German Jesuit Says Jews Who Killed Jesus Weren't
Guilty of Deicide and Didn't Represent Whole Jewry
ROME; (JTA)The rejection
of Jesus Christ by the Jews
cannot be charged to the Jew-
ish people as a whole, a Ger-
man Jesuit, Dr. Ludwig V.
Hertling, declared here in an
article apparently evoking great
interest among the prelates at-
tending the Ecumenical Council
being held at the Vatican.
The article appeared in "Stim-
mender Zeit," official organ of
the German Jesuits. The timing
of the issue, while the Ecumeni-
cal Council is slated to discuss
the very problem of Jewish
"guilt" for Christ's death, and
the fact that the periodical was
sold out on news-stands here
within several hours, under-
scored the importance attached
to the issue by the Council dele-
gates, according to observers
here.
First, according to Dr. Hert-
ling, "deicide cannot be charged
against the Jewish people, be-
cause they had not recognized,
nor acknowledged, Jesus' char-
acter as being God. It would
have been asking very much of
a Jew, grown up in the spirit
of the Old Testament, in
the most severe monotheism,"
writes the German Jesuit, "to
understand that Jesus meant by
his reaffirmation of being
`God's son' as being One with
His Father, or how God, who
had revealed Himself in the old
covenant as a purely spiritual
being, could identify himself
with a simple human being
originating in Nazareth and
whose parents were known to
all."
Dr. Hertling maintained fur-
ther that the sentencing of
Jesus to death by crucifixion
cannot be charged "to the whole
Jewish people." "Neither can
the High Priest, nor the San-
hedrin," he wrote, "be consid-
ered representative of the Jew-
ish people, nor the few thou-
sand who cried 'crucify Him'."
These could not be considered
representative of the "millions
of Jewish people who then lived
in and outside Palestine," the
scholar maintained. .
The writer compared the
"confused era" of the period
with the later times of the Ref-
ormation, and held that a "ju
dicial error" had taken place
when the decision was made to
crucify Jesus. The guilt, he
stated, "was not of the whole
people. The Church was found-
ed and cemented by those Jews
who did adhere (to Christ's
principles) and who hoped that
the whole people would do the
same."
ganizations, sometimes compet- upon the unfortunate view urged
beginning, Jewish voters were ing among themselves within by some of the pollsters, so
suspect of Kennedy largely be-
cause they doubted the liberality
of his position on numerous is-
sues. By the time November
rolled around, Jewish voters were
solidly in Kenedy's camp because
he was a Catholic and deserved
support as a member of a mi-
nority group, even though an-
other minority group . . . Jewish
voters may have accounted for
Kennedy's narrow margin of
victory two years ago."
Discussing the response of can-
didates to religious blocs, Quayle
said: "If Nixon is weak among
Jewish voters, we do not mean
that he dons .a skull cap and goes
from temple to temple shaking
hands. If Kennedy's religion is
hurting him, it does not mean
that he gives up Church attend-
ance during a campaign. In Nix-
on's case . . . it might mean that
he would accept more invitations
from Bnai Brith and other such
organizations."
In the view of Quayle "religi-
ous groups do not vote with
rigid conformity or under the
direction of their leadership" but
"their vote clusters in blocs."
Chairman Stanley H. Lowell
of the New York City Commis-
sion on Human Rights deplored
the growing pressures in politi-
cal areas by religious and racial
groups.
While, according to Lowell, it
is "proper for the Board of
Rabbis in New York to fight
legislation which would outlaw
Jewish ritual slaughtering . .
this kind of legitimate activity
in the area of their specialized
concern has a tendency however
to spill over."
Lowell said that in New York
"a situation has recently de-
veloped and spread among re-
ligious, racial and national origin
groups. There has come into ex-
istence over the period of the
last decade a series of organiza-
tions which claim to represent
all Jewish employees, or all
Catholic employees or all
Protestant employees in munici-
pal government . . . Nominally,
they are organized for spiritual
and purely religious purposes or
for cultural and purely historical
purposes . . . However, these or-
went to Paris after Poland . was
liberated.
PARIS, (JTA) — Anna Lang-
fus, Polish-born Jewish writer,
was awarded the Prix Goncourt,
France's most important literary
award, for her novel "Luggage
of Sand," about a Polish Jewish
refugee girl in France.
In the 59 years of Prix Gon-
court awards, Miss LangfuS is
the fourth woman to receive the
award. She was a member of
the Resistance in Poland until
she was arrested by the Gestapo,
surviving that experience. She
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their own groups, have had a prominent in our political life
most unfortunate effect upon today, who stress the fact that
goVernment and politics in the votes and points of view are
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Lowell said a pressure sys- groupings."
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which should be relegated to
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