Dag Hammarskjold and Martin !tuber

5,600 Latins Settle in Israel in 1963

Reporting that 5,600 South Am- South. America, Duvdevani spoke
a meeting of the American Zion-
marskjold over a period of about "Single Form." In Hammarskjold's
migrated to Israel during at
ericans
ist Council. He said that the South
36 years. including his years at the diary, we read this poem, entitled
(JTA Correspondent at the UN)
1963, Baruch Duvdevani, director Americanimmigration is of a very
(Copyright. 1964, JTA, Inc.)
U.N. Written in Swedish, the "Single Form":
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of the Aliyah department ce the high level, estimating that two
The breaking wave
diary was translated by Leif Sjo-
Jewish Agency in Jeruaslem, said thirds of the immigrants are pro-
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—On berg and W. H. Auden. The latter,
And the muscle as it contracts
that "the Jews of South America fessionals and that over 50 per
Obey the same law.
the surface, no two men seemed to one of the most prominent English
resemble each in spirit less than critics and poets, was a friend of
An austere line
are very aliyah - minded and we cent are under 50 years of age.
Gathers the body's play of
have every reason to believe that
Martin Buber, the venerable pro- Hammarskjold's. Mr. Auden also
The great majority of the aliyah
this aliyah will continue and in- from South America comes from
strength
fessor-emeritus of the Hebrew Uni- contributed a foreword to the
In a bold balance.
versify in Jerusalem, and Dag volume. But. possibly because he
crease during the next few years." the Argentine, some 4,500 out of
Shall my soul meet
Hammarskjold , the late, brilliant is removed from the concepts of
In New York en route to Israel the total 5,600, with the rest com-
This curve. as .a bend in the road
Secretary-General of the United religious existentialism. he made
after spending over two months in ing mainly from Chile and Urug-
On her way to form?
Nations. That Hammarskjold had no reference to the similarities be-
uay.
Here we have that concept of
vast respect and an affinity for tween views of Hammarskjold and
Duvdevani said that the strength
"meeting** again. expressed in an-
Buber was well known here to Buber.
Israel: Convention Land
of the Nazi movement in the Arg-
other form. now poured into
those who understood the lives
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TEL AVIV—Events scheduled entine and the widespread anti-
and activities of both. Hammarsk-
Buber's essential "message," bronze.
next year in Israel include the Cae- Zionist propaganda of the Arab
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jold quoted copiously from the
sarea International Golf Tourna- League have contributed to much
Jewish philosopher in some major what another famous scholar, Prof.
There is much more in "Mark-
ment-Rothschild Trophy in March; uncertainty among South Ameri-
Will Herberg. calls "the heart" of ings." There is much of death—
addresses.
International Flower Exhibition,
Hammarskjold's engagement Buber's teaching. has been sum- but a reading of the diary with an April; opening of the Israel Mu- can Jews about their future, espec-
ially among young <professionals
marized by Prof. Heeberg in these understanding of the Buberian
world gathering of Jewish and intellectuals.
with Buber became clearer to the
concept motivating Hammarskjold seum,
War Veteran and Bnai Brith con-
world when two letters were dis- words: "Real life is meeting."
covered to have been dictated by The reference here is to man's must show that almost obsessive vention in May: 36th Congress of He who rears his son to study
him on the very last day he had ! need for "meeting" with God. In engagement with death as a yes- the International Union of Public Torah, and takes him twice daily
- I and Thou." Buber stated this saying. an affirmation, to life.
spent at United Nations headquar- concept thus: ".The primary word There is much love. But, essential- Transport, June; Maccabiah Games to the School, is as if he observed
and Israel Festival, August; and the Torah twice daily.--Zohar.
k,7114 I-Thou can be spoken only with ly. it is a Spinozistic concern with International Harp Contest, Sep-
the whole being. Concentration love. "amor dei intellectualis.
and fusion into the whole being Was Hammarskjold, like Spinoza, tember.
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out me. All real living is meeting." magnificence!
FOR EVERY
the lions anyone who would have
Buber. it is this "meeting." the
Agree or disagree with Ham- suggested to me to become a candi-
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fusion of man and God that gives marskjold the man of action—one date. After my election, I would
meaning to life. And in his - diary. ; must still strive to understand throw boiling water on anyone who
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those letters was to Buber. the actions.
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other to Hammarskjold's publish-
Though his diary. Hammarskjold and ethical writer who died in
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ers. Bonnier. in Stockholm. To shows that—like Buber—he corn- Regensburg in 1217.)
both he wrote that he was under- bined the inner spirit of contem-
There is a kind of meekness
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taking a translation into Swedish . elation with man's outer need for
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of Buber's basic work of religious action. The lives of both men have causes the heirs of the humble to
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existentialism, "I and Thou." After been parallel. Buber. too, was inherit a burning fire in Gehenna.
