Hindus' Study of Marcel Proust's
Woiks Throws Light on-Author's
ce. Pioneerng as a Pro-Dreyfusard

Publish Zukernian's Stories Posthumously
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William Zukerman, who died the rabbi's spirit droops. It is , he known longing, had he had

three months ago, was a dis- the Jesus story as a new fantasy. all faith stamped out of him-
tinguished foreign correspond-
In "Job of the Suburbs," were he able to survice by for-
ent and author. In recent years Zukerman's tale draws upon getting his reality, would he
Proust, "while defending the he became involved in contro- the Biblical character by have known more of human
The inevitable effects of the
Dreyfus Case upon events in innocent, tried to play the role versies over Israel and Zionism utilizing the anguish of a misery and might history have
co France were in evidence in the of peacemaker," and the "Mem and his endorsements of Ameri- father who lost his son in taken another course?
x.
os literature of the early years of oirs ' of Leon Daudet are re- can Council for Judaism policies the war and applying the
There is another challenge
g in
this century, and they were espe- ferred to to describe a dinher brought rebukes from many misery to suburban area in a
this story of a transplanted
cially noticeable in most of the party in 1901, given by Proust quarters.
period of atomic bomb explo- Jesus:
works of Marcel Proust. for 60 guests of differing opin-
Even his opponents admired sions.
ions on the Dreyfus Case. There his literary skill, and there now
"He saw the tenuous fab-
"A Ship to Tarshish" utilizes
An immensely valuable study is this interesting statement in is general regret that he did
ric of his fanciful screen
another Biblical theme in op- breaking
in many places, and
of the noted author's works and Hindus' account of Proust's Drey
- not devote himself to story plication of the Jonah expert- through the rifts dreaded
the deep interest he took in the fusardism:
writing rather than to political once to modern time, to a ship-
Et famous Case is incorporated in
"The famous Case lent fuel strife. His posthumously pub- wreck, to life in Paris (the monsters pushed ugly wag-
r,,.; "A Reader's Guide to Marcel
lished book, "Refugee from Ju- hero's hostess tells him: "Paris grog heads, , demanding: 'What
Proust." by Milton Hindus, pub- both to Jewish nationalism and
e ou to be warm
to
anti-Semitism. The Austrian dea and Other Jewish Tales," in those days was the most right have you
lished by Noonday Press, a sub-
sidiary of Farrar, Straus & Cu- journalist Theodor Herzl was published by Philosophical Li- beautiful Tarshish ever built, and snug in front of a fire
dahy (19 Union Sq. W., N.Y. 3). sufficiently aroused by it to brary (15 E. 40th, N.Y.), is especially for Americans"), while, out there, others are
start the Zionist Movement, pointed to as proof of his lit- about the "Lost Generation" trudging through deep snow
wintry roads, are huddled
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Proust's father, Dr. Adrien while in fashionable French so- erary and story-telling genius. and the "many millions who
into ghettos and driven
t: Proust. a University of Paris pro- ciety . where
so many of Proust's
The story bearing the title of run to Tarshish because they
.
fessor and inspector general of ambitions were centered antz-
the book is the final one in the fear to face responsibility in through the streets with a
badge of shame? What right
public health in France. was au - Semitism was particularly rife. series of nine in this volume. Nineveh."
has one part of mankind to
thor of books on the spread of On one occasion, he felt con-
All the tales indicate the au-
"The Beggar King" is a story
cholera. Dr. Hindus, who is pro-
strained to remind his aristo-
thor's deepfelt emotions over of Solomonic times, of parables. enjoy a single ray of light
and happiness while the other
fessor of English at Brandeis Uni- cratic friend Robert de Monte-
what was happening to Jewry applied to the present age.
is steeped so deeply in dark-
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versity, explains the novelist's squiou that while he himself and the world at the time he
"And a Child Shall Lead
Jewish background: was, by upbringing, Catholic was writing them—during the Them," "Inarticulate Human- ness and in pain?'"
like his father, his mother was
last war.
