The Denver Jewish news., 1919-08-06
RUSSIAN JEWS FIGHTING REDS

Great Majority In Nation Opps ing
Bolsheyism. Asserts Infofmatisn
Bureau.
The mass of Russian Jewry ia anti
Bolshevik, and among the leading sup
pOrters of Admiral Kolchak and other
Russian leaders who are fighting the
Lenine-TrOtzky Government are some
of the most prominent Jews in Russia,
according to statement made public
hy the Russian Information Bureau.
the official news agency of the Omsl;
Government in his country. The state
inent is in the form of report Of the
annual general meeting of tire Jewish
Community. of Archangel, in which the
whole Jewish situation in Russia, ~
regards the Bolshevist issue, is dis
cussed.
.The annual general meeting of the
-dewish Community of Archangel took
place." says the statement, May H..
1919, at the Jewish Community House
in Archangel The Council of the
Community, in a report, said it had
forwarded in December, 1918, to the
Provisional Government of the North
trn Territory memorandum, the
underlying idea of which may be sum
med up as follows:
"The council affirms that % II
there are Jews who are leaders of the
Bolsheviki there are similarly Jews in
the forefront ranks OF the fight against
BOlshevism, such as Vinaver, Gotz,
Minor, Bliumkin (whO assassinated
count Mirbach, the living incarnation
of the Brest-LitOvsk treaty., Kan
nengisser, who shot Uritzky, and Dora
Kaplan, who shot at I.enine, facing
sure death and sealing with their own
Hood their opposition to Rolshevism ;
,2) no matter how harmful and ruin
Gus the activities Of the BOlshevist
Jews may be, there Is no doubt that
| these persons are not in the slightest
degree representative of the Jewish
people. There is not one among them
who has taken the slightest part in
Jewish public LIFE.
The Jewish people learned Of the
existence Of these apostates when the
Russian people became aware Of the
existence Of the I.enines, I.unacharskyg.
Tchitcherins, kyrlcnkos, Dybenkos. and
others Of their ilk. These persons have
Eeen conducting their propaganda On
the basis of denial of the principle Of
nationality and religion.
..The tragedy Of the Jewish nation
is forcing those Of its me.Abers whose
ties with the main body Of their peo-
rle are feeble, to devote their activ-
tiles to other. stronger nations. Build
ers and destroyers alike have left the
Jewish people for other camps-the
Ievitans. Antokol<kys, and R:ibin-
stems. on the one hand. and the
Trotxkys. Zinovieys, and Nakhan-
kesses. on the other. wha- bitter
irony it is then to hold the Jewish
people responsible for persons who,
| tho born in their fold, have ignored
them tliruout their lives and have
been denied their right to independent
existence!
1.-THE representatives of the Jewish
community Of Archangel take the lib
erty to affirm that neither the Jewish
| people as whole nor any Of Its So
cially organized groups are respcnsible
for the savagery, violence. nets OF
blaspheiny and lnockery OF human
rights, which characterize the Bdlslle-
visit regime.
LET the Jewish Bolsheviki stand
accused and condemned Of their guilt
like their compatriOts of other nation
alities. but there must he no room for
generalization and wholesale accusa-
tion when the people as a whole are
guiltless. Prominent Jewish national
workers are subjected to persecution
and maltreatment by the Bolsheviki.
The rabbi Of the Moscow community.
DIR. Maze, was jailed by them. and sll
the buildings belonging to the PetrO.
grad Jewish community were nation
allied" and turned over to the Com
missuriat of Justice"
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