THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Nietzschean Controversy Clarified: Kaufmann 40—Friday, December 15, 1967
Notes Respect for Jews, Disdain for Germans AFL-CIO Presses U.S. to Send Arms

Random House has issued as a 'the masters,' the rulers,' fades
polemical works by Karl Marx
Vintage Paperback two of the works into nothing compared with what , and Friedrich Engels and of
of Friedrich Nietzsche — "On the the Jews have done against them; ' scattered hostile remarks in
BAL HARBOUR, Fla. (JTA) — nomic, social and political treat-
Genealogy of Morals" translated the Jews, that priestly people, who
Nietzsche's writings. "At one
Delegates to the seventh conven- ment.
by Walter Kaufmann and H. J in opposing their enemies and con- I point," Nietzsche wrote about
(George Meany, president of the
Hollingdale and "Ecce Homo" querors were ultimately satisfied
tion of the American Federation
Duehring, in "On the Genealogy
translated by Prof. Kaufmann, both with nothing less than a radical
of Morals," "Duehring, the fore-
of Labor-Congress of Industrial AFL-CIO, announced Monday that
the
American labor movement
edited with commentaries by Prof. reevaluation of their enemies'
most moral bigmouth today, un-
construction desperately needed would fully subscribe to $10,000,000
Kaufmann.
v alues, that is to say, an act of the
excelled even among his own ilk,
Monday
calling
on
Israel
and
the
in
debentures
of Histadrut, the
In the former essay, the section most spiritual revenge. For this
the anti-Semites."
Israel Labor Federation. The pro-
dealing with "two opposing values alone was appropriate to a priestly
There is another interesting foot- Arab states to begin direct nego-
'good and bad,' good and evil' " as people, the people embodying the note to one of the passages in tiations "with a view to ending the ceeds will be used to expand His-
they have been engaged "in a most deeply repressed priestly Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. The editor hostilities, fixing definitive and tadrut's cooperatives in Israel.
Aharon Becker, secretary-general
fearful struggle on earth fo
vengefulness. It was the Jews who, states: "In a discarded draft . . .
thousands of years," there are with awe-inspiring consistency, we find the following (Podach): secure boundaries and obtaining of Histadrut, is attending the AFL-
CIO convention.)
these passages:
dared to invert the aristocratic 'Whoever reads me in Germany an equitable peace."
The resolution appealed to the
'The symbol of this struggle. in • value-equation . . . saying the today has first de-Germanized
The resolution referred to the
scribed in letters legible across wretched alone are good: the poor. himself thoroughly, as I have done: United States government "and all "ominous gravity" of the crisis in
all human history, is 'Rome against impotent, lowly alone are the good; my formula is known, "to be a other democracies to provide Is- the Middle East and warned that
Judea, Judea against Rome;" — the suffering, deprived, sick, ugly good German means to de-Ger-
continued Arab-Israeli hostilities
there has hitherto been no greater alone are pious, alone are blessed manize oneself"; or he is — no rael with the opportunity to ac- threatened the peace of the entire
event than this struggle, this ques- by God, blessedness is for them small distinction among Germans quire the arms needed for its se- world. It condemned the "sub-
tion, this deadly contradiction. alone—and you, the powerful and — of Jewish descent. Jews among curity which is being threatened versive and aggressive role of
Rome felt the Jew to be something noble, are on the contrary the evil, Germans are always the higher by the vast Soviet re-arming of the Soviet imperialism which has been
like anti-nature itself, its antipodal the cruel, the lustful, the insatiable
exploiting the misery and intensi-
race — more refined, spiritual , most bellicose Arab nations."
monstrosity as it were: in Rome the godless to all eternity; and you kind, — L'adorable Heine, they say
fying the antagonisms among the
The resolution further urged
the Jew stood 'convicted of hatred shall be in all eternity the unbless- in Paris.' "
people of the Middle East and
that the United States give no
for the whole human race with the ed. accursed and damned!' . . .
arming the aggressors, Egypt and
"The Case of Wagner: A Musi-
unconditional dominance of aristo- With the . Jews there begins the cian's Problem" is an interesting
the Syrian regime, in furtherance
economic or military assistance
cratic values, Roman values.
of its own ultimate aim of world
slave revolt in morality: that re- chapter in "Ecce Homo." Nietzsche
to any combatant government in
"How, on the other hand. did volt which has a history of 2,000 charges here: "What respect can
domination."
