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November 05, 1993 - Image 36

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1993-11-05

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The Waldheim Controversy,
Jewish Women Today
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arely out in print and al-
ready it is causing con-
troversy (just what the
publisher loves).
Betrayal (St. Martin's
Press), by Eli M. Rosenbaum,
offers "the untold story of the
Kurt Waldheim investigation
and cover up."
With praise by everyone,
from author Elie Wiesel to at-
torney Alan Dershowitz, Be-
trayal was written by the
principal deputy director of the
Office of Special Investigations,
the U.S. Justice Department's
task force for the investigation
and prosecution of Nazi war
criminals.
In his book, Mr. Rosenbaum
tells the story of the investiga-
tion of the Nazi past of Mr.
Waldheim, the former United
Nations secretary general and
president of Austria.
He considers how it was pos-
sible that Mr. Waldheim man-
aged for so many years to keep
his terrible secret and the exact
nature of his wartime activities.
It reads, the publishers promise,
"like an international spy
thriller."
One man who found the
reading less than compelling
was Nazi hunter Simon
Wiesenthal.
Before Betrayal even hit the
stands, Mr. Wiesenthal was
sending out a six-page letter de-
fending himself against asser-
tions, made in Mr. Rosenbaum's
book, that he discovered and
concealed evidence of Mr. Wald-
heim's crimes.
Mr. Wiesenthal claims that,
while at Yad Vashem in 1979,

"the subject of Kurt Waldheim
was brought up during my talks
with the staff members there...
Someone suggested, 'Why don't
you check and see if Waldheim
was a Nazi or maybe even a
member of the SS?'"
He contacted the Berlin Doc-
ument Center about Mr. Wald-
heim, where officials replied
that no information existed
linking Mr. Waldheim and the
Nazis, Mr. Wiesenthal says.
"Thus, as far as I was con-
cerned, the matter was closed."
Mr. Wiesenthal says he has
not read Betrayal (but re-
sponded to its charges after
friends told him of its content),
and wonders at its release "just
in time for my 85th birthday at
the end of this year."

She's a mem-
ber of this
women's orga-
nization and
that women's
group. She
works. She
volunteers.
She marches in rallies.
But how much has the
women's movement really in-
fluenced the "typical" Jewish
woman, who would never, ever
buy frozen gefilte fish and
whose children —"and I'm not
saying this just because they're
mine. This is an objective state-
ment." — are perfect?
The Jewish Woman in
Contemporary Society:
Transitions and Traditions
(New York University Press) fo-
cuses on feminism and the tra-
ditional Jewish mother: the

Simon Wiesenthal

wife, mother and homemaker.
Written by Adrienne Baker,
a lecturer in women's studies at
London University's Birkbeck
College and a member of the
chief rabbi of London's com-
mittee studying issues of con-
cern to Jewish women, The
Jewish Woman considers Jew-
ish women throughout the
United States and Great
Britain.
"What does it mean to be a
Jewish woman today?" Ms.
Baker asks, "And how much
has the pull of tradition, the
conscious or unconscious lega-
cy of religious expectations, cre-
ated tremendous ambivalence
as she is drawn toward freedom
and yet — maybe unconscious-
ly — drawn upon shared mem-
ories which imbue her family
role with powerful messages
about continuity?"

American
Jews have of-
ten insisted "it
could never
happen here."
But anti-
Semitism is a
fact of life in
the United States, says author
Benjamin Ginsberg. The ques-
tion is, why?
Director of the Washington
Center for the Study of Ameri-
can Government and a political
science professor at Johns Hop-
kins University, Mr. Ginsberg
explores the resurfacing of anti-
Semitism in American political
life in his new book The Fatal
Embrace: Jews and the State
(University of Chicago Press).

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