THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS NYU Professor Charges Britannica Editors Serving as Soviet Propagandists NEW YORK — Sidney Hook, New York University professor emeritus of phi- losophy, recently charged the editors of the 15th edi- tion of the Encyclopedia Britannica with deliberate fraud in behalf of a foreign government, the Soviet Union. Prof. Hook made the ac- cusation in his article, "The Soviet Britannica, An Intel- lectual Obscenity," in the ebruary 1980 issue of Midstream" magazine con- cerning the Britannica's ar- ticles on Soviet Russian af- fairs which he said made the encyclopedia "a vehicle of the most blatant Com- munist propaganda." "Those who have pur- chased the Encyclopedia Britannica in expectation of finding an objective account of the themes discussed, or at the very least a balanced presentation of controver- sial aspects of these themes have every justification for charging that they have been victimized if not by in- tellectual fraud, since the propaganda is not con- cealed, then by misrep- resentation." Prof. Hook accused the encyclopedia's editors of giving the imprimatur of Britannica's reputation for impeccable expert scholarship to official Soviet propaganda. In substantiation of Prof. Hook's charges the "Midstream" February issue includes two articles by recognized students of the Soviet Union. Lev Nav- rozov, a Russian emigrant and the founder of the Cen- ter for the Survival of West- ern Democracies, and Eric Waldman, professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Canada. In his analysis of the encyclopedia's Soviet arti- cles, "The Style of Soviet Propaganda," Navrozov's verdict is that "the Britan- nica Soviet propaganda is often so hard, orthodox and primitive that it seems to have been taken from the Stalinist stock of cliches of the 40s rather than that of the 70s." Prof. Waldman's article, "The Soviet 'Britannica's' View of East Germany," examines the profile of the German Democratic Repub- lic in Volume 8 of the encyclopedia and concludes: "This profile is marked by the falsification of facts and by significant omissions." Friday, March 7, 1980 21 5 lbs. of MATZO If I can't Beat Your Best Deal Margolis Household Furniture 6 Mile, 1 Blk. W. of Schaefer ' ARNOLD MARGOLIS INTERIOR DECORATOR SERVICE OUR 33rd YEAR SHARPENING the PENCIL On All Name Brands Furndure and Bedding •SCHOOLFIELD •SELIG •SIMMONS •SEALY •SERTA •SPRING AIR •LA-Z- BOY •STIFFEL LAMPS • KROEHLER •AMERICAN •BURLINGTON •BASSETT •BARCALOUNGER •LANE •UN1QUE 13703 W. McNichols 342-5351 Hrs. Mon thru Sat. 9:30 til 5:30 1980 R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. Jews Decline in Soviet Union NEW YORK (ZINS) — Results of the Soviet census in January 1979, showed that Jews who totaled nearly 2.3 million in 1959 and 2.1 million in 1970, de- clined to 1.8 million in 1979. Much of the decline was probably as a result of the emigration that began in the early 1970s. About 700,000 Jews lived in Russian Republic in 1979 and 634,000 in the Ukraine, according to the census fig- ures. Ethnic Russians made up 52.4 percent of the total of 262.4 million people counted in the census, Rus- sians made up 54.6 percent of the population in 1955, and 53.4 percent in 1970. The population grew fastest in Moslem republics — Uz- bekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Kir- ghizia. While the population grew in the three Slavic groups (Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia) by six percent during the 1970s, it rose by 30 percent in Uzbekistan, 31 percent in Tadzhikistan, 28 percent in Turkmenistan and somewhat less in the other Moslem republics. There are more than 100 nationalities in the Soviet Union. A .. • Iran Jews Express loyalty' TEHERAN (ZINS) — A group of Jews calling them- selves the Union of Jewish Intellectuals of Iran have issued a periodical that is anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-American. The organization has been trying to refute charges that the Iran Jewish community is dis- Bill Opposing Social Club Bias Seeks Koch Aid NEW YORK — The American Jewish Commit- tee has urged New York Mayor Ed Koch to support legislation that would out- law discrimination in social clubs that are used for busi- ess purposes. It also coin- !pu aended those members of - the New York City Council who have supported the measure. The proposed bill, an amendment to New York City's Human Rights Law, would make it illegal for so- cial clubs to exclude people from membership on the basis of religion, race or gender, if such clubs derived at least 20 percent of their income from charges paid to them "for the furtherance of members' trade or busi- ness." loyal to the new Islamic re- public. A delegation from the group recently visited the "Palestinian Embassy" in Teheran, which for- merly housed the Israeli consulate, to express sympathy and solidarity with "the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people." A representative of the organization is the only Jew who is a candidate in the new parliamentary elec- tions. Nobel Pique CAIRO (ZINS) — Jehan Sadat, wife of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, told an Israeli reporter that her husband did not go to Oslo to accept the 1978 Nobel Prize because he felt the prize should have been awarded to him alone. Sadat shared the prize with Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin. 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