Freud's Devotion to Jewih Heritage
Belated in Jones' Giant Biography
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First Jewish Cabinet
Member in Netherlands
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Michael H. Godefroi, an 18th
century Dutch jurist and minis-
ter of justice, was the first Jew
to have been appointed to the
cabinet of the Netherlands. An
ardent defender of Jewish
rights, Godefroi was instru-
mental in influencing the Dutch
government to defer signing
commercial treaties with Switz-
erland and Romania, because
Jews in those countries did not
have civic equality.
cause they had always known
the • anti-Semitism that per-
When Ernest Jones published gion, including ours, is crit-
e,i'
"how to respect spiritual
vaded Vienna. It put an end
.s:1 his three-volume biography of ically negative."
A month before he died, the forever to the phase of Ger- values."
aSigmund Freud, it was hailed at
The greatness of Freud
once as one of the greatest London VIVO invited him to man nationalistic enthusiasm
classics of our time. Now, in its become its president to succeed through which he passed in emerges from a great biogra-
phy. Dr. Jones' "The Life and
to; abridged one-volume edition, Dr. Moses Gaster who had just early years."
nz under the title, "The Life and passed away. Freud replied:
His father had told him, when Work of Sigmund Freud" is
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"Because of the active op- 1...3 was 12, of an anti-Semitic without question one of the
;:., Work of Sigmund Freud," pub-
lished by Basic Books (59 4th position which my book, experience when his fur cap was magnificent literary creations of
I Ave., N.Y. 3), we have a work 'Moses and Monotheism,' knocked off and he was told: our time.
Cl) of such great magnitude, for all evoked in Jewish circles, I "Jew, get off the pavement."
lovers of biography and history, doubt whether it would be in Sigmund asked his father what
r. e
4 that the Jones creation is cer- the interests of YIVO to bring he did about it, and when he
tain to live among the most my name before the public was told that he merely picked
up his cap "this lack of .hero-
tg notable literary works of the eye in such a capacity."
Prof. Freud's Jewish, back- ism on the part of his model
century.
To Prof. Lionel Trilling and ground left its marks upon him. man shocked the youngster who
Steven Marcus goes the credit He was influenced by his Bible at once contrasted it in his
on the NEW "62"
fur a most magnificent and ex- reading. He was a devoted stu- mind with the behavior of Ham-
pert accomplishment of editing dent of Jewish history. He loved ilcar when he made his son
r:g and abridging the original a Jewish joke. Every manifesta- Hannibal swear on the house-
three-volume biography by Dr. tion of anti-Semitism aroused hold altar to take vengeance on
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his indignation. Dr. Jones sum- the Romans."
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Jones.
marzed Prof. Freud's Jewish at-
Freud's paternal grandfather
The
author
was
the
only
"for-
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titudes by stating:
was named Ephraim and his
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eigner" in Dr. Freud's circle of
"A Gentile would have said maternal grandfather Schlomo.
' co-workers. Dr. Jones had col- that Freud had few overt The latter died Feb. 21, 1856,
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was closely associated with and anecdotes being perhaps Sigmund's birth, and the-future
everything relating to Freud the most prominent one. But. psychoanalytical genius was
and must be considered as the he felt himself to be Jewish given his. Jewish name of Schlo-
man who was best qualified to to the core, and it evidently mo.
An interesting reference also
write the biography of the meant a great deal to him.
is made to Freud's Jewish atti-
founder of the school of psycho- He had the common Jewish
tudes in the following early pas-
analysis.
sensitiveness to the slight- sages in Jones' biography:
Dr. Jones, who in his own
est hint of anti-Semitism and
"In his short autobiography
right was one of the most fam- he made very few friends
(1925) Freud wrote: 'I have
ous of the world's psycho- who were not Jews. He ob-
reason to believe that my
analysts, died in 1958 at the age jected strongly to the idea of
father's family were settled
of 79.
their being unpopular or in
for a long period in the
any way inferior, and had
The Jones biography is the
Rhineland (at Cologne), that
evidently suffered much from
story of a great man who
in the 14th or 15th century
school
days
onward,
and
espe-
constantly affirmed his Jew-
they fled to the east from an
cially at the University, from
ishness, although he repeat-
anti-Semitic persecution, and
edly said that he had a nega-
that in the course of the 19th
tive attitude on religion.
