St. John's /Man Who Played God' in Paperback
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 18, 1967-15
`Bahl Yar' Author Hit for Exposing Collaboration
Robert St. John's analyses of ; conferences between Himmler, as ogles that dominated Over Eastern
LONDON (JTA) — A writer in - However, the author was criti-
events in the Middle East, his I Hitler's representative, and asso- Europe, the attitudes of Allied
biographical works of Ben-Gurion,lciates among whom was Adolph leaders, the hopes and the frantic Sovetsky Voin, a journal issued by cized in the army journal for re-
the
Soviet army, received here, porting eyewitness accounts of col-
Nasser, Ben Yehudah and his his- Eichmann.
efforts of Jewish spokesmen to
torical account of the re-emergence
These negotiations served as a come to the aid of the condemned has denounced Anatoly Kuznetsov laboration by citizens of Kiev with
of Hebrew as the spoken language basis for one of St. John's most — all mingled with an effective for his documentary novel, "Babi the Nazis, and for not giving
of a modern nation, are among powerful literary works, his novel love story — provide the basis Yar," in which the author reported enough details about the Nazi atro-
the major literary creations re- 1 "The Man Who Played God." First for this excellent book. Already details of the execution by the cities against non-Jews.
Nazis of thousands of Jews, during
lated to Israel and to Zionism. I issued by Doubleday in 1963, it is a best seller in hard covers, Rob-
His studies have led him to tho- I now available as an Eagle paper- ert St. John's "The Man Who World War II, in Babi Yar, a Classified Ads Get Quick Results
Played God" bids well to become ravine in Kiev.
rough review of the tragic era of back.
The vast panorama of the time among the paperbacks in greatest
In the work, which has been
Hungarian Jewry when nine-tenths
of the million Jews in Hungary when the holocaust was in its most demand.
widely acclaimed not only through-
For Some
were sent to their slaughter by horrifying stages, the Nazi ideol-
out the world but even in the
of the
USSR, the author had also re-
the Nazis. It was the period of
Brazilian Journalist,
best buys
ported that Russians, Ukrainians
negotiations between Zionist
and other Soviet citizens in Kiev
on new
leaders, Jewish Agency represen-
Rabid Anti-Semite,
had collaborated with the Nazi
tatives and other intermediaries
Pontiacs
Exiled
from
Brazil
regime
during
the
occupation
of
who attempted to make a deal with
Tempests
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A the Ukrainian capital. Kuznetsov
the Nazis for the rescue of a mil-
and
Brazilian journalist known as a had been a boy of 12 living in
lion Jews. It was the period of
rabid anti-Semite was exiled this Kiev at the time the Babi Yar
Firebirds
week for publishing an insulting atrocities were committed.
Aleksei V egorov, writing in
article against Marshal Castella
ASK FOR
Sovetsky Voin, gave Kuznetsov
Branca, the former president of
Brazil, after his death in a plane
"credit" for avoiding the "sad
crash, officials reported here.
error" committed by the famous
The journalist, Hello Fernandes,
Soviet poet, Yevgeny Yevtushen-
AT
editor-in-chief of Tribunas da Im-
ko who, in his poem entitled
In a special article in the Cana-
prensa, was sent to the Island Fer-
"Babi Yar," had suggested that
dian Medical Association Journal,
nando
De
Noronha,
known
as
the
lack
of
a
monument
to
the
on the subject "On the History of
18650 LIVERNOIS
Brazil's Devil Island.
Jewish victims buried at Babi
Men and Genocide," Dr. Bruno M.
1 block South of 7
The editor was the only jour-
Yar reflected lingering anti-
Cormier of Montreal did historical
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nalist in Brazil who defended
Semitism in the Soviet Union.
and psychological research on the
Eichmann when the Nazi was
ROBERT ST. JOHN
subject and in the course of his
brought to Israel for trial in
study reviewed the various stages
1960. He was also the only jour-
of anti-Semitism.
Senate Nixes Amendment nalist in Brazil who defended
In his article, Dr. Cormier
to Curb Financing of Arms Franz Stangl, wartime com-
charged:
mandmant to the Treblinka and
"Beyond Hitler's monstrous Sales to Lands Like Jordan
10 HIT SONGS FROM
Sobibor death camps in occupied
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
crimes,, beyond the ideology of
Poland, after Stangl was ar-
U.S.
Senate
Aug.
9
rejected
by
a
National Socialism, beyond the spe-
rested in Sao Paulo last March.
cific causes of German anti-Semi- vote of 48-40 an amendment that Stangl was extradited to West
Al Goodman and His Orchestra
tism, our whole civilization is col- would have prevented the U.S. Ex-
Germany where he is now await-
lectively responsible for the geno- port-Import Bank from financing
JACK WAKEFIELD
ing a war crimes trial.
arms sales to underdeveloped na-
cide of the Jews."
