SIDEWALK Tell F7 Why 44 Sigmund Freud's Ode To A Grecian Urn ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR qio Thurs. & Fri. 10 am - 8 pm Saturday 10 am - pm R. Grumet LaBret Jewelers Chico's Casual Clothing Mr. Alan's Hersh's Peanuts Expecting the Best "Coming Soon" Sundance Rear Ends Zeza Nail Affair Patricia Miles Omaha Steaks Marguerite New York Bagel Stage & Co thelmumbtaik Orchard Lake Rd., South of Maple, West Bloomfield (JD w For insurance call SY WARSHAWSKY, C.L.0 7071 Orchard Lake Road Suite 110 In the J&S Office Bldg. W. Bloomfield, MI 48322 LU TH E DETRO F- 10 626-2652 Office Phone See me for car, home, life and health insurance Like a good neighbor. State Farm is there. Q: Throughout the years, Jews have picked some pretty interest- ing names for their children. But what about Guido? Have any Jews been named Guido? A: As a matter of fact, a prominent member of Italy's Jewish community was named Guido. Guido Jung was born in 1876 in Italy. From 1932-35, he served as finance minister for Benito Mussolini — one of two Jews Allowed to continue in im- portant positions in the fascist Mussolini cabinet (Aldo Finzi, assistant minister of the inte- rior, was the other). Jung was the only minister — Jewish or otherwise — who returned to a prominent posi- tion in the Italian Cabinet af- ter the war, when he served as Writing the words of the teaching, not the law. president of the National Insti- tute of Foreign Commerce. He the belief that "English is des- gay candidate to hold office, died tined to be in the next and suc- in 1979. The San Francisco city died in 1949. Ws it true that members of the ceeding centuries more generally supervisor was murdered by for- Continental Congress proposed mak- the language of the world than mer policeman Dan White. Milk's ing Hebrew the official language of Latin was in the last or French ashes were released over San Francisco Bay. the newly independent United is in the present age." Physicist Albert Einstein also Q: What does the word 'Torah' States? was cremated, with his ashes mean? A: It does not, as popularly scattered in the Delaware River believed, mean "law." It actu- in New Jersey. ally means "teaching." In Hebrew grammar, torah is the hifil conjugation of the root word yara, meaning "to teach." A related word is rnoreh, or "teacher." This fits in with Judaism's view of the Torah as the teachings of a par- ticular way of life, not merely a long list of dos and don'ts. Be- sides, the Torah contains more than laws; it also includes nar- rative history, poetry and prophesy. The origin of the mistrans- A: There was never a formal lation goes back to the third cen- tury BCE, when the Pentateuch proposal. Francois Jean, Marquis de was translated into Greek (the Chastellux, who traveled with Septuagint). The authors ren- George Washington in the 1780s, dered the word Torah as nomos, noted that Americans wished to law. The mistake became wide- break as many ties as possible with Britain, the former moth- spread when, in the fifth centu- Sigmund Freud: What does it mean, ry CE, the Catholic Church though, that he chose to be cremated? er country. Chastellux wrote that some ordered a standardized Latin Americans even proposed re- translation of the Bible, the Vul- Sigmund Freud, the father of placing English with a new na- gate, much of which was based psychoanalysis, was cremated, tional language, "and some on the Septuagint. The error entered English in but the family decided to keep his persons were desirous, for the convenience of the public, that 1611, with the King James Ver- "cremains" (as some funeral di- rectors refer to the ashes). What's Hebrew should be substituted for sion. Q: What famous Jews have been left of Freud rests in a Grecian English." urn in the Golders Green section Chastellux also said that oth- cremated? A: That California dreamer of London. er Americans proposed French and Greek as new national Cass Elliot, lead singer for the Mamas and the Papas, died in Send questions to "Tell Me Why" tongues. Most Americans, however, 1974, and her ashes were scat- c/o The Jewish News, 27676 Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI probably agreed with John tered over the Pacific Ocean. Harvey Milk, the first openly 48034 Adams, who in 1780 expressed