Memmi Explodes 'Theories' on Jews Israeli-U.S. Jews Sponsor 'Dialogue'

Chair in Jewish Culture
to Be Established at
Albert Memmi. a native of plodes the theory of the Jew
Roosevelt University
Tunis, who was interned in a I as an economic figure just as
CHICAGO, (JTA) — Roose-
labor camp during World War , the theory of the Jew as a bio-
velt University announced a gift
H, later studied at the Univer- logical figure was exploded. It
of $25,000 for the establish-
sity of Algiers and at the Sor- means that the Jew is not a
ment of the David H. and Milton
bonne in Paris, drew upon his universal economic. figure any
Ratner Chair in Jewish Culture
life's experiences as a Jew more than he is a universal
and Literature at the school.
when he wrote his first two biological figure."
The
program of Jewish studies,
novels, "The Pillar of Salt" and ' Thus he refuses to believe
leading to a baccalaureate de-
"Strangers." His newest book, that Jews are economically de-
gree in such studies, will be
"Portrait of a Jew," published finable, that they conquered
among the few in the United
by Orion Press (119 E. 19th, the world economically, and he
States offered at the university
N.Y.3), continues the trend of deplores the Marxist interpreta- The first "dialogue" between
American Jews and Israelis on level and the only one in
self-searching in evaluating his tion of the Jews.
the
problems
involved
in
establishing
a
positive
and
health
Illinois.
Jewishness.
Anti-Semitic fables are an-
relationship between the two communities will be held in
Because he delves deeply alyzed and the forged Pro-
Jerusalem June 12-14 under the auspices of the American
Michigan has 324 public li-
into Jewish experiences his tocols of the Elders of Zion
Jewish Congress. Some 500 American Jews will fly to Israel to
braries.
life, as he states in this new are termed "frenzied hatred."
participate in a series of round-table discussions with an equal
and challenging work, is no , After exploring the hatreds number of Israelis. Among the outstanding Israelis who will
longer viewed as his own but against the Jews, he recognizes address the conference are (left to right) Prime Minister Ben-
that of his entire people. "a certain amount of fatalism
Gurion; President Ben-Zvi; Moshe Sharrett, chairman of the
Adopting an attitude of "a in the fate imposed upon the Jewish Agency; and Martin Buber, noted philosopher.
W0ODWARD.IC.RD.Clilal5 PK
Ion stru gg le against
i t myself,"
If " Jews
J
or in the social and cul-
-
— -
Memmi states that the book tural facts that are so heavy ikT
causes him pain. "My enemies and so coercive that they are IN
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will jeer and say I admit the equally imposed on the non-
special to The Jewi s hN
weaknesses' of the Jews; my Jews; I recognize that it is nee- ! NEW YORK A
en-
friends—.Jewish and non-Jew- essary to make a great effort to tion of Jewish publishers held
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ish—will say that I give ammu-
escape them and that one must at the Overseas Press Club here
nition to the anti-Semites." he he among the best to succeed." last week, Raphael Levy UJA
states. as he proceeds to avoid
He sees in the emergence of public relations director, told
postures."
Israel the entrance upon a new : the story about the Catholic,
Indeed, he does not paint period
of history, with the pro- Protestant and Jew who reached
a glorious picture, when he cess of liberation "only just be- the "pearly gates" and were
declares, and proceeds on
ginning:" that "the complete :ordered to hell. The first was
that basis, on the theory that liberation
of the Jew has per- . taken down a thousand feet on
"the Jewish fate, as I have haps begun, but as long as his- 1
an elevator and was ordered
lived it, is first of all one of tort' hesitates, the calling to into
purgatory. Then came the
misfortune."
account goes on "
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Protestant's
turn and he was
Pitifully, he sees "oblivion."
taken down another thousand
in his adoption of a negative
feet into the turmoi1 of
attitude. lie draws upon the U.S. Sends Trade
oblivion.
Fabulous Screen Tour to
major historic occurrences in Mi ss i on to Israel
SUN., JUNE 3 — 8:30 p.m.
Then the elevator moved
the Land of the Bible.
evaluating Jewish life, the eco-
In Person — Ford Auditorium
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The down another thousand feet
nomic problems, the poverty,
Tickets 52.50, $3.50, $4.50 at
the penury, and he asserts: "In United States Department of and the elevator door opened,
GRINNELL'S, 1515 Woodward,
Detroit; MARWIL'S, Northland;
reporting my personal experi- Commerce today named a five- the frightened Jew looked into
MARTY'S, Birmingham.
•n•es. I do not wish merely to man delegation which will go a setting of sunshine and green
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fields
and
flowers.
"Is
this
note that there was a ghetto in to Israel next month as the
my life and that this reference, first U.S. trade mission there. hell?" he asked the keeper of
concealed in my heart, makes The members of the mission the gate. "Yes, it is," came the
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it impossible for me to con- are experts in the fields of reply, "but look what you Jews
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sider the economic accusation heavy equipment and earth did to it—it is your irrigation
schemes
that
spoiled
it."
moving
machinery;
food
proc-
seriously. Yet, when I think of
alb
Jewish economy, the pictures essing; chemicals, synthetics
These
are
true
good
stories
and
fibres;
semi-manufactured
that come before my eyes are
of the tiara in Tunis, the Mal- machine tools and metals; and from the USSR:
One is about the Jew who
lah in Morocco, the rue de electronics for medicine and
Ecouffes in Paris, and this ex- science. The group will stay in couldn't get a job. He went to
Israel nearly the entire month government offices, knocked at
of June.
many doors, and finally, after
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it was ascertained that he was
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told: "This is not the atomic
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vised to do something to dis-
I.,. Bibring, clinical professor of prove
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WALTHAM, Mass., (JTA-) —
Brandeis University will begin
a program in September to
train social workers for leading
roles in community mental
health planning it was an-
I flounced here. •
The program, underwritten
by annual grants of $34,000 -
from the National Institutes of
Health, will be conducted by
the faculty of the Florence
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Luft Heads Foreign
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HOLLYWOOD, (JTA)—Her-
bert G. Luft, for more than six
years Hollywood columnist for
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
was elected secretary of the
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