San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-14
Threats of More Pogroms
Fail to Disturb Faith of
Ancients Who Try to
Obey Laws and Avoid
Trouble.
Rr Z A. M,KENZIE.

Special Correspondent of The San Antonio
Light and the Chicago Daily News.
Kiev, Jan. 13.-"Wait till we get our
chance" say the old Russians, grimly.
1--WE will kill the Jews. There will be
such a pogrom right through Russia
that you will forget there ever was
one before"
And they mean it. The Jew was
never loved in Russia aid he is hated
today by the nOnbolshevists with
virulcnce difficult to describe. He is
held responsible for the revolution.
The blame for most of the sufferings
of the last few years is put on his
shoulders. The fact that leaders like
Trotzky. Zinoviev, Kaminev and Lit
vinov are Jews is emphasized time and
again.
In the Ukraine one sees the Jewish
question in n fresh light There have
been pogrOms during the last few years
in south Russia horrible beyond words.
Here today one finds religious Jews
suffering from double punishment.
The white Russians slew many of
them; now the bolshevists theaten them
with imprisonment and worse if they
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teaching of Hebrew is a crime; the
religious schools, the Chedar-Orim and
the YeshibOt have been closed by the
government. ZiOnism, the dream OF
many quiet sons of Israel, is here
treated as treason, and being under
suspicion of being a Zionist is enough
TO insure for n man the prompt and
firm attention of the political police.
Where Jews Are Most Numerous.
Western Ukraine contains part of
the old pale, where the Jews were fore
ed to live in czarist days, the greater
nart Of Russia being then closed TO
them. Here are great cities with 80, Az
and 80 per cent of the population
Jews; village communities that are
entirely Jewish; large agricultural col
onies-NikOlaivSk khersOnskOvska and
MISUNDERSTANDING VI from inhos-
pitable and unfertile desert soil by
Jewish industry. The jew even here
does not make a good farmer, but he
has shown that he can at least earn
his living from the land.
When the revolution of 1917 was fol-
lowed by the wars between the whites
and the reds in the Ukraine, the white
armies promptly proceeded to punish
the Jew.
"The pogroms of $1,000 were more
terrible than anything we knew in
1906" said Mr.. Ebstein of the Hrup-
skcOm. "Petlura, the rebel white
leader, slew Jewish communities
wholesale, wiping out entire villages.
Deniken's officers specialized not so
much in killing as in violating jewish
women. In Drobnobsky seventy-five
Jews were buried alive. have talked
with the men who saw the thing done.
Macknaw. the anarchist schoOlmaster,
who fought now with the whites and now
with the reds, and for months at time
ruled a large part of south Russia, was
never backward in killing Jews. In
Elizabethgrad alone, while he held pow
er there, 5000 people were killed in the
last three days of May in 1919. In
the region around Kiey half million
Jews suffered during the uprisings. OF
these 100000 were killed and 10000
children were left orphans, more than
half of these losing both parents.
In the famous Jewish agricultural
colonies, where at the beginning of the
revolution there were 100000 settlers,
there are today only 10000, the rest
having been killed or having fled.
The Jews were naturally inclined 10
sympathize strongly with the bolSheviSt
government. The revolution was their
charter Of freedom. 1t enabled them to
travel where they would In Russia, like
other men. II opened the universities
and the learned professions TO them.