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THE (thing JEVii.S11NEWS

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'Whoi't Who in the'Old Testamentf P
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Some 3,000bt,lical- ,-chaiactors;
from Aaron to Zedekiali, are intro!
_duced in "Who's Who in the Old
Testament" by Coinay, -pub-
lished by Holt, Rinehr
t and-Wins-
ton, together with a companion
volume, "Who's Who in , the New
Testament" by Ronald Brownri88-
Mrs. Comay's book is a biographi-
cal dictionary containing an. indi-
vidual entry on every person named
in the Old Testament and the
It is lavishly illustrated
with more than 450 black and white
and 16-full color illustrations.
Included are 10 maps showing,
among other things, the main Old
Test ament archeological sites,
campaigns in Canaan, and the con-
jectured route of the Exodus.
The entries - in "Who's Who in

the Old_Testament" range fti;
two or three lines to as many-as
10,000 voids.
Mrs. Comay;Is the wife of the
Israeli ambassador to the Court
of St. _James.
- She went to - Israel from her na-
tive South - Mika at the end
World War_11, his been actively
involved in Israel's struggle for
independence and in the life of
the state since it was proclaimed
in 1948, and has traveled exten-
sively on lecture and fund-iaising
tours. From 1953 to 1956 she lived'
in Canada where her husband was
Israel's first ambassador, and from
1960 to 1967 she lived in New;York_
where her husband was the Israel
permanent representative to the
United Nations. ,

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Jewish Culture Stood Supreme Test,
Bauer Says of Holocaust Rebels _

If all Jews are survivors of the
Holocaust — as - noted researcher
and author Yehuda Bauer insists
we are—then we must take a sec-
ond look at what happened in
Europe for the sake of our own
Jewish identity.
. Dr. Bauer, whose book "Flight
and Rescue" chronicles the "ille-
gal" movement of 300,000 war sur-
vivors to Palestine, spoke before
menabers of the American Jewish
Committee and Sholem Aleicbem
Institute last week—delivering the
institute's fourth annual Moishe
Haar Lecture.
Dr. Bauer, who heads the depart,
ment for holocaust studies at the
Hebrew University, resnes the al-
ready cliche view of others like
Hannah Arendt and Raul Hilberg
that Jews "went like sheep to the
slaughter."
If we accept their view, said Dr.
Bauer, "we are saying we're heirs
of a culture that couldn't stand up
under extreme testing. Is it true?
No!"
"The fact is, he said, "The
Jew did not disintegrate. Under
the noses of the Nazis, the tra-
tion of a life of value continued.
Even when resistance was of no

Walter Orlinsky, 33,
Assured of Baltimore
Council Presidency

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BA•T1MORE—Without financial
clout but with strong support of
labor, liberal blacks and whites
and young people, Walter S. Orlin-
sky was nominated Democratic
candidate for president of the city
council here.
Orlinsky, the 33-year-old law.
yer son of Prof. and Mrs. Harry
M. Orlinsky, was until now- an
elected delegate of the Maryland
Legislature. The only Jewish can-
didate for the council, Orlinsky is
assured of election because Repub-
lic opposition is token in Balti-
more.
As city council president, Orlin-
sky will be in the No. 2 spot in
municipal government, afterthe
mayor. Should the latter die, re-
sign or be disabled, the council
president is first in line for the
mayoralty. Salary for the four-
year office is $22,500.
Orlinsky had strong backing
from the Baltimore Sun, which
recommended, editorially, his
election "because of his
ship as a state legislator in
metropolitan affairs and his
lively set of social concerns."
With the victory of Orlinsky and
the unseating of three conserva-
tive incumbents, the Baltimore
council will be tilted toward liberal
control. Orlinsky, who will take
office Dec. 7, was once a water
- boy in the city council.- His father
heads the department of Bible at
Hebrew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion.

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avail any more, they realzte4— .
contrary to all logic."
Dr. Bauer rejects Ifilberg's
premise — and his figures —.taken
from German sources. For .ex-
ample, he said, Hilberg had incor-
rectly quoted the commander of
the. Warsaw Ghetto; Gen. -Stroop;
as stating that 56,065 JewS - "sur-
rendered." In reality, Stroop had
said 56,065 Jews were liquidated:
They .did not surrender.
"In Lvov, there were 73 ghettos,
with evidence of about 45 heads
of Jewish councils (Judenrats). Of
the latter, 33 were resistors—the
criteria being did they, or did they
not, refuse to hand- over Jews to
the Nazis. Of the 33, the majority
were killed by the Germans for
resisting. . .
"How many French, Czechs„
Dutch refused to collaborate with,
the Germans? There were 5,500,
000 Soviet prisoners of war in
the Nazi war camps; 4,000,000 of
-them were killed by the Germans
either by forced labor or in the
gas chambers. How many re
lions of Soviet prisoners of war
were there? Not one. There were
six rebellions in Nazi concentra-
tion camps in ,World War II—all
of them Jewish." •
But to learn the important les-
son of those who refused to sur-
render requires proper teaching.
and very little textbook material
based on factual, non-German,
sources is available, Dr.. Bauer
said. What has been available,
taken from German—reports, has
falsely stereotyped the Jews - as
passive, "that. the -Jewish culture
collapsed, that the- resistance was
small," said Dr. Bauer.
He has located other ' materials
which refute the stereotypeo-
fish documents, Catholic papers,
diaries of the victims. But the'
' major source, recollections of the
survivors themselves, isnot be- --
ing exploited, he confidante?:
• "There are 500,000 holocaust sur.-- -
vivors, to 4,000 of them in De-
troit: Ten to 15 years ago, the ina-
jority wouldn't have told their.
stories. Today the overwhelming
majority will. In Israel, we're
doing as much intertiewing as pos-
sible, but in the United States next
to nothing:has been done. In 25
years, it-Will be too- late."
- Israeli 'Youngsters, - .unlike Weir.
Ameriettn:tainiterfiarts, are very
knowledgeable abotit lhe Holocaust:
said Dr. Bauer. "The Six-Day War
are far
affected them. earchers
Res
behind the demand for textbooks,
but within a year and half, • we'll
start the first version of a textbook. -.
Unfortunately there's a . lack ..of
funds to • translate what little 'has'
been published in Hebrew. -
"We must approach the -whole*
topic (of the - victims) in a differenh
spirit," he said. "They didn't die .
for us to light candles for them."

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