96 Friday, September 9, 1983 Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year GIZELLA BAKER, FAY, ESTHER & ANNETTE \Inn nalz • to all our friends and relatives MR. & MRS. GEORGE FISHER Spartanburg, S.C. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Historian's Work Has Roots in the Holocaust By HELENA FLUSFEDER World Zionist Press Service JERUSALEM — On an April evening at the Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year BARBARA & GAYLE RAIMI Best wishes for a happy, healthy New Year DANNY, MARGI, GEOFFREY & MICHAEL WERBER I wish my family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MRS. MAX GLADSTONE I wish my family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MRS. LOUIS (TILLY) ROSE Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness ARLENE & CHUCK BEERMAN, KEN, SHARON & MICHAEL Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and -happiness A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family IZRAEL, LILT & NANCY BESSER A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family LORETTA & LARRIE GLOBERSON Jerusalem Theater, seven scholars were awarded the annual Israel Prize for their outstanding contribution to Israeli culture. Among them was Prof. Shaul Friedlander, whose family perished in the Holocaust while he was saved by his entry into a convent. He now teaches history at Tel Aviv Univer- sity and has written several books on Nazism and the Holocaust. His moving biography, widely read all over the world, is called "When Memory Comes." Born in Prague in 1932 into an assimilated Jewish family, Friedlander nonetheless remembers an atmosphere of a "special Judaism" which he never found anywhere else. "We were Jews formally but we had nothing Jewish in our lives." In the years of his youth, Friedlander re- calls his personal feeling of anxiety. However, in the late 1930s, as tensions rose in Europe and in order to evade the Ger- man occupation, Fried- lander's parents moved to France. Following the German occupation and as the numbers of arrests of "foreign" Jews in- creased (including chil- dren), Shaul's parents panicked. In their at- tempt to ensure their son's safety, they chose a Jewish childrens' home near La Souterraine in France for his refuge. A family friend had the foresight to take him away from there before the Nazis transported all the children to camps. Shaul was installed in 1942 in a strict Catholic boarding school in order to ensure his safety. His name was changed to Paul-Henri Marie Freland and after an initial period of illness and unhappiness, he settled down to alife completely immersed in Catholicism, later portrayed in his auto- biography. A priest later revealed to him the horrors of Au- schwitz, where Shaul's par- ents had died, and read to him from the text of a French historian who had studied anti-Semitism. After this, Friedlander was able to accept his Judaism but was obviously left with terrible dilemmas about his own identity. Today, seated in his small office in the Wiener Library of Tel Aviv Uni- versity, he described the difficulties of accepting another culture — in Is- rael. "When I came to this country at the age of 15, I was able to switch over to my new surroundings, to a life totally molded by Jewish/Israeli norms and values. But soon enough I started feeling a kind of dis sonance. That is, I felt the new culture was superim- posed on something deeper which simply couldn't be pushed away." In his later work as an historian and in his auto- biography, Friedlander was to try to make some sense of what had happened to him, and in a wider sense to all European Jews during World War II. the most ef- fective way of piecing the picture together again was, for him, through the use of memory. In fact he was haunted by words from the famous Czech legend about the Golem, by the writer Gus- May the coming Nazism and Nazi anti- Semitism as well as various attitudes of the surrounding society." year be filled with health and larnn taw m happiness for to all my friends all our family and relatives and friends REBECCA ROSSEN SHIRLEY & HARRY TANKSLEY We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MARK, SANDY, AMY & RIKKI GANTZ Wishing all our family and friends a year of health and happiness SHAUL FRIEDLANDER tav Meyrink. This novel tells the story of a man who recovered his forgotten past through mystical experi- ences. So did Friedlander go through a "process of remembering. I also un- derstood my place in life, in society, in Jewishness. For a long time, this past was a frozen past, a dead one. Slowly I started feel- ing it again." However, it took a long time before he was able to write it all down. . This could not come about immediately on his arrival in Israel during the War of Independence, when he lived first in the youth vil- lage of Nira and then at the agricultural center of Ben Shemen near Natanya. Subsequently he started to study political science but after some years "I aban- doned the theoretical side of political science to work more and more in contem- porary history, focussing on Nazism and its origins and on the destruction of Euro- pean Jews." Of his histori- cal work he says, "I was ob- viously responding to a need. Each historian choos- ing a subject responds to a personal need — whatever the object of his work." It was for his outstanding work as a historian that he received the Israel Prize. He pursued his research in dip- lomatic history and later wrote a book on Pope Pius XII. Since then he has worked in "related fields, looking at the origins of Cancer Fighter JERUSALEM — Doctors at Hebrew University have proven that Israel can ecomomically produce the cancer fighting chemical In- terferon. The research uses yet another of Israel's "natural resources," fore- skins. They are now raw material in the fight against cancer. A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family THE GOODMAN'S MARILYN, BARRY BRIAN & LISA , A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family DR. & MRS. LOUIS HEYMAN & FAMILY A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family LOTTIE & HARRY KOLTONOW A Very Happy and Healthy New Year to All Our Friends and Family THE LEFKOFSKY'S BILL, SANDY, JODI, STEVE & ERIC