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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 Kiev in 1905 I was almost killed. A bullet came through the window. My family never considered leaving Kiev. We lived in an aristocratic neighborhood 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- To: The Jewish News strictions on Jewish reli- gious practices, such as 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. the limitation on the number or size of Suite 865 synagogues; then to so- Southfield, Mich. 48075 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. l f WM JUST 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 From Poste in old label : NAME L Please Allow Two Weeks 1