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Memmi's 'The Liberation of the Jew': _Betrothed p robing of Author's Sensitive Soul to 31r. Jay H. I,ei•in Phone MISS MARCIA DRESNER Friday, May 26, 1967-33 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Albert Memmi posed many ques- . his destiny into his own hands." tions in his earlier works. He was Anxieties caused by mixed mar- in a quandary over the treatment , riages are discussed by taking into ' Jews received in his native land, consideration the new conditions TUnisia. He now teaches at the and the possibilities of vast in ' Sorbonne in Paris where he re- creases in intermarriages. Memmi ; ceived his degree in philosophy. is convinced that mixed marriages The background of his life, his do not provide solution to the youth, caused him to be skeptical. Jewish problem. He declares that Perhaps he was even worried. Now, "a Jew who makes a success of in the maturing work, in "The his marriage to a non-Jew has Liberation of the Jew," published succeeded in his marriage, but by Orion Press (125A E. 19th, he has in no way alleviated his NY3) he is firm, he expresses Jewishness." He makes this inter- views leading towards not only esting observation: self-liberation but also in a serious! "The day will perhaps come effort to guide and direct young when mixed marriage will • be Jews towards a more secure life. one of the most helpful and For many of his readers what beautiful contributions to t h e he states may sound repetitious. great communion of peoples of He reviews the problems that a single humanity. But, first, or troubled him when he wrote "Por- at least at the same time, these trait of a Jew"—his first chal- peoples must cease being hostile lenging work; "The Pillar of Salt" to one another. The tempting and "The Colonizer and the Col- oppression of the strong by the , mimed." As a sum total, the views weak must find other outlets . incorporated in the present volume Far from being able to resolve summarize and clarify, present the present, brutally unjust re- Ideas with a sense of acquired lationships of groups among confidence. pay honor to the State themselves, mixed marriage re- of Israel and he asserts that his- quires a relative quality among tory has convinced him "that a groups and an end to oppres- nation is the only adequate re- sion. The scorn of the oppressor sponse to the misfortune of a and the resentment of the op- people." pressed must end before we can hope for the majority of mixed Because he stems from areas marriages to succeed. For the where he experienced oppres- moment, far from resolving the sion, he is able to deal factually conflicts between Jews and non- ' and firmly with the problem of Jews, far from smoothing out the Negro. He declares that "like the differences, far from elimi- the colonized" the Jew "has to nating the misfortune of being fight for his national liberation a Jew or a Negro, mixed mar- and create a nation for himself, riages forces individuals to bear since history exacts it." He the weight of the differences and raises the religious question and the burden of a more intimate emphasizing the liberation aim barrier, even more obsessional he adds: "Far from marking the and guilt-ridden, . Instead of end of the Jewish religion, it is hoping that mixed marriages my contention that this libera- might solve the problems of the tion, this opening up to the Jewish fate, we must solve the world, might again offer it its problems of this fate before en- real opportunity. Like the other couraging such marriages." disciplines, religion will at last find freedom of expression, a In the main, Memmi's argu- ments are not new, his approaches progressive adaptation to t h e needs of the modern Jew, with- review well known situations. It having to limit itself to the is his unique way of handling the out role of watch dog which was issues that makes his books so necessary in the dispersion. In interesting and so valuable. short, far from declaring war A regrettable. factor is his as- on believers and religion, I am sumption that Judaism is, as Heine convinced that it will be to their said, a misfortune. Perhaps his advantage to lose the exorbitant views would be altered, his man- rank they now occupy as some ner of tackling the problems might ghostly mummy. It goes without change, if he were to accept his saying that the end of the objec- fate as a blessing. tive oppression will allow Jewish believers to benefit from the Thinkers same rights as those of the other There are very few original religions." thinkers in the world; the greatest It is not a new idea: Leon Pin- sker propagated it before him as part of those who are called selbst-emanzipacion — self-libera- philosophers have adopted the tion. Memmi presents it this way: opinions of some who went before "The oppressed .person must take them.—Dugald Stewart. Those Very Special Occasions ! Come in and Let us Show YOU Why ! ! Nip ChltailDla- Party Flower Specialists Bet. Sussex 15212 W. 7 MILE RD. WhitComb 345-4383 . . . 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