Bergman's English-Yiddish Yiddish-English
Student's Dictionary Aids Language Students
UTA FUNDS NONE HELPED.
under- follows, and the reader is treated
Yiddish newspapers, the theater, I immensely towards an
cuei‘ 397, ebb "Seas,cs thiGHATR
a resume of creative efforts that
the language as means of commu-; , standing of the role of Yiddish to
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in Jewish life.
nication is not progressing. It is
Goldberg makes this point in his menus
emphasize
the through
great accomplish-
Lo. and
Yiddish.
suffering a decline. Yet interest in
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There
is
an
expression
of
"hope
it has mounted. Publication of the introductory essay:
AND OVER COIATRIES OF
"Although
it
(Yiddish)
has
ceased
belief"
in
Goldberg's
essay
and
a
.
.
Weinreich dictionary, Rosten's
that Yiddish will continue as a
TE-FWANENT 'WEN•
"Joys of Yiddish" and the revival to be the vernacular of any given
—even in its temporary state—of Jewish settlement, it is understood rich source of communication and
the Warsaw Yiddish theater on its and spoken by millions. Its crea- creativity for the people in whose
tour of this country are indications tivity and role within the interns - mouths and hearts i it lived for 1,000
years.
of a remaining breath of life in so tional dialogue continue."
"There is a growing awareness -
nt's diction-
vital a tongue.
in
many
countries
that
it
is
impos•
- The Bergman student's claims
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A alklAt4
Adding to the interest in Yiddish in
to gain a meaningful insight ary proves the validity
bmitoALLy A CARaTAKgP. of
is the new "Student's Dictionary," into the life of the Jewish people regarding the rich Yiddish sources
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English-Yiddish and Yiddish-Eng- without a knowledge of the Ian- and shows how the hope for the
the experi_ perpetuation of the language can be
lish. Issued by Kinderbuch Publish- guage whichembodies
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e
er, this comparatively brief but ence of that people for many cen- attained through a serious effort.
Cum./now/a C. 5 .
There is a completeness here that
nevertheless quite-adequate-for-its- tUries. There is an increasing inter-
purposes lexicon was prepared by est on the part of young Jews who is remarkable, and the selection of
the late Aaron Bergman who de- for many reasons were denied the important words-140 each for
voted a number of years prior to access and exposure to the lan- the English-Yiddish and Yiddish-
his passing on July 21, 1963, to the guage in the past.
English sections—indicates the au-
gathering of the major words to
"To this awakening of interest of thor's understanding of an ap-
be known by children studying the young we dedicate this diction- proach to youngsters in Yiddish
Yiddish.
ary in the hope that it will aid schools and an appreciation of their
Bergman was a teacher in his them in discovering the culture of needs.
native Poland, where he also was their people. -
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active in the labor movement. He
Goldberg commenced his essay DD
came to the United States in 1921, with a quotation of a poem from EL resser Reveals Dutch Jewry's Tragedy,
•
taught in New York schools, au- Abraham Lessin's "Yiddish." It is •-•
thored several books, including a presented in its original Yiddish Red Cross Guilt, Mass Collaborationists
Yiddish grammar he prepared with with the translation:
much so that in the summer of
There is no end to the revelations • were 4,158 inmates, made up of
Itche Goldberg. He also prepared
1945 a number of people called
Yiddish. speaking to us. says: that expose the horrors of Nazism 2,075 men (376 less), 1,893 women
a Yiddish language workbook.
for a special study group to as-
"For hundreds of years with and the extent of the tragedies (1,288 less) and 190 children (1,266
sess the prevalence of anti-Sem-
your forebears I went through
His Yiddish Student's Dic-
imposed upon entire less). We need not dilate upon the
each danger and fear and stored that were
tionary was edited for final pub-
itism in the Netherlands .. ."
tragedy revealed by these figures—
up the wrath and the anger and populations of many lands by the
lication by Goldberg. whose
To
prove his point he quotes
the
massacre
of
the
children
of
stored up each sorrow and tear." Germans under Hitler.
introductory essay in this vol-
some of the things that were said
There may be forgiving — there Vught."
A history of Yiddish literature
ume. "A Note on Yiddish," adds
by
the
Dutch about the Jews as
These are among the many sets
ca n be no forgetting .
