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...pogrom had been inspired by the assassination of German Diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris by a 17-year-old stateless Jew named Hershel Grynszpan.* It was, Joseph Goebbels told Hitler, a propaganda opportunity equal to that of the Reichstag fire. Hitler agreed, and the Storm Troopers were released for their "spontaneous" action, while regular police turned their backs. Both German television networks last week filled their peak viewing hours with programs mercilessly reminding Germans of what they had allowed to happen. Leading newspapers devoted entire pages to recollecting in detail the horrors of Kristallnacht...
...other day," wrote Columinst Max 'When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn't anyone today write about Goldwater as a Jew? Is the Jewish theme more taboo in politics than the Catholic theme?' " To Lerner, who is a Jew himself, the question insisted upon an answer, and he was quick to supply...
...happen to believe that it isn't healthy," he wrote, "either for the country or the Jews, to stay away from the subject of Goldwater's Jewishness. To be sure, he is only a half-Jew by heredity and a converted Jew-an Episcopalian-by his practicing faith." But, Lerner went on, "the experience of Jews throughout history has been that even when they are only partly Jewish, and even if they or their parents 'are converted, the world thinks of them as Jews-and so does history. The case of the assimilated Jew in public life...
...because despite the long history of religious toleration and enlightenment, or perhaps exactly because of that history, Americans are embarrassed at talking about Jewishness. You can speak of a man in public life as a Catholic, and no one catches his breath. But speak of him as a Jew, and both of you catch a whiff of possible anti-Semitism in the air. The irony of it is that Goldwater's following, which must have a largish proportion of people who regard Jews as foreigners and perhaps even as Communists, are quite ready to swallow his Jewishness and like...
...repertory company" of 130 to 140 students which will combine lectures and discussions with normal rehearsals. The company's program, which will begin carly this December, will culminate in full-length productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Julius Caesar, and concert reading of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, the Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Dr. Faustus...