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TH* SOUTHBM ISIABfn AMERICAN SCENE .... By George Friedman • f ; . ; ' .. . I Latent Anti - Semitism in Growing Wave XSH udwit , 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. Copyright 1910, JTA It's a fact... —essaPT" WAftasnrtwiop toa the VBWMS6 FOR PERCE IS SflWKER IN KRhELTHAN IH ANYOdBl COUNTRY. „ - TStWEL-«*• e«ERf»’ SPAIN MfHNt-4/’ U-SA- — 58^ TUfPI A - 4? 1 JRPRN -5jr CggAPN - 3 . . _______ — * ofIiooo rweek , TO U3A WILL | VIDE 1 YEWW NURSERYJgAY- SCHOOL CARE l(DRTHEOUU> ,OFAUORKM( mm l 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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