Anti-Semitism Among Negroes Reported Declining; Rev, King Lands Jews' Role in Rights Battle
ATLANTA (JTA) — The Rev. ship Conference, and one of the
Martin Luther Jr., president of most prominent Negro leaders in
the Southern Christian Leader- the civil rights field, expressed his
"dismay and disappointment" over
the recent wrecking and looting
by Negroes of Jewish stores in
New York and Rochester.
In a statement to the Southern
Israelite here, he pledged "sol-
emnly" to do his utmost "to up-
CHICAGO (JTA — Discrimina- hold the fair name of the Jews."
tion.against Jews differs greatly in Commenting on Jewish Tele-
the satellite countries and in Rus- graphic Agency reports published
sia, J. I. Fishbein, editor and pub- in the English-Jewish newspaper,
lisher of the Sentinel, Chicago's about the havoc wrought during
Jewish-English weekly, told a press Negro rioting in neighborhoods
conference here upon his return where the shopkeepers were
from a month-long tour of six largely Jewish, the Rev. King
East European countries where he stated:
visited Jewish communities.
"While the outbursts in New
York
City and Rochester cannot
"Each country is different but
all differ completely with the at- be considered expressions of anti-
tiude of the Soviet Union toward Semitism, I am particularly pained
Jews," he said. "In brief, they may to learn that a large percentage
be summed up as follows: In of the looted stores were owned
by our Jewish friends since, as a
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary
and Yugoslavia, the Jews are not group, the Jewish citizens of the
only allowed to lead a Jewish United States have always stood
life, but are also given economic for freedom, justice and and end
to bigotry. Our Jewish friends
and moral assistance by their gov-
ernment to maintain it. Poland, for have demonstrated their commit-
ment to the principle of tolerance
example, has only 30,000 Jews left
and brotherhood in tangible ways,
out of a former 3,000,000, of which often at great personal sacrifices.
8,000 live in Warsaw. Neverthe-
"Can we ever express our appre-
less, they have in many ways a ciation to the rabbis who chose to
more intensive Jewish cultural ex- give moral witness with us in. St.
istence than we have in Chicago. Augustine during our recent pro-
"In Hungary, where 110,000 test against segregation in that
Jews remain, there is a similar at- unhappy city? And who will ever
tiude. Jews occupy important forget the sacrifice of two Jewish
places in the cultural, professional lives. Andrew Goodman and Mi-
and economic life of the country. chael Schwerner, in Mississippi
Few of them want to emigrate to this past June? It would be im-
Israel, because they feel secure. possible to record the contribu-
In Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, tion that the Jewish people have
where 6,000 and 2,000 Jews, resp- made toward the Negro's struggle
ectively, reside, there is also great for freedom—it has been so great.
"I solemnly pledge to do my ut-
freedom. Both of these communi-
ties, unfortunately, are being rap- most to uphold the fair name of
idly reduced to positions of being the Jews. Not only because we
mere museums because of their need their friendship, and surely
dwindling Jewish populations, but we do, but mainly because bigotry
their rights as Jews are carefully in any form is an affront to us
all."
respected."
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Negro Leaders Say
Anti-Semitism Among
Negroes is Declining
NEW YORK (JTA) — Anti-
Semitism among Negroes is be-
lieved to be on the decline, ac-
cording to a survey of Negro
leaders conducted by the New
York World ,Telegram and Sun
and made public here. The con-
sensus of the Negro leaders. the
paper said, is that there is a
rising tide of resentment in Har-
lem and in other New York Negro
areas, but it is more anti-white
than anti-Jewish.
Conceding that there has been
a strong feeling of anti-Semitism
among some Negroes who deal
regularly with Jewish landlords
and merchants, the leaders felt
that the Jew is no longer the tar-
get of Negro frustration and that
most Negroes even view the Jews
as allies in their struggle for civic
rights.
Without exception, the Negro
spokesmen interviewed by the
paper took issue with a statement
issued recently by Shad Polier,
chairman of the national governing
council of the American Jewish
Congress, who predicted that "we
are in for a period of increasing
anti-Semitism among Negroes."
James Farmer, national direc-
tor of the Congress of Racial
Equality, said that the Jews
meekly Quiz
By RABBI SAMUEL, J. FOX
Why are there no vowel signs
in the script of the Sefer Torah?
Generally speaking North Semi-
tic scripts have no vowel marks.
Thus, not only Hebrew; but pract-
ically all early Semitic writing
has no vowels. To date there seems
to be no perfectly acceptable the-
ory for this characteristic. Some
feel that the vowels were left to
the local custom to supply. In
other words, the vowel sounds var-
ied according to local dialect, and
thus the script itself omitted,
vowel sounds so that the writing
could be used in many areas, each
of which supplied its own vocal-
ization to the text. In the case of
the script of the Sefer Torah, vow-
el sounds are omitted even today
when we have already accepted a
system of vocalization. The reason
given for this continuance in om-
itting the vowel sounds is that the
Torah is subject to authoritative
interpretation and explanation by
the masters of the Oral Law and
Tradition. Thus, the pronunciation
of the words according to vowel
sounds, in many cases, indicates
the particular interpretation in-
tended by the Almighty as trans-
mitted through Moses. to subse-
quent generations.
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When were the vowel signs in-
troduced?
There must have been some
system of pronunciation even in
Talmudic times. The rabbis even
in the early post-Biblical times
seem to have a thorough acquaint-
ance with every phase of Bibilical
texts. This system seemed to have
been limited to an oral tradition.
According to Elias Levita and
others, it seems that in the post-
talmudic period, when it was fear-
ed that the exact form of • pronu-
nciation would be lost, there de-
veloped a system of vowel signs
which came to be used only in
those texts which were not for
official reading in the synagogue.
Then, not one, but actually three
different and independent systems
of vowel sounds developed. These
three were known as the Baby-
lonian system, the Palestinian sys-
tem and the Tiberian system. This
activity t000k place from the sixth
to the tenth century. The three
systems represent the develop-
ments in different regions. The
Babylonian system originated in
the Eastern region, the Palestin-
ian system, in the Southwestern
region and the Tiberian system in
the Northwestern region. It is the
latter system which we use today.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 Friday, August 14, 1964
"have made the fight of the
American Negro their fight"
and added that the civil rights
movement and the liberal Jew-
ish community are natural allies.
Dr. Kenneth B. Clark, profes-
sor of psychology at City College
and head of Harlem Youth Op-
portunities Unlimited, said that
he did not think that anti-Semitism
was "a salient part of the con-
temporary Negro protest." He said
the contemporary scapegoat of
the Negro ghetto was the police
and that there was "much less
anti-Semitism today than 20 years
ago."
Whitney M. Young, Jr., execu-
tive of the National Urban League,
said that although "the Jewish
person bears the brunt of the
resentment against the whites,"
he is not seen as a Jew but as a
white. He said he felt there was
less anti-Semitism today "because
the forces at work hostile to the
Negro are hostile to the Jew
too."
James La w s o n, head of the
United African Nationalist Move-
ment, said that it was not anti-
Semitism that motivated the Ne-
gro. "It just happens black people
deal with Jews most.
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