Meyer Levin's Widely-Recommended
`My Father's House' on at Cinema
THE JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, June 25, 1948
Garaldine Sfashefsky's
Organizational Gifts Being Recorded
As Campaign Reaches Final Stages
$685: Mozirer Society. $1500: Odes-
With many groups increasing M.,
"See it—your conscience will never forget it.*
sa Progressive Aid Society, $500; Our
This was Walter Winchell's recommendation after he had seen ,Poem Voted 'The Best'
their pledges by a large percent- Family Club, $25;
Perla: )n Lodge Bowling Team,
the film, "My Father's House," which is based on Meyer Levin's
age, the organizational division $410.81; Pliskow Family Association,
soul-stirring book and which Mr. Levin, the eminent novelist per-
Geraldine Stashefsky, a 16
$100; Polonner-Woliner Aollt1 Associ-
of the Allied Jewish Campaign ation, $200; Radomer Friendly So-
• sonally filmed in Israel.
The synopsis of this all-English movie, which was enacted by. able year old student as Cass Techni- is playing a major role in the ciety, $150;Shearit. Hapleith, $63.50;
Skverer Relief Society, $500; Social
cal high school, recently was
Palestinian actors on Palestinian
Committee. $75; Sokoliv-
concluding phases of the 1948 Legislation
ker Progressive Verein, $525; Tau.
given
an
assignment
in
her
Eng-
spots, is as follows:
David's and Miriam's future.
Epsilon Rho Fraternity, $150; Tur-
drive.
over Aid Society, $1000; United
Through the blackness of the This is the moment when his lish literature class to write an
Figures released this week 're- Friendship Club, $275; Elias Woolf
Club. $50; 'Workmen's Circle No.
night the passengers of the ves- child's mantle of innocence drops original poem on any subject.
Because it was the time that veal $19,481.31 pledged from May 945, $145; Yud Aleph Yud Memorial
sel, "Hannah Szenesch," move away, and David grows up. In
Society, $50; Zhilomer Progressive
carefully towards the shore in his tragedy he reaches maturity, the Jewish people, were praying 14 to June 16 by Yiddish-speak- Aid Society. $500;
B'nai Brith: Bloch Lodge No. 1677,
small boats. • With stealth and and he knows that • in a larger, for a refuge and a homeland,. she ing organizations, in contrast to $25;
Brandeis Lodge No. 1583, $300;
more vital sense he has finally chose the topic "A Nation's $15,278.85 collected • last year. Keidan
Lodge No. 1560, $1000; Hen-
ry Morgenthau Lodge Bowling League,
reached his father's house—his Dream".
Einai
Brith
divisions,
in
that
per-
$325;
Although 90 per cent of the
father; s land. He and Miriam.
Jewish War Veterans—C & A Ko-
find in Palestine the highest students in the class were - not iod, pledged $1,650, as against gan Post No. 510, $25; Roy Green
Post
No. 529, $24;
they
understood
the
fullment to their deepest desires: Jewish,-
$200 given last year.
Congregations—Aaron Moshe, $50;
Beth Itzchock and Sisterhood, $250;
Other organizational gifts dur- Beth
Sponsored by the Jewish Na- meaning of the poem and voted
Mordecai Talmud Torah of Fern-
tional Fund of the world, the it the best in the class. The poem ing that time included $50 dale, $50; Beth Tikvah, $250; Bnai
David,
$2000; Detroit Hebrew Cong.,
follows:
film has been released for distri-
pledged by two war veterans'
A NATION'S DREAM
bution in America by the JNF
posts and $3,100 donated by con- $300; Shaarey Shomaim, $200.
of America. It opened its De- To a land whose earth was burning gregations, in contrast to $1,550
troit run at the Cinema Theater
waste,
pledged in 1947.
U. S. Allocates 6,000
ne'er a tree in sight;
on Thursday evening and will A With
The gifts included in these fig-
people came in perilous haste
Tons of Flour to Israel
continue for two weeks or more.
To bring in God's own light.
ures are as follows:
Yiddish Speaking Organizations —
Arthur Shutkin, executive di- With weary hearts rejoicing
Berditchever Progressive Beneficial
WASHINGTON, (JTA). — The
rector of the Jewish National, To have fled the butcher's knife,
Soc., $500; Beth Abraham. Free Loan
squared their shoulders and Ass'n, $250; Brezner Aid Society, Department of Agriculture has
Fund Council of Detroit, has They
looked ahead
$200; Brith Sholom of Detroit, $700; allocated 6,000 tons of flour for
To a new and fearless life.
issued a call to all Zionist and
The Chess Family Club, $50; Cohen,
Rosenblum Family Group, $100; Con- Israel.
other , local organizations to en- They worked the rocky soil,
glo Bowling League, $80; Eishishker
Under the Department's export
courage their members to see
Their bodies damp with sweat.
