THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 29, 1918 11
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MANNY CHUDNOW'S
Hebrew Union College Lectures Collected in Book
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"Jews in a Free Society:
Challenges and Oppor-
tunities" (Hebrew Union
College Press), edited by
Edward A. Goldman, con-
sists of lectures delivered by
the members of the faculty
of the Cincinnati School of
the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of
Religion during its centen-
nial.
The lecturers include,
inter alia, Prof. Jacob R.
arcus,
J.
Jacob
tuchowski and Michael
. Meyer.
Dr. Alfred Gottschalk,
president of the college,
wrote the introduction ti-
tled "The Public Function of
the Jewish Scholars."
The purPose of the
Dr.
tures,
writes
Gottschalk, is "the
spreading of Jewish in-
formation - filtered
through the channels of
'critical Jewish learning,
discussion of contem-
porary problems and
concerns in the light of
scholarly findings."
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"Genesis: College Begin-
nings" is the theme of Prof.
Jacob R. Marcus' lecture.
As the theme indicates
the lecture is a review of the
early history of the Hebrew
Union College. The lecture
is enlivened by anecdotes
Prof. Marcus interweaves
into it. He relates that once
_the school catalogue con-
tained the announcement
"The college is built on a
bluff." It refers, of course, to
a hill on which the school
- was erected.
The college that held its
first session on October 4,
1875, Dr. Marcus remarks,
contains in its name the
word Hebrew "because the
word 'Jew' in those days
was a dirty word even for
Jews. Much more respecta-
ble was the term 'Hebrew.' "
Dr. Marcus, moreover,
interprets the ideology of
the Hebrew Union Col-
lege. He states, "We be-
lieve in the Ten Com-
mandments, which were
given to our fathers 3,000
years ago. We think it's a
magnificent code and a
fine- body of ethics. We do
not believe, however,
that the first and the last
word was said at Mount
Sinai.. We believe that
every new generation has
its Mount Sinai -, and
every age produce -s its
own 10 Commandments."
"Reform Judaism: Evolu-
tion or Revolution?" is the
topic of Prof. Jacob J.
Petuchowski's lecture. He
commences by reviewing
the various phases Reform
Judaism has undergone.
The first was "the esthetic
phase." It concentrated on
making "the worship serv-
ice more intelligible, more
meaningful." It was fol-
lowed by the ideological and
organizational phases.
The Reform ideologists in
Germany were Zecharias
Frankel, Abraham Geiger
and Samuel Holdheim.
They respectively repre-
sented the right, center and
left wings of the Reform
movement. Frankel left the
Reform movement to be-
come the founder and leader
of Conservative Judaism.
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major problem to be dealt
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peace treaty with Egypt.
Some 10 percent of those
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allow Israel to solve all her
domestic problems; 41 per-
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number could be solved; 35
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Dr- Petuchowski, there-
fore, examines only the
ideologies of Geiger and
Holdheim. According to
him, Geiger divided Jewish
religious history into four
periods: "the period of reve-
lation when the Bible came
into being"; "the period of
tradition" when Judaism
made great forward strides;
"the period of rigid
legalism". and the "new
period of ' free existence."
These periods, Geiger be-
lieved, were the results of
gradual growth and not of
sudden radical changes. He,
furthermore, believed in
adhering to "Klal Yisroel"
(the Jewish community).
By contrast, Holdheim,
the former strict Or-
thodox Rabbi, renounced
the Jewish religious past,
and replaced in his Berlin
temple Sabbath obser-
vance With Sunday wor-
ship maintaining that the
latter is the law of the
land.
Dr. Petuchowski notes
that the founders of the Re-
form movement in the
United States, Rabbis Isaac
Mayer Wise and David
Einhorn, were the counter-
parts of Geiger and Hol-
dheim. Like the Berlin rab-
bis, they differed in their
approach to "Klal. Yisroel."
Whereas Wise advocated-
communal cooperation,
Einhorn claimed that Re-
form Judaism "was the reli-
gion of a cultural and intel-
lectual elite."
Dr. Petuchowski con-
cludes that as a result of
changed conditions,
"American Reform Judaism
has forsaken the elitist ap-
proach of the Holdheim-
Einhorn school of thought,
and has rediscovered the
"Klal Yisroel' orientation of
Geiger and Wise."
The central idea of Prof.
Michael A. Meyer's lecture
"Jews in America-Jews in
Israel: How Shall We
Understand Our Relation-
ship?" reads: "If we examine
the connection that in fact
developed between Ameri-
can and Israeli Jewry, we
may term it a relationship
of fundamental interdepen-
dence."
In what ways do Anieri-
can and Israeli Jews depend
on one another?
The Israelis depend on
the American- Jews for
moral and financial sup-
port. They justifiably de-
mand that the American
Jews champion their dip-
lomatic and military inter-
ests. They ask that in times
of crises-,-the American Jews
respond speedily and deci-
sively, and that Israel's
existence be the pre-
eminent concern of Ameri-
can Jewry. - -
Conversely, American
Jewry depends on the Is-
raelis "for an added
measure of cultural vital-
ity and Hebraic , creativ-
ity." Israel, moreover,
"presents us with a model
of moral resolve."
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