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Rabbi Rackman's rebuke to the intolerant is primarily an appeal to reason, an urgent call to the reasonable in Jewish ranks not to be misled by bias and misconcep- tion of Jewish duties. It is much more than that. It is a demand for realization that the faithful are strengthened by their faith and can never be swerved from it as long as they know what that faith stands for. When in-, heritors of the great Jewish trea- sures are confronted by tempta- tions theyknow how to tackle dangers. Then neither pro- selytism nor threats to very life can subsist. It is the dedication, the loyalty, the knowledge that is the strength so splendidly de- Emanuel Rackman fined by Rabbi Rackman. His re- jection of the spreading prejudice, in the Mormon matter, earns from him another debt of gratitude from Isareli and Dias- pora Jewries. He guides them to common sense. 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Make the KAST call your last call! ROYAL OAK 542-3850 PONTIAC 338.9255 eminent Detroit scholar, Prof. Joseph Gutmann of the Wayne State University art faculty, has a share in encouraging the gathering of material for this volume The Moreen preface to the Hebrew Union College vol- ume credits the Gutmann essay "Judaeo-Persian Miniatures" with giving a comprehensive re- view of the entire field of Judaeo-Persian paintings. In the acknowledgements, the editor-author of the Miniature Paintings in Judaeo-Persian Manuscripts states: "I am greatly indebted to Prof. Joseph Gut- mann for inspiring this project and for making many •valuable suggestions." Not only the paintings and the rescued art work are of signifi- cance in this volume. Author Mo- reen provides a history of Iranian Jewry, dating back to the period of the First Exile — 586 BCE "when Nebuchadnezzar exiled thousands of Jews to Babylonia." Current very distressing con- cerns about Iranian Jewry con- tribute to the values inherent in the historical records enumerated by the author. At the same time, it is impor- tant, in emphasizing apprecia- tion of the creative art, to take into account the author's expla- nation that "Iranian Jews in- sisted on using the Hebrew al- phabet even while writing in the Persian language as a symbol of preserving the language and na- tional heritage." The following addendum is in- teresting: "This phenomenon oc- cured among several Jewish communities in the Diaspora. Re- fusal to use the Arabic script, the script of the Koran, as well as of the Persian language, -meant a tacit affirmation of the ancestral faith in the face of forces of con- Dr. Joseph Gutmann version and assimilation. This `self-imposed' graphical barrier was nevertheless not monolithic. The large variety of Judaeo- Persian literature in existence — religious poetry, chronicles, tales, ethics and even the translitera- tion of many Biblical books into Persian — attests to much influ- ence from the Iranian environ- ment. Interestingly enough, Ira- nian Jews, in contrast to their Babylonian ancestors, did not produce major Halachic literary tracts and seemed to have been content to follow in the footsteps of the traditional teachers of the earlier Middle Ages." Editor Moreen provides a guide to the reproduced art works: "This study consists largely of listing the illustrations and de- scribing their contents. As much information as possible is offered about each manuscript." There is fascination in the