the Middle East "which refuses
the Jews feel about Rome? A years behind it and - which we no I have for the Germans when even
Representing 14,000,000 American
to
enter
into
negotiations
for
a
thousand signs tell us; but it suf- longer see because it—has been my friends cannot discriminate be-
trade union members, the con-
permanent
pea
c
e
settlement
fices to recall the Apocalypse of victorious."
vention also voiced condemnation
tween me and a liar like Richard
without which there can be no
John, the most wanton of all liter-
These are among the scores
of the Soviet rulers "for the latest
Wagner? In one extreme case, one
economic progress or well-being
ary outbursts that vengefulness has
of referances to Jews in the two
expansion of their anti-Semitic
even straddles the fence between
for any nation in this pivotal
on its conscience . . For the
Nietzsche books incorporated in
policies within the USSR with the
me and the anti-Semitic canaille.
region."
Romans were strong and noble
the single paperback edited by
aim of counteracting the great
— And this at a moment when an
and nobody stronger and nobler
The
United
Nations
and
the
more
Prof. Kaufmann. In the repudia-
sympathy for Israel among the
indescribable responsibility weighs
has yet existed on earth or even
industrially developed countries Soviet people and strengthening
tion of "lust for power, avarice on me—"
been dreamed of: every remnant
and the like" by Nietzsche there
Prof. Kaufmann's commentaries, were "implored" to pledge ade- their base of influence in reac-
of them. every inscription gives
are references to an anti-Semite
the splended translations, the valu- quate resources to speed the re- tionary Arab circles which oppose
delight, if only divines what it was
whose background is explained
able emotions, throw light on the construction desperately needed most virulently peaceful coexist-
that was there at work. The Jews.
by the editor in this footnote:
Nietzschean debate and reveal the to overcome poverty in the Middle ence with Israel."
on the contrary, were the priestly
"Eugen Duehring (1833-1901),
passion with which Nietzsche spoke East and develop healthy, peaceful
The resolution deplored the fact
nation of resentment par excel-
a prolific German philosopher
out against Germans, in defense of democracies there.
that "despite its efforts, the United
lence, in whom there dwelt an un-
and political economist, was
Jews, eloquently in support of ideas
The resolution also expressed Nations has been unable to resolve
equaled popular-moral genius: one
among other things an impas-
so expounded in the two books that solidarity with Histadrut, the Israel the armed conflict in the Middle
only has to compare similarly
sioned natriot and anti-Semite
will prove enlightening in tackling Labor Federation, "on whom it East or the urgently needed settle.
gifted nations — the Chinese or
and bated the cosmopolitan
what often is raised as an issue counts to set the pace in helping ment of the refugees and other
the Germans. for instance — with
Goethe and the Greeks. He is re-
vis-a-vis a German who denigrated the Arab population now under pressing social and economic prob-
the Jews. to sense which is of the
membered chiefly as the butt of Germans. —P.S. Israeli rule to attain equal eco- lems."
first and which of the fifth rank."
In a footnote commenting on
these things that can easily be
misconstrued' as grist to the mill
of the German anti-Semites,
WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA) — Gaulle is determined to close off
Nietzsche goes out of his way, as
The White House announced Mon- this source despite the prevailing
usual, to express his admiration
day that Prime Minister Levi sentiments to the contrary of his
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Eshkol will come to Washington ' own countrymen" and that, there-
for the Jews and his disdain for
the Germans."-
early in February fore, "the United States in all
,(parrs')
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In view of some doubts, relative on an "informal "
likelihood will have to become the
to Nietzsche. who at times is re- • visit" as the guest
prime source of Israel's security
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of
the
President
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ferred to as having been anti-
• needs." He said it would be "a
Semitic. this is significant. In his and they will dis-
pure case of irresponsibility if we
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introduction Prof. Kaufmann dwells cuss "topics of
do not do so.")
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mutual interest."
on this point and declares:
Nietzsche's conception of resen- It is believed ,
Hebrew Corner
timent throws light on the re- that meetings be-
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ception of his ideas. By way of tween President
Std
contrast. consider Max Weber, per- Johnson and Esh-
Yitzhak Katznelson
haps the greatest sociologist of the kol will take
Yitzhak Katznelson was a well-known
poet and educator in Poland (and in
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century, and certainly one of the place on Feb. 7
orraele)hildBreefnore
wa-e w rote
greatest. Weber's sociology cf re- and 8. Eshkol
and
edite d
rogilirreetn%
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Eshkol is coming to inaugurate newspaper. He wrote plays and stories
ligion owes a great deal to'
(prose), and Jewish young people used
Nietzsche's Genealogy. But is it the 1968 Israel Bond campaign.
to sing his songs whenever they met.
