`Jewish Radicalism' as Positive Force Defined in Youth Critics' Compilation
justice-seekers rather than all the divisions on that front happening all the time. And
A review by Philip Slomovitz. renaissance to merely usher other course is to ignore the the trouble-makers who have admitted that what had oc- this is a lie. It is like writ-
countless
disasters
that
have
Copyright, 1973, JTA, Inc. in some universalist hom-
ing that witches had been
occurred in recent years as been feared so much in the curred "was a regrettable burnt at the stake in Eng-
Young Jewish dissenters ogenized society, but one a result of the attempt to course of the rebelliousness error."
. . . radicals . . . New Left- which serves the very special
He was assured that such land—omitting the date . .."
of youth in recent years.
force two peoples into one
ists . . . extreme liberals .. . needs and aspirations of the single-state structure — in
There iS realism in much an "error" would not 'again
It is about such dissenters
Arab
Palestinian
people.
critics of the Israel govern-
be
condoned,
and
the
com-
of
what
is
recorded
in
"Jew-
and
rebels that the editors
Iraq,
where
Arabs
slaugh-
Even in the best of worlds
ment all are under observa-
tered Kurds; in Chad, where ish Radicalism." Take as an manding general, to assure of this volume write that the
the
prospects
of
a
bination-
tion in "Jewish Radicalism."
al state working are not very Blacks oppressed and warred example "A Letter to All adherence to the pledge, authors of the articles are
For an understanding of good. And in the most basic against separatist Arabs; in Good People" by another Is- "signed an order permitting "all Zionists, committed to
'me free movement in all oc- making aliya. But they are
their views and for an ap- conditions of the Arab-Is- Sudan, where Arabs waged raeli, Amos Kenan.
preciation of attitudes that rael dispute—two intensely a war of extermination
He tells how he had criti- cupied territories, so that I also radicals, and their love
are anathema to the Estab- nationalistic peoples who against Blacks who want cized the demolition of see with my own eyes that for Israel does not blind
lishment, this important have lived in armed con- their independence."
Arab homes in Jerusalem. such, an action had not re- them to the inequities with-
work should be made must frontation with each other
in Israel and the misp 1 ^^ed
Actually, what these radi- During the Six-Day War he curred."
"But," Kenan adds, "since priorities of its leader
reading by all who play their for half a century, facing cals do is not only to defend was ordered to supervise
roles in Jewish life, as Fed- each other over hair triggers the Jewish position but 'also such demolitions. In protest then, in all the peace papers
Views of radicalism out-
eration executives and lay —it is less likely.
to expose the inequities on he deserted his unit, was in the world, my report about lined in this impressive book
the
destruction
of
villages
participants, as educators
"What is needed is an ac- the world fronts, and their called a traitor, his case was
attitudes on internal
and students, as newsmen commodation that allows for appeals for humanitarian reviewed, he was returned has been reprinted over and include
American Jewish matters, as
and critics. Those who are separation into two national practices without prejudice to the army with honor when over again, as if it happened well as those affecting the
enrolled in Zionist move- entities. To suggest any present them in the light of the general who commanded only yesterday, as if it is Israel-American involv e-
ments especially should
ments. Thus, the controver-
make it a point to get the
sial Arthur Waskow emerges
viewpoints of the writers
with a plan for Diaspora ori-
who shared in this compila-
entation. M. J. Rosenberg and
tion. It is important that
Aviva Cantor Zukoff are the
they should know that while
forthright Zionists.
the radicals described here
Miss Zukoff, for example,
are critics of Zionist leader-
asserts: "The neuroses caus-
ship, Federation dominations
ed by the galut and its op-
and Israeli officials, they are
pressions affect all the Jews
defenders of Israel and of the
in the galut—no individual,
basic Zionist ideals and Jew-
class or sex is exempt. In
ish needs.
other words, the Jews in
Edited by Jack Nusan
galut are oppressed as a peo-
the
millions
of
Jews
per-
By
There
is
a
valuable
Ap-
repatriation
to
Palestine.
Porter and Peter Dreier,
When Patriarch Maximus,
ple." She adds: "The special
who contributed a valuable of the Bulgarian Eastern pendix of Estimates of Jew- authority, Ezekiel, 37: 'And ished.
liberation of the Jewish peo-
Miss Levin's "The Holo- ple requires the specific re-
introduction to this volume, Church, visited Israel, he i sh Losses in Nazi-Occupied they shall abide in the land
Europe.
