American Scientist Finds Anti-jewish Bias on Visit to Soviet Union

Jews in the Soviet Union are living in fear and suffering persecutions, Prof, David Weiss, a University of California bacteriologist just back from the USSR, declared here. He visited the USSR as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Medical Science.

In an interview in The Jewish Community Bulletin, local weekly, Dr. Weiss declared that, contrary to official Soviet Government efforts to convince foreigners that Jews there receive the same treatment given to all other citizens, Russian Jews are denied religious rights granted to others. One Russian Jew told him, the scientist reported, that acceptance of a Jewish prayer book from a foreign visitor could result in long imprisonment on charges of “possession of subversive material.” Dr. Weiss said he could not find any Yiddish schools, Jewish book stores or kosher restaurants anywhere in the USSR during his visit.