Who has the cure for the traveller's SHOAH page 25 )tie discussion so frequently, by peo- ple who use it in an attempt to • deligitimize me. Some have said explicitly that Jews can't be ob- jective when writing about the Holocaust. This is simply non- sense. That is not the way we talk about scholarship. This is said so frequently in Germany. "At first in Germany, they said, `Oh, the Jew Goldhagen,' and it was accepted by so many as be- • ing completely legitimate. All /– Jews have really wanted to do in the discussion of the Holocaust is tell the truth, and that's what the survivors have done. "Many Germans have system- atically concealed and denied the basic facts of what they as indi- viduals have done, because it shows them in a very bad light. This discussion of background /– should be kept out of it," he said. "My private life is just irrelevant." The few facts of his life he di- vulged are that he attended the Solomon Schechter day school in Newton, Mass., and that he is not an observant Jew. Yet, in March, when he ac- cepted the Democracy Prize, which is given infrequently by the • Dr. Livingston's, ...I presume. Dr. Livingston's International Travel Clinic specializes in infection prevention and vaccine administration for international business and leisure travellers. To prevent diseases such as yellow fever, typhoid, hepatitis, malaria, and Montezuma's Revenge, visit Dr. Livingston's before your next adventure...and stay "cootie-free." 0 z • en Journal of International Politics, he praised German democracy "and how Germans have so fre- quently forcefully and directly dealt with the horrific parts of their past." Approximately 50,000 Jews live in Germany, and while anti- Semitism still exists, it has lost the "hallucinatory" quality it had in the 1930s and '40s, Dr. Gold- hagen said. • "There's an educational sys- • tem teaching humanistic and universal values, and it's not sur- prising with generation replace- ment, particularly with profound cultural influences coming from other countries which Germany was trying to integrate itself with in the western world, that many Germans would develop differ- ent views of Jews, even if there's still anti-Semitism at home. "It's parallel in the change in Germans' views of democracy: within a very short period of time, you have Germany going from a country where the ma- jority of people voted for a par- ty dedicated to the destruction of democracy to the point today where the majority of Germans \ are democrats. It parallels the /-- decline of anti-Semitism. It's not hard to explain when you know that the things people believed about Jews — that they were not human beings, were devils in hu- man form — were not in accord with reality," he said. When he finds time between teaching and touring, Dr. Gold- hagen plans to write a compara- tive study of genocides in the /– 20th century. He'll look at the slaughter in Cambodia, Rwanda, Burundi, Armenia, the former Yugoslavia, and in Ger- many. ❑ I I AL TRANS, • Adult and Child vaccinations oestr41'4'°' Dietary Counseling Overseas Doctor Referrals 31410 Northwestern Highway • Farmington Hills, MI 48334 • 810-737-2211 Detroit's Original Discounter LEVIN'S BEAUTY SUPPLY New Arrivals for Spring: 0.P.1 South Seas Polish Collection 12 NEW Essie Polish colors Professional Hair & Nail Supplies, Including NAILTIQUES Levins New Spring Colors: 1 1 Lipsticks 12 Eye Shadows 2 Blushes 3 Lip Glosses 6 Waterproof Eyeliner Pencils West Bloomfield Oak Park 851 7323 547-9669 24695 Coolidge At 10 Mile Road - Orchard Lake Road In The West Bloomfield Plaza Open M Sat. 9 6 • Closed Sun. • Thurs. Til 8 p.m. - - NOTICE Jewish Federation Apartments, Inc., Jewish Federation Apartments Phase IV Inc., Jewish Federation Apartments Non-Profit Housing Corporation, and Jcare, Inc. will hold the annual meeting of their mem- bership on Wednesday, June 18, 1997 at 6:00 p.m. at the Harriett and Ben Teitel Federation Apartments, 15106 W. Ten Mile Road, Oak Park, Michigan for the purpose of electing members of the Board of Directors and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before the meeting. Nominations for the Directors are as follows: Candidates nominated for an initial three year term: James Bellinson, Dr. Barry Feldman, Susan Kaplan, Lynn Obron, Robert Rosen, Rabbi Steven Weil. Candidates nominated for a second three year term: Gerald Brody, Dr. James Labes, Rick Rosenhaus, Ronald Schwartz, Abraham Selesny, Marvin Talan. In accordance with the Bylaws other qualified per- sons may be nominated for election by a petition signed by not less than fifty (50) members of the corpo- ration and filed with Marsha Goldsmith Kamin, Executive Director, not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of the Annual Meeting. Only one (1) person may be nominated by each such petition and no nomi- nation shall be valid unless the nominee shall have con- sented to such nomination.