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Mrs. Ehrlich on
`Profile' Program
Saturday, Sunday

Rufus Learsi's "Filled with Laughter"

Wealth of Stories From All Ages
and Climes in Noted Writer's Book

Reva Usher to hied
Charles N. Rosen

Red Army Paper Slams
Israel Rocket Research

LONDON (JTA)—The Soviet
armed forces newspaper "Red
Star" denounced Israeli rocket
research, stating tbat Israel's
test rocket firing was part
of a campaign of intimidation
against the Arabs.
The Red Army newspaper,
published in Moscow, charged
the rocket firing was designed
also "to raise the flagging
spirits of the Israeli population
which is disillusioned with the
policy of Ben-Gurion's govern-
ment." A Soviet allegation was
that the rocket fired in
as timed to coincide
campaigning for the
Israeli elections.

Few other Jewish writers of died and befuddling world we
our time are as • qualified as all live in . . . The Chelmites
Rufus Learsi to write on the are not just absurd, they are
subject of 'Jewish humor as pathetic, and our laughter is
authoritatively as he does.
laced with affection . . . "
"Filled with Laughter," his
There is value also in
latest work, sub-titled "A Fiesta Learsi's evaluation of the role
of Jewish Folk Humor," pub- of Hershele Ostropoler, who
lished by Thomas Yoseloff (11 was "the foremost of a goodly
E. 36th, N.Y. 16), is without company of wags and prank-
doubt the best book published sters . • ."
on the subject.
The beggars, rabbiS, marriage
Others have compiled Jewish brokers, melamdim and others
stories and have evaluated the in the comedy pageant are
Jewish art of punning, or laugh- offered as "a sort of Purim
ing at th _ emselves and of en- parade," and the march is ac-
MRS. JOSEPH H. EHRLICH joying a good joke. But Rufus companied by many elements
MISS R A USHER
Learsi's rises to new heights humor collected by Learsi.
Mrs. Joseph H. (Dora B.) and will be measured as being
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Ehrlich, Detroit's most prominent among the most impressive on
Candids Professionally Finished
Israel's humor reflec
Jewish woman, will be interview- the art of humor.
For Appointment Phone
g
modern state, "born
ed on TV, Channel 4, at 10 p.m.
arles N.
. LEIBICK
Rufus Learsi is the pen name battle and anguish." I
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Saturday night, on the "Profile" of Israel Goldberg. He has writ- humor of the n _ ew state,
r. an • Mrs.
program.
o s e n of Appoline
ten under both name s, and states, "there is little
The one-hour program will be under his pseudonym he grimness that might have bee
e.
conducted by William Fyffe, who already had gained fame 40 expected. It is the huxnor
The
Miss Usher attended the Uni-
will do the interviewing.
versity of Mich'
years ago. His record of crea- people schooled in suffe
This program will be repeated tive writing has remained un- but without bitterness or
is a grad to
again at 3 p.m. on Sunday, on broken through the years.
Univers'
pity.
Its
laughter,
in
f
ORCHESTRA
Channel 4.
public
He is the author of such out- wholesome and sponta
This will be the first time that standing works as "Israel: A
ated
Music and Entertainment
a woman will be interviewed on History of the Jewish People," The pakid, or bureau
fraternity an
yeke,
or
immigrant
fro
At Its Finest
,
the "Profile" program. The se- "Fulfillment: The Epic Story of
'
honor
many, Jews of all descrip
lection of Mrs. Ehrlich is a trib- Zionism,"
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"The History of the are delineated in the last sec-
ute to her leadership in the Jew-
Jews
in
AMeric
a,"
a
three-
tion
of
his
book,
proving
ish community and in her numer-
volume "Outline of Jewish His- Learsi's point.
Italian
ed
ous civic activities. •
tory" written in collaboration
"Filled with • Laughter" is for
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in Country's
with the late Dr. Samson Ben- just what the title offers. What
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cation in 1861
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umor — "Kasriel the Watch-, be incorporated hi the review
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Parties, Luncheons,
