Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the jittery mood of Congress and the Administration's recognition that some concession to its feelings was necessary reflected the fact that a lot of lobbying was going on. Except for a few full-page newspaper ads by Jewish organizations, however, much of that activity was characteristically invisible, the spontaneous reaction of many of the 5.8 million Jews in the U.S. "There has been a tremendous outpouring of mail," says one congressional staffer. "But no one has to tell concerned Jews to write to their Congressman. When they see an issue that is dangerous to Israel, they respond...
Although American Jews generally back the Begin government, some disquiet about its policies has surfaced. Two weeks ago, 36 leading U.S. Jewish intellectuals, including Novelist Saul Bellow and Sociologist Daniel Bell, sent an open message of support to an Israeli peace group that had urged Begin to be more flexible in negotiations. Last week in Israel 4,000 members of an organization called Peace Now lined up along the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway in a demonstration on behalf of that cause. The gentle protest hardly daunted the peppery Begin, who told a more militant group known as Secure Peace...
Sunday, May 7: Lecture: What is the Use of Jewish History? Lucy Davidowicz, Usdan Student Center, 8:15 pm, free...
...happen quite that way? The series accomplished much, mainly in transmitting information about events that must never be forgotten. But it raised many questions, both trivial and profound. Scriptwriter Green, an intelligent and indefatigable craftsman, author of The Last Angry Man, designed an epic that follows a bourgeois German Jewish doctor, Josef Weiss, and his family through the stricken, incomprehensible years 1935 to 1945. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss die at Auschwitz, as does their oldest son, Karl. A daughter, Anna, becomes autistic after her rape by drunken Nazis; in a procession of the retarded and aged, she is gassed...
...speech as it lies outside reason." But that elegant despair, which would not desecrate the victims by recording their tales, contradicts the imperative to repeat the facts frequently, from one generation to the next, precisely to keep the victims from the oblivion that the Nazis desired for the entire Jewish race. It pays to be impatient with anyone who says a story is too terrible to be told...