A REPORT BY THE EDITORS JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION The Soviet Pattern in Perspective THROUGHOUT MODERN history, the treatment of national, racial and religious minorities has been a barometer of...
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The Absence off Cultural Freedom The Soviet Position At a press conference held January 15, 1959, during his visit to the United States, First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan stated the Soviet...
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Four Communist Replies Below we present the first of four articles which, in effect, constitute Communist replies to the official Soviet position on Jews in the USSR, as expressed by Khrushchev and...
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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...
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Status of Religious Practice THUS, AS IN the field of culture. Jews are singled out for differential treatment where religion is concerned. But documentation is more difficult to obtain for...
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The Feeling for Israel IT IS not surprising that the Jewish community, isolated as it is, has developed special feelings of warmth for and interest in the State of Israel during the past decade. A...
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Discrimination in Government and Education The Background THERE ARE, of course, no independent agencies inside Russia to probe and challenge official denials of discrimination against Jews in...
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Soviet Statistics on Jews IT HAS BECOME a persistent Soviet policy to conceal the part played by Jews in various spheres of Russian lifeas if Jews did not exist there. Or as if the Communist party...
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Political Exclusion A GRAPHIC INDEX of the exclusion of Jews from Soviet political life is provided by the figures for Jewish representation in both Houses of the Supreme Soviet during the past 22...
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Prospects and Alternatives The anti-Jewish policy continues today. But it is a trap which the Soviet authorities have got themselves into. Distrustful of the alien, they have produced alienation....
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