Warren's 'Who Speaks for the Negro?
Is a Review of Status of Anti-Semitism

One of the most distinguished
novelists, literary critics, poets and
essayists has written a powerful
condemnation of race prejudice
and a strong appeal for full civil
rights for the Negro.
Robert Penn Warren, in "Who
Speaks for the Negro?" published
by Random House, demands total
redemption "in our spiritual bank-
ruptcy."
Describing his newest literary
effort, in behalf of the oppressed
black men, as being primarily a
transcript of conversations, War-
ren's challenging question contain-
ed in the title of his book also is
accompanied by answers, empha-
sized by his declaration that there
is no reason to be appalled by
Negro leadership.
Out of his recorded conversa-
tions emerge frank statements on
many issues, including that of anti-
Semitism.

and there are quotations from
novels by Negroes that contain
the anti - Semitic tinge. Rev.
Aaron Henry, for instance, told
Warren that while the image of
the Jew on the national level
caused the Negroes to feel they
could be counted upon, he added
that "frankly, some of our op-
pressors are found in the Jewish
community, which is a statement
I am sorry to have to make."
Henry said in Mississippi, Jews
are more vulnerable to social
pressure and he said after the
white man might clobber the
Negro into submission the Jew
will be next.

The Warren work could have in-
cluded conversations with Jews
who have been and remain among
the leaders in the civil rights strug-
gle. By presenting all the facts the
tension could have been reduced.
Under the circumstances, the
quotations in Warren's excellent
In a sense there is cause for work do provide some cause for
concern over the anti-Jewish at- concern over the Negro anti-Semi-
titudes that have been injected tic attitudes.

in some discussions over, the
Negro issue. But Warren's "own
observation is that, by and large,
both Negroes and non-Jewish
whites in the South assume that
a sympathetic relation exists be-
tween the Jew and the Negro.
And in most places which I
know, some Jew has given a
basis for this assumption."
Thus, we are told in this volume

that "basically the Negro is not

anti-Semitic, and such anti-Semi-
tism as he ordinarily expresses
stems from his personal experience
—I knew one once and he did so-
and-so to me. - The Negroes who
make anti-Semitic r e m a r k s are
those who have run into, say, a
Jewish storekeeper or a Jewish
landlord or a Jewish woman who
is the boss of domestic servants.
But I have met thousands and
thousands of Negroes, and they
have never forgotten, wherever
they've been, the Jews who helped
them — some Jews. Even in the
deep South, you recognize the Jews
have helped them—and remember
Jews have been vulnerable in the
South, too."
But there is a quotation in War-
ren's compilation from Lolis Elie:
"I hate to think that Negroes can
be anti-Semitic, but on the other
hand, they would have to—some
of them would have to be—for this
is part of America. You have to
hate something, 'you know, and if
you don't, theh you can't be Ameri-
can."

U. of Pennsylvania Sets Up
Center for Near East Study

PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The
University of Pennsylvania has es-
tablished a Modern Near East Lan-
quare and Area Center as part of
its graduate school of arts and sci-
ences.
Dr. Moshe Greenberg, professor
of Hebrew and Semitic languages
and literature, has been named
acting director of the new center.
The center will examine the lin-
guistic, historical, political and so-
cio-economic conditions of the
Arab countries and of Israel, Tur-
key and Iran.

$2,500,000 Drive in Miami

MIAMI (JTA)—The YM-YWHA
of Greater Miami in conjunction
with the Jewish Federation of
Greater Miami, has launched a
$2,500,000 Development Fund cam-
paign, to amortize the new build-
ing just acquired in the South-
western section of Miami, and to
rebuild present facilities on Miami
Beach and North Miami.

N.J. Towns Join Plans

PLAINFIELD, N. J. (JTA) —
Plans were announced here for
the establishment of a Central
New Jersey Home for the Aged
to be sponsored by the Jewish
communities of the New Bruns-
wick area, the Elizabeth area,
Perth Amboy and Plainfield.
There are comments on self- Other Jewish communities in Cen-
hate, the Nazi era, their equiva- tral New Jersey are expected to
lents in the status of the Negro, join in the project.

[ Try and Stop Me

By BENNETT CERF-

RETTY NEARLY everybody is familiar with the follow-
ing four quotations—but who originated them? "What
this country needs is a good five-cent cigar." "I never knew
a girl who was ruined by
a. book." "We have met
the enemy and they are
ours." "All the things I
like to do are either im-
moral, illegal, or fatten-
ing." First was said by
Vice - President Thomas
Marshall, number 2 by
Mayor Jimmie Walker,
number 3 by Commodore
Perry, and number 4 by
Alexander Woollcott.
• • •
Have you heard about
the six .Sioux Indians who

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were waiting for a luncheon . 5...
table at Sardi's. "Do you have a reservation?" asked the head
waiter. "We certainly do," one warrior assured him, "in South
Dakota - "
•
•
•
Mourned a once-high-flying senior at Williams: "Last month
any tailor told me I could have no more cuffs on my pants. Now
he says I can have no more pants on the cuff."
*
*
"Animals are always serious," the great philosopher Schopen-
hauer pointed out. "Only to man has God given the divine gift
Of laughter."

