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Two teachers, Marc Libarle and ' if
'Passionate People'
Out in Paperback
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"Nineteen years after Hitler's
death it seemed propitious, and
more than that, essential, to begin
a consideration of Jews in Amer-,
ica. Their successes were immense.
their freedom was expanding and
yet, for many, the fires of the Holo-
caust burned alive." says Roger
Kahn in "The Passionate People:
What It Means • to Be A Jew in
Amorica " The hook will be pub-
tishf., 1 a, a sr,-cent l'a,vcett Crest
paperback
In this kaleidoscopi: view of the
American Jew, !tither Kahn secs
the separateness of the Jew as w.:11
as th," assimilation that has taken
place. He says in "The Passionate
People" that it is impossible to find
an absolute figure on the number
of Jews in this country, though it
has been approximated at 5,660,000
or 3 per cent of the population.
What makes the American Jew so
unique?—No other minority group
in the United States, says Kahn,
has contributed to and influenced
commerce, intellectualism • and the
cultural life to the degree that
Jews have.
Negro Children Visit
Suburban N.Y. Homes
NEW YORK (JTA)—Forty Negro
children from Brooklyn's Bedford-
Stuyvesant ghetto were recent
weekend guests in the homes of 30
white families—most of them Jew-
ish — in 10 Long Island Nassau
county communities in the first of
two interfaith "Operation Suburia"
programs planned this summer.
"Operation Suburbia" was initiat-
ed five years ago by Youth-in-
Action, a major anti - poverty agency
funded by the Office of Economic
Opportunity, with Jewish host par-
ticipation arranged through the
New York Federation of Reform
Synagogues, an affiliate of the
Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, the central agency of
American Reform synagogues.
The goals of the program are to
bring slum children—white, black
and Puerto Rican — to suburban
homes, to learn there is a life out-
side the ghettoes, that people care
enough to take them into their
affluent homes as guests and, very
often, to give the ghetto children'
their first contact with white fam-
ilies.
The busy part of mankind will
furnish the contemplative with the
materials of speculation to the
end of time.—Samuel Johnson
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High School Revo lutionaries and Jew fi s h Denigrators
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22—Friday, July 24, 1970
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;I MAYOR JOE fi
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it involves also a pro-Arab Jewish pedagogogs: how will they :
Tom Seligson, spoke to teachers stand by one Jew, a "Jewish down" face the problem and assure an :
and students, discussed their attitude in self-degrading fashion answer that will re-establish amity *
studies and teachings with them, by another.
between generations and set up
reviewed their political views and
attitudes to present-day problems.
The result of the compilation is an-
other challenging book, "The High
School Revolutionaries" (Random
"All power to the people!"
declares James Brown writing on
"The Black Athlete" and Paul
Gayton in the essay "Keep on
Pushing" asserts: "You're the
swine that stifle our creativity.
}louse), in which there emerges
an America they won't inherit.
You're the fascists that are turn-
One chap, describing the move-
ing people into mindless an-
ment to the left at Scarsdale, tells
droids ... The pigs' schools will
about his Sunday School, upbring-
be destroyed unless they serve
ing as a Jew and comments:
the people, and to serve the
"What does brotherhood mean
people the schools must be con-
to us when we hear the sickening,
trolled on a community level by
racist comments our oh-so-proud,
the people."
oh-so-Jewish elders make about
"My Teacher Is a Racist" writes
and those `ungrateful.' anti-Semi-
Susan
Snow. An entire section in
tic' black militants? What can re-
ligious values mean when they in- the book is devoted to the reli-
clude the unquestioning dogmatic gious attitudes and reactions. The
support of the militaristic, racist high school underground press is
state of Israel simply because its under discussion. Women's role in
populace is primarily Jewish? I the era of "liberation" is scru-
ant fed up with Sunday School tinized and the volume concludes
curricula which supposedly deal with a poem by 11-year-old Simon
with 'black problems,' the war, Shattner:
anti-Semitism, and pre-marital sex.
His skin was black
from a point of view which dic-
His eyes were wide
tates that by reasoned and inform-
As he lay in the sunbaked mud
ed analysis, the student will come
Faraway his wife and children
not to a conclusion but to the Jew-
prayed
ish conclusion."
As his jacket was drenched in
blood
This is one of the many view-
The sun of scorn warmed the
points that will surely serve as
golden fields
a challenge to Jewish leaders
As the young were buried in
and to pedagogues to review ex-
the dirt
isting conditions and to probe
In Washington a few old men
for ways of answering the rebels
laughed
or so changing approaches as to
And sat with swastikas on the
regain youth's loyalties.
side of their shirts
Those who are puzzled by the
developing situations will be even
more nuzzled by an essay in this
volume by 18-year-old Richie Cohen
who hailed from Greensboro, N.C.,
and now lives in Berkeley, Calif.,
and who wrote under the title
"Jewing down' South." There was
pressure upon him to join Jewish
kids' groups. His family is Con-
servative. He begins by stating
that "the whole question of Jewish-
ness really didn't effect me." He
met up with the problem by joining
the liberals and of meeting with
rebukes and opposition—and he is
a staunch adherent of a program
"to divide up the control of this
society among the people," adding:
"We have to smash a system that
controls people's lives. We should
be able to enjoy life."
It is the general question, the
nation's problem, and one wond-
ers what it has to do with "Jew-
ing down' South." But the kids
apparently have to find a scape-
goat, and the international one that
is offered in the body of the Jew
is an easy one to adhere to, even
The two editors are young—they
are now 24. They went to those
nearly their age, except for the
author of poem who is 11. And all
the complaints are imbedded in
this work. It is a collection that
serves to provide the basic ideology
of the young who were selected to
complain. protest, rebel, demand
control of the schools.
One wonders whether experience
is entirely ruled out by this ele-
ment. And the Jewish reader who
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knows that there is a root in ,
Jewish teachings that demand free-
dom and justice and equality will
marvel: is it possible that ignor-
ance rules the day, or have we
failed to provide youth with the
realities of Jewish ethical codes?
"The High School Revolution-
aries" does more than challenge:
it also demands an answer and it
does provide the challenge to the
community at large and to the
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reality in the confrontation that
is marked by such outcries as *4
"all power to the People." Either
the people have the power. or *
they lack it, or youth demands a
mending: either we are able to
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other book, "All on a Summer's
Night" (Random), a novel that has
half - caste characters. The expres-
sion is meant both ways in that
their depiction takes on silhouette
form and that there are other mix-
tures.
Harry Levenson, a business
wheeler and dealer is married to
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Isobel, a gentile woman. This is
her second marriage to a Jew, her
first husband having been killed in
an accident. The son, Jonathan,
from the first marriage, and his
girl, also not Jewish, plan to go off
to a kibutz in Israel. Otensibly this
is the boy's search for an identity.
At the same time, there is a sug-
gested incestuous relationship be-
tween mother and son which the
second husband, while unaware of
any behavior perversion, resents
on general grounds.
The action takes place in one
night mostly on the grounds of the
Levenson home, while Harry Is
-busy trying to take over an estab-
lished British firm. Isobel is chas-
ing a young friend of her son's.
The only live moments in the book
are when Harry is fighting the Eng-
lish types for their business. It does
put him in a bad light as the ag-
gressive Jew, although he has
other positive qualities. This one is
light reading for a summer's night-
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