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Q: Was comedian Freddie Prinze
really a reincarnated Lenny
Bruce?
A: Prinze certainly thought so,
but Tell Me Why can make no
guarantees until we've had a
chance to speak to that wise
voice of the ages, the insightful
and all-knowing Ramthaberg.
Ramthaberg (who charges a
mere 54,000 a minute) is re
larly in touch with spirits from
the past, including the Three
Stooges, who offer spiritual guid-
ance for a troubled world —
"Take time to smell the roses"
and "Beans, beans (are) good for
the heart" are some of his latest
insights.
But about your question.
The late Mr. Prinze, the son
of a Hungarian-Jewish father
and Puerto Rican mother, was
best-known for his role in the
early 1970s sitcom "Chico and
the Man."
He found both fame and
tragedy early in life. He became
something of an overnight suc-
cess with "Chico and the Man,"
but soon afterward his marriage
fell apart. Depressed over a sep-
aration from his wife, he killed
himself in 1977 in his apartment
at 865-75 Comstock Ave., Bev-
erly Hills. He was 22 years old.
Throughout his life Mr. Prinze
constantly spoke about comedi-
an Lenny Bruce, who he said
was fortunate to have had such
a brief life (Bruce was 41 when
he died), thereby guaranteeing
him eternal fame.
Mr. Prinze often went to the
West Hollywood home where
Bruce died of a morphine over-
dose, and, according to Ken Sch-
lessler's This is Hollywood, said
to friends that he believed he
was Lenny Bruce reincarnated.
Q: Did Polish gentiles suffer the
same fate as Jews during the
Holocaust?
A: The German objective to-
ward the Jews was genocide, the
murder of every Jew through-
out the world and the annihi-
lation of the Jews as a people.
The German objective toward
the Poles was first to destroy
their leadership and educated
classes, then treat the remain-
der and their descendants as
slaves. It was subjugation, not
genocide.
Before World War II, Poland's
popillntion was about 29 million,
including 3.3 million Jews. An
estimated 3 million Christian
Poles were killed during the war,
and about 3 million Polish Jews
were murdered by the Germans
and their collaborators.
The World War II death rate
for Christian Poles was around
10 percent. The death rate for
Polish Jews was 90 percent.
Q: I heard that V.I. Lenin
often spoke with tremendous
admiration for a certain Jewish
woman revolutionary, but I
don't remember her name or
know anything about her. Can Tell
Me Why - help me out?
A: You must be talking about
Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919),
founder of Germany's Com-
munist Party.
Born into a wealthy family
in Zamosc, Luxemburg was
only a schoolgirl when she
joined the Polish revolutionary
(socialist) movement. She lat-
er helped found the country's
Social Democratic Party.
After moving in 1898 to
Germany, Lux-
emburg joined
the staff of the
Arbeiter-Zeitung
and other pa-
pers, and be-
came a leader in
the German so-
cialist move-
ment's left wing.
After serving
time in prison
because of her
vocal opposition
to World War I
(which she la-
beled "an impe-
rialist war") she
joined with Franz Mehring and
Karl Liebknecht to found the
Spartakusbund, which later be-
came the German Communist
Party.
Luxemburg and Liebknecht
were both murdered by army
officers in 1919.
Luxemburg and Lenin often
disagreed — she denounced
Bolshevik violence and terror
— but they remained close
friends throughout their lives.
Q: I recently visited England and
made a stop at Cambridge Univer-
sity. That got me wondering about
the first Jew to attend, since I know
the school once had restrictions.
A: The first Jew to attend
Cambridge University was
James Joseph Sylvester (1814-
1897). He was allowed to take
classes beginning in 1831 —
though because of continued
anti-Semitism he
wasn't allowed to
receive his degree
until 1872.
Sylvester was
an interesting
character. After
being recognized
as one of Britain's
leadingmathe-
maticians, he
served as a fellow
of the Royal Soci-
ety, and held a
chair at the Royal
Military Academy
and at Oxford. He
also had positions
at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore and at the Universi-
ty of Virginia. He didn't remain
long in Virginia, though. An
outspoken opponent of slavery,
he was asked to leave within
months of his appointment.
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