Anti-Semitic Stereotyping
Judaism and the Jewish Image Anti-Semitic Stereotyping ALTHOUGH freedom of conscience is theoretically guaranteed in the Soviet Constitution, Communist ideology and society are of course...
...Following is a list of some of the more outstanding feuilletons: "At Home and at the Office" by I. Panachevnyi...
...Lord Melchett...
...I am a real Jew...
...Bourgeois nationalist elements plan to exploit the Jewish religion for the purpose of reviving Zionism: they endeavor to turn the synagogues into united nationalist centers of the Jewish population, where all worldly and human problems will be settled by the community leaders on religious nationalist bases...
...As early as the first years following the Great Socialist October Revolution, the Jewish rabbis expressed their contempt for the new Soviet authorities and called upon the Jewish bourgeoisie to finance the military intervention against the Soviet Union...
...The Dangerous Virus" by E. Karklin...
...The chairman of the Soviet is approached by a stranger who, bowing and scraping, introduces himself as one Semion Mikolaiovich Khomiak, a state pensioner who was badly wounded defending the motherland.] " 'I am, you know, a religious man...
...It is thus clear that the Judaean religion is intimately bound up with Jewish bourgeois nationalism Zionism...
...December 12, 1957...
...Since 1957, a long, uninterrupted series of feuilletons and articles have appeared in the Soviet press, demonstrating the "anti-social, parasitical" behavior of Jews in Soviet life...
...These journals are generally difficult to obtain outside the Soviet Union, but by now it has been established that their anti-Jewish feuilletons constitute at least one-third of the articles attacking anti-social types in Soviet life a significantly exaggerated proportion...
...Though the villains of these pieces are never identified as Jews the word "Jew" never appears in them they invariably have names which Soviet readers will inevitably recognize as Jewish: Fineberg, Rubinstein, Katz, Spector, Frankel, etc...
...Five years pass...
...That is why the reactionaries in Israel so impudently organize provocative attacks on the Arab countries and try to send their agents to Socialist countries...
...national separatism of the Jewish people: distrust and enmity toward other nations...
...he uses his head: He has a whole collection of blank documents with official signatures affixed to them, and official rubber stamps, which he obtained by bribing businessmen he knew...
...The author also aptly emphasizes the duality involved in the nationalist character of the Jewish religion, which is used by the bourgeoisie to prevent Jewish workers from joining workers and peasants of other nationalities in the fight against capitalism and for the revolutionary reconstruction of society...
...Sovietskaya Bielorussia, Minsk...
...It appeared in Prikarpatska Pravda, published in the West Ukrainian city of Stanislav, on September 24, 1958...
...it sanctifies national diversity and hatred of dissenters...
...Everything is the wonderful creation of the God Jehovah, he thinks happily...
...As in olden times, so nowadays too, the Jewish clericals have material gain in mind first and foremost...
...February 5, 1958...
...May 18, 1958...
...The two who are questioned deny their interest in religion and protest the use of their names by Khomiak.] "This summary of the facts about the immoral and anti-social behavior of Semion Khomiak, working in the guise of a candidate for the rabbinate, could be further extended...
...Day and night he roamed about Stanislav searching for simple souls, gathering signatures in order to open a special kind of synagogue, demanding 'sacrifices.' To some he made fanatical propaganda, others he threatened, to still others he whispered provocative things about the approaching end of the world and the appearance of Jehovah on earth...
...Jehovah's servants spread counter-revolutionary calumnies against the young Soviet State, lied about the persecution of Jewish religion and of Jews in general, and attacked Socialist construction...
...Behind the screen of the Zionist organization in England stood the Rothschild banking firm (which also financed the French Zionists...
...After all, life is short and to become a veteran one must work a long time...
...It appeared on December 14, 1958 in the Lvovskaya Pravda, in Lvov...
...To put it more exactly, the community, Jewish workers, people of the Jewish faith, have asked me to represent them...
