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Friday, March 30, 1945
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal. Chronicle
Page Three
What's on Your Mind, Betty Dear?
really no spiritual connection be-
tween you two, or is there a
connection which has been tem-
porarily obscured by misunder-
standings on both sides?
(You are a young, intelligent, vivacious American college graduate—
do you still feel that your Dad's world is entirely divorced from your own?)
Father's World Wide
By PHILIP RUBIN
Dear Betty :
Of course, this isn't your right
name. I'm only calling you Betty
in order not to embarrass you
when your attention will be
called to this letter. Since I
don't know your New York ad-
dress and haven't lately been in
touch with your folks back home,
due to my wandering and won-
dering over the Middle West,
you will have to forgive me for
using this public manner of com-
municating with you, now that
back in New York.
I trust, Betty, that by this
time you're quite settled in thte
Big Tovin, holding down that
important job of Spanish secre-
tary for a big firm, the job you
told me last summer, on the
eve of your departure for New
York, you expected to land here.
I should be very much surprised
if an intelligent, vivacious little
girl like you, and a college girl
at that, didn't get a worthwhile
position in this great city with
its manifold opportunities for in-
telligent, vivacious little girls.
As I sit at the typewriter and
wonder what to write to you, I
suddenly recall a hot argument
you had with your dad last
summer on a warm evening on
the family porch in our home
town. It was one of the most
revealing arguments between a
father and a daughter, between
the older and younger genera-
tions, I was ever privileged to
listen in on. It lasted, if I re-
call rightly, for about half an
hour, and though no conclusions
were reached it was, for me,
who hardly participated in the
discussion—preferring to let you
and your dad fight it out—a
very stimulating mental experi-
ence, since there was so much
obvious sincerity on both sides.
What was the gist of the
father-daughter argtoent — or,
shall I call it, qUarrel? You
complained with a good deal of
bitterness that your father, whose
love for the Yiddish language,
literature and cultural values
borders almost on fanaticism;
was too narrow-minded—perhaps
even too selfish—in his attitude
toward his children, whom he
was anxious to convert to his
views, to held them within his
mental and emotional confines.
Her Argument
"You want me only to under-
stand and to live in your world,
but you make no effort at all
to understand my world, the
American world in which I was
brought up, which is vastly dif-
ferent from the world of Kovno
of 40 years ago."
Thus you thundered 'at your
dad, who in turn accused you of
not respecting his intelligence.
"Quite the contrary," you re-
plied, "it's just because I re-
spect your intelligence, just be-
cause I think highly of you, that
I so deeply resent your attitude
toward the world in which I
was brought up—your deprecat-
ing manner with regard to my
new world interests. Had I
thought you unintelligent, I
would never have bothered to
bring up this matter, since I
would feel that any attempt to
arrive at an understanding with
you would be hopeless."
And so the argument ran back
and forth—father and daughter
each accusing the other of a
stubborn refusal to see the oth-
er's point of view, a point of
view which is itself the result
of a certain kind of education
and milieu—of a "world," as
both you and your dad called it.
In the course of the discussion,
which was getting hotter every
minute and in which a note of
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York, I'm wondering if you
haven't changed your mind a bit
about this notion of yours that
you and your dad are living in
two absolutely different worlds.
True, your father employs the
Yiddish language to express his
deepest and best thoughts and
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bitterness could be sensed, you
mentioned the fact that your
best friend in town, your most
intimate companion from the be-
ginning of your college days un-
til now, to whom you confided
your innermost thoughts and
feelings, was a Christian, not a
Jewish girl. But what possible
interest could your Christian pal
have in the world of Sholem
Aleichem or Avrom Reisen? The
argument was inconclusive—no-
body won, nobody lost—because
the very excitement, the very
passion, with which both you and
your father argued, made some
intellectual agreement — if only
that of victor and vanquished—
impossible.
I remind you of this father-
daughter quarrel, Betty, because
now that you're living in New
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You said that yours is the
American world, while your fath-
er's is that of the Eastern Eur-
ope of a generation ago. But,
if my memory serves me, your
father that night told you that
Jewish life all over the world
has a deep interest for him,
and that because of this interest
he finds in the Yiddish language
the best means for cementing the
bond between Jews who are
scattered over the four corners
of the earth. So your father's
world, after all, takes in a wider
area 'than that embraced by East-
ern Europe.
Here, however, arises a crucial
question which I must put to
you: Are you really as un-Jew-
ish as you sometimes imagine
yourself to be, so that the world
of Jewry, of Jewish suffering and
Jewish striving for something
better, holds no interest whatso-
ever for you? Or are you merely
a bit confused?
Though I don't
n't know what's
on your mind these days, let
me, Betty dear, remind you of
certain pertinent facts about
yourself. True, you were 'born
and raised in a small New Eng-
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