Richard Ellmann Reveals Kabbalistic
Influence on Yeats in His New Book

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-23
Friday, October 29, 1954

Toynbee Shocks
Literarians with
'S t At d y
History

Simon and Schuster to Publish Israel's Best Seller;
Book Deals With Nazis' Abuse of Jewish Women

NEW YORK, N.Y., (AJP) —
"Doll-House" will serve as an
Dr. Richard Ellmann, profes- I Dr. Ellmann reveals that
The publishing firm of Simon everlasting reminder of the bes-
sor of English at Northwestern Yeats "felt under the influence
and Schuster is getting a good tial, inhunian and murderous
University, son of Mr. and Mrs. of a Kabbalistic ceremony in
f
translation into English of Is-
I which he participated as a
committed by the Nazis
rael's sensational best seller, acts
young man, where there were
against
their fellow human
"Beth
Ha-boobot"
("Doll-
two pillars, one symbolic of
beings.
NEW YORK, N.Y., • (AJP) ' —
water and one of fire . . . The Arnold J. Toynbee, considered House"), a book dealing with the
Nazis'
abuse
of
Jewish
women.
water is sensation, peace, night one of the greatest contempo-
silence, indolence; the fire is Tary historians, surprised the Translated by Moshe Kohn, the
work will be pub-
passion, tension, day, music, literary world this week when it soul-stirring
ea:4st
lished this Winter.
energy.' "
was revealed from the latest vol-
"K. Zetnik, 135633" is the pen
A reproduction of the cover umes of his work, "A Study of
Spacious - yet friendly
design of "The Secret Rose," History," that he was an antag- name of the author, Yechiel
Denur, who lived through the
Get-acquainted Parties
under the heading Yeats' , onist of Zionism and Israel.
h e 11 of Nazi concentration
Social Activities Director
Early Symbolism," explains that
In his discourse on "national- camps and survived. Both he
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"the three roses at the top re- ism," Toynbee charges that the and his wife, Nina Asherman
present the three principal Zionists ruthlessly expelled the Denur, spent the past year in
Dancing under the Stars
states of being (Sephiroth) of Palestinian Arabs and he com- America supervising the difficult
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the Kabbalistic tree, and the pares this "crime," as he calls it, translation.
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In his notes at the conclu-
Sold
on
High
Holy
Days
Stressing religion as the major
sion of his book, Dr. Ellmann theme in his latest volumes, pub-
, Low Season Rates
quotes from a letter by Yeats lished by the Oxford University r More than $2,300,000 in Israel
L;1), & Alfred Stone,.*
acknowledging his debt to Press, and clinging fanatically Development Bonds were • sold
Vow- Hosts
•
RICHARD ELLMANN
Samuel Mathers and the Gold- to New Testament doctrine, during the Rosh Hashanah and
Virite for arochure..
en Dawn: "I learned a prac- Toynbee discounts Judaism as Yorn• Kippur services of 200
James I. Ellmann of Highland
synagogues that have thus far
tice, a form of naeditation that a world religion.
te tuvpici
Park, Mich., who already has
has perhaps been the intellec-
To him, there exist only four ' reported to national headquar-
tual chief influence in my life high and worthy world faiths: ters of the Israel Bond Organi-
earned worldwide recognition as
up to perhaps my fortieth Christianity, Islam, Hinduism zation in New York, it was an-
an . authority on Yeats, has
year " . . As I mastered the and Buddhism. Providence has nouncea by x,ucioit G. Sonne-
added to his literary glory with
"The &cur-dem Rotel"
Kabbalah I discovered that given us these four religions, he born, president of the bond
a new book on the Irish poet.
organization.
His first work, "Yeats: the - his (Mathers') geometric says, which bring mankind into ,
symbols were_ a series which I touch with a living and loving
Man and the Masks," in which
could classify according to God. He leaves the Mother
he analyzed the poet's life and
the elements . . . I believed Faith, Judaism, completely out
personality, won wide acclaim.
that with the images would of the picture.
To this work he now has added
come at last more profound
That Toynbee, in these his
his critical work of the poet's
states of the soul, and was latest works, has fallen prey
CORONER (Republican Ticket)
symbolism, published in London
lost in vain hope."
Former Medical
to narrow Christian dogmatism
by Macmillan and in this coun-
County.
In his explanation of Yeats' becomes evident from his oft-
try by Oxford, under the title
Endorsed by C
League. ,
"The Rose of the World," Dr. repeated statement that Chris-1