...In some instances, the virulence approaches the level of traditional "Elders of Zion" propaganda, or that of Julius Streicher's Der Sturmer...
...Its monopolists were by no means satisfied with seizing the political machinery of the World Zionist Organization and of its treasury: They were interested in colonial profits...
...But how is it that a healthy man can obtain a State pension as a second-degree invalid...
...Its objective, apparently, is to prove that a small group of international Jewish bankers and oligarchs control both the State of Israel and world monopoly capitalism: "This united organization, under the name of the Jewish Agency, took over the supreme leadership of all the bourgeois nationalist Jewish groupings...
...Another manager [of Keren Ha/yesod, a Zionist fund] was none other than Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury in Franklin Roosevelt's administration...
...The Malakhovka Castle" by U. Feofanov...
...This further strengthens its reactionary role...
...A Slender Motive" by A. Kozlov and P. Filimonov...
...The Descendants of Ostap Bender" by M. Lanskoy...
...Returning to Stanislav in the role of a 'holy man,' he organized illegal meetings of pious Jews and spread provocative rumors to the effect that the God Jehovah would soon gather together the scattered Jews from all corners of the earth and unite them...
...The article then tells of the detailed investigations that demonstrated the clever manipulations, bribes and forgeries by which Khomiak was able to parade falsely as a worker and an Army veteran.] "Formerly, S. M. Khomiak had another surname, first name and patronymic: Yudah Lipovich Goldsheit...
...These ugly creatures came to mind when we reviewed the dramatic events that happened to the family of the working woman, Feodosia Khomiak of Stanislav...
...Will you allow it...
...This they will purportedly be able to enhance by establishing an independent Jewish state...
...The leaders of the Jewish religion in Stanislav, Goldsheit- Khomiak, Liberman, Tartakovsky and others, arrogantly indoctrinate religious people with the teaching of Judaism that work is not a basic social necessity, but rather a punishment visited by God upon those who do not believe in the God Jehovah...
...And what, finally, is that 'holy religion' for the sake of which a man is likely to do such a thing...
...Pravda, Moscow...
...This campaign follows a definite pattern...
...Though some of these articles have appeared in leading Soviet journals, most of them have been published in the provincial centers of such republics as the Ukraine, Lithuania, Moldavia, White Russia where they are likely to exacerbate the anti-Semitic sentiments of populations known for their anti-Jewish outbreaks during and after World War II...
...The veteran Zionist leader, Chaim Weizmann, became, in effect, the authorized agent of these monopolists...
...A second strand perpetuates the traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jews...
...He remains modestly silent, of course, about the profits which accrue to him from performing this ritual...
...To the Soimds of the Guitar" by V. Rzhanov and V. Lukianov...
...In accordance with the Jewish teachings, all people of other faiths and nationalities are destined to merciless punishment, devastation and violence, in the interests of Israel, which has purportedly been called upon to govern by God Himself...
...It is a review of a pamphlet, The Jewish Religion, Its Origin and Essence, by T. K. Kitchko: "Judaism, which is distinguished by a special conservatism, has played an exceedingly reactionary part in distracting Jewish workers from the revolutionary struggle, covering itself with the banner of the religious and national identity of the Jewish people...
...We beg to be allowed to open a house of worship legally at number 76-a Vovchenitsky Street...
...As a rabbi, Semion, you will have white bread and fried chicken...
...and we believe in the God Jehovah...
...Yudah Lipovich Goldsheit-Khomiak, as proven by the facts in this case, nurtured this selfsame aim of living at the expense of others...
...But everyone throughout the world knows that Israel is now a puppet of American-British imperialism...
...For examole not long ago the Magid of Mogilev called out on the Jewish New Year and it was passed on to all the synagogues: 'Jewesses, it would be better for you to lead your children to the slaughterhouse than to let them rot in the Pioneer units.' "The Jewish religion teaches Jews who live among other nations never to wish these nations peace and happiness...
