30 Friday, September 11, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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NEW YORK (JTA) — In-
troductory Latin is being
taught this fall for the first
time in 18 years at Stern
College for Women in re-
sponse to requests from stu-
dents, Dean Karen Bacon
has reported.
Bacon said some of the
students in the fall Latin
course are majoring in
English and others in
Jewish studies, where the
curriculum includes other
ancient languages.
Herod was king of Judea
appointed by the Romans.
BY
POPULAR
DEMAND!
WE'RE PLANNING
ANOTHER GREAT PARTY
PLUS OR MINUS (CLASSES OF 1928 - 1935)
50 YEAR REUNION
NORTHERN HIGH SCHOOL
TO BE HELD ON MAY 20, 1983 • GRAND BALLROOM, MICHIGAN INN, SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN
We had an outstanding 50 Year Reunion
Party in May of 1981. - And now we're
planning an expanded Reunion Party
encompassing the classes- of 1928
through 1935, to be held Friday,
May 20, 1983.
If you want to be included or know
anyone who graduated from Northern
during the years 1928-1935, please
contact any of the committee members
listed. Ladies should use their maiden
names.
Lillian Ower ► s, Cli-so-ktf '28
(3131 34-061V
Rebecca Green, Class of 'n
Samuel BoralOriass of '29
(313) 559-0180
IN/Eldred Mintz, Class of '32
(313) 968-3019
Harry Portner, Class of '30
(313) 851-2546
Rose Kaye, Class of '33
(313) 851-7024
(313) 855-3479
Anne & Louis Berent, Class of '31 George Kent, Class of '33
(313) 335-9577
(313) 557-5613
Sylvia Schneider, Class of '31
(313) 353-6064
Chairman
Seymour Fabrick, Class of '31
(213) 232-8191
Abe Friedman, Class of '31
(313) 541-7517
Tombstones Return Home
By ALLAN BLUSTEIN
Chaplain, Sinai Hospital
Dignitaries of three major
faiths crowded into the au-
stere chapel of the
Nurnberger Juddischer
Friedhof (the Jewish cemet-
ery of Nurnberg, Germany)
on that spring day of 1970.
Joining them were the U.S.
Army Jewish Chaplain and
a contingent of military
families stationed in the six
casernes (barracks) scat-
tered throughout the city.
One might say that they
were there to celebrate a
homecoming of sorts. After
an "exile" of 600 years,
three Jewish tombstones
had finally returned home!
The modern half of the
tale began when the
president of the Is-
raelitische Kultusgemeinde
(the local Jewish commu-
nity), Arno Hamburger,
picked up a history book
about medieval Germany.
As he leafed through the
pages, an unusual picture
caught his eye.
Stopping abruptly, he
examined it and the cap-
tion below it carefully.
The words revealed that
during the time of the
Black Death in 1349, a
pogrom had occurred in
Nurnberg in which a
number of Jews had lost
their lives. The mobs, not
content with the violence
done to the living, also
decided to include the
dead.
The cemetery was desec-
rated, tombstones smashed
and graves violated. In
1352, a stairwell was added
to the cathedral of St.
Laurenz Kirche, the tower-
ing pride of Nurnberg which
stands today and houses
thousands of worshippers
yearly. Little did Herr
Hamburger and his com-
mittee suspect that three
Hebrew tombstones lay in
that stairwell when they
entered the cathedral to
start their search. •
Somehow, the
gravestones had found their
way from the desecrated
cemetery into the hallowed
center of German Catholi-
cism (the cathedral became
a Lutheran church follow-
ing the Protestant Reforma-
- tion in the 16th Century).
After about five or six
fruitless hours, the weary
Jews paused for a short re-
spite under a side stairwell
in the huge hall. As luck
would have it, one of them
gazed up at the stairs and
spotted the Hebrew letters
engraved in the stone. The
rest of the story, as the say-
ing goes, is history!
Arno Hamburger hur-
ried to the bishop's office
and got an appointment
to see the religious
leader. After explaining
the whole story to him,
Arno asked that the three
tombstones be returned
to the legitimate heirs of
the ancient Jewish com-
munity of Nurnberg.
The kindly bishop sym-
pathized but was fearful
that the entire stairwell
might collapse if it were
tampered with. Herr Ham-
burger agreed but on one
condition: rent (retroactive)
would have to be paid for
use of those gravestones.
Moments and a few calcula-
tions later, the bishop de-
cided to call an architect in
to remove the stones and re-
turn them to the Jews.
Thus it was that this
writer and his U.S. Army
compatriots were privileged
to attend the fateful return
home of those sacred
tombstones to the modern
Nurnberg Jewish commu-
nity.
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