century they retraced their
League for Israel
Freud's life is traced to his
steps from Lithuania through
YES—to the Jewish National Fund
early Jewish e:_vironment. It Favors Non-Political
Galicia to German Austria.'
was an uninterrupted concern
When the Nazis promulgated
J.N.F. land supports the whole
over the fate of his people Merger of Zionists
their 'racial' doctrines he
Israel economy — and it grows
and until his last days he had
would, half jestingly, half sor-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Sam-
Israel's food — on it stand
a kinship with Jews and took uel H. Daroff, president of the
rowfully, complain that the
Israel's religious, educational,
an interest in events that American Jewish League for Is- Jews had at least as much
affected Jewry.
and welfare institutions.
rael, made public the position right to be on the Rhine as
the Germans, having settled
An indication of Freud's links of his organization with regard
For
information
and advice in strict
there in Roman days when
with his people is given in the to the proposed merger of the
confidence apply to Bequest Department,
concluding chapter which de- t w o competing Confederations the Germans were still en-
gaged in pressing the Celts
scribes Freud's last days in of General Zionists.
Vienna, upon the advent of
The League is affiliated with westward." _
This was one of the senti-
the
World
Zionist
Organization.
Nazism, prior to his departure
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for England where he ended Daroff said that the executive ments of the great man who be-
•his life. On March 13, 1938, two of the League has adopted the Ilieved that Jews survived be-
clays after the Nazis invaded following stand:
1. The American Jewish
Austria, Freud said to Dr.
Jones, referring to the fate of League for Israel reaffirms its
his Vienna Society of Psycho- traditional position on non-
analysts: "After the destruction affiliation a n d non-identifica-
of the Temple in Jerusalem by tion with any political parties in
Titus, Rabbi Jochanan ben Sak- Israel.
2. The League would look
kai asked for permission to
open a.school at Jabneh for the with favor upon a merger of
Presents
study of the Torah. We are go- the two Confederations only if
Its
Twelfth
Annual
ing to do the same. We are, the Neumann Confederation
after all, used to persecution by would make public genuine pro-
our history, tradition and some nouncement in favor of non-
of us by personal experiences." affiliation a n d non-identifica-
He was extended royal honors tion.
in England, and it was there
3. The League would be op-
Directed by
that he finally concluded his posed to any merger which
"Moses and Monotheism," in the would include the Liberal
study of which he devoted most Party (Israel) or any other
of his life. lie had been ad- political party within the
Sunday Evening, March 11, 8:00 P.M.
vised not to publish the book, merged Confederation.
but it became part of him and
4. The League would look
Introduction by
Misha Mischakoff
it finally saw the light of day. with favor upon the creation in
Violinist
Dr. Jones_ tells about the Israel of a genuine new. General
many prominent men who Zionist Council or Society,
called on Freud in London— clearly separate and apart from,
II. G. Wells, Chaim Weiz-
and with no ties to the Liberal
mann, "The famous Zionist Party (Israel) or any other Is-
leader, whom Freud held in raeli political party, with a view
the highest esteem," and to future evaluation of the gen-
Z. Bistritzky
others, and Professor Ya- uineness of its structure and
huda, "the learned Jewish operation as a prerequisite for
historian, who begged Freud admission to and inclusion in
Conductor—Adas
not to publish his Moses a merged Confederation.
hook."
Shalom Symphony
Freud knew that there were
Turks' Bigotry Denounced
Ensemble
objections to hi!.; "Moses" in
ISTANBUL—The Press Court
Adele Brown
which held that the Lawgiver of Honor, an organ of self-con-
Dramatic
was not a Jew but an Egyptian. trol in the Turkish press, has
When he came to London, the denounced the recent anti-Semi-
Soprano
Yid d i s h Scientific Institute tic campaign in the weekly mag-
(YIVO) Committee asked him agine "Karikatur," charging that
for a session with its members. the magazine violated the Press
Golden Age Choir — Adas Shalom Youth Choir
lie had " been honorary presi- Code of Ethics which calls on
Conducted by Cantor Nicholas Fenakel
Israel Fuchs
dent of the Vienna YIVO since the Turkish press to refrain
Bella Goldberg at the Piano
Conducting Ados Shalom Choir
1919. lie replied that he would from publishing news stories
be glad to meet with them, or articles hostile to any reli-
adding: gious or ethnic group.
"You no doubt know that I
gladly and proudly acknowl-
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edge my Jewishness though wise; men who give in if right
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