Verein, $500; Freedman Family Club,
MEYER LEVIN
said, "That land will never yield, $25; Good Fellowship Club, $100; program all shipments of short-
this film and to be eye-witness- Some
Heartache is all you'll get.",
Grodno Society, $100; Herman Gar- supply grain are allocated to
with fear, but proudly, hope - es to the great achievent in Israel
dens Jewish Club, $20; Independent
But
pioneers
do
not
give
up,
Detroit Lodge, $152; Isaac Agree countries submitting applications
fully, the remnants of the cruel- by Jewry.
And soon,—an act of God;
Memorial Society, $2000; Jewish Re- on the basis of need. The United
est massacre in all history come
A leaf „of green was growing.
lief Fund, $300; Jewish Social Club,
in the old and useless sod.
$500; Jewish Metropolitan Club, $500; Kingdom forinerly supplied the
to claim their birthright in Pal-
Kadimah Social Club. $1600; Kess- Middle East area with grain.
Dr.
Samuel
Kraus
Dies
estine.
And soon the land had changed its ler Family Club, $50; Knights of
The maritime unions have
looks
Pythias,
Detroit Lodge No. 55, $500;
Among the passengers is 11-
LONDON, (JTA)—Dr Samuel
wheat and yello,w corn,
Korostishever Aid Society, • $600; given assurances that, even if a
year-old David Halevi. For him Krauss, noted Jewish scholar, A With
phenomenon not made in books,
Lachowitzer Aid Society, $1000; Sa-
But here in brave men born.
rah Lichter Family Club, $50: Esther maritime strike is called, the
this is the climax of a five-year historian and philologist, who
Lipson Family Club. $25 ; Lovitcher shipment of wheat to Israel will
pilgrimage. For here on the came to England from Austria in And cities took the place of waste
Verein, $200; Lubliner' Hilfs Verein,
shores of the Promised Land his 1938 after the German-Austrian
$500; Mezeritcher Progressive Ben- depart on schedule as an indica-
And trees the place of sand;
barren earth was changed to efit Society, $100; Mezeritcher Social tion of unity between the Ameri-
father would be waiting. David anschluss, died at his home in This
Club, $1750; Michigan Shoe Travelers,
green
knows it will be so: On that Cambridge at the age of 82.
$25; Mosaic •Lodge No. 530, F. & A. can workers and the new state.
And called "The Promised Land."
dark day five years ago, when
the Germans came to Cracow
and ordered all the Jews at gun-
point into the great square be-
fore the railroad trains, his
father had told him to run into
the woods and hide, and when
the war was over they would be
together again in Palestine.
Another European passenger is
Miriam, a young woman who
suffered the horror and indig-
nities of Jewish women forced
into the Nazi "Feldkorps." She
has lost her husband and child,
and has come to Palestine to
find peace and to try to forget.
try to forget.
Miriam, in the bitterness of
her experiences, is certain that
David's quest for his parents is
fruitless. But DaVid's faith can-
not be shaken. The colonists of
the settlement to which he is
assigned are solicitous, a n d
promise to help him , find his
parents.
"In our little country every-
-one finds what he needs," one
wise settler says.
Impatient of delay, David
leaves the colony, and _subse-
quently runs away from an or-
phan's camp, in an effort to
find his family. He travels
from village to village—to Tel
Aviv where he thinks a violinist
named Halevi might be his fath-
er. At the potash works on the
Dead Sea, a worker named Hal-
evi gallantly insists he is the
boy's uncle when he hears Da-
vid's sad story. But a mere of-
fer of a home is not enough for
the boy, and again he leaves in
frantic search, this , time to Jer-
usalem where the registry of-
fice of Jewish DPs is located.
Here he learns the terrible real-:
ity of his family's destruction in
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Young David collapses. With
is a finer 18th Century adaptation, fashioned in Mellow finish
security and hopefulness gone,
Extension Table, 2 Arm Chairs,
mahogany combined with other select hardwoods, accented by
he lapes into a state of infancy.
In a large, modern hospital
and 4 Side Chairs.
swirl mahogany fronts and richly carved details. Buffet measures
Avram, the young leader of the
62 inches, chiria cabinet 42 1 /2 inches, and the 42 by 62 inch table
colony, and Miriam find the boy,
an discuss his fate. Avram ten-
with twin pedestal base extends to 74 inches. Shield back chairs
derly tells Miriam that she can
'save the boy, and help herself
have slip seats upholstered in attractive striped tapestry.
too, by giving David the love he
needs—a mother's love. Miriam
accepts the challenge, and the
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boy is gradually nursed back to
health.
The discovery of an ancient
building stone on which the name
Halevi is chiseled is the final
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