Hammarskjold's death, it was never "merely" a philosopher. And what kind is that? If a man
found that. on that very last tour From his younger days in Ger-
of duty. he had taken with .. him two ' many. to his latter years in Israel; sees that his children, relatives, or
are of bad behavior, and it
copies of "I and Thou," one in Buber had been also a man of pupils
lies within his power to correct .
English. the other in , the ori g inal action. The only difference be-
them, by reprimanding or by beat-
German. Furthermore, he had tween the two is . this: In Buber's ;
Now With
i them. but he says to himself,
actually made a start on that case. his civic and political work ing
Hair Fashions by
shall rather be agreeable to
' translation. completing 12 pages' has been overshadotved by his . - I
them and not reprimand or beat
during that last hectic week of h is status of philosopher; in Ham-
most surely then does he
life when, as we learned, he spent marskjold's instance. the states- :
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emy, Hammarskjold was advocat- ligious existential philosophy.
I In connection with such a case it
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ing the grant of the annual Nobel
is written. "He that spareth the
Prize in Literature to Buber. That - One need not have always rod hateth his son" (Prov. 13:24).
is why he had started on that agreed with Buber the civic man— It is also said that he who smites
translation into Swedish. On two as has been the case especially in his grown-up son transgresses the
- other occasions. works translated his involvement with certain con- injunction. "Put not a stumbling-
by Hammarskjold into Swedish— cepts regarding Arab-Israeli rela- block before the blind" (Lev. 19:
so that his fellow members in the tions. Likewise. one need not have . 14'. But a son that is accustomed
Swedish Academy could read those always agreed with Hammarskjold to reproofs of instruction, and is
works more easily — led to the the Secretary-General. In both. beaten white small, will not resent
award of the Nobel Prize to the one need not reject the "other" it if his father beats him when he
• their
th •
up
writer thus pinpointed by Ham- facet of the man. But stud y
- up.
is Erown
• " •
-
careers and their writings, and you
marskjold.
kjol d.
There
is another kind of meek-
cannot
help
feel
the
deepest
integ-
*
*
ness which likewise brings a man
rity in each of the men. Their acts
No• we have in Hammarskjold' s may not have matched their writ- down to Gehenna. For instance, a
man sits in a court of justice, and
own words the clearest of state- ings. But. in their total personal-
knows that the judges are in error.
ments on the spiritual paralle
ities, both men are now seen as or a private man knows that the
between the Swedish aristocrat, having a unity. a wholeness. pre-
.
for .nearly eight years the embo di- cisely because each in his own way, court is in error, but says, "How
ment of global statesmanship—and was motivated by the Buberian shall I go and put them to shame?"
the Jew whose "I and Thou" and "message" as embodied in "I and Or a man knows that the judges
are not well versed in law, while
other works have placed Martin
Thou.'
AT THE
he is well versed, and when they
Buber in the very front ranks of
That Hammarskjold lived that say to him, "Sit with us that we
the world's philosophers. Not only
because of that relationship, but inner life so thoroughly, without may not go astray," he replies, "al
also because the book throws a ! revealing his spirituality to the shall not take a seat. for ye are
sharp light on the personality of rest of the world, has come as a well versed." It is obvious that if
Hammarskjold, the man whose surprise. almost as a shock, to the they go astray. the sin is to be at-
U.N. actions had made such a pro- vast majority of people who were tached to him. Another instance is
found impact on the Middle East dazzled by his urbanity and could when a man hears that the congre-
in general and on Israel-Arab re- not see the deep spirituality of the gation speak falsely, and he says,
lations in particular, it seems im- man. Actually, both spirit and ac- "Who am I that I should correct
portant to take a good hard look tion. both contemplation and prac- them?" Behold. it is written, "And
at Hammarskjold—as revealed by tice, are now revealed to have in thy majesty prosper, ride on, in
motivated the man. He was all "of behalf of truth and humility of
the man. himself.
righteousness" (Psalms 45:5). From
one piece."
That view appears in a book just
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this we infer that there is a kind
published by Alfred A. Knopf, en-
It is interesting to note that two of humility which is not righteous-
titled "Markings." The book con-
old friends of his —the British ness. . . .
sists of a diary kept by Ham- sculptor, Barbara Hepworth, and
There is no Sitra Ahara (Unclean
the American Jewish leader, Jacob
Steam Mill Builder
Blaustein — saw in Hammarskjold Spiral that has not a thin thread
Joseph Hambro, a Jewish finan- what most of the world had missed. of the Sitra Kadisha (Holy Spirit).
cier who lived in Denmark in the In front of the U.N. Secretariat There is no fantasy without a ker-
early part of the 1900 century, was building now, there is a sculpture, nel of wheat (truth) in the mass of
responsible for much of the eco- in free-flowing bronze, by Miss chaff (untruths).—Zohar, Tosefta.
atomic progress of the country. He 'Hepworth, donated by Mr. Blau
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
built the first steam mill in Co- stein to the memory of Hammarsk-
jold. The sculpture is entitled 36—Friday, November 13, 1964
penhagen.

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