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Eshkol
will
probably
stay
in
the
generally recognized that Weber,
Katznelson was a distinguished edu-
His Jewish School and Hebrew
was by no means an anti-Semite, Blair House, the President's formal cator.
High School were the center of Jewish
although he found the clue to the guest facility across the street life. Generations of children were edu-
on the books he wrote. Jewish
Jewish religion in the alleged fact from the White House, it was cated
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dramatic groups performed the plays
that the Jews were a pariah people, learned. His visit was categorized he wrote and directed. He spent much
with the members of the Pioneer
while Nietzsche's comments on as informal, but he will be the time
irtrtH
Youth Movements to whom, with all
his heart, he felt close. Twice he
slave morality and the slave re- guest of President Johnson.
visited Eretz Yisrael (this country),
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bellion in morals have so often
At San Antonio, George Chris- toured Galilee and the Jezreel Valley.
been considered highly offensive tion, spokesman for President and spent time in the kibutzim. Of
he also wrote poems about the
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and tinged by anti-Semitism? Johnson, said "this will be a pri- course,
country, which he loved. These poems,
too, were privileged to be set to music
(Nietzsche's many references to vate visit."
at once, and people sang them.
anti-Semitism are invariably sca-
Israel government sources re-
Yitzhak Katznelson was 50 years
thing). Could it be that a scholar fused to discuss reports from old when the Second World War broke
nit
out. The Jews of Warsaw were closed
is given the benefit of every doubt abroad that Eshkol would ask up
in the ghetto where starvation, fear,
so long as he does not have the President Johnson to sell Israel 50 and hopelessness prevailed. People were
:ninrinntrnrr
every day. Others were sent
presumption to write well?
supersonic Phantom jet fighter- murdered
to the death camps. Even in those
Regarding use of the word re- bombers.
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black days, Katznelson did not stop
educational work. He organized Jew-
sentiment Prof. Kaufmann ex-
Israel has a great need for the his
ish cultural life in the underground:
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plains: "The German language American craft in view of the con- he wrote books and newspapers and
a school and a Hebrew High
lacks any close equivalent to the tinuing embargo on shipments to onened
School.
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French term. That alone would
Israel of the French-built Mirage
The last days of the ghetto came.
sufficient excuse for Nietzsche. V fighter-bomber which is the Most of the ghetto Jews had already
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been sent to the death camps. At that
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though perhaps not for a transla- backbone of the Israel Air Force. time. Yitzhak Katznelson worked as a
laborer in a German workshop, to-
tor, who could use 'resentment.' " Gen. de Gaulle's continued refusal gether
with his eldest son.
One day
"Ecce Homo" is the tenth vol- to release the planes that Israel when he returned home, his wife and
ume by Nietzsche translated by had bought in France and partially two sons were no longer there.
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When the Jewish revolt in the War-
Prof. Kaufmann. In another foot- paid for, while, reportedly, permit- saw
Ghetto broke out, Yitzhak Katznel-
note relative to the Jewish ques- ting Iraq to acquire the planes, has son and his eldest son of course took 117 1n7 1793
part in it. The Jews fought with great
tion, the reader is advised: "For intensified the need for Israel to heroism
until the Germans suppressed
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a detailed discussion (of the con- secure an alternative source of the revolt with blood and fire.
The poet of e Jewish nation sur-
cept of the 'master race') and of equipment.
vived, but not for long. He fled to
Nietzsche's attitude toward the
(In Washington, Sen. Jacob K. France. was caught there, and sent to
Jews and anti-Semitism, see Kauf- Javits, .N.Y. Rep., told the Senate the Auschwitz Death Camp.
(Published by the Brit Ivrit Olarnit,
that the United States should as- with
mann's 'Nietzsche'
the assistance of the Memorial
In the discussion of the "master sume the responsibility for re- Foundation for Jewish Culture).
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race" theory Nietzsche is quoted: placing France as prime source of can be obtained
through your local
"All that has been done on earth arms for Israel. He said that "it Hebrew organization, or by writing di-
rect to the Brit Ivrit Olamit, P.O. Box
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