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Aubrey, will you make up your mind already?
ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Q: Some time ago the Jewish
War Veterans attempted to get the
U.S. Post Office to issue a stamp
commemorating their service in
the Army. They were unsuccess-
ful.
How many individuals identified
as Jews served in World War II?
How many Jews were casualties of
the war? What was the highest rank
achieved by an individual identi-
fied as Jewish?
From reader M.P. in Palm Beach
Gardens, Fla.
A: The JWV's request
was indeed denied.
A Citizens' Stamp
Advisory Committee,
a group
that decides
fwhich
stamps to
issue, reject-
ed the idea
(which would
have marked the organization's
100th anniversary) on grounds
that any such stamp should hon-
or all veterans.
The last major war claimed
the lives of 11,000 American
Jewish soldiers, with 40,000
wounded. More than 550,000
Jewish soldiers served in the
war.
The highest rank obtained by
a Jew during that war was ma-
jor general. Maurice Rose, whose
father was a rabbi, was a World
War I veteran and career army
man. He became a brigadier
general in 1943 and was named
chief of staff of the second ar-
mored division in North Africa.
Gen. Rose, who accepted the un-
conditional surrender of the Ger-
man forces in Tunisia, later was
promoted to major general and
given command of the third ar-
mored division in the final of-
fensive against Germany. He
was killed in action at Pader-
born, Germany, a few weeks be-
fore the end of the war. He was
46.
President Harry Truman
promoted another Jew, Lewis L.
Strauss, to the office of rear
admiral. Adviser to Navy
Undersecretary James Forrestal,
Mr. Strauss di-
'
rected the de-
velopment of ,
the radar prox-
imity fuse and ,
conceived the ;
Big "E" war-
production
incentive pro-
gram.
Q: Was Henry Miller, the Amer-
ican author famous for such sex-
ually explicit novels as Tropic of
Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn,
Jewish?
A: Far from it. As revealed in
Moloch, or This Gentile World,
his first attempt at autobio-
graphical fiction, Miller was in
fact an anti-Semite.
In his later years, Miller (1881-
1980) said he sustained
and valued his feelings
of anti-Semitism because
they stimulated his writ-
ing.
Q: My name is Joey Goldberg and
I say my last name just like it's writ-
ten - "gold" and then "berg." No
surprises.
Now I hear that Abba Eban's last
name is spoken differently than it's
written. I mean, what's with this
guy? Does he pronounce his last
name "Goldberg," too? (That's just
a joke, but you get the idea!)
Q: Why does Easter so
often coincide with Pe-
sach?
A: According to Chris-
tian doctrine, Easter is
the Christian Passover.
Now some may won-
der what the liberation
of our ancestors from
slavery and the estab-
lishment of the Jews as
a people has to do with
the death and resurrec-
tion ofJesus. Good ques-
tion.
Classical Christianity
views the entire Tanach
(Jewish Bible) as a fore-
telling of the life and
message ofJesus. Thus, Abba Eban plays the name game.
God's redemption of the
A: You can relax when it comes
Jews from slavery, Christian dog-
ma says, is a model for mankind's to the first name, pal Joey. Abba
redemption from sin through Je- is pronounced ah-bah, accent on
sus, whose death and resurrec- the first syllable, just as it's writ-
tion form the cornerstone of ten.
His last name in Hebrew,
Christian belief.
however,
is Even, pronounced
Because of the identification of
Easter with Pesach (many eh-ven, accent on the first syl-
church scholars believe the Last lable. Only he knows why he
Supper was a Passover seder), chose to transliterate his name
the early church celebrated East- as Eban.
Mr. Eban was born Aubrey
er on Pesach, the 14th day of
Stein
in 1915 in Cape Town,
Nisan. Since the 14th of Nisan
may occur any day of the week, South Africa. Brought up in Eng-
a dispute arose as to whether land and educated at Cambridge,
Easter should be celebrated the Eban served as a major in the
14th of Nisan (which could be a British army in World War II. Af-
weekday) or on the first Sunday ter the war, he settled in
Jerusalem and became active in
after the day.
In 325, the Council of Nicaea the Jewish Agency. Later, Mr.
(a meeting of the leading Chris- Eban was Israel's ambassador to
tian bishops) decided that East- Washington, United Nations rep-
er should be observed on the first resentative, deputy prime min-
Sunday after the full moon that ister, foreign minister and
occurs on or after the spring member of the Knesset. From
equinox. The council accepted 1959 to 1966, he was president
March 21 as the date of the of the Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence ❑
spring equinox.
Because 14 Nisan coincides
with the full moon in the first
Jewish month after the spring Send questions to "Tell Me Why"
c/o The Jewish News, 27676
equinox, Easter always falls very
Franklin Rd., Southfield, MI
close to Pesach
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