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...events in Austria and those of Saturday, Oct. 6, clearly show, for the Jew there are no allies. We stand alone...
...have tried to reconcile the contradictions between the Old Testament's theme of universal acceptance of all men, Jew and non-Jew, with an active role in supporting a progressive, democratic country to which I feel special ties, Israel," he said yesterday...
Though born a Jew in Vienna 62 years ago, throughout most of his life urbane Bruno Kreisky has sought to sunder all links to Judaism. At an early age he declared himself an agnostic. His wife is a Protestant, and he had his two children baptized as Protestants. He bristles when he is referred to as a Jew, preferring to be called "of Jewish origin...
...politician in race-and-religion-conscious Central Europe, Kreisky could hardly avoid being regarded as a Jew. During his successful campaign for Chancellor three years ago, the rightist People's Party printed anti-Kreisky posters urging the electorate to vote for a "genuine Austrian." Experts like University of Wisconsin Historian George L. Mosse, who contend that Austria remains "unreconstructedly anti-Semitic," wonder if Kreisky acceded to the terrorists' demands partly to prove how genuinely Austrian...
...again if the identical situation arose." But his friends wonder. Under the week's pressures, Kreisky has lost his cool and become noticeably irritable. He is usually a deft performer at press conferences, but last week he blew up when a Dutch journalist asked him, "Are you a Jew?" The testy Chancellor flared back: "It's none of your business...