Jo Sinelair"s 'Anna Teller
Tells numan,Powerful Story
To Wed Dec. 3 Bar Mitzvahs
Book Club Founder
Worked With Lipsky
Harry Scherman, founder of
the Book of the Month Club,
responsible for selling more
hard cover books than any other
man, at one time worked on
the American Hebr e w with
Louis Lipsky. Scherman was
trying to be a writer himself
in those days, but according to
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him, no one would buy his
Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Sellin, short stories so he switched to
20025 Burt, announce the Bar advertising.
Mitzvah of their son, Scott
Lance, will be held 8:45 a.m. Classified ads bring fast results!
Saturday at Evergreen Jewish
Cong. A party will be held in
ROSENBLAT ORCHESTRA
his honor at 7 p.m. at the
Detroit's Favorite M.C.
family residence.
Mr. and Mrs. Sol Wainer,
19167 Pinehurst, announce the
Bar Mitzvah of their son, David
A., will be held Aug. 27 at
Young Israel of Northwest De-
troit. A dinner in his honor will
be held the following evening
at the Rainbow Terrace.
Jo Sinclair gained fame in I unquenchable love between
1946 when she won the Harper them. There is a reconciliation
Prize Award for her widely that ends the unfortunate bit-
acclaimed novel, "Wasteland." terness in the family.
Since then, she has written two
Intertwined also is another
other noteworthy novels, "Sing love story, between two friends,
at My Wake" and "The Change- a girl Who, in a moment of
lings."
intoxication becomes an un-
The latter, written in 1955, married mother, and a young
won the award of the year man with whom she later falls
from the Jewish Book Council in love.
of America.
There are numerous human
Her newest novel, "Anna interest angles to the story
Teller," just published by that elevate the novel to a high
- and His Entertainment
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David McKay Co. (119 W. 40th, position in the narrative liter-
Specialty —
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Hertz-
N.Y. 18), promises to outstrip ary field.
Weddings & Bar Mitzvahs
MISS ADRIENNE LANKIN
berg,
21950
Kipling,
Oak
Park,
all her other works in popular- - Anna was "the General"
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Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Lank- announce the Bar Mitzvah of
ity.
in her native Hungarian com-
munity. Was it because she in of Stoepel Ave. announce the their son, Jerry, will be held
A 600-page narrative,
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domineered, that her word engagement of their daughter, 9 a.m. Sept. 3 at Mishkan Israel
"Anna T e 11 e r" is a very
Synagogue,
14000
W.
Nine
Mile.
Vacation-Temporary-Wake-up
Adrienne,
to
Herbert
Yale
Levy,
was law among friends and in
powerful story. Its setting is
the family? That—and also son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin A smorgasbord dinner and
mainly in Detroit. It begins
dance reception will be held in
because she was a born Levy of Brooklyn, N.Y.
in Hungary and describes the
The bride-to-be is a graduate his honor beginning 9 p.m. the
leader.
anti - Communist r evolt in
same day.
which the heroine, '74-year-
Her reputation as "the Gen- of the Shapiro School of Nurs-
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old Anna Teller, participates. eral" precedes her in her corn- ing. Her fiance is a graduate of
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Mr.
and
Mrs.
Harold Jaffe,
She comes to Detroit as a ing to the United States, and i City College of New York,
120
Carolin,
Perrysburg,
Ohio,
refugee, brought to this country here, too, she is leader, the where he majored in finance. He
by her son. Emil, a poet who General — but in affectionate is a member of Tau Delta fra- announce the Bar Mitzvah of
their son, L. Jeffrey, will be
came to the United States at terms. ternity. A Dec. 3 wedding is held Aug. 27 at Cong. Bnai
and his
The heroine is described as a planned.
the age of 20.
Israel, 2727 Kenwood, Toledo.
farmer
who
loves
the
soil
and
KEY-NOTES
The novel offers an account
Mr. and Mrs. Jaffe (Shirley
of the struggles of our P.:en- who develops a fine garden in Try to Save Hartford
"Music As You Like It"
Elias) will give a reception at
eration, first the emergence of the Teller home. The boys help Synagogue in Path of
home in his honor. No cards.
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Nazism and then the Commu.. her, and the devotion to vege-
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fist conflict. table planting becomes deep- Development Project
Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Katz,
, rooted. This has a direct con- HARTFORD, (JTA) — The 26031
that,
It
Cone or d, Huntington
nection with the author's own
ever, it brings the struggles for
Hartford City Council has Woods, announce the Bar Mitz-
social justice, for political wis- hobby. Miss Sinclair now lives adopted a resolution that plans vah of their son, Roger Herschel,
dom, for economic equality in Novelty, 0., where her hobby for a $13,751,000 development
down to our own time, in our is. vegetable gardening. It is project on Hartford's East Side, will be held Saturday at Cong.
