Friday, Janua 12, 1979
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Polish Jewish History Chair, Reparations Sought
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NEW YORK (JTA) —
Two Jewish personalities
are calling for the estab-
lishment of a chair for re-
search and teaching of the
history of Polish Jewry at
Tel Aviv University and
noted the incongruity in the
awarding of Nobel Prizes
last month to two former
Polish Jews — Premier
Menahem Begin of Israel
and Yiddish writer Isaac
Bashevis Singer.
This was pointed out by
Yehuda Blum, Israeli Am-
bassador to the United Na-
tions, and Rabbi Alexander
Schindler, president of the
Federation of Polish Jews
in the United States and
chairman of the Union of
American Hebrew Congre-
gations.
Addressing a conference
of the federation, Schindler gotten.
said that Begin and Singer
The conference adopted a
were being honored "at a program,of action to be pur-
time when Polish Jewry, sued in relation to the gov-
because of the savagery of ernment of Poland: restitu-
anti-Semitic monsters, no tion for all Jewish public
longer exists." He said it properties and institutions
was incongruous that they which were left behind; the
were being honored by a transference to the federa-
world in which not a single tion of all documents and
academic facility exists for a archives relating to the cul-
definitive study of the his- tural accomplishments of
tory • and accomplishments Polish Jewry.
of Polish Jewry.
Also, paymeints of pen-
Blum and Schindler sions and social security to
stressed the need for cur- Jews who left Poland and
rent and future genera- who are entitled to those
tions of Jews to know
more about the history of
the Jewish people so that
the tragedies which have
befallen them, particu-
larly those in the
"enlightened" 20th Cen-
tury, would never be for-
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Peace and Equality (Com-
munists), created an uproar
two weeks ago when he
chained himself to the mic-
rophone on the speaker's
podium during a debate on
Soviet Jewry.
Biton was only the second
MK in the 30-year history of
the Knesset to be penalized
for the disruption. The first
was Menahem Begin who,
in 1952, refused to leave the
speaker's stand during a
debate on German repara-
tions which, as leader of
Herut, he vigorously op-
posed. During that episode,
Begin's supporters outside
the Knesset hurled stones
at the building.
Opposition members of
the House Committee
argued that Biton's viola-
tion could not be compared
to Begin's behavior 27 years
ago. Moreover, they said,
Herut militant Geula
Cohen often created much
more turmoil in the Knesset
but never got more than a
reprimand.
The majority prevailed;
however, noting that
Biton had to be penalized
not simply for chaining
himself to the podium but
for smuggling the chains
into the chamber, for
throwing eggs and to-
matoes at the speaker's
stand several weeks ago
and, at another time,
bringing a tape,recorder
to the Knesset without
permission.
Biton, a former leader of
the Black Panthers, said the
chaining incident was to
protest the condition of
prison inmates in Israel. He
maintained that was more
important than the problem
of Jewish prisoners in -the
Soviet Union. He said that if
his appeal against the pen-
alty was unsuccessful he
would use his time visiting
slum neighborhoods.
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Biton Slapped by Knesset
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Knesset House Com-
mittee ordered MK Charlie
Biton suspended for five
consecutive sessions, the
maximum penalty allowed
under Knesset rules, for
creating a disorder in the
chamber. Biton, a member
of the Democratic List for
funds under international
law; transference to Jewish
institutions outside Poland
all Jewish artifacts and
ritual materials taken from
museums and synagogues;
and proper maintenance of
the Jewish cemeteries still
in existence in Poland.
Many of the 300 dele-
gates at the conference
spoke bitterly about the
failure of the Polish gov-
ernment to live up to past
promises on these mat-
ters.
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