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Immigration authorities use an administrative order that defines a Jew as anybody who professes to be one and has not embraced another religion. That definition would include the Orthodox Jew that Oswald Rufeisen was at birth; but it excludes Father Daniel, the Carmelite friar that Rufeisen became after his conversion to Catholicism. Since his arrival in 1959, Father Daniel has refused to accept citizenship except as a Jewish immigrant, and thus automatically an Israeli citizen under the 1950 Law of Return...
...Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...
...program will be as follows: Schiller, "Das Lied Von der Glocke"; Heine, "Traumbilder": Tenny, "Pemare"; Goethe, "Die Legende yom Rufeisen aus Faust...
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