George Sklar's Novel 'The Identity of Dr. Frazier'
Deals with Anti-Semitism, Is Best-Seller Material

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George Sklar, of Los Angeles, surprise. The forthcoming ar- chiefs tried to induce Alex to
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
screenwriter a n d playwright, rival of a grandchild caused withdraw his declination of the
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
1929 Yale honor graduate, is him .to become reconciled to the proferred job, he told him:
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
42 the author of several novels. non-Jewish son-in-law and he
"We have a Hebrew saying:
His newest, "The Identity of offered a half million dollar "What we are is God's gift to
United States
Dr. Frazier," just published by gift for a Joseph G. Strauss us. What we make of ourselves
NEW YORK — A new 446-foot Israeli refrigerated cargo
Knopf, may prove to be the Maternity - Wing at the Jewish
›; highlight of his career. It is Memorial Hospital. This gift is our gift to God. What God vessel, the SS Ha• Gilead, arrived in port here last week on her
makes we have no choice about. maiden voyage from Puerto Bolivar, Ecuador, with a cargo of
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mci not only an excellent story was to swing Alex's election as But what we make of ourselves bananas . . . For the first time in its 215-year history, kosher
about doctors and a hospital: chief of staff.
— ah, there, I believe, is the food is available at Princeton University for observant students
Pk it is a deep s t u d y of anti-
This aggravated the issue measure of the man! We are . . . New Yavneh chapters, featuring programs of social, educa-
Semitism and the reactions to that was created by Alex's anti- what we shape ourselves to be, tional and communal activities, have been established at the
it of both Christians and Jews, S emitic outbursts, since it what we attain by will, effort, Jewish University of America, McGill University and UCLA .. •
and as such it should make the would have meant the elimina- and purpose. You are a doctor. The Central Conference of American Rabbis will hold seven
best seller list instantly.
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tion of another contestant, a You have chosen a calling in regional conferences over the next five months to give its
Alex Frazier, a surgeon who Jew, for the chief of staff posi- service of your fellows . . . You members an opportunity to review and discuss recent develop-
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originally planned to do re- tion.
have devoted your talents to ments in theology, Jewish history and Bible scholarship . . . Mrs.
search but who switched to
Alex thought he had ex- research . . to the saving of Harry Cahane, president of the Women's League for Israel, and
r.,1 surgery contrary to his Jewish tracted a promise from Strauss human life . . . I can't help Mrs. William Prince, honorary president, have presented a
wife's wishes, had met with his not to announce the gift and thinking: this is the person, $100,000 check to the American Friends of the Hebrew Um-
t-1 father-in-law's resentment of not - to give the impression that this what you have made, this versity for construction of a student center on the central
his daughter's having married he was "buying" a position- for your gift to God.' " campus in Jerusalem . . . The first showing of a collection of
E-1 out of the faith. After'20 years, his son-in-law. But Strauss
It didn't help: Alex withdrew items dealing with Nazi slaughter of European Jewry, taken
his wife, Peggy, became preg- made the gift offer neverthe- from the race and later said from the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem, opened here last
nant. At Alex's request they less, and Alex was accused of he would leave the hospital and Week at the Jewish Museum of the Jewish Theological Seminary
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went off on a week-end's jaunt "Jewing in" to get the hospital turn to research, as his wife • • Jewish leaders and diplomats from various countries said
&.4 — without Peggy's knowledge job.
farewell last week to Dr. Binyamin Eliav, consul general of
always wanted him to do.
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that other doctors were to be
Israel, and his wife on their return to Israel.
there.
BOSTON — Two major Jewish organizations have drafted
The Fraziers again turned to
The story grows dramatically.
Alex was not much of a Alex withdraws from the con- each other. They understood and filed a bill for the Massachusetts legislature to assure legal
drinker, but that week-end, test, rebukes his father-in-law one another, and he reaffirmed permission to conduct business activities on Sunday by persons
when he insisted on fishing for having made the offer and his opposition to anti-Semitism observing a day other than Sunday as their Sabbath.
for shark, he took too much. tells him what had happened. and she believed him. She even CHICAGO — The achievement of a record $4 million-year in
Israel Bond sales here was assured at the community's "Man of
In - fact, he was drunk when Thereupon Strauss unleashes a admitted to him — and thi s ,community's
the trouble started for him and vile attack on Alex, accuses him too, fits into a study of anti- the Year dinner honoring Harris Perlstein.
WALTHAM, Mass. — An endowment of $1 million from
his wife and for all the doctors of always having nurtured anti- Semitism — that she had on
present.
Semitic ideas and walks out on occasions even felt proud not Chicago philanthropist Florence G. Heller will fully underwrite
It was not until he had sob- his daughter and her husband. to be married to a Jew but to the general administrative expenses of Brandeis University's
Florence Heller Graduate School for advanced studies in social
ered up that he learned from
Alex continues to aver that a Christian; this, in itself, be- welfare.
Peggy what had happened. He while he was brought up in an ing a form of Jewish anti-
WASHINGTON — A -Hebrew University scientist, Dr. Dov
called her names and accused anti-Semitic atmosphere he was Semitism.
Koller of Jerusalem, has been given a $82,000 grant by the U.S.
her of being interested in one ashamed of it. He sticks to his
Sklar performed a splendid Department of Agriculture for a five-year study of perennial
