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...villages from the Baltic to the Black Sea, Jewish communities are re-emerging and coming together in a kind of Continental minyan, the quorum required for the holding of religious services. Synagogues and schools are rising again, some on the foundations of Jewish institutions dating from the Middle Ages. Jews are proudly calling themselves Jews once more, reviving traditions and cultures long buried in the ashes of Hitler's ovens. ``That now there is the possibility to be a Jew is mystical,'' says 18-year-old Igor Czernikow, one of the founders of a Jewish youth club in Wroclaw...
...musicians, black marketeers and left-wing intellectuals. McCarthy, then a 32-year-old short-story writer, reviewer and wife of critic Edmund Wilson, was making the most of it. She had come to the red-hot center by way of Seattle and Vassar, class of '33. Arendt, a German Jew, had been an outstanding student at Marburg University, where she was the lover of her mentor, the philosopher Martin Heidegger. She arrived in the U.S. in 1941, escaping probable death in the Holocaust...
...Europeans have other papabili, among them Godfried Cardinal Danneels, 61, of Belgium. And then there is another prominent convert: Jean-Marie Lustiger, 68, the Archbishop of Paris. Lustiger was born a Jew, the son of Polish emigres to France (his mother would die in Auschwitz). Abandoning his original name, Aaron, he adopted Catholicism as a teenager, a move that hurt his parents terribly. Lustiger is a trusted confidant of John Paul's; when he first visited the Pope, John Paul's secretary, Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, grabbed the Frenchman's arm and told him, "Remember, you are the fruit...
...letter Womack reportedly sent to the president of the Belmont bank said: "You or your bank will pay me $100,000 or you and your Jew family will be killed...
...Harvard speech, he condemned those who believe "that anyone who criticizes a Jew is ipso facto an anti-Semite." I agree. The essential difference here is that Martin is not criticizing a Jew, or even a number of Jews. He is criticizing Jews as a whole, the entire Jewish people. This is the essence of bigotry. To listen to Martin, one gets impression that merely to be Jewish is to be guilty of a crime against the Black race. This collectivization of guilt is an abhorrent concept, which must be combated...