Religious Reaction
Aided Supreme Court
Civil Rights Actions

Eichmann Helper Pleads Not Guilty as Trial Starts With 70-Page Indictment Ignorance of Judaism

VIENNA (JTA) — Franz Novak. major, 70-page indictment, when
an SS transportation officer who his trial opened Monday. Tuesday,
was a principal aide to the late the court admitted a second com-
NEW YORK—Favorable reac- Adolf Eichmann, pleaded not guilty plaint, filed by Ludwig Keepes,
tion of the major religious faiths a second time Tuesday as his trial a Hungarian merchant, who
to the Civil Rights Act "unques- proceeded on charges of having charged Novak with responsibility
tionably was influential" in the issued at least 1.000 orders for for sending his mother, wife and
ultimate adoption of that law, U.S. the deportation of Hungarian Jews children to Auschwitz, where they
Supreme Court Justice William J. to their deaths at Auschwitz dur- were murdered.
Brennan, Jr.. declared Sunday ing World War II.
Novak told the court he held
He pleaded not guilty to the only "a subordinate position," his
night at a dinner of the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America.
job involving merely the fore-
Justice Brennan said the "in- Meaning of 'Mendelsohn'
warding of documents "for Jew-
spiring convocation of all faiths in
ish emigrants." Earlier, in Berlin,
The name "Mendelsohn" is
Washington" was an example of
he said, he had also followed or-
typical
of
the
many
names
which
how religion is "abandoning isola-
ders involving the evacuation of
Jews
assumed
as
surnames
when
tion for involvement" in general
Jews. issued by his chief, Rolf
they were forced to do so in 1787
affairs of the public.
Guenther.
according
to
the
edict
of
the
Aus-
He pointed to Jewish leaders
Asked by the prosecution
who are "active and vigorous par- trian Empire. It simply means
whether it did not seem strange
ticipants in the efforts to gain "the son of Mendel" indicating
to him that all the Jews were
equality and respect for human that the original person who as-
being sent to Auschwitz, he re-
rights." and to. the National Coun- sumed this name was one whose
plied: "No, I thought the Jews
cil of Churches for "strong and father's name was Mendel. Like-
were going there to work. In
positive positionS.on poverty and wise "Abramson" was first as-
sumed
my
a
person
whose
father's
those years, everybody regarded
unemployment and racial discrimi-
the Jews as enemies of Ger-
nation." He added that. as Roman name was Abrahani, as "Seligson"
was
assumed
by
one
whose
father's
many."
Catholic, he takes "particular and
name
was
Selig,
or
"Davidson"
pardonable pride in the work of
Novak, who served as Eich-
the Ecumenical Council. whose de- was assumed by one whose father's
mann's transport officer, disap-
liberations "are replete with con- name was David, etc.
sideration of problems of consci-
ence, liberty. freedom. authority
and justice. not as abstractions but
as problems of involvement, per-
sonal commitment and participa-
tion io the context of the every
day needs of human beings."

By GEORGE ELIOT
He had been roused to the con-
sciousness of knowing hardly any-
thing about modern Judaism or the
inner Jewish history. The Chosen
Seventeen witnesses from the
People have been c o m monly
United States, West Germany and
treated as a people chosen for the
Hungary are expected to testify
sake of somebody else, and their
during the trial which . is to last
thinking as something (no matter
more than four weeks. Two men
exactly what) that ought to have
from Israel have already given
been entirely otherwise; and De-
statements in preparation for the
ronda, like his neighbors, had re-
trial.
garded Judaism as a sort of eccen-
Erich Rajakovich, another for- tric fossilized form which an
mer member of the Eichmann staff, accomplished man might dispense
charged with participation in the with studying, and leave to special-
slaughter of Dutch and Belgian ists. But there had flashed to him
Jews; will go on trial on Nov. 28.
the hitherto neglected reality that
Judaism was something still
Whoever teaches his son teaches throbbing in human lives, still mak-
not alone his son but also his son's ing for them the anly conceivable
son, and so on to the end of all vesture of the world.
generations. Rabbi Hiyya ate no
All the members of the body
dy
breakfast till he had taught a boy
a bit of Scripture, repeating with depend upon the heart, and the
purse, —
him what he had learnt the day heart depends on
before, and teaching him a new Terumot.
bit. Rabbi Huna ate no breakfast
till he had taken a boy to school. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
—Kiddushin. 118—Friday, November 20, 1964

peared after the war and worked
under a false name as an agricul-
tural laborer and later in several
printing shops. He was arrested
in a Vienna printing shop in 1961.

UN Body Opens Lists
of 'Immovable Property'
Left by Arabs in Israel

UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. ∎ .ITAi
—Arab refugees who claim they
abandoned "immovable property"
in Isra . when they left Israel in
1948. nay examine files listing
suet real estate assembled by the
United Nations Palestine Concilia-
tion Commission. the PCC an-
nounced.

However, the commission made

it clear that it is not yet ready
"to enter into any discussions
on the actual value of the

property."

The announcement reiterated
one made last May. when the PCC
reported it had completed a long-
pending study for the identifica-
tion of Arab property in Israel.

The commission added that the

identification and listing of the
property is only "a practical
measure" and does not infer that
the PCC "has reached any con-
clusion concerning the implemen-
tation" of a 1948 UN resolution
which calls for "return" of the
refugees to Israel or their com-
pensation.
The commission stated "it be-
lieves, however. that in any solu-
tion of the problem which may be
forthcoming in the future. and
which involves property. it will be
essential to ensure that owner-
ship is adequately verified in an
orderly manner."

The Mosaic Law

By HENRY GEORGE
From the f r e e spirit of the
Mosiac Law sprang the intensity
of family life that amid all disper-
sions and persecution has pre-
served the individuality of the
Hebrew race: the love of independ-
ence that under the most adverse
circumstances has characterized
the Jew: that burning patriotism
that, flamed up in the Maccabees
and bared the breasts of Jewish
peasants to the serried steel of
Grecian phalanx and the resistless
onset of the Roman legion; that
stubborn courage that in exile and
in torture held the Jew to his
faith. It kindled that fire that has
made the strains of Hebrew seers
and poets frame for us the highest
exaltations of thought; that intel-
lectual vigor that has over and
over again made the diy staff bud
and blossom. And passing outward
from one narrow race has exerted
its power wherever the influence
of the Hebrew Scriptures has been
felt. It has toppled thrones and
cast down hierarchies. It strength-

ened the Scottish Covenanter in
the hour of trial, and the Puritan

amid the snows of a strange land.
It charged with the Ironsides at
Nasby; it stood behind the low
redoubt on Bunker Hill.

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