62 Friday. April 1. 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Kreisky Denounces Dutch Book in Support of SimonWiesenthal VIENNA(JTA)-A book by a Dutch journalist support- ing Nazi-hunter Simon Wie- senthal in his feud with Chancellor , Bruno Kreisky has been denounced by Kreisky's Social Democrat- ic Party as an -anti-Austri- an pamphlet" that mingles "the author's opinion with fabrication and facts. - The book, by Martin Van Amerongen, was published under the title, "Kreisky and His Unmastered Past." Its original title was "Con- spiracy Against Simon Wie- sentha.." It deals with the dispute between Kreisky and Wie- senthal over the Chan- cellor's support of Frie- drich Peter, leader of the right-wing Freedom Party, against charges by Wiesen- thal that he participated in war crimes against Jews and others while a member of the Nazi SS 1st Infantry Brigade during World War II. Wiesenthal disclosed in 1975 that Peter's brigade, along with others, killed 400,000 persons, mostly Jews, in southern Russia and the Ukraine between September and November, 1942. Kreisky, who is Jewish, accused Wiesenthal of mak- ing "unqualified charges" against Peter and said he Door-to-Door Aliya Campaign NEW YORK—Yeshiva College students Daniel Levy of Queens, and -Steven Klitsner of Milwaukee, who head the Israel affairs com- mittee of the college's stu- dent council, are coordinat- ing a new group, the New York Students Religious Aliya Coalition. The coalition, whose mem- bership is open to students from other colleges and uni- versities, is carrying out door-to-door campaigns seeking those students who might be interested in immi- grating to Israel, or who might wish to take part in educational programs in Is- rael. Israelis Invent Lung Device NEW YORK An emer- gency medical apparatus which supplies oxygen and aids breathing of victims of disaster situations has re- cently been designed and built by a team of special- ists in Israel. The device is designed for field use. Designer is Mordehai Mark, a graduate of the Tel Aviv University Medical School with the assistance of Dr. Ervel Levy, head of the- Department of Anes- thesia at Beilinson Hospital and Prof. Mordehai Ma- noah who heads the Bio-En- gineering Unit at the Tel Aviv University Medical School. ORT/Israel is involved in the project, with the actual construction of the model done by Elan Kander, sen- ior student at the ORT Giv- atayim Technicum. failed to present any valid evidence that Peter was himself involved in war crimes. The Freedom Party holds ten of 183 seats in the Austrian parliament. Van Amerongen, who said the purpose of his book was to give Wiesenthal moral support, was assailed in the Socialist Party organ Arbeiter-Zeitung for his per- sonal attack on Kreisky. The Dutch writer claimed that Kreisky abandoned the Jewish community in 1932 and condoned anti-Semitism in order to further his politi- cal career. He also sugges- ted that Kreisky's popu- larity among Austrian voters stemmed from guilt feelings over the per- secution of Jews, not anti- Fascist sentiments. Jewish Studies Prof Supported NEW YORK— Several stu- dents of the Lehman Col- lege of the City University of New York said they plan to organize a boycott of the university unless a Jewish studies teacher is given ten- ure. When told there were al- ready two tenured Jewish studies instructors on the staff, the students replied that they were linguists while the third professor, Dr. Jane Gerber, was the only faculty member teach- ing ancient, modern and American Jewish history, as well as a course on the Holocaust. The university chancellor said the decision not to award tenure -was made be- cause of "budgetary probelms." The students called the action "flagran- tly discriminatory" to the Jewish community which "had been disgraced and outraged" by the tenure de- nial. • Israeli Furniture Prospects Good NEW YORK—The Ameri- can Advisory Committee for Israel Furniture Week returned from their recent visit to Israel, optimistic about the future for the Is- raeli furniture industry and the prospects for the Ameri- can furniture people to de- velop profitable business' contacts during the first Is- rael Furniture Week, to be held in Jerusalem. May 15 - 20. Oral History Due of Louisville Jews LOUISVILLE, Ky. (JTA)—An oral history proj- ect to record and preserve the recollections of senior members of the Louisville Jewish community is being