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16 — Friday, Dec. 15, 1972
National Jewish Education Fund Created to Meet Growing Needs
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
American Association f o r
Jewish Education, in a move
designed to increase the
scope of its activities in com-
munities throughout the coun-
try, has announced the cre-
ation of a Fund for Jewish
Education in America.
Under the chairmanship of
Robert H. Arnow, president
of the AAJE, the fund will
have as its objective the task
of mobilizing additional fi-
nancial resources to support leaders in this area is being
the projects, programs and formed.
On the high school and col-
services of the AAJE to meet
the ever-increasing education- lege levels, Arnow noted,
"where
disaffection has taken
al needs of the American
place and graduates are less
Jewish community.
than positive in their senti-
The fund will be launched
ments about their roles as
officially at a national leader.
Jews in contemporary Amer-
ship dinner and conference
ica," the AAJE is attempting
next March.
to meet this challenge by
A "National Committee of "contemporizing Jewish stu-
100," which will represent the dies through curriculum re-
most concerned and involved search, pedagogic innovation,
Ford Madox Ford Recalls Dreyfus
In the turbulent days of the
Dreyfus Affair, there were
many who believed in Drey-
fus' guilt. There were some
Jews who thought the Jewish
colonel in the French army
who was innocently convict-
ed on a charge of treason
was guilty.
Is it any wonder that the
famous, the liberal, the
friendly Ford Madox Ford
should have differed with
Emile Zola, the author of the
"J'Accuse" that helped
arouse public opinion in Drey-
fus' behalf?
• • •
In_ his reminiscnces, "Re-
turn to Yesterday," publish-
ed by Liveright, Ford Madox
Ford submits that he was the
only Englishman who differ-
ed from Zola as to the Drey-
fus case. It's an amazing con-
fession. His description of his
having "come upon Zola on a
public bench in Hyde Baer,"
London, is interesting. lie
describes Zola "gazing gloom-
ily at the ground and pokinl
the sand with the end of his
cane." Ile relates in regard
to that confrontation with
Zola in London:
"It had been at the time
of his exile during the Drey-
fus case and no gloom could
have ever been greater than
his. He said wearily: 'What
was one to think of a country I
where nursemaids dressed
their hair so carelessly that
he had found as many as
eighteen hairpins on one
morning in front of one park
bench? A city so improvident
must be doomed.'
"The memory of Zola so
depressed me that merely to
be reminded of him by those
hairpins was saddening. He
had, at any rate during that
stay in London, so many pho-
bias. I remember riding with
him in a hansom cab, con-
ducting him somewhere at
the request of someone who
had undertaken to look after
him but was prevented. I
think it must have been Mr.
R. H. Sherard, whom I know
slightly at the time. I did
not much want to ride with
Zola. I suppose I was the only
Englishman who differed
from him as to the Dreyfus
case, yet he was so deeply
miserable that it would have
been unthinkable to argue
with him. Nevertheless I felt
the matter very deeply. He
said very little, taking it for
granted that I knew no
French. But eventually I
found that he was counting
the numbers on the registrO-
lion plates of the cabs that
were in front of us. If the I
added digits came to nine –
or possibly to seven—he was
momentairly elated: if they
came to some inauspicious
number—to thirteen I sup-
ii:ise—he would be prolonz-
edly depressed. I supposed
him to be thinking of the
Affaire and was not rendered
any more gay.
"Ile was very carefully
looked after by various lit-1
erateurs whilst he was in ,
I.ondon, so he can hardly
have had call to depreciate
the spirit of hospitality he
found there. Its manner I
believe was less to his taste.
He had a singular misadven-
ture in a house a few yards
from the one I then inhabit-
ed on Campden Hill. He was
in some club and the editor
of a famous political journal
of the right said to him: 'Ha,
Zola, all this visiting of clubs
gives you very little idea of
England. What you want is a
taste of English home life.'
So he invited the unfortunate
Frenchman to take pot-luck
with him one evening and
share a boiled leg of mutton
and caper sauce. To reach
Campden Hill is a confusing
affair for foreigners in Lon-
don. Zola set out about a
quarter past seven and to-
wards eight found himself in
Camden Town, a poor quar-
ter, nine miles or so from
the lordly Hill—as if one
should sect in Clichy or the
Battery a house, actually sit
vale in Passy or Park ave.
He reached Campden Hill
about 10.30. The house
to which he was invit-
ed was in darkness and he
spent more time in the shrub-
bery in the front garden.
When he reached the front
door he found it open and
myopically entered the dark
hall, Ile was normally very
shortsighted and at the time
was suffering from something
like conjuctivitis, so that he
had to wear black spectacles.
Suddenly he was confronted
by a lady in a yellow flannel
bed-wrap, with her hair in
curl-papers. She was on the
landing above him and held
over her head a flat candle-
stick. She called: 'William!
When are you coming to
bed?'
"Zola, who had lost him-
self in the dark hall. tried in
confusion to escape from that
apparition. He fell over a
prostrate body. It was that of
the editor. The editor had
been consoling himself for
the absence of his famous
guest. He had gone down to
the cellar to fetch another
bottle and, reascending, had
fallen over the top step of
the kitchen stairs—in front ,
of the garden door which !
was open. Zola therefore I
pitched down the garden
steps. He had had more than
enough English family life.••
• • •
Thus we are treated to a
bit of history—and the Ford '
Madox Ford humor.
The eminent author, whose
reminiscences are about Jo-
seph Conrad, Stephen Crane
and many others, refers to
the heroes of his earlier days
and he has a comment early
in the book:
"I early developed a hatred
for tyrants and a love for
lost causes and exiles that
still, I hope, distinguished
me. Poland, Alsace-Lorraine,
Ireland and even the Jews ex-
iled from their own country
—those were the names of
romance of my childhood.
They so remain for me."
His experiences were mani-
fold, among them:
"I can remember about
1897 seeing shiploads of Rus-
sian and Polish Jews escap-
ed from pogroms in their na-
tive lands and, as they came
off the gangways of their
ships in London docks, fall-
ing on their knees and kissing
the sacred soil of freedom—
a thing that may be put to
the credit of England who
gets very little in matters in-
ternational."
Whether one differs with
him or not, Ford Madox Ford
is always interesting, and his
reminiscences certainly are.
training of teachers and other
school personnel, better pro-
gramming and standardized
tests." ,•••
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warned here that Jewish
education in Canada was
facing a crisis and urged a
reordering of priorities as an
assurance against its further
erosion.
The warning and sugges-
tion was mounted at the first
National Conference on Jew-
ish Education attended by
some 140 delegates from
cities across the country at
the Zionist Center here.
Dr. Leon Kronitz, execu-
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CZF, a noted educator from
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