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Other Jews, community-
involved or not, joined the
ranks of the opposition group
Civic Forum. Daniel Kum-
merman, a translator and
long time political activist,
began working in a Forum ad-
vice center, helping people
organize strikes and Civic
Forum committees in their
factories and neighborhoods.
Andrej Ernyei brought his
jazz band to provide a free
concert for the students one
evening. Ivan Klima, one of
the country's finest novelists,
was elected president of an in-
dependent- writer's union.
Rita Klimova became an of-
ficial translator for the
Forum. The entire staff of the
State Jewish Museum calm-
ly but very firmly invited
Oskar Petchik, a party ap-
pointee, to kindly leave his
post as director. The final
straw for them was learning
he had been trying to nego-
tiate the sale of 80 precious
items of Judaica to Christie's
in London. Petchik vacated
his post. And Jindrich Streit,
the only Jew in a small hilltop
Moravian village, and one of
the country's finest documen-
tary photographers, ran
hither and yon recording par-
ty bosses facing unshackled
workers.
As the Civic Forum begins
to solidify its gains in the
government, the Jews of
Prague have been meeting to
discuss ways of creating a
more relevant community.
Unqualified support has
come from Jewish groups in
the US and Western Europe,
and Galski's willingness to
meet, discuss and work with
young Czech Jews is a posi-
tive sign. Already Leo Pavlat
is conducting twice weekly
classes inside the community.
Other events are being
organized now.
As the decade of the 1980s
has ended and the peo-
ple of Czechoslovakia grab
back their history and their
destiny, the democracy they
hope to create will have many
of the elements of the original
Masaryk Republic. It is sad,
though, that the Jewish com-
munity that gave this coun-
try and the world Kafka and
Brod, Mahler and Freud is
but a whisper of what once
was.
But that should not take
away from the fact that no
matter how few Jews remain
in Czechoslovakia, this tiny
community has already prov-
en its willingness to ignore its
numbers and fight for its own
future, and the future of its
country. There are few things
more noble than that.
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