of the doctors, who was in love decision not to be a contestant task of analyzing, exploring and pasture grasses.
with her before she married, for the hospital position, in dissecting anti-Semitism a n d
Israel
and used vile language, slug- spite of pleadings by fellow- the human reactions to it. He
JERUSALEM — The Israel Civil Service Commission has
ging her and his companions. physicians who claimed the hos- also acquainted himself fully
He did more than that: he s pital needed the money. They with medical terms, with the announced that recognition will be accorded in computing pen-
shouted vile anti-Semitic terms. tried to appease "the Hyde in life of doctors, with hospital sion and severance payments to civil servants for service in the
routines, in the writing of a Irgun, the pre-state revisionist underground organization con-
He was unaware of his ac- him."
tions. When he learned about
Strauss said that rather than story about Medical men. His ducted by Menachem Beigin, and the Lochamei Herut Yisrael,
his vulgarities he faced the leave money to his daughter novel, "The Identity of Dr. a similar organization . . . Israel increased by 50 per cent the
problem not only of reconcilia- he would give even more to Frazier," certainly is destined size of its police and customs staff at the Mandelbaum Gate
tion with his wife but also of the hospital, and while his wife for big sales and for a top separating new from old Jerusalem to avoid bottlenecks during
atoning for his deeds among tried to appease him and told listing among novels to be the annual crossing by Christian pilgrims into the old city . . .
Eucation Minister Abba Eban, pointing out that less than one-
his associates. most of whom the Fr a z i e r s that Joe was greatly in demand.
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third
of Israel's schools have athletic facilities, called on local
were Jews, all members of the temporarily angry, the rift was
authorities throughout the country to provide larger allocations
medical staff of a Jewish hos- there.
for sports . . . Student representatives from 30 countries are
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pital.
attending an international seminar here which opened with a
It was on the very night that
It is the discussion relating Retains Lord's Pra yer
welcoming address by Education Minister Abba Eban . . . The
Alex checked into a Los to anti-Semitism, the resent- Pending Clergy Probe
State Bank of Israel has reported that $152 million worth of
Angeles hotel, after his wife ment of the doctors -especially
farm products has been received by I -Srael during the past six
MILFORD,
Conn.,
(JTA)—The
told him of his abuse, that her one who recalled the misdeeds
years from the United States under its agricultural surplus
parents, Joe and Dora Strauss, of Christians against Jews — Milford Board of Education has program . . . Israel's parliament has overwhelmingly defeated a
bumped into him there, having, Strauss' recapitulation of anti- decided to retain the recitation Communist Party motion of non-confidence in the government
come from New York to sur- Semitic atrocities — Alex's de- of the Lord's Prayer in Milford's over Israel's vote on the issue of seating Communist China in
prise their daughter upon learn- nials of anti-Semitism and his public schools pending a study the U.N. .. . While the number of tourists visiting Israel rose
ing that she was pregnant. To averring that he is ashamed of by a subcommittee of clergymen. 30 per cent this year, the amount of money spent by the visitors
The action of the board was
hush matters up, parents and it — that make "The Identity
increased by only nine per cent, the Tourist Corporation an-
children met for dinner.
of Dr. Frazier" and interesting in response to a petition sub- nounced . . . The 60th anniversary of the founding of the Jewish
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mitted by five parents, several
social study.
of them Jewish and three of National Fund was observed Monday with three rallies here .. .
Then Joe Strauss sprung a
When one of the hospital
them teachers in the Milford The cabinet this week approved supplementary government ex-
school system. The petition asked penditures totaling $66,080,000 over the 1961-62 budget, made
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the prayers, a part of necessary in part by the government's accelerated program to
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morning school exercises since house new immigrants.
HAIFA — The production of four electronic teaching instru-
1918, be eliminated as a "sec-
ments ordered by the Imperial College of Engineering in Ethiopia
tarian religious observance."
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The petitioners were Mr. and has recently been completed at the Electronic Institute of the
Mrs. Bertram Cohen, Elayne Lan- Technion's Research and Development Foundation . . . The
dau, Robert Pinco and Joseph Technion recently received a grant from the U. S. Department
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Ramon-Rilat sees a sign on the side
of the asphalt road: "Gadna Farm—
Beer Ora." This is an oasis of the
Haarava.
The unpacked track connecting
the road and the farm brings you
over from the desolation to bloos-
omy. The entrance to the farm is
planted with rows of green growth
and flowers. The end of the short
road brings you to the nice Syna-
gogue. and near it—the large din-
ing room, and by its side a beauti-
ful planted area surrounded by
gardens that their place is in Tel-
Aviv or Haifa, and not here.
There are here real plants—gua-
vas, pomegranates, olives — besides
all these also an experimental tree
nursery in which are grown score
of various sorts of figs. There is
here also a "zoo," sheep, chicken
and geese.
Beer Ora is the place where thou-
sands of youth for the first time
in their life get acquainted, with the
Haarava and the Negev. They run
the live stock and plant possession
of the farm, raise its well known
geese, and even participate in the
night guard of the place, when the
greater majority of them here hold
a munition for the first time. The
girls and boys that come to the
farm learn also here how to use a
munition , and other military pro-
fessions; 21 of their days on the
farm are a combination of military
training and agricultural work.
Translation of Hebrew text. Pub-
lished. by Brith Ivrith Olamith Jeru-
salem.

