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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS. :— Fr iday, March 9, 1962 —

Intermarriage Theme Excellently
Treated in Stilman's `Mariette'

. Dr. Abram Stilman, a distin-
guished Montreal surgeon, won
acclaim three years . ago with
his novel on a Jewish theme,
"Healer of All Flesh." In it he
showed a thorough understand-
ing of Jewish problems and a
deep knowledge of Jewish tra-
ditions and historical values.
His newest novel, "Mariette,"
published in Toronto by Burns
& McEachern, Ltd., and dis-
tributed in this country by
Twayne Publishers (31 Union
Sq., N.Y. 3), again indicates
that the physician also is a

Dr. Johnson to Resume Refugee Problem
Consultations for Palestine Commission

end. In an argument that start-
ed as the judge was alighting
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. meeting of the Security Council the rights of any neighboring
from the boat that took him (JTA) — Dr. Joseph E. Johnson,
but asked the UN only that the state. The Syrian note is a false
to the chalet, during which the president of the Carnegie En-
judge demanded that his son dowment for International Peace, contents of the statement be cir- alarm, based on 'false premises.
It is simply a propaganda exer-
should marry the disgraced girl, will start a second round of con- culated to all delegations.
Commenting on the complaint, cise in the context of inter-Arab
he slips into the water, and his sultations on the Arab refugee
a
spokesman
for
the
Israel
dele-
politics."
son is unable to rescue him. problem, in meetings with repre-
gation stated: "It is a matter of Arabs Arrested on Charges of
This drove the son to abandon
his medical studies and to be- sentatives of ; : he Arab states and common knowledge that Israel Sabotaging Water Installations
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
come a monk, after he had of Israel at the United Nations has been working for many years
on planned development of its
to The Jewish News)
turned over an inheritance and in Washington.
own
water
sources.
This
project
TEL
AVIV—Seven Arab resi-
Dr.
Johnson
was
named
by
the
from his grandmother to the
Palestine Conciliation Commis- will include the utilization of the dents of Northern Israel have
dishonored girl.
water within Israeli territory been arrested on suspicion of
Mariette thereupon stops see- sion yesterday to serve a second from the
Jordan-Yarmuk-Lake complicity to help in attempts
ing Eric, although she loves term as the PCC's special repre- Tiberias system.
That stage wi ll to sabotage water installations
him deeply, and marries the sentative to the Middle East.
The Carnegie head was first only be reach e d a long way forming part of the Israeli pro-
fellow-Catholic who had been
ahead.
There is nothing in the ject to irrigate
Negev areas with
wooing her prior to her having appointed as the PCC's special
envoy to the Middle East last Israeli project which infringes waters from the Jordan River,
met Eric..
Then Eric consents also to August. After visiting all of the on the armistice agreement or on it was reported here Tuesday.
marry Debbie Fineberg, the girl !Arab capitals as well as Jeru
he had dated previously, who salem, he continued his talks
loved him but whose love he here about the Arab refugee
did not share. They leave on a problem with all Foreign Min-
honeymoon in Europe, and isters of the governments con-
when Eric learns she is preg- cerned. Later, when he had filed
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
ern Europe, North Africa, the
to The Jewish News)
nant he revolts. He still loves a report to the PCC, which in
BALTIMORE--More than $2,- Middle East and Cuba, including
Mariette and Debbie knows it. turn submitted the report to the
4,000 in the United States. "Of
Mariette was never recon- General Assembly, Arab diplo- 000,000 in indemnification claim the 4,000," Rice said, "Half came
ciled to the turn of events and mats unanimously condemned benefits have been collected from from Cuba."
her mental agony drove her to him as "partisan" and "pro- the West German government
Rice expressed the hope that
by Hias of Baltimore over the
fatal illness. When Eric's daugh- Israeli."
there 'would be
renewal of
Now, however, the Arab states past 12 years for the more than public law 86,648, a which
ter was born, Debbie told him,
expires
"we shall name her Mariette." and Israel have agreed to ac- 700 victims of Nazism now living June 30, under which refugees
The reader is left with the im- cept Dr. Johnson once again as in Baltimore, it was announced come from the Middle East and
DR. ABRAM STILLMAN
pression that the kiss that an- the PCC's envoy who is to try to here by Jacob J. Edelman, who Eastern Europe.
swered this sympathetic asser- work out some first steps toward was re-elected president of the
Jewish
who
a solution of the thorny Arab agency for the third successive
tion indicated reconciliation.
acquired knowledge about
Canada Sends
refugee
problem. After confer- year.
