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THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS,

N.etr- Paperbuck pn Sot.ietjeniry
Revenls Secret Court- Testimony

While some Russian JewS
charged with anti-Soviet "agita-
tion" were apparently brainwashed
into confessing, others openly - de-
fied the court and refused to admit
their Zionist activity was subver-
sive, according to a new book on
Soviet Jewry, "Let My People
Go."
The paperback, published by
Popular Library, was compiled
and edited by Richard Cohen. Ile
is associate executive director of
the American Jewish Congress.

Actor Is Shocked:
Hitler Image Still
Strong in Munich

NEW YORK (JTA)—An actor
who impersonated Adolf Hitler on
the streets of Munich during the
filming of a television play says
he was surrounded by people who
wanted to embrace him.and shake
his hand.
According to N.Y. Post TV
columnist Bob Williams, the actor,
Swiss born Billy Frick, appeared
in a Nazi uniform with a-Ifitler
hairpiece and paste-on mustache.
He told Williams: "I was astound-
ed by what I encountered . . . The
Germans still have Hitler in their
hearts. Everybody wanted to shake
my hand. Women embraced me in
Munich . . . There were women
who wept. An old man on crutches
from war wounds threw his arms
around me and showed me his
medals. They all took me for
Hitler. There wasn't a single
heckler."

The book relates 'previously un-
published testimony - from the
closed trials of Jewish activists in
Leningrad, Riga and Kishinev
earlier this year. The testimony
was reconstructed from memory
by Jewish sources in the court-
rooms and smuggled out to the
West.
lloiv one of. the Jewish defend-
ants was seemingly "broken
during the nine-month period be-
tween his arrest and trial may be
seen in the confession at the Lenin-
grad trill last May by Lev Korn-
blit; a 48-year-old physicist and
mathematician.
In contrast to Kornblit's con-
fession, Mikhail. Shepshelovich
defied the court at a trial in
Riga that began four days after
the Leningrad trial ended, -the
book reports.
Subtitled "Today's Documentary
Story of Soviet Jewry's Struggle
to Be Free," the book contains
factual and statistical material on
Soviet discrimination against Jews,
including excerpts from under-
ground publications, photographs .
of imprisoned: Jews, anti-Semitic
cartoons from the Soviet press
and letters and petitions from
Jews inside the USSR appealing
to world figures. -.
There also_ are eye-witness re-
ports on Soviet Jewry by- Elie
Wiesel and Arthur J. Goldberg
and articles by Moshe Decter,
Jerry Goodman and William Korey
of New York, Enianuel Litvinoff
of London, Shmuel Ettinger and
Gershom Scholem of Jerusalem,
Abraham S. -Karlllcow of Paris
and others.

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"God forbid" when speaking
about tragedies?.

Generally speaking, this is a
demonstration of the power that
seems to lie in speech. In the Bible
e find a statement to the effect
that "Life and Death are in the
hands of the" tongue." Human
speech, therefore, has the poten-
tial of effecting good, as well as
-producing evil. Added to this con-
sideration , is a power sometimes
attributed to - the angels — both
those who have a mission to do
good and those who have a mission
to do evil. According to some mys-
tic sources, human expressions can.
sometimes be distorted by -the
angels.
•- Undoubtedly, every keen ob-
server is aware of the hostility
and suspicion that can sometimes-
be inadvertently aroused by hu-
man expressions. For this reason,
the rabbis introduced certain addi-
tional expressions which would
guard _ - against any misunderstand-
ings.
Besides t h i s, the individual
uttering these expressions would
make it clear that he means only
the best of intentions toward
those who are listening or involved
with him. Therefore, we ford ex-
pressions like "may it not come
to pass" (Taanit 3:8),_ "let it not
come to you" (Lamentation 1:12)
"have pity and let there be peace,"
"and God fcirbid" (Berakoth 28A
and 63B). There is 'also another
expression which says "may God
spare us" (Shabat 84:B).
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Why Is it that Jews refrain
from :naming children, after
living people'
A number of reasons are offered
for this hesitation. Some reasons
refer to the protection and safety
of the child The- Sefer Hasidim
quotes a story in which a young-
ster died because the Angel of
Death came to take the soul of
the one after whom he was named,
and took the child instead. Another
consideration was that every per-

son is identified by his name.
Therefore, two living people should
not share the same name. A prac
tical reason that is .sometimes—of-
fered is that when two people are
named identically within close fam-
ily range, confusion can result
when one can summon one of them
and the other-will respond because
he has tile same name.
Tradition bears out the ideal
that every human being should
have a defmite identity all his
own, since each of us, no matter
how great or small, has a -con-
tribution to make to the world.
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paid little notice to the 33rd an-
niversary of the Crystal Night
pogroms which were the start of
the Nazi's anti-Jewish terror cam-
paign. During the nights of Nov.
9-10, 1938, Nazis in Germany and
Austria destroyed Jewish busi-
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