Claire Huchet-Bishop:
Skillin, Edward S.
and without getting adequate help in the process." To help rem- with students." Inner-city Catholic schools such as Mr. Kelly's edy this situation, Oakley calls for a greater measure of...
...Soon afterward we start- echisms...
...It all began in 1940 with the first of an ex- Italian textbooks were removed as the result of her efforts...
...Things have changed...
...Anti-Semitic references in French, Spanish, and a colorful story...
...Claire was also the author of some thirty books LClaire Huchel-Bishop for both children and adults, including works which won her a number of important literary and spiritual awards ong a valued friend and generous supporter and citations...
...Rosenzweig directed the Free Jewish House of Learning in In his review of Mark R. Schwehn's Exiles from Eden (p...
...In 1924 she founded L'Heure Joveuse, the first library for EDWARD S. SKILLIN 4: 9 April 1993 Commonweal...
...tensive series of book reviews which ran uninterrupted for Thanks in part to her How Catholics Look at Jews (Paulist a number of the magazine's weekly issues, all without tnon- Press, 1974), so were anti-Semitic passages in Catholic catetary compensation on our part...
...He nity, and be assigned an adult adviser with "the time to talk would still get a good start...
...She told the Wall Street Catholic education is particularly vital today where it is most Journal (January 6, 1993), that in 1953 she enrolled her sevenendangered: on the primary and secondary levels in our inner year-old son, Bill, in the second grade at Saint John's Catholic cities...
...was the impassioning motivation of her extremely active Claire's substantial collaboration with Commonweal is later years...
...Kelly rightly points out, in the whole "experienced a failure of nerve or a loss of rootedness in their society...
...But all build-in the great "interpretive disagreements and ideological of this is built around the fundamental values Catholic schools conflicts" of the times in an atmosphere distinguished for its seek to transmit, values based on the Catholic religious her"openness, its rationality, its civility, its generosity of spirit...
...But in a society already deeply fractured by struggles over It was Franz Rosenzweig (d...
...of Commonweal, Claire Huchet-Bishop died in Paris on But, in a sense, I believe that all these pale before Claire March 11, at the age of 94...
...Kelly from the where students would work together, volunteer in the commu- Bronx would know, Bill Clinton would have lay teachers...
...13), Gaffney Catholic education in particular...
...vility and generosity of spirit...
...And, as if echoing Kenneth L. Woodward's article Today, such a challenge faces Catholicism in general and on the decline of Catholic higher education (p...
...Today, as Mr...
...ed publishing what turned out to be an impressive variety Claire urged the American Jewish Committee to press of her social, religious, and literary articles and reviews the Catholic church for reform in this matter at Vatican stretching over many years (at our meager authors' rates...
...Another Kelley-Virginia, formerly of Hot Springs, Patrick F. Kelly points out (also in this issue, p.6) that Arkansas-has recently made that point...
...Over the years, in this country and in her beloved No wonder it has been a cherished privilege for me to France, Claire rang up a remarkable array of achievements...
...religious traditions...
...children in France, while in the 1930s, she was in charge of the children's reading room at the New York Public Library...
...She was the widow of the dis- Bishop's valiant and tireless struggle against Christian antitinguished concert pianist, Frank Bishop, who died in 1944 Semitism...
...His article underscores findings of a 1989 Carnegie School because it was such a fine school: "I will never forget Corporation study on preparing American youngsters for the the nuns for as long as I live for giving him such a good start," twenty-first century...
...Fellowship in France...
...Kelly's edy this situation, Oakley calls for a greater measure of coher- in the South Bronx provide some of these and give their charges ence in the undergraduate curriculum, and a pedagogy that will a sense of belonging that enhances their ability to learn...
...And she served as president of the International But we happily did better by Claire Bishop when she Council of Christians and Jews and of the Jewish-Christian served as our Children's Book Editor from 1952 to 1964...
...The fruits of renewal in says recovering a sense of purpose and vocation is especially Catholic education will be felt not only in the Catholic comurgent at a time when Catholic colleges and universities have munity, however, but as Mr...
...achievable...
...have long known and admired Claire Bishop in person...
...Although she was frail of health, this great cause as a result of an auto accident...
...Council II...
...1929), the great teacher of Judaism power, wealth, and knowledge, not to mention over interpre- in the modern secular world, who convinced Jews that if they tations of freedom and responsibility, what can assure such ci- were to maintain their tradition, "a new learning" had to be born...
...That study called for smaller schools she says...
...Frankfurt, which became a model for Jewish adult education...
...26), Edward McGlynn Gaffney, Jr...
...Only with such a program, thought Rosenzweig, flourish within the great religious traditions-will the conver- would Judaism once again become the source of a living consation among competing and sometimes rival interests be at all text capable of revitalizing Jewish culture...
...argues that only by reap- It was premised on the reawakening of Judaism as a spiritual propriating spiritual values such as humility, self-denial, char- power ("the pivot of our lives"), and combined study, service, ity, friendship, and justice-values that, Schwehn argues, best and worship...
...itage...
Vol. 120 • April 1993 • No. 7
