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A Digest of Writers' Opinions
What the Press Is Sayina
(By the American Jewish Press)
of the armistice agreements
which -call for permanent peace,
in violation of a Security Coun-
cil decision denying them any
belligerent rights and in repudi-
ation of their own declaration
affirming t h e international
character of both the Suez
Canal and the Aqaba Gulf . .
—The New York Times
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Israel's Rights in Aqaba
Sholem Asch
.
If the United States has de-
His love for Israel was of the great Jewish immortals
Newspaper reports said that genuine and he felt most happy of Yiddish literature.
veloped the port • of Chicago,
Sholem Asch had passed away in the hills of Judea surrounded
and Canada had threatened to
rather suddenly during a visit by the youth of the pioneer
block the passage of American
to London . . . But several land on the Mediterranean . . .
ships through the St. Lawrence
months ago we told you in our Asch, in our opinion, was not
River, the situation might
column that Asch was a very a great man of letters of the
by
faintly resemble what the State
sick man .. . Only his tremen- caliber of a Thomas Mann, but
Mr. :ind fir
of Israel now faces in its newly
Eichenbaurn
dous will to live made him last he had a tremendous vitality
developed port of Elath at the New Propaganda Device
until the summer . . . He re- and a creative compulsion
The Perfect Location—Directly on
head of the Gulf of Aqaba.,
Hate America. The answer fused to believe the doctors which made some of his works
the Lake. Our Own Private Beach.
Until the State of Israel was could only be found by tuning who had warned him to stay not only readable but often
Ncw•st
established this narrow streak in on the Voice of the Arabs. at home in his comfortable exciting . . It is rather tragic
swimming Pool
Linking Israel, the U.S. and house in Israel . . . He stuck that in the last few years of
of water leading north from the
No Incr,-;:si• in 12;11(-S
Red Sea was hardly worth.) Jordan's King Hussein together to his strenuous schedule of his life he suffered a great
as
common
villains
is
Nasser's
work . . . His visit to London deal because of the hostile NOW OPEN
noticing. It is a route to the
TO
Far East which Israel can use latest propaganda device to try was related to his unfinished attitude of his former col ,- LABOR
DAY —.
novel . — He wanted to do leagues and of the orthodox
without dependence on the to win the Arab masses.
Nasser-dominated Suez Canal.
"Brethren in Ar abis m, some research work at the Jewish elements , . . His best
Moreover, if the Nasser govern- brethren in Palestine," . cried London British Museum and sellers in English may be for-
ment were in this matter a lit- Cairo's Voice of the Arabs, died at his writing table.
gotten soon but his first Yid-
tle more civilized, the Aqaba
"imagine all these things
We met Sholem Asch when dish stories of Jewish life in • Reasonable Rates • Simmons Beaulyntil
Mattresses
route might be of benefit to which imperialism wishes for he was still a young man and Poland will live for a long • Outdoor Patio
• 3 Meals and
you. American imperialism it- had come to Berlin (Germany) time, on a par with the works ,* Music, Dancing,
the whole Middle East and not
Midnight Snack
Sports
exclusively to Israel.
self. Imagine it is not only
to find a producer for his
• Air-Conditioned
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Beautiful
Rooms
int en d ed to scatter one mil- "God of Vengeance" . . . He Lady Reading in Canada
Dining Room
This newspaper's corre-
With Private Bath
lion Palestine Arab refugees, was fresh from Poland and a to Meet with ICW Leaders
and Showers
spondent in Cairo reports that
but the intention today is to 'newcomer to Western civiliza-
MONTREAL ( W J A ) — The
members of the League are
MICHIGAN BEACH RESORT
kill them and annihilate them tion . • . He was already recog- Marchioness of Reading, presi-
now embarking on an "all-
completely . • . Brethren,
SOUTH HAVEN, MICH. • PHONE 451
nized as one of the great Yid- dent of the World Jewish Con-
out effort to bar Israeli ship-
imagine your fate after they
dish writers, one of the five gress British Section, recently
ping from the Gulf of Aqaba
hand you over to your Ameri- top figures in the golden era participated in a conference of
. . If seriously undertaken,
THE
can enemy to annihilate of Yiddish literature which was the International Council of
it could be nothing more than
y ou . . ."
dominated in those days by Women, held in Montreal, of
an attempt to play politics
Americans in Cairo could not Mendele, Sholem Aleichem, which she is a vice-president.
at the expense of the general
On this occasion, Lady Read-
welfare and at the risk of remember a time when hatred Peretz, Bergelson, Hirschbein
was so directed at them.
and Naumberg ... . While they ing, a member of the World
war . . ."
'hottr .74sce, t ,
—Time Magazine were content to write for their Executive of Congress, dis-
The Arab states continue to Belsen
Yiddish readers, Asch set out cussed with leaders of the Ca-
SOUTH HAVEN MICHIGA*
proclaim their determination to
Some time ago a book, called to conquer foreign worlds .•.
Overlooking beautiful
destroy Israel, a state created "Belsen," came across our desk He managed to interest Max nadian Jewish Congress the
take Michigan
'under UN auspices, and so in- and made us curious. We sent Reinhardt, then the outstand- proposed new Jewish world or-
sist on maintaining a "state a note to Tel Aviv, asking about ing German theatrical pro- ganization and other problems
of mutual interest.
of war" with Israel enforced it, mainly because the book ducer, in "God of Vengeance,"
by guerrilla warfare and block- struck us as unpretentious, and the play was staged in one
ade.
m o v in g l y reminiscent and of Reinhardt's Berlin theatres
A Week
They are doingso in defiance timely.
with Rudolph Schildkraut in
& up
Includes
With Filtered Temperature ConS:
Its contents consisted of pa- the principal role It created
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former inmates. Somehow it munity felt that the play about
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Sholem Asch's life encom-
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ran, of self-confidence. Schools, dish literature . .• . When he
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nurseries and a theater flourish- was young, Yiddish literature
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ed in the camp immediately.
was enjoying wide popularity
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The
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That is not depressing. We
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were lucky enough (because Jewish people read Yiddish .
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behind . . . Only a very
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Yiddish
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was the playful macabre slogan extent that the Yiddish theater
Modern, 3 room cottages with
as well as Yiddish newspapers
these days.
equipment kitchen and private
He also told us that there lost more than half their con-
showers. Rooms have kitchen
were five years between libera- stituency . . • Within two de-
privileges. Large apartments with
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tion
and relocation. They, there- cades the Yiddish writer found
private kitchen and bath. Rea-
80 acres of happiness.
himself a solitary figure writ-
fore,
set
up
kindergartens
and
luxury
at
sonable rates.
modest rates. Dream
nurseries, a Talmudic Acad- ing for an old generation which
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orchestra (Free cha-cha lessons),
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Midnight
snacks, Tennis, Shut:.
glorious
life
.
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Sholem
Asch
Rosensaft said 11,000 copies of
fieboaril, Golf, Children's Cogs.
"Belsen." had been printed- however refused to accept his
solar.
4.41,11,4,~41•004,41PNIN4PW4,41P,M4P~
3,000 in English, 3,000 in He- fate and managed to crash the
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secular field . . . He found in
brew and 5,000 in Yiddish.
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We asked him about German. Maurice Samuel not merely a
He nodded. "We have thought translator but a recreator who
of it," he said. "Possibly we will adapted his novels and made
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peach
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but we don't do this with a reading Jews and even to large
numbers of non-Jews .
light heart."
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