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poised to deport the Jews, the
Danes one night whisked them
off in small boats to Sweden.
In 1945, when the Jews re
turned, the Danes restored
them to their homes and pro
perty. Their thanksgiving ex
ercise in 1955 was witnessed by
the present King Frederick IX
and Queen Ingrid after the
damages to the synagogue were
repaired with funds from the
Material Claims Conference
and the Danish Government.
The older generation of Jews
is fast assimilating, but the
younger elements, despite the
jiigh incidence of intermarri
age — roughly 60' < — and
lack of qualified Jewish-teach
ers. come closer to their an
cestral roots. All community
activity is generated by the
Jewish Council — Det Mosais-
ke Troessamfund — which is
supported by 1,800 members
whose tithe is 2'< of their an
nual income, and by the Gov
ernment. The chief Viking rab
bi is Dr. Marcus Melchior, his
son is associate rabbi, and both
are aided by two cantors and
a sexton.
Machziki Hadas, an Ortho
dox congregation of 200 new
comers. is not formally recog-
ni :ed by the government. Its
Lubavitcher rabbi, Azriel Chai
kin, may not officiate at wed
dings.
The educational system com
prises a kindergarten, a day
school for about 150 students,
and a Talmud Torah which is
open a few hours a week. The
kehillah provides for schechi-
tah, a nuKveh, a museum for
religious objects.
The Bibliotheka Judaica Si-
monseniana, named after Den
mark s late Chief Rabbi, Pro
fessor David Simonsen (1853-
1932). is housed at the Royal
Library. It has 50,000 volumes
in Heoraica and Judaica, 400
manuscripts, 50 Hebrew incun
abula (folios printed before
1500), 9U0 Hebrew prints dat
ing from the 16th century, and
recent shelves of Yiddish books
contributed by American Yid
dish writers. Only a handful of
students, two non - Jewish,
make use of its research lacili-
ties.
Daylight at Midnight
Stockholm too is picturesque
civilized and expensive, with
cool winds and rain. In mid-
June the sky beats back the
night to lingering twilight.
Sweden has about 16,000
Jews, a 50'. increase since
1933. Half of them reside in
Stockholm. Sweden’s Jewish
communities synchronize their
specific activities.
Jewish life in Stockholm is
also centralized by a Council,
and keyed by 25 elected depu
ties. Conservative Judaism
dominates the theological
thinking of Swedish Jewry.
The largest Ashkenazi syn
gogue, built in 1870, holds 8
seats. Two small Orthod.
shulen are also the Council
concern.
Till 1951 Swedish subjeci
were legally required to k<
long to a religious denomina
tion Hence Jewish citizens au
tomatically became member^
of the synagogue. When th<
law. making religious affilia
tion voluntary, was passed in
1952, hardly a Jew left the fold
The Judaica House opened
in September, 1963. It was built
at a cost of a million kronen
which came chiefly from tht
Claims Conference, AJDC, and
the Stockholm municipality. It
is dedicated “. . . to the memo
ry of the deceased . . . for tht
benefit of the living and as a
domicile of the hinueh institu
tions”. It occupies a large par:
of Nybrogatan Street. It hous
es a kindergarten, a Hillel da\
school (org. 1955) where He
brew and Judaism are taught
to roughly 200 children of all
age groups. The school’s head
master is not Jewish and onl\
3 of its 12 teachers are our
kinsmen. The PTA. I was in
formed. links Jewish and Swe
dish cultures. Only a third o!
Stockholm’s Jewish school
population receives a Jewish
education.
All Jewish organizations
have their offices at Judaica
House, which has an auditori
um. gymnasium, a dairy cafe
teria. a chapel, a library of He
brew. Yiddish and Swedish
books and journals, a lounge
hobby and game rooms.
Yankee Clippers
Hotel clerks, waiters who be
cause of the compulsory serv
ice charge seem to run the
restaurants, shopkeepers, port
crs and their variants, have a
field day with dollar-bearing
Yankees the moment they ar
rive to be enchanted bv tin
sights, sounds and smells of
France and Italy. In Naples
this crazy hospitality seems
more precise than in any othei
Italian (and French) tourisi
citadel. Presumably the ga\
Neapolitans (and frivolous Pa-
ri-ians) retaliate for our old
Marshall Plan, foreign aid pro
gram, surplus food shipments
and similar “acts of aggression'
which put the war-shattered
peoples on their feet so that
they could kick our “innocents
abroad” in the shins- Clipping
Yankees takes the forms of
short-changing, over-charging
faked food dishes and wines,
taxis with rigged meters, tenth
rate hotel accomodations foi
first-class fees ... In short,
don’t see Naples — and live!
At the World ORT Union
Congress in the Rome Hilton
there were hundreds of dele
gates from the world over, with
The Southern Israelite