Resolution Adopted by the CCAR
COMMUNIST COUNTRIES, JEWS IN
Digests of resolutions adopted by the
Central Conference of American Rabbis
between 1889 and 1974
1. Whereas, There has come to the notice of this Conference the terrible
condition
of affairs existing in Southern Russia, especially in Bessarabia, and in
Roumania
and Galacia; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, in Annual Convention assembled, give expression
of our deepest regret and sympathy; that while offering to our suffering
co-religionists
the balm of our heart-felt sorrow and consolation, we also determine to assist
not
only by word of mouth, but also with gifts of the hand those who are there
crying
for sympathetic recognition. (1900, p. 82)
2. The Jews of Russian Poland, who share with their co-religionists of the
Russian
Empire the misery consequent upon systematic legal oppression, have lately
become
the victims of an organized boycott on the part of the Polish population. This
boycott
which results in immeasurably heightening the wretchedness of the Jewish
population is
a move of political vengeance wreaked upon the Jews for having refused to
submit
to being represented by an Anti-Semite.
The Central Conference of American Rabbis appeals to enlightened public
opinion for
the unreserved condemnation of a people which in its own struggle for liberty
is
trampling upon the human rights of fellow-sufferers. (1913, pp. 152-53.)
3. See Soviet Jewry.