Communists Embrace Czarist Anti-Semitism as a Legacy THE JEWISH NEWS Timerman Defines Zionist Libertarianism A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 of Jewish Events Diaspora Responsibilities Timidity on Public Issues Soviet Links With Arabs Editorials, Page 4 VOL. LXXVI, No. 21 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 . 424-8833 $15.00 Per Year: This Issue 35c Jan. 25, 1980 Begin Supports Olympic Ban as Soviet Emigration Drops Israeli Scholars Examine Egyptian Geniza Artifacts TEL AVIV — Following the request by President Yitzhak Navon of Israel to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to•allow an Israeli delegation to attempt to locate and examine the ancient Jewish writings and books still in Egypt, an Israeli delegation organized by Israel's National Library visited Egypt on a preliminary investigation in December. One of the members of the Presidential delegation was Tel Aviv University Prof. Moshe Gil, expert on Geniza (depository of Hebrew documents before burial). "There is no doubt that large numbers of Jewish writings are still located in Egypt, particularly in the cemeteries," Prof. Gil said. "Karaite writings are still in the Karaite synagogue. And in the synagogues, among the books that we were able to examine, were many very old texts. Revealing and compiling the Jewish writings still left in Egypt is a matter for the state level to address and to reach an agreement with the Egyptian I _ 1.),F.—L ' ' Begin paid tribute Wednesday to exiled Soviet civil rights fighter, Andrei Sakharov. Begin opened a Knesset session with a special statement prasing Sakharov as one of the "bravest people of our time." He noted that Sakharov had given up a scientific career which had given him world fame to fight for the "basic and sacred human rights." Begin praised Sakharov's fight for the Prisoners of Zion. "From the podium of the Knesset we send him our blessing, and we demand to release him . . . We join free people throughout the world in this demand." The Knesset voted to hold a (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 6) r • TEL AVIV (JTA) — Premier Menahem Begin said Tuesday night that he would ask his Cabinet to recommend that Israel boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow and press for their transfer to a site outside the Soviet Union. He made his statement to reporters following a 40-minute meeting in Jerusalem with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. Begin said he understood President Carter's position on the Olympic Games and in fact supported it. But he pointed out that the decisions on this issue are made by the Olympic committees and goyernments can only make recommendations. He said he would propose that his governnt6nt recommend a boycott to the Israeli Olympic Committee and that he would support not sending the American team to Moscow unless the Soviets pulled their forces out of Afghanistan. The Israeli Olympic Committee has taken the position that it would be unwise to make any decision before the U.S. Olympic Committee acted. I 0',.‹J • , ,sJ Black Asks Jews to Help End Rift 6113,. 4.0.113, fa.) , WASHINGTON — National Urban League President Vernon E. Jordan Jr. appealed to Jews on Tuesday to help end the debate that has split U.S. blacks and Jews in recent months. Jordan made his appeal in his "State of Black America 1980" speech in Washington. "The plain fact is that blacks and Jews have too much in common with one another to remain at odds," Jordan said. He specifically urged Jews to accept the U.S. Supreme Court decision, which he called "so precisely in favor of affirmative action," in Weber vs. United Steelworkers of America. The ruling, he said, should provide the base "for a stand on affirmative action that could be supported by both Jews and blacks." • Jordan's 297-page document, containing reports by authorities on the status of black America, dealt with economics, education, politics, housing, crime, social services, energy and the family as well as with black-Jewish relations. I 7 - 1 . .:;; ajr), .3 .u' r .a.. 4,131 J., .-.JUr 0 I L. .41‘,-, I daft 1.4 jag' ';•!..0.42.11 I ''-' 1 S..711 j (Continued on Page 6) Swedes Plan Wallenberg Hearings st41 :";--1 Jr -1.4a ...Lai Li I ,01 IrtriL jt e , • NEW YORK (JTA) — International hearings will be held in Stockholm May 2-3 to examine new information about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the long-missing Swedish diplomat. Guy von Dardel, Wallenberg's half-brother, reported last Friday at a press conference at the Swedish Cultural Center in New York that he had been in Israel and Moscow investigating new leads and interviewing Soviet authorities about Wallenberg who, as a Swedish diplomat, helped to save the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War II. Wallenberg was arrested by the Red Army in 1945 and has not been heard from since. In 1947, when inquiries were made by the Swedish government, the Soviet Union said he was not in Russia and said he had probably died during the fighting in Budapest. ; I -4.4A JJ , W j Aina .ri.; 0 54- z .11 a7X1, ja.g• .1; :35.4 !IL' a, j!...4 ' Z-46 1 L. jr.ill. r• • US' • Ua3e 4-5".11 a:4 r qvl ) 3r.te iAry TA - toy a_alt ®.1.1151. Shown is the semi-official Egyptian magazine "October's" de- scription of the visit of an Israeli delegation seeking Jewish writ- ings in Egypt. The issue of black-Jewish relations has grown in importance since the resignation of Andrew Young as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations last August. "It seems proper to acknowledge," he said, "that the traditional alliance between blacks and Jews that had already been strained over the issue of affirmative action was further weakened in the wake of the incident." Responding to Jordan's appeal, two Jewish leaders praised his efforts in attempting to reduce black-Jewish frictions but said they did not agree that the Weber case was decisive. Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, said "If there is to be a black-Jewish consensus on what affirmative action does and does not mean, it can come only in the give and take of frank and free discussion that strengthens mutual understanding and builds Since then, information indicating Wallenberg is alive has emerged and the Stockholm hearings will seek to update all such information, von Dardel said. Sponsored by the Swedish Commit- tee to Free Raoul Wallenberg, the Stockholm hearings will be a joint undertaking with the International Sakharov Hearings. Partici- pants at the Stockholm hearings will include Gideon Hausner, pro- secutor of Adolph Eichmann; British MP Greville Jarmer; and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Others at the press conference here were Bengt Friedman, Swedish Consul General; author Elie Wiesel; actress Vivica Lindfors, Bess Myer- son, and members of the Wallenberg committee — Leona Biorck-Kaplan, chairman, and Elizabeth Moynihan. In 1957, after additional inquiries, the Soviet government offered a different answer. The then deputy foreign minister, Andrei Gromyko, said Wallenberg had been imprisoned in Moscow and had died in July 1947. The "evidence" in support of that statement was a handwritten report (Continued on Page 6) RAOUL WALLENBERG