Shaarey Shomayim. An open
evident in her description of
once a Jewish neighborhood, house will be held in his honor
own communities.
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gardening that she knows the
be modified to preserve the following the services at the
Also, it is an account of a art intimately.
"The Best Need
Ados Israel Synagogue. 61-year- Katz residence. No cards.
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refugee's integration into our
Miss
Sinclair tells her story
Cost No More"
old Hartford landmark.
American way of life.
skillfully. Her "Anna Teller" is
The
resolution,
introduced
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"Anna Teller" has an im- a first rate novel. It will be no
Greeting Coupon
portant Jewish angle. In her surprise to see it make the by Mayor H. Kinsella, asked
that the edifice not be razed
native environment, in Hun- best seller lists.
but preserved as "a religious
gary, the heroine was a
thoroughly assimilated per- Three New Synagogues and historical landmark." The
proposal is now being studied
son. But her experience
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (JTA) by the Redevelopment Agency.
under the Nazis, the death of
a younger son as a victim of —The first Jewish house of Its staff is examining what
Hitlerism, the betrayal of her worship in West Hollywood was effect modification of plans to
daughter by her Christian dedicated with the installation preserve the synagogue would
husband, lead her back into of the rabbi and officers of have on the project.
Ados Israel is the last re-
the fold. Temple Beth Ahm. Rabbi Har-
Emil Teller, too, suffers from ry L. Lawrence was installed as maining synagogue on the
East Side. Members of its con-
the uncertainties involving his spiritual leader.
Jewish heritage. True, he joins HARTFORD, Conn., (JTA)— gregation hope that if the
a templ e, but he does not A new Reform congregation, building is spared, the congre-
attend services. It is an incom- the third in the Hartford area, gation will be increased when
is being organized in South the new housing facilities are
plete fulfillment.
In an hour. of challenge, he Windsor to serve the families erected.
tells his wife: "It's time to of that section. Temple Beth
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stand up and be counted. Let Hillel will use the facilities of
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Hitler know he can't kill off all the First Congregational
the Jews in the world. Besides, Church of South Windsor until
our sons need religion. They . its own temple can be built.
have to know they're Jews. The new congregation's first
They're going to bump into Friday evening service, Sept. 9,
plenty of anti-Semitism." will be conducted by Rabbi
When his wife challenges Alexander M. Schindler. of
him whether this can also hap- Boston.
BALTIMORE. (JTA) — The
pen in this country, he replies
Woodmoor
Jewish Congrega-
that he wants them to be pre-
pared. But it is a rather weak tion, which has observed the
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approach. He is willing to con- High Holy Days in clubrooms
tribute to welfare funds, to for the past three years, will
"raise my children to be good greet the New Year in its new,
a
Jews." But the temple does not air-conditioned
synagogue next
month.
hold him.
A bit later, when one of
his young sons begins to date Was Boris Pasternak
non-Jewish girls, the concern
Victim of Foul Play?
about possible intermarriage
Jerome Beatty, Jr., writing in
begins to upset him.
The grandmother, Anna Tell- his column, "Trade Winds," in
er, the one-time assimilated a recent issue of Saturday Re-
Hungarian Jewess, is similarly view. states:
Correspondent John Morley
concerned. The 74-year-old refu-
gee starts going to synagogue tells us Boris Pasternak was the
services. In her way, she hopes victim of foul play by the
to influence the young grand- Kremlin. "I was the only re-
porter to get to him after his
sons.
But there is also a tragic house arrest and persecution
family conflict. Emil believes in 1959, until his death, report-
that his mother had greater edly of cancer, which I won't
love for his young brother, buy," he said.
Morley reported that Paster-
Paul, while they were in Hun-
gary. There are tense moments nak, "in our two-and-a-half-hour
between them. Anna is told to secret conversation behind some
leave his home and there is bushes in back of his home,"
a sad family rift. But when the told him to be suspicious if the
ei of Jewish Events
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children later develop typhoid novelist died.
"If you should ever hear of
fever, there is a new way of
thinking. The boys recover and lingering illness, malignancy, ar
the family rift is patched up. any unnatural decay of my
Then Emil feels he can speak bones, do not believe it, for I
frankly with his mother. They am in perfect health," Paster-
both realize that there is an nak said.
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