...Sir Robert Walley Cohen, general manager of the Shell Oil Trust...
...Seen as a whole, the pattern is quietly reminiscent of the virulently anti-Semitic propaganda campaign of 1948-53, directed against the "rootless cosmopolitans," Rudolf Slansky and his Czechoslovak comrades, and the Jewish doctors...
...Everybody has signed, as you see...
...The alert servant of the God Jehovah has already received 54,000 rubles from the State...
...it is shown to be linked with the vicious twins of "bourgeois nationalism" and Zionism, both of which are intimately associated with "Western imperialism and its Israeli puppet...
...The only difference is that the rulers of this state, departing from the Talmudic ideas on peace, draw Israel into anti-Soviet military blocs...
...The villains are described as sly, mean, slimy, unscrupulous, fraudulent liars, cheats and thieves...
...All rites and festivals of the Jewish religion are calculated to direct believers' thoughts to the 'Land of the Fathers,' to the 'Holy Land,' Israel and so to divert them from the affairs of the countries in which they live...
...Sovietskaya Litva, Vilna...
...August 25, 1957...
...At the turn of the century Zionism appeared, a new ally at the service of the Jewish bourgeoisie, closely interwoven with Judaism...
...All of this activity was conducted in cooperation with the Jewish bourgeois nationalist Zionist party...
...Marks and Spencer, the owners of the Chain Stores Trust, and other financial kings from the city...
...December 3, 1957...
...to ride herd on someone else, as the priests of old used to do...
...The Zionists tried to prove that Jews of all countries constitute one Jewish nation, and they propagandized for cooperation among all Jews, irrespective of class...
...They [the rabbis] were active in spreading anti-Soviet slander and, with foaming mouths, called on the Jewish bourgeoisie to finance the intervention against the USSR...
...The Zionists diverted the Jewish masses in various countries from the class struggle against the forces of capitalism and led Jewish workers along the narrow path of nationalism...
...Old-Age Disease" by N. Shtanko...
...In one strand, the Jewish religion is denigrated and vilified...
...Trud, Moscow...
...A case in point is the twopart article, "Behind the Screen of Zionism," by A. Leonidov, which appeared in the November and December 1957 issues of the scholarly journal, Sovremennyi Vostok...
...Sovietskaya Rossia, Moscow...
...April 12,1958...
...Who are his closest assistants and associates...
...Literaturnaya Gazeta...
...Shordy after the publication of this article, the fortnightly Partinaya Zhisn, the organ for theoretical and ideological guidance of Communist party cadres, saw fit, in its second issue of January 1959, to draw attention to the Kutz piece, "in connection with the facts concerning the dissemination of bourgeois nationalist propaganda, supported by reactionary Israeli circles, among the Jewish religious communities of the region...
...This was how the first nucleus of the Zionist financial oligarchy was created...
...LESS STARTLING, but clearly revealing, is an unsigned article called "Brochure on Judaism," which appeared on September 21, 1957 in another Ukrainian paper, Pravda Ukrainy, in Kiev...
...They are bloodsucking and feed on all kinds of waste...
...June 14, 1957...
...May 25, 1958...
...Being a Jew by nationality, he changed them all in 1942, when he lived in the [Nazi] territory, and called himself Semion Mikolaiovich Khomiak...
...Pravda, Moscow...
...August 11, 1957...
...Their letters and radio broadcasts direct the clergy living in the Soviet Union to sabotage the Communist party and the Soviet regime...
...They are afraid of light...
...A candidate for the rabbinate...
...We beg that our group of worshippers be registered, in accordance with the Constitution...
...to lead a life of pleasure without work, or, as the people say, to warm their filthy hands with others' property...
...Thus they diverted the poor masses, the Jewish workers, from the class struggle against the Jewish bourgeoisie...
...They grow in dark, filthy, forsaken comers where the hand of the solicitous landlord does not reach them...
