The Denver Jewish news., 1925-02-05

WI ~ H'I' N'l' "llE hliNfh rum
pillar Ia post, were hcing hounded
throughout the length and brcdth Of The
country, on the greater part of which
they were never permitted even 10 lay
their eyes IN times of peace.
The Jewish world srill Shnddcrs as
IL recalls the black night Of horror
that dcv0urcd hundreds of thousands
of Jews In the Ukraine when the
great wave Of mnssacres swept over
that entire southern area of Russia,
wiping out hundreds Of communities in
their entirety, taking countless lives in
the most savage manner that can ho
pictured by the diseased mines OF a
fonming rnck Of beasts and leaving in
IT, wake other nmnhcrlcss lives cruelty
ruined forever, ycung and old who
could never free themselves from the
haunting memories of what their eyes
had seen. The full story Of that time
perhaps can never hc told 50 ~ Ia
give the outside world an idca Of the
real dimensions Of that tragedy.
But. though the end Of Czarst
tyranny Ind come in Russia, the
change lid not mean dcliverance for
the Jews. They themselves would prob
ably have found 1t impossible to be-
licve that even worse fate was in
destiny for them at the very hands of
those who We're to pose as The redeem
ers of Russia. What new hopes and ex-
pectntions the revolution aroused in the
breasts of the Jews In Russia and 9th.
then. their salvation had come They
would emerge from darkness into the
SUNSHINE Of II new day. But alas, it
was not to he so. New shackles were
In the forging for them. Thcye wcrc
to have hut moment Of respite. n
brief interruption in their martyrlom,
a fitting flash of hope, and then a new
night. even more gloomy than before,
Passing in review Jewish life in Boil
shevik Russia. one can not possibly re-
frain from making the comparison with
Spain of the. InIuisition days. This
is the only rival in the field 10 tie
Soviet Russia for first place as hell
for Jews. Yet If the Russian Jews
could TO-DAY find haven of refuge as
did the Snanish Jews when they had
to seek II new home. thcih situation
would not he so hopeless. At present
they are living in the death house,
doomed to destruction 10y n lingering
death unless n preventive can he dis
covered and effectively applied before
it is too late to snatch them from the
cleawing grasp of their fate.
BolShcvist Russia has smittcn Jewry
in the heart of all that is dearest 10
II, of all that is most cherished and
sacred to il. With the venom of n
serpent it has sent its poisoned darts
into the very soul of the Jewish people
within its confines. destroying what
is more valuable TO them than life 1t.
self. Not content with the economic
catastrophe that the revolutionary up.
heaval brought with it, the BOlshevlkS
are wilfully aiming to tear Judaism
out hv the root. No pity for n people
that had felt the heavy hand of Gar
ism more than the rest of the pOpnla-
ton hut death to them was dccrecd
by the new regime.
Ii seems that Soviet Russia has
learned the lesson taught by our his
tory that neither physical torment mol
legal and social persecution can dc
away with Judaism. They realize that
to accomplish what all the preceding
generations of IIamans have failed at
they must crush Jewish life in the
cultural and spiritual sense, make hu
man beasts out of the young Jews, SOW
dissension among the fathers and chill
dren so that the latter will learn tC
lcspise what was holy to their elders
and thus cnt off with their own hands
the existence which has weathcred al
the storms of history.
This campaign is being waged by the
Soviet Government through the agency
of that pack of Jewish traitors, shame
less rcncgadcs not only to Judaism hui
to the very essence of humanity itsel
the Jewish Section of the Communists
Party and State. II is they that hav,
today unlimited control of the inter
national life of the Jews of Russia Nnt
words will not describe the dolngs o
these dregs of rotting social order.
All religious activities of the Jew!
in Russia have come under the ban o
these fanatics of the left. They hav,
stopped to the lowest levels of mora
degradation to carry ont their dia
bollcal scheme. Property Of religious
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