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Jesus was a Jew. This rudimentary fact about the Son of Man is often overlooked by Christians, who are habitually prone to emphasize the differences rather than the similarities between their religion and Judaism. In Jesus of Nazareth: The Hidden Years (Morrow; $4), French Historian Robert Aron, who is a Jew, tries to show how deep was the influence of Israel and its religion on Jesus during his formative years. Aron's discursive, imaginative biographical essay has been praised by such Christians as France's President Charles de Gaulle (a Roman Catholic) and Albert Schweitzer (a Protestant...
...World Wars, however, all but destroyed the Army's prestige as an instrument for spreading an ideology, not merely because of the defeats (one relative, the other absolute) it had suffered, but because of the nature of the Wars themselves ("total war," in Professor Aron's phrase). France could no longer clearly define what she was going to war in defense...
Russian Jews view Editor Aron Ver-gelis, a short, stocky man with a shadowy background, with deep distrust. They suspect him of having worked for Stalin's secret police during World War II, and of holding the job of political commissar. One of the few Yiddish writers to escape interrogation, torture, and death during the Stalin purges, Vergelis got right to work at the politics of survival during the thaw that followed Khrushchev's 1956 denunciation of Stalin. After the Suez invasion, Vergelis dashed off a Yiddish poem furiously attacking Israel. "We will force our enemies to surrender...
...with its suggestion of resurrection. A musical resurrection was certainly on the way when the work was written, but even Composer Arnold Schoenberg did not know at the time what it was to be. After Gurrelieder, the road led on to the forbidding atonal shrieks of Moses und Aron...
...Aron added that there was little opposition to De Gaulle since he has the right to dissolve the parliament if it doesn't do what he wants. In addition, "even when the Prime Minister disagrees with De Gaulle, he is sure that De Gaulle is right...