World's Theologians, Scholars, Heads of States Vandals Desecrate Giavestones
Mourn Death at 87 of Prof. Martin Buber in West German Jewish Cemetery
JERUSALEM—Theologians and
philosophers among all faiths and
Jewish communities throughout
the world are paying tribute to the
memory of Prof. Martin Buber,
who died Sunday at the age of 87.
Thousands passed his casket at
the Hebrew University on Monday
prior to the funeral services.
Among them were President
Zalman Shazar, Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol and members of his
cabinet, Knesset Speaker Kaddish
Luz, Justices of the Supreme
C o u r t, non-Jewish clergymen,
writers and pupils.
With President Shazar, Premier
Eshkol, Labor Minister Yigal Al-
lon, Hebrew University president
Eliahu Elath and Jewish National
Fund chairman Yaakov Tsur serv-
ing among the pall bearers, the
catafalque was taken from the
university campus to the ceme-
tery.
Kaddish was recited by Dr. Bu-
bees son. Before the funeral serv-
ices, Dr. Buber's body lay in state
for two hours at the Hebrew Uni-
versity where classes were sus-
pended.
An operation that followed an
illness caused by the breaking of
a leg had weakened him, and his
health began to Ian since April.
the man who was nominated by
(In Washington, Sen. Jacob K.
the late Dag Hammarksj old in I Javitz, New York Republican, said
1951 for the Nobel Prize.
in a Senate speech memorializing
Recognized as the world's out-
standing authority on Hassidism
and mysticism, Dr. Buber was
the author of many works on the
Hassidic m o v e m en t, on the
movement followers and their
rabbis.
He acknowledgedly influenced
the thinking of theologians every-
where and his teachings influ-
enced all faiths, including Chr is-
tianity.
Tributes to the memory of the
world's outstanding philosopher
kept pouring in all week from all
parts of the globe. Heads of
states, university leaders, people
in all walks of life, paid honor to
LATE DR. MARTIN BUBER
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UN NOTES: The United Nations is now going to face a serious prob-
lem with regard to the Arab refugees . . . Many of them are being
conscripted into the so-called Palestine Liberation Army which is
being formed for the sole purpose of fighting Israel . . . And the
conscripts—as well as those Palestine Arabs who join this army as
volunteers—are all refugees maintained by the UN Relief and Works
Agency . . . Is the UNRWA going to continue its support to Arab
refugees officially joining fighting units against Israel, or are they
going to be taken off the UNRWA Relief rolls? . . . The UN cannot
afford to spend funds on elements organized specifically to engage in
war, especially in a war against Israel . . • It would be contradictory
to the present UN policy of seeking to maintain peace on the Arab-
Israel frontiers . . . It would especially be difficult for the UN to
explain why on the one hand United Nations forces are stationed in
the Gaza area to prevent border clashes, while on the other hand
Arab refugees mobilized in the same Gaza area for the purpose of
attacking Israel are benefiting from UN funds . . It would actually
amount to the UN feeding an Arab army which is preparing to
march against Israel, which is a member of the United Nations . . .
The United States government, which is contributing about $23,000,000
a year to the UNRWA program, will be in a similar predicament .. .
There is no question that American taxpayers will raise the issue as
to why the U.S. should help feed an army readying itself for a war
against Israel ... The question may even be raised in the Senate which
is to take up soon the appropriation to the UNRWA in the Foreign
Assistance Act which has just been voted in the House .. . As it is,
there have already been questions asked about the Arab refugees on
the UNRWA relief lists . . . Many of them have long since died or
have migrated to countries where they have found work and should
have long ago been taken off the UNRWA lists . . . Now thousands of
them will be conscripted for training in the Palestine Liberation Army,
which is not finding much sympathy even among some of the Arab
countries hostile to Israel . . . In the light of the acts of sabotage
now being conducted in Israel by some of the Arab infiltrators
coming from the ranks of the Palestine refugees, how otherwise can
the UN act than to take Arab con-scripts off the UNRWA relief lists?