Now we have the story of the of figures that recall the enormity shown in the Presser expose:
Committee Rejects Manifest Backers miseries that were imposed upon . of tragedy depicted by Prof. Pres- "'All the good Jews are dead. It
is the bad ones who have come
. . the Jews in Holland. And as a pre- ser.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Amen- win their demands.
What we read in Dr. Presser's back. This is -what one of the
The IFCO board refused to take face to his account of "The De-
can Jewish Committee, the only
compilation is an account of the writer's friends, a teacher, was
Jewish member of the Interreli- action on the preamble and called struction of the Dutch Jews."
master race, its humor its sense told after his return from exile and
gious Foundation for Community on member organizations to make published by E. P. Dutton and Co.
of justice. For instance, Rudolf great personal suffering, by his
Organization, has quit the founda- contributions to Forman's organiza- (201 Park Ave.. S., NYC). Dr.
Hess, who was commandant at headmistress, a 'generally respect-
tion over its association with a tion to carry out programs center- Jacob Presser offers the following
Auschwitz, was spoken of well by ed' lady of high academic stand-
Negro militant group demanding ed on control of industries by Ne- from "Das Brandopfer" by Al-
his comrades, and to the Nazis ing. 'There really are still too
"reparations" f r o m synagogues groes. Rabbi Tanenbaum said that brecht Goes:
many Jews in the Netherlands.'
"Yet there comes a time for
he was "a worthy man."
and churches. In its letter of resig- the board's silence left the impres-
'There ought to be a fixed quota
forgetting, for who could live
nation, the AJCommittee indicated sion of AJCommittee assent to the
So, Dr. Presser tells about an- for J .' 'Jews should alway s re-
and not forget? Now and then, other such "first-class paterfami-
it was seeking new means to mo- ideology of the "manifesto" and
member how thankful they need to
however, there also must be one lias" in the following:
bilize Jewish support to meet the that "we had no alternative but to
be—they could very soon exhaust
withdraw."
who remembers,"
needs of urban and rural poor,
"A worthy man indeed, of the our
sympathy.' Jews ought not to
IFCO serves as a clearing house In discussing plans for other Jew- Dr. Presser, who wrote his ac- ilk as that other paterfamilias, who
for contributions from religious is approaches to aiding the poor, count from records and eye-wit- carved the words 'genuine Jewish be in such a hurry (to claim their
possessions
back).' What happened
groups to organizations represent- Rabbi Tanenbaum said that discus- ness reports after having survived bone, on the handle of his pocket-
Mg the poor. Its membership in- sions were taking place among the Holocaust, having been in hid- knife, as the one who would proud- during the occupation was repug-
nant,
but
all
the same we're better
eludes 11 Protestant denominations AJCommittee staff members in j og during the occupation of his ly take his wife and children for a
and Catholic representation. Rabbi volved in race relations and urban country by the Germans, presents , 'happy little Sunday morning stroll off without them.' Now that the
Marc H. Tanenbaum, director of affairs on proposals to organize a facts. figures, impressions, data i round one of the most horrible enemy is gone, we still have the
interreligious affairs of the AJCom-
national Jewish
ad hoc
group mod-
, about
the
collaborators,
evidence ' hunger-camps, or as the one who, Jewish enemy within.' And so we
eled on the
successful
experience , of guilt in many quarters.
mittee, who had served
as
president
in a similar camp, looked on while might go on -
since IFCO was formed two years of the American Jewish Emer- I In 'more than one sense, this his- the Jews started fighting over a . Is it any wonder that many of
ago, and who resigned recently. gency Relief Effort to aid starving . torical record by the professor of few rotten turnips, slapped his the younger generation of Dutch
said the main reason for the Jewish vicitms of the Nigeria-Biafra war. I history at the University of Am- thigh and exclaimed, with a jovial Jews chose to go to Israel?
Dr. Presser ascribes much of
withdrawal was the "incapacity" The AJCommittee took the initia- i sterdam, also indicts the Dutch chuckle: 'I've never seen any-
of IFCO to take "a clear-cut posi- tive in organizing the ad hoc corn - I people. There was much condoning, thing to touch that!' Clearly a man what is occurring to a feeling of
guilt. Pointing to the state of hor-
tion on the revolutionary ideology mittee of 23 major Jewish organ[- . a great deal of indifference to the with a sense of humor."
ror in anti-Semitic Poland, he
of racist rhetoric" of the National zations after Rabbi Tanenbaum plight of the Jews and a measure
Many are the incidents, among states that "the picture was not
Black E con o m i c Development met with relief officials in Biafra in , of conceding .
