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Jewish Chronicle anninelec450 with issue of July 20, 1951

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 20th day of Shevat, 5732, the following scriptural selections
* will be reed in our synagogues:
Pentatesichal portion, Exod. 18:1-20:23. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 6:17; 6:9; 5:6.

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Page Four

February 4, 1972

Challenges to Realities at WZCongress

•••• --JERUSALEM
an avenue for increased loyalty because peo-
World Jewry can not isolate itself from ple do not merely give: they want to know
what had taken place in Jerusalem during a what they give for and therefore may learn
period of nearly two weeks when delegates much more than we realize in the process of
Irmo 26 countries met to formulate policies fund raising.
relating to the needs of Israel and at the
Compressed into the Zionist Congress pro-
same time to delve into problems that affect grams
have been issues that involve practi-
the Diaspora. While the emphasis was on Is- cally every
conceivable Jewish Interest. Noth-
rael's position and even more seriously upon ing of significance was eliminated from pro-
the response that must come from Jewish gramatic considerations. Even the appear-
communities exerywhere in Israel's defense, ance of Meier Kahane, who was denied a plat-
the 28th World Zionist Congress took into
because recognition of him would mean
consideration the cultural needs of world ' ' form
breaking every aspect of democratic disci-
Jewry, the immigration problems—with spe- pline
and inclusion into the movement's rep-
cial emphasis on Russian Jewry—as well as
of outside factors that had no
the urgency of drawing into Zionist and -gen- resentations
relationship to Zionism, had its lesson. In the Abraham Sutzkever—the Poet
eral Jewish ranks the active participation of Kahane matter there was an aspect that can
youth.
not be ignored. As Kahane had done at
In the emphasized determination to have the convention of the Zionist Organization of Who Was Hero in Resistance
a wide open road for the movement of Jews America
One of the most dramatic stories -of- our time is imbedded in a
in' Pittsburgh, last September, the
out of the Soviet Union into Israel, the del- Jewish Defense League leader was to 'warn biography, in an admirer's story about a great Yiddish poet who now
edits
the finest Yiddish magazine in the world.
egates, speaking many languages and differ- American Jews to leave for Israel as quickly
Joseph Leftwich of London, the admirer, has written a most moving
ing in various aspects of life marked by as
possible because he foresaw an impending story of his bozo in "Abraham Sat:hover—Partisan Poet," published
their current positions, could not ignore the holocaust. The Zionist Congress leadership
by Yoseloff.
tragic role of Jews surviving in Moslem coun- could not possibly concede
to such an ant.", ..
The Impressiveness of this hero-
tries, and it should be noted with due credit pation of an impending progrom,
of all
worshiping biography has m its thorough
to the emissaries from many lands who gath- places,
account
not only of the creative genius of
in free America. Yet the very person
ered in the 'Holy City, that they were -not in- places,
the bard who is a dedicated Jewish nation-
who led in the rejection of suchvi "
different to the oppressed in Syria, Iraq and Aryeh Louis Pincus, the chairman
alist, but also his role lzt the last war, his
other lands. If the will of world Jewry, as
courage as a fighter against Nazism in the
Agency—bad,
in
his
keynote
'congress
&
underground,
and depleting how he suffered
expressed at the World Zionist Congress, will speech warned Latin American Jews to ems
is the hideouts of the sewers of Vilna in
bring the desired result of rescuing Jews grate to Israel as quickly as possible beca
the battle-far life and'iliraurvival.
from Moslem countries and of paving a road he foresaw danger for the Jews south of
'
fletakevee is -low the editor ef the
to a new dignified life in Israel for -Russian He qualified his warning by assirting that
Void Week/ mmigadne Die Geidene Keit
Jews,
ed. a major objective will hive been at- did not intend to "raise the cry of catastropho-•
publisharin Tat Aviv He ruse te that
MA rank as a Mei
distinetise in Jew-
too soon or too extremely," yet his declaral
There are the serious Diaspora problems. tion was a clear one: there IS doom In the
IS II MO of Mg-
hh liteells7
Israeli leaders especially showed great con- offing and the Jews in Latin American cone.
abiskever meet et the' idglaest-vaines b the written
cern over an expressed view that assimila- tries had better thing in terms of emigrating wont Thal skill wain evidence very early; in ids retention' et the
tion is mounting, that ignorance predomi- before it is too late. Latin American Jewish - struggle far human rights far idis peapie.
Leftwich speaks of Sutzkever, who was an underground fighter in
nates in Jewish ranks, that too little is done representatives were not too happy with these
the Ghetto, before
he escaped to the forests. He related: "It was
to increase Hebrew studies and that the assertions, their ranks are _divided on the reported
that , Sutzkever had been killed in the Vilna Ghetto. So many
youth is abandoning the Jewish postions and subject and the augury of Mr. Pincus may or had. Zalman
Rehm was among those who perished, not In the Ghetto
are indifferent to the legacies of our . peo- may not be valid. Yet, the contrasts in atti- but at the hands
of the Russians; and his fate was shared by another
ple. One would imagine from the expressed tudes
of my. Vilna friends, Joseph Chernichov, the father of Sutrkever's
as
expressed
by
Kahane
and
those
of
