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| Title | Soviet "anti-semitism": the big lie |
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| Publisher | Jewish Life |
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| Date | 1949 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 31 pages: illustrations; 20 cm |
| Original Item Location | DS146.R9M54 1949 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8321003~S5 |
| Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
| Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
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| Transcript | anti-Semitic campaign. On April 20th, Schwartz wrote, "Meanwhile observers of the Soviet press have noted that the cartoon campaign against 'cosmopolitanism' in Krokodil, the lavishly illustrated Soviet humor publication, has been marked by the use of hooked noses on the figures used to represent 'cosmopolitanism/ One cartoon on the front page of Krokodil juxtaposes the name Lippman — which is usually Jewish in the Soviet Union — with the word 'Zhid,' a derisive Russian term for Jews used by Russian-speaking anti-Semites." Who fired the opening gun on this campaign of slander? On April 1st, 1949, the Library of Jewish Information of the American Jewish Committee issued a document called "Jews Behind the Iron Curtain." This document produced by the organization of America's wealthiest Jews was supposed to be the final word and up-to-the- minute proof that anti-Semitism is now an official weapon of the Soviet Union and the new democracies. From the way in which the material in this document has been used, it is evident that if the American Jewish Committee did not actually help initiate this disgusting and dangerous campaign, it has certainly done all it can to keep it going. Frederick Woltman, starting a scurrilous series in the World-Telegram on May 16th, wrote, "This incredible development in a nation where discrimination is supposed to be a state crime — was established in a survey by the World-Telegram, based chiefly on Jewish sources. One of them, the American Jewish Committee, terms the campaign against Soviet Jews both 'violent' and 'official.' " Throughout his series, Woltman refers constantly to statements made by the American Jewish Committee, either in the document above or in the Committee Reporter. Case of the ''Herald Tribune" Evidence that another Jewish organization is involved in this psychopathic slander campaign came to light in a |