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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 7, 1984
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NEWS
Wolf Snyder's literary essays,
travelogues in Yiddish volume
Intimate sketches of world
famous Jewish personalities,
_ travelogues describing the status
of Jews in several areas of the
world and commentaries of major
issues affecting life, are in the
compiled antholo gical work by
Wolf Snyder. They havejust been
—issued in the 245-page Yiddish
"volume entitled Literarishe U71
Historishe Essayen — Literary
and Historical Essays.
Nationally recognized among
the leaders in educational Jewish
ranks, a former principal in the
Yiddish schools in Detroit, Snyder
has lectured extensively on
Jewish subjects. A linguist with
mastery of Hebrew, Yiddish and
Russian as well as English, he is
known for his skill as translator
as well as author of scores of arti-
cles. He was a contributing editor
of the Yiddish magazine Undzer
_Aygn Vort.
Advance recognition of the
literary talents of this eminent
Detroiter is indicated in the pub-
lishing sponsorship of the book by
the educational department of the
Workmen's Circle. Berl Cohen
prepared the volume for publica-
tion, and the inspiration for its is-
' suance is credited by the author to
his wife Esther.
Snyder's collected essays gain
special importance in the gallery
of eminent personalities depicted
in his analytical style.
His dedicated labors in the
gathering of material about
Moses Hess, the famous precursor
of Theodor Herzl in the creation of
the modern Zionist movement, -is
especially noteworthy. The extent
of research the Detroit author
conducted on the subject relating
- to Hess and his times lend great
merit to Literary and Historical
Essays.
Snyder provides illuminating
=, comments, and interpretive
views, on these prominent writers
and historians: Chaim Grade,
-
Wolf Snyder
Yitzhak Beer Levinson, Uri Zvi
Greenberg, H.L. Leivick, A. Les-
sin, Dov Sadan, Avraham
Sutzkever, Noah Siegalovsky and
Aaron Zeitlin, Eliezer Greenberg,
S. Dunsky, David Hofstein and Y.
Zipper.
In his reviews of the works of
these eminent writers, Snyder
also goes into detail in describing
Jewish life in the shtetl, the
ghetto influences, and the sub-
sequent gains acquired in the Is-
raeli environment. His essay on
Sutzkever is among the expecially
illustrative on the subject.
The third section in Snyder's
book, entitled "Historishe Es-
sayen," could well be judged as an
international travelogue. Here
Snyder reports on his tours and
studies of Spain, Italy, Holland
and Greece.
In every instance, the current
developments in these lands are
linked with the historic back-
grounds.
In their totality, the Snyder es-
says are notable contributions to
Jewish literature. They are also
an enrichment of the Yiddish
literary style, emphasizing the
studiousness of the author.
P.S.
---,Forty years later, twins recount
terror of Auschwitz experiments
New York (JTA) — Interviews
with dozens of twins who were
subjected to medical experimen-
• tation and butchery at Auschwitz
, during World War II have re-
• vealed for the first time that some
of them were even forced to de-
liver their own fathers to the cre-
• matorium.
--' In an article published last
Sunday by Parade magazine,
'Jack Anderson, the magazine's
I Washington bureau chief, de-
scribed the twins' ordeal, as told to
a reporter on his staff, as "a
macabre version of the old TV-
sm chewing gum commercial." He
added, "Everything double. Dou-
• _ble the pain."
. The reporter, Lucette Lagnado,
sought out and inerviewed surviv-
ing Auschwitz twins in Israel and
across America. One of them, Eva
Mozes Kor of Terre Haute, Ind., is
seeking to have charges brought
against Josef Mengele, the Nazi
• doctor who performed the experi-
ments.
"For many, simply telling their
stories offered psychological re-
lease," Anderson reported.
"Never before had they talked.of
their ordeal, and the grim
memories had festered, often
causing them to wake up scream-
ing in the night. With a rush of
words, they began recounting
their experiences. Some said they
had been waiting for 40 years for
someone to listen."
Mengele, who was known by his
victims as "the Angel of Death,"
supposedly pursued his genetic
experiments with twins in an ef-
fort to advance Hitler's dream of
mass producing an Aryan "master
race.".
"Today, Mengele is the most
wanted Nazi war criminal still at
large," Anderson said. "He repor-
tedly keeps on the move, traveling
under various identities, using
forged passports, staying with
trusted Nazi sympathizers. He's
now 73 and travels in style, fi-
nanced by his family in
Gunzburg, Bavaria."
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