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Call (313) 841-6227 42 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1988 Ask for Jeff udapest — The in- creasingly vibrant Hungarian Jewish community I visited recently does not resemble the one I visited three years ago. Much appears to have dramatically changed for the better in the life of Hungarian Jewry. In 1985, Hungarian Jews were described as polarized between the few religious and the many assimilated, and few Jewish intellectuals had contact with the Jewish community. Now, formerly alienated Hungarian Jews are engag- ing in grass-roots cultural and religious study programs. Three years ago, people in- terviewed asked not to be identified. This time, nobody made that request. During this year's visit to Hungary — enabled through the Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture and spon- sored by the Hungarian government through its na- tional tourist board — Jewish individuals repeated their joy that world Jewry had come to visit and help them. Istvan Doman, editor of the Hungarian Jewish newspaper Uj Elet, said, "You know, the anti-Semites always accused us of sticking together. But during the Holocaust we were alone. Now we hope that some help will come from the Jews abroad and it will be true what we were accused ofl" Hungarian Jewry's needs are only partly helped by the National MIOK Association of Hungarian Jews — through private dona- tions by Hungarian Jews, government matching funds and help from abroad. Both the Emanuel Founda- tion and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) say they have helped make a success of the children's camp, which is located in a magnificent set- ting at Balatonfured on Lake Balaton. The camp's activities, in- cluding daily prayer and study sessions, are run by rab- binical students from the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary. In crowded rooms, tallitot and swimsuits are draped over bunks. Andor Weiss, executive vice president of the Emanuel Foundation, said over 400 children were able to attend the camp this summer — because of a donation it received from Ronald Lauder, former U.S. ambassador to Austria, whose mother Estee was born in Hungary. The JDC has also largely contributed to the camp's functioning, and is looking for a larger site, according to Ralph Goldman, JDC honorary executive vice president. An initial goal is to teach Hebrew. One of the major ways in which the Hungarian Jewish community has cut itself off is in its refusal to speak Yiddish, Hebrew or English. Those who could converse without interpreters were rare. One way the language disability is being redressed is in the new Hebrew pro- gram and major established at the University of Budapest. The program is run by Dr. Geza Komoroczy, who is also head of the year-old Center of Jewish Studies at the univer- sity — a joint venture bet- ween the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the New York-based Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. Komoroczy said the school has dispensed with the usual academic requirements for the class and divided it into three levels, so that no one who wants to learn Hebrew will be dissuaded. After 20 years of providing grants to scholarly and educational endeavors in Hungary, the Memorial Foundation decided two years ago that it wanted to change its work in Eastern Europe. "Look, there are new winds blowing," said executive direc- tor Jerry Hochbaum. The foundation wanted to provide new learning material for those outside the establish- ment who wouldn't ordinari- ly be reached. The foundation provided •money to publish three in books children's Hungarian on religion and Jewish history. The books were all publish- ed in July 1987 in Hungary, with government permission. By October, all the books had sold out. A second printng of 3,000 copies of the history and religion books also sold out. But, said Hochbaum, "the biggest best-seller was a sociological paper on 'How I recognized that I am a Jew! " The JDC has endowed several Talmudei Torah, which educate about 400 Jewish children. The Anna Frank Gymnasium, a Jewish high school aided by the JDC, has seen its student body in- crease from nine students in 1983 to 83 registered for September. The Joint also funds the Rabbinical Seminary in Budapest, the only rabbinical seminary in the Eastern bloc. On Friday nights, young people — from homes in which they learned no Jewish tradition — gather in large numbers in the seminary's chapel to listen to discussions begun by Rabbi Yehuda Schweitzer, the director. After the service, the young people have refreshments while discussing religion and Jewish culture. Jewish Telegraphic Agency NEWS 4 Killed In Bus Attack Jerusalem (JTA) — Israelis reacted with shock and anger to a firebomb attack on a bus outside the West Bank town of Jericho last Sunday that killed a woman and her three small children. Both Prime Minister Yitz- hak Shamir, leader of Likud bloc, and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, his Labor Par- ty rival, condemned the at- tack, the worst in terms of civilian casualties since the Palestinian uprising in the administered territories began more than 10 months ago. The Israel Defense Force clamped a curfew on Jericho, a town northeast of Jerusa- lem with a population of 18,000. Soldiers scoured the town and surrounding coun- tryside for the attackers. The IDF chief of staff, Gen. Dan Shomron, said he had reason to believe the perpe- trators had been captured. He offered no details. Israel Radio reported that a gang of seven suspects was seized, some with past records of anti-Israel activities. Three of them reportedly have ad- mitted their part in the at- tack, and sappers moved quickly to blow up their homes. The victims were buried in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives cemetery.