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Dec. 17, 2002
The NY Times is patently a Zionist newspaper and it often consists in
little more than tom-tom bleatings from one corner of the tribe to the
other. Here is one such example, a Times review of Arthur Hertzberg's
book "A Jew in America" by Steven Zipperstein.
What's interesting is not just Zipperstein's casual acceptance of
Zionist ideology, but his articulation of the fear, on the part of
Judaism and Zionism, of staunch and principled opposition from the Left.
I am pleased to see Voltaire mentioned in this regard, because Voltaire
is part of the canon of Western Civilization and like Dickens and
Shakespeare, his critique of Judaism and its psychology cannot be easily
dismissed with the usual ritual denunciations and debasement.
Today's Republican Conservatives pretend that our heritage and
civilization are based on Judaism, when in fact Judaism emerged only
after the crucifixion of Christ and the destruction of the Temple, when
the oral "Traditions of the Elders" were committed to writing. Judaism
was seen by the Shakespeares and Voltaires --correctly -- as the
ideology of the Pharisees, and it was relentlessly exposed from the
first century until the middle of the 20th (read T.S. Eliot's scathing
lines about "Sir Ferdinand Kline").
Now, of course, kosher-conservatism rules the roost and only enmity for
Islam has been preserved as a constituent of Western Civilization, but
even in that realm the kashrut Conservatives are half-cocked, since
there were many giants of the West who looked favorably on either Islam
or such noble Muslims as Sal'adin ("Saladin"). Among these were St.
Francis of Assisi, Washington Irving, Sir Richard Francis Burton and
Thomas Carlyle.
The Talmud places Jesus in hell, where "he is being boiled in hot
excrement," and the Kabbalah characterizes both Jesus and Mohammed as
"dead dogs," so it would be only natural for those on the receiving end
of the rabbis' bon-bons, to seek common ground and exhibit a certain
grudging, mutual respect.
Given the tenor of our times, I expect that it will not be long before
Voltaire is excommunicated for his crime-think. Many of the rights that
have been a truism since the Enlightenment era are now trampled by our
latter-day King George II and his legion of "western syph" restorers.
The latest in this vein ( announced on the cover of last Sunday's NY
Times) is the American implementation of Israeli-style "extra judicial
killing" (assassination) of anyone the CIA labels a "terrorist."
Someone should warn his Highness that quite a few folks on planet earth
regard His Majesty himself as a terrorist, although that too is
crime-think, since no Israeli agent (and that's Shrub's proper ID), can
be either a war criminal or a terrorist. Those designations are reserved
solely for Germans, Christians (the Serbs and the pre-Vatican II popes)
and Arabs.
New York Times December 15, 2002
'A Jew in America': The Education of Arthur Hertzberg
By STEVEN J. ZIPPERSTEIN
...Arthur Hertzberg has laid claim, quite explicitly, to having set in
motion three decades of amicable relations between blacks and Jews in
Congress, to having been a founder of the Israeli peace movement, to
having nearly derailed the 1977 government of Menachem Begin, and to
having told Begin's successor, Yitzhak Shamir, that ''I spoke for more
Jews than he did''...Hertzberg taught at first-rate institutions
(Columbia, Dartmouth, New York University)...What this means to
Hertzberg is influence in the public sphere, and once he reaches
adulthood much of his story takes place in the intimate crevices, the
elegant nooks and crannies, of the buildings of the powerful, where, as
he relates it, Henry Kissinger, Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem or the
papacy's most senior confidants confer with their few true peers.
''A Jew in America'' tells of machinations in these rarefied spots, and
there Hertzberg, as a member of the World Zionist Organization
executive, a vice president of the World Jewish Congress and a president
of the American Jewish Congress, advises, cajoles and, not infrequently,
bludgeons.
But the memoir is also...an extremely subtle, sensitive portrait of an
American Jewish childhood, what it felt like to grow up as a devout,
Yiddish-speaking, scholarly Polish Jewish immigrant to the United States
during the Depression and wartime....His father, a learned Hasid, never
made it in America, but Hertzberg sees him as among the most truly
successful Jews he ever knew. The father taught...him of the singularity
of their family, poor by American standards but patrician in their
Hasidic elite origins, their learning and piety.
The most impressive feature of Hertzberg's youthful reminiscences is
their examination of the crucial interplay in his life between the
demands of modernity and his romance with the rhythms, the cadence, the
wisdom of Jewish ritual and learning. He finds the moral relativism of
the Enlightenment inadequate...
Hertzberg translated these preoccupations into scholarship, too. His one
major, sustained monographic work is ''The French Enlightenment and the
Jews,'' published in 1968. Highly contentious, it is a brilliant attack
on Voltaire's hate-ridden depiction of Judaism, which, Hertzberg argues,
spawned a particularly intractable liberal anti-Semitism in the modern
age. And his book-length introduction to his 1959 compendium ''The
Zionist Idea'' remains, arguably, the finest exploration of the
movement's ideology in any language.
Steven J. Zipperstein, the Koshland professor in Jewish culture and
history at Stanford University, is currently Shapiro senior scholar in
residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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