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Friday January 11, 2008

Shorts: World

Georgians publish anti-Semitic paper

A newspaper accusing Jews of plotting to “shed the blood” of Georgians was distributed in the capital Tbilisi.

According to the Tbilisi Bureau of the UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, the newspaper issued by the political movement Axali Sitkva calls for its readers to “say no to Jewish mason spies!” and claims that “other people’s property to a Jew is like an abandoned thing, the owner of it is the Jew who will appropriate it. For the Jew to acquire it, Georgians’ blood should be shed in the streets.”

The paper is distributed in the city’s subway stations. — jta

Vandals topple graves in Austrian cemetery

Austrian authorities are searching for the vandals responsible for desecrating 101 graves at Vienna’s main cemetery last week. Of those graves, 25 were Jewish.

Police said tombstones were toppled, iron crosses were bent and lanterns were destroyed atop the graves at the Vienna Central Cemetery, the Austrian capital’s largest graveyard.

Several Jewish cemeteries in Europe were desecrated over the past few months. In October, 64 tombstones were destroyed in the Jewish cemetery in Siberia; while in August, 100 headstones in a Jewish cemetery in southern Poland were spray-painted with swastikas and Nazi slogans. — ap

Jews noted as ‘foreigners’

A Kiev weekly magazine cited two prominent Ukrainian-born rabbis among the most “powerful foreigners” in the country.

Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, one of the chief rabbis of Kiev and Ukraine, and Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky, the chief rabbi of the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community and region, made the Russian-language weekly magazine Focus list of 15 “powerful foreigners.” — jta

Diary of ‘France’s Anne Frank’ on sale

The war diary of a Jewish woman living in Nazi-occupied Paris arrives in French bookstores this week.

“The Journal of Helene Berr” was discovered by archivists from France’s Holocaust Museum more than 50 years after it was given to her fiancé, who escaped France to fight with the Resistance.

Berr is being called France’s Anne Frank, though she was 21 when she started her diary in 1942. Berr died with her family in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. — jta

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