mmunity
of Archangel take the liberty to affirm that neither the Jewish
people as a whole, nor any of its socially organized groups, are
responsible for the savagery, violence, acts of blasphemy, and
mockery of human rights which characterize the Bolshevist
regime.

The Jewish people are fully familiar with acts of brutality,
with the Red Terror, familiar from long-past experience and from
present experience in Bolshevist Russia, together with all the
other nations inhabiting that unhappy territory. But the hands
of the Jewish masses, of all the classes of the Jewish people,
are not stained with this blood. We have not heard, and we
believe that we shall never hear, of any act of terror
committed by any masses of Jews led either by Jews or by
non-Jews.

Let the Jewish Bolsheviki stand accused and condemned of their
guilt like their compatriots of other nationalities, but there
must be no room for generalization and wholesale accusation when
the people as a whole are guiltless and where millions,
permeated by a powerful cohesive force of an ancient culture
organically foreign to the spirit of violence and vandalism,
stand apart from a few individual persons.

Quite similar to the foregoing is a Memorandum addressed by the
Council of the Vladivostok Jewish Community to the Russian people. The
concluding paragraphs of this address seem to me to be a complete and
crushing refutation of the monstrous calumny that is being so
assiduously spread among our people:

In the present historic movement the Council of the Jewish
Community of Vladivostok deems it its sacred civil duty to come
forward with the following protest. The Council declares that:
(1) The many millions of the Russian Jewry reject every
responsibility for the crimes committed against Russia by a
small group of Jewish renegades who have nothing in common with
the Jews and have long since broken off all connections with
them, such as Bronstein-Trotzky, Nakhamkes-Steklov,
Apfelbaum-Zinoviev, Joffe, Kamenev, and others connected with
Bolshevism, just as the Russian, Lettish, Polish, Georgian,
Armenian, and other nationalities cannot be held to answer for
the deeds and misdeeds of Bolshevist leaders who were born in
their midst. (2) The Russian Jewry, as a whole, is warmly and
sincerely devoted to the interests of Russia,