f 22 Friday, September 22, 1918 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Silent Students PARIS — World-famous mime Marcel Marceau says he would like to see Arab and Israeli students study- ing together at his mime center; which will open shortly in France. Marceau's father, a kosher butcher, died at Au- schwitz. Marceau himself is a concentration camp sur-. vivor. OF HARVARD ROW Designers of Fine Furs Complete Fur Service 11 MILE & LAHSER Phone: 358-0850 • We Sell Diamonds Only • By Appointment Only Call Jerry Turken at The New York Diamond Cutting Company TM "The Diamond Cutters" 3000 Town Center, Southfield, Michigan 355-2300 • , ,C7. ;The New York Diamond Cutting Company, 1977 MOVING? Priced Sale of Household Contents Conducted In Your Home L Estates Liquidated EDMUND FRANK & CO. Liquidators and Appraisers 875-7650 368-4044 Essays on Traditions of the American Jew By ALLEN A. WARSEN "Traditions of the Ameri- can Jew," published by the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver and Ktav, is a collection of arti- cles edited by Stanley M. Wagner. The authors include, inter alia, Trude Weiss- Rogmarin, David Mirsky and David Sidorsky. Trude Weiss-Rosmarin's article, "The Cultural Tra- dition of the American Jew," traces American Jewish culture to its histor- ical sources, namely "Pales- tinian and Babylonian Talmuds;" Saadia's and Maimonides' philosophical books written in Babylonia and Egypt, respectively; Rashi's commentaries, created in Troys, France; Hebrew poetry composed in Spain; and other Jewish classics. Weiss-Rosmarin re- gards education and "conscience" as the foundations of the Jewish cultural tradi- tion. She defines con- science as "concern about our fellowmen — concern suffused with respect." According to her, Social Security and unionism started in America by Jewish labor leaders have their roots in the "Hebrew prophetic tradition." Conversely, she denig- rates the significance of belles-lettres and art and disputes Alfred Kazin's statement that "Jewish cul- ture is what takes place when religion vanishes." She insists that the opposite is true, and asserts that "art is life arrested" and is "not conducive to the develop- ment of conscience and ethics." Leasing . • • Where else but Tamaroff, of course! Where you'll get "straight-talk" answers to all your leasing questions. Where you'll get choice, savings, service and convenience. Choose any car make (even foreign). Save with no middlemen, no extras plus get top dollar for your present car. You'll get continuous, courteous service and convenient free loaner cars. For "no run-around" leasing, call Sam Scotella or Larry Daniel at 353-1300. TaMaROFF Leasins co. 28585 Telegraph Road South of 12 Mile / opposite Tel-Twelve Mall Telephone (313) 353-1300 By way of proof she cites the mass-murderer Mengele "who was an avid concert=goer and a collector of classical music records. While consigning masses of Jews, and also non-Jewish undesirables as defined by the Nazi code, to the Final Solution, he whistled and hummed Mozart and Beethoven." Interestingly, Weiss- Rosmarin regards Chaim Potok as the only American ''newish, author who con- tinues the Jewish literary cultural tradition. Weiss-ROsmarin is editor of the Jewish Spectator and author of "Judaism and Christianity: The Dif- ferences." In his article titled "The Jewish Tradition in American Literature," David Mirsky surveys the evolution of the Ameri- can Jewish novel and examines the forces that influenced its subject matter and shaped it thematically. He begins his study with an evaluation of Abraham Cahan's "The Rise of David Levinsky," a novel that por- trays a Jewish immigrant's struggles to find roots and meaning in the United States. He then examines the novels whose theme is what we would call "the genera- tion gap." They describe the experiences, conflicts, aches and pains, and challanges of the second generation Jewish Americans, The best known novels of this literary genre are Daniel Fuchs' trilogy: "Summer in Williamsburg," "Homage in Blenholt," and "Low Corn.: pany;" Meyer Levin's "The Old Bunch;" and- Michael Gold's "Jews Without Money." Mirsky next explores the urban novels and the ones whose subject- matter is what he calls the "American conflict." The novels of Isaac Rosenfeld, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger, and Bernard Malamud are concerned with conflicts between opposing forces and ideas, and also with the U.S. Teachers Learn to Teach About Mideast JERUSALEM — High school teachers from the United States took a six- week course at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem this summer, to enable them to prepare teaching materials on the Middle East Tor use in secondary schools throughout the United States. Funded by the U.S. De- partment of Health, Educa- tion and Welfare under its Group Projects Abroad pro- gram, the course is aimed at filling a need for new cur- riculum material on the Middle East, Israeli society, and the Arab-Israeli con- flict, subjects about which American teachers have lit- tle training. problems arising from them: loneliness, frustra- tion and alienation. Conversely, the books of Cynthia Ozick, Hugh Nis- senson, Charles Angoff, and Chaim Potok reflect a posit- ive response to alienation. They "reflect not only Jewish belief or loyalty, but also an American attitude which calls for a re- affirmation of the ideals upon which America was built." Regrettably, Mirsky failed to include in his study Ludwig-Lewishon's novels that contributed to the in- tellectual enrichment and enjoyment of their numer- ous readers. David Mirsky is professor of English literature at Yeshiva University and dean of Stern College. David Sidorsky's arti- cle, "The Future of the Jewish Community in America: A Perspective and Agenda," despite its title is concerned only with the present condi- tions of the Anierican Jewish community. It is a solid study of an impor- tant subject and adds significantly to the litera- ture of the American Jewish current scene. The author commences his study with an analysis of the ideology of emancipa- tion. He points out that it involved a political, social and religious transforma- tion of 19th Century West European Jewry. 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