THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 4, 1977 39
Volume Traces JDL History
BY ALLEN A. WARSEN
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"Jewish Identity and
the JDL" (Princeton Uni-
versity Press) by Janet L.
Dolgin is an adaptation
from a doctoral disserta-
tion and the product of 14
months of research in
New York and Jerusalem.
The author, assistant
professor of anthropology
at Teachers College, Co-
lumbia University, traces
the evolution of the JDL
from its beginning in 1968
when it was known as the
Jewish Defense Corps
through September,_ 1972
when it adopted a
nationalist ideology.
The JDL was founded
by a group of middle aged,
lower income Orthodox
Jews as a protective (in
the physical meaning of
the word) organization.
The group's main con-
cerns then were crime in
the streets, black anti-
Semitism, "liberal do-
nothing city govern-'
ment," and 'changing
neighborhoods. Or as the
author phrased it: "JDL
was created against the
Other." The JDL's field of
operation centered in
Williamsburg, Boro Park-
in Brooklyn, and the
Lower East Side in Man-
hattan. However, within
a short time the league's
concerns shifted from
local to national and in-
ternational in scope.
Among others, they in-
cluded Soviet Jewry and
aliya.
As the league expanded,
its major aim was to create
a New Jew. He was to be
modelled after the heroes
of the Bible, the Mac-
cabees, the Zealots the
men of action.
The JDLers contrasted
the New Jews with the
Old Jews. The latter they
described as people
"without a land, without
a society of their own, and
without the political
sagacity of . self-
interests."
The JDL's "Movement
Handbook" (1972) por-
trays the New Jew in the
historic perspective of the
Holocaust: ". . . a new
philosophy was born as a
New Jew arose from the
mound of corpses of Au-
schwitz, Tremblinka and
BuchenWald. From the
ashes and decay of the
Holocaust comes the phi-
losophy of the Jewish De-
fense League. An organi-
zation of Jews whose
hallmark is action.
Nevertheless, that action
is based upon a philoso-
phy — the philosophy of.
the New Jew."
The author lists five
principles of the New Jew
philosophy:
• Ahavat Yisrael (love
ofJewry). It is the obliga- ,
tion of every Jew to love
all Jews as all Jews belong
to Klal Yisrael (the
Jewish people as a whole).
• Hadar (dignity and
pride). Hadar is pride in
being a Jew, in Jewish
culture &I'd in Jewish his-
tory. It is "a response to
Anti-Semitism which
robs the Jews of first their
-
Ben-Gurion Biography Unveils
Love Affair, Reactor Project
TEL AVIV — A new "an attractive English-
biography of former Is- woman," The book said
rael. Prime Minister the relationship was "in-
David Ben-Gurion makes tellectual and spiritual."
some startling revela-
Another - incident re-
tions. -
vealed is that of Israel's
Written by political sci- building a nuclear reactor
entist Michael Bar-Zohar in 1961, capable of produc-
and published by Am ing raw materials for nuc-
Oved, "Ben-Gurion: A lear bombs. Although
Political Biography" de- there was much opposition
scribes a secret 15-year by France and the U.S.
relationship the former (France withdrew its
Israeli leader had with financing), the project was
completed with the help of
Neo-Nazi Paper private donations.
President Dwight D.
- in Bonn Bombed Eisenhower
sent an ul-
timatum to Ben-Gurion
BONN (JTA) — Munich on Jan. 3, 1961, demand-
police are investigating a ing the American experts
bomb explosion that be permitted to inspect
damaged the premises of the top-secret research
the neO-Nazi newspaper reactor near Dimona in
Deutsche National- the Negev. Ben-Gurion
Zeitung_published. in that refused at first, but later
city.
permitted the U.S. in-
The blast, in the early spection.
hours Monday, caused no
injuries but damage to Levy Becomes
the newspaper plant was
estimated at 10,000 Aliya Director
NEW YORK — Aaron
Marks (about $4,300).
Police said there might Levy, a fifth-generation
be a connection between Sabra on leave from his
the bombing - and an at- post as chief of the man-
tempted borribing on Jan. power division and ad-
24. At that time, a bomb ministrative services at
the Technion, has been
was discovered in the named
acting director of
building and removed be- the Israel
Aliyah Center
fore it went off.
of North America.
The Deutsche Nation-
Levy, who has served
al-Zeitung is owned and for a year and a half
edited . by Dr. Gerhard as assistant director,
Frey, one of the most moved up to fill the vac-
notorious Nazis of the ancy left by the return to
post-war era. It claims a Israel of Yehiel Leket.
circulation of 100,000 in - Leket is now a member of
Germany.
the knesset.
WE AT
honor and then their very
being."
• Barzel (iron). Barzel is
defending the Jewish
ped-ple against their
enemies. ". . . when one
deals with Esau, one
must use the weapons of
Esau."
Mishmaat Yisrael
(Jewish discipline and un-
ity). In order for the
Jewish people to survive
they must be united and
disciplined. "Mis-
hmaat,"'moreover, is
the capacity to perform
the impossible."
• Bitachon, absolute
faith in the eternity of the
Jewish people.
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
As they - have done every
year since their libera-
tion from German occu-
pation, the citizens of
Amsterdam marked the
anniversary of the Feb.
25-26, 1941 general strike
when Dutch workers
tried in vain to halt the
deportation of the first
400 Amsterdam Jews to
Nazi death camps,
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credit for having initiated
the 1941 action.
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This year, in addition to
demands for government
control of multi-national
enterprises and compen-
sation to offset inflation,
they also urged severe
punishment for Pieter
Menten, a Dutch art
dealer accused of having
participated in the mur-
dersofJews and others in
the Lemberg area of Po-
land when he was a
member of an SS unit in
July, 1941. Menten, who
was arrested last year, is
now awaiting trial.
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