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Israel Bonds Tribute to Truman
Moslems End Month's Fasting
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1962,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc-)
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Former President Harry S. Truman was honored recently at
an Israel Bond dinner in St. Louis for his historic role in the
establishment and development of the State of Israel. Shown
at the dinner, which was attended by more than 1,200 persons,
are Morris A. Shenker (right), Chairman of the St. Louis
Committee for Israel Bonds, and Mrs. Avraham Harman, wife
of Israel's Ambassador to the United States, presenting to Mr.
Truman a silver Torah breastplate in appreciation of his
friendship for Israel.
Kinderbuch Volume Tells Story of
Jewish Creativity in Middle Ages
Jews in the Middle Ages were
victims of persecutions and of
humiliations. In spite of their
trials and tribulations, they
created a great literature, they
contributed valuably to social
and humane efforts of liberals
in those dark years of history,
and they had the encourage-
ment of some Christians who
disapproved of the indignities.
In an ably complied historical
record, published by Kinder-
buch Publications (P. 0. B. 388,
Madison Sq. St., N. Y. 10),
under the title "Our People
Through the Middle Ages,"
Henry Goodm.h, presents an in-
teresting account of that period.
The illustrations by Herbert
Kruckman, one of the ablest
artists engaged in illustrating
Jewish books and magazines,
adds to the attractiveness of the
book.
Goodman commences his
story with the Bar Kochba per-
iod and describes the loyalty to
faith of Jews who were threat-
ened with death if hey pursued
the study of the Torah. He
quotes the famous declaration
of Rabbi Hanina ben Terradio,
who, while being tortured by
the Romans, bundled in a parch-
ment of a Holy Scroll, ex-
claimed: "The parchments burn
and the letters soar in the air."
The Jews held on to faith
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and the Mishna took shape.
The author describes how it
developed and tells about the
great scholars who gave it
form.
Continuing to trace the his-
tory that leads up to the Middle
Ages, Goodman describes activi-
ties in the Babylonian Jewish
center, the compilation of the
Babylonian Talmud, the eras of
the Geonim and the schools of
learning that were created in
Tiberias and in centers of the
exile. He describes the work of
Saadiah Gaon, the attitude of
Mohammed toward Jews, the
role of women in Jewish life.
Life in Arabian Spain, in
France, Germany and England;
the tragic period of the Cru-
sades, the Christian Spanish per-
secutions and the Inquisition
and the events leading up to the
discovery of America and the
role of the first Jewish settlers
in this country.
The value of this splendid
book lies in the thorough
analysis of the scholarly ac-
tivities in Jewry, the works of
commentators like Rashi, the
life of Rabbi Gershom, the
determined will of Jews who
were kept in ghettoes to hold
on to faith and to pass on the
knowledge of the Law to the
children.
There are some happy mo-
ments amidst the tragic events,
but the chief glory lies in the
emergence of Jewish poets,
kings' advisers, physicians, sil-
versmiths and other craftsmen.
Of great value to young and
old, this book is especially
geared for the youth, each chap-
ter concluding with questions
relating to it, to encourage re-
view and further study.
A second volume of "Our Peo-
ple Through the Middle Ages"
is due to he published soon by
Kinderbuch. That volume will
deal with the Age of Humanism
in Italy and Germany, lif in Hol-
lyland, Bohemia and Poland, the
development of Yiddish as a
language, the Shmielnitzky tra-
gedies, the Jews in Turkey, Has-
sidism and subsequent events.
19th Century Explorer
Richard Kandt, a 19th century
German - Jewish scientist a n d
physician, extensively explored
the headwater region of the Nile
River at the turn of the century.
He published an account of his
African explorations in 1905.
The season of Ramadan is
just over. President Bourguiba,
the Moslem ruler of Tunisia,
expressed some displeasure
with it. The Arabs fast for 30
days, neither eating, drinking
nor smoking during Ramadan
and this, it is said, makes them
irritable and not disposed to
good work.
A month of Yom Kippur is
hard to take. Mohammed associ-
ated considerably with Jews
and took over many things from
them. Islam took over Abra-
ham and Moses and 'many other
figures of the Bible and made
them into Arabs. It took over
the Sabbath and changed it to
Friday. Even some of the Mid-
rashin. There is the Midrash
that • every person has 320
worlds besides the present one.
The Moslem legend has made
it into wives. Every good Mos-
lem in Paradise will have 320
beautiful wives to keep him
from being bored.
• • •
Much of what they took over
was good and contributed to
the Arab civilzation, although
for some time that civilization
has stagnated. Culture like
trade needs competition. A
great rabbi said that the reason
God made many men instead
of one big man was that, when
you are alone, you don't see
your faults. When the second
man appears, the first begins
to study himself.
I have no doubts that the
Arabs, for all of their present
opposition to Israel, will copy
many things from Israel, even
as their ancestors did. The
establishments of the State of
Israel was probably the best
thing that could have happened
to the Arabs. After the first
World War, when the Arab
states were given their inde-
pendence, their great leader,
Feisal, came to a complete ac-
cord with Weizmann, and one
of his associates said, "We need
the Jews and the Jews need
us."
• • • • '
No Jew of course can be basi-
cally anti-Arab. To be so would
be to become an anti-Semite. We
are kinsmen racially. They have
their peculiarities even as we.
A friend of mine some years
ago was complaining of how he
went to what was then Arab
Palestine to rent a building for
the showing moving pictures.
"How much rent do you
want?" my friend asked.
"You want the building? It's
,
yours. Why talk about rent?"
said the Arab landlord. "Let's
have some coffee."
So they drank their coffee,
and talked about this and about
that.
How much can you talk about
this and that? After half an
hour of it, my friend thought it
was time to close the deal.
"How much rent?" he asked.
"Listen, yedidi," said the
Arab, "You want the building.
It's yours." He brought in some
more coffee.
And again they talked about
this and that.
In another half an hour, there
was more coffee and, this time,
instead of talking about this
and about that, they talked
about that and this. And every
time, there was the recurrent:
"You want the building? It's
yours."
About midnight, finally, the
Arab was ready to come down
to specifics, said my friend,
"the amount of rent he de-
manded made my hair stand
up"
Personally I think the Arab
was justified. After all, look
at all the coffee that had been
consumed,
• • •
The Arabs are a very hospit-
able people. If they give you a
meal, they want you to be satis-
fied; and so they feel it is dis-
courteous if you do not belch
after the meal. That shows
them you have had enough.
Justice Douglas of the United
States Supreme Court, in his
book of travels about the Near
East, tells of a visit to a camp
of Arab refugees in Trans-
Jordan. The Franciscan monk
in that town told the American
Justice that, while there were
only about 100 Bedouins in that
vicinity, more than 600 were
registered on the refugee rolls
for food cards. The Franciscan
monk said that they had dis-
j covered that many of the Bed-
; ouins just came back and regis-
tered under different names.
Some of them registered under
as many as 20 names. And when
' one of the refugees dies, no one
knows it. He is quietly buried,
and someone else takes his food
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card. So there will always be
a million of these Arab refu-
gees, no matter how their num-
ber actually decreases.
People are often charmed by
their simplicity, but really they
are not as simple as they look.
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