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Born into a middle-class Jewish family in the German town of Fürth, Kissinger grew up as the Nazis were coming to power, and so found himself an outcast. Heinz, as he was then called, was denied admission to high school, forced to attend an all-Jewish school, and often beaten up by gangs of pro-Nazi toughs...
What explains a will to violence in contradiction to Jewish teaching, history and insight? Unhappily, it is a response to what many urban Jews are experiencing as a renewed oppression-this time, physical violence from black and Puerto Rican street toughs and verbal attacks from extremist black leaders. Repeatedly, all-Jewish neighborhoods have become partially or predominantly black or Puerto Rican. A dress-store owner has received phone calls: "Get out, you dirty Jew, or we'll burn...
...all-Jewish concentration camp of Theresienstadt there were 45,000 men, women and children. When the camp was liberated 2½ years later, only a few hundred were left alive, and 72 -year-old Leo Baeck was one of them. When the Russians rounded up some petty officials and turned them over to the camp's survivors for vengeance, Rabbi Baeck persuaded his fellow sufferers to leave them unharmed...
...Hebrew poet Bialik greeted the news of the first burglary in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv years ago by thanking God for letting "us live to see this day and hour." Bialik was reflecting the universal Jewish desire to live like other people, to have their own nation, even if it meant having their own criminals...
...Dutch. Each candidate had to face examiners and fellow candidates and answer how he would react to hypothetical administrative problems. No. 17's problem, as governor of Fantasy Island: Jewish D.P.s were being ostracized by their neighbors on the island; should he allow them to set up an all-Jewish community in an area already occupied by Italians? Nervously, No. 17 argued yes. The group voted him down ("It would lead to bloodshed"), but examiners gave him a good mark for the way he handled the discussion...