The Denver Jewish news., 1925-02-05
The JeUs in the Russian
Inferno
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communities are coniiscatcd to bc used
for the desccration Of the rabbi or lie
brew teacher caught instructing the
young The dungeons of the Cheka will
close upon him and he will be torn out
of life without n trial or advice to
friends and family.
Jewish members of labor unions are
pcnuliZed for religious obscrvnnccs hy
the loss OF every opportunity to earn
their daily bread Practice of the Jew
ish wedding rite. of circumcision or
any other religious duty is sufficient
to lose all rights TO be considered rs
II human being. For such there is no
justice in Russia, NO law whatsoever.
In similar way every manifcsta
tion of Jewish life is crushed. Whcth-
er it be literature or the press, the
theatre or educational work, 1t all is
blightcd by the Jewish Section of the
Soviet II is the disease center from
which radiatcs mortal paralysis to
every limb Of Judaism in Russia.
The persecution of the Zionists in
Russia by the Bolshevik Government
constitutes one Of the darkest chapters
of Jewish life in that country at pres
| ent. Not day passes hut we hear of
new repressionS and arrests of workers
in our national movement. Jewish ma
tlonalsm is public crime in Russia
today, n counter-revolutiOnary act. and
which the Sovicts know Dwell to mete
out Zionist meetings can not he ield
without bein graded hy the police as
If they were criminal conclavcs. The
noble aspiration of nm oppressed people
to create its shattered life and to re
build its ruins ON a foundation of social
| Justice and ideals calls forth no
| sympathy from the self-anOintcd
saviors of Russia. Their response to
| Zionism is incarceration i'll the penal
settlements of Siberia or expulsion
| from the country.
This is brief picture of what is
happening now to the Jews of Russia.
That country being immune TO the bet
TER influences that radia.C from the en-
| lightened nations of the world, it is
very hard to foreSee any Improvement
in the condition of the Jews unless the
| the sufferin. it has produced as to turn
10 milder methods. What the Jews
of the rest of the world can do for the
nlleviation of their unfortunate breth'
rem is difficult problem. But one
thing certainly should he uppcrmost in
the minds of our people and that Is
that unless we are willing to witness
the gradual but sure disappearance OF
Judaism and Jews in Russia by means
too horrible to think of. they must
not be forgotten They must be assist
ed TO keep soul and body together at
least until such time when more can hc
done for them
In the various communities through,
out the rest of the world Jews have
among them friends and admirers OF
this octopus that is crushing their pee,
pie in Russia. We have with us the
so-called left-wing in our social Orguni,
zations 1t would be the greatest dis.
grace and Self-degradation for the Jews
il these Gains should be received into
cur councils, treated with on IA par
as human beings or allowed any con.
sidcratiOn at all in our communal life
We must, out Of respect for the sacred
memory of our martyrs in RUSSIA, not
fraterniZc with those that uphold the
| murderOuS arm Of the Jewish Section
of the Soviet, If those that are doing
here the bidding of the worst enemy
IudniSm and Jews Of the present time
have anywhere at all. 1t is high time
that we Jews purgcd our public life of
those elements who take advantage of
their position in our social organism
10 work for its destruction. Com
munists Of the Soviet type and those
that approve Of them Cun not have any
place in the temple of our national life,
which we must keen clean if we do not
want to hlasphrmc the memory of the
thousands Of sacrifices ON the affairs Of
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