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Glick Study Shows Latin American `The Bankrupts'; Unfair Portrayal of London Jews _
"The Bankrupts " by Brian 1 For instance, Chuzpah he in London as portrayed in "The
Countries' Attitude Toward Israel Glanville,
published by Double- speaks of as chuzpur. He uses
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Vital roles are played in the
United Nations by the Latin
American countries. Many of
them exerted strong influence
both in the favorable votes on
the Palestine Partition Plan
as well as in the admission of
Israel into the UN.
There are changing attitudes
among these nations, and the
various noticeable trends are
outlined in great detail in
"Latin America and the Pales-
tine Problem," by Edward B.
Glick, published by the Theo-
dor Herzl Foundation (250 W.
57th, N.Y. 19).
In his analyses of actions
by these nations, the author of
this study shows that Latin
American delegations showed
A "zealous care for the interests
;a of Arab refugees," but that
their reactions to Soviet bloc
F anti-Semitism was equally as
strong.
Catholic influence in this
bloc is indicated in a number
of instances.
Many other elements of in-
fluence affect the attitudes of
Latin Americans towards
Israel.
Reviewing historically the
efforts to acquire the friend.
ship of these nations, Glick
describes many and varied
efforts that were made by
Zionists and Israelis to in-
fluence Latin America.
Important chapters in this
book describe the Latin Ameri-
cans actions during the first
session of the UN General
Assembly, the role of the three
Latin Americans on UNSCOP,
the factors underlying the
Partition Resolution and the
developing trends from Par-
tition to Israel's membership
in the UN. Special attention
is given to the Catholic in-
fluence in the chapter "The
Vatican, Latin America and
the Internationalization of
Jerusalem. "Until Israel suc-
ceeds in winning over the Holy
See to her point of view on
Jerusalem. her chances of do-
ing the same with the ma-1
jority of Latin American
nations remain at best prob-
lematical."
Glick emphasized the hu-
manitarianism of the Latin'
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American countries in their
approaches to Israel.
"In the final analyses,"
he concludes, "the countries
of Central and South Am-
erica chose to react to the
Palestine problem in terms
of a number of their most
cherished ideals. If this has
meant, in reality, that Latin
America has supported the
Jewish side of the argument
more often than the Arab
side, it is only because the
Jewish side, by a fortuitous
coincidence, has been more
intimately associated with
some of the very principles
that have been embraced
by Latin America."
Glick's book has the added
merit of containing, in addi-
tion to fine bibliography, ap-
pendices on the following sub-
jects: Chronological List of
States That Have Recognized
Israel; Estimated Jewish Popu-
lation of Latin America in
1947 and 1957; Memorandum
of Colombian Ministry for
Foreign Affairs Calling for
the Internationalization of
Jerusalem; Voting Table on
the Palestine Question.
Jewish Divorces in
Denver are Reported
Averaging 25 a Year
day, is described as "a moving,
biting novel of Jewish family
life today."
It is the story of a middle
class family whose children dis-
appoint them, whose daughter,
especially, rebels against their
way of life.
Rosemary Frieman refuses to
be a party to a "shiddach" engi-
neered by their parents. In-
stead, she becomes infatuated
with a poor student, Bernard
Carter, who wants to marry her
but says he must wait until he
earns his Ph. D. Meanwhile they
live together after Rosemary
leaves her parents' home against
their wishes.
In the course of time, Ber-
nard accepts a post at the He-
brew University in Jerusalem.
Rosemary is uncertain about her
feelings for Israel, but she be-
comes reconciled to Bernard's
preferences. Soon after he
leaves for Israel she learns she
is pregnant. She is prepared to
go to him, when news arrives
that he was killed in an Arab
skirmish.
She goes back to the home of
her parents who plot to send
her to a home where the child
would be given away and Rose-
mary would return to normal
life with them. But she, in turn,
decides to go to a kibbutz in
Israel. That brings on another
storm, her father ordering her
to go immediately and not wait
for the two weeks she planned
to elapse for the trip to Israel.
That's the story. It can hap-
pen to any one. Yet, the author
speaks of it as a "novel of Jew-
ish life" and thereby creates
erroneous impressions. Change
the characters to Peruvians or
Hondurans or French, and the
story could apply to any one.
But we are told that it is a de-
scription of Jewish life because
the writer used some Jewish
terms. The irony of it is that
he mostly misapplied or mis-
spelled these terms.
DENVER (JTA) — Divorces
among Jewish families in Den-
ver average 25 a year, Dr.