offered by
h'.
much more encouraging in post-
Corp., headed by James Forman, July 1968. He said AJCommittee, And there is an indictment also them
Jewess:
war Germany."
which has issued a "Black Mani- officials had been conducting talks of the Red Cross. Time and again Amsterdam
"I
had
on
me
a
little
photo
of
my
The Dutch revelations are sad-
festo" demanding $500,000,000 rep- with leaders of major Jewish or- we get evidence of the manner in parents, the size of a penny, which
arations for white mistreatment of ganizations aimed at developing a which the Red Cross was misled I had managed to keep through dening.
Prof. Presser's work is an int-
Negro Americans. The preamble of similar ad hoc Jewish coordinating by the Nazis into believing that the everything. When the feldhuehrer
ddendum to the revela-
the "manifesto" postulates an group to act for the poor in recog- inmates of concentration camps
that
I was
something
"armed conflict" and "long years nition of the "urgency and magni- were well treated. The ground was saw
in my
hand
and holding
asked me
what it tions about the vast nest of Nazism
of guerrilla warfare" by blacks to tude" of the urban crisis. : well prepared for Red Cross repre- was, I showed it to him, and asked that has embraced the world.
sentatives to fall into a trap: they him to let me keep it as a memen-
did and they, too, often served as to. But he simply tore it up, saying
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collaborationists.
that this was no place for snap-
Many are the aspects of horror shots—he did not even carry a pic-
and misery exposed in a story of ture of his own family. He must Work by Late Poet
the extermination of 90,000 of the have seen the hatred in my eyes,
Richard Farina, Cuban born, a
140,000 Jews who lived in Holland for he gave me a few hard kicks on frequent visitor to Castro Cuba, at
before the war. The destruction the body."
18 a member of the Irish Revolu-
of, the sufferings endured by the
As if the tragic plight of the tionary Army, folk singer, poet,
women, the constant harrass-
Jews under the Nazis, in the novelist, composer, died in a mo-
meet, the tricks that were used
concentration camps, were not torcycle accident two days after
to mislead those who were going
enough, the experiences after the the publication of his "Been So
to their death—all are matters of
war were not heartening. There Long It Looks Like Up to Me."
record but they emerge here in
His "Long Time Coming and a
was a perpetuation of prejudice,
a new light about another com-
and the Dutch were not the kind- Long Time Gone" has just been
munity: the Netherlands. It is
ly people one would be led to issued by Random House, The fore-
now established how Poles col-
believe on the basis, for example word is by his widow, Joan Baez,
laborated with Nazis during the
of the Anne Frank story. Anne whom he met in Paris and married
German occupation of Poland.
Frank was the optimist; in Dr. in 1963. They had performed to-
Now we know about another land
Presser we find cause for pes- gether and made a team that was
where there was a submission to
simism.
He finds it impossible to sensational on the stage and in the
The Zionist Organization of Detroit, through its Philip Slomovitz
the lowest trends towards inhu-
omit the truth, and he states hearts of many followers.
manity.
Scholarship Fund, awarded two scholarships to the ZOA Teen Age
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about the attitude of most
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There is. for example, the story
Dutchmen to their Jewish fellow- are by his sister, Mimi Farina.
and Judy Weiss for a seven-week period this summer. A scholarship of the concentration camp at Vught.
Notes, comments, text—all com-
citizens after the war: "Clearly it
to the Mollie Goodman Academic High School was awarded to Sheryl Dr. Presser describes "the mas-
is impossible to deal with this bine to provide the works of an
Silberg for one year's study at the school in Ashkelon. Louis Panush, sacre of the children" in 1943 and matter precisely but there is artist who produced in many ways
president of the ZOD, named Rabbi Milton Arm as chairman of the among the figures given are:
small doubt that—after the lib- and whose skill becomes all the
"On June 4 there was a total of
scholarship committee. Additional members who served on the ZOD
eration — there was, to say the more evident in this volume of his
scholarship committee are Reuben Young and Carmi M. Slomovitz. 7,088 inmates, made up of 2,451
least
of it, a certain hostility, so writings.
In the photo from the left are Rabbi Arm, Sheryl Silberg, Panush, men, 3,181 women and 1,456 chil-
dren under 16; on June 11 there . 40—Friday, July 11, 1969
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Pamela Rhodes and Young. .
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