Ernanicipation Era to Be Next Subject
of Institute; Dr. Selig Adler Will Speak

"Emancipation, 1700-1850: The distributed in historical journals,
Origins of the Modern Crisis in Dr. Adler wrote a full-length study,
Freedom" will be discussed by his- "The Isolationist Impulse" in 1957,
and it appeared in paperback in
torian Dr. Selig Adler at the 1961.
Midrasha Institute 8:15 p.m. Wed-
"Israel: Its Role in Civiliza-
nesday at the Esther Berman tion" and "From Ararat to Su-
Building, United Hebrew Schools.
burbia: a History of the Jewish
Dr. Adler is Samuel P. Capen Community of Buffalo, N. Y."
professor of American history at are two other studies. His latest
the State University of New York book of American diplomacy
at Buffalo and is known for his during 1921-1941, is scheduled
many writings on -
for 1965 publication by Macmil-
American Jewish
lan.
history.
Dr. Adler is contributing editor
The Midrasha
of "Judaism," a member of the
Institute, called
American Jewish Congress' com-
the Theodore and
mission on international affairs
Mina Bargman
and a member of the executive
Memorial L e c -
council of the American Jewish
tures, is concern-
Historical Society.
ed this year with
A graduate of the University of
"Crises in Jewish
Buffalo, he did graduate work at
History." Dr. Ad-
the University of Illinois and has
ler's talk is the
Dr. Adler
held visiting professorships at
third in the four-part series.
Cornell and at the University of
Author of many major articles Rochester.

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Dr. Shelomo Goitein Points Out Debt
awed by Jews, Moslems to Each Other

Whether the headlines that
class citizens to the Moslem
conquerors, Je wish artisans
mark today's crisis between Arab
were turning to commerce and
and Jew will be tomorrow's his-
trade, and from 850 to 1250
tory lesson only time can say.
they were active in the eco-
Another, much earlier and much
nomic and spiritual life of that
more fortuitous encounter be- period.
tween the two has made historical
(Muhammad hadn't always been
headlines as a "Crisis in Jewish violently opposed to Judaism. In
his early years of teaching, the
History.",
Moslem prophet had seen all
Dr. Shelomo Goitein, professor monotheistic religions as having,
and writer on Islamic culture, a common cause and being es-
discussed "The Rise of Islam and sentially equal. However, his ideas
of universalism soon switched to
Its Influence on Jewish Life and
militant denominationalism, Dr.
Jewish Thought" at the sec o n d Goitein said, when the other
Midrasha Institute lecture held monotheistic religions failed to
Wednesday evening at the Esther see his point of view. The Koran
-therefore attacks the Jews on one
Berman Building.
hand, while incorporating much of
Islam, the "daughter of Juda-
ism," brought to the Jews in its Judaism into its teachings, on the
other.)
sphere of conquest a promise of
Through the "spirit of adven-
glory they had never known, Dr.
Goitein said. Through its founder ture" of the new Jewish merchant
Muhammad, it followed in the class, "an almost miraculous unity
steps of Judaism: "Both have a of religious belief was made pos-
pure. undiluted monotheism" . . sible," said Dr. Goitein. "From a
both emphasize "mitzvot," or daily wretched minority under a bigoted
religious practice, such as dietary and decayed church, the Jews had
laws and prayer . . . both are become part of a vast subject
complemented by the oral law population." Under Moslem rule,
applied by scholars . . . and both Christian and Jew had the same,
consider "study as a form of albeit limited, rights.
In Islam's fourth century, Dr.
worship." In spreading these reli-
gious and ethical ideas of Judaism Goitein pointed out, "the Jews
through Asia, South Africa and were witnessing the acme of the
Europe, Islam contributed to the yeshivoth" and the revival of the
victory of Judaism, Goitein ex- Hebrew language. The new leisure
of the middle-class also made pos-
plained.
sible great strides in secular ed-
Thus, while the Jews of
Arabia were forced to endure ucation. "The -greatest expounders
Muha mma d's harsh words of the Jewish religion also knew
Greek, science, medicine." (Dr.
against them in his Bible, the
Goitein compared this develop-
Koran, Jews from Palestine to
ment to the Hellenistic-Judaic en-
Spain were basking in the glow
counter, discussed in last week's
of a Moslem-inspired "bourgeois
revolution." Even as second- lecture, in which no such dual
allegiance was to be seen.)
In short, "No symbiosis of
Judaism with another culture was
as fruitful and of enduring value
as that of Judaism and Islam,"
said Dr. Goitein.

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Milwaukee Disowns Plan
to Adopt Munich as Sister

MILWAUKEE (JTA)—The Mil-
waukee municipality failed to ap-
prove a suggestion that this city
adopt the West German city of
Munich as a "sister city" after
strong opposition to the move was
voiced at a hearing here by Jew-
ish communal leaders and other
citizens.
Critics of the plan described
Munich as "a place of infamy" and
pointed out that it was the birth-
place of the Nazi Party and was
near the site of the notorious Da-
chau concentration camp where
thousands of Jews and Poles were
put to death. Milwaukee has sub-
stantial Jewish and Polish popu-
lations.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, April 2, 1965

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