Word: langere
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...case involved Hanoch Langer, 27, a burly army sergeant-major, and his sister Miriam, 25. They had been barred from marrying most Jews because their mother left her first husband and married their father without a proper divorce; thus under religious law the two children became mamzerim (children of an adulterous union) and ineligible to wed anyone but other mamzerim or converts. The efforts of Hanoch and Miriam to marry their sweethearts in a valid religious ceremony became a celebrated case. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan became their advocate. Some Knesset members introduced bills which would allow civil marriage in Israel...
...Langer's explanation was intricate. She pleaded that she did not bother to obtain a divorce from her first husband after they separated in 1942 because a rabbi advised her that she did not need one. The husband, one Abraham Borokovsky, was a Christian who had converted to Judaism, but in the eyes of Mrs. Langer's rabbi, he was not really a Jew, so that a divorce was not required. A rabbinical court later rejected that argument and declared her still married to Borokovsky...
...Your admiring review of Walter Langer's The Mind of Adolf Hitler [Oct. 2] smacks of the victor mutilating the corpse of an enemy (acting, no doubt, on the superstition that heaping indignities on the dead somehow diminishes the potency of their misdeeds...
...Hitlers": Psychoanalyst Walter Langer's conclusion that "the difference between Hitler and other psychopaths was his ability to convince others that he is what he is not" suggests to me that it is equally important to analyze what made so many others willing to accept and follow this irrational behavior. If the mass psyche is so vulnerable, it could happen again and again. Could it happen here...
That duality led to the horrible excesses that occurred in Nazi Germany's twilight. "As Germany suffers successive defeats, Hitler will become more and more neurotic," Psychoanalyst Langer warned the OSS. "Each defeat will shake his confidence and limit his opportunities for proving his own greatness to himself. He will probably try to compensate for his vulnerability by stressing his brutality and ruthlessness...