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ing that to foresee the expen- is more than can be said of erbly, the record needed an
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sense, to forecast the course
Dr. Bauer, associate pro- ground evidences his posses-
Eddie &
of history. There seems little fessor at the Hebrew Univer- sion of it. The Jewish Publi-
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doubt that during the decade sity of Jerusalem, is also act- cation Society has selected a
1929-39, the course of JDC's ing director of the Institute of suitable man to deal with the
history was to a large extent Contemporary Jewry. He subject and the first volume
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He wrote "Flight and Res-
omic crisis in the U.S. had cue," a history of the under-
almost killed JDC. But it sur- ground rescue movement
vived and was ready to meet, which brought almost 300,-
of occurrences that emanated 000 Jewish survivors into Is-
in so many tragedies.
rael. He also wrote "From
"In a very real sense, JDC Diplomacy to Resistance,"
undertook a Sisyphean task. the unfolding history of Pales-
With relatively little money it tine, which was published by
DR. YEHUDA BAUER
told in a series of three vol- tried, against all odds, to the JPS in 1970.
Dr. Bauer was born in
umes to be published by the save the crumbling economic
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Jewish Publication Society of structure of the Jewish people Prague in 1926 and- went to
America, and the first just in Eastern Europe; then it Palestine in 1939. While still
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Under the title "My Broth- tainly it made mistakes, did striking force. He sudied his-
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more than trace the story of without trying of do a frac- studies at the University of
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"It can be cogently argued in 1948 to fight in Israel's
men: he has portrayed the that the attempts of JDC to War of Independence.
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Jews, of providing for vanish- ly the investment of so much 1951. Dr. Bauer returned to
ing communities, of repatria- money and goodwill in Soviet Israel in 1952 and joined the
ting vast hordes who had Russia. JDC's opposition to Institute of Contemporary
become refugees as a result Zionists merits careful analy- Jewry at the Hebrew Univer-
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money, the terrible disasters that terrible decade as a per-
that befell the Jews of Europe iod of trial in which it had
in the 1930s.
on the whole stood the test,
Noteworthy in the Bauer to the best of its limited pos-
record is the thoroughness of sibilities.
coverage, its impartiality,
"There have been few Jew-
the author having taken into ish leaders and thinkers who
account every conflict, re- judged their times with more
gardless of the difficulties -perspicacity and lucidity than
that were entailed.
Bernhard Kahn, or with more
There were disputes with human warmth than Felix M.
the Zionist leaders, with the Warburg. JDC could not dis-
competing relief movements pense more help to Europe
which sought to provide for than American Jewry was
those who were viewed as be- willing to provide. It never
longing to the masses, and hid any facts from the Amer-
the situation. It could well be ican Jewish public. It always
viewed at the outset as a demanded more funds than it
class struggle.
got. It did not keep those
It all developed into unity, funds in banks, but spent
but the significance in the them to help the needy, feed
struggle was embedded in the hungry, clothe the naked.
personality conflicts, and on There were never enough
this score, as well, Dr. Bauer funds, and too often the an-
has performed magnificently swer to a plea for assistance
in portraying the roles of Dr. had to be no. JDC, together
Cyrus Adler, Louis Marshall, with HICEM and others, was
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, involved in the emigration of
Judge Julian W. Mack, the some 440,000 Jews from Cen-
Warburgs, the Schiffs, the tral Europe: 281,900 from
Strauses and the eminent De- "old" Germany, 117,000 from
troiter; the late David A. Austria, 35,000 from the
Brown.
Czech lands, and 5,500 from
It is a touching and deep- Danzig. It had relieved the
ly moving story, enlightening, suffering of many more in
enriching American Jewish Europe. It proved to them
history.
that the Jewish people in
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and the ideals of a great
movement, Dr. Bauer states:
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