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Jerome Weidman's 'Enemy Camp,'
An Absorbing, Well-Written Novel,
With Intermarriage as the Theme

Dr. Urey in Israel

It is no wonder that "The tion, George says: "I'll tell
Enemy Camp", the new novel by you what it's going to be like
Jerome Weidman, just pub- for that boy. No matter how
lished by Random House, has much Violetta loves him, and
been chosen as the July selec- no matter how much he loves
tion of the Book-of-the-Month her, and no matter how nice
Club. It may well be considered you are to him, Nick, all his
the best of Weidman's 16 pub- life, deep down inside, that
lished novels and there is no boy will feel like Joe Louis at
doubt about its outstanding a white dinner."
qualities as an excellent contri-
Even those who strenuously
bution to contemporary litera- oppose intermarriage, as all
ture.
Jews who seek the survival of
Dr. HAROLD UREY, Nobel
Like others among his novels, Jewry do, may take exception Prize Laureate of the Univer-
"The Enemy Camp" may prove to such an interpretation. This sity of Chicago's Institute of
the subject of long and wide is the angle in "The Enemy Nuclear Physics, checks an
discussion and controversy.
Camp" that will cause wide de- experiment being conducted
in a physics laboratory of the
It is the absorbing story of bate.
George Hurst, an orphan lad
George's wife resented his Hebrew University during his
raised by his aunt, who rises in suspicions that she always recent visit to the Israel
the field of accountancy in spite thought of him antagonistically school.
of many obstacles in his path; as a Jew. She vehemently as-
his two close friends, Danny serted that she only thought of
Schorr who changes his name him and looked upon him as a
to Daniel Shaw, and Dora human being. When he finally
Dienst.
shakes off the influence of Dan-
Danny casts a spell over ny and at last cuts all ties with
George. Even after he has in- Dora, "if the world at which
STOCKTON. Calif., (JTA)—
volved him in a scandal result- George Hurst had thumbed his
ing in Danny's stealing $400 nose had finally caught up with Dr. I. I. Weiss, a member of a
where both worked, George him, it was not—he knew, final- group of American business-
seems to yield in friendship to ly, as he inserted the key in the men, professionals and clergy-
his pal. Danny didn't seem to lock of his front door—because men who issued the full text of
have any qualms about having he had been barred from a few their talk in the Kremlin with
the robbery blamed on George. hotels in Florida but because Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush-
But George later goes out of the with his own terrors he had chev on the situation of the
barred himself from going to Soviet Jews, made a special
way again to help his friend.
All the time, George, who was Mary as she had come to him, study of the Jews in the Soviet
deeply in love with Dora, and as he was now free at last Union, it is emphasized in the
thought she loved him because to go to her: with no strings general report issued by the
group. Dr. Weiss, who is a resi-
she kept saying she hated Dan- attached."
In the late Dr. Ludwig Lewi- dent of Stockton, included his
ny. All the time, it later devel-
oped, she loved only Danny sohn's "The Island Within" we observations in the general re-
had another view. In both in- port of the group. They read:
whom she married.
* * *
stances, involving intermarriage,
"In Western Russia, Jews did
A phone call, early in the there were types of terrors, as not feel free to talk much even
novel, from a stranger who indicated in the above conclud- in their own homes with me.
wanted to know what happened ing words to Weidman's "The In Leningrad and Moscow, most-
to Danny's wife who had disap- Enemy Camp." But in the lat- ly Leningrad, fear was rampant.
peared — it develops that the ter, there is an exaggeration They fear the instability and
wife is Dora—under threat that that may leave the wrong im- especially the unpredictability
otherwise there will be some pression. There is a principle of the regime. One never
"digging" and the truth will be involved in opposition by Jews knows what tomorrow will
exposed, causes George to go to intermarriage: it is a matter bring. All agreed that things
over the entire detailed story of of survival of our people and have eased since Stalin died, but
the three pals' inseparableness our culture in an environment tomorrow, who knows what will
