Word: lelyveld
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...persecution that Hitler and Christianity inflicted on the Jew. Granted that Jews to some extent have reversed the taskmaster situation. But let it be known to one and all: Jews are ordered by the Torah to aid the Negro and all that are oppressed. Men like Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld have made it known that the war is on. To the Negro and my fellow Jews: we shall overcome...
What this modest example suggests is that the American Jew is capable of responding creatively to the challenge presented by black antiSemitism. "We Jews, of all peoples," says Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland's Fairmount Temple, "should be able to feel empathy with Negro frustration and anger. When we look deep into our Jewish conscience, we admit that it is right that the Negro should expect more of us." Lelyveld has given his share; as a civil rights worker in Hattiesburg, Miss., five years ago he was attacked and severely beaten by two white men. Says Charles E. Silberman...
Adams: William A. Casselman, Richard H. Goodman, William M. Goss, Bentley R. Layton, David S. Lelyveld, Stephen J. Lynton, Peter J. Manning, Richard S. Price, Alan E. Rau, David R. Riggs, Jr., Richard L. Schacht, Norman J. Weiss...
...must be obvious that this is an uneven play. Director David Lelyveld has exploited the excitement of his situation to the utmost but too often he succumbs to touches of purest melodrama. The basic cause of unevenness, though, is Gardner himself, who is by turns eloquent, windy, perceptive, funny, pathetic, cynical, and utopian...