Europe

VIENNA — Police have announced that two medical stu-
dents, arrested in the desecration of the Innsbruck Jewish
Cemetery two weeks ago, have confessed their guilt.
COLOGNE — Dr. Robert Servatius, chief defense counsel
for Adolph Eichmann, said here that he hoped the West German
government would "change its mind" and contribute toward the
expenses of Eichmann's defense.
BRUSSELS — The Belgian Jewish Consistory has sent a
cable of congratulations and greetings to Msgr. Suenens, new
head of the Belgian Catholic Church and a known friend of
Jews and Israel.
BONN — A new neo-Nazi party, calling itself the German
Freedom Party, was organized last week by leading members
of the German Reichspartei.
AMSTERDAM — Israeli shipping companies have concluded
an agreement with the Duluth Shipbuilding Association for the
construction of 12 vessels ranging from 3,000-5,000 tons.

Canada

MONTREAL — The Quebec Federation of Labor has made
public a resolution calling upon provinces in Canada to adopt
legislation outlawing racial or religious discrimination.
TORONTO — The Tronoto Globe and Mail asserted edi-
torially last week that the trial and death sentence of Adolph
Eichmann, while done with "scrupulous fairness" should only
have been done in a world court and that too much blame for
Nazi crimes was laid to Eichmann.

Asia

TEIIER.AN — The merger of two yeshivot in Iran maintained
with Joint Distribution Committee funds, was ,announced last
week by Theodor Feder, JDC director in Iran.
RANGOON, Burma — Israel Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion left for home last week after a 16-day visit here as
guest of the Burmese government.

