The Plight of the Jews in the Soviet Union

On March 18, 1966, an Ad Hoc Commission on the Rights of Soviet Jews held a full day of hearings at which a series of expert academics and eyewitnesses testified. The Commission was chaired by Bayard Rustin and the other members were Norman Thomas, Telford Taylor, Emil Mazey, James Farmer and Father George B. Ford. The following article is the statement presented to the Ad Hoc Commission as the testimony of Dr. David W. Weiss, Professor of Bacteriology at the University of California (Berkele...