The intern and the employer Semitic
On the eve of Holocaust Day, we learn that there is 100% increase in antisemitic incidents worldwide in 2009 . I do not know what happens to me, but what kind of information that usually causes me a deep sense of anger this year, it leaves me cold. I will however move me, moreover the eve of Holocaust Day.
After meditation on the rise anti-Semitism over the past ten years, I remember the days of the first Gulf War in early winter of 1991, specifically from an article while in the daily Yedioth Ahronoth .
At that time, like all Israelis, I throw myself on all published papers that I read avidly. In headlines, words and names that recur: the Scuds falling on Tel Aviv, " Nahash TSeF " slogan to confine the shelters, President George Bush (father), General Norman Schwarzkopf The commander of U.S. armed Colin Powell, Saddam Hussein Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and so on. Like all reservists, I expect that the mobilization of otherwise not come.
In the daily edition of Yedioth Ahronoth , information that has nothing to do with the conditions of war draws my attention. An information that I have not forgotten until today. It teaches us that one of the pioneers of this newspaper, Dr. Herzl Rosenblum, former editor of Yedioth Ahronoth just died.
Born in 1903 in Kovno in Lithuania, Dr. Herzl Rosenblum died on 1 February 1991 in Tel Aviv.
Kovno is the capital and largest city of Lithuania in the 30's. A young Jew, a Zionist, Herzl Rosenblum has just completed his law studies at university in Vienna. Betar activist and follower of Vladimir Ze'ev Jabotinsky, his activism has made him late to apply for an internship in a law firm. All law firms in Kovno Jews were attacked by Jewish candidates so there's no room for a trainee and more. In the anti-Semitic atmosphere that prevails at the time, Rosenblum is open to all non-Jewish firms. Only the office of a prominent lawyer, member of parliament and known for its Semitism agrees. The young
Rosenblum began working diligently and provide full satisfaction to his employer. The latter, formidable lawyer, notorious anti-Semite and a member of parliament for a nationalist party, was deeply intrigued. The distance and haughty contempt for his young Jewish student dictate not speak to him. But the curiosity of the Lithuanian anti-Semitic leaves him no respite, and finally, he spoke directly to Herzl Rosenblum: "I learned that you belong to a radical Zionist organization. You are not unaware that I am Member of Parliament known for his anti-Semitic pronouncements. How you do that there not deterred from applying for an internship in my office? "
Undaunted, Herzl Rosenblum replied frankly, unthinkable at that time for a junior and in addition to a Jewish student in a Baltic country "Yes I knew this and I must admit that it does not bother me to do my job the best I can. You see, I hate anti-Semitism at least as much if not more, than they do hate Jews. Therefore, I knew that our co-operating strictly on our legal work and nothing else, what is the best for me. "
Dr. Herzl Rosenblum has been No disruption to the end of his internship training sétait held relatively correctly.
Subsequently, Dr. Rosenblum has worked alongside Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky. In 1935 he went to Israel to join the Herut party Menachem Begin. The signature of Dr. Herzl Rosenblum is affixed to the Declaration of Independence of the State of Israel. In 1948 he was appointed editor of Yedioth Ahronoth where he signed his columns until 1986.
After World War II, then arrived with the first Holocaust survivors in Israel's history the most atrocious on cooperation in the Baltic countries to the extermination of the Jews, Dr. Rosenblum asked to Kovno from what had been the attitude of his former employer, whose nationalist party had collaborated with the Nazis. The survivors set out warrants to Kovno Rosenblum how this lawyer known for his anti-Semitism had not collaborated with the Nazis. Some even told him how he had tried to alleviate the suffering of the Jews of the ghetto. Dr. Herzl Rosenblum learned later that after the War, with the arrival of the Soviets in the Baltic countries, his former employer had been deprived. As a former member of a nationalist party Baltic fiercely opposed to Bolshevism, the Communist regime oppressed and put into disgrace. He could not do his job as a lawyer and was plunged into abject poverty until his death in the early 50s. Dr. Herzl Rosenblum did his best to make him regularly send money order to soften the plight .
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