Alfred M. Neumann. director
of the Jewish Family and
Children's Service, estimated,
commenting on a move by the
chief justice of the local Do-
mestic Court to cut down the
mounting divorce rate through
professional consultation serv-
ices.
Dr. Neumann, who believes
that half of the divorces are
among partners of mixed mar-
riages, reports that he has been
successful in preventing the
break-up of homes where mar-
riage partners have come to Hebrew Corner
the consultation service for ad-
vice. In the past year. he dis-
closed. only four of 75 couples,
w o came to his agency, went
Translation of Hebrew columns
through with divorce plans. on left. Published by Brit Ivrit
Denver has an overall Jewish Olamit.
The opera is one of the first
population of 18,000 men,
forms of art to have been
women and children.
developed in the new Eretz
Israel. And in spite of that it
Imp iq
has
had no luck.
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One of the first songs that
I learnt when I was a child was
a song "Agbaniah, Agbaniah!"
(Tomato Tomato!). It was an
aria from a Hebrew opera about
the life of the pioneers, which
was sung thirty years ago in
Eretz Israel.
But by the time I learned the
meaning of the word "opera",
were no longer per-
,p—p-"q7 operas
formed in Israel, neither in
Hebrew nor in any other lan-
,
guage. In the course of the
years various attempts were
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made to establish operatic com-
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panies, but none of them sur-
vived.
After an interval of some
74447 - years
the activities of the
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been renewed. A movie build-
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by the Kneset before
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it moved to Jerusalem the Cap-
ital — has been placed at the
rip ,nip. '?5.
disposal of the Operatic Com-
pany. Many of the singers and
the musicians of the company
are new immigrants who have
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come to Israel during recent
years from Eastern Europe,
Egypt and other countries.
In Israel there is a keen
interest in the opera and a
rrj large
audience comes to listen
to guest singers and troupes
from abroad. Opera lovers in
Israel hope that this time the
attempt will be successful and
that in the course of time the
Israel Opera will have the same
standing as our orchestras and
theatrical and dance troupes.
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Bankrupts"?
The life portrayed is hardly
Jewish. There is no indication
that there is any sort of Jewish
practice against which Rose-
mary or any one would have to
rebel. Yet we are led to believe
that "The Bankrupts", aside
from the failure of the parents,
also is a revolt against the older
generation by Jewish children.
We don't know whether or
not Brian Glanville is Jewish.
If he is, he should learn a bit
about Jews and Judaism to be
able to write authoritatively
about both—and to refer prop-
erly to Hebrew terms. If he is
not Jewish, he has a serious
grudge against those who mis-
led him in the writing of his
novel. It is a well-written story,
but unconvincing because un-
true.
—P. S.
the word meshuggah indiscrimi-
nately. Malach hamoves — He-
brew•for the Angel of Death—
he uses as machamovis. Shickser
is one of his commonly misused
terms.
The worst of it is that he
paints the parents of Rosemary
as rough, crude, cruel people.
It is possible that there are such
Jewish fathers and mothers who
speak very rudely to their chil-
dren. But the objections we
have heard until now to Jewish
parents is that they are too kind
to their children, rather than
that they mistreat them and do
not guide them properly. The
Friemans in this story are ugly
and vulgar. Are we to believe
that this is the new Jewish life
Bnai Brith Honors
92-Yr.-Old Member Ask Each U.S. Jew
KIAMESHA LAKE, N. Y. —
Bnai Brith sPotlighted its trib-
ute on a 92-year-old member this
week.
He is Calvin Leichtman of
Hazleton, Pa.—a man who has
given more than a half century
to volunteer community service.
Leichtman was honored at a
special ceremony during the an-
nual convention here of Bnai
Brith's District 3. Delegates
from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware . and West Virginia
joined in paying tribute to his
long career.
A college fellowship, adminis-
tered by Bnai Brith's youth serv-
ice program, was established in
Leichtman's honor. He was also
cited for "a lifetime of unselfish
devotion to his community and
fellow men" by Philip M. Klutz-
nick, president of Bnai Brith.
to Plant 10 Trees
The Jewish National Fund
this week issued a call urging
every American Jew to sub-
scribe to the planting of at least
10 trees in Israel as a personal
tribute to her first 10 years of
independence and as a means
of helping the young nation to
rehabilitate large areas of bar-
ren or eroded soil for agricul-
ture and immigrant settlement.
The call to plant "Ten Trees
for Ten Years of Israel" was
issued by the JNF's board of
directors from the land agency's
headquarters at 42 E. 69th St.,
New York.
In announcing the start of
the program, the JNF board
pointed out that tree planting
has always had special and
deep significance for the land
of Israel.
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