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Pantheon, JPS Drift to Homogeneous Religious
Community Seen in Rudaysky's
Co-Publish
`Emancipation and Adjustment'
A distinguished educator reviews , nite chapters dealing with the cul-
`The Last Trial' with
great skill the various Jewish tural life of the Jews, with the
BOSTON (JTA) — A new task
force to deal with "executive
suite" discrimination of Jews here
is ready to begin operations.
The American Jewish Committee
and the Jewish Community Council
of Metropolitan Boston in conjunc-
tion with the Jewish Vocational
Service, were responsible for for-
mation of the unit.
The objection of the task force
will be to break down "employ-
ment bias" by moving Jews into
management positions in large
companies where relatively few
are employed and promoted.
The Jewish Publication Society religious movements and in the Hasidic movement, with the Tzad-
of America has co-published with course of his analysis provides a dikim and with neo-Hasidism as
Pantheon Books, a Random House course of study about Jewish ex-1 well. The Habad school is ex-
division, the Hebrew literary clas- periences which covers events plained, the teachings of the Gaon
sic by Dr. Shalom Spiegel, "The from martyrdom down to emanci- I of Vilna and of the Mitnagdim are
Last Trial—On the Legends of the pation, through the enlightenment similarly taken into account.
I Naturally, the Reform Jews'
Command to Abraham to Off e r and other periods.
In "Emancipation and Adjust- , struggle in Germany gets lengthy
Isaac as a Sacrifice: The Akedah."
The new edition is in a transla- ment " published New York Uni- [ consideration while taking into ac-
tion from the Hebrew by Dr. Judah versity Institute of Hebrew Studies count the role of Orthodoxy during
Goldin who also wrote an explana- by Diplomatic Press, (11 W. 42nd, the emerging eras of reforms in
tory introduction to this widely N.Y. 36), Dr. David Rudaysky, pro- religious observances.
lessor of Hebrew culture and edu- I Dr. Rudaysky provides excellent
acclaimed work.
A lengthy review of the book ap- cation at NYU, covers vast areas , background material in dealing
peared in The Jewish News on Dec. of historic occurrences and in the , with teachings of Samuel David
i
ng re hg
g ous move- Luzzatto and those of the ack-
22. Reviewing the Akedah as tradi- course of defin i
tionally viewed as "the Binding," ments—Reform, Conservative, Re- nowledged spokesman for Ortho-
the review in The Jewish News constructionist, Orthodox—provides doxy to this very day, Dr. Samson
Pointed among other facts to the basic data about the history of Raphael Hirsch. It is at this point
American Jewry and the events that the reader is introduced to an
following:
Of special merit in Spiegel's re- that affected the activities of the extensive study of Jewish national-
different
groups. ism. The
craving for the Jewish
search is his analysis of Christian-
I
In an intresting preface to this homeland, as expressed by Luz-
ity's appropriating the Isaac theme
"with all the epithets" and the book, Prof. Abraham I. Hatsh, ! zatto and others, is referred to as
return to ancient pagan beliefs. now president of Dropsie College, back of the background material
He indicates that Judaism had links appropriately noted that "Juda- provided in Rudaysky's analysis.
to civilizations of the Near East and ism may truly be defined as a i It is in dealing with the Ameri-
wittingly or unwittingly borrowed unity in diversity" a n d com- I can scene, with the establishment
from them, that neither Jews nor mends Dr. Rudaysky's approach of the Jewish religious institu-
Christians "e scaped pagan in- as "a record of the dialogue in
tions, that Dr. Rudaysky corn-
Judaism started t w o centuries
fluences."
mences the particular interest in
the religions movements he de- ■
Dr. Spiegel shows that there is , ago, continuing toda y, engen-
dered
by
the
revolution
in
Jewish
flies as part of the Jewish ad-
a parallel "in the line of the Ake- ,
dah and the Crucifixion: Both are life wrought by the challenge re- justment.
suiting
from
the
emergence
of
tied to the idea of the Resurrec-
In a large measure, this ap-
Judaism from the intellectual proach
tion of the Dead."
presents a history of the !
