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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
42—Friday, December 22, 1967
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The Last Trial' Superb Study of 'The Akedah'
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in Dover 'Portraits'
List Prominent Jews
A classic in Hebrew literature, I
an essay that won the Louis La-
"Dictionary of American Por- bia University: Judaic scholar Sol- lied p
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He-
traits" a major new reference omon Schechter, president of the brew letters in 1950, is now avail-
work published by Dover. contains Jewish Theological Seminary of ; able in an English translation.
authentic likenesses of more than America: Noel Laureate Albert A.
It is a masterful work of re-
100 prominent Jews who made an Michelson. the physicist who de- search on "The Akedah." also ref-
impact on American history prior termined the speed of light: Con- ered to as "The Sacrifice of Isaac"
gressman - philantropist I s i d o r, and as "The Bindong." It is the
to 1905.
These include Oscar Hammer- Straus who also owned R.H. Macy Shalom Spiegel masterpiece and
stein. theatrical producer and coin- & Co. and Abraham & Straus: an- now presented by Pantheon Books
poser: macician Harry Houdini: . thropologist Franz Boas: theolog- (22 E. 51st, NY221. a Random
pathologist Simon Elexner: Lorenzo ian David Einhorn: and many house division, under the title
"The Last TrialOn the Legends
da Ponte. who was both Mozart's more.
"Dictionary of American Por- and Lore of the Command to Abra-
librettist and the first professor
the
traits"
makes
available
for
ham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice:
of Italian in the United States at
Columbia: capitalist Solomon R. first time 4.045 likenesses of men The Akedah." The translation from
and
women
who
shaped
history,
the Hebrew and the introduction
Guggenheim, who donated New
York's Guggenheim Museum: bib- from earliest rimes to modern. Pre- are by Dr. Judah Goldin.
Originally presented by Dr.
lical scholar Emil Gustav: Emma pared over a period of seven years
Lazarus. poet and author of the by Dover's staff under the editor- Spiegel under the Hebrew title
Statute of Liberty sonnet: Adolph ship of Hayward and Blanche Cir- "Me-Aggadot ha-Akedah" p u b-
Simon Ochs, publisher of the New ker with the aid of 159 distin- lished in Zeitschrift, it is a com-
York Times and the Chattanooga guished consultants, this unique mentary on and a supplementary
Times; Joseph Pulitzer. founder of volume is the most extensive of its work to "The Akedah" by Rabbi
Ephraim ben Jacob of Bonn. It
the school of journalism at Colum- kind.
- is a 12th Century poem in 26
stanzas-105 lines—published from
manuscript for the first time in
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Thus, in the Spiegel study there
is analysis not only of the Akedah
and the Binding but also of the
Christian-Jewish conflicts and of
legendary influences upon Jewish
traditions. "The Last Trial" is a
superb sttidy of an intriguing bibli-
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an effort "to locate the explana-
tion of the collision between
Christianity and Judaism" in the
Akedah tradition, as Dr. Goldin
indicates in his introduction. Dr.
Goldin also emphasizes that
"whatever the purpose of the
trial in Genesis 22, the declara-
tion `Do not raise your hand
against the boy, or do anything
to him' is unmistakable. No less
so the biblical prohibition against
, offering up of one's seed to any
moloch. That being the case, the
tradition that something was
done to Isaac when he lay
bound on the altar — certain
scholars suggested — must have I
originated in times when the
supreme sacrifice of the Chris-
tian messiah was invoked as
demonstration that the complete,
the perfect act had been enacted
only on Golgotha, that the act
on Moriah was only a preamble,
a partial adumbration of the
greater and full one later. And
i since those who rejected the
Gospels refused to be outdone!
in manifestations of loving Cod
with all heart and soul and be- '
ing. they appropriated ideas —1
said these scholars — that were
in actuality afiathema to the God
:
of the partiarchs and their des-
cendants."
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love." emphasizing: "true enough,
the act was not entirely consum-
mated, nevertheless, the consum-
mation to he wished was genuinely
there. and the record is engraved
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