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- 2 - attachment to a language (and therefore a culture) in disfavor with Soviet authorities. Second, USIA has argued that "Jews are widely scattered throughout the Soviet Union" and it is therefore, "impossible to reach them with a single broadcast." In fact, the Jews in the Soviet Union are not "widely scattered." 150,000-250,000 Soviet Jews live in Soviet Central Asian Republics. The vast majority of the remainder live in the westernmost Soviet Renublics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Byelerussia, Ukraine, Muldavia, and the westernmost area of Russia itself. This area is rouphiv equal in size to the combined areas of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, or about 500,000 square miles (of a total Soviet Union land area of 8.6 million square miles). ,.^.<i*-^- . ->*-_• :...e...- ,• * . .' *^ /j-s Third, USIA claims that it would be impossible to initiate broadcasts in Yiddish without sacrificing some time from broadcasts in another language or constructing new facilities. Tt is claimed that these facilities and their construction would take years and would cost several million dollars. In fact, VOA claims that it is presently allotting substantial time to Jewish interest programming, and if that assertion is true it need only consolidate the time given to various "spot announcements" throughout the day. Moreover, VOA facility listings and time schedules indicate that at present, during the prime time hours of 7-8 p.m. (Moscow time), a total of 6 transmitters of types presently broadcasting to the Soviet Union are sitting idle, and 7 transmitters are idle for H5 minutes of that hour. USIA considers 6 transmitters optimal to overcome jamming. Probable expense of broadcasting under these circumstances is $150,000 per year. Fourth, VOA claims that present programs of Jewish interest in Russian are sufficient. A close study of actual programming shows that the overwhelming majority of items covered were treated as brie"F news stories within a general news program, and consumed not more than half a minute to two minutes of air time, and that aoproximatelv one iten of Jewish interest was reported per day. Occasional features of longer duration and a two-minute portion on an early Sunday morning religious program constitute the total VOA effort, in a weekly broadcast schedule of 147 hours to the Soviet Union. In addition, since the timing of Jewish news items is unoredictable, a listener in the Soviet Union would not knov; when in the broadcast day the programs directed to him will he heard. That is hardly adequate to let Soviet Jews "know they have not been forpotten," the purported aiAof VOA. The need to devote more time and emphasis to matters of Jewish concern is illustrated by Leonid Rigerman's statement that until his arrival in the Jnited States he was completely unaware of the demonstrations and protests in the United States against Soviet treatment of Jews. (Meeting wrth leading USIA officials on March 10, 1971;
Object Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980 |
Box Number | 199 |
Folder Number | 02 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Access | Request Access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
Description
Collection Name | Jewish Community Relations Council Boston, Massachusetts |
Collection Number | I-123 |
Dates | 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1979; 1980 |
Box Number | 199 |
Folder Number | 02 |
Subjects |
Antisemitism Civil Rights Social Justice World War II |
Description |
Activities Soviet Jewry Printed Material |
Access | Request Access |
Rights | User has an obligation to determine copyright or other use restrictions prior to publication or distribution. Please contact the archives at reference@ajhsboston.org or 617-226-1245 for more information. |
Transcript | - 2 - attachment to a language (and therefore a culture) in disfavor with Soviet authorities. Second, USIA has argued that "Jews are widely scattered throughout the Soviet Union" and it is therefore, "impossible to reach them with a single broadcast." In fact, the Jews in the Soviet Union are not "widely scattered." 150,000-250,000 Soviet Jews live in Soviet Central Asian Republics. The vast majority of the remainder live in the westernmost Soviet Renublics of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Byelerussia, Ukraine, Muldavia, and the westernmost area of Russia itself. This area is rouphiv equal in size to the combined areas of California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona, or about 500,000 square miles (of a total Soviet Union land area of 8.6 million square miles). ,.^.*-_• :...e...- ,• * . .' *^ /j-s Third, USIA claims that it would be impossible to initiate broadcasts in Yiddish without sacrificing some time from broadcasts in another language or constructing new facilities. Tt is claimed that these facilities and their construction would take years and would cost several million dollars. In fact, VOA claims that it is presently allotting substantial time to Jewish interest programming, and if that assertion is true it need only consolidate the time given to various "spot announcements" throughout the day. Moreover, VOA facility listings and time schedules indicate that at present, during the prime time hours of 7-8 p.m. (Moscow time), a total of 6 transmitters of types presently broadcasting to the Soviet Union are sitting idle, and 7 transmitters are idle for H5 minutes of that hour. USIA considers 6 transmitters optimal to overcome jamming. Probable expense of broadcasting under these circumstances is $150,000 per year. Fourth, VOA claims that present programs of Jewish interest in Russian are sufficient. A close study of actual programming shows that the overwhelming majority of items covered were treated as brie"F news stories within a general news program, and consumed not more than half a minute to two minutes of air time, and that aoproximatelv one iten of Jewish interest was reported per day. Occasional features of longer duration and a two-minute portion on an early Sunday morning religious program constitute the total VOA effort, in a weekly broadcast schedule of 147 hours to the Soviet Union. In addition, since the timing of Jewish news items is unoredictable, a listener in the Soviet Union would not knov; when in the broadcast day the programs directed to him will he heard. That is hardly adequate to let Soviet Jews "know they have not been forpotten," the purported aiAof VOA. The need to devote more time and emphasis to matters of Jewish concern is illustrated by Leonid Rigerman's statement that until his arrival in the Jnited States he was completely unaware of the demonstrations and protests in the United States against Soviet treatment of Jews. (Meeting wrth leading USIA officials on March 10, 1971; |
Source | American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives, New England Historic Genealogical Society |
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