These
estimates
in-
that
I
have
given
unto
Jacob
caust"
remains
a
major
which has been issued in was greeted by Mayor Teddy
volutionary solution of liber-
both hard-cover and paper- Kollek of Jerusalem with an elude those of Gerald Reit- My servant wherein your factor in exposing the terror, ation from the galut, and
linger
in
"The
Final
Solu-
fathers
abode,
and
they
shall
in pointing a finger to the aliya (immigration) to our
back editions by Grove Press expression of gratitude for
and is also being distributed the help the Bulgarian church tion," Raul Hilberg in "The abide therein, even they and guilty in Western lands, and own homeland, Israel."
by Random House, "Jewish had given the Jews of Bul- Destruction of the European their children, and their chil- in indicating the will to live
There is a challenge in
that continued to sustain the
Radicalism" does not pull garia during the Nazi occu- Jews," the figures compiled dren's children forever.' "
Miss Z u k of f's statement:
by
Jacob
Lestchinsky
for
the
Mis
sufferers.
It
is
a
great
work
s
Levin's
"The
Holo
s
any punches. It strikes at pation of their country.
American Jewish Congress
and it demands widest cir- "What Jews in America lack
so-called Jewish leadership;
This created considerable in "Balance Sheet of Exterm- caust" is filled with docu- culation. —P.S. most is consciousness (of op-
mentations. A typical ex-
it challenges Israel on the interest, and it was estab-
pression). It is to raising,
*
question of its handling of lished that Bulgarian Jewry ination" and a statistical re- ample — this one in the
and even creating, Jewish
capitulation of Jewish dead chapter on Bulgaria — de-
internal issues like housing suffered the least during
Valuable
Guide
consciousness among Ameri-
by territory.
scribes the visit in Washing-
for the poor and treatment Wdrld War II from the Nazi
can Jewry—to breaking the
Miss
Levin
concludes
with
ton,
in
March
1943,
of
British
for
Our
Schools
of the Sephardi population; beasts because of the re-
state of ethnic amnesia —
a
chapter
"The
Return,"
Foreign
Secretary
Anthony
it condemns submission to sistance to the invaders and
"A Teaching Guide" by that our main efforts should
about
the
march
toward
the
Eden,
who
conferred
with
racist views in a spread of the help given the Jews to
Albert Post, on the subject
Jewish National Home, with American leaders. Miss Le- "The Holocaust: A Case. be directed."
smug reactionarism.
remain in Bulgaria and to the assertion that "the Brit- vin
The entire work is on that
reports that during one
These radicals are critical avoid deportations to the ish could no longer hold it of them U.S. Secretary of Study of Genocide," is more basis. "Jewish Radicalism"
than
a
mere
"experimental
death
camps.
of Israel, yet their repudia-
presents criticisms, not •d-
back," that "the exodus State Cordell Hull brought
tion of the Fatah is the most
The s to ry of Bulgarian came like a tidal wave." She up the problem of rescuing, edition," as indicated on the vocacy of destruction, even
convincing and the realism Jewry's struggle for survival declares in her summary of European Jews and Presi- initial effort. It already in- if it would destroy establish-
of their position is impres- is told in an 11-page chapter "The Return:"
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt's troduces the major factors ments.
in the studies to be pursued.
sive.
in "The Holocaust: the De-
"The Jews _had learned yet adviser Harry Hopkins sum-
In a generation turmoiled
Issued by the Commission
They condemn those in struction of European Jewry another lesson from the ca- marized the exchange as fol-
by rebellion and skepticism,
Jewish ranks who are des- 1933-1945" 'by Nora Levin, tastrophe. No longer would lows, quoted by Miss Levin on Jewish Studies in Public such a volume is meritorious
cribed as not having "a very reissued as a 770-page paper- they petition or plead for from Robert E. Sherwood's Schools of the American As- for leaderships and parents
sociation for Jewish Educa-
strong record of courage back by Schocken.
their security or rely on legal "Roosevelt and Hopkins:"
tion, this prospectus provides who must learn to under- _
when it comes to actually
It is a dramatic and deeply rectitude and promises to
"Hull raised the question
stand and appreciate the -
doing something for Jews in moving story, and it is part achieve it. Their right to live of the 6440,000 Jews ways of dealing with the his- views of youth. Those who
torical
data
relating
to
the
trouble," and while the of one of the most important was neither a wartime nor that are in Bulgaria and are
are misled can best be di-
Establishment thus emerges books dealing with the terror postwar objective of the Al- threatened with extermina- Hitler era.
rected toward productive ef-
lied powers. Jews had to se- tion unless we could get
in blight, the radicals offer under Hitler.
