`Rampart Theo ry': The Jewish School of Milan, Shows Fallacy
Salt Lake City Bank Buys
$35,000 in Israel Bonds
The G-ianite National Bank of
Salt Lake City became the first
school comes to nearly $200,000, a ited to Tarawa Torah courses, in
quarter of which is covered by gov some instances by correspondence bank in the State of Utah to pur-
ernment grants, reimbursements only. This, though a good thing in chase State of Israel Bonds. At
He persuaded the flabbergasted
ROME — The Jewish School in
and earmarked gifts the rest of itself, is rather on the "minimum" an Israel Bond dinner, sopnsored
local
school
authorities
to
delegate
Milan, with its 1,000 pupils—which
$150,000 is covered by the - general side. The Sally Mayer Foundation by the Salt Lake City Bnai.Brith,
as
the
law
re-
a
commissioner
—
means 90 per cent of the Jewish
Willis Carlisle and Niesen R. Bank,
budget of the community. "Well," has its development plans, too.
school age population in that city quired. He personally advised pu- Dr. Schaumann, the school princi-
In Milan, a Jew paying his obliga- executive vice-president and board
— with its 60 classrooms and 75 pils and teachers. They met one
pal, said, "the school is our missile; tory, and not low, taxes to the member of the bank, respectively,
teachers, is doubtless a remarkable October day, when the SS-guards
Jewish community with a big sigh, presented a $35,000 check for
missiles cost money."
Jewish achievement not only when were springing up everywhere in
Israel Bonds to Leonard Pollock,
But is that really so much? It knows that his money contributes chairman of the dinner.
related to the small community of town. Since the school building—
to the relief of the needy, to reli-
6,000 Jewish souls in Milan, but then the old one in via Eupili — means an average $150 per pupil gious services, to the medical dis-
also in relation to the whole of might have easily turned into a per year,- or, for the 12 years of a
IF YOU TURN THE
trap, examinations were held in the high level general and Jewish com- pensary, to the old age home, and
European Jewry. •,
T•grZt•
parking lot, neighbors playing the plete education, not more than $1,- in a good part to maintain that
It is often asserted that the
school;
in
short,
to
pay
for
the
done ac- 800.
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Milan school dates back to Muso- stooges. Everything was
necessary
foundation
of
Jewish
life
.UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
The building also houses the
linrs racial laws of 1938 when" cording to regulations, the ques
in his town and partly in the whole
FIND A FINER- WINE THAN
Jewish pupils and teachers were tioning, the protocols, the reports, Sally Mayer Foundation — named region.
forced out of Italian governmental the signatures -- and some good after the unforgettable late bene-
"I
cannot
help
it,
to
me
it
sounds
factor of the Milan community and
schools and that it is proof that angel protected them.
the untiring promoter and helper like a sigh of relief," a top official
Judaism is kept alive by external
Certainly, this was an heroic
of any Jewish effort in Italy. It of the community administration
pressure, persecutions, siege and
act; however, it was the typical
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
organizes Hebrew (Man) courses, told me. He is probably right.
isolation. That theory—aptly called
heroism of the besieged, the
biblical studies, conferences for
"rampart theory"—thus denies that
heroism of despair. What was at
adults, edits various publications,
it had been Jewish values that en-
stake were not a few school years
recently organied an exhibition of
abled the Jewish people to survive, t but lives; the besiegers were out
Jewish books and a congress of
and that it had been for Jewish
Ill
llli`.
to kill and could not be combated
Jewish physicians.
values that the people wanted to
with Latin syntax or Pythago-
Milan Jewry looks ahead toward
rean theorems.
survive.
further achievements in connection
The Milan Jewish School shows
MAN,
The long leap occurred in the with the school. The kindergarten
the fallacy of the "rampart theory." postwar period, when apparently
THAT'S
The school .was actually founded in there was no more need for the wing will be supplemented; then
A DISH:
they think of a boarding house
the "quiet '20s" long before the J ewish school, since the
g
which will enable children from
Italian racial laws of 1938 imposed
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TO
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kindergarten classes. Those five to 500 in 1954, and 950 in 1964. of the Milan school. Jewish educa-
SERVE! to: Phyllis Wolff, Penn Yan, New York
years until -1943 were indeed the More significant, perhaps, are the tion outside the big centers is Um-
"rampart period." No doubt„ great figures referring to school-space:
efforts and sacrifices were made from a surface of 600 square yards
then to awaken Jewish life, Jewish in 1945, to 1,200 in 1956 and 15,000
sense of solidarity. No doubt. that square yards in 1963! This shows
period had the merit of preparing the passage from the narrow, over-
the development of the years to crowded angular old premises to
come, of our years. But without the the present huge. streamlined lu-
'
return of freedom. these efforts minous and spacious building.
would have remained a record, an
Inside the building. nothing in-
exhibition piece.
deed was forgotten. Apart from the
No doubt. it was a period of
classrooms, there are two spacious
heroism and it finished with an
halls for physics and chemistry. two
heroic act. In September 1943,
big halls for general meetings, two
when Nazis were already taking
gymnasiums. lunch rooms and snack
over Italy and at once started
rooms. special workshops for handi-
their man-hunt of Jews, the then
craft (entrusted to the Milan ORT
director of the school neverthe-
vocational school) for children in
less insisted that the scheduled
the elementary schools and for
examinations should take place—
courses in radiotechnics and model-
ing (choice courses for senior high
school pupils). At the end of one
wing. there are the provisional kin-
dergarten classrooms; the wing has
to be completed.
BY JULIO DRESNER
JTA Correspondent in Rome
(Copyright 1964, JTA Inc.)
"the children should not lose a
year," he said.
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The total cost was about $1.-
200,000, in part subsidized by the
Claims Conference and the
American Joint Distribution
Committee, in part by donations
from private community mem-
bers. According to the custom
here. many classrooms have the
name of the donor inscribed on
their entrance. The rest was
borne by the Jewish community.
The school's curricula are those
requested by the Italian Ministry
of Education. of course. They are
largely supplemented by Jewish
subject: matter: Hebrew language.
Jew;sh history. religion. and so on.
The yearly cost of the whole
Religious Liberty
Before Courts on
Definition of God
Does the Constitution give Con-
gress the power td; define God?
"No," said the American Jewish
Congress in a friend-of-the-court
brief filed with the U.S. Supreme
Court.
The American Jewish Congress
"amicus curiae" brief covered three
conscientious-objector cases that
will be argued before the high
court next week.
The cases are tests of church-
state separation and religious lib-
erty under the U.S. Constitution.
Two of the cases involve New
Yorkers; the other concerns a
Californian. All three were men of
draft age who claimed exemption
from military service as conscien-
tious objectors on religious
grounds, but who denied belief
in a "Supreme Being."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 13, 1964-13
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