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the Jewish sectors had grown
in number in many years but
the character of the popula
tion had altered. About three-
quarters of the Jewish neigh
borhoods that I knew as I was
growing up in H.T. were now
areas occupied by Negroes.
Some, of the areas were slums,
but not all. I found the house
in which I had been born
turned, now, into an Abyssini
an church. There were three
or four new, handsome homes
on the street, still shaded by
maples that \yere saplings
when I was a boy.
Quantitatively, there are as
many Jews in H.T. as there
used to be. But qualitatively,
it seemed to me, the Jewish
community was livelier, more
dynamic, even more unified
than it had been in my youth
when the Orthodox of East
European stock did not speak
to—and were not spoken to—
by the German descended Re
form, while both sides laughed
at the nouveau riche Conserva
tives.
The Zionists are more active
today than they ever were.
Fund-raising for Jewish causes
is on a much higher level now
than it ever was—and much
more lucrative. Jewish cul
tural activities are much rich
er. As for Jewish education—
the old Talmud Torah is now
an integrated nursery school,
but the enrollment in the Jew
ish schools around town had
multiplied roughly tenfold
since 1 had studied at the old
Talmud Torah.
Vanishing? Far from it.
I started checking on some
of my old schoolmates. Several
of them are rabbis—one Ortho
dox, one Conservative, three
Reform. Only one lives and
leads in H.T., but the others,
scattered around the country,
are better Jews now than they
were when, as kids, they play
ed hookey from their fathers’
synagogues, even during the
High Holy Days.
Who’s a Jew? The grandsons
and the granddaughters are.
Ecumenicity? We d i d n't
know that fancy term then.
But I still recall that the build
ing housing mv own father’s
hassidic shul had been sold to
his congregation bv the mini
ster of a Lutheran church—for
exactly one dollar.
If God is dead—-He is very
much alive in H.T. Not only
among the relatively n e w
neighbors who are Negroes,
but also among the descend
ants of the Germans, the Poles
and the Jews among whom I
had grown up in H.T.
That’s what my tour of H.T.
taught me last year. That’s
why I am going back there for
the High Holy Days this year.
I don’t know of a better “re
treat” than H.T.—either as an
American or as a Jew.
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