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Teens Reveal Diminishing Practice;
Consider Hanuka No. 2 Holiday
Current Paperbacks and Noteworthy Classics
of 400 jokes by
A notable classic, "The French Promise" is as intriguing as Its list is the book
popular humorist,
Benny
Revolution and the Jews—the ori- earlier work. Dr. Potok, editor of the
under
the
Society, Youngman, published
So
PHILADELPHIA — A dwindling • and 77 per cent exchange gifts . On gins of Modern Anti-Semitism," by the Jewish Publication
resented
the
theme
title,
"How
Do
You
Like
MeMil-
number a teen-agers, are vigor- Passover, 73 per cent enjoy par- a distinguished scholar, Dr. Arthur thus h as p eminently well quail- Far?" With a foreword by
ticipating
in
a
seder
and
66
per
is
he
Herzberg,
has
been
reissued
as
a
which
ously involved in the practice of
ton Berle and illustrations by
analyze in presenting the Sheila Greenwald, this delightful
paperback by Schocken Books.
Pied-
Judaism, it was determined from cent abstain from eating bread.
This important volume deals religious aspects of young Jews'
to provide much
Concerning Sabbath obterv-
a survey of 100 Jewish high school
times. book is certain
students, queried by members of *nee, it was found that although with the anti-Semitism of Voltaire, approaches to life in a modern
social docu- ent ertain ment at casual read-
a Gratz College class here.
63 per cent of the teen-agers do the Enlightenment, the factors Psychologically, as
ment, as a view of religious as- ings.
During the past academic year not observe the Sabbath, 65 per that affected Jewish and non- pects
in Jewish life, "The Prom- In the Simon and Schuster series
in the Isaac Mayer Wise depart- cent would light candles, etc. Jewish attitudes in the transfor- ise," jointly with "The Chosen," of paperbacks are included two
ment of Gratz College, the infor- when they have their own house- mations that marked the develop- emerge among the great novels of cook books, both by Ruth and Bob
mal survey concerning Jewish hold. A final note to this area is ing changes in the Jewish position the last decade. Grossman, under the titles "The
identity was conducted by the first the statistic that 32 per cent in modern times.
Excerpts from the great Italian-Kosher C ook boo k" and
The new series of Schocken
year customs and ceremonies presently keep kosher.
classics dealing with Jewish his- "The Chinese-Kosher Cookbook,"
The next area surveyed was that paperbacks includes the impres-
class, taught by Rabbi Howard I.
torical themes are incorporated which contain recipes based on
sive
volume
in
which
Moshe
of the synagogue. The main con-
Bogot.
in "Growing Up Jewish," a Italian and Chinese style cooking
cern was that of synagogue at- Perlman, the eminent Israeli
Forty-two questions on Jewish
paperback edited by Jay David, but all strictly kosher.
historian, military leader and
customs and ceremonies were tendance, and the following sta-
Then there are the following in
issued as a Simon and Schuster
journalist, presents the , views of
tistics were recorded:
put to the high school students,
Pocket Book. Selections from the S&S series:
of David Ben-Gurlon on a vari-
Three per cent of the teen-agers ety of issues. This paperback,
with no discrimination as to
the writings of 25 eminent Jew-
"College Confidential," a revised
Jewish affiliations. The thesis interviewed do not attend syna-
ish writers are included in this and updated 1970 edition by Law-
entitled "Ben-Garton Looks
gogue services; 44 per cent attend Back," retains significance for
Of the survey was that the teen-
work. The Old World and the rence Handel; "The Selling of the
age peer group would reveal the up to five times a year; 21 per
New, Israel and the Diaspora, President, 1968," by Joe McGissin;
the light It throws on many
cent attend up to 10 times a year;
actual status of Jewish ideality.
are represented here. Taal "Civil Rights and the Black Ameri-
aspects of Israel's political and
Dayaa and Zechariah Niasim are can," a documentary history edit-
The first area surveyed was that 9 per cent attend 11 to 15 times a social life.
year;
8
per
cent
attend
up
to
20
of Jewish-non-Jewish relationships.
Noted authorities on the subject the Israeli writers from whose ed by Albert P. Blaustein and
Although both parents of 92 per times a year; and 15 per cent at- participated in the volume "Black works the editor has quoted; Robert L. Zangrando; the story of
cent of the teen-agers surveyed tend over 20 times a year.
Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism" Chat Weismann, Robert. Bris- witchcraft in Massachusetts, "The
While 70 per cent of the teen- edited and with an introduction cow, Sam Levenson, Solomon Devil's Shadow," by Cliff or d
were Jewish, only 62 per cent of
the parents discouraged interdat- agers questioned have attended a by Nat Hentzoff, published as a Maimon, Leone de Modena, Sam- Lindsey Alderman; a mystery,
synagogue
youth service, only 49 Schocken paperback.
uel Chcbinoff, Edna Ferber,
ing.
"The Inway Investigators," by
Participants in this volume in- Rebekah Kohut and other Jewish Jane Yolen.
