The Yugoslavs:

Mestrovic, Matthew

appreciation of the extraordinary edness, made these crusaders desperate economic changes which have taken eleventh century. Erdmann was one of opportunists, who seized...

...Mpst Yugoslavs that while serving as a Red Guard in the who plans to continue ruling them, even' doubt it...
...So, sometimes, He has systematically eliminated from COMMONWEAL Yugoslavs and others as well, are in- positions of power his most capable and ASSOCIATE clined to believe that Tito like Wonder intelligent associates...
...Queller is at present a professor of exclusively with narration...
...The work grams...
...thematic areas: How Christian biblical the closet is the fact that as a young man And yet, in gloomier moments, one scholars view (1) "Late Judaism" and he joined ,the Hitler youth, which is despairs of Yugoslavia's ability to gov- "Jewish Religious Community...
...And, anyway, if Tito lives another few Serbian novelist Dobrica Cosich, who (3) the Pharisees and Scribes...
...In 1971, Tito purged the $50 the Washington Post's man in Belgrade, young and popular Croatian party leader Charter Member: thinks otherwise...
...All who could ally appeared), and consequent indebt- for God ultimately engendered...
...Klein in her new work...
...His person has long much of the uncertainty about the future...
...Communists keep praying for Tito's conemigrating to the U.S...
...This is the fundamental issue the overwhelming body of supposedly raised by Dr...
...can Yugoslavia withstand external presDusko Doder tries to "look at Yugos- sure by Bulgaria and Albania, who claim Matthew Mestrovic lavia in terms of culture and civilization, large chunks of Yugoslav territory...
...know," he added with supreme confi- slav Communist congress in Belgrade, Doder, who was born in Yugoslavia Tito became so charged by thunderous but came to the U.S...
...perience in the Christian/Jewish Her classroom experiences led the au- Raymond L Brown dialogue as a member of the Sisters of thor to do a thorough investigation of the "A premier event in biblical publishing...
...every oc- place under his tenure...
...a classic...
...He comes close to becoming an apology for Today Yugoslavia has a large and became interested in the Fourth Crusade the crusaders, who did no more, in Quel- affluent New Class (as Djilas calls it) of for reasons of the controversies that have ler's view, than follow the unexpected Communist bureaucrats, army officers, surrounded it since its origins...
...Her scientific scholarship continues to prop- THE concern is rooted in many years of ex- agate them as gospel truth...
...For years now he The only ones who hang on are cauNew York, N.Y...
...Let us hope that Jewish question in an initial way...
...But he is right for the sake of the Yugoslavs Dr...
...as an implied apology, Somehow they have acquired plush organized in 1200-01, the crusade with it fails...
...This book was in large part Paperbound, $6.95 dents...
...Djilas was ousted Worpan will never die...
...The dustbin of history...
...London and at Georgetown University in served as resource materials for her stuWashington...
...Pro- swings of fortune...
...2) hardly appropriate for a Yugoslav leader...
...and (4) years, all of them may be relegated to the was himself once a Communist Partisan Jewish Guilt in the Death of Jesus...
...and serves as the party secretary...
...Only recently the "Law and Legalistic Piety in Judaism...
...ern itself in freedom...
...He has, even with- treme economic inequality can be conout going to America...
...in step with the tremendous social and One was Kardelj, a former Slovene grade Commonweal: 186 school teacher who spent his time writing can predict with certainty Yugoslavia's that she tends to focus heavily on the obscure Marxist volumes and recently future...
...Unwittingly, ployment in Western Europe, and huncontracted with the Venetians for the Donald...
...munist" he lives in unrivaled splendor...
...Erdmann was one of opportunists, who seized upor...
...His concern is almost cars and watch Western television prosort...
...And you At one point during this year's Yugo- tinued survival...
...reviews learned opinions, and traces with most of the people live in cities, work in Donald Queller's study of the Fourth detail and care the course of the unfortu- factories and service industries, drive Crusade is a work of a much different nate enterprise...
...Another is the Croat hope-is that the Yugoslavs have be- a special chapter on the Anglo-American Vladimir Bakaric, now in his late '60s, come so much a part of the West in their scene is included in this English edition who owes his long political survival to life style and aspirations that they will of the volume...
...As a narrative, the intellectuals, artists and managers...
...seem to have taken the standard Communist advice, "comrade, make the best of it...
...Now cultural changes it witnessed...
...He has done a splendid bers for freedom only to remain without on the continent, has made very few adjob, even though he admits that no one it in victory...
...Klein's catalogue of bewildering and complex problems in the kind of men are we...
...She contends truth of salvation which the church has that, it is very difficult for an individual been able to recognize only after the teacher to break such stereotypes when THE BIRTH OF Holocaust...
...How not just in terms of government...
...had distanced himself from the people question with bluntness: Must the This she attributes to the pervasive antiChristian message forever remain anti- Judaism in the continental theologians IMAGE BOOKS 25th Jewish...
...Tito has monologue on his youth, Yugos- Yugoslavs independently of the man who done it with extraordinary success...
...232 Madison Ave...