•

1965, by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate

The Glory of Jerusalem

BY DAVID SCHARTZ

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

"Renowned Jerusalem," wrote sisted of 99,000 Jews., 33,000 Mos- with many lands to return to had
Mark Twain, "the stateliest name lems and 31,000 Christians.
no such incentive for exerting
* * *
in history, has become a pauper
their utmost. General Ein Breira
village. Palestine sits in sack cloth
The first shot fired by the Arabs could not help them.
and ashes. Over it broods the spell was at a Hadassah ambulance.
of a curse that has withered its
* * *
fields and fettered its energies."
In the fight for the creation of
If Mark Twain were to visit the Jewish State, the Jews were
Jerusalem today and see the new greatly outnumbered by the armies
Museum and other developments, of seven neighboring Arab states.
Nobody
However, they had the advantage
he would write differently.
* * *
UNDERSELLS
of having one of the world's
According to the Talmud, Jerus- greatest military leaders, as their
GREAT LAKES
alem is called in the Bible by commander, General EM Breira.
DON'T EVER
seventy different names. In the
Search the military chronicles
Psalms, it is called Salem, which and you will find no mention of
FORGET IT!!
Some believe was the origional General Ein Breira, but he ranks
name. (After it are named Salem, with Grant, even with Caesar and
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Mass. and Salem, Oregon.)
Napoleon. Some day a great book
"Morrie -
* * *
will be written a-bout General Ein
Sherman"
Of the ten measures of beauty Breira. The Jews of Israel give
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existing in the world, says the him frankly the credit for their
Talmud, Jerusalem possessed nine. triumph.
* * *
Ei n Br eira are the Hebrew
According to legend, there were words for I there is no altern•tive."-
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which cast a fragrance about the to fight to the utmost. The Arabs
whole city.
* * *
In one part of the temple, the
sanctum sanctorium, it was for-
bidden for laymen to walk. When
Sir Moses Montefiore visited
Jerusalem in 1835, he had him-
self carried on a sedan chair
around this site that his feet might
not trample on the Holy ground.
After the destruction of the
Jewish State by Rome, Rabbi
Akiba and his collegues, Rabbi
Joshua and Rabbi Eleazer ben
IT IS A PLEASURE TO ANNOUNCE THAT
Azaria, visited the Temple site.
The two latter burst into weeping
JOSEPH F. HIRSCH
seeing the desolation but Rabbi
Akriba burst into gleeful laughter.
HAS received the man-of-the-month award as the most outstanding
"How can you laugh?" they
asked Rabbi Akiba.
Representative of our Detroit-Gold agency for the month of July.
"I see in this," said Rabbi Akiba,
The award is in recognition of his excellent service to his policy-
"the sure promise of Jerusalem's
holders and our Agency during the month of July.
redemption. The prophets foretold
this desolation and we must there-
fore believe that their other
prophecies of the rebuilding will
also come true."
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break a glass under foot, as a ges-
ture of mourning for the destroyed
Temple.
* * *
The Talmud says that Jerusalem
in the future will become the capi-
tal city of the world (Ben-Gurion
also has predicted this). Also says
the Talmud, many nations will go
to Jerusalem. (This has already
come to pass as far as the Hadas-
sah hospital is concerned. The
Hadassah nurses, it is said, have
to ask the question "where does
it hurt" in every language except
Japanese.)

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Man of the Month

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Many small Bequests

help to build Israel

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The mean annual temperature
of Jerusalem is 62.8. The maxi-
mum sometimes goes above 100
and the minimum seldom goes be-
low 25:
* * *
According to the Zohar, there
is a Jerusalem shel Maalah, a
Jerusalem, above in the Heavens,
which is a likeness to the Jerusa-
lem on earth.
* * *
The first construction in the new
city of Jerusalem, outside the old
walled city, was due to Judah
Touro, an American Jewish patroit
and philanthropist. Touro served
under General Andrew Jackson in
the battle of New Orleans. Parton
in his biography of Jackson de-
votes several pages to Touro, who
was to become best known for his
philanthropies to various American
causes.

* * *
When General Allenby (after

whom Tel Aviv's leading thorough-
fare, Allenby is named) entered
Jerusalem in the first World War ;
he got off his -horse, walking into
the city on foot as a mark of res-
pect for its holiness.
* * *
In 1946, two years before the
establishment of the Jewish State,
Jerusalem already had a Jewish
majority. Its population then con-

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August .6,1965-15

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Jewish State on a sound basis of land develop-
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A bequest to the -Jewish National Fund
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You may desire that your bequest shall
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perpetual yahrzeit or kaddish, or to some
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