This trend is reflected in the per cent belong to a synagogue
clude Rabbis Jay Kaufman and notables are quoted in relation
statistic that 74 per cent of the youth group.
In the area of education, four Alan W. Miller, James Baldwin, to the over-an topic, "Growing
teen-agers were willing to date a
THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS
non-Jew, and 38 per eent would statistics are especially note- Earl Raab, Albert Vorspan, Julius Up Jewish."
worthy:
82 per cent of the, teen- Lester, Harold Cruse, H. R. Sha-
To the area,of studies of racial 42—Friday, September 18, 1970
marry outside of their faith.
Nevertheless, only 43 per cent of agers attended a Jewish school, and piro, Walter Karp and Judge problems belongs an important
Dover Publications paperback.
those questioned had dated a non. 75 per cent of those who attended William H. Booth.
Many authoritative scholars are Prior to the Emancipation Proc-
Jew and 93 per cent of the teen- would have done so if given a
agers would not convert if they choice. Although 76 per cent of represented in the Schocken paper- lamation there were 60,000 free
the teenagers read Hebrew, only back, "Traditions and Contempo- blacks living in Virginia. Some
married outside their faith.
of them were descended from
In cases where an Intermar- 24 per cent think that Hebrew rary Experience" edited by Alfred
riage would take place however, makes a better Jew in today's Jospe, the Hillel Foundations' pro- families that had never known'
world.
69 per cent of those questioned
gram director, whose work is in- slavery. Some freed slaves bad
The final area tallied con- troduced as a collection of essays white Indentured servants and
would insist on a Jewish educa-
cerned
the
teen-agers'
self
im-
tion fcr their children.
on Jewish thought and life. Drs. some bought other blacks and
The second area survey was that age: 51 per cent of the teen- Robert Gordis, Milton Kobvitz, held them in a slave-master
agers
think
Judaism
is
a
signifi-
of observance. When asked which
Mordecai M. Kaplan, Ernst Simon relationships. Facts such as these
cant part cf their social life; and other notables are among those are part of the wealth of Infor-
holidays- were the most important, 65
per cent associate more with who are represented in this work mation included in John H. Rue-
teen-agers responded with the fol-
_sell's "The Free Negro in Vir-
lowing in order of celebrated im- Jews than non-Jews; 32 per cent together with Rabbi Jospe.
of those questioned encouraged
ginia 1619-1865."
portance:
Also among the Popular re-
their
peers
to
be
more
Jewishly
The Vantage Book division of
printed works as paperbacks
Yom Kippur, Hanuka, Rosh
Random House has issued several
issued by Schocken Books is the
Hashana, Passover, Purim, Suk- involved; and 18 per cent some-
oth, Shavuot, Tu b'Sh'vat, Lag times find themselves ashamed
Hillel Book, Dr. Eugene B. Boro- important volumes as paperbacks.
of being Jewish.
witz's "Choosing a Sex Ethic."
Included in the list are:
b'Omer and Tisha b'Av:
Thus, a diminishing number of
"Empire and Revolution," by
It is interesting to note however,
Fawcett World Library has uti-
those
interviewed are zealously lized one of the best sellers, "The David Horowitz; "A Death in the
that 67 per cent of the teen-agers
felt that the holidays had lost their involved in the phenomena which Promise" by Dr. Chaim Potok, as Sanchez Family," by Oscar Lewis;
significance. In response to some constitute formalized Judaism. A a paperback. This novel is a con- Aileen S. Kraditor's "Means and
specific questions about the holi- significant number have developed tinuation of the theme in Dr. Ends in American Abolitionism—
Gar r ison and His Critics on
days, the following facts were negative feelings toward their Jew- Potok's, "The Chosen."
ish identity.
ascertained:
A love story as well as a very Strategy and Tactics 1834-1850;"
Perhaps the fact that 67 per cent intriguing theme based on • the "Analytical Psychology—Its The-
Of the 90 per cent who stay
home from school for Yom Kippur, of the teen-agers feel the holidays theological conflicts between Ortho- ory and Practice," by C. G. Jung;
70 per cent fast and 67 per cent have lost their significance sug- dox and Conservative Jews, "The Bernadette Devlin's personal story
told as "The Price of My Soul;"
go to services. This percentage is gests a clue as to the remedy of
Dr. Noam Chomsky's "At War
reflected in an almost identical this Jewish communal predica-
With Asia—Essays on Indochina;"
proportion when it comes to the ment. The answer may lie in a Documentary Film
Louis Aithusser's "For Marx."
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Hanuka, 89 per cent light candles, re-interpret both Jewish verbalized
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makes clear what is being done in
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ard Portner (Laurel Bauman), ning geriatric film "Still Going
18604 Schaefer, a daughter, Julie Places," and his young associate,
Phyllis Johnson, "Two Worlds" is
Elana.
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ously
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Bornstein (Francey Eisler of De- the aged.
Unions who produce The Jewish News.
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film
utilizes
two
case
troit), of Toronto, a daughter,
studies, photographed over many
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Bay City), 24824 Templar Cir., film.
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