Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1974 Page: 2 of 16
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. Ahava,h Shol<>m ?!le*r“ K“disha GOLDA'S PROBLEMS MOUNT
ummoned By Solzhenitsyn l Dinner To Honor Workers Sun.
by ROBERT E. SEGAL
Reports from Jerusalem indicated earlier this week that
Prime Minister Golda Meir would not serve in a Coalition
the Cemetery Committee Government, in which Likud the conservative Right-Wing
......................... ........ which includes Dave Klimist, Party, was represented. Moshe Dayan, present Secretary of
0 ‘Print is the sharpest anc given the world “One Day In Chevra Kaddisha Dinner chairman; Harry Rubin, vice- Defense, was reported to have offered his resignation because
^ the strongest weapon of our The Life of Ivan Denisovich,” honoring the men and women chairman; Leroy Gilbert, Bob of extreme negative criticism of his handling of the Yom
H Party-” Joseph Stalin declarec “The Cancer Ward” and “The active in the Chevra Kaddisha Kragen, Sam Laves, Sam Kippur War.
& in 1923. First Circle,” - --- ~ • ’ -
Congregation Ahavath
Sholom will hold their annual
a.
O
h
First
satire of Stalinist methods.
stunning this Sunday evening, Febru- Sobol, Harry Walensky and
ary 24, six o’clock in the Charles Levinson.
A hall century later, cour- Irked by news of the Nobel Synagogue Center,
rt- ageous Aleksandr Solzhenit- award, Kremlin pacesetters * ’ Rabbi Isadore Garsek and
^ syn, ideological miles re-'floated a campaign of slander Members of the Chevra Rabbi .Edward Garsek will
moved from Stalin,’has with against him. Solzhenitsyn .Kaddisha who will be lead the Memorial Service.
^ astonishing success, raised suffered through this season recognized include Harry
^ Stalin'-s aphorism to an awe- of futile denigration, observ- . Levinson, chairman, Haskell
>* some height, proving print an ing that Russian leaders had Daiches, Buddy Freed, Abe
^ insuperable weapon for free- built a kind of - forbidden, Freedling, Leroy Gilbert,
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CO By achieving publication of , Bernard Toobin, and Harry
W “The Gulag Archipelago” in The 11 years the writer Walensky. Also, Mmes. Julius
^ the West, Solzhenitsyn, has endured in a Stalinist labor Blum, Nathan Daiches,
>h given the world a new and camp, the suffering he Edward Garsek, Harry
<! brilliant display of heroism, experienced when plagued by Levine, Mike Rovinsky and
Q risking his life willingly in his cancer in the 1950s, the Mrs. Leonard White.
q; dramatic warning to free men. discipline he demanded for
p Quite naturally, he has won himself as he researched long
X Moscow’s highest tribute: in and tirelessly for his literary
E"1 . their fury over his literafy materials have combined to
H exposure, the Kremlin give him a shining presence,
authorities denounced him as Governmental vituperation
a traitor, branding his book ennobled him; the plaudits of
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‘unfounded slander.” What Russian intellectuals hungry
c/5 greater praise could he ask? for freedom refreshed his
determination.
p Seeking support for their
campaign against the writer, Although official records
^ Soviet propagandists quoted are obliged to spell out his
^ from a variety of critics. Most excellent record as a fighter in
U pitiful was that of a Leningrad World War II, he was
H man, who said he was a Jew destined to see Russian
and a retired military officer, officialdom berate him as one
He advised Solzhenitsyn and who glorified German militar-
“others who do npt like to ism. This was the same
breathe clean Soviet air” to go Solzhenitsyn who was scorned
where they like with the by some vilifiers who, in their
assurance they would soon be mad rush to downgrade him,
forgotten. asserted that he had Jewish
forebears named Solzhenis-
How long can Solzhenitsyn ter.
hold out against Moscow •
officialdom? Perhaps the
backing and inspiration he These desperate detractors
received from friends who.may have concluded that they
stood with him when the wounded the writer most
Kremlin made it risky, if not effectively by making him a
impossible, for him to accept Jew. If so, they have betrayed
the Nobel Prize for literature and ill served- their shabby
in 1970 will help sustain him in cause. For surely, Solzhenit-
this present and more hor- syn is Jewish in spirit; his
rendous testing time. searing indictment of thought
control and priso.n camps and
His Nobel award—spelled police state amounts to a
out the judge’s praise for the charge echoed * by Jews
“ethical force with which he everywhere, constitutes a
has pursued the indispensable rallying call for a new demand
tradition of Russian litera- .‘for freedom in the dark sea of
ture.” At that time, he had totalitarian cruelty. _
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Wisch, J. A. Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 21, 1974, newspaper, February 21, 1974; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth754297/m1/2/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .