yehoshua Mordecai dishist associations: the of Connecticut.
fect on cost and Israeli
goods will be better able
Et,
Syria and Jordan, lieves the invitations ex- Lifshitz (1829-1879). He
gyp
to compete on the Iranian
said that the trip was a tended to Mrs. Jacobson was the first
Yiddish
rap her and com-
market.
personal-one, prompted and her group are part of lexicographer
Koor and its sub-
by her life-long interest in the current Arab prop= piler of the first
NEW YORK—A $2 mil- nated room in the Mendel sidiaries are operating ex-
health and social prob- aganda offensive aimed Yiddish-German,
German-Yiddish ,
lion Dr. Samuel Belkin Gottesman Central Uni_ tensively in Iran. Meir
lems.
at projecting a peaceful Russian-Yiddish
and Memorial Fund, honoring versity Library, for use as Amit, Koor's director gen-
Mrs. Jacobson, a past image and weakening Yiddish-Russian
Memorial
die
esident of Hadassah, support among American tionaries. At his urging, Yeshiva University's a study and designed "to eral, visited Iran recently
president for 32 years inspire and sustain the to inspect the construction
be traveling with a Jews for Israeli policies.
Alexander Zederbaum
o f of a plant for fertilizers
• quality
group of 15 women.
Informed sources said (1816-1893)
1862 added
who died at
last
was
high
the Yiddish in
supplement
announced
the April,
institu-
scholarship
Dr. Belkin so and anti-pest material as
She emphasized that Rabin was annoyed.
well as a central office for
annual cherished," Etra said.
'she and the group "will
r to the tion's 52nd
According to reports "Kol
Mevase"
prefab-
A t least four Dr. Belkin marketing Israeli prefab-
"
not be meeting with any
Hanuka dinner.
(1860),
the
The
Dr.
Samuel
Belkin
professorships
will
be
es-
created
industrial
and
Arab political leaders and from Jerusalem, an aide to
will not be representing Rabin said Mrs. Jacobson firs -T. - Hebrew newspaper Memorial Fund was out- tablished, he said: one in home buildings and indus-
published in Russia.
ap-
ews
ih studies,
di
one n
i
any organizations or had asked Rabin's
"Kol lined by Max J. Etra, ,Jewish
Subsequently
proval before deciding to
Another
subsidiary of
medicine, and two or more trial
chemicals.
groups on this trip."
make the trip and was told Mevaser," the first Yid- chairman of the univer-
in other vital fields of Koor is in Iran to help
She added, "They are in- that Israel took no position dish periodical, appeared sity's board of trustees.
plan, advise and manage
terested in seeing what so- on the activities of over- independently. But in He said it consisted of study.
Dr. Norman Lamm, agricultural projects.
cial and health services
1871 the Russian gov- three projects: The Dr.
Etra and Max Stern, vice Among the projects this
are available to the people seas Jews.
ernmen
d it its pub
p- Samuel l Belkin
B lki Scholars chairman
t
t stopped
Rabin has said in the
of the board, company has completed
• in these Arab countries as
Sanctum; The Dr. Belkin
a presentation of an
compared to what Israel past that he did not object lication.
During its brief exis- Memorial Professors; and made
irrigation
networks,
year
are the
setting
makes available to its to foreign Jews meeting
publication of the Dr. Be - artist's rendering of the this
sugar
Dr. Belkin Scholars up
of beet p lantations ,
Arab and Jewish citizens." with Arab leaders as long tense "tiol Mevaser" con-
lkin
Philonic
Studies.
the
Sanctum to Mrs. Abby cattle farms and an insti-
to
Mrs. Jacobson's trip as they did not represent tributed
Dr. ‘ ,Bel,kinJs } tute tor marketing milk
The Scholars Sanctum Belkin
. has been sharply criti - themselves to. be. speak- . standardization of Yiddish
products:.".—
orthography and the de- will be a specially desig- ividoieV. •
cized in Israeli news ing on Israel's behalf.

By S.A. BARRAM

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New 'Architects of Yiddishism 9
Recalls Proponents of "Yiddish

Helps
Build Jetty

Jacobson's Trip to Arab
States Prompts Criticism

Dr. Belkin Memorial Fund
Established at Yeshiva U.