18 Friday, June 17, 1977
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Ji mmy Carter Expected to S i gn
Pardon for Nazi?
Readers Forum
BONN (JTA)—The Ham-
burg Senate decided to con-
sider a pardon for Nazi war
criminal. Wilhelm Rose-
nbaum.
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Compromise Anti-Boycott Bill
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"When you get something
for nothing you just haven't
been billed for it yet.
—Franklin P. Jones
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Our Mother Tongue, Yiddish
Editor, The Jewish News:
Just now we are celebrat-
ing the 80th anniversary of
the "Forverts," the last
daily Yiddish-language
newspaper in the U.S. In
New York City alone there
were once several Yiddish
newspapers.
Three generations of im-
migrants read these news-
papers. Grandparents and
even parents who read
their pages are gone now or
are very old.
In one of his recent lectur-
es in English, Yitzhak Bash-
evis Singer, a long-time
writer for the "Forverts"
as well as for the general
public of course, told the au-
dience that the "Forverts"
editor always addressed
him as "young man"! !
A sad little joke.
Before World War I,
Yiddish was spoken by
about 12 million Jews in sev-
eral countries of Eastern
and Central Europe, as well
as in other countries of the
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And trailed away
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They laughed.
They cried,
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'.4nd they were gone.
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They are wraiths.
They are ghosts.
Once warm and luring syllables,
They burned up
In the furnaces
of .4 u schwitz
Of Treblinka
Of Maidanek .
Bernard S. Mikof sky
Bethlehem, Pa.
NEW YORK—President
Carter will meet today with
Herbert M. Ames, president
of the West Point Jewish
Chapel Fund, and other offi-
cers of the Chapel Fund.
Edgar M. Bronfman, who
serves as chairman of a
$5.5 million campaign to
build a chapel at the Mili-
tary Academy, will an-
nounce that the campaign
has entered its national
phase. To date, $900,000 has
been raised toward the con-
struction of a building that
will include a sanctuary
and a gallery-museum in
which decorations and
other items pertaining to
Jewish service in every
war fought by the United
States will be displayed.
Unlike Catholic and Prot-
estant cadets at the United
States Military Academy,
Jewish cadets have never
had a separate house of
worship.
It
the international Masonic
movement because of its
plans to hold a conference
in Israel this year. Mo-
hammed Mahgoub, commis-
sioner general of the Israel
Boycott Office, said the
Masons had defied repeated
warnings to hold the confer-
ence elsewhere.
The boycott conference
urged Arab nations to en-
force the ban and close Ma-
sonic branches.
Mahgoub also announced
the boycott Office has re.
moved 28 "internationa
firms of various nation-
alities" from its blacklist
Monday.
He did not release the
names of nationalities of
the firms, but implied that
a number were American.
Czech Cemeteries
Being Neglected
BUDAPEST (JTA)—
Czechoslovakian Chief
Rabbi Dr. Izidor Katz, ad-
dressing annual communal
meetings in Prague and
Bratislava, reported the ne-
glect of Jewish cemeteries
throughout the country.
"Almost nobody pays any
attention to our graves," he
said. Katz asked the com-
munities to take an active
part in preserving the ceme-
teries, some of which are
among Europe's oldest.
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By the end of the war Hit-
ler's Nazis had murdered
about six million Jews,
most of them Yiddish-
speaking Polish, Russian or
Lithuanian Jews.
Once this major reservoir
of Yiddish was gone, the vi-
tality of the language was
further weakened by fac-
tors such as cultural assimi-
lation in the U.S., France,
England and other demo-
cratic countries as well as
by the renascence and offi-
cial position of Hebrew in
the reborn nation of Israel.
This last, one does not say
as a reproach but merely
as a statement of historical
fact.
For new-old Israel the
only possible language for
Jews from every country
and continent is Hebrew,
leshon ha-kodesh. But we
love the mame-loshen too,
the language of a millen-
nium of Jewish life in East-
em Europe . . .
So this poem is to the
mother tongue, to mame-
loshen, Yiddish.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—
President Carter is ex-
pected shortly to sign the
comprimise anti-boycott
bill, generally barring
American firms from com-
plying with the Arab boy-
cott against Israel, which
was approved by the House
last Friday.
Differing versions of the
measure, supported in prin-
ciple by President Carter,
were approved by the
House and Senate, and then
sent to a House-Senate con-
ference. The conference ver-
sion was approved by the
Senate by voice vote. The
final approval in the House
was 306-41.
The anti-boycott provi-
sions are part of a two-year
extension of the Export Ad-
ministration Act. With
some exemptions, the boy-
cott provisions ban Ameri-
can firms from refusing to
do business with a firm
black-listed by the Arabs
for trade with Israel.
Meanwhile, the Arab boy-
cott conference meeting in
Egypt, last Friday banned
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