Letters
LETTERS Shcharansky To the Editor: Professor Cohen, in his article "The Shcharansky Affair" (October 1977) mentions the case of "Ilya Levin of Leningrad who was hospitalized for burns over most...
...If Sanford Pinsker comes to Miami Beach to speak I shall break my hard and fast rule of never going to hear "dinner" speakers and go to hear him...
...We recently listened to Rabbi Nathan Peter Levinson, who is district Rabbi of Baden-Wurttemburg, who stated, in his lecture at Hebrew Union College here in Cincinnati, that the Germans, especially the younger generation, have no feelings of guilt about the Holocaust...
...Perhaps the answer is to relegate questions only to the book and not to audience problems with intermarriage or other communal concerns...
...Each has its own national governing bodies—but each provides representation on a permanent basis to a "Common Market of the Middle East...
...Together, but separate, would seem to fit the needs of all the actors...
...To encompass the West Bank into Israel is not consistent with the long-term maintenance of the state as Jewish and, perhaps, democratic...
...There must develop ongoing dialogue between Christians and Jews for knowledge and better understanding...
...Robert Nozick Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...Mustard gas was used against Boris Rubinstein, a Leningrad refusenik, in 1973 and against Yuri Zharkikh, a nonconformist Leningrad artist, in 1975...
...either in earnest or in jest...
...Both Rubinstein and Zharkikh have emigrated by now...
...Why does this model make sense for the Middle East—I think these arguments are self-evident, but perhaps would bear rehearsal...
...Israel can retain the liberated areas while removing the danger of the huge Arab populace—a danger which not only threatens Israel's Jewish majority but also threatens to explode into full-scale civil war and do to Israel from within what the Arab nations seek to do from without...
...That form is based on the current EEC model...
...Blanche Nevel Miami Beach, Florida Correction To the Editor: I am dismayed at the alterations in what I had written for the January-February issue of moment...
...Doctors diagnosed it as having been caused by mustard gas and so I was taken to the Leningrad Military Medical Academy which has one of the best facilities in Russia for treating burns...
...Still, even though I have lectured before every Jewish group in Miami Beach I have seldom felt as exhilarated as I did from leading a roundtable discussion with a small group of senior citizens who avidly read everything assigned to them and could barely wait to discuss Malamud, Bellow, Singer, and Roth with me...
...Now there are 20,000 Jews living in Germany...
...Evidently the mustard gas was sprayed on my trousers while I was in the group of exhibition spectators and my skin was affected as the fabric of the trousers pressed against my leg...
...One example of the KGB assaulting a foreigner with mustard gas is given in John Barron's KGB: he describes the chemical attack on German technician Horst Schwirk-mann on September 6, 1964 in Moscow...
...In 1936 we still took part in all school activities, but the principal could not award us school prizes or mention our names if we were one of the top three gymnasts in our "Olympic Games...
...My mother told me that one student a few years older than myself was almost nailed to a cross by his schoolmates...
...How do we get readers to read more books and depend less on reviews given by less than adequate reviewers at these club meetings...
...Fein errs...
...Ilya Levin Austin, Texas Carter, Israel and the Jews To the Editor: I don't read your magazine regularly, but I wanted to say how pleased I was to read your article on "Carter, Israel and the Jews" (December, 1977...
...Who are the actors...
...Doris Doctor Cincinnati, Ohio Lecture Circuit To the Editor: I just finished reading Sanford Pinsker's article on the confessions of an American Jewish lecturer (October 1977...
...The time is long overdue for the Israeli Government to embark upon a comprehensive Arab Emigration Plan...
...The published work is an embarrassment to me...
...M. H. Nelson Concord, Massachusetts To the Editor: In "Carter, Israel and the Jews" (December, 1977), Leonard Fein argues that Israel's problem vis-avis Judea, Samaria and Gaza is that "one cannot retain the territory without retaining that which the territory contains...
...These Germans have never met or seen a Jew...
...I hope that you continue your work at trying to make people think clearly about these issues which arouse such strong feelings...
...Mark Cogan Eugene, Oregon To the Editor: There is one politico-organizational option that you did not mention in your article "Carter, Israel and the Jews," and that is the one that was briefly touched on in Eban's article in the same issue...
...After I viewed an art exhibition in the Leningrad Writers' Club I sat in an armchair and immediately felt a burning sensation under the knee of my right leg...
...Why instability—because there will be a continuous and continuing need for dialogue, for cooperation, and for the resolution of economic, political, and demographic needs in the area forced as this is by geography...
...I too spent weeks preparing my first review of The Tenants by Malamud, and spoke before a sisterhood group of about 40 women...