There is great power in this
"His mother, Mlle. Jeanne
ity," "The Miracle" and "The
Jewish—a fact, we may be
Some of the stories have a Messiah Who Was Late" are tale. and upon reading it one
Weil. sprang from a wealthy .
sure, which had not escaped
Christological background. In the other stories in the Zukr- must wonder how its sensitive
Alsatian Jewish family which
the attention of this eccentric
the first, "The Galilean and the man book. author could possibly have lent
had later settled in Paris. In
literary
nobleman
who
did
not
Rabbi,"
Jesus is portrayed-as a
marrying the Catholic Dr.
The title story, "The Refu- himself to anti-Zionism and
mind
abusing
the
Jews
in
successful
rabbi who judges a gee from Judea," portrays Je- anti-Israelism.
('roust. she did not convert
Proust's presence. -
young
Jew
who
proclaims
him-
sus
as having escaped alive to
from her men religion rout
Hindus refers to Proust's ho- self King of the Jews. Here, Egypt. Here pertinent ques-
of her respect to her parents,'
mosexuality as not being "sub- as in the historical account of lions are addressed to human-
as her son was to write later)
though she consented to per- ject to the doubts and detective- Jesus, Pilate pronounces the ity: had Jesus really been a
work that have long surrounded sentence of death. the crucifixa- refugee in Egypt, had he sat in
mit her children to be raised
Whitman's." Reviewing .Proust's ion judgement reflects its hor- anterooms of refugee committee
in the faith of their father.
Here. if one is seeking for apparently autobiographical ror, the preacher is deemed hearing the rebuffs of overbear-
the cause of Marcel's neuroses novel, "Remembrance," Hindus - dangerous," God is appealed ing men, had he dinned it into
is one ?IW,' more obvious and states: "Marcel in the novel is not to not , to forsake the prisoner, him that he was a failure, had
potent than his mother's ex- homosexual but heterosexual, and
this is only one of a number of
periences before his birth.
respects in which he differs from
Though baptized in the Church
his creator. He appears to be, for
at his birth and interred by it
at his death more than a half instance, completely ncin-Jewish;.
century later, there is little the closest he comes to the Jews
evidence that Proust was pro- in the novel is that some of his
friends and acquaintances are
foundly influenced by Catholi-
Jewish."
cism His great interest
In the hovel "The Past Re-
through his study and transla-
Pon of books by John Ruskin)
captured" the character Bloch,
in the Gothic architecture of "the relatively unassimilated
the chinches Of France, with
Jew," "serves to introduce the
!•uch be fancifully compared theme of the narrator's relation-
hr.; own work, was aesthetic ' ship to the Jews in general. The
rather than religious in motiva-
narrator Marcel is so fond of
bon . . . Arulre Maurois tells Jews as friends as to arouse the
us that he remained in close satiric comments of his grand-
contact with his mother's fam- : father who implies that every
ily all his life and that each , time the boy brings a new friend
home with him he is sure to be
year. as long as his health
p,,,,,tred.
Jewish." Bloch is contracted with
he visited the
grare, of his Jewish ancestors.
the assimilated Jew Swann in
He wrote regretfully: 'No , this novel, andl while Bloch him-
longer does anyone, not even self is not assimilated, we are
told that "the conflicts which af-
I. slave I cannot leave my bed,
?Hake a pilgrimage along the flict him culminate later on in
Rue du RciDos that leads to the
`self-hatred' _which makes him
Jewish cemetery where my abuse his fellow-Jews verbally
grandfather. in fulfillment of a with all the ferocity as an incur-
able anti-Semite."
rite which he never under-
stood. used each year to lay a Hindus writes that "in 'Re-
pel/hie an his own parents' membrance' the Dreyfus Case
grave . • "
serves him as one more device
There was a chasm in the or instrument of -analysis which
('roust . family background during enables him to understand and
the Dreyfus Case ... Marcel, his sometimes to lampoon his char-
mother and his brother "took the acters."
sidt. of the convicted man (Proust
In nearly all his works, there
later called himself 'the first is felt the effect of the Dreyfus
Dreyfitsard' and circulated a pe- Case, the cause celebre of the
tition in January 1898 for a revi- time. In "Guermantes Way," the
sion of the sentence) while his passionate Dreyfusard Marcel
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circulating_
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