Writers, Jewish

Although Novak was only fleetingly concerned with the status of Jews as white ethnics (more often he numbered them among the privileged and contemptuous elites), the Jewish writer Leonard Fein was perhaps even more to the point on precisely Novak s theme We are too much... 

This present writer has the original copy, it was sent to him from Israel. One half-page article is entitled Amidst the Killing, Children Sang of Brotherly Love . In 1943, 10-year-old Daniel K. arrived in Auschwitz. Now a university professor, he looks back at a different face of the death camp , runs the introduction. Professor K. writes The Chorale from [Beethoven s Ninth Symphony] was... performed by a Jewish children s choir at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943... I was a member of that choir... I... remember my first engagement with culture, with history, and with music—in the camp... ... 

In the letter the writer specifically mentions vehicles of the Saurer type, which were equipped exclusively with Diesel engines and for this reason were not suitable for exhaust-gas murders. However, the writer does not find any fault with this - he only criticizes that they were absolutely immobilized in rainy weather . How such vehicles, which were as unsuitable as could be for killing human beings, could nevertheless be used to murder Jewish women and children, remains a mystery. 

Mae Ruben was born in San Francisco, July 1915. After she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, Mae was a bookkeeper and writer. She worked for Standard Oil in Richmond, California, and the Albany Times. Mae hved with her sister-in-law, Helena, from 1943 to 1948. Later, she had her own apartment. When she became ill from emphysema, she lived for a time with Ida, and as her illness progressed moved into the Jewish Home for Parents in Oakland, Cahfomia, about a year prior to her death in 1982. 

There is another striking connection. A little after the decree of 196 BCE, the Jewish writer Artapan assimilated Thoth-Hermes to Moses. The historian of Alexandrian Hermetism, A.-J. Festugiere, noticed this same amalgam reappearing in the eighth century CE... 

Curiously, a few early Christian writers mention Jewish worship of angels, although this in nowhere directly associated with observance of the Torah. See Aristides, Apol. 14.4. 

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