26—Friday, June 8, 1973

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Jewish Life Bearable in Hungary Despi te Its Link to Soviet Union

BUDAPEST—The practice even though the Jewish as- didates for a job. a Jew will and matzo is baked for Pass-
of Judaism in Hungary has pect of the play is unempha- have a less than even chance over. Some of it is exported
of getting it.
to Czechoslovakia and East
the bunker are made all the become relatively worry-free, sized.
Nevertheless, the 100,000
On the other hand, a sig- Germany.
more dramatic by the cam- reports a correspondent for
Jews in Hungary say their nificant number of Jews oc-
era flashes outside the bunk- the New York Times.
er. While Hitler and his
Henry Kamm reports that situation is not bad, despite cupy important postions in
friends dine on cake and the traditional anti-Semitism the government's complete government, state-controlled
cream, men die for want of of Central and Eastern Eu- adherence to the Soviet Un- business including banking,
a breadcrust.
rope has become so hidden ions anti-Israel position and and are important in the arts
Gazing lovingly at his dog. that it was uncertain whether the flow of anti-Zionst corn- and in the press, Kamm re-
Hitler mourns, "What a pity a recent incident at a univer- mentary in the press.
The Jewish community re- poRrtesii
Reli gious practice is toler-
Blondie must die because of sity theater here was a pro-
all those treacherous human duct of the usual anti-Semit- ports no acts of overt dis- ated, says Kamm; Hungary
beings."
ism of the right or of the ex- crimination, however, the has the most active Jewish
Occasionally,
the
Jews treme New Left which es- Jews said they feel that religious life of any Commu-
creep into his discourses, but pouses the Palestinian cause. among equally qualified can- • nist country. There is a large
synagogue and about 30
by then the "problem" had
Jeno Kovacs, an official of
smaller ones in Budapest.
been solved. He observes,
Israel Will Oppose
Hungary has the only rabbin-
casually, that "At first I the Communist Youth Union,
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Jews on Madagascar or some
other island, but I suppose of the audience walked out on Minister Abba Eban said in ; students are all Hungarians.
a
performance
of
"Fiddler
a magazine interview that About 75 students attend
it's better to exterminate
on the Roof," was the surfac- his country would not support i the Anna Frank High School
them wherever they are."
The danger in this film is ing of traditional anti-Semit- East Germany's admission to where Jewish history and
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in its depiction of the Nazi ism. The walkout focused on the UN "even if Israel should practice are taught along
BETTER SERVIal
hierarchy as a group of im- one of Hungary's most dis- stand alone" on the issue. with regular secular subjects.
tinguished
actors,
Ferenc
Eban told the magazine, Kosher butcher shops exist,
beciles. How, then, could 30,-
000,000 people have permit- Bessenyei, who took leave Quick, that East Germany 1 „_=0
in
ted themselves to be crushed from classical roles to play has consistently refused to
Tevye
in
the
production.
to death in a machine run by
fulfill its historical obligations
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idiots? The truth is, the Hit-
During the heckling from on reparations and has adopt-
ler we see here is not the the rest of the audence, Bes- ed an extremely hostile atti-
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Hitler who engineered the de- senyei was asked why he par-' tude toward Israel.
struction of Europe.
ticipated in "such a play."
He said his government's C3
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On the positive side, then, He replied that he, too, had attitude toward the East Ger-
any fears of a new Hitler been guilty of "such" senti- man regime was decisively
private, sem -private and clinics
mania certainly cannot be ments and that by playing , influenced by the fact that
founded on this cinematic Tevye he had an opportunity many former Nazis now hold
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by Hugh Trevor-Roper. Alec becoming acquainted with
He said Israel could prove
Guinness' Hitler is no hero. the real life of the people at any time that Nazis held
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Except, maybe, to Blondie.
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concerned, The play con- government positions in East
—C. D.
tinues with excellent reviews Germany.

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NEW YORK (JTA)—Rabbi
Moshe Portnoy, spiritual
leader of the Elmhurst Jew-
ish Center in the Queens sec-
tion of New York, reported
that antique religious objects
stolen May 27 were found
miles away on the Lower
East Side of the city.
Rabbi Portnoy told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that Anthony Taddeo, a parks
department employe, called
the synagogue several days
ago and said he found a car-
ton and suitcase in Tompkins
Square Park with a number
of silver objects.
"He evidently read about
the robbery in the newspa-
pers and called to tell me
about his find." Rabbi Port-
noy said. "Every object, ex-
cept a silver ornament for
the Torah, was there. Mr.
Taddeo didn't know what he
had found but assumed that
these were the objects that
had been taken from our sy-
nagogue."
The items, brought out of
Nazi Germany by members
of the congregation, includ-
ed three silver ornamental
crowns and four silver point-
ers.
Rabbi Portnoy said that the
congregation, delighted with
the return of the items, has
invited Taddeo to the syna-
gogue Sunday to participate
in a United Jewish Appeal
cocktail hour.

Sou th fie ld

The German people would
have to have had an IQ of 40
to follow the fuehrer por-
trayed in "Hitler: the Last
10 Days," now on the screen.
Alec Guinness gives us a
pathological idiot—hardly the
evil genius whose oratory
hypnotized nations into doing
his maniacal bidding.
Yet, a witness swears that
the film depicts him as he
was — going about his little
tasks, playing soldier when
any soldier would have
known to surrender; playing,
father to his fawning cour-
tiers when. in reality, he
cared only for himself.
Through the use of brown-
white photography to lend
documentary authority, the
film shuttles between the
horrible reality of Berlin 1945
and — in color — the charade
being played out in Hitler's
bunker beneath 60 feet of
concrete.
There. he celebrates his
56th birthday, surrounded by
his conspirators — Bormann,
Goebbels; what was left of
his generals—Krebs, Keitel;
his devoted, vacuous mistress
—Eva Braun; and the other
sundry Aryans who bathed
in the light shed by their
fuehrer.
There are some choice
lines, like this one from
Eva Braun: "What a pity for
the world you couldn't have
devoted your life to art." Or
this one from Hitler, who
stops Eva from destroying
photos of him as they prepare
for the end: "I don't want
to happen to me what hap-
pened to Christ." After all,
he says, isn't it a shame no
one really knows what Jesus
looked like?
The inanities of life inside

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