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Even if the commitment eloquently emphasized by Dr. Alter is convincing, there re- mains the Schiff indictment and out of it stems the chal- lenge to make the school the predominant factor in Jewish life. Indictments come easily; commitments are more dif- ficult to attain. With a con- tinuity of commitments, there is hope for achievement. This becomes the duty of all of us who aspire for the type of iden- tification that provides the strength needed for communal progress. From this obligation there can be no swerving. In more than one sense, the status of the Day School is a triumph fo the maximalists in their demands for the highest standards in Jewish education. It is the rescuer of the basic ideals demanded for learning and therefore for knowledge. It is the symbol of the tradition when the afternoon school was a five-day-a-week commit- ment, plus a sixth when the children added to learning by jointly welcoming and observ- ing the Sabbath. While this does not necessarily relate to the enrollment decline oc- casioned by the generally de- veloping negative conditions, the earlier experience need not be forgotten. The day school, judged by the available new enrollment fig- ures, certainly rescued many from the oblivion of the after- noon school which is now a two-day-a-week product — no more than three days — all re- duced to the minimum. Per- haps the day school is the product of the family back- ground and tradition, the re- tention of the home dignity under whose influence the par- ent is able to direct the child's learning destinies. Such is the operation of the Jewish conscience dictated by the home influence. Without that influence, of the parent exercizing direction, the child renders the decision preferring peripheral activity to Jewish learning. The basic solution to the school's decline gets lost in the shuffle. It was not so long ago that a false "patriotism" in the advo- cacy of "loyalty to the public school system" was an argu- ment against the day school. Now the idea it propagates is accepted and respected in all interdenominational circles. In the process, the Jewish school gets a measure of applause. Such an applause also rates appreciation for the Jewish home influences. It as- serts itself again toward maximalizing the studies the children are subjected to. This can not possibly resolve the enrollment problem that has emerged in a declining Jewish child population, but it will certainly help eliminate a threatening dropout. That's part of the challenge to the problem. Richard Ellmann Continued from Page 2 14 k1/4-- IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE MERCEDES WE EITHER HAVE IT OR CAN FIND IT. LEASING It FINANCING SERVICE Et COLLISION EUROPEAN AUTO SERVICE, LTD. 21425 Woodward, Ferndale 399-3130/31 28 Friday, January 30, 1987 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS United States Navy and the Office of Strategic Services. He taught at Harvard, Northwestern, Chicago, and Yale before his most recent posts. His election to a chair at Oxford in 1970 made him the only American ever to occupy a professorship in English literature there. He is a fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy and Institute. He was a Roc- kefeller Fellow in 1946 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 1950, 1957 and 1970. Among his prizes are the National Book Award (1959), the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize (1982), and the James Tait Black Prize (1982). His books include: Yeats: The Man and the Masks (1948), The Identity of Yeats (1954), James Joyce a biog- raphy (1959), Eminent Do- main (1967), Ulysses on the Liffey (1972), Golden Codgers (1973), The Consciousness of Joyce (1977), and Four Dub- liners: Wilde, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett (1986). Richard Ellmann has de- voted much of his work to Richard Ellmann the exploration of the com- plexities of modernism. In his forthcoming biography of Wilde he presents him as a paradigm of contrariety and self-contradiction. Ellmann's reputation as an eminent authority on mod- ern literature was con- firmed by his biography of James Joyce which the English novelist Anthony Burgess described as "the