`The Anglo-Saxons,' Novel About J Bar-Ilan IJ"; Initiates
Laity Lecture Series
Israel's War of Independence
Lestern Gorn is highly qual-
ified to narrate the story of Is-
rael's War of Liberation. He
was the only American com-
manding officer of the Israel
ground forces. He fought in the
Negev and directed Israel's
quickly-mobilized forces in some
of the most dangerous spots in
the land.
In the final objective of Is-
rael's southern drive, during the
war of freedom and statehood,
he commanded the second car
that entered Elath.
He assumed the name of Ben-
Zion Hagai when he command-
ed the anti-tank 5th Israel Army
Troop and he had the distinc-
tion of participating in every
battle of, in and for the Negev.
That is why there is so much
realism to his novel about Is-
rael's War of Independence,
"The Anglo Saxons," which has
been published by Sagamore
Press, 11 E. 36th, N. Y. 16.
While all the horrors of the
war are recounted in this story
Baron Rothschild
Honored in N.Y. by
Investors in Israel
NEW YORK (JTA) Diplo-
mats, Israel government offi-
cials, prominent American fi-
nanciers and business men, as
well as heads of some of the
major American Zionist groups
attended a reception for Baron
Edmond de Rothschild and his
young bride, Baroness Lina de
Rothschild, at Ampal House.
Baron de Rothschild is the
grandson of the man whose
name became a byword in in-
ternational finance and philan-
thropy and who played a major
part in the early development
of Jewish colonization of Pales-
tine.
Baron de Rothschild partici-
pates actively in many chari-
table and Franco-Israel organi-
zations and is continuing his
family's traditional interest in
Israel through investment in
major development projects.
The Ampal is a corporation of
private American investors
which itself has played a lead-
ing role in the development of
Israel's economy for the past
two decades. -
Ask UNESCO to End
Teachings of Hatred
by Member Nations
The six major national relig-
ious organizations of the Am-
erican Jewish community have
cabled Maxwell Rabb, chair-
man of the United States dele-
gation to the International
General Conference of UNES-
CO, now meeting in Paris, a
request that the American dele-
gates press for adoption of a
recommendation that member
states of UNESCO give assur-
ances that they "discourage the
teaching of inflammatory poli-;
tical points of view," particu-
larly to children.
The religious groups are the
Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis, Rabbinical Assem-
bly of America, Rabbinical
Council of America, Union of
American Hebrew Congrega-
tions of America, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations
of America, and United Syna-
gogue of America. The cable
was released through the Syna-
gogue Council of America.
Dr. Abraham Mibashan
Elected President of
"DAIA" in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES (JTA — A
new slate of officers, headed by
Dr. Abraham Mibashan, was
elected to head the DAIA, cen-
tral representative body of Ar-
gentine Jewry. Dr. Mibashan
was named president, Dr. Leon
Podhorzer, general secretary,
and Carlos Klechik, treasurer.
of Americans who fought side
by side with the Israelis in the
war of 1948, there also is a good
love story. In fact, the book
begins with a love story—with
the affections of Joe Kane, a
veteran of World War II for a
non-Jewess, Carol Bordon. Joe's
father is a devoted Zionist, but
Joe goes to Israel to fight with
his kinsmen not out of a Jew-
ish consciousness but because
of an almost-inexplainable urge
for a nationalism he did not
really cling to.
In Israel, Joe becomes the
idol of the men he commands.
He learns to know not only the
brutality of enemy actions and
the deplorable methods of coun-
ter-attack, but also the plight
of refugees with whom he trav-
els on the boat from France to
Israel and with whom he later
shares the experiences of the
war.
There is a love episode with
one of the new settlers, but his
non-Jewish fiancee also comes
to Israel to write feature stor-
ies for a magazine, and in the
end, as the victors sing "am
yisrael hai!", he saw "her smile
was a kiss . .. over the happy,
bobbing figures their eyes
held."
In the interim, a great drama
was enacted. Characters of vary-
ing natures are involved in the
struggle in Israel, some are un-
savory, their expressions are
a bit vulgar. But it is part of
the realism that goes with war.
There is also a good reflec-
tion of the Israeli problems.