and his relationship to both in which we -are the minority. come then. That's the trouble.
But that should not create the No fear for today's regime. It's
Danny and Dora.
Out Of fear that his wife—he impression that everything non- the tomorrow that is unpredict-
is married now to a non-Jewess Jewish is within an enemy camp. able that they fear. And they
and has two children — would That angle, in an excellent do not want to talk because
learn of the Dora incident and novel by Jerome Weidman, is they know they have informers
in their midst, informers who
the fact that he had relations not true.
record what they say. The rec-
with her, George is panicked by
ords are not used today in the
what may happen if he does not DeGaulle Minister
easy regime that is in control,
tell the strange telephone caller
but they may be used in any
the story. It is out of this de- of Justice Is Jevir
future regime. And that is why
velopment that. •the life story of
PARIS, (JTA)—Michel Debre, they do not want to talk.
George through . these many
Minister of Justice in the nt':w
"Bible classes and internal
years is so ably related in "The
de Gaulle cabinet, was reported teaching that comprises an im-
Enemy Camp." George is saved
to be a Jew who is very portant part of the synagogue
all that trouble when his wife here
active in Jewish communal ac- life has been forbidden. The 20
learns the details; when George
tivities. He was said to be a rabbis-to-be, who now attend the
in turn learns the true feelings
grandson of Dr. H. Schwartz, seminary for the first time in
of Dora; when he is able to have chief rabbi of Strassbourg.
the 40 years since the 1917 rev-
Dora herself respond to the call-
Debre's wife is also active in olution, will be nothing but
er, who wanted a clean record
for Daniel Shaw whom he was Jewish affairs, and is a contri- leaders in their few congrega-
to back for the Senatorship. butor to "Evidence," the publi- tions. They will cover but a
Thereby Dora would be reunited cation of the American Jewish small portion, an infinitesimal
with her husband, George would Committee in Paris, for which portion, of the Jewish syna-
be relieved of a grave responsi- she writes on Jewish subjects. gogues needing rabbis. And they
bility and the bonds between M. Debre fought with the French will be leaders—but not teach-
the two thus permanently Resistance during World War ers. Rabbi is a Hebrew word
II. When de Gaulle formed his that means teacher, but these
broken.
provisional government after the men will not be real rabbis.
*
That's only one part of the war, M. Debre .served with the They will be religiously trained
leaders."
story. It is the title of the novel General as a legal expert.
that is of major importance.
"The Enemy Camp" is George's
attitude to the non-Jews around
him. Even with reference to his
Former Detroiter William R.
own wife, Mary Sherrod, until Blumenthal, who now resides at ographical notes, in his indica-
the very last moment, he is un- 339 S. Sycamore Ave., Los An- tion of the influence of Mendele
Mocher Seforim and Benjamin
der the impression that non- geles 36, whose "A Jewish Ques-
Jews constantly think ill of tion and Answer Book" was re- of Huclela upon his thinking.
Book loving, book selling,
their Jewish neighbors and as- viewed in our columns recently,
writing and reading among Jews
sociates.
has publiShed another interest- is emphasized in the second es-
There is an interesting ing volume,. which contains two
say. There is something very
parallelism to George's think- of his essays—"How Much Are nostalgic about his remi-
ing. When one of his clients, You Sorry For?" and "They niscences, and the extensive
an Italian, consults him on his Chose Books."
references to outstanding Jew-
daughter's having fallen in
The first of the two essays is ish literary efforts will be found
love with a Jew, and asks him autobiographical. The second is
very valuable for students of
how his daughter would feel a condensation of a lengthy dis- Jewish
literature.
in a Jewish environment, sertation he wrote on "Love of
Blumenthal's appended glos-
George says he does not know Books by the People of the
sary of Hebrew words and
but "what it'll be like for that Book."
phrases and the selected bibli-
boy living with all you Ital-
His friends here will be espe- ography of Jewish books adds
ians." Pressed for an explana- cially interested in the autobi- merit to this fine book.

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