title and the points made by
la
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and
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. Beautiful- and de-
Learsi in his explanatory essays.
• unificat .
periodical published at Paris,
icious pastries, schnecken,
ppropriately, the frontis- Let the book be read— and th
red years ag
n French, was ordered seized
and coffeecakes.
ce
of
"Filled
with
Laughter"
reader will refer to it again and ighly at a special re
here by the Moroccan nistry
on
CALL:
r r i e s the quotation from again* for genuine enjoyment, 'ven by the May
of Information The con-
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or
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filled
with
laughter,
and
to
pass
on
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his
friends.
Ita
ish Communities.
ical's
our
tounge
with
singing."
reporti
t
He gives due credit for some Only Three Eichmann
Jews in M
of the stories to earlier writers
Jewish humor = Druyahov, Aides Executed for
e- 6 for oupon on
See
Olsvanger, Ausubel, and - others.
for w Ye
reetings • In this work, Learsi has col- Crimes, WJC Notes
Only three of Eichmann's
lected the stories of noted
humorists and story-tellers, in- principal aides have paid the
cluding IIershele Ostropoler, supreme penalty for their part
and others, and has included in the mass murder of Euro-
the best' Chelm stories, hiniaor pean Jews, according to the
of present-day Israel and others. World Jewish Congress. .
There are five sections in the
Siegfried Seidl, member of
book—"The Valiant Rooster," Eichmann's Hungaria i m-
wry, droll and merry tales; the mando, and A
Chelm stories; the Ostropoler Eichmann's
a,
y in
quips and pranks; "Pageant of were bot
stria.
ecuted i
the Human Comedy" and the Dieter
iceny war- executed
modern Israeli stories. Each in Si
is where he had been
nn's assistant.
section is preceded by an ex- Eic
me distinc e nutty flavor. Great new convenience.
ublication,
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planatory preface in which the
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Is laughter, as Henri Bergson
and
Still available
said, primarily a social func- waitin , four in West
. in wedge form.
t
tion? Learsi refers to other Germany and two in Austria.
authorities. Spencer and Freud They are: Erich Deppner and
said it was a release of pent-up Wilhelm Zoepf, who served
emotions and 'a liberation from in The Hague; Otto Hunche
inhibitions. "In the teeming and Hermann Krumey, who
communities of Eastern Europe, served in Hungary, all held in
where Jewish• folk humor West Germany; Franz Slavik
attained its richest efflores- and Kurt Franz Novak, Eich-
cence, it was the only weapon mann's transportation chief,
with which he could avenge arrested in Austria.
himself against his enemies,
One of the 5,i, Theodor
Learsi contends.
necker, committed
e in
You'll love
While he grants that some prison; four are
n to be
of the characters in the human free: Walter
ff, chief
RE BEEF
comedy who are presented in mobile gas
tubers, b__
the first section of the book to be in t
iddle East; Alfred
mp, Juicy
CHEF BOYAR- DEE may be unfamiliar to the Amer- Hartl,
two others, Barbier
g with Flavor
and
S
ican
Jew,
Learsi
says
that
"they
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that real Italian flavor created by
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lovak'
jamed Chef Boy-Ar-Dee. Tender understood and relished."
Delicatessens,
In his description of Chelm, 111 iding i
la.
o
tittle macaroni pies ...filled with
Supermarkets and
"not a figment but a real b-
of the Hungarian
tangy Italian Cheese... simmered
Restaurants.
town in. Poland, Learsi re-' ma o, Slotke and
d
with savory tomato sauce and
fers to the social structure Slav
re kno
ye gone
of this shtetl and he points undergr
theaSe...aeasoned the real Rai-
out that the absurdities
Three others are in prison:
ten way. $o much tastier' and
to this town is not Franz Fisvher and Ferdinand
sailer than the frozen kind. So ascribed
limited to it,- that "there are aus der Fuenten, both serving
Much thriftier, _too—costs only
Chelmites swarming all life sentences in Holland, and
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