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Intermarriage Novel;
Brinig's Able • Writing
Idealistically Faulty
Plan 2nd Lubavitcher
Agricultural Colony
A second Lubavitcher agricul-
tural colony for several hundred
Myron Brinig, who has lived ! families of Lubavitcher Chabad
in Montana and knows life in I Chasidic refugees will soon be
that state well, has written a established in Israel, as a result
most interesting novel, "Foot- of negotiations carried on by
steps on the Stair," (published the special American Lubavitch-
by Rinehart & Co., 232 Madison er delegation that has just re-
Ave., New York 16), which deals turned from Israel.
The delegation of Agudas
with two family groups—Jewish
and Irish—and an intermarri- Chasidei Chabad of the United
States and Canada consisted of
age.
Samuel Palmer and Henry Riss-
The able author of "Singer- man.
mann," "May Flavin" and "The
While in Israel, the Americans
Sisters" again gives evidences were received by leading Israel
of a brilliant style and of an government officials, Chief
ability to write striking phrases, Rabbi I. I. Herzog, and leaders
sentences and paragraphs that of the Jewish Agency, with
give life to his pungent English. whom they discussed the de-
• His family delineations are
tailed plans for the establish-
Masterful. His Moses Benjamin ment
of the second Lubavitcher
is a strong character and John Chabad
agricultural colony.
Joyce similarly emerges as a
powerful member of the cast of
Samuel Mendoza, a Jew, won
"Footsteps on the Stair."
the English heavyweight boxing
But there also is weakness in championship in 1792.
his new story—a weakness that
hurts the sensibilities of Jewish
readers. Brinig should have be-
come better informed about
Jewish traditions and laws. The
Jewish author displays ignor-
ance in Jewish matters and his
book suffers from such short-
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comings.
for All
Occasions
For instance, he sets two
weeks as the period after birth
of the offspring of the Benja-
min-Joyce intermarriage for the
bris instead of the traditional
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eight days. His description of
the hilarity at the bris hardly At Davison
does justice to a Jewish tradi
tional celebration.
Brinig could select no better
Greetings on
day for Joseph Benjamin's
elopement with Anna Joyce
The New Year
than Yom Kippur. Anna later
told her son Stephen, that had
she known she would not have
married her father on that par-
ticular day.
He places so much emphasis
on the business acumen of Jews
Diamonds
—some such references are
made ad nauseum — that he
merely repeats the ideas of
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taunting non-Jews, and at times
he is inconsistent on this score.
A well written novel is spoiled
because of such inconsistencies
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that half the characters are
Jewish. Therefore this novel
falls in line with other, similar
novels dealing about intermarri-
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age which have been published
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ful job with his good writing
had he done justice to the out-
Greetings to the
standing characteristics of Jew-
Jewish Community
ish life rather than to the neg-
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THE JEWISH NEWS-67
Friday, September 8, 1950
Swiss Leader Lauds
President Weizmann
GENEVA, (JTA) — Tribute was
paid to the role of Israel's Presi-
dent Chaim Weizmann in the
moral and political fields by Al-
bert Picot, head of the Geneva
Educational Department. Picot,
who spoke in behalf of the Swiss
authorities at the opening of a
new library at the ORT central
training school at A n i e r es,
stressed the value of ORT work
in the building of Israel.
Jews of 53 Countries
Now Living in Israel
Henry Horner was governor of
Illinois in the early '30s.
When the first Trinidad Jew
arrived in Israel recently, it
raised to 53 the number of
countries from which Jewish
immigrants have come to the
young state.
Trinidad, British Crown Col-
ony in the West Indies, has a
Jewish population of 180.
The Jewish Agency immigra-
tion departmen,, has received its
first application for an immi-
gration visa from a Siamese
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