organized by the Jewish Community Federation of Louisville in cooperation with Louisville University. Mrs. Carolyn Neustadt, chairman of the federation committee for the project, said it was hoped that inter- views, starting in March, would be completed by the end of June. Brown Hits Israel, Congress CHICAGO—Gen. George S. Brown. who twice embar- rassed the Ford Adminis- tration with- comments about Jewish control of the press and the Congress, may have done it again. _ The Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday that the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. swore his au- dience to secrecy last May and then said that Israel has better armored forces than the U.S. a reference to U.S. tank sales to Israel and that Egypt should he sold sophisticated U.S. mili- tary equipment. including F-5 jets. but that "Congress just wouldn't face up to it." The brunt of Brown's at- tack was against the U.S. Congress. which Brown la- beled obstructionist and ir- responsible. Despite his latest com- ments, President Carter said he was pleased with the general's performance during the current Adminis- tration. Catholics Are Urged to Drop Anti-Semitic Holy Day Hymns NEW YORK—The staff of the liturgical committee of the United States Catholic Conference, seeking to im- prove Jewish-Roman Catho- lic relations, has appealed to parishes nationwide to substitute alternative bymns for a portion of the Good Friday ritual that some have called anti-Semi- tic, according to Kenneth A. Briggs in the New York Times. The controversial section, called the "Improperia" or "Reproaches," consists of two medieval hymns that have Jesus berating those who have been unfaithful to God. Though not referred to by name, the subjects of the rebuke are clearly the Jews. A- year ago a debate arose over the continued use of the "Reproaches" in the midst of an overall ef- fort by the Catholic Church to expunge all liturgical ref- erences that might be con- strued as anti-Semetic. The action by the liturgic- al staff was considered a temporary solution, pending a decision by the Bishop's Committee on Liturgy on whether to eliminate the hymns or revise them. The Rev. Thomas Kros- nicki, a member of liturgic- al staff at conference head- quarters in Washington, said the purpose of the ap- peal was to point out the op- tions and to ,strongly sug- gest that they be used in place of the "Reproaches - . Father Krosnicki added that the English translation of the Latin "Reproaches", available since 1970, was being studied with the goal of writing a version thals would be more generally ac- ceptable. Many Catholics argue that the questioned hymns, admired for their musical quality, are not necessarily reproaching only Jews but are intended, in a broader context, to summon the Christiam worshiper to re- pentance. Nevertheless, they concede that in certain curcumstances they may ap- pear to be objectionable. What I favor is being courteous to people," said Archbishop John R. Quinn, head of the bishops' com- mittee. "If the hymns are thought to be offensive, they are not important enough to be continued. I personally feel they are not necessarily anti-Semitic in their proper context, and that it is not essential that they be eliminated. - The strongest advocate of - erasing the "Reproaches" has been the Office of Ecumenical Affairs, which is responsible for Catholic- Jewish relations. "We came to the recommenda- tion that they should be abolished, - said the Rev. Jack Hotchkin, a staff mem- ber of the ecumenical of- fice, -because it seemed dif- ficult to extensively rewrite them to everyone's satisfac- tion." Father Hotchkin said sev- eral attempts to revise the "Improperia" had been un- successful. The ecumenical committee, made -up of 11 bishops, made it position known to the liturgical com- mittee last summer. A move to expunge the hymns would need the ap- proval of the Vatican. The bishops of the Episco- pal Church, responding to similar criticism of • the "Reproaches", voted last fall at the church's General Convention . to omit them from the proposed new prayer book. Florence Polozker Florence Polozker. a mem- ber of a prominent Detroit family active in Jewish af- fairs here for 70 years. died March 28 at age 100. The oldest living member of Temple Beth El, Mrs. Po- lozker was a member of the National Council of Jewish Women and a founder of the Fresh Air Society's Camp