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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1978 PAGE
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TV Holocaust Film Under Attack
NEW YORK [JTA] -
“Holocaust,” a 91/2 hour
television dramatization to
be aired by NBC in four
parts beginning April 16,
has come under fire from
two groups for widely
different reasons. KXAS TV
Channel 5 will carry the
show.
before being led to the gas
chambers and another in
which elderly women are led
to their death. NBC has
agreed to delte these scenes.
The CDL issued a state-
ment demanding that NBC
drop the entire production.
It said, “Over 300,000
gentiles died fighting for
A group calling itself the Jewish rights. The Ameri-
Christian Defense League cans sided with the Jews
(CDL) has labeled the during World WTar II and
original drama, written by certainly couldn’t be consid-
Gerald Green, “Zionist prop- ered enemies of the Jewish
aganda” aimed at instilling people. Yet American gen-
gious affairs department of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee, who served as a
consultant to NBC in the
production of “Holocaust,”
told the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency that the affiliates
objected to a five-second
segment of the disrobing
scene which shows frontal
nudity with pubic hair
visible. They felt this went
far beyond the boundaries of
good taste acceptable to
television networks and
their affiliates.
‘a guilt complex in Ameri- tiles are subjected to a
can gentiles for the so-called constant barrage of movies
‘poor persecuted Jews.’ ” In from Hollywood which have
addition, several Midwest as their main aim propagan-
stations affiliated with NBC da to instill a guilt complex
have demanded that certain in American gentiles . . .”
scenes be deleted. The
affiliates, which previewed
the film, objected to one
scene showing Jewish wom-
Expl&ins Basis For Segment
en being forced to disrobe . director of
Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum,
inter-reli-
Convenient
MEMBER FDIC
Hoffman said that Ameri-
Tanenbaum said that, at a
meeting of the network and
affiliate officials, he explain-
ed that in the context of the
Nazi intention to degrade
and debase Jews by violat-
ing their traditional concept
of modesty, the scene was
authentic. However, he said,
given the fact that many
viewers would not be aware
of this, he thought the NBC Hoffman pointed out in Solomon and the Revolutio:
decision to omit the five her statement that although ary War.
seconds was appropriate. He Hitler’s persecution of the
expressed hope that the Jews began in 1933, the U.S.
controversy over the disrob- did not declare war against can Nazis and others “seek-
ing scene, which has been Germany until 1941. “The ing to preach genocide
reported by several news- thousands of soldiers who against Jews and othe
paper columnists, would not died, fought to protect the
be allowed to detract from United States of America
»vf overall impact of and all of its citizens from
Holocaust.” becoming victims of Hitler’s
aggression and included in
Regarding the CDL, Tan- their ranks many Jews who
enbaum told the JTA that paid the supreme sacrifice
the group is headed by for this country and served
James K. Warner of Baton with distinction just as
Rouge, La., who, the rabbi Jewish soldiers have done
said, has a long record of since the days of Haym
anti-Semitic and racist activ-
El Paso Jewish Federation
minorities" under the guta
of free speech “undoubted!
. . . derive much aid an
comfort when a television
program whose purpose is to
educate this generation
against the vile atrocities is
deleted and petitioned to be
dropped by those wh
allegedly speak in the nam
of gentiles.
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ity and is an associate of
David Duke of the Ku Klux
Klan.
Receives UJA'S Pinchas Sapir Award
Demands Film Be Shown
In Its Entirety
NEW YORK - In recog-
nition of campaign excel-
lence among small cities, the
El Paso Jewish community
received the United Jewish
the Jewish Identity Center* APPeal’s 1977 Pinchas Sapir and to San Diego among
responded to both attacks on National Campaign Achieve- intermediate cities. A spec-
ment Award, UJA General
Shifra Hoffman, a member
of the board of directors of
have consistently attained
outstanding campaign r
suits. Other Sapir Awar
for 1977 are going to Bosto]
in the large-size category,
the film in a statement
demanding that “the forth-
coming NBC production
‘Holocaust’ be carried by all
affiliate stations in its
entirety.”
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Chairman Leonard R. Stre-
litz announced here. The
community was presented
with the official scroll at
Temple Mount Sinai in El
Paso on April 3 by UJA
Executive Vice Chairman
Irving Bernstein.
The award is given an-
nually by UJA to three
American Jewish communi-
ties — representing small,
intermediate and large pop-
ulation categories — which
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to Johnstown, Pa., for
outstanding campaign re-
sults in the face of disastro
flood conditions.
Strelitz cited the El Pas
community for “high ac-
hievements at all levels of
the campaign”. “The success
of the El Paso effort in
1977,” he said, “was a result
of an alert and dedicate
leadership which was awai
of the needs and knew ho
to get the job done. El Paso
has proved itself to be a vital
link in the Jewish lifeline.”
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paign methods employed by
El Paso General Chairman
Aaron Wechter which
suited in a 22 per ce
increase in campaign pi
ges, Strelitz cited an ex-
panded outreach program to
contact non-givers; revitali-
zation of the Young Men’s
campaign division, resulting
in a 125 per cent divisional
increase; imaginative use
the National UJA Shabbal
and a comprehensive pub
relations drive throughout
the campaign.
“It is fitting that this
award is named in honor of a
giant among Israel’s found
ing fathers,” said Strelit:
“There is not a single area
endeavor in which Sapir
genius did not foster im-
provements for the people of
Israel."
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‘He was a towering figure
in the founding generation of
pioneers from Eastern Eu-_
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redemption of the land o
|! Israel. In his lifetime, Sapir
said, ‘Together we possess
the means and the organiza-
tion to strengthen Jewish
life. If we work together,
there are no impossible
dreams . . . there are n
impossible hopes.’ He was
man who harbored a
over-riding dream of a new
society where Jewish people
could live in dignity and
peace.”
Pinchas Sapir served as
Israel Minister of Commerce
and Industry, 1956-63, an
for ten years as Minister o:
Finance. In 1974, he was1
appointed Chairman of the
Jewish Agency. He died on
August 12, 1975.
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