Exchange Doctor
I at Einstein School
I Guignebert Traces Christianity's= Emergence to Hel lenistic Judaism
In his theologically valuable
The late Prof. Guignebert em- shattered and dispersed the
book, "The Jewish World in phasized in his book, which Jewish nation in 70. Indeed,
Conflicts arose between Jews
and those who began to propa-
gate the Gospel. Dr. Guignebert
wrote that "there came a day,
probably not long after the
death of Jesus, when certain
of the Hellenistic Jews who
the Time of Jesus," the late aroused a great deal of interest it is not impossible that it
Prof. Charles Guignebert, who when it first appeared, that would never have come into
was professor of Christianity at Jesus lived as a Jew, preached being had not that very ca-
the Sorbonne, came to the con- as a Jew to Jews, and that tastrophe rendered it neces-
elusion that if Israel, amidst 'Jews were the carriers of his sary, in order to serve as a
all they tribulations during message on Greek soil. But repository of all the tradi-
Syrian. conquests, "still pre- it was a message of Hellenistic tions and hopes of Jahwism
Dr. Harry Heller (left),
chief of - the medical depart-
ment of Government Hospital,
Tel-Hashomer, Israel, arrived
this week in New York to
spend several weeks as visit-
ing lecturer at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine
of Yeshiva University.. He is
being greeted here by Dr. Irv-
ing M. London, professor of
medicine and chairman of the
department of medicine at the
Einstein College. Dr. Heller is
here on an exchange program
sponsored by the B. deRoths-
child Foundation. Dr. Leo M.
Davidoff, chairman of Ein-
"stein's department of neuro-
logical surgery department
left for the Israel hospital.
'Two Abysses' by S. Lewin Appears Posthumously
Posthumously published, the powerful portrayal of the Nazi fNazis and were destroyed
first volume of Samuel Lewin's ! atrocities..It is an indictment of brutally.
Although fiction, "Two
trilogy, "Two Abysses" ( Tz i ' the German murderous regime
' - - - i and is an expose both of the Abysses" mirrors the horrors
wishen Tzvei TehuMen"), wa
s sufferings of the Jews and their of a generation and indicts the
published by Buchgemeinshaft i heroism during the worst years worst murderers in hi
Y.
bei der Y4ddisher Ratzionalis- preceding and during World
Samuel Lewin, the eminent
tisher Gesellshaft of Buenos War
author, died in New York June
The first book of the trilogy, 3, 1959, at the age of 69. His
I Aires, Argentina.
entitled "B'Eis Dos Groisse literary works reflected the
It is available in this coun- ,
Morden" — "During the Mass spirit of an ethical craving for
try from his Widow, Mrs. Mi- Murders"---deals with the trag- a better life, and imbedded in
riam Lewin, 3470 Cannon Pl.,
edy of the Jews of Poland who his works is a deeply religious
Apt. J12, Bronx 63, N.Y. I were herded into concentration and traditional Jewish view-
This Yiddish novel is a and extermination camps by the point.
Jerusalem
Aviv
Hafia
London
Paris
Vienna
Berlin
New York
Miami Beach
San Francisco
Washington
United Nations
1. All victims of Nazism whose
claims for compensation have been
found justified by the physicians of
the German consulate, must receive
the compensation due them without
further procedure, and without hav-
ing the medical opinion relating to
them renderedineffective by long
distance diagnosis of desk physici-
ans.
2. All 'persecutees whose claims
for compensation for injury to
health have been denied by the con-
sular physicians must have the right
to a review of an opinion of a single
physician for possible errors and
wrong diagnosis by a medical board.
3. All persons whose claims for
compensation for injury to health
have been denied by German•medi-
authorities must have the right
to another review of their cases.
1. • All persecutees whose claims,
while not rejected. have found com-
pensation merely for a short period
of time, must have the same 'right
for a review as those persecutees
whose claims have been rejected
entirely.
A Committee of Nazi Victims
Deprived of Justice and Com-
pensation by the German,Medi-
caI Service was formed at the
meeting to follow up the reso-
lution. Moses Socachevsky was
named chairman of the new
group.
Development of Personnel
tutions developed in Europe
will depend in the long run on
the caliber of the Jewish execu-
tives of those institutions, Herb-
ert Katzki.• assistant director
general of the Joint Distribution
Committee, said tonight. -
Speaking at a dinner meeting
of the first Seminar for Jewish
community executives of Eu-
rope in session here, Katzki
said that for this reason both
the JDC and the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany considered personnel
development one of the major
Challenges of the coming dec-
ade.
Many historical interpreta-
tions in Prof. Guignebert's book
are of considerable interest.
For instance, he wrote that "in
reality the Jews exaggerated
the prosperity and independ-
ence which they imagined them-
selves to have enjoyed" during
the rule of the Hasmoneans.
Other valuable data will be
found in this book.
An interesting foreword to
the volume was written by Dr.
Charles Francis Potter, emi-
nent author of books on re-
ligious themes.
rirciLinvE
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Protest
against the "inhuman attitude"
taken by German medical all-
- cials and indemnification agen-
cies in the processing of claims
-of Nazi victims for injury to
health is voiced in a resolution
adopted at a meeting here of
Jews who suffered physic a
. l in-
juries in Nazi camps. The reso-
lution demanded 'that:
LONDON, (JTA)—The vital-
ity of the postwar Jewish insti-
Thus, he wrote, the true
antecedents of Christianity
"lie on Hellenistic soil, for it
was in Hellenistic Judaism
that it was nurtured and
reared."
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Nazi•Victims in U.S.
Protest Germans'
Physical Exams
Big Challenge in Europe
had been converted to the Gali-
lean hope began to vex the
pure Jews of Jerusalem by en-
tering the synagogues and ad-
vocating their faith with undue
zeal. . . . They were expelled
from the city and scattered
abroad. . . . The message which
these men carried with them
found on the soil of the Dias-
pora more favorable conditions
of survival and development
than in Palestine."
served its racial identity, and Judaism, the step to Christian- and of all the interpretations
was not scattered into isolated ity having been the syncretism and thoughts of its learned
units,
units, this was due entirely to of a Judeo-paganism.
men which might survive that
its religion — a religion which
His view is that neither the bitter experience with its
grew more rigid and jealous as Talmud nor the Gospel are the hateful memories."
the political fortunes of the 'immediate products of a Pales-
He continued to state that
people darkened."
tinian environment, that the the Gospel was born outside of
But a bit later on, in his New Testament writings that Israel and the writers "were
conclusion, in the volume . that seem to be most Jewish in already completely outside
was recently rei ue by Um- appearance did not stem from Judaism." Nevertheless, he
versity Books (1 1 W. 31st, !it.
stated, "the Jewish basis of the
N.Y. 1), the note French i
The Talmud, he wrote, "is Gospel proceeds at one and the
scholar wrote that t was only , rather to be regarded as a same time from the religion of
its nationalistic cha acter" that monument witnessing to the the anavim and from the piety,
saved Judaism "fro the dan- religious vitality of Israel principles and ho - e s of Phar"
ger of complete absorption."
after the catastrophe which saism."
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