6 Friday, Aapst 18, 1918

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

The 75th Anniversary of the Infamous Kishinev Pogrom

DRAPERY
CLEANING

By IRVING I. KATZ
Executive Secretary,

handicrafts and industry.
In 1898, 29 of the 38 fac-
tories in Kishinev were
This year marks the 75th owned by Jews. Large corn-
anniversary of the frightful mercial houses and printing
Kishinev pogrom, recorded presses were also owned by
in Jewish history as a re- Jews who employed
minder of the tragic experi- thousands of Jewish work-
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ence when Jews were pawns ers.
in the hands of the
The Jewish community
All That The Name Implies
blackguards in Russia, a
had 16 Jewish schools, a
We Remove & Rehang
situation which continues
Jewish hospital and a
to exist today in the Soviet host of Jewish organiza-
tions. But the name of
Union.
The city of Kishinev,
Kishinev became known
today the capital of Soviet to the world at large as a
Moldavia, was formerly
result of the 1903 pogrom
within Bessarabia. There
against the Jews which
were about 60,000 Jews in
began during the Easter
Kishinev in 1903, about 50 holiday.
Trade Member.
percent
of
the
total
popula-
It was initiated and or-
American Society of
tion. Most of the Jews were ganized by the local and
Interior Designers
engaged in commerce, central authorities. Agents
(A.S.I.D.)
of the Ministry of the In-
terior and high Russian of-
' ficials of the Bessarabian
Administration were in-
volved in its preparation,
evidently with the backing
of the Minister of the In-
terior, U. Plehve. The prog-
ram was preceded by a
poisonous anti-Jewish cam-
paign, led by P. Krushevan,
director of the Bessarabian
newspaper "Bessarabets,"
who incited the population
through a constant stream
t.
of vicious articles.
th
your
name..
wi
One of the authors of the •
most virulent articles was
impnnted
$15
the
local police chief,
reg.
Levendall.
When the body of a Chris-
tian child was found, and a

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young Christian woman
committed suicide in the
Jewish hospital, the popula-
tion became violent. A blood
libel, circulated by the
newspaper "Bessarabets,"
spread like wildfire (it was
later proved that the child
was murdered by his rela-
tives and that the suicide of
the young woman was in no
with the
way
Jews).
According to official
statistics, 49 Jews lost
their lives and more than
500 were injured, some of
them seriously. Some 700
houses were looted and
destroyed and 600
businesses and shops
were looted. The mater-
ial loss amounted to
2,500,000 gold rubles,vand
about 2,000 families were
left homeless.
Both Russians and
Romanians joined in the
riots. Russians were sent in
from other towns and the
students of the theological
seminaaries and the secon-
dary schools and colleges
played a leading role in the •
infamous pogrom. The gar-
rison of 5,000 soldiers
stationed in the city, which
could easily have held back
the mob, took no action.
Public outcry throughout
the world was aroused by
the ruthless pogrom and
protest meetings were held
in England and France.
In the U.S., protest meet-
ings were held in 50 cities in
27 states. A special commit-
tee of the Common Council
of Detroit, which included
Alderman David E. Heine-
man, prominent attorney
who was one of the leading
, -Detroit Jews in the early
part of the century (he de-

This dedication page of Maxim Gorki's "Sbornik"
was in memory of the victims of the Kishinev pogrom.

signed the flag of Detroit),
met with Mayor William C.
Maybury and the Citizens'
Committee, and at a special
session of the Common
Council a resolution of pro-
test was adopted to be for-
warded to Michigan's
Senator Alger and Con-
gressman Lucking.
The Evening News of
Detroit carried a strong
editorial in protest
against the Russian out-
rages, entitled "A weak

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of protest, signed by
prominent Americans,
was transmitted to Pres-
ident Theodore
Roosevelt to be delivered
to the Czar, who refused
to accept it.

Under the pressure of
public opinion, some of the

Russian perpetrators of the
pogrom were brought to jus-
tice but they were given
very lenient sentences.
Some of the most promi-
personalities in
nent

Europe, America and world
Jewry joined in the protests.
Count Leo Tolstoi expressed
his sympathy for the vic-
tims, condemning the
Czarist authorities as re-
sponsible for the pogrom.
The Russian writer Vla-
dimir Korolenko described
the pogrom in his story
"House No. 13."
Hebrew poet Hayim
Nachman Bialik
memorialized this tragic
event in his famous poem
"Be'ir ha-haregah (In the
City of Slaughter).

Special Yeshivot
Open in Israel

NEW YORK — The wo-
men's equivalent of
ydShivot header, will open
at Givat Shmuel in October.
A natural outgrowth of the
seven existing Ulpanot
(yeshiva high schools for
girls) throughout Israel, the
Orot College of Jewish
Studies will offer its stu-
dents the opportunity to
continue their Torah educa-
tions while building Israel
through volunteer national
service.

The glory of Israel will
Shown is a page from a 1903 memorial album listing not lie nor repent.
— (First Samuel 15:29)
those killed in the Kishinev pogrom.

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