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Editor's Note: Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice John
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
In the middle 1950s,
to The Jewish News) •
D. Voelker. who writes under the pen name Robert Traver, in an
Dymshits was in charge of
article written especially for The Detroit Jewish News, gives his
LONDON — A Jewish engi- construction plans for the
impressions of Israel. Traver became nationally famous with his neer. Veniamin E. Dymshits, has
Soviet lead industry. He was
best selling novel "Anatomy of a Murder," which later became been named by the Soviet then
a
p y Minister
one of the most popular movies. Now he is again on the best seller Union to the key post of Chair-
list with his novel "Hornstein's Boy." a story of a political cam- man of the State Planning Com- for the construction of steel
and chemical enterprises. In
paign, the .successful candidate and his Jewish campaign manager. mittee. He also was named a
1957, he was named chief
"Hornstein's Boy" was reviewed in The - Jewish News on May 25. 'Deputy Premier.
engineer for the construction
The reviewer described the novelist's interpretation of Zionism. and
The appointment, announced of the Bhilai steel plant in
stated that "Traver — the former Justice Voelker — knows the in Moscow Tuesday, made him
score on this subject. as is indicated in the following statement the first Jew to hold such a India, remaining in that coun-
he has incorporated in his book as Dressler's (the hero-candidate in high post in the 'Soviet govern- try until the summer of 1959.
On his return to Moscow, he
"Hornstein's Boy") reply to his manager (Emil Hornstein): 'I don't ment since Lazar Kaganovitch
think it's funny. Emil. Every man needs and seeks a spiritual home, was ousted from a high post in was named head of a depart.
ment in Gosplan with the title
a psychological home plate: to be able to sense that there is one 1957.
of Minister in the Soviet cabi-
spot, some place on the face of the earth, where however rough
The
committee,
also
known
net. Earlier this year, he was
the going they can't turn away. Your father is lucky — he's finally
found such a place. And this implies not the slightest disloyalty! by its Russian contraction, Gos- appointed a First Deputy
to America — he probably couldn't be driven to live anywhere else. plan. is in charge of year-to- Chairman on the Planning Com-
Its Irittch the same reason why there are probably no Irishmen in , year planning of the Soviet mittee, holding that post until
his elevation to Chairman Tues-
the world quite a.s incorrigibly Irish as those born in Brooklyn." economy.
Dymshits succeeded V. N. day.
Traver's "Hornstein's Boy" (published by St. Martin's Press. 175 •
.5th. NY10). has been on the best seller list for several months. Novikov, who had been a
He was named a member of
Deputy Premier since May, the Communist Party's Central
JUSTICE JOHN D. VOELKER His impressions of Israel are given in the following article:
1960. The Committee has Committee at the Party Con-
been criticized in the Soviet gress last fall. He is also a
press in recent months on deputy to the Supreme Soviet,
charges of having failed to the national parliament repre-
carry out effective planning. senting the city of Kharabovsk.
harsh and onerous tasks. but
By ROBERT TRAVER
The rise of the Jewish engi-
they
go
about
it
with
such
neer to the high post of Deputy Hebrew Corner
In the Spring of 1960 Mr. and
dash and gusto that even the
Premier was considered one of
Mrs. Joseph N. Welch of Boston ' spreading of raw fertilizer got
TAIPEL. Formosa—The ten- the most rapid advances by a
and my wife Grace and I visited
to look like great fun. Here is sion