DIPLOMATIC NOTES: The Israel government is represented in
this country by three ambassadors—Avraham Harman, the Israel envoy
in Washington; Michael Comay, Israel's permanent representative at
the United Nations; and Katriel Katz, Israel's consul general in New
York who is actually Israel's envoy to New York Jewry, the largest
Jewish community in the world . . . Leaders of all Jewish groups in
New York will miss Ambassador Katz, who is leaving the United
States this month to become Israel's Ambassador in Moscow . . . Dur-
his term of service in New York, he has won great admiration ... In
his quiet but pleasant way, he worked tirelessly to strengthen the link
of friendship existing between the various groups of New York Jewry
and Israel ... His presence was felt at every important Jewish gather-
ing and his public appearances distinguished themselves by -simplicity,
tact and wisdom . . . His warmth has attracted to him not only Jewish
leaders interested in helping Israel, but also Jewish literary men whose
main interests are cultural . . . His new post in Moscow is not the first
diplomatic post he has held in a Communist country ... He was Israel's
Charge d'Affaires in Budapest for three years and was later Israel's
Ambassador to Poland ... A man of high education, he was a member
of a Kibbutz for 18 years prior to establishment of Israel ... He joined
Irael's Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1949 and has since served in
various positions, including the position of Secretary of the Government
of Israel which he held for three years.
Martin Buber that "the small
flame that was the life of Martin
Buber has flickered and died but
the light he cast will long continue
to illuminate men's lives."
(The New York Times said in an
editorial: "If today the ancient
cold war between the faiths is be-
ing replaced by dialogue and
friendly personal confrontation,
much of the credit must be given
to Martin Buber. It was he, with
his doctrine of 'I-Thou' personal-
ism, who showed the way.")
Prior to the rebirth of Israel,
Dr. Buber belonged to the Ihud
movement headed by the late Dr.
Judah L. Magnes and Henrietta
Szold which advocated a bi-na-
tional state of Arabs and Jews in
Palestine.
He opposed the hanging of
Adolf Eichmann and strongly op-
posed capital punishment.
Prof. Buber was born in Vienna
in 1878 and was raised by his
grandfather Solomon Buber of
Lvov who first introduced him to
Jewish studies. He studied phil-
osophy and history of art at the
Universities of Vienna, Leipzig,
Berlin and Zurich. While still a
student, he became active in the
Zionist movement as a writer and
edited the Viennese Zionist news-
paper, Die Welt.
He was also a founder and edi-
tor of the Jewish Publishing
House in Vienna, the Judischer
Verlag. From 1916 to 1924 he
edited Der Jude, a periodical
which he had founded and which
became the leading organ of
German speaking ews.
From 1923 until his expulsion
from Germany by the Nazis in
1933, Prof. Buber occupied the
chair of Jewish studies at the Uni-
versity of Frankfurt—the only such
chair in all of Germany.
In 1938 following his settlement
in Palestine he became professor
of social philosophy at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, a post he
held until his retirement in 1951
when he became professor
emeritus.
His view that religion is a dia-
logue between God and man and
that self-realization is achieved
through perceiving the divine pres-
ence in one's relationship to the
world and his fellow man had a
decisive impact on the philosophic-
al writing and thinking of post
World War II intellectuals.
During the 1950s, Buber's books
"I and Thou," "Between Man and
Man," "Tales of the Hasidim" and
others, enjoyed a widespread
vogue among students in France,
England and the United States.
In addition to his works on Hasi-
dic thought and the history of
Hasidism, Prof. Buber was the
author of numerous books on the
Bible, Jewish and general philoso-
phy, theology, and Zionist theory.
Together with the late German-
Jewish philosopher Franz Rosen-
zweig he achieved the monumental
task of translating the Old Testa-
ment to German during the years
1926-37.
During his lifetime Martin
Buber was honored by many of
the world's leading universities
and learned societies. He held
honorary degrees from the He-
brew University, the Hebrew
Union College, the Sotbonne and
the New School for Social Re-
search. He was a visiting guest
professor at several universities
in France, Scandinavia, Eng-
land, the Netherlands and the
United States and set off a wide-
spread controversy by returning
to Germany after the war to
lecture.
