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Waagenaar's Tope's Jews'- Relates Vatican -Failures, Continuity of Roman Jews' History
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Given some benefit of leased but were sent to their of the Jews of Rome. Filled
Sam Waagenaar, in the in Italy, especially in medi- half of Jews who were
with anecdotes, Waagenaar's
doubt
because of the threat doom nevertheless.
doomed
to
their
death
under
study he has made of Vati- cal schools, and many of
research add interestingly
to
the
Vatican's
influence
Waagenaar
deals
with
Nazism
is
the
major
under-
can attitudes toward the them respond to the propa-
taking and it serves as an during the tragic war years, scores of other incidents, in- to this always fascinating
Jews and in his research ganda with refutations.
indictment of a number of Waagenaar also points out: cluding the Ritual Murder history, one marked by tra-
Waagenaar
asserts
that
the
historically on the subject,
gedies as well as the cour-
believes there are vacilla- asceticism of Paul VI is re- the Vatican associates who "That the papal silence was libels and the notorious Trent a g e o u s determination of
dictated
by
the
perennial
case,
and
the
eventual
re-
similarly
failed
in
their
tions that perpetuate ancient sponsible for the negation of
Italian Jewry to survive
prejudices which are only the libertarian principles of human tasks. There were fear of doing anything that pudiation of sanctification of against great odds.
might
provoke
Adolf
Hitler's
a
child
which
served
as
the
concerned
and
the
John
XXIII.
He
charges
that
rarely abandoned. He shows
humanitarian who exerted ire, has been made very means for Jewish persecu-
how Pius XII failed to come
their efforts to accomplish a clear by the Vatican itself." tions for centuries.
forth with appeals in defense
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of
other
incidents
cession for only two days with much firmness.
shows how Pius XI took
are
related
and
the
Waage-
Waagenaar restates the
and the . selectees were
steps in the direction of fair-
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in
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to
Jews,
details are recorded here
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a man who was apparently
work. It was a doomed ven-
a brief visit here last week,
ture, the emphasis on rescue motivated by a desire to
he elaborated on his experi-
abandon his Jewish faith.
was only for converted Jews,
ences and studies, the inter-
The present Chief Rabbi
there
were
intrigues
and
mis-
views he conducted in
Elio Toaff is portrayed -as a
calculations and the attempt
gathering material for his
man of courage who spoke
failed in its intentions.
work over a period of sev-
his mind and exerted himself
eral years and the assistance
in his people's behalf. Rabbi
as well as the obstacles he
Toaff had been quoted as
Kabala
Analyzed
met with.
complimenting the Pope for
One of Allied Van Lines Largest Haulers
Born in Holland, where he
for Modern World his help, at the time when
lived until he was 21, Waage-
the
Israel
Philharmonic
Or-
"To the kabalist the best
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naar came to the United
proof of God's existence is chestra appeared in concert
Birmingham
Royal
Oak
States in 1929. He was as-
SAM WAAGENAAR
the created universe," Mi- at the Vatican in 1955, but a
sociated with M-G-M, was
portion
of
the
Toaff
article
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active in journalism, became the ecumenical programs serts in "A Kabala for the was not published. Waage-
and American citizen and have been "totally aban- Modern World," a Julian naar quotes Toaff as having
served in the U.S. Army, doned" in the last few years Press book issued this week. written: "We prefer to re-
was enlisted in the psycho- and he made the comment
member what the late Pope
The author, an accomp- has done for the Jews, in-
logical warfare department, that "the Church that de-
did journalistic work in mands Confessions must now lished psychologist and an- stead of thinking about what
thropologist, an editor for the he had not done." Waagenaar
France before settling in itself go to Confession."
Italy where he has lived for
"Regrettably," he added, American Institute of Phy- comments: "T h i s critical
more than a decade.
"the Church presently con- sics, indicates a thorough note was not deemed to be
He befriended Chief Rabbi siders itself above Confes- study, with devoted research, in the interest of the Vatican,
into the subject.
and consequently the passage
Elie Toaff who is quoted in sion."
"The Pope's Jews" is a
She defines Kabala as "a was censored out of the
"The Pope's Jews" and who,
Waagenaar states, has given many-faceted h i s t o r y. It derivation of the Hebrew root article."
him encouragement in pre- traces Jewish life in Italy to KBL (Kibel), which means
The Massacre of the Ar-
senting - the facts in his book the earliest times. In fact, `to receive,' " as aptly de- deatine Caves, the crime of
about the Vatican. Waage- the very closing words in scribing "the ancient tradi- the Nazis under Herbert
naar's book sold more than the book are: "There have tion of 'receiving' the secret Kappler's machinations and
10,000 copies in Italy in an always been Jews in Rome," doctrine orally."
other crimes are .recorded,
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a father's admonition to his
Italian edition.
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Waagenaar believes the son about the status of Jewry deals with Kabala as a "phil- in its demands for gold from
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human aspects of the in Italy.
osophical and theosophical Jews who were to be re-
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Italians, traditionally friend-
ly to Jewry, rule out the saibed, the author turns the designed to answer man's
possibility of organized anti- pages of history back to the eternal questions on the na-
Semitic activities in the era of Josephus Flavius, and ture of God and the universe
he portrays the role of Jews and the ultimate destiny of
country.
He conceded that there has both in eras of glory and mankind."
been. an increase in propa- under oppression.
Thus, her work assumes
Both the good and the bad
ganda against Jews, and as
has been the experiences in are depicted, and the reader an expert's result of search
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into the mythological. Num-
other lands he states that the is introduced to the time
erous plates and tables defin-
when
Paul
IV
created
the
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mass propaganda by Arab
ing the mythology of Kabala •
students, especially in letter- Rome Ghetto, stating, "God are used to illustrate her
writing to newspapers, ex- has imposed servitude upon findings and conclusions. The
plains the emergence of an the Jews until they shall Hebrew alphabet is presented
have recognized their
element of prejudice.
as means of understanding
"There are hundreds of errors."
And he leads up to the re- some of the terms and num-
Arab students in Italy, and
erology is an aspect in the
they are primarily respon- versal, under Pius XI, by study.
indicating:
sible for the evidences of
"To the Kabala," she as-
"In March 1938 Pius XI
bigotry," Waagenaar states.
He points out that there had taken a first important serts, "all the various de-
are many Israelis studying step towards the eradication grees of manifestation are re-
of the 'only-Catholicism-is- duced to the essential Kabala
good-for-the - world' attitude equation: 'The pulsation of
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