12~THEBULLET{N~Thursday, December 16, 1976
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JEWS ROUND THE W<i||
Jews of Poland
JEWS FIRST settled in Poland in the ninth century, and during the 12th century found themselves in charge of Polish coinage beV cause Polish nobility cared very little for the arts of commerce. (Many of these coins bore Hebrew inscriptions.)
The freedom enjoyed by Polish Jewry had resulted from -fthe Kalisch Statutes of 1264: But within a century thereafterthe spectre of , anti-Semitism appeared; and beginning with 1420, persecution of Jews because the daily diet for Polish peasantry approved by their nobility.
Yet in adversity Jewish learning and scholarship flourishedj, particularly in the 16th century. Poland produced the : greatest: Talmudic scholars, codifiers of ritual; 'founders'Of mystic Has-sidim and eminent Jews of learning. <v ■ One of Poland's: most famous Jewish scholars ; who died in ■ Warsaw in 1917 at the age of 68. was Lazarus Zamenhof, father of Esperanto, the international language. He wa^ an opthalmic ; surgeon by profession,- and invented Esperanto in X887 to seek universal peace.
THERE ARE less than 4,000 Jews (mostly elderly)'in Poland today. For a total of 3,500.000 Jews just before World War Hi the population ' has so dwindled. ^ "There is no rabbi, no Jewish ? -rschool; and no functioning: Jewish^v organization. • -
Even the' Jewish. State Theatre i is but a semblance of itself today, for there are ,soien^Jews to see ¥ and^ hear-" ihe\ it€rj[|»rmances.' (Ida 1 . KaipmsJia,^ .^he...s&r performers-left Poland, at the peak of the 1968. anti-Semitic outbreaks.)
However, the Jewish Historical Institute, located in a wing of Z. the former Great Synagogue ; of ? Warsaw at Tlomacki Place, con-tinues to function as part..of the vr Polish Academy of Science. Thev.v Judaica collection includes 60,000 books, .1,200 rare; manuscripts' and 100,000 art Objects, as well as ' the archives of Emanuel Ringel4 blum, the archivist of the Warsaw -: Ghetto.
But the Institute has been for-, bidden to send out for exhibit v-or 'loan any .of; the bookisi manuscripts or art, and thus the majors ■ ity of the collection remain^ unused and collecting dust.
;rhe City of Bialystock, which was once a major Jewish city, has no Jews today. Even the -Jewish cemetery was destroyed. \ Indeed,: throughout Poland hundr: v reds of synagogues and Jewish communal, buildings have been turned into warehouses and public clubs.
Two exceptions to this wanton vandalization of, historic synagogues are in the city.Of Krakow: here th^ oldest existing synagogue in Poland, dating' to the 14th century, has- been repaired dnd
turned into a Jewish museum, as has the Remo Synagogue- of Moses Isserles. >
m, WLODOWA on the Soviet ■border, the magnificent f^Fortress Synagogue;" abandoned since:the war, has been restored ^,as^ a cultural attraction. Historic stone synagogues in a number of Polishv towns had all survived the'ravages of Nazism, only to have their priceless frescos and murals destroyed by Polishvofficials who converted the buildings into com-r mercial warehouses.
Such Chassidic centres as Gora,
Kalwarya, Kock, BbboW^', Nowry Sancz, Rymanow, Radomsko and Biala, have survived although no Jews live in any of those village's today. Most of the towns still have synagogue buildings standing; but they- are either abandoned or used as public buildings.
In Chelm (the renowned town of countless~^Jewish fables)^ no Jews were to be found. The ceme-: tery here is in ruins; and the only synagogue is now a warehouse. The same was true in Cze'sto-chowa, " Przemysl, Rzeszow, Bochnia; Rabika, and other Polish towns.
On the other hand, the Polish Government has preserved the death .camp sites. At Treblinka; where 800,000 Jews perished, signs in six languages; including Yiddish, tejl exactly what happened there.
Similar-is the case in Chelmno^; Sobibor, Belzec, Auschwitz and Trawiniki. At the Majdanek death camp near Lublin, a huge museum has been estab^shed, gi^dng piro^^ minent place/to the suffering of the-Jews.
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lifosef ;,Almogi,;; !/!^^ man, answered criticism'of niUirexodus by isa^^thatJewish^^ Agency regulations stipulated that ■ ohe:bf the thre^ board held eve?y year mu^ ; .Iilace''abiNO«id;'"^-'ii^ ^ 'yi ';X:'}^rP;y[;^y\^^^ i-'There; „has;:.'kiso '•'liielh-'pre^^ criiicism of tiie fact that the: iofrr fidtals' air fares^ have tieteh paid for by the Agency, wM^ paying for thfeii* accbiiimd^ and giving thiBihjYdii^ : expenses/: '■■ t^^^'rst:^'^;]-
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