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This Sabbath, ninth day of Adar II, 5738, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Leviticus 1:1-5.26; Deuteronomy 25:17-19. Prophetical portion. I Samuel 15:2-34.

Wednesday, Fast of Esther

Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 32:11-14; 34:1-10.
Prophetical portion (afternoon only), Isaiah 55:6-56:8. Book of Esther read in the evening.

Thursday, Purim

Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 17:8 - 16. Prophetical portion (in the morning), Book of Esther.

Friday, Shushan Purim

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VOL. LXXIII, No. 2

Page Four

Friday, March 17, 1978

Even the Remnant Is Hated

An old menace remains the repeating
menace. The Nazi aim of a Final Solution for the
Jew failed, yet there are Hitler's legators who
would still pursue that goal.
Now the world is warned about "the Nazis,"
and the concern is that they are the youth.
They are very young and they are replicas of
the worst in German experience. Ludi Boeken
and Andre Wilson, in an analysis of renewed
Hitlerism, in the Montreal Star, concede that
the numbers of those in the new Nazi ranks are
small but that their activities are causing seri-
ous concern, especially in the ranks of labor
unions. Showing how the renewed menace is
invading the schools, the two analysts quote
authoritatively to expose the dangers, in the
following:
In Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony,
which has traditionally been Nazi territory,
Friedrich Theilmann, area chairman of the
German TUC, Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund
(DGB) acknowledged that the German trade
unions were seriously concerned at the neo-
Nazis' growing activity. Their numbers might
be small, but it was time to stop pretending that
they didn't exist he said.
"Says Mr. Theilmann: 'When you see them
selling badges and other stuff that's forbidden
by law, and the law doing nothing about it,
you're forced to conclude that there are people
who are not just remiss in their duty but actu-
ally supporting what's going on.
" 'You hear people saying that this or that
couldn't have happened in Hitler's time. And
you get incidents like the mock burning of Jews
in the Bundeswehr Academy in Munich last
year. Today there's hardly a schoolroom here
that doesn't have swastikas or Nazi graffiti.'
"The unions have now started a campaign to
tell younger members, and through them the
public, what happened in the 1930s. A similar
campaign is being organized by the Social
Democratic Party in conjunction with
Hanover's Jewish community, which became
the target of a new wave of Nazi activity just
before Christmas."
An over-all summation of the renewed
threats describes the situation in all its menac-
ing aspects, with anti-Semitism the basis for the
Nazi renewals. The two authors state:
"There were recently about 23,000 young
Germans in 140 extreme right-wing organiza-
tions, according to sources close to the Office for
the Protection of the Constitution, the security
service responsible in these matters.
"In Hamburg and other big cities, the 'new
Nazis,' mostly in their late teens and early
twenties,have begun to appear publicly in the
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"Their 'newspapers' and pamphlets are filled
with anti-Semitism of which a fair sample,
taken from Der Sturm (published in Hamburg
by the so-called Nazi 'underground') is: 'We re-
spect the peace of the dead, even of the hook-
nosed ones ... a dead Jew is finally a good Jew.'
"The paragraph refers to the desecration of
Jewish cemeteries last year. Other acts calcu-
lated to frighten the small remaining Jewish
population have included threats to shopkeep-
ers and anonymous telephone calls. In un-
ashamed contradiction to these terrorizing acts,
the neo-Nazi message is simple: Auschwitz
Biographical sketches of notable American Jewish personalities are
never happened — it was all a Jewish invention.
interwoven with historical incidents in the second part of the
anthological series. "Eyewitness to American Jewish History,"
"In the Wandsbek district of Hamburg we
published by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.
were shown into a room draped with Nazi
Co-edited by Dr. Azriel Eisenberg. the eminent educator, and
paraphernalia and pictures of Hitler, General
Hannah Grad Goodman, who has an interesting background as author,
Branco and Kaiser Wilhelm II. A wall poster
this volume contains sketches of some of the best known American
(distributed, we found, by the West German
