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NEW YORK (ZINS) —
The renowned American
virtuoso pianist, Vladimir
Horowitz, said recently, "I
was born to a very wealthy
family. My father was an
important personality in
Kiev. He was an engineer
representing some of the
world's largest firms, such
as Westinghouse. He was
highly placed and was only
half-Jewish.
"During the pogrom in
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killed. A bullet came
through the window. My
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leaving Kiev. We lived in an
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where there were very few
Jews "
Friday, May 26, 1918 53
NBC television program
"Holocaust," no mention
seems to have been made of
one probable side effect
which could overshadow all
the good the film did.
Of course it is laudable
that finally, a third of a cen-
tury after it happened,
school children in some
enlightened communities
are now, at last, being
taught about the Nazi at-
tempt at genocide. But I
have recently made a sur-
vey of history books cur-
rently used in high schools
and colleges which shows
that in most of them the
only mention of anti-
Semitism occurs in the
chapter on World War II. In
rare cases anti-Semitism is
also mentioned in connec-
tion with the Crusades, the
Spanish Inquisition and the
Dreyfus Affair.
But the general impres-
sion that even the best of the
history books gives is that
anti-Semitism is a rare,
episodic, deviant and inex-
plicable occurrence in
Western history.
To correct this colossal
misconception, two
young men, Edwin G.
Halperin, a former
teacher in El Paso, Texas,
and Paul E. Grosser of
the Department of Politi-
cal Science at Louisiana
State University, have
compiled a book entitled
"The Causes and Effects
of Anti-Semitism: The
Dimensions of a Prej-
udice." The authors de-
scribe it as "an analysis
and chronology of 1,900
years of anti-Semitic atti-
tudes and practices."
It is, in fact, a very grim
history of a very horrible
hatred; a hatred that has
permeated the social and
political structure of west-
ern society since 70 CE, the
year Titus took Jerusalem,
and the city walls, the Tem-
ple and most of the met-
ropolis were destroyed.
In their 400-page
chronicle of anti-Semitic ac-
tions and attitudes, there is
no deed worse, quantita-
tively, than the Nazis' Final
Solution, but the two
authors make it clear that
there has seldom been even
a decade in all these 1,900
years during which Jews
have not, somewhere in the
world, been singled out for
special treatment.
Even those well ac-
from this book. For exam-
ple, how many of us are
aware that in 193 CE, when
Jews petitioned Emperor
Pescennius Niger to lighten
their tax burden, he told
them: "Would that I were
able to tax the very air you
breathe!" or that during the
Dark Ages (500 to 1000 CE)
in many Western countries
Jewish doctors were ac-
cused of causing the death
by poisoning of various
monarchs and Jews in gen-
eral were blamed for
natural disasters, inva-
sions, military defeats and
all the other ills that befell
the people of Christian na-
tions.
In 1773 the great French
philosopher Voltaire, de-
scribed in today's
encyclopedias as "a man of
keen intelligence and a
strong sense of justice," cal-
led Jews "the greatest
scoundrels on the face of the
globe."
Judaeo-Christian religious
conflict.
Also, by unhappy coinci-
dence, two of the arch-
villians in this book are
named St. John: St. John
Chrysostam, patriarch of
Constantinople, nicknamed
by Christian historians "the
bishop with the golden
tongue," who described
Jews as "the most worthless
of all men," and St. John the
Apostle, who wrote the
fourth book of the New Tes-
tament, three Epistles and
the Book of Revelation, in
all of which he gave the very
word "Jew" the quality of an
epithet.
During pagan times,
the authors say, Jews
were generally re-
spected, an experience
and attitude rare in the
Christian Western world.
They were liked by the
Greeks, esteemed by the
Ptolemies in Egypt and
encouraged to flourish
Islamic rule. Only in the
Christian world was perse-
cution endemic, consistent,
without much surcease.
Strangely but happily,
both the preface and the
foreword to the book are
written by Christians, the
preface by Franklin H. Lit-
tel, Methodist minister,
who has held Protestant
religious posts in many
parts of the country and is
currently chairman of the
Department of Religion at
Temple University,
Philadelphia, and who
writes:
"The survival of the
Jewish people, after their
recent abandonment by the
'civilized' and 'Christian'
world, is one of the miracles
of history. The survival of
Christianity, in anything
but the most superficial and
cosmetic appearance, is now
the critical' question.
"This book will make it
possible for persons of con-
science to see where Chris-
tianity went wrong, to per-
ceive where there are clues
as toy/here its teaching may
be corrected and developed,
and to get the Christian
churches back toward a
more credible and authentic
representation of Biblical
truth; the cornerstone of a
renewed Christianity must
be a more true and healthy
relationship to the Jewish
people."
under Babylonian and
How many of us are Chaldean rule. Even in
aware of the pattern the Roman world they
anti-Semitism has fol- were favored by various
lowed through the ag ; emperors, enjoyed ex-
traordinary religious
how it begins with an
privileges and had tre-
Semitic writingS, includ
mendous
success in pro-
ing sermons, plays, fic-
tion, newspaper articles, selytizing.
broadcasts and folklore; \ They lived peacefully in
then it progresses to India and China. The gol-
Libels, such as the charge den age of the Islamic Em-
of ritual murder; then to
ire was also a golden age
requirements that Jews
or those Jews living under
wear distinctive dress or
badges; then to special r
taxes for Jews; then to re-
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cial restrictions in order
to prevent Jewish and
non-Jewish contac4 then
to civil restrictions, such
as bars to political or
military service; then to
residential restrictions,
beginning with real es-
tate segregation and end-
ing with actual ghettoiza-
tion; then to economic re-
strictions, such as bar-
ring Jews from certain
enterprises or positions;
then to forced conver-
sion; then to expulsion;
then to violent attacks,
either spontaneous or
state-sponsored; and fi-
nally to mass murder, as
in the Inquisition or the
Final Solution.
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The average Jew, who has
suffered anti-Semitism
without perhaps knowing
its full history, will learn
much from this book. But
Christians, especially, will
acquire enlightenment.
Over the years I have
read dozens of books on
anti-Semitism, not without
acquiring, as one brought
up in the Christian faith,
certain very intense feel-
ings of collective guilt. But
the Grosser-Halperin book
did something more painful
to me. It gave rather con-
vincing proof of something I
had not heretofore believed:
that economic factors, the
scapegoat theory and all the
other explanations of anti-
Semitism are minor -com-
pared with the effects of
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