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This Week in Jewish History
Newest Member of Hall of Fame
Officers for '72
40 Years Ago This Week: 1932
BERLIN--"Impelled by the serious threats against Jewish existence
in Germany, and anticipating even greater stringencies, all Jewish
groups - in Prussia, for the first time on record, united to organize a
single front against the Hitlerite menace."
Vienna U. was closed after two days of anti-Semitic violence.
'thousands of children were Atarving in Warsaw. "Unable to endure
(their) hunger cries . . . many of the parents desert them."
Three non-Jewish workers were arrested and- the management
of a flax factory was dismissed in Driza, White Russia, for attacks
on Jewish workers.
Prof. Albert Einstein offered a group of scientists his maxims for
a better world: "Think, observe and create" and "Save thy soul by
unselfish service."
-The Central Conference of American Rabbis accepted in prin-
ciple a proposal by Judge Horace Stern of Philadelphia to radically
reorganize synagogue activities and give members and affiliated groups
a direct share in and responsibility for them.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes recom-
mended Prof.-Felix Frankfurter of Harvard for the Supreme Judicial
Court of Massachusetts.
10 Years Ago This Week: 1962
Israel's Cabinet authorized emergency measures to end the 18-day
salary strike of 6,000 engineers, chemists, architects and agronomists.
"As much as I want many American Jews to come here, I don't
blame any Jew wishing to remain in the U.S.," said Israeli Premier
Ben-Gurion. "Remain in America as you wish—but stay a Jew."
Two hundred packages of American-made cookies arrived at the
U.S. Army commissary in Mannheim, West Germany, with swastikas
stamped over the price marks.
The Los Angeles Jewish Federation-Council marked 50 years of
community service.
Two boys, age 12 and 14, tried to dynamite Cong. Ahavath
Sholom Ft. Worth, after reading about the Eichmann trial and watch-
ing simulated Nazis on TV.
The American Jewish Congress decided to seek direct community
aid for its activities instead of benefiting from the New York United
Jewish Appeal.
A special federal court barred recitation of the Lord's Prayer in
Pennsylvania public schools.
Five Minneapolis synagogues were smeared with swastikas.
Israel's chief rabbinate proclaimed a 'special day of prayer for
Soviet Jewry and its "deliverance from the spiritual, plight and dis-
turbed peace of mind."
Israel's Education Minister, Abba Than, and UN delegate, Michael
Comay, conferred with the new acting secretary general, U Thant.
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City
Following in the footsteps of his
late father, Charles Canvasser was
chosen 1972 president of Detroit
Businessmen's Group, City of
Hope, in elections recently held at
Town and Country Club. His father,
Morris Canvasser, was a founder
of the Detroit Businessmen's
Group in 1943.
Harry Brodsky, who served as
president for three terms, will con-
tinue as chairman of the board.
Also elected were: Dr. Robert
Moss, executive vice president;
Paul P. Baker and Maurice Ro-
sender, vice presidents; Samuel
Glass, treasurer; Seymour B. Gold-
man, recording secretary; Ben
Goldberg, executive secretary;
Jack Beckwith, Harry Berlin, Rob
ert Berman, Joseph Braver, Eu-
gene- Epstein, Jack Epstein, Sam
Lieberman, Maurice Marrich, Moe
R. Miller,. Raskin, Max
Rosin and Morris Sukenic, board
of directors.
Installation will be held April
18 at Town and Country Club.
The newly elected officers will
devote their energies to support-
ing the pilot medical center fin
Duarte, Calif.
Included among the City of Hope
medical research programs is the
establishment of a new depart-
ment of metabolism and endocrine.
Of - interest, says Canvasser, is
the practical, inexpensive test for
a chemical substance that can re-
veal at an early stage, before
other symptoms appear, the pres-
ence of cancer of the colon, liver
and vital organs.
The 1971 dinner-dance, held in
November, brought in $109,856.75.
fax was named the National
League's most valuable player
in 1963 and the major's top
pitcher three times. The holder
of numerous strikeout records,
Koufax was the only pitcher ever
to hurl four no-hitters (one of
them a perfect game)`•
Sanford (Sandy) Koufax, the
former Brooklyn and Los An-
geles Dodgers pitching star, was
elected to Baseball's Hail of
Fame with one of the highest
vote percentages ever. Koalas,
who received 344—or 87 per cent
—of the record 396 ballots cast
by veteran members of the Base-
ball Writers Association of
America, becomes only the sec-
ond Jewish electee to the Hall,
joining Henry Benjamin (Hank)
Greenberg, elected in 1956- Kou-
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Men in Pulpits as Viewed in Literature
Only a very prolific reader could
possibly gather as much material
as Irving Sussman has incorpo-
rated in "As Others See Us." in
the Shea and Ward book in which
the author-compiler takes "a look
at the rabbi, priest and minister
through the eyes* of literature."
In this explanatory phrase is
summed up exactly what the
author had undertaken and accom-
plished. He has read major works
in which rabbis, priests and min-
isters play their roles, and he has
quoted from them to show how
they are judged.
He starts with the rabbi, de-
scribes the Hasid and Hasidism.
makes use of Martin Buber's views
and turns to Harry Kemelman's
mysteries and` to his hero Rabbi
Burns for a study of a special type
of rabbi_
The dybuk is part of his story,
and Albert Vorspan's recent works
are not ignored.
Considerable emphasis is given
to Dr. Chaim Potok's "The
Chosen," and Israel Zangsfill's
"Melting Pot" is included.
The same attention is given
Protestant and Catholic writings
and Rolf Hochhuth's "The Deputy"
fits in well in the research Sussman
did into the roles of the Vatican
during the Hitler era, While the
author of "As Others See Us" is
thorough in his analysis of "The
Deputy" and of Pope Pius XII. he
can be challenged as inconsistent.
He states:
"Hochhuth's Pope, Pius XII is
perhaps -not the real Pope Pius
XII, The craven and unfeeling
figure Hochhuth presents is hard
to reconcile with the actual Pius
XII whom the Jews of Rome called
'Our Pope? Rabbi Zolli, the 65-
year-old Rabbi of. Rome, who was
baptized into the Catholic Church
in 1945, took the baptismal name
of Eugenio Maria. 'in honor of the
Holy Father' (Eugenio Pacelli,
Pius XIII 'for interceding on be-.
5"f the Jew! d ~ iting the occu
pation?'"
This is where Sussman proves
his inconsistency. He uses a ment of Christ on who were 'the
meshumad, a man who abandon- saved' and by what means he woiild
ed his Jewish faith as proof of distinguish the sheep from the
a contention that is challenge- goats-7 was hungry and you fed
me' etc. — were written on the
able.
But the basic material in this face that was regarded as the
book is quite interesting and-very Ideal image. But drown the cen-
descriptive. He sums his undertak- turies the focus would become
clearer and clearer as the camera
ing up by -concluding:
"The synthesis of sociology and eye fixed on the Christ image was
theology was only to be revealed more and more sensitively adjust-
in the Judeo-Christian story. The ed. This is what the books say, the
pagan beliefs, the cults of magic stories and the characterizations,
and magician, the mysticism of to the question 'Who am I?' asked
Egypt and of India, contemplative by the ministers, the priests, the
and beautiful, did not have this rabbis. 'This is how others have
strange new idea as the theme of seen you.' "
their revelation—the theme that
the voice of God called for action,
social action. The Judeo-Christian
religion and its practitioners, see-
ing through a glass darkly, were
only dimly aware of the implica-
tions of the creed. The sociological,
activist meaning of "the Word was
made flesh' and the ultimate state-.
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