THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
28 Friday, April 10, 1981
Life of Jewish Abolitionist Depicted in Litvin Volume
By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
A new documented biog-
raphy of the American-
Jewish pioneer abolitionist,
August Bondi, who rode
with John Brown in Kansas
during the mid-1850s bor-
der wars, will be published
next year by the Galesburg,
Ill. Historical Society.
The biography, written
by Martin Litvin, and titled
"The Journey," contains
. material released by Bon-
di's 'desdendants, including
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a. rare photograph of the
Jewish frontiersman at 28,
in his Civil War sergeant's
uniform.
Other items in the biog-
raphy include a sketch of
Bondi as an elderly gentle-
man visiting Portland, Ore.
in 1903, chatting on a porch
with Salmon Brown, one of
John Brown's sons who,
Ward said, was an admitted
participant in the Pot-
tawatomie Massacre.
Litvin presented a por-
tion of Bondi's own writ-
ing in the second volume
of the 1972 reference
work, "Voices of the
Prarie Land." Litvin lec-
tures on the life and-work
of Bondi in nearly all of
the 195 public school and
23 colleges he has visited
as a guest speaker since
1972.
Litvin's book is the first
full-length documented
biography of the freedom
fighter who served as a
sergeant for three-and-a-
half years in the Civil War
before he was seriously
wounded. Bondi later
JERUSALEM — An ex- shape of objects, abstract
hibiton on "Hebrew Microg- designs, animal forms and
raphy, One Thousand Years human figures. The art was
of Art in Script" opened last created by the scribes of
week at the Israel Museum Eretz Israel in the late
in Jerusalem. Ninth Century.
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School and the University of
Michigan.
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When Bondi first reached
his particular corner of the
Kansas Territory and took
up with John Brown, the
only people in the im-
mediate area were white
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When the pro-slavery ele-
ment began to rail against
Bondi and his friends, cal-
ling them "Dutchmen" — a
vulgarization of the word
"Deutsch" and their use of
the German language —
telling them "they had bet-
ter get out" and take their
successful general store
with them — Bondi and his
friends, long conditioned by
experience in Austria,
where anti-Semitism was
an instrument of policy,
heard not "you dirty
Dutchmen, get out." They
heard, "You dirty Jews, get
out."
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Highlight AJC
Literary Awards
NEW YORK — The sec-
ond annual Kenneth B.
Smilen/Present Tense
Literary Awards, given to
the best new English-
language books with Jewish
themes and sponsored by
the American Jewish
Committee, will be pre-
sented April 29.
Gerald Green, author of
"The Last Angry Man" and
"The Holocaust" will
preside over the ceremony
and Alfred Kazin, literary
critic, professor of English
at Hunter College and the
City Universit,y of New
York Graduate Center, and
author of "On Native
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