confines
of
the
ghetto
to
the
free-
Jews
of America and while the
study
there
Thus, in the Spiegel
and tolerance of the 19th emphasis is on the religious ele-1
is analysis not only of the Akedah dam
Centu."
ry And the author ex- meats the Rudaysky account is
and the Binding but also of the plains
at the outset that the
its outline of the story
Christian-Jewish conflicts and of movements
he describes "could thorough
in in this country, empha-
Jew
legendary influences upon Jewish hardly be separated
from
their
of
the
sizing
the
mid-18th
Century migra-
traditions. "The Last Trial" is a historical settings, if for no other
superb study of an intriguing bibli- reason than the fact that Judaism tion movements, the communities
that
were
established,
the com-
cal subject.
is so closely interlinked with the mercial enterprises, in Detroit and
history of the Jewish people." elsewhere, the personalities who
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Commission reported Sunday. The
commission, calling the detection
a matter of scientific interest, said
it was not a cause for alarm.
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Friday, February 23, 1968-17
Executive Suite Bias
Thus we have the two aspects played their roles in the various
of this important volume, "the his- movements.
torical serving as the framework .
What are the prospects for sur-
for a discussion of the ideological vival of the present religious par-
phase."
ties in American Jewish life? Dr.
The manner in which religious Rudaysky concludes, on the basis
bigotry played a role in the tragic of his analyses, that "it follows
history of the Jews, in the 11th that there is a shift toward the
Century, commences the story of center in American Judaism, a
martyrdon, "In God's Name," as drift toward a relatively homo-
the initial chapter is captioned. The geneous religious community. This
creation of ghettos, the r u 1 e of does not m e a n that extremist
clergy, the prejudices even of men groups will not persist. In large
of great intellect are under assess- measure they will be encouraged
ment h e r e. The destruction of to continue by the various institu-
ghetto walls that coincided with the tional organizations and vested in-
French Revolution, the ending of terests in each party; but they are
the last ghetto in Rome in 1875 by not likely to curb the confluence of
King Victor Emanuel II did not 1 the various ideological currents in
unto "the sinister effects of the i Judaism. Thus, the objective of a
cramped physical and cultural life united American J e w r y which
of the Jews," the author asserts. Isaac M. Wise hoped to achieve by
Taking his reader on "The Road means of his Minhag America and
of Emancipation," reviewing the the parallel goal of Isaac Leeser, ;
intellectual revolt on the worlds expressed in his advocacy of an
scene, Dr. Rudaysky describes the 'adjectiveless Judaism,' may come
renaissance and the emergence of , about, not as the result of an ideo-
the era of Hebrew learning, in the logical determination, but as the
Middle Ages and thereafter. He product of other forces, mainly
describes the religious revolt and sociological, in American Jewish
the counter - Reformation, gives an life."
ace otmt of the Crusades , reviews
the commercial revolution and in- Food Shortage Solved;
dicates the role of the Jews in
capitalism and how the wealth of Now Israel Faces Woe
Jewish financiers helped strengthen
their people's emancipation pros- of Over-Abundance
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—There was
pects.
Dealing with the Enlighten. a time not so long ago, when the
ment, Dr. Rudaysky covers at people in Israel suffered an acute
length the era of Moses Mendels- food shortage. At present, the
sohn and provides an appraisal country is wrestling with an over-
of Mendelssohn views. The ef- production of food, and the gov-
fects of the French Revolution. ernment is making every effort to
the historic French Jewish ex- sell the produce harvested by the
periences, Napoleon Bonaparte's Arabs, in the occupied territory.
In Israel proper, the yield is suf-
Assembly of Notables and the
compromises Jews were com- ficient to feed a population of
4,000,000.
pelled to resort to — these are
The over-production in milk has
part of the story related to the
Emancipation as outlined in Ru- reached 40,000,000 liters; eggs,
100,000,000; and thousands of tons
daysky's work.
Proceeding to deal with the vari- of vegetables and fruit annually
ous other trends in Jewish life, Dr. fill the warehouses, and nobody
Rudaysky provides excellent deft- ; knows what to do with them.
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