16 Friday, June 22, 1919 Caricatures for your party By SAM FIELD Call 399-1320 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Exhibit Features Judean Antiques WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian Institution is currently circulating "The- First 4,000 Years: The Ratner Collection of Judean Antiques" as part of its traveling exhibition service. The exhibition shows the development of the peoples and cultures in the Holy Land through their objects of daily life and works of art. It covers the years 3500 BCE-500CE. 30790 SOUTHFIELD ROAD • SOUTHFIELD, MICH. 48076 Phone 646-8484 000000000000000000000000000 BRODY'S Boys' & Young Men's Wear 13745 W. 9 Mile Rd. LI 3-4115 Oak Park, Mich. 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The explication and testing of this hypothesis re- lating Jewish victimization to national response are the principal focus of this book." Thus writes Helen Fein, in the prologue to her monumental "Accounting for Genocide" (The Free Press, a division of Macmil- lan). The author's approach to her study of genocide is his- torical sociology, not con- ventional history. Among others, she utilizes the writ- ings of Emanuel Ringelblum, Chaim Kap- lan, Mary Berg and Adam Czerniakow, and cites the last unforgettable utter- ance of the martyred great Jewish historian, Simon Dubnow, before his murder in Latvia in 1941, "Yiddin: fahrschreit! fahrschreit!" ("Jews: record! record!"). Dubnow was the first Jewish historian who in- troduced the socio- historical method in writ- ing Jewish history. Dr. Fein begins her study by comparing the status of the Armenians in Turkey prior to their annihilation in 1915 to that of the Jews in Germany preceding the Holocaust. She affirms that both the Armenians and the Jews were considered aliens and pariahs by their respec- tive countries' dominant groups. • Both were stigmatized as strangers "not because they were alien, but because the dominant group was alienated from them by a traditional antipathy, Jew-hatred, or hatred of the infidel." And both Arme- nians and Jews were vic- tims of genocide. The term "genocide," the author says, was coined by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 "to denote the attempt to de- stroy a nation or an ethnic group by depriving them of the ability to live and proc- 5 lbs. of MATZO If I can't Beat Your Best Deal argolis Household Furniture 6 Mile, 1 Blk. W. of Schaefer ARNOLD MARGOLIS INTERIOR DECORATOR SERVICE OUR 33rd YEAR SHARPENING the PENCIL On All Name Brands Furniture and Bedding •SCHOOLFIELD •SELIG •SIMMONS •SEALY •SERTA •SPRING AIR •LA-Z- BOY •STIFFEL LAMPS • KROEHLER •AMERICAN • BURLINGTON •BASSETT •BARCALOUNGER •LANE •UNIQUE 13703 W. McNichols 342-5351 Hrs. Mon thru Sat. 9:30 til 5:30 reate or by killing them di- rectly." Genocide, moreover, includes the practice of destroying a group's culture "by the de- cimation of their intellec- tual leaders, prohibition of free cultural institutions and media." Dr. Fein impressively, describes the annihila- tion of European Jewry but finds it difficult to comprehend the reluc- tance of historians, sociologists and an- thropologists to discuss the Holocaust in their works on the Second World War. She theorizes that perhaps the reason for their attitude is the influence the writings of the German anti-Nazi his- torian, Golo Mann, has exerted on them. For instance, Mann ad- mits in his famous book "The History of Germany since 1789" that "the worst crimes were committed by units of the SS and SD," yet he stresses, "Let us not de- scribe and list those things. But let us not think either that inhuman cruelty is a specifically German char- acteristic . . . . The historian also does not like to speak of them. These are deeds and figures which the imagina- tion cannot grasp, which the mind refuses to believe, however clearly they can be proved by reason." Dr. Fein comments, "Such suppression among historians has facilitated New Enrollment Highest Ever at Kfar Silver NEW YORK — The largest enrollment in the 24-year history of Kfar Silver, the Zionist Organ- ization of America's aca- demic and vocational com- plex in Israel, was an- nounced recently by Dr. Murray Rockowitz, upon the launching of ZOA's new Semester in Israel program. Dr. Rockowitz, national chairman of ZOA's Israel Projects, confirmed that de- spite record numbers of Is- raeli, Latin American and Iranian students, there is still room on the campus for American students during the 1979-1980 school year. For applications contact: Zionist Organization of America, Department for High School Education in Israel, 4 East 34th Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. New Approach' to Halakha Seen PHILADELPHIA — Rabbi Ira Eisenstein told an overflow audience at the 19th annual convention of the Jewish Reconstruc- tionist Foundation and Re- constructionist Federation of Congregations that "we cannot separate the prob- lem of Jewish law from the general problem of moder- nizing Judaism as a whole . . . This means a new ap- proach to the entire ques- tion of Halakha." the recent emergence of a revisionist school of pseudoscholarship alleging the charge of the mass mur- der of five or six million European Jews during World War II is fiction." Dr. Fein applies her socio-historical methodol- ogy with great skill and erudition to the study of the countries that were within and outside the German or- bit, including the Jewish communities. Regarding the American Jewish com- munity, she observes, "While the American Jewish Congress sponsored rallies and public protests in the 1930s, the American Jewish Committee opposed any open condemnation of German policy and made no effort to lobby to change the immigration quotas limit- ing the admission of Jewish refugees; nor did it press the Roosevelt Administration to condemn discrimination and (by 1935) the legal dis- establishment of German Jews as citizens." Engrossing is the author's description of the great humanitarian, Raoul Wallenberg. She relates, "The most in- genious and dedicated exploiter of life-saving through documentation was Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish Legation at- tache in Budapest work- ing with the WRB (War Refugee Board). Wallen- berg extended Swedish diplomatic protection to 20,000 Hungarian Jews and leased apartment houses for them in Budapest._ . "Although he lacked arms and had no special dip- lomatic sanctions to inveigh against Germany to uphold the authority behind such recertification, he defended the status he had bestowed upon his clients to the point of physically interposing his own body when the German police came to the quarter to round up Jews for deporta- tion, following (by auto) six of his 'clients' on a train heading to Auschwitz and Ait intercepting the train be- lir fore it reached the border. (Little is known 'of the ex- - tent of his ingenuity as Wal- lenberg disappeared while in Soviet custody in January 1945.)" Right In Your own Driveway! .aye aMs TUNE -UP MAN Certified by the National Automotive Institute of Excellence Comes to your home or office with the "garage-on-wheels." 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