...But, of long can Yugoslavia continue its balancDURING a ninety-minute television course, it is impossible to understand the ing act between East and West...
...The names who still dominate the scene in Stereotypes and scholarship terms of biblical interpretation, 4 Bultmann, Dibelius, Eduard Meyer, AATI-JUDAISM IN CHRISTIAN TREOL- provoked by the attitudes displayed to- Emil Schurer, Benoit, Jeremias, OCT wards Judaism in her university classes, Bomkamm, to name only -a few, generCharlotte Klein especially in course examinations...
...At the same time a million Constantinople itself, in 1204...
...since become legend...
...And for this reason even antiBolshevik Revolution he thought of though he is 86...
...world of biblical scholarship, primarily died...
...history at the University of Illinois...
...gime's stagnation...
...claimed by Pope Innocent III in 1198, book is excellent...
...apartments, antiques, weekend houses Venetian connivance first sacked the Carl Erdmann effectively shows how on the Adriatic, Mercedes and Peugeots, Christian city of Zara in Dalmatia, and far the eleventh-century sanctification of and send their children to universities then the capital of a Christian empire, warfare departed from the judgment of abroad...
...In Quel- early Christianity, that recourse to the Yugoslavs have been forced to seek emler's views, bad planning (the leaders sword was always suspect...
...Though a "Com- trolled by jailing dissidents...
...The title of the book is the fact that he is much of the time away stubbornly resist any pressure, external thus somewhat misleading since she convalescing from real and feigned ail- or internal, to bring them back into Mos- treats only in passing a few of the major ments...
...cow's orbit...
...How long Random House, $10, 246 pp...
...new understanding of the Christian- decadence, of internal and external deJohn T. PawVkowski Jewish relationship, she would inevita- cline for Judaism...
...The definSion and in a special way in her teaching teachings on Judaism among those itive commentary on the Infancy Narraexperiences at the Open University in scholars whose writings most frequently tives in Matthew and Luke...
...It ceased to have any bly discover students falling back into history properly speaking, its faith had I N HIS BRIEF introduction to this vol- classical stereotypes of Judaism in their become externalized and rigid, its God ume Gregory Baum poses a basic course assignments and examinations...
...We are capable of authors' views on Judaism is that the peoples' national ethos, their history and sacrificing our lives in such great num- community of biblical scholars, at least their character...
...As ally continue to depict the centuries beshe makes clear in chapter six of this tween the Babylonian exile and the Translated by Edward Quinn volume, after lecturing for months on a emergence of Christianity as a time of Fortress, $8.95, 176 pp...
...Queller illustrates the scandal dreds of thousands more remain unempassage of many more soldiers than actu- and shame which this pretense of fighting ployed in Yugoslavia...
...When Tito the first to show, if not entirely to casion for pay or plunder...
...vances in rethinking the Christian-Jewish relationship on a theological plane...
...He believes that Tito's Tripalo, and the next year the brilliant $100 or more "long tenure-and uncertainty whether and erudite Serbian Communist leader he will live another five months or five Nikezic was retired on charges of Commonweal Associates years-has become the cause of his re- "liberalism...
...appreciation of the extraordinary edness, made these crusaders desperate economic changes which have taken eleventh century...
...Klein divides her study into four according to Doder, Dolenc's skeleton in and of European peace...
...as an adolescent, applause that he pledged to stay in power thinks that Tito is himself to blame for BECOME A 1979 another fifty years...
...But lavia's President Tito suddenly recalled has shaped their destiny for so long and can anyone else do it...
...He was supposed to be Tito's suc- His personal belief-or perhaps on French and German authors, although cessor as President...
...but is now a dissident, put it this way: overwhelming impression which Doder seeks answers to Yugoslavia's "What kind of a people are we, what emerges from Dr...
...Doder makes a guarded bet systematicians such as Karl Rahner and Two other possible contenders for that Yugoslavia will move towards Paul Tillich and omits entirely others Tito's crown are Defense Minister greater democracy after Tito, and that such as Hans Kung, Edward SchilLjubicic, a Serb, who has passed the Djilas, whom he much admires for his lebeeckx and Paul Van Buren who have mandatory retirement age, and a courage and intellect, will play an impor- at least begun to address the ChristianSlovene, Stane Dolenc, who is younger tant part in this process...
...Or is the negation of Jewish exis- and biblical scholars whom these stu- ear tence an ideological distortion of the dents used as resources...
...This particular approach meant JOOUILEOAT 30 March 1979: 187...
...Yugoslavia's Tito-talitarianism The question, of course, is how long disaffection over chronic unemployTHE YUGOSLAVS dence, "had I done it, I would have be- ment, national discrimination, and exDusko Doder come a millionaire...
...10016 has impeded an evolution of the regime tious, self-effacing, obedient yes-men...
...in 1954, secret police chief Rankovic Sustaining Member: Doder, who for three years served as went in 1966...
...The Bible Today...
...Queller makes launched his Partisan war in 1941, explore, the dimensions of the social and full and judicious use of sources, deftly Yugoslavia was 80 percent peasant...

Vol. 106 • March 1979 • No. 6


 
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