...LETTERS Shcharansky To the Editor: Professor Cohen, in his article "The Shcharansky Affair" (October 1977) mentions the case of "Ilya Levin of Leningrad who was hospitalized for burns over most of his body after a cannister of mustard gas exploded under his seat at a public concert...
...I had been a trained Great Books leader conducting courses on Jewish American literature at our local temple (both for adolescents and elders, with a sprinkling of middle-aged) and because of that was soon in great demand as a public speaker...
...I believe this model is viable...
...I also believe other models are not...
...To exclude the Palestinians by forming a Palestinian state by itself is to ask for constant instability in the area...
...The rioting in March and April, 1976, is a small sample of things to come unless the problem is tackled immediately...
...Rabbi Levinson is working tirelessly to create better relations between Christians and Jews...
...Let all Arabs—both those in the liberated areas and those in pre-1967 Israel—be offered a voluntary transfer to Arab or non-Arab lands...
...Israel certainly has no obligation to harbor treasonous elements within its borders...
...The same incidentally applies to the Palestinians as regards the Israelis...
...If he speaks as well as he writes, I shall have only one question to ask...
...Marvelous...
...What happened to me on March 2,1977 was not exactly an "explosion...
...The most erudite question I was asked that afternoon was, "Why had I chosen such a dirty book...
...However, if you probe deep enough some Germans will open up and reveal feelings of guilt...
...Such a body would serve as the forum for the necessary continuing dialogue between the entities—dialogue concerning trade, natural resources, relationships between the member states, and issues concerning matters affecting each of their individual citizens who live in another member state...
...and I hope your arguments are taken seriously by the Jewish community...
...I suggest they should be the sovereign Jewish state of Israel, the sovereign Arab state of Palestine, and the sovereign state of Lebanon...
...This is not the first case of KGB's chemical warfare against those whom this well-known organization happens to dislike...
...Thereby, moment transformed the work of fiction into a personal wow-fictional statement under my name, where the "I," rather than referring to God, referred to me, Robert Nozick, imagining myself to be God, an act which is bizarre, mad or idolatrous...
...Randy Medoff Hartsdale, New York Bar Mitzvah To the Editor: I enjoyed reading "Bar Mitzvah at the Wall" by Peter Ribicoff because it brought back memories of my Bat Mitzvah at the Kotel during last Passover (1977...
...I read the weekly portion for Hol-ha'moed Pesach...
...They know very little about the subject as no course in history is taught at any of the universities or in high school...
...Israel's dilemma is that she cannot live with the Palestinians and equally she cannot live without them...
...Those who decline this offer shall be asked to pledge their loyalty to the Jewish State, recognizing the absolute, exclusive and sovereign right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel...
...My brother and I had no experiences of any anti-Semitism but we knew that this was not true as far as the University was concerned...
...and "Was Malamud married to a gentile...
...Reading the portion for Hol-ha'moed Pesach was also a great experience for me...
...I have been through so many of the same experiences that Pinsker described that I felt as if we were exchanging confidences, even though I am not as impressively credentialed as he is...
...Such citizens would only have political representation in their own states...
...Although I wasn't allowed to cross the barrier where the men were praying, or touch the Torah, the religious experience that I felt was still as significant to me as it was to Jacob Ribicoff...
...Nor do I believe that the Palestinians can be dismissed as non-existent...
...And the territory contains over one million Arabs...
...Those who refuse this oath shall be expelled from the State—with compensation, but without the bonus...
...I had written a work offiction, identified as such by calling it "GOD-a story by Robert Nozick," in which the first person speaker is God pondering the difficulties in proving to us that he exists, moment changed the title so that it no longer identified the work as a story and inserted in the second paragraph the words "imagine that you're God—or, better that I am...
...Sober analyses such as yours are what we need more of—not the knee-jerk, us-them reaction we see all too often...
...The next morning I found all the symptoms of severe chemical burn on my leg...
...This is where Mr...
...Therefore what is needed are institutional forms that make these debates, compromises, and realities manageable on a continuing basis...
...those who accept will be given full compensation for their property and a substantial cash bonus...
...Nancy Lehman Hewlett Harbor, New York Tubingen To the Editor: To the Tav "Jubilee in Tubingen" by Jacob Neusner (December 1977) I wish to add that I lived in this city from 1929 to 1937, attended public and high school...
...Remaining Arabs who take the loyalty pledge but are subsequently found guilty of security offenses shall also be expelled— without compensation...
...As a student from the Brandeis School (a Jewish day school on Long Island), I have learned how to read, write, and speak Hebrew...
Vol. 3 • March 1978 • No. 4