...Examination of the Soviet press in the last three years, however, reveals a concerted propaganda campaign to single out Judaism and Jews for special opprobrium...
...But the facts already mentioned are enough to enable us to see the wolf in the religious sheep's clothing...
...An Unsightly Story" by P. Koldomov...
...should you need guidance in case of misfortune, you need only read the prescriptions of the Talmud, which provide for all of life's exigencies and adjudge you innocent of even the greatest crimes committed in the name of the God Jehovah...
...All religious groups have been subjected, since the Bolshevik regime's inception, to severe restrictions and violent propaganda barrages...
...Rabbis, tsaddiks and their ilk across the borders even now try to send special agents into our country for anti- Soviet activities...
...Even the editors of the New York Morgen Freiheit charged that it is anti-Semitic despite a Moscow Radio broadcast by one S. Rabinovich admitting the existence of the piece but denying its anti-Semitic quality: "Ticks are loathe some and filthy creatures...
...It is in their power to hurt man, to embitter his life and to devour him...
...When they gather in great numbers, they fall upon the weak...
...At the end of last year, yet another Ukrainian paper published a similar attack on Judaism, "The Reactionary Essence of the Jewish Religion" by M. Kutz...
...What is the meaning of the Jewish religion, for which the 'candidate for the rabbinate,' Yudah Lipovich Goldsheit- Khomiak, propagandizes so fanatically in Stanislav...
...Juice With Interest" by B. Tsarev...
...The significance of a notice of this kind could not have been lost on the cadres...
...THE MOST striking of all the feuilletons in its combination of blatant anti-Jewish stereotyping, attacks on the Jewish religion and its practitioners, and association of Judaism, racism, Israel and virtual treason to the Soviet Stateis "The Priests of the God Jehovah" by Panas Efremenko...
...Feodosia is described as a decent, efficient, assiduous woman who worked hard for her husband...
...Felix Warburg, a partner in the most important American-German bank, Kuhn, Loeb & Company, became president of the organization ; the vice president was Lord Melchett, head of the British Imperial Chemical Trust...
...The Charms of a Cute Fellow" by I. Donchenko...
...October 7, 1958...
...The reactionary essence of the Judaean religion inheres in the fact that it preaches the following: hatred of representatives of other religions and of atheists...
...Moreover, in their illegal sermons on the holiness of the so-called Pentateuch, they praise to the skies that staunch pillar of Judaism, the ultra-reactionary Maimonides, who advised his followers to wage a bloody battle against non-believers...
...Izvestia...
...And why did he do this...
...In accordance with this teaching, the Stanislav candidate for the rabbinate, Goldsheit-Khomiak, who had been reproved by his 'spiritual fathers' for marrying a non- Jewess, left his wife, Feodosia, and their two sons and rushed to the Crimea to marry 'a sister by blood,' one Liza Aronovna Fistel, who was a speculator by profession...
...Here is the list of the initiating committee...
...In Germany, the mainstay of the Jewish Agency was Oscar Wasserman, director of the omnipotent Deutsche Bank, which once held the concession for the construction of the Baghdad railway...
...She is my sister by blood, a Jewess, which cannot be said of you...
...What is their objective and whom do they serve...
...After a gulp of vodka, Semion Khomiak dreams of the future...
...The latter, however, abandoned her, leaving this farewell note:] " 'Don't wait for me and don't look for me, Fenia...
...Sovietskaya Bielorussia, Minsk...
...Semion.' ". . . Why did he leave her...
...They also oppose the Communist system of education of children...
...It is no accident that practically every year the Israeli rabbis send parcels of matzoh to the Jewish synagogues in the Ukraine, including Lvov...
...What blood-sister did he find that he deserted his children...
...Liberman, in accordance with Talmudic instructions, persuaded credulous Jewish fathers to have their sons circumcised, and he savagely performed this cruel ritual with his own hands, in unsanitary conditions...
...Pravda Ukrainy, Kiev...