Tamarack. Her husband, the late Dr. I. L. Polozker, was promi- nent in city and community affairs. Ben Nyman, 72 Ben Nyman, -former •owner of Dante's Barber Shop in Oak Park, died March 27 at age 72. A native of Russia, Mr. Nyman leaves a daughter, Mrs. Norman (Shirley) Kir- 'man; two brothers, Max of Dallas, Texas, and Barney of Toronto; four sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Doris) Schwartz of New York, Mrs. Sadie Schoychet, Mrs. Irwin (Tillie) Snyder and Minnie; and two grand- daughters. Joke's on Brezhnev VIENNA (ZINS ) —,Soviet Jewish emigrants in Vienna en route to Israel tell the following anecdote now making the rounds in Mos- cow: As Leonid Brezhnev takes his morning walk at dawn he confronts the sun as fol- lows: "How do you feel about me?" The sun re- plies, "You're the greatest, the number one man." In the afternoon Brezhnev once again confronts the sun with the same question and receives a similar reply : "You are-clever and Israel Alienated heroic." in Mediterranean As the day wanes and the NEW YORK (ZINS)- sun begins to set, Brezhnev With the resumption of dip- takes his third stroll and lomatic relations with Spain once again ask: the setting (broken off in 1939) the sun what it thinks of him. USSR has now normalized But now the answer is: its contacts with all Mediter- "You can,go to hell; I'm al- ranean countries except Is- ready in the West." rael, with Hungary and Czechoslovakia expected to U.S. House Passes follow suit soon. UNESCO Funds Brandeis Honor WALTHAM, Mass.—Mur- ray Maslow of South Or- ange, N.J., will be present- ed Brandeis University's Distinguished Community Service Award on May 18. He serves on the Cam- paign Cabinet for the United Jewish Appeal of Metropolitan New Jersey. W. Berlin Exhibit Held in Jerusalem JERUSALEM (JTA)— West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz participated in the official opening_ here of a public exhibition of life in his city. The exhibition, sponsored by the Jerusalem municipal- ity and the Israeli Labor Ministry, contains a major section on life in Berlin be- fore the Holocaust. German Ambassador Per Fischer, who _attended, de- lighted the audience with a speech in fluent Hebrew. WASI4INGT0N—The House voted this week to au- thorize payment of dues by the United States to the United Nations Educationsl, Scientific and Cultural Or- ganization that had been held up because of that or- ganization's anti-Israel ac- tions. - The House passed, 292- 114, a 089.6 million special appropriation for the State Dept. including $69.3 mil- lion for the UNESCO dues. The bill now goes to the Sen- ate. Jewish Scholars to Hold Parley BROOKLINE, MASS.— Leading scholars in Jewish studies will assemble at Hebrew College in Boston, April 25, for a one-day sym- posium on the theme, "As- pects of Jewish Scholarship Today : An Academic Con- ference on Major Trends in Contemporary Jewish Learning." Oscar Silverman NEW YORK—Oscar A. Silverman. former chair- man of the English depart- ment at Buffalo University and an expert in modern English .literature, died March 26 at age 74. Rabbi Regensberg, Talmudic Scholar JERUSALEM (JTA)— Rabbi Chaim David Regens- berg, one of the world's leading talmudic scholp died here March 28 at 84. He was born in Poland and studied at the yeshivot in Rodin, Slobotka and Lornza. After World War I he studied at the University of Giessen in Germany. Rabbi Regensberg came to the United States in 1922 where he joined the staff of the Hebrew Theological Col- lege in Chicago and headed its rabbinical department. He is believed to have or- dained more than 1.000 rabbis. He spent almost 50 years in the U.S. before retiring in Jerusalem. He continued to conduct Talmud lessons twice a week until his death. (in Memoriaml The family of the late Norma Lieberman acknowl- edges with grateful appre- ciation the many kind ex- pressions of sympathy ex- tended by relatives and friends during the family's recent bereavement. Lillie Kron, Sister of the Late VICTOR KRON Wishers to thank every- one for their kindness during her recent berea- vement. and especially those who participated in the two daily min- yanim. In Memory Of Our Beloved Mother and Grandmother FANY GOODMAN Who passed away March 2i. 1963. Your warmth and your love sustain us. Your chil- dren. Selma and Har Kramer; and your gran children, Robin, Jeffre-, Keith and Dana. Alex H. Winer . April 12, 1971 Love is forever.