Eric's
devoted
studies
of
Catholic dogma.
Jewish traditions during the ring with Arab and Israeli repre-
Edelman, who made the an-
"Mariette" is of special in
Official
Trade
period of his wooing of sentatives here and in Washing- nouncement at the annual meet-
terest because of its major an- Marlette, even while he was ton, Dr. Johnson is expected to
ing
of
Hias,
said
that
the
$2,-
Mission
to Israel
gle—intermarriage. Traditional consenting to a church wed- go to the Middle East again in
069,414 collected as of Dec. 31,
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
religious views of Jews and
May
to
continue
his
talks
there.
ding; Mariette's visit at the
1961, represented 946 individual
to The Jewish News)
Catholics, the emotions aroused
Levy home for the Seder; the He will be accompanied by Sher-
OTTAWA — George Hees,
by the conflict in two promi- admission by Eric's father wood Moe, a ranking member of claim cases. He also said that
nent families, the tragedies that that "if our son's Jewishness the UN Secretariat and an ex- during the past year alone $314,- Canadian Minister of Trade and
723 had been collected on behalf Commerce, announced Tuesday
result and the eventual adher- is weak then it's our fault—
that an official Canadian trade
ence to faith by both hero and we should have thought about pert on refugee affairs, who will of 151 clients.
heroine, result in a dramatic it - before"—these are among act as liaison officer and special
Edelman reported that in addi- mission will leave Ottawa for
representative
of
Acting
Secre-
tale.
tion to lump sum settlement for Israel on March 14 for a two-
the many elements in the tary-General U Thant.
week visit.
Both families, the Catholic
story that give it a two-sided
The Israeli delegation to the Nazi victims Hias of Baltimore
Allards and the Jewish Levys,
The 15-man mission will be
aspect in the discussion of
United Nations branded as had secured monthly life pen-
have their' roots in Canada.
the dangers of mixed mar-
"a false alarm based on false sioris averaging $62 a month for composed of representatives of
They have lived in Montreal
riages.
premises" the complaint 134 clients. The filing and pro- outstanding Canadian industries
for generations.
Dr. Stilman's Jewish back- against Israel submitted by cessing of indemnification claims and companies in various fields
When Mariette Allard falls ground and his studious re- Syria to the UN Security Coun- against the West German govern- and of Canadian officials. The
deeply in love with Eric Levy, search into Catholic attitudes cil. The Syrian complaint ment now comprises 40 per cent purpose of the mission is to
the latter is prepared to be wed enabled him to write a most charged Israel with planning of the local Hias activity, Edel- undertake a basic study of Israeli
in a church ceremony. It is at sympathetic novel. It will no to pump Jordan River water man said.
economy with a view to develop-
first .interpreted also as his doubt find favor among Cath- from Lake Tiberias in the
James P. Rice, executive direc- ment of closer economy relations
consent to become a convert to olics as well as Jews, both being North to the Negev in the tor of the United Hias Service, between Canada and Israel.
Catholicism. But when Mariette traditionally opposed to inter- South.
addressing the meeting, pointed
Trade in 1961 increased be-
tells her father, Judge Allard,. marriage. His "Mariette" is an
The complaint, which charged out that during 1961 Hias had tween the two countries by some
that Eric is prepared to sacri- interesting novel that will hold Israel with violating the Syrian- resettled throughout the free 40 per cent on both sides com-
fice his faith for her. and she, the reader's attention from start Israeli Armistice Agreement, as- world 7,200 refugees from East- pared with 1960.
in turn, says she is ready to to finish.
serted that "as soon as the pro-
"die for him," the judge chides
ject is completed, several million
her:
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people will be placed on land in
"To die, but not to change
the Negev, constituting a new
Honor
Manger's
60th
your faith. That is very ad- ,
threat to the Arab world." The
mirable. Your faith means Birthday March 25
!Syrian - letter did not request a
more than your life to you,
Itzik Manger, world famous
and yet you are willing to Yiddish poet, will be the guest
accept the sacrifice of his of honor at the Detroit celebra- Hebrew Corner
7
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faith without batting an eye-
tion of his 60th birthday, Sun-
lash."
