Julien Bryan, popular world
traveler and lecturer whose docu-
mented reports on Russia, Poland,
Germany and the Middle East
have been widely acclaimed in
scores of American communities,
will address the Center Social Club

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

8—Friday, January 6, 1967

Julien Bryan to Address Center Groups
on Tuesday; Will Deliver Israel
Illustrated Lecture Here Jan. 15

Bryan is coming here next week
to participate in the George Pier-
rot television travel programs
starting at 5 p.m. Monday, over
Station WWJ.

At 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15,
Bryan will deliver an illustrated
lecture, at the Detroit Institute
of Arts, on "Israel Today."

Bringing with him his latest
color films, Bryan will report on
his visits in the Middle East and
will describe the recent achieve-
ments in Israel.
A native of Pennsylvania, Bryan
was graduated from Princeton Uni-
versity and studied at Union Theo-
logical Seminary. He emerged with
a strong humanitarian viewpoint
which has enriched his many ap-
pearances. During World War II,
he was the last cameraman to
JULIEN BRYAN
leave Warsaw during its tragic
and the Center Culture Club, at bombardment, and the dramatic
their joint meeting at the Jewish films he smuggled out helped mold
anti-Nazi opinion in America.
Center, 1 p.m. Tuesday.

Great Jewish Impact on U.S. Culture
Linked to Hebraic,- Immigrant Values

NEW YORK (JTA)—A leading
American historian said here last
week that ancient Hebraic values
and those of the Jewish immi-
grants in the United States were
the two most significant elements
in contemporary American cul-
ture. He urged his fellow his-
torians to go deeply into Ameri-
can history for its Jewish com-
ponents.
That evaluation was presented
to some 8,000 members of the
American Historical Association's
81st annual meeting by Dr. Clif-
ford K. Shipton, director of the
American Antiquarian Society in
Worcester, Mass., and author of
many multi-volume studies of
New England history.
He presented his paper, "An
Americanist Looks at American
Jewish History," at a joint session
with the American Jewish His-
torical Society.
He said American historians
should assume the task of collect-
ing and studying all available
records of the presence through-
out American history of Jews to
understand the full impact of
Jews on the American contempor-
ary culture.
He said "the two most signifi-
cant factors in determining the
character of American culture to-
day are the Puritan version of the
Hebraic contribution and that of
the modern Jewish immigrants."

The historian said that the
day of "professional prejudice"
had passed and that there was
therefore no longer any reason
to neglect the history of the
Jewish community in the United
States. He told his fellow his-
torians that the early settlers
rejected, in their political and
social outlook, "the medieval
acceptance of evil inherent in
predestinarianism and turned
back to the Old Testament for
the belief • that man can and
ought to effect his own salva-
tion."

He added that "the Jews who
have contributed so much to
American medicine and science
derive their intellectual energy,
their vocations, from their cul-
tural heritage."
Dr. Shipton emphasized that it
was important to record the recol-
lections of the Jewish immigrant
generation as indispensable source
material. He proposed the col-
lection of biographical material to
be recorded on IBM cards, that
geneological societies should be
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American Jews, and that synago-
gue records and newspapers
should be studied carefully.
He said it was "highly signifi-
cant" that some of the best writ-
ing in colonial history "and par-
ticularly in the intellectual as-
pects of Puritanism has been done
by the young Jewish historians."

`Jewish Equivalent
of Death-of-God
Idea' in New Book

"God is where we come from
and where we return, but he is
not involved in the world in any
way." These are the words of
Richard Rubenstein, author of
"After Auschwitz: Radical Theol-
ogy and Contemporary Judaism"
published by Bobbs-Merrill. They
are the words of a man, described
by the New York Times as one
who proposes "a Jewish equival-
ent of the 'death of God' theol-
ogies" and who advocates "a post-
Christian and post-Jewish pagan-
ism."
"After Auschwitz" raises impor-
tant questions about the nature
and future of religion from a Jew-
ish prespective. The author has
written: "I feel that our culture
has, in its voyage into the secular
city, lost touch with the uncon-
scious, especially those rituals
which will allow us to come to
terms with where we are in the
timetable of life. I have tried to
offer a theology which contains
mystical, pagan and psychoana-
lytical elements as what I believe
to be a tenable Jewish theology
after Asuchwitz, in the time of
the death of God."

Dr. Rubenstein rejects, in
common with Protestant radical
theologians, the b e l i e f in a
transcendent God, but he does
not share their optimism in a
new appearance of the sacred
in human life. He calls for a
modern paganism in which, in
his terms, "we use the myths,
the traditions and the liturgy of
our people to share a tragic and
an absurd human destiny rather
than overcoming it by reliance
on God."

Richard Rubenstein is director
of the Bnai Brith Hillel Founda-
tion and university chaplain to
Jewish students at the University
of Pittsburgh. Charles E. Merrill
lecturer in the humanities at the
university, he was • ordained a
rabbi at the Jewish Theological
Seminary and received his SPM
and PhD at Harvard University.

ISRAEL'S EXPORTS INCREASE

Israel's exports during the first
nine months of this year totaled
$377,000,000, representing a 14.7
percent increase over the same per-
iod in 1965.

by helping the outpost community of
Gonen on the dangerous Syrian border.
Attend the

Annual Donor
Event of the
omen's Auxiliary of the
Jewish National Fund

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1967
TEMPLE ISRAEL, 17400 Manderson
12:30 P.M.

H EAR

RABBI
ARTHUR LELYVELD

of Cleveland's Fairmont temple

HEAR

CANTOR
HAROLD ORBACH

of Temple Israel

Give to the

JNF

Perpetuate your name or that of a loved one and place it among the names
of others who have made permanent contributions to the Jewish homeland.

$100
'200
'300
'2000

will inscribe your name in the Golden Book of those who
have helped build Gonen.

will .purchase a garden of 100 trees in Gonen in your
name.

will provide 2 dunams to be developed in Gonen.

will plant a grove of 1,000 trees in Gonen on the north-
ern Syrian border

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND

- 1-8414 Wyoming — Phone UN 4-2767
Mrs. Ben Nosan, President — 342-4797
OR CONTACT Mrs. Albert Posen, Fund Raising Chairman — UN 2-1947