It touches upon the Holo- forts through knowledgeabil-
c u r e it for themselves. them out and, very urgently, caust and it deals with the ity. This volume assures such
solutions that are enveloped
The Bulgarian record is a Tenaciously they clung to
in dedication to action.
pressed Eden for an answer origin of the genocide term. a knowledge by dispelling
An example of the manner minute part of the great that small scallop of desert to the problem. Eden replied It credits the sources by out- delusions.
in which the Israel-Arab is- drama depicted by a very which is their home by faith, that the whole problem of lining the developing experi-
There may be many blund-
sue is handled is offered by able scholar whose studies by history and by honor- the Jews in Europe is very ences.
ers 'here. There 'are general-
Sol Stern in his epilogue on the subject of the Holo- able pledge from the League difficult and that we should
The
questions
posed
also
article, "My Jewish Problem caust are among the most of Nations and Britain. move' very cautiously about raise major issues: such as izations that aggravate. A
Thrust into history were the offering to take all Jews out why the U. S. Senate has not student press that is looked
—and Ours: Israel, the Left thorough.
to as a vehicle toward - ner
and the. Jewish Establish-
Miss Levin, a former re- desperate scramble for emi- of a country like Bulgaria. adopted the United Nations identification should m-
ment." The writer sought a search librarian who now gration certificates, carefully If we do that, then the Jews Genocide Convention.
proved upon, but it can not
way of establishing friend- teaches history at Gratz Col- phrased memoranda of the of the world will be wanting
Many of the aspects of the
ship with Arabs. He explor- lege, Philadelphia, covers Jewish Agency to the august us to make similar offers in last war's horrors are under be done by generalizing
ed Fatah. Like his father, every a s pec t of the last Mandatory Government, the Poland and Germany. Hitler review, with importantly about the entire Jewish press
who settled in Israel as a war's terror, and her elaborate rigmarole of exit might well take us up on phrased questions addressed as if it were "staid and life-
Zionist, he became anti- book describes the Jewish and entrance permits, the any such offer and there to students to provide ma- less," without deeper study
establishment, fought the ad- tragedies in all of the lands Jewish faith in the world's simply are not enough ships terial for discussion and for of actualities. Under the
and means of transportation absorption of the vital de- guise of "establishment"
ministration, wanted to work that were invaded 'by the conscience.
"A new breed of Jews had in the world to handle them." tails involved in the issues there is too much that ap-
with Arabs for the creation Hitlerite beasts.
pears subject to condemna-
come out of Palestine: tough,
This volume is both an under review.
of a democratic society. He
Supplemented by descrip- realistic and militant. They
tion.
Here, too, generalizing
historical record and an in-
learned that the Fatah only tive maps — including the
Of special interest is a
sought to create lordship Bulgarian position — and were bringing into Palestine dictment — of U. S., British, major fact in this study is dangerous. But "Jewish
over Jews in Israel and to charts that describe the Nazi mercy, but ma'apilim, storm- Soviet and Vatican indiffer- guide : it also provides a Radicalism" is too sincere
destroy rather than build. He functions, Miss Levin's his- ers of obstacles. For their ence; of a total disregard of special chapter on the Ar- an effort not to be given pri-
official writ to enter the tragedies; of the doom-
declares in his summation: torical analyses pr o v id e new,
menian Genocide, the mass mary rating in self-examina-
the land, they chose their
"The glib notion that the basic information in the oldest source, the Bible. On ing of an entire people to murders by the Turks, the tion by a community—all of
way to solve the problem is preparations by the Nazis for the passengers of the Feda, destruction under a spell of general need for a Genocide American Jewry is treated
Convention to end the mass by the students of radical-
to create a democratic secu- the rule of terror, the de- a wooden cargo ship which silence.
lar state of Palestine where portations in all of the coun- the British held 'at gunpoint
Miss Levin indicates that murders of peoples. ism as the community inter-
The schoolwide studies in- ested in raising standards
Arabs and Jews live in peace tries affected and the dis- at La Spezia in April 1946, there was a defiance, a re-
ignores the obvious fact that tress that was caused by the relenting only after the refu- sistance, which did not en- spired by this teaching guide and advancing highest stan-
Fatah hasn't geared up just failure of the world powers gees had fasted four days, tirely condemn the Jewish serve an important introduc- dards of humanism.
to go out of business after a to provide the necessary help the new "passports" read: sufferers to the charge of tory purpose, in the hope of On this basis, "Jewish
secular Palestinian state is for rescue of the millions who "Mr. . . . has been found submission frequently heard encouraging more extensive Radicalism" is major in the
created. It has not tried to were doomed to die as vic- qualified by the representa- from many sources which interest so that the Holocaust consideration of the status
create a Palestine national tims of Nazism.
tives of the Yishuv (Jewish have disregarded the actual will not be a forgotten chap- of American Jewry and its
P.S. youth today.
state of affairs under which ter in history.
48—Friday, August 17, 1973 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS community in Palestine) for
Noted Researcher Reveals Indifference
Toward Holocaust Victims; Nora Levin's
'Holocaust' Dramatically Exposes Errors