The Tribunas da Imprensa was
Taking issue with Sartre, Dr. tions such as Jordan. The amend- the only newspaper in Brazil which
ment was proposed by Sen. Allen denounced Israel and Jews in con-
Cormier wrote:
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"We agree with Sartre that anti- J. Ellender, Louisiana Democrat. nection with Israel's lightning vic-
Semitism involves the total per- It would have become a part of a tory over three Arab states last
sonality of the anti-Semite. How- bill extending the bank's lending June.
"SONGS OF ISRAEL"
His article was headlined: "Jews
ever, he oversimplifies 'the Jewish authority for five years.
Sen. Ellender said the Export- —Don't Be Joyful Yet Over Your
question' when he says: 'The Jew
Import Bank required control be- Victory."
is a man whom others consider
The newspaper has little status
Jewish . . . it is anti-Semitism cause the United States had sec-
retly provided arms to the Arabs in Brazil. The island to which Fer-
By Danny Davis
which has created the Jew . .
through
the
bank.
These
arms
nandes was banished was named
We strongly question Sartre's be-
were subsequently used against for a Portuguese Jewish ship
lief that to be Jewish is a reaction
the Israelis, whom he termed "our
owner who discovered it in the
to anti-Semitism. We cannot deny,
friends." lie also charged that Iraq 16th Century.
however, that a centuries-old anti-
received U.S. arms through the
Semitic tradition has created the
bank and is now getting Soviet
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image that Jews have of them-
weapons. The State Department Expel Yarmulke Wearer
selves; to what extent, only the
Mira and Her Guitar
opposed the Ellender amendment. from New Jersey School
disappearance of anti-Semitism
A fight is expected when the
"HAIFI IN HI-Fl"
will determine. If 'anti-Semitism
HILLSIDE,
N.J.
(JTA)
—
The
bill is brought before the House.
involves the total personality of
board of education of Hillside up-
Many Congressmen have indicated
the anti-Semite,' 'it is equally true strong objections to leaving the held Aug. 7 the expulsion of a 13-
that defence mechanisms against arming of the Arabs to the discre- year-old Orthodox Jewish boy from
Cantor Solomon Gisser Sings
it involve the total personality of tion of the State Department and a summer course at Hillside High
the Jews. That Sartre overlooks
School for wearing a skull-cap.
the White House.
Bernard Paul White, who at-
this is clearly evident when he
quotes Richard Wright. the Negro
tends a Jewish day school during
THESE, AND MANY, MANY MORE
author: 'There is no Negro prob- Rothschild to Establish
the regular school year, entered
the summer class wearing a skull-
lem in the United States, there is
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only a white problem.' Sartre
cap. The boy refused requests from
PARIS (JTA)— Baron Edmond his teacher, vice-principal John
.
comments on this quotation: 'We
EACH
ONLY
state likewise that anti-Semitism de Rothschild will set up here a Kulikowski, School Superintendent
Middle
Eastern Peace Foundation Wayne Branom and board chair-
is not a Jewish problem: it is our
to
seek
to
bring
Israel
and
the
man Franklin Feltman that he not
problem.' Sartre does not deny the
deep psychological significance of Arabs together and to reduce ten- wear the yarmulke while attending
ONCE AGAIN IN STOCK ...
anti-Semitism for the Jews. The sion between the Arabs and the I the class.
I The - superintendent and the
dynamics of the interacting pair, West.
The Hilarious Comic Pictorial
The baron named Saul Fried- chairman d the boy ld"
where the one cannot change with-
"A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME
out affecting the other, is one di- lander, author of a recent contro- attend the class while wearing the
ON THE WAY TO TEL AVIV"
mension lacking in his excellent versial study of Pope Pius, as the skull-cap, and the boy's father
asked the American Jewish Con-
study of the Jewish question. We foundation's first director.
To emphasize his intention not
gress for hJp. A hearing on the
hold that R. M. Lowenstein, in his
to contribute to the current issue was held before the school
psychoanalysis of anti-Semitism, is
French hostility to Anglo-Saxons, board after which Feltman said
much closer to historical and psy-
he is now seeking an American
he would seek a ruling by the
chological truth when he views Is-
or British deputy director.
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He indicated he hoped to inter-
the question. William White, the
pair.
est
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and
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"Sartre is mistaken. There is a
cans in the foundation and said
"the rights of my son to practice
white problem and there is a black
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problem. In the same way, there
ish opposite numbers in Geneva
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and a non-Jewish problem. The
purpose.
tragedy of the relationship between
The baron flew to Jerusalem for
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It's Thousands Cheaper
not in the sense that Sartre meant the international advisory confer-
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called
by
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