Jewish leaders in many spheres of activity.
Communist Party) showed a family tree of
The essays containing the backgrounds of the notables thus
right-wing and neo-Nazi organizations.
biographed are brief and therefore lend themselves to reading and
background references by interested students of American Jewish
"The man we had come to see, Michael
history of all ages.
Kuhnen, a 22-year-old ex-Bundeswehr lieuten-
For example, there is the story of Mordecai Myers. described as the
ant, featured prominently in the middle of it as
man "who helped elect Thomas Jefferson" in 1800.
Gauleiter for Hamburg in the same Party 'un-
Mordecai Manuel Noah. Rebecca Gratz, Isaac Leeser, Isaac M.
derground' that publishes Der Sturm.
Wise, David Einhorn, Sinron Wolf, David Lubin. Samson Simson,
"He said that his parents had been anti-
Benjamin Nones and others who played important roles in American
Nazis. He had come to National Socialism as a
affairs are included in the list of notables.
self-convert.
There is, as another example, the story " 'Old Abe' Jonas Helps
Elect Lincoln."
"In addition to his clandestine work for the
Jews in the military in both the Confederacy and the Union during
'underground' he was leader of an overt group
the Civil War, in banking, business, religion and many other roles are
called Aktions front Nazionaler Sozialisten,
listed and numerous historic incidents are recorded from newspapers
whose immediate goal was the right to partici-
and official records.
pate in the forthcoming Hamburg elections.
"Eyewitness to American Jewish History" is informative and for
Ultimately, the movement was dedicated to re-
many will be revealing. It is a well-edited work with impressive
creating a Greater German Reich, including not
contents.
only East Germany but also Austria and the
South Tyrol area of Italy.
"Said Mr. Kuhnen: 'We're not a democratic
party, but we'll win power in free elections, just
as we did in 1933. Marching in black and brown
is just a way of saying 'We're here.' "
Howard Fast added glory to his notable collection of literary gems
Under such developing conditions, it is not
with "The Immigrants," a novel of great repute (Houghton Mifflin
panic but realism that compels serious consid-
Co.)
eration of a repetition of an historic occurrence
It is a magnificent story about the immigrants who are the core of
that brands the German case as among the most
American society.
inhuman in history.
Fast draws upon the traditions of America as the haven of refuge for
the oppressed. He opens with reference to the famous Emma Lazarus
With these facts in view, one must treat the
verses
welcoming the oppressed and homeless:
bending backwards by ultra-liberals who would
"They stood on the deck as the ancient, rusty ship that had been
grant all the freedoms to the Nazis as suicidal.
their home and ark for seventeen days wore into Ellis Island —
One who would deny all rights to fellow humans
shoulder to shoulder, cheek to jowl. Everyone was on the deck, the old
he hates must not be granted permission to
and the young, screaming children, weeping babies, the silent, the
propagate his views without restrictions.
terrified, the sick, the hopeful, nationalities and tongues in a flux of
There is an arrogance in neo-Nazi and pro-
sound and tears and laughter. The great Lady of Hope welcomed them,
Nazi ranks that seems to gain them privileges
and this they had been waiting to see. The Eighth Wonder of the
in the Atreme. The civil libertarians who would
World. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free.' In five tongues the statistics floated over the babble of
let them parade wherever they please, carrying
sound. She is a hundred and fifty-two feet high and she weighs two
signs with genocidal slogans, are not rendering
hundred and twenty-five tons. Yes, you can stand up there in the torch
service to the democratic ideal. Would-be mur-
at the very end of the arm. Across the water, there was the mass of
derers are not granted weapons to carry on their
buildings on the Battery, but the lady of liberty was something else."
brutal aims. This is the privilege the misguided
"The Lady of Hope" symbolizes the genius of America, the fact that
offerers of liberties to neo-Nazis who are really
this is a land that traces its glories from immigrants. It is as such that
inheritory of Hitlerism are giving to the
Fast's "The Immigrants" emerges as an impressive addition to a
re-emerging terrorists.
superb Fast library shelf.

Notable Incidents, Biography
in 'Eyewitness to History'

Howard Fast's `Immigrants'
Honors American Tradition

