Correspondence
FAHRIG, (BROTHER) DONALD & RADZIALOWSKI, THADDEUS C. & COHEN, MELVIN N. & Zahn, Gordon C. & Siegel, Fred
Correspondence No more holocausts Baltimore, Md. To the Editors: Being a committed Jew, a member of a schule, and working in the ecumenical field, I followed your candid discussion of Kolbe [Feb....
...of History Southwest State University John Leary Cambridge, Mass...
...The greater social mobility of Jewish immigrants and their children and the prominent role they have assumed in arts and media have made possible the wider propagation of the old prejudicial images the Jewish community in Eastern Europe had of its Christian neighbors than vice versa...
...GORDON C. ZAHN Pax Christi USA Center on Conscience and War The wrong villain Paris To the Editors: If Howard Rosen and Alexander Kaplen, your reviewers of David Calleo's Imperious Economy [Jan...
...However, the Nazis murdered all the "non-peoples...
...She seems to know a hidden history...
...It is true that many Jews are bitter towards the Poles as they are bitter towards the world for betraying them...
...He writes: Here it is sufficient to say that the Jews met neither as much hostility nor as much tolerance as certain other minorities...
...I think he weakens his case for the "feminiza-tion" of holy mother church in Epoch III by this misinterpretation of the word "general...
...both military and domestic spending arouse his ire...
...Given the evil that anti-Semitism has caused in this century it is perhaps wise to expose its venomous presence wherever it is detected...
...To the Editors: Abigail McCarthy's column "An Ugly Resurgence" [Dec...
...Restrictive Covenants in South Chicago...
...Perhaps she means that East European Catholic Ethnics are now among the leading supporters of the PLO, or the defacers of synagogues or recruits for the Klan or their influence has caused others to become these...
...If anything the prejudices and stereotypes bora out of communal rivalry between Christians and Jews in Eastern Europe may have had a more adverse effect on the American view of the Christians than of the Jews...
...But Calleo is a fiscal conservative...
...To the Editors: On behalf of all of us at the Center, I want to express our deep appreciation for John Cort's fine article memorializing our beloved brother and colleague, John Leary [Dec...
...Pogroms in Pittsburgh...
...17] deplores what she perceives as the rise of anti-Semitism again...
...John Higham who has written extensively on the history of anti-Semitism in the U.S...
...BROTHER) DONALD FAHRIG, S.M...
...As an historian who writes on the experience of these groups in America, I know of no evidence to support any such contentions...
...Even if one were to take her statement with its all-embracing and colorful adjectives as absolutely true, it is difficult to know what to make of it...
...Gentlemen's agreements on the assembly line...
...The Pax Christi Center, though sponsored by and affiliated with Pax Christi USA, is an independent organization established to serve and assure the "primacy of conscience" in all matters related to war and peace...
...Your readers may be interested to know that the Center, through the generosity of several donors, is establishing the John Leary Memorial Funds, two restricted accounts - one, it is hoped, to provide emergency legal assistance to Catholic non-registrants and the other (in the words of the principal donor) to assure that the "special meaning" of John Leary's life shall not be lost...
...In the context of her article the implications of her remark are demagogic and unChristian...
...They did not fall victim to as much violence as did the Italians, and there was no organized anti-Semitic movement comparable to the anti-Catholic American Protective Association...
...Though he never enjoyed the grace of knowing John personally, he succeeded in capturing much of his special qualities and some measure of the great sense of loss that is ours...
...Her overstatement retards any serious understanding of the problem and adds nothing to its solution...
...14], had read the book a bit more carefully they would have discovered that Calleo blames neither the Great Society nor the Vietnam war for setting off America's inflationary spiral...
...THADDEUS C. RADZIALOWSKI Professor-Dept...
...Whatever his faults, he died for someone else in a concentration camp...
...Kennedy's "New Economics" is quite explicitly his villain...
...FRED SIEGEL...
...Yet the anxious and overheated tone of the piece distorts the history of anti-Semitism in America and undermines the legitimate plea for tolerance that she makes...
...The review gives the impression that Calleo is a typical left-liberal who blames America's economic woes on military spending...
...How did these groups and their prejudices affect anti-Semitism in America...
...MELVIN N. COHEN General confusion Dayton, Ohio To the Editors: John W. Glaser's worry about our masculinized consciousness accepting without amusement or indignation the ironic construct "Mother General' ' is happily unfounded [January 28] The word "general" in that phrase means simply "over all" or "common" as in the phrase general welfare...
...Although rapid social development apparently exposed and sensitized many Jews to more social discrimination than other European groups felt, in other respects they fared somewhat better...
...noted the "relative mildness" of American anti-Semitism and the "vast difference of intensity" in regard to it "between America and some European countries" despite common rhythms of the bigotry...
...As he put it, (Continued on page 159) (Continued from page 130) "It is for us to find the message, interpret it, and make it living for today's youth.'' It is our intent to work toward these goals by developing educational programs and materials bearing upon peace and its relationship to all the other causes to which John devoted so much effort...
...Higham, Send These to Me, Atheneum, 1975, p. 127) Most curious and unfortunate is her remark that "whole immigrant groups came to his country bearing with them the poison of the active and virulent form of anti-Semitism which flourished in their native countries...
...Anti-Semitism never came close to assuming the proportions in the United States that it had elsewhere and it is not likely that it ever will...
...One incidental correction should be noted, though...
...Prejudicial images Marshall, Minn...
...Let us all unite and work towards a better world where there will not be any more holocausts...
Vol. 110 • March 1983 • No. 5