day, March 25, 8 p.m., in the. 10th Anniversary of / 717
Mariette turns to her father Beth Aaron Social Hall, 18000 Corridor Settlement
confessor, the priest Blanchard, Wyoming. Irving Pokemnper
When the road was broken through
73i1
who had already been visited and Sidney M. Shevitz are co- to Jerusalem in the days of the War
Liberation. a long corridor was
by Eric whom he gave a New chairmen of the culture commis- of
rie?
created that led from the "Shefela"
Testament to study. The priest sion of the Jewish Community (lowland) to Jerusalem. Through the
of this corridor, that on both
=7*ras4
has a different view, and he Council and Jack Malamud and length
of its sides was enemy territory,
tells Mariette: 'It is possible Joseph Bernstein, co-chairmen of started to rise Jewish settlements.
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that his soul has yearned to be the Council's Yiddish culture The purpose of establishing these set- -
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tlements was to strengthen the secur•
redeemed, and that God planted committee, sponsors of the event. ity
of the road to Jerusalem through
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*rim
this love in his heart inten-
of agricultural settle-
This is the second in the series the creation
that will serve as a line of de-
tionally." When told that her of city-wide Yiddish cultural pro- ments,
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fense against Arab infiltrators, and to
tr?V?
father holds a different view, grams arranged by the newly re- develop a desolate area and bring
into it.
Fr. Blanchard admits that the activated Yiddish Culture Com- life
'717
In these days we (reached) are
judge is a righteous man, and mittee composed of persons af- celebrating the tenth anniversary of
the settlemnt of the Jerusalem Cor-
adds: "What happened to you filiated with the Landsmanschaft ridor.
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has upset him emotionally. Give organizations, the Sholem Alei-
Also before the setting up of the
him time. Ile will also see it as chem Institute, Workmen's Circle, State, there were a few settlemnts
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along the road from Jerusalem to the
the will of God."
and the Labor Zionist movement, Shefela that played an important part
in the struggle of liberating Jerusa-
Meanwhile there is the strug- among others. The first program lem
from the siege (that it was in).
gle in the Levy home. First was dedicated to the centenary They served as bases for the military
powers that fought for the road to
they are patient, the paients of the birth of Morris Rosenfeld. Jerusalem.
try to dissuade him. His mother
Helping to plan the Manger
The settlements that were built
is especially concerned. The evening are Mrs. Morris Fried- after the setting up of the State were
mostly settlements of immigrants
only other son was killed in man, Movsas Goldoftas, Moshe that
,
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settled on the ridges of the hills
action in the war, and she did Haar, Samuel Hochman, Harry and started to work in agriculture.
A
greater
part
of
them
arrived
from
not want to "lose" another son Kaminer, Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, Yemen in the operation "Magic Car-
to Catholicism.
Louis LaMed, Benjamin Laikin, pet." but there were also immigrants
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Intervening dramatic occur- Morris Malin, Emanuel Mark, from the old Cochin community of
from North Africa, Kurdistan,
rences enter into the story. Mrs. Michael Michlin, Jay Rosen- India,
Persia, and even immigrants from •
71
Mariette's brother becomes en- shine, Sol Selman, David Sislin, Europe found their place in the Cor-
settlements.
gaged to a daughter of-a promi- Wolf Snyder, Mordecai Teiler, ridor
,
The settlers of the Corridor can
nent family, but in the interim George M. Zeltzer and Morris point out with satisfaction that they
were
successful
in
establishing
a
new
lie had dishonored the maid Becker.
flourishing area in the State of Israel
who works in their home.
Tickets may be obtained from that serves as agricultural and de-
fense hinterland for Jerusalem the
When the judge learns of it organizations or from the Jewish capital.
he rushes to the chalet where Community Council, 163 Madison,
tron7iv
(Translation of Hebrew column,
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published by the Brith Ivrith Ola-
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his son had fled for the week- . WO 2-6710.
mith, Jerusalem.)
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