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completely absorbed with the im-
mediacy of suffering; in the dark-
ness, one dares cry—no one will
notice, through his or her own the
tears. If there is any political
awareness at that moment, it
may be one of shame or embar-
rassment that the United States
government did not follow Ein-
stein's advice, or of helpless anger
that peace is "advanced" by the
further proliferation of nuclear
weapons.
Marvin Tokayer, who had
been for a number of years rabbi
of the Tokyo Jewish community
and, simultaneously, the flying
circuit pastor for several of the
other communities in Eastern
Asia, told me recently of his own
pilgrimages both to Hiroshima
and to Nagasaki, which was
atom-bombed three days after the
initial attack.
There had been a Jewish pres-
ence in Nagasaki, a port city on
the island of Kyusho, as early as
the 16th century, when agents of
the Dutch East India Company
(Jews among them) were per-
mitted to land there and conduct
trade. Japan's first synagogue,
Congregation Beth Israel, was
built in Nagasaki. Eventually,
there were three synagogues and
a Jewish society which flourished
as late as 1905, when Jewish
merchants sold goods, supplies
and souvenirs to the Russian
sailors who came ashore.
With the conclusion of the Rus-
so-Japanese War in that year,
and the permanent departure of
Russian customers, the Jewish
community fell into decline. By
the 1920s, it had ceased to exist.
And the bombing of Aug. 9 wiped
out the buildings and the other
physical evidence of Jewish life.
Rabbi Tokayer found no traces,
save for a single mikvah — and
three cemeteries which had
miraculously survived the attack.
Two of them were on the far side
of a hill which had been almost
flattened by the blast but which
had shielded the tombstones from
the incineration.
The rabbi, misdirected by well-
meaning local officials who them-
selves had no idea where the
cemeteries were located, finally
glimpsed from the flattened hill-
top tombstones and an archway
visible through the tangle of
weeds and undergrowth below
him.
Descending, Rabbi Tokayer
came upon the grave sites, with
inscriptions in Hebrew, English,
Japanese and Russian— as well
as the inscription on the ruins of
the arch: Beth Almin (Eternal
Home).
There is active Jewish life
today in Tokyo and Kobe, as well
as the group of staunch Japan-
ese friends of Israel in the sacred
city of Kyoto. A serendipitous
pilgrimage to Hiroshima or C
Nagasaki adds yet another
dimension to a journey to
Japan. El