"The Identity of Yeats."
Overseas
Hitherto unpublished Yeats Ellmann writes: "The present„ tianity does not merely affirm
that
"God
is
love,"
but
that
"God
poems are included in this vol- woman quickly. becomes Helen .
ume. Most of the material in of Troy . . . then Deirdre . . . a so loved the world that He gave
this book is new and students conception familiar to Shelley His only begotten son." Here
of Yeats must turn to Richard and Spenser, and indebted to the he speaks like a fanatic mis-
Michigan is Prola di of
Ellmarm's two books for a proper Kabbalistic a n d neo-Platonic sionary.
The unbiased student, noting
understanding the e m in e n t theory that the Shekhinah or
I eternal womanhood is coeval Toynbee's failure to grasp the
Irishman.
Attorney-General
historical processes within our -
Sidelights on W. B. Yeats' re- with God."
times,
especially
those
relating
lations with other writers, in- I "Yeats does not mention," we to the rebirth of the :State of
teresting accounts of his meet- learn a bit later, "an open secret Israel, and considering his al-
ings with James Joyce, and ex- of Kabbalism according to which Most dogmatic ,and evangelic ac-
planations of the style and rhe- the tree of life is made up of ceptance of the Gospels, immed-
toric of the poet are incorporat- ten Sephiroth or states . . . This iately loses the respect usually
Eminent Scholar, Lawyer,
Sephirah (Tiphareth) is regard-
ed in this fascinating study.
due an unbiased historian whose
ed
as
the
connecting
link
be-
Able Public Servant, who
Of special interest to the
duty it is to record history on
Jewish reader is the revelation i‘ tween the upper and lower selves the basis of facts and reality.
was one of the U. S. Prosecutors
that Yeats was under the in- t and the upper and lower
fluence of the Kabbalah, with worlds. That Yeats did not men
of the Nazis at Nuremberg.
which he became acquainted tion Tiphareth when he related
the rose to it may have been
early in life.
due to his early habit of making
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public only the more commu-
nicable of the traditional . asso-
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ciations of his symbols. It must
be said for him that he would
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as Attorney General of Michigan
never have drawn, on Kabbalis-
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tic doctrine had he not known
of Jewish Interest
of its analogues in other, non-
occult literature."
THE ETERNAL LIGHT
There is evidence, as revealed
Time: 12:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct.
by Dr. Ellmann, of strong Bib- 31.
lical influence on Yeats, as in-
Station: WWJ.
dicated in the following expla-
Feature: "The Mark of Cain"
nation of the tree as a symbol: relates the story of Sophie Irene
"The tree of life is of course a Loeb, a newspaperwoman whose
standard Biblical (symbol), but humanitarian work included a
Yeats was for a time almost as ceaseless campaign to have a
familiar with the Kabbalah as widow's pension bill passed in
with the Bible. The Kabbalah is the state legislature.
*
helpful in interpreting his poem
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Time: 11:15 a.m., Sunday, Oct.
Sephirotic tree has two aspects,
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Feature: A script written by
Sephiroth. on the other the
* Protege of the late Supreme Court
dread Qlippoth. Since the Kab- Dora Rose will relate the work
To Assure
Justice Frank Murphy.
balists consider man to be a of the Women's American ORT.
Participants will include Mrs.
microcosm,
the
double-natured
*
Former
law partner of Governor
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tree is a picture both of the Harry Becker, Michael Kukes, Dr.
Williams.
and
Mrs.
Milton
Okun
and
Mrs.
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lowest,
can
work
for
good
or
ill."
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tration
Aesculapians Formulate Culture Commission.
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"The sun could as easily be
The Aesculapian Pharmaceut- spared from the universe as free
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ecutive board meeting at 9 p.m., tions of society."—Socrates.
Monday, at the home of Mr. and
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-Ilene.
Plans for the 28th annual
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The program scheduled for
Nov. 10, at the Latin Quarter,
will feature music by the Fenby-
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