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revival of Jewish cultural
life in countries formerly
under Communist domina-
tion.
These communities, he
said, may be mere remnants
of a destroyed Jewish
civilization, "but that is our
past. Despite the huge prob-
lems facing Jews worldwide,
we should put resources into
these communities." In par-
ticular, he called for funds to
be applied to maintaining
historical sites and
cemeteries, as well as to
preserving archives and
historical records.
Dr. Jonathan Eyal, an offi-
cial of the Royal United Ser-
vices Institute, argued that
most of the communities
were not viable and he found
it "unseemly to keep these
skeletons alive. It was a
mistake," he said, "to send a
rabbi to the tiny community
of East Berlin."
However, Dr. Lukasz
Hirszowicz, an official at the
Institute of Jewish Affairs
and editor of the London-
based journal Soviet Jewish
Affairs, noted that it was not
for Western Jews to deter-
mine whether these com-
munities should live or die:
"It's up to them," he said.
"We have to respect their
wishes and do what we can
to help."
George Schopflin, a polit-
ical scientist at the
prestigious London School of
Economics, noted that the
April elections in Hungary,
which has a Jewish corn-
naunity of some 80,000 souls,
was marked by "anti-
Semitic polemic."
"It was hoped that this
would end when the new po-
litical parties took power,
and this did indeed happen.
But," he warned, "the
potential for renewed anti-
Semitism is there. It is one of
the instruments that can be
taken out of the storehouse
and used in the future."
Eyal suggested that the
rush to restore ties between
Israel and Eastern Europe
was — in part, at least —
designed to satisfy the Jew-
ish lobby in Washington and
was perceived as a means of
winning favor with the U.S.
administration: "This," he
said, "fits with the way the
Soviet Union and other
Eastern European countries
mistakenly see the impor-
tance of their Jewish com-
munities for their states'
foreign relations."
The redefinition of nation-

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al identity in these countries
and the re-assessment of the
place of ethnic minorities, he
added, presented Jewish
communities with an op-
tion:"to merge, as in-
dividuals, into the political
culture of their host nation,
or to seek separate represen-
tation as a national minori-
ty."
Given the pervasive
manifestations of anti-
Semitism that have surfaced
since the return to self-
expression, the remnant
Jewish communities of Cen-
tral and Eastern Europe are
likely to remain dangerously
exposed and vulnerable,
whatever choice they
make.

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45

years

ago JiMMieS started selling it

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'What, Jews
Meeting
In Moscow?'

the suggested retail. Dining

ust as anti-
Semitism has
become a feature of
the power struggle in
Poland, so too is a
virulent new strain of an-
ti-Semitism emerging
amid the political tur-
bulence in the Soviet
Union, where a strident
attack on Jews has ap-
peared in the latest issue
of the Russian nationalist
paper Literaturnaya
Rossiya, the official jour-
nal of the Russian
Writers' Union.
"Zionism is gathering
force and growing
stronger in the Soviet
Union at an alarming
pace, without even seeing
the need to do so in
secret," wrote Kalinin
University professor
Vladimir Yudin.
Referring to the Con-
gress of Jewish Organiza-
tions and Communities in
the Soviet Union, which
met in Moscow last
December, Yudin was
scandalized that official
meetings of Zionist organ-
izations were being held
"not in Birobidjan [the
autonomous "Jewish" re-
gion in the Soviet Union]
or worse, in the Crimea,
but in the capital of our
Motherland — Moscow."
Yudin complained
about discrimination in
favor of Jews in the Soviet
on — at the expense of
Russians, Latvians, Esto-
nians, Georgians, Uzbeks
and Tadzhiks. — H.D.

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