The situation of the Jews in the Soviet Union will be publicly discussed here next Sunday by leading British personalities at a symposium arranged by Richard Crossman, member of the British Parliament. The symposium is sponsored also by Lord Boothby and Israel Sieff, chairman of the European executive of the World Jewish Congress.
In announcing the symposium, the sponsors pointed out that the problem of Soviet Jews and the discrimination they experience as a minority group “is receiving increasing attention in the West.” Citing the recent furore in the Soviet Union over a poem dealing with Russian anti-Semitism by the noted young Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the sponsors said that the problem extended far beyond the poem. They stressed the absence of Jewish schools, liquidation of Jewish national institutions, closing down of synagogues and anti-Jewish articles in the Soviet press.
Participants in the symposium will include Sir Leslie Plummer, Clement Davies and Marcus Lipton–all members of Parliament. Other participants will be James Parker, the Christian historian, and novelists Wolf Mankiewitz, Muriel Spark, Peter Vansittart and Manos Sperber.
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