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...lifetime. He was recognized as one of Europe's leading organists; his biography of Bach had been hailed as "a new revelation." As a Doctor of Philosophy, he was known for his work on Kant. As a theologian, he had been appointed principal of Strasbourg's Theological College of St. Thomas...
...Spiritual Jesus. The Lord Jesus who told Schweitzer to come to the Ogowe was not the orthodox Christ that he had been taught about in Strasbourg. A determined rationalist, who insists that all religious truth must "stand to reason," Schweitzer came to the conclusion that the Jesus of history was not a God but a man of his time with a limited mind and understanding. Schweitzer's chief point: Jesus, like many Jews of his time, believed that God was momentarily about to end the physical world and inaugurate his Kingdom. In this expectation, reasoned Schweitzer, Christ sent...
...three ships steamed off toward Germany, a frail little man in a shabby black suit stood on Port-de-Bouc's tiny quay, looking longingly after the ships. A Polish Jew who had emigrated to Strasbourg, Josef Hochowitz had two children aboard the ships, Israel (24) and Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...
...austere rabbi (who had no children) had taken Josef to task: "You must know home for a Jew is Palestine. That is something to be struggled for ... to pave the way for the children of Israel." Now, as he prepared to board the Strasbourg train to tell his wife that Rebecca and Israel were not coming, Josef had his answer. From one of the steaming, sweating shipholds, they had finally sent him a message: "We will meet again in Palestine or never...
...doing to watch the tour go by. Fans encouraged and refreshed their favorites in the customary manner: by dumping buckets of water on their heads. In efficient Belgium, fire hoses were used. As the tour approached a town, police immobilized all traffic in the vicinity. Factories shut down. In Strasbourg, the Communist Par ty temporarily suspended its congress. Something like ten million people along the route saw the race...