Although he retired from teach-
ing at the Hebrew University in
1951 he never lost touch with
Israel's students and was always
accessible for consultation. Two
years ago, on his 85th birthday,
the students of the Hebrew Uni-
versity paid tribute to their re-
vered teacher by holding a moving
torch light parade outside his
home in Jerusalem.
A memorial to the Bamberg Synagogue in Bamberg, Germany,
was smeared by vandals with a Nazi swastika and the words, "Judas
verrecke" (Jews die). However, police erased the scrawlings before
the formal unveiling (top) of the memorial to the synagogue
destroyed by Adolf Hitler.
BAMBERG, West Germany
(JTA)—Police announced the ar-
rest of three suspects in a second
anti-Semitic act of vandalism in
Bamberg in 48 hours. The three
were held in connection with the
daubing of gravestones in the Jew-
ish cemetery in Bamberg with
swastikas and anti-Semitic scrib-
blings which occurred Monday
night.
Similar smearings were found
on a monument at the site of the
Bamberg synagogue destroyed by
the Nazis in 1938. The deface-
ments were found Sunday,
The vandalism was discovered
by an American Jewish couple
who came to visit the graves of
relatives. A total of 32 grave-
stones were desecrated with Nazi
inscriptions in letters up to three
feet tall. The inscriptions included
such prases as "Long Live the
SS", Hitler's Elite Guard of kil-
lers, and "Six Million Were Too
Few." A picture of Hitler was at-
tached to one of the stones.
The Bamberg public prosecutor
launched an investigation, as pol-
ice said that contrary to previous
reports no arrests had yet been
made in either the cemetery vand-
alism or the smearing of the monu-
ment.
Police placed a security guard
at the cemetery. There are less
than 100 Jews now living in Barn-
berg.
Ex-Nazi Heads German Conr4,
AJCongress' Dr. Prinz Charges
NEW YORK—The American
Jewish Congress charged Sunday
that the president of the German
Restitution Court of Appeals in
Bremen was a former Nazi who
joined the infamous SS Corps the
year Hitler came to power.
Dr. Joachim Prinz of Newark
called on West German Chancellor
Ludwig Erhard to press for the
"prompt removal" of Karl Arndt,
a stormtrooper since 1933 who is
also one of three German members
of the Arbitral Commission on
Property Rights and Interests in
Germany, an international legal
tribunal.
The accusation and call for dis-
missal came in a report by Dr.
Prinz to the American Jewish Con-
gress national governing council,
meeting at Stephen Wise Congress
House, New York.
Dr. Prinz disclosed that infor-
mation concerning the Nazi resti-
tution official had been confirmed
by the office of German affairs of
the State Department based on
records in its Berlin document cen-
ter.
A spokesman for the West Ger-
man ministry of justice confirmed
the charges but declined to com-
ment on the AJC demand that
Arndt be removed on the grounds
that it was a matter for the State
of Bremen t deal with.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
40—Friday, June 18, 1965
The justice ministry spokesman
said that the government was
about to investigate the matter
when the AJC demand came to
their attention.
(In replying to the charges Tues-
day, Arndt said that he had him-
self been a victim of Nazi perse-
cution when the Nazi opposed
holding a professorship at a Ber-1
lin law academy because of his
"friendly" relations with Jews. `)
At the urging of the Nazi Party.
headded, he was dismissed froth
the academy. He said he had'
never concealed his membership
in Nazi organizations.)
Calling for Arndt's removal, Dr.
Prim declared:
"It is unthinkable that one who
served as an officer in Hitler's
`elite' guard, which played such a
key role in exterminating 6,000,000
of Europe's Jews, should today be
the head of a court which passes
on the validity of restitution
claims filed by survivors of the
Nazi terror and by the relatives
of the victims."
Dr. Prinz added: "The Arndt
case is still another indication that
the German judiciary has not been
cleansed of Hitler's most avid sup-
porters . . . It is difficult to ac-
cept the bland assurances, so fre-
quently given, that everything
necessary is being done to remove
the Nazi taint from German pub-
lic life today."