judgments that world Jewry is on the verge the World Zionist Organization's administra- boyhood chum Professor Michael Astour, now in America. It was a
of cultural bankruptcy, that there is a dan- tion are sharply defined in the contradictory time of death and suffering. Mill:vms of Jews in Europe were wiped out
ger of near collapse of the established Jewish actions here during a world parliamentary in the Holocaust."
News came from the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee of Moscow
structures, that the school systems as they session.
that Sutzkever was alive. The hero of this story had undertaken
function today are in a helpless state.
Are we all in danger? And if we are, are to
aid the literary treasures that were hidden. in Wilma. The manner
Yet, in the same mood, there has been we all in a position to emigrate? And if not,
which. Jews had hidden such valuables finds an echo in the heroism
a measure of rejoicing over the emerging- are we strong enough to pursue a Nahum in
of the' resistance emerging in this book.
endorsement of the day school idea in the Goldmann policy of fighting for Jewish rights
Thus, in the Sutzkever story as related by Leftwich, we have a
Western countries, especially in the United wherever we may be in addition to demand- record of literary creativity; of the- heroism of a resistance fighter; of
States and Canada. Emissaries to Jewish stu- ing the right to settle in Israel?
a man whose literary skills already wersin evidencebefore the war; and
dents in American universities reported that
when Sutzkever was only 24 and when the poet Leyelei wrote
Youth was so well -
at the in 1937, "My
there has been a response to Jewish needs, Zionist Congress that we represented
Brother Sutzkever" paying honor to a- kindred spirit.
should feel greatly a poem Leftwich's
is the story et Vilna and of OW theme et 73aa that
a great interest in Israel, a growing adher- relieved of the distress we so often express
become his hero's milkman& MI a HIV's laspiratiss. It is the
ence to programs that emphasize Hebrew - over an alleged failure of our sons and has
story
et
a
tragic
family life—the - peers, father -died at as when
studies..
daughters, and our grandchildren, to join Abraham' Sutzkever was only T and
bilcmistber and her newborn
It is on
basis of the undeniable needs Jewish ranks. But most of the young dele-
baby
were
victims
of the Nazis. The pea's slid steeled hiss te
that new.sidgiblm-L jasrp
o sof- emissaries from gates were from. Israel, which was in itself a the courage be displayed
threigkezeids
Israel, may be expected" to converge upoir" heartening
The poems of Sutzkever already molimaes. _
in view of indiffer-
weitot-tImu"
American and other communities with ap- ence there development,
to Zionism. But it is little com- nate Die Goldene Keit. A mere review - of thelterity gliots be had
peals for increased cultural activities and fort for the Diaspora. Therefore we remain befriended, as they are listed in Abe Lofted& bisittliihT•
would
for endorsement . of the programs adopted in a state of great concern over the position fill a volume describing friendships
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at the W orld Zionist
Chranbum
the
renewer
deceased
Congress. Those to whom of youth in Western countries; in all free, Ruslow.
1
Ilya
writeri
wishdbehielikled
a . ttrer
ar he *tended his Jewisbnesa. There are
o tal
ungew
these emissaries will ' preach will have the countries on the world.
right to expect, and to demand, that the
It is not -enough for an avalanche of that iththabthit bad belPed the:ItaiSpirect -that led to the diactieol
preachments should be based on practical speeches to be orated at a world conference
lines and that the interpreters of Jewry's in considering Jewish problemi. There must
Snbkever
. the faille:hi
needs should , be more knowledgeable than be due consideration of Jewlih needs wher-. idaj7 aratirtAbsit
those whom they are to serve as messengers ever Jews may reside. It is a daily task for
*ibis ids Sitzkev'er-played
of revivalisin;and should understand Diaspo- leadership in-hours of stress for world Jewry. trials klik *Pared
,
411 . a witness, against• the Nazis, Feb.N27, 3946.
2RE 11112211 C the HUM-Berta ..purgesAheze came. a break in Sutz-
ra's needs and attitudes.
As long as there is concerwthere must also
kever's
"common
-cause
with.the Rinutiana."
.perhaps it is yet to be proven that the be dedication to purpose and consideration
not came to Israel the easy way.. He traveled on
panic-inspired fears of the decline in Jewish of problems that affect' us.- If the•Jerusalem the Sutzkever-did
.Patria and as a suflivor pieced auutbUr
loyalties are justified. In respect to fund-rais- Congress inspired such approach as it ren- sight ill-fated
dePreasing
that called for courage in survival.
ing there certainly is a confident feeling Of dered great good. If it is to be perpetuated
It is noteworthy that the * concluding
in
words to Lefterith's story of
solidarity between Israel and the Diaspora memory as a mere talkfest, and power strug- Subic er is a tribute to the poet and editor
of Die Goldene Keit by
and a great loyalty by the builders of Zion gles by varied partise, it will emphasize the President Zalman Shazar of brae/ In the fatality -4 this tribute, the
and to Israel's defenders. This does not rep- lack of interest by Jewry towards movements glory is in the appteciathez of Sutzkever by ell. his teiliow-Jews. This
bon' the life of the. neat Yiddisth poet aiidworitee -is 'viewed is Israel
resent knowledgeability. It is more sentimen- that should have the right to speak in the is
and In - Jewish tanks throughout
tality than intellectual power. Yet, it offers name of all of our people everywhere.
Sys ends:mete smith enemata. the work1;:and Letheiths nerratiol

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