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could issue a new order that basically upholds its 1995 order but

provides more details on how the decision was reached; it could order a

hearing on the matter; or it could ask interested parties to comment and

then it could issue a new order, the FCC attorney said.

Whatever the commission ultimately decides is likely to be appealed by

the losing party, Belendiuk and other attorneys said.

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Rabbi David H. Lincoln Ukrainian Weekly 30October94 A New York rabbi's response

Rabbi David H. Lincoln of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York was among the first to object to the 60 Minutes

broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom of 23Oct94. Rabbi Lincoln has had a longstanding interest in Ukraine, inherited

from his father, as is explained in the discussion of The Ukrainian Question in 1935.

Everything below is from the Ukrainian Weekly.

A New York rabbi's response

Following is the text of a letter sent on October 25 to the CBS program "60 Minutes" by Rabbi David H. Lincoln of

the Park Avenue Synagogue. The letter is reprinted here with the permission of Rabbi Lincoln, who last year traveled

to western Ukraine.

Park Avenue Synagogue

50 East 87 Street

New York, N.Y. 10125

Mr. Jeffrey Fager, Producer

CBS "60 Minutes"

524 West 57th Street

New York, NY 10019

Dear Sir:

I feel that your program on Lviv and Ukrainians was most unfair.

To show boy scouts and say they are Nazis marching, to translate "Zhyd" as kike (in western Ukraine Zhyd is the

word for Jew), to infer that the word for nation - "natsiya" - might mean Nazi etc., etc. - is most upsetting to many

of us who know today's Ukraine.

It really is time for us to enjoy the resurgence of Jewish life in Ukraine after the horrors of the German

occupation and communism, and to appreciate the heroic efforts of the Ukrainian people and government to assist the

Jewish community in all their endeavors.

The history of Jewish-Ukrainian relations often tragic is a complicated one, but you would have done well to have

informed the public of the better aspects of those contacts. For instance, Ukraine was the sole independent nation

that had complete Jewish national autonomy (1917) and had Yiddish-speaking ministers in the government representing

the rights of minorities.

Today, when Russian Jews send their children to Ukraine for safe keeping in times of danger, no good can come

from distortions such as those portrayed in your program.

Yours faithfully,

Rabbi David H. Lincoln

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Jerzy Kosinski: Grand Calumniator of Poland

Jerzy Kosinski

who the world understood to have been To Hell and Back

The Audie Murphy of the Holocaust

turned out to be little better than the

Grand Calumniator of Poland

Holocaust Witness Jerzy Kosinski

Jerzy Kosinski was once to Poland what Simon Wiesenthal is today to Ukraine. Jerzy Kosinski was the grand calumniator of Poland;

Simon Wiesenthal is the grand calumniator of Ukraine. The Poles have been successful in discrediting their grand calumniator; the Ukrainians

are too timid to attempt to discredit Simon Wiesenthal. The present web page is dedicated to understanding Jerzy Kosinski, to

congratulating the Poles, and to giving courage to Ukrainians.

Who was Jerzy Kosinski? Jerzy Kosinski was born Jerzy Lewinkopf to Mojzesz (Moses) Lewinkopf and Elzbieta Lewinkopf (maiden name

Elzbieta Wanda Weinreich). Six significant dates in Jerzy Kosinski's life were:

1933 born in Lodz, Poland

1959 entered USA on a student visa

1960 published The Future is Ours, Comrade, under pseudonym Joseph Novak

1968 won the National Book Award for The Painted Bird

1982 veracity challenged in Village Voice article, "Jerzy Kosinski's Tainted Words"

1991 committed suicide

Biographer James Park Sloan

I quote from two sources by the same author. I quote below from two sources, both written by James Park Sloan: (1) the magazine

article, Kosinski's War, The New Yorker, October 10, 1994; and (2) the book, Jerzy Kosinski: A Biography, Dutton, United States, 1996. The

first source provides the first two excerpts below, in blue, which by themselves present the chief features of the Kosinski story. The reader

interested only in a broad outline need not read beyond these first two quotations. The second source provides a number of further

excerpts shown in green, which serve to flesh in a fuller picture. The analogy to Audie Murphy in the above title was taken from p. 227 of

this second source. Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier in WW II who went on to become a movie star, and played

himself in the autobiographical war film, To Hell and Back.

Who is James Park Sloan? The dust jacket of the Sloan book informs us of the following:

JAMES PARK SLOAN is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a prize-wi

novelist, and a widely published short story writer and critic. He knew Jerzy Kosinski for over twenty years

before Kosinski's death.

A Personal Experience

I recollect, by the way, many years ago talking to a New York Jewish lawyer about Kosinski's book The Painted Bird, partly on the basis of

which this lawyer held the deep conviction that Poles were pretty close to sub-human. When he told me about Kosinski's description of

eyeballs being torn out as an incident that would not be clearly out of place in a Polish household, I replied - to his discomfort - that such

a scene would be about as typical in a Polish household as it would be in an American one. When I added that the only Poles that I had ever

known were intelligent, civilized, and cultured he did not reply, but his ma

impossibility.

What's the Relevance?

Why is so much attention given to Jerzy Kosinski below, even to the point of touching on his sexual deviance and other character defects?

As already mentioned above, Kosinski provides a precedent of a calumniator of a Slavic peoples who has been successfully and thoroughly

discredited, and whose example thus may give Ukrainians courage to similarly discredit their many calumniators, chief among whom is Simon

Wiesenthal. Beyond that, however, the Kosinski biography provides unusually detailed information which brings to the fore several

generalizations which may assist in the understanding of the phenomenon of anti-Ukrainian calumny.

The Gang of Ten

Let us begin. Heading the list of anti-Ukrainian calumniators are the following nine: Yitzhak Arad, Dov Ben-Meir, Yaakov Bleich, Alan

Dershowitz, Sol Littman, Morley Safer, Neal Sher, Elie Wiesel, and Simon Wiesenthal. If we expand this list to include prominent calumniators

of Slavs, Jerzy Kosinski makes it a list of ten. In order to express my disapproval of these individuals, and in order to encourage in Slavs in

general, and in Ukrainians in particular, an attitude of bold intolerance toward their misdeeds, I propose that they be called "the gang of ten,"

as I myself do below.

Incidentally, the link to Sol Littman above will take the reader to the very section in "The Ugly Face of 60 Minutes" that deals with Littman,

but only when using a Netscape browser - readers relying on other browsers will have to use CTRL+F to get down to the section titled "Sol

Littman's Mengele Scare."

Examining the gang of ten, it is possible to arrive at several generalizations, the chief of which may be the following: