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TBISOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, October 28, 1966
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7 Arts Features
Jewish
Telegraphic
Agency
World Press
Nobel Prize Winner S. Y. Agnon
S. Y. Agnon has been recognized in Jewish literary circles
for more than two decades. His novels, his short stories, have
been among the classics.
Now he is world recognized—as the current winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature.
This recognition also is a mark of honor for Hebrew litera
ture. The Hebrew literary field has been replete with many
scholarly works, with noteworthy contributions to poetry, the
narrative art, research.
Agnon is one of the world’s greatest classicists. He writes
in Hebrew but his creative efforts are available in many
languages, and English readers have enjoyed him immensely.
He will be enjoyed even more now that world recognition is
accorded him. His choice for the Nobel Prize is cause for great
rejoicing in Israeli and Jewish ranks. —Jewish News, Detroit
Silver Lining
By DR. SAMUEL SILVER
(A Seven Arts Feature)
At the wedding reception peo
ple are having a good time as
they engage in
convent i o n a 1
bftllroom danc
ing. But the mo
ment the orche-i
stra breaks out*
in a truly Yid
dish wedd i n g
melody, everyone
is transported.
Forgotten is the face-to-face
dance and everyone gathers
around in a circle, as jolly to
getherness goes rampant. What
can compare with a Jewish wed
ding dance in terms of innocent
but genuine gaiety?
Many people like food. But
observe people when they are
consuming Jewish delicacies.
There’s nothing like it, whether
the eating place is a borscht-cir
cuit resort or at your grandmo
ther’s table. Harry Golden was
right when he said Jewish food
could cure an anti-Semite.
When youngster excel, par
ents are proud. But what ecstasy
is experienced by parents when
their youngster do well at a Bar
Mitzvah! Their faces gleam, and
their hearts are stirred by the
most exalted of emotions, the
pride that comes from having
conveyed to ones offspring the
love of ethical learning. Another
term for the feeling is nachas.
Intellectual discoveries are ex
hilarating. But when a group of
Jewish students are able to find
still another meaning in a famil
iar passage, the glee is unmatch
ed. Even if the novel meaning is
amusing it makes for good cheer.
For example, the Purim megil-
lah begins, “It happened in the
days of A h a s u erus.’’ Why
shouldn’t it begin, “It happened
in the days of Mordecai,’’ the
story’s hero? That teaches you
that with a Jew you shouldn’t
start up. And did you ever see
Jews at the height of a Simchas
Torah gathering?
Giving charity involves a sac
rifice, but watch the face of a
generous donor when he has fi
nally made his announcement, a
gift perhaps a little larger than
was intended because of his
desire to share his good fortune
with others. That face reflects
deep-seated and deep-hearted
pleasure of the purest ray ser
ene.
Isn’t it great to be Jewish?
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COMMENT and OPINION
Christian Teachings and
Anti-Jewish Prejudice
Christian teachings which played “a
crucial historical role in the rise of anti-Semit
ism” continue “to reinforce and foster” anti-
Jewish prejudice in the United States despite
an increasing spirit of good will between the
faiths and a willingness on the part of most
American churchmen “to take action to com
bat anti-Semitism.” This is the major finding
of a sociological study, “Christian Beliefs and
Anti-Semitism,” made by the University of
California Survey Research Center under a
grant from the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith. The study, published by Harper
and Row, is the initial volume in a series,
“Patterns of American Prejudice,” based on
five years of research into all aspects of anti-
Semitism and other areas of prejudice in
American life. Charles Y. Glock and Rodney
Stark are the authors of the book. The study
reveals that at least one-fourth of those in the
United States with anti-Semitic attitudes
“have a religious basis for their prejudice
while nearly one-fifth have this religious basis
in considerable part,” that only “five per cent
of Americans with anti-Semitic views lack all
rudiments of a religious basis for their preju
dice.” It declares that “religion actually
operates to produce anti-Semitism” through a
casual chain that links “orthodoxy—commit
ment to a literal interpretation of traditional
Christian dogma, to particularism—a disposi
tion to see Christian truth as the only religious
truth.” Particularism, in turn, leads persons
to connect the modern Jew with “the sins of
his ancestors” as still unforgiven for crucify
ing Christ. According to the sociologists, this
hostile religious image of the Jews makes
people easy victims for traditional secular
anti-Semitic stereotypes. The sociologists re
fute the “comfortable and complacent view”
that anti-Semitism is no longer a real prob
lem in the United States. . . The study con
cludes that “until the process by which re
ligion fosters anti-Semitism has been abolish
ed, the Christian conscience must bear the
guilt of bigotry. . .”
THE JEWISH DIGEST,
from an Original Exposition
“Nazis Show Their Stripe”
One of the uglier aspects of Chicago’s
racial friction has been the exploitation of
dim-witted whites by the racist American
Nazi party. It was just a matter of time until
the Nazis would twist their anti-Negro activi
ties to get at their central targets. This they
did by announcing plans to march into Chi
cago’s Jewish neighborhood during the holy
days in order, as leader George Lincoln Rock
well put it, to “convince the Jews not to sup
port the Negroes and Communists.” Fortun
ately, the courts spiked the plan. By all ac
counts, the Nazis haven’t had much luck in
their Chicago recruiting campaign—but any
success at all is too much. And there is a ter
rible irony in the fact that most of their re
cruits have been young toughs who know no
thing, and care nothing, about the madness,
horror and calamity inflicted on the world by
those from whom the neo-Nazis have grasped
the torch of hate and barbarity. Again we see
how prejudice and ignorance go hand in hand,
each nurturing the other. It may be that any
one who is susceptible to Nazi philosophy is
immune to the remedy of education—but the
effort is worth making whenever and
where the risk of infection arises. . .
— WORLD-JOURNAL TRIBUNE
AUGUSTA NEWS
Mrs. Murray Shernoff of New
York, nationally known Hadas-
sah worker and national fund
raising chairman for Youth Aliy-
ah, was the guest speaker of the
Augusta Chapter of Hadassah at
its October meeting. Mrs. M. K.
Steinberg directed a musical skit
with Mrs. Morton Berenson pro
viding music. The cast included
Mr. B. Bolgla, Mrs. M. Fogel,
Mrs. L. Scharff and Mrs. A.
Siegelson.
* • « •
Robert Persky and Harry Wi-
lensky, delegates to the Zionist
Convention in New York, will
present a program on "Zionism:
Past Present and Future,” to the
Adas Yeshuron Minyannaire-
Minyan Clubs breakfast on Oc
tober 30.
* * * *
Augustans are extending a
hearty Mazel Tov to Mr and
Mrs. Joe Simowitz on the birth
of a granddaughter; to Dr. and
Mrs. Fred Simowitz on the birth
of a daughter; to Dr. and Mrs.
Phil Lipsitz on their new home
and to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Fink
on the engagement of their son,
B. Stanley Fink.
1966 Scopus Award
Goes to Blaustein
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jacob
Blaustein, of Baltimore, has been
named to receive the 1966 Scopus
Award, it was announced here
by Nathaniel L. Goldstein, presi
dent of the American Friends of
the Hebrew University. The
Award, which is the highest
distinction given by the Ameri
can Friends, will be presented to
Mr. Blaustein on November 21,
at a dinner in his honor in New
York.
Mr. Blaustein is an honorary
president and former president
of the American Jewish Commit
tee. He has served under the last
Signs Anti-Bias Pact
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — The United States be
came the 30th signatory here of
the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination, adopted by
the General Assembly last win
ter. Ambassador Arthur J. Gold
berg, chairman of the U. S. dele
gation, signed the document.
five Presidents of the United
States, is currently a presidential
representative on the board of
governors of the USO.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
•HANUKA
December 8-15
Thursday - Thursday
•PURIM
March 26, Sunday
•PASSOVER
April 25, Tuesday
(First Day)
May 2, Tuesday
(Eighth Day)
LAG B’OMER
May 28, Sunday
•SHAVUOT
June 14, Wednesday
•ROSH HASHANA
Oct. 5-6, Thurs.-Fri.
•YOM KIPPUR
October 14, Sat.
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