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Christian theologians have often claimed that the Judaism of Jesus' time was decadent, "a world of ossified belief in the letter, of a narrow-minded caste spirit and materialistic piety," as the German Catholic Theologian Karl Adam put it. On the contrary, Isaac argues, the two centuries before Jesus' birth marked an era of great spiritual vitality, which produced both the beautiful writings of the Apocrypha and the flowering of the synagogue as a faith-renewing institution. Many of Jesus' own sayings can be traced to the teachings of the much-abused Pharisees, notably the great Rabbi...
...Purifying Stream." Christianity, Isaac concludes, "does not require for her own glorification a corresponding disparagement of ancient Israel, of the people of the Old Testament, the people of Jesus and the Apostles." Fortunately, he adds, "a purifying stream exists in Christianity and grows stronger every day"-and Isaac's book appears at a time when almost every day brings new evidence that his cause is on the verge of victory...
...pejorative references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission on World Mission at a consultation in Denmark declared that anti-Semitism is "a demonic form of rebellion against the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and a rejection of Jesus the Jew, directed upon his people." And in Florence, European representatives of an international society for Christian-Jewish cooperation met to discuss their latest efforts to combat antiSemitism. There, Catholics and Protestants attended a service of prayer at the city's Jewish temple...
...plans were enough to prostrate the most gallant music manager. Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose and Eugene Istomin-three top-dollar virtuosos-had teamed up to make chamber music together. Their audience might shrink to the size of the small halls in which trios usually play-and the take, of course, would be split three ways. But the trio had played an intriguing handful of concerts in the past, and bound by 20 years' friendship, they defiantly formed their alliance. Last week, solidly established as the best in 50 years, the Stern-Rose-Istomin Trio played their fifth sell...
...mantle of Stalin the Chinese seem to have sacrificed this considerable latent support, and imposed a historical confusion on the dispute. Stalin's 30-year career of meddling in the affairs of Chinese Communism won him the enmity, not the admiration, of Mao Tse Tung. As for de-Stalinization, Isaac Deutscher is not the only student of Communist affairs who regards Mao's abortive effort to "let a hundred flowers bloom" as a more sincere attempt to liberalize Chinese society than Khrushchev's own halting program in Russia...