For instance, Joe tells one of
his fellow-commanders that the
Israelis lack a sense of humor,
and he asks, "haven't you
learned how to laugh?" And
Zvi replies: "Laughter is a lux-
ury reserved for those who have
a country of their own." But
since there already is a coun-
try, why the delay? In the dis-
cussion that develops, the ar-
gument is advanced that "laugh-
ter does not come quickly," that
the Israelis still are "haunted
by the six million ghosts."
Is there also a ghost of anti-
Semitism in the United States?
It is being involved in this phil-
osophical argument.
A tragic episode is the accu-
sation against one of the men
in the Israel army that he col-
laborated with the Germans in
selecting those to be sent to the
crematoriums from the Warsaw
Ghetto. The accused tries de-
fense: some had to go, and "re-
sistance was useless." There is
hatred against him, and he seeks
atonement on the battle field,
giving up his life in devotion
to Israel, his last hope.
There is much in this novel
that is revealing—about a young
American's reaction to Israel,
about the tragedies of war,
about human relations in time
of a libertarian struggle.
Foundation Apologizes
for Award to Fascist
ROME, (JTA)—A foundation
named in memory of • an Italian
patriot who was arrested and
deported for helping Italian
Jews flee to Switzerland from
the Nazi-Fascist regime publicly
apologized for having awarded
a gold medal to a man who
signed Benito Mussolini's racial
manifesto in 1938. The mani-
festo marked the beginning of
the Fascist persecution of the
Jews in Italy.
The apology came after the
Union of Italian Jewish Com-
munities had addressed a pro-
test to the Bruno Rezzara Foun-
dation over its award of a gold
medal to Prof. Sabato Visco.
Prof. Visco was a signatory of
the racist manifesto. Bruno Rez-
zara's brother, in his apology
to the Union, said that he had
not been aware of Prof. Visco's
Fascist background when the
award was decided upon.
Two New York professors,
spending a year on special as-
signment at Bar-Ilan University
in Israel, are featured in a "Lec-
tures to the Laity" series initi-
ated by the university, accord-
ing to an announcement by
Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein,
chairman of the university's
academic council.
Rabbi Lookstein, spiritual
leader of Congregation Kehilath
Jeshurun of New York, said
that the winter lecture series is
the first to be offered the Is-
raeli public by the three-year-
old college. Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity's adult education program
has been restricted in the past
to on - campus lectures and
classes.
The professors are Dr. Joseph
G. Cohen, former Dean of the
Teacher Training Division of
New York's municipal college
system, a n d Prof. Charles
Glicksberg, associate professor
of English at Brooklyn College.
B-G Blasts Free World Zionist
Leaders for Remaining in Diaspora
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Premier
David Ben-Gurion blamed Zion-
ist leaders abroad for the fail-
ure of Jews to immigrate to Is-
rael from the free democracies
of the West.
Addressing a press luncheon,
Ben-Gurion said that the Zion-
ist movement in the free coun-
tries had failed -in its task. Im-
migration, he continued, is not
a matter of merely preaching,
but must be accomplished by
leadership example. Not one
Zionist abroad, he asserted, had
set such an example for the
Jewish masses.
Replying to a query why Is-
raeli schools had prohibited va-
rious organized youth move-
ment activities within the
schools, the Premier said that
had there been but a single
pioneering movement it would
have been allowed to function.
But when there are eight dis-
tinct groups, he went on, Halut-
a alls
now
ziut is forgotten and the activi-
ties become party rivalry.
While he is active in the lead-
ership of the Israel Government
the Premier said, he will not
press for changes in the Zionist
movement. But when and if he
quits his government post, Ben-
Gurion will devote his efforts
to "establish and promote a true
Halutzic movement abroad," he
said.
Radio Moscow Fetes Arabs
LONDON, (JTA)—Radio Mos-
cow's Arab-language broadcasts
have been devoted to a major
extent to reports of the arrival
in the Soviet capital of the first
party of students from the
United Arab Republic to at-
tend Soviet universities. The ar-
rival of the students, under the
terms of a new UAR-Soviet cul-
tural pact, was also marked by
a "festival" of UAR films in
Moscow.
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