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La Scuola Ebraica di Roma (the
Jewish School of Rome) was an extra-
ordinary institution. It offered a wide-
ranging and very high quality educa-
tion. But the reason it is remembered
with affection and esteem is that the
teachers and professors discussed with
and encouraged their students to
debate the questions which were cen-
tral to their being at that school at all.
"When we went to the Jewish
school," Mariella Piperno explained, we
asked, 'Who are we? What does it mean
to be Jews?' We who had been very
assimilated before and lived among
Catholics all our lives faced these ques-
tions together. And we learned that
Judaism was not a religion alone.
"This was the great discovery of the
Jewish school when we began to
understand that to be Jewish was not
only to be of the Jewish religion. A
Jewish culture existed, a Jewish civi-
lization existed that, in other words,
all that is meant by Judaism existed.
And this was very important.
"In my opinion, the Jewish school
was like the opening of a book for us;
and we began to read in this book
which had been completely closed to
us before."
Jewish continuity has little to do
with Jewish institutions, per se.
Indeed, the question of Jewish conti-
nuity, scholar David Gordis has
argued, depends on whether substan-
tial numbers of Jews will choose to
draw on Jewish culture, civilization
and religion in a meaningful way as
they determine who they are.
Will they draw on Jewish culture,
civilization and religion in a meaningful
way to help them mark the transition
points in their lives? Will they draw on
Jewish culture, civilization and religion
in a meaningful way to shape their value
systems and to formulate responses to
the core questions of their lives?
I do not know what my students
will make of shtetl life in Eastern
Europe, of the Jewish intellectual cof-
fee-house culture of Central Europe,
of the acculturated Jewish bourgeoisie
of Western Europe. I do not know
what they will make of Jewish life
under fascism and Nazism, at home,
in hiding, in ghettos, transit camps,
forced labor camps and death camps.
But I want to leave the road
marked and well-lit, so that they can
travel into the darkness ahead, as I do,
sure of the road behind. Ll
Deborah Dwork is Rose Professor of His-
tog and director, Center for Holocaust
Studies, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.