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Jewish Authors Criticized
By JACK SIEGEL
with MURRAY ZUCKOFF
was the "pursuit of the
final truth."
This, of course, is a liter-
(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing critical article of ary concept and could be ap-
the first session of the plied to almost any people,
but Miller precoursed it
Jewish Welfare Board's
with his own feeling that, in
Conference on Jewish Cul-
tural Arts in New York Jewish culture, there is
"danger" around us and that
Jan. 10-11, was written by
"the last days are here."
Jewish Telegraphic
Somehow, too, he equated
Agency columnist Jack
Siegel with the help of this with a search for
power. What power, Jewish
JTA Editor Murray Zuck-
power?
off.)
Mrs. Tuchman was a
Dore Schary, who chaired
whole lot gentler with the
the first evening panel and
helped organize the confer- subject and as an historian
ence, does have a record of could find no Jewish culture
in the United States before
identification with Jewish
1880. Although she made re-
causes. However, the others,
Richard Gilman, professor ference to Israel and the
of drama at Yale; Alfred Holocaust she confessed to
Kazin, author and professor an uncertainty about being
of English at Hunter; Ar- able to define Jewish cul-
thur Miller, Pulitzer Prize ture and said it had a defi-
winning playwright and nite relation to the general
author of "Death of a Sales- culture in which it variously
man," and Barbara Tuch- or individually resided.
A question which upset
man, historian and also Pul-
itzer Prize winner, all do the panel was: How can you
organize a conference on
not.
Gilman read a paper Jewish culture with people
which seemed like a series who know so little about it?
Schary defined the question
of one-liners and in-jokes,
with references to Hadas- as rude but had sufficient
sah and Commentary. He presence of mind to advise
said Jewish cultural experi- the asker that this was the
first session and that the re-
ence "is there."
He referred to the activity mainder of the conference
of Jews in many of the vis- included people more closely
ual arts, identified them as identified with the Jewish
"Pop" art. He also said the scene. He said there was a
Jewish artist and intellec- balance and it was yet to
tual is identified with a come.
"bourgeois" structure but at
While my editor and I
the same time injected a had not anticipated this
"supernatural",, element, precisely, we did feel that
which gave his point of view this distinguished group
a profundity his approach might be somewhat dis-
unfortunately, and with tant from the subject. And
otherwise best intentions, we sought a clue, a key on
did not have.
how to resolve this, with a
Kazin, who said he was view to having such distin-
"proud of religious right," guished thinkers and crea-
seemed to identify his Jew-
tors involved in Jewish
ishness with his immi- affairs.
grant parents who came
We came up with the
from Russia. It does not
word Yiddishkeit. While
signify depth in the confer-
there was no mention made
ence subject to know that
of Babel, Buber, or Isaac
the Puritan forefathers
Bashevis Singer or Achad
came armed with an
Haam, there was talk of
awareness of Hebrew, or
Phil Roth from Miller and
that the candlesticks in
Saul Bellow from Kazin.
the Touro Synagogue were
made in Paul Revere's
Yiddishkeit is in Miller
shop.
as accumulated pheno-
Kazin spoke of the Jewish mena, in the same way
artist's capacity to create Einstein (whom they for-
dreams, as in Hollywood, got to mention) could not
and it was difficult to tell have created his equation
whether he thought this a without Newton; Newton,
creative force. When he his gravity notion without
ended his statement with an Gallileo; and Gallileo
expression that there was a without Ptolemy.
moral confusion among
Jewish culture is histori-
Jews, he seemed to be pro- cal, it is religious, it is writ-
jecting his own condition.
, ten — and like a pyramid
Miller made several per- comes to rest in the present.
sonal references; about hav-
It has no roots in the
ing lived in the same neigh-
borhood of the Y (Harlem?) American experience but
and as a young boy thought, has contributed to it. It is
since everybody in the not a series of one-liners but
neighborhood was Jewish a whole compendium which
that the same applied else- has to be examined and re-
where. He invoked his own examined as the Jews in the
theatrical discipline as to past did because they
what was Jewish but that, wanted to survive and pass
that survival on.
too, was anecdotal.
However, touched by the
We are veterans of this
German experience, about historic struggle and can
which he wrote in "In- give to the American Bicen-
cident At Vichy," he asked tennial, to the American civ-
Heiarich Boll, German ilization which Kazin
Nobel Laureate in litera- teaches, not only its particu-
ture, how the absence of larity but its universality.
Jews in Germany affects But first, we have to re-
its creativity, Boll replied learn it ourselves and begin
that what wgs -missing with —Genesis.'
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