Friday, September 5, 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Boris Smolar's `Between You . . . and Me' Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA, (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) AN EXCELLENT PROJECT: With its usual flair for excellence, the Council of Jewish Federations has produced an exceptional and comprehensive educational project on Russian Jewry for communities and institutions in the United States and Canada. The project tells the story of Jews in Russia from ancient times to the present. The project is intended for American Jews as well asfor the Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union. Soviet Jews know nothing of their .Jewish past, not even of their own history in the Soviet Union. The CJF project's purpose is to help the newcomers from the Soviet Union to this country to locate the Jewish elements in their own lives — which was eradicated by the Communist government for more than two decades — and to establish the common links of a past which American Jews also share. In this process American-born Jews may discover new aspects of their own identity as descendants of Russian Jews who started a mass emigration to the United States some 100 years ago, after the first pogrom in Russia in 1881. PORTRAIT OF RUSSIAN JEWRY: The CJF proj- ect consists of two 16mm films, a discussion guide to these films, and two excellent monographs which serve as back- ground material, one of which presents an historical record of the Jews in Russia and the other deals with contempor- ary Jewish identity in the USSR. The first Jews who settled in the territory now called Russia came there about 2,700 years ago. They emigrated from Palestine after the destruction of the Northern King- dom of Israel and settled in Greek colonies in the Crimea. There were also the Khazars who controlled the Volga basin and much of southern Russia whose king converted the population from paganism to Judaism in 740 CE. The Khazars lived as Jews for about 300 years until they were conquered by the emerging Russian state. RECORD OF PERSECUTIONS: From the material in the CJF project one learns that Jews, who were a very small part of the population in the early years of the emergence of the Russian state, were tolerated until the mid-15th Century, although negative attitudes prevailed because they were accused of deicide. The official anti- Jewish policy, which to a certain extent exists today, was initiated by Czar Ivan the Terrible in 1555 by stating that Jews divert Russians from Christianity and were poisoning Christians. A series of anti-Jewish laws followed. When Catherine the Great came to power in 1762, the number of Jews residing in the Russian Empire was still minimal and the Jewish-issue was therefore of no great concern. However, during her reign the boundaries of Rus- sia expanded to include significant parts of Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Crimea and the Caucasus which included large concentrations of Jews. The Pale of Settle- ment was established restricting the Jews to reside in cer- tain zones, isolating them to a life of poverty in their "shtet- lakh" and depriving them of certain rights while imposing upon them the payment of double tax. Prof. Feinstein reviews in his monograph the anti- Jewish laws that followed later under Czar Nikolai I, when Jewish youths of 12 were kidnapped by the authorities in the shtetlakh and forced to serve 31 years in the army during which tiley were forced to forget their Jewishness; when it was forbidden for Jews to employ Christians for any work; when Jews were prohibited from marrying under the age of 18 (girls under the age of 16); when synagogues could not be located in the vicinity of a church; when a special censorship was introduced on Jewish books, the printing of which was restricted to three cities — Kiev, Vilna and Zhitomir; and when other drastic anti-Jewish measures were promulgated. The situation of the Jews improved under the reign of Alexander II, known in history as Czar Liberator. He can- celled a number of the anti-Jewish laws and even permitted Jews to enter higher schools of learning. Reactionary forces, however, assassinated him in 1881 and brought about the first pogroms on Jews, together with new drastic anti-Jewish laws which drove many Jews to emigration. During 1881, after the massive pogrom which began in the town of Kirovo, some 6,000 Jews emigrated to America. Five years later the number of Jewish emigrants reached about 20,000. The number rose each year. After the pogrom in Kishinev in 1903, the pogroms in other towns which continued until 1907, Jewish emigration from Russia be- came a mass emigration ; bringing more than 1,000,000 Jews to the United States by 1910. EDUCATION FOR U.S. AND SOVIET JEWS: Prof. Feinstein's monographs bring out, naturally, many facts about the brutal persecutions of Jews under the Czarist regime which fell in 1917. They are also full of facts which throw light on the life of the Jews under the Soviet regime. ■ 1 1. 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