...At present, the Talmud is the basis of social life in Israel...
...I have found another and fallen in love with her...
...February 2, 1958...
...But don't the religious Jews know that Israel is now an obedient tool of the American, British and French imperialists...
...But the Municipal Council has, for some reason, postponed our request.' " [The authorities of the Soviet approach the individual signatories to check the authenticity of Khomiak's story...
...Judaism and the Jewish Image Anti-Semitic Stereotyping ALTHOUGH freedom of conscience is theoretically guaranteed in the Soviet Constitution, Communist ideology and society are of course militantly atheist and anti-religious...
...For these purposes, however, Khomiak does not need the Talmud...
...The article goes on to describe the alleged history of this Jewish husband and his religion...
...Sovietskaya Aviatsia, Moscow...
...And so we see the leaders.of Judaism in Stanislav those ardent liars and forgerscruelly conducting a fight against nonbelievers, just like the 'holy fathers' of the Inquisition period...
...It also reflects particular prejudice against Jewish religious life and institutions in the Soviet Union...
...Ben Gurion is the leader of one of the Zionist organizations that developed in the USA which has the unlimited support of the multi-millionaire Rockefeller brothers and other grabbing monopolists...
...Sovietskaya Moldavia, Kishinev...
...Through this rite, he preaches, Jews are difierentiated from all others as the Talmud prescribes...
...until recently, he had close connections with a gang of thieves who operated in a candy factory, illegally disposing of Socialist property...
...the scene shifts to the office of the Stanislav Soviet...
...Worshippers say their prayers in local synagogues, glorifying Palestine and Jerusalem...
...You know, of course, that belief in God is a matter of individual conscience...
...I have come to you with a mission...
...Through the Back Door" by V. Boroshko and N. Novoseltsev...
...A reactionary regime has been instituted in the country, and the Jewish bourgeoisie cruelly exploits the working class...
...The fitting 'partners' of this extortionist are Shaya Elevich Liberman, who now occupies the profitable post of director of the poultry slaughter-house of Stanislav, and Moshe Israelovich Tartakovsky, a man of no definite profession...
...February 15, 1959...
...Let's Reconstruct the Initials" by B. Khomha...
...Izvestia, Moscow...
...December 1, 1957...
...At the time of this account, he used to wander about the commercial center of town...
...Izvestia, Moscow...
...My address will be unknown to you...
...Fish Blood" by F. Breus...
...The meaning of this absurd religio-nationalist theory consists in the artificial strengthening of the Jewish people's separateness, by preaching some kind of 'exclusivity' for the Jews...
...And where, for instance, can a non-veteran obtain a veteran's working papers...
...The hostile attitude of the Jewish clergy to the Great October Revolution is well known...
...you will drink port wine and sweet cognac and have a nice apartment to relax in...
...Israel, according to the Judaists, is a sacred temple of the God Jehovah...
...Under the conditions of Soviet society, the reactionary preachings of Judaism are aimed at supporting chauvinism and national narrowness among believing Jews and at disrupting the work of Communist education, of those who toil in the spirit of friendship among all peoples...
...Give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever: that ye may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.' So teaches Ezra the Scribe...
...Judaism is being used by the Jewish bourgeois nationalists, the Zionists, to prove the 'unity of the Jewish people' and to propagate class collaborationism among all Jews...
...The author shows how the ruling circles of Israel have, under the cover of Judaism, transformed the country into a puppet of the imperialists, how they fan hatred of the neighboring Arab countries and engage in armed provocations...
...Judaism cultivates the ideology of the 'exclusiveness' of the Jews...
...June 28, 1957...
...Director on Wheels" by N. Chemyshev...
...Ben Gurion, the leader of the Israeli Government and a veteran Zionist, has long been known as an ultra-reactionary...
...God will raise you above all nations,' was the Talmudic teaching read by Goldsheit-Khomiak to his brothers by blood...
Vol. 42 • September 1959 • No. 33
