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News Editor

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the 21st day of Tevet, 5742, the following scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:

Pentateuchal portion, Exodus 1:1-6:1.
Prophetical portion, Isaiah 27:6-28:13, 29:22-23.

Candlelighting, Friday, Jan. 15, 5:06 p.m.

VOL. LXXX, No. 20

Page Four

Friday, January 15, 1982

THE HATRED AUDITED

An Anti-Defamation League accounting of the growth of anti-Jewish prejudices in the past
year serves as a warning of the growing hatreds as well as an admonition calling for serious
concern over the developing anti-Semitic trends. The mere fact that the ADL report is issued as the
"1981 Audit of Anti-Semitic Episodes" is in itself an emphasis on a matter of the utmost serious-
ness to Jewry and to the nation.
The "Audit" is accompanied by this chart:

-1981 ANTI-SEMITIC VANDALISMS

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1981 1980
TOTAL TOTAL
326
120
183
39

STATE
1-NEW YORK
Long Is land
Brooklyn
Queens
Staten Island
Manhat tan
Bronx
Upstate
2-CALIFORNIA
3-NEW JERSEY
!ASSACHUSETTS
5-MARYLAND
6-PENNSYLVANIA
7-MICHIGAN
8-ILLINOIS

39
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150

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—

10-VIRGINIA
11-FLORIDA
12-RHODE ISLAND
13-GEORGIA
14-C ONNECTI CUT
15-MISSOURI
16-INDIANA
17-NORTH CAROLINA. . .
18-NEBRASKA
19-ARIZONA
20-OHIO
21-COLORADO
22-WASHINGTON state
23-NEVADA
24-TEXAS
25-WISCONSIN
26-ALABAMA
27-SOUTH CAROLINA. . .
28-LOUISIANNA
29-OKLAHOMA

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All who have kept abreast of developments may be inclined to believe that the figures given
are understatements and certainly are not exaggerations. Accompanying the quoted chart is a list
of "Harassments, Threats and Asgults" totalling 350 for 1981, compared with 112 in 1980.
Accredited to MiChigan are 23 threats or assaults. One would have to be naive indeed to believe
that the Michigan figure is a complete one. Synagogue's in themselves may have accounted for as
many. Conceivably, there are more unreported than recorded incidents in a menacing situation.
The American Jewish Committee attaches equal concern for developments and its recent
Gallup Poll may be judged as more optimistic.
In any case, over-optimisrn will not contribute toward proper judging and treating the issue. It
is serious enough for genuine anxiety.

.

Short-Story Genius

Zweig Literary Eminence
Redeemed on Centenary

Stefan Zweig was among the great-great in the literary world
who, half- a - century ago, symbolized the genius of his generation.
He had his role among Jews. He befriended Sigmund Freud and
Theodor Herzl. His short stories appeared in translations from the
German in 50 countries.
His name is revived for this generation with "The Royal Game,"
published by Harmony Books, a branch of Crown publishers.
The reminders occasioned by the publication of the Zweig short "
stories are saddening. He and his second wife committed suicide in
Brazil in 1942. It was the distress over the Nazi horrors, the concern
lest the civilized in the world succumb to the horrors that were
perpetrated by the Germans under Hitlerism. He was an escapee from
the Gestapo and a chess expert.
John Fowles, who wrote the intro-
duction to "The Royal Game," was
concerned that the Zweig literary le-
gacy should not be forgotten. He se-
cured the services of Jill Setcliffe to
prepare a new translation of Zweig's
stories from the German.
The title story, which carries the
name of the new Harmony-published
book, has an echo from the Nazi ex-
periences in the main character, Dr.
B., who leaves Germany after impris-
onment by the Nazis, and is on his way
- to Buenos Aires.
The other stories in this book are
_ "Letter From an Unknown Woman,"
"The Burning Secret," "Amok" and
"Fear."
There are the evidences of the sex-
ual impacts .which dominate some of
STEFAN ZWEIG
the Zweig themes, and the fear which
gripped him and his second wife.
Zweig left his native Austria in 1934, but the Nazi echoes pur-
sued him. His books were among those burned by the Nazis.
By that time he had already attained world fame, and in the
ranks of those who acclaimed him were Thomas Mann, Sigmund
Freud, Ludwig Lewisohn and Maxim Gorky.
Exemplary is the comment by Gorky, who rose to fame
ranks of the great Russian writers, who uttered this praise'
zt
Zweig: "No one before him has written about love with such depth,
such immeasurable sympathy for mankind."
In this is imbedded the character of the man who was driven to
despair by the Hitler 'terror.
Zweig began 'his career as poet and translator, then turned .to
fiction. His only full-length novel, "Beware of Pity," written in 1939,
also reflects the agonies of the eminent author, the centenary of whose
birth (Nov. 28, 1881) is the occasion of "The Royal Game."
The new interest in Zweig also inspires study of the events inthe
era in which the noted writer lived. It was filled with dram
_ a and
Zweig was a member of the affected cast of characters. John Fowles
rightfully expresses gratitude: "It is time on this centenary of this
birth that we read him again."