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Latent Anti - Semitism in Growing Wave
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, June 26, 1970
Of Repression Of Student Dissent
Like many black "moderates,"
Whitney Young has been de
nounced by more militant blacks
as an Uncle Tom. But the excu-
tive director of the National Ur
ban League does not seem to
want of friends in the Caucasian
Jewish community.
At the American Jewish Com
mittee’s recent dinner honoring
another “moderate,” Roy Wil
kins, executive director of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People,
Mr./ Young was well received.
During the introductions of the
special guests on the long dais,
he was given heavier applause
than was tendered to any of the
noted rabbis, Zionist figures and
community leaders surrounding
him.
Mr. Young did not speak at
the dinner. But in the noodle
pudding atmosphere of the pre
dinner buffet, he provided a
spark of insight into the roots
at the Kent StateMJniversity
tragedy, in which four students
—apparently uninvolved in the
campus disturbances — were
killed by National Guard gun
fire.
Mr. Young strongly sugges
ted that anti-Semitism may be
an underlying, unconscious
factor in the growing wave of
disdain for and repression of
student dissent. He did. not go
so far as to charge the Ohio
National Guard with aiming
at Jews, (Although three of
the four victims were Jewish,
Jews represent only around
4 percent of the Kent State
stndentry, and the riflemen
could not have known which
were which.)
But the Urban League chief
did observe that this new age
of anti-establishment, anti-war
dissent we are in was largely
generated by the intellectual,
well-educated, activist mem
bers of the student scene. And
it is in those categories, he no
ted, that many Jewish youths—
boys and girls—belong. Thus,
Mr. Young concluded, attempts
to stifle dissent—whether by
military action at Kent State
or by construction workers’
roughneck tactics in New York
—may be motivated in large part
by latent anti-Semitism.
There is, of course, a danger
in applying this thesis across the
board. At Jackson State Col
lege in Mississippi, in an inci
dent paralleling that at Kent
State, highway police reacting
to alleged sniper fire killed two
black students at the mainly
black school, both standing in e
group outside the women’s dor
mitory.
But in a larger sense, anti-
Semitism—‘whether black or
white—and anti-Negro preju
dice are all part of a pattern
of activated intolerance that
has been leveled for eons
against Jews and in more re
cent centuries against Ameri
can blacks. The recent bar
barisms of some National
Guardsmen and police only in
flame the crisis.
So, too, do some of Vice Pres
ident Spiro T. Agnew’s remarks
on the Kent State tragedy. The
Vice President—the solid anti-
Agnew position of the student
demonstrators notwithstanding
—has a point when he says
“bums” is too polite a term for
those who would, and did, burn
down school buildings and de
stroy professors’ research. There
was even a sign of humanity on
the part of the Vice President
when he told David Frost he
would support a charge of un
premeditated murder against the
Ohio Guardsmen who fired the
shots felt around the world
May 4.
But only moments later, Mr.
Agnew granted the Guardsmen
the right to be as irrational un
der pressure as the student rock-,
throwers. Not only does this
challenge the logic of Mr. Ag-
- news hard-line opposition to vio
lent demonstrations—if Guards
mens’ violence can be sympa
thized with, why can’t students’?
—<but it suggests that law-enfor
cers are entitled to make use of
the very tactics that when used
by student are condemned by
Mr. Agnew.
If Whitney Young’s attribution
of latent anti-Semitism to anti
student actions is indeed a fact,
Jewish students face three, ra
ther than “only” two, immediate
obstacles—even crises—in their
path toward a college degree.
Several weeks ago B’nai B’rith
released a report indicating that
state colleges’ increasingly re
strictive acceptance policy—fav
oring state residents over out-of-
staters regardless of grades—un
duly affected Jewish students.
Now comes the opinion of Har
old Braverman, director of na
tional discrimination affairs for
B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation
League, that “Jewish students
are caught in a crunch” at the
elite Northeast colleges.
In an interview with this
writer, Mr. Braverman re
sponded fo a New York Time*
survey Indicating that the Ivy
League and Seven Sisters col
leges, hit by increasing coats,
are concentrating on “very
rich” students and those “eco
nomically distressed” and
clutching scholarships. Jew
ish students are thus “handi
capped” because they are
chiefly middleclass and fall
between the wealthy and the
needy. (The Ivy League insti
tutions charge M<XX>-|5046 a
year.)
Mr. Braverman, noting that
half of America’s Jews reside in
the New York-New Jersey
metropolitan area, said the im
pending shift of Jewish students
from the more elite schools to
state schools like the State Uni
versity of New York and Rut
gers University will put an ex
cessively heavy burden on them.
“They are bursting at the seams
now,” he said.
Jews have long maintained
their sanity by finding humor
in adversity. But it is hard to
find humor in this three-way
squeeze on Jewish students.
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Detroit J N F
Honors Editor
Phil Slomovitz
DETROIT (JTA)—The Jewish
National Fund will plant a forest
in Israel in honor of Philip Slom
ovitz, editor and publisher of
the Jewish News of Detroit, and
his wife, Anna. Formal estab
lishment of the project took
place at a testimonial dinner to
the Slomovitzs here June 17.
Mr. and Mrs. Slomovitz have
been active on behalf of Israel
for many years. He is currently
a vice president of the Zionist
Organization of America and
holds th|s Israel Achievement
Award presented for distinguish
ed service to Israel and the Jew
ish people.
Mr. Slomovitz’s career in
journalism goes back more than
50 years. He edited his college
newspaper at the University of
Michigan and later joined the
editorial staff of the Detroit
News. He entered the English-
Jewish publication field in 1925.
Mr. Slomovitz was founder of
the American Jewish Press As
sociation and its president for
eleven years.
Mr. Slomovitz was founder
and first president of the Jewish
National Fund Council of De
troit which marked its golden
jubilee at the Slomovitz testi
monial dinner.
Southern
Interest
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Notrica
of Atlanta are in Jersey City
visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Betty Israel and her husband
Morris Israel. With them are
their children Mr. and Mrs. Vic
tor Notrica. While up north,
they will attend the Bar Mitzva
of a nephew and cousin, Murray
Isaac Israel.
• • • •
Miss Sheila Arlene Schwartz,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R.
Monroe Schwartz of Atlanta, has
fully recuperated from hej re
cent illness and has returned to
Florida to resume her position
on the faculty at Dade Junior
College in Miami. Arlene is the
granddaughter of Mrs. Eva
Schwartz and the late Oscar
Schwartz of Atlanta.
• • • •
Estelle Roth, daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. Paul Roth of Atlanta,
graduated from the Or VeSha-
lom Hebrew School on May 31.
JEWISH QUIZ BOX |
By rfABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
QUESTION: What Is the der-
Ivatlan of the name “Segal”?
ANSWER: It seems that Segal
was originally a title affixed to
the name of one who stemmed
from the tribe of Levi. This per
son is still referred to today as
a Levite. The title Segal was
an abbreviation for “Segan Lev-
iyah” or “Segal L’Kohan,” Le.
an “assistant to the Kohen,”
which was the function of the
Levites in the temple of old
Hannah Robkin
Visiting Israel
On the eve of her departure
for three weeks in Israel, Mrs.
Hannah Robkin announced the
winners of the Mizrachi Women
Fresh Air Fund Raffle.
H. L. Rice won the first prize
of an afghan. A silver tray was
won by Mrs. Yvonne Tanen-
baum. Dr. Irving Goldstein held
the lucky ticket for the luggage
and Mrs. Robert Ungar’s prize
was an electric knife.
En route to Israel, Mrs. Rob
kin spent a day in New York
formulating plans for tire Mi
zrachi Southern Regional Con
ference to be held in Atlanta in
September.
Savannah
News
Among those who entertained
in honor of Ann Leffler and Jay
Davis, who were married June
14 at Temple Mickve Israel,
were Mrs. Philip Solomons and
Mrs .Margaret Adler, Mr. and
Mrs. Julian Harris and Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Herman, Mrs. Mi
chael Adilman and Mrs. Law
rence Wagger Mrs. Miles Rosen
thal, Mrs. Raymond Kuhr and
Albert Mazos, Mr. and Mrs. Al
bert Marks and Mr. and Mrs.
Mrs. Lee Kuhr, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Furchgott. The bride’e
family, Mr. and Mrs. David
Roos, David Roos Jr., Mrs.
Edwin Leffler and Mrs. Maier
Utitz gave a luncheon and the
bridegroom’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alfred Davis, gave the re
hearsal dinner.
Judith A. Volpin, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Volpin, was
to receive a bachelor of arts de
gree at commencement exercises
of Yeshiva University in New
York City on June 18. Miss
Volpin majored in sociology at
Stem College for Women, the
undergraduate college of liberal
arts and sciences for women.
when they sang the Psalms
during the sacrifices or even
today when' the Levite washes
the hands of the Kohen before
the latter offers the priestly
benediction in the synagogue
Wehn Jews were forced to adopt
last frames, the Levites simply
used this title as a last name.
Once the name came to be used,
even some who are not neces
sarily Levites have assumed the
name so that the name Segal
is not always to be taken as
proof that the bearer of the
name is a Levite.
QUESTION: What is meant by
“Pilpul?”
ANSWER: The term “Pilpul”
refers to a method of studying
the, Talmud which is highly
logical and sometimes even
hair splitting. The word
comes from the word
“spicy” or peppery” indicating
that the arguments were very
sharp, i.e. that the logic was
very fine. The Mishnah (Abo*
6:5) already states that one
gains possession of the know
ledge of the Torah by study end
the argumentation of the stu
dents. The word used for argu
mentation in the text is taken
from the same root as the word
“Pilpul.” This became the most
popular method of Talmud
study in Poland and Lithuanian
Yeshivoth in the days of Rabbi
Jacob Pollack in the 15th Cen-
tuury. This great Talmud
Scholar became known as the
“father of pilpul.” His method
traveled throughout East Euro
pean Yeshivoth after which it
came to America and Israel. It
is a study of the text in depth
as compared to such methods
as historical investigation and
linguistic analysis, although the
latter interests may sometimes
enter into the matter. A certain
amount of dialectic was likewise
involved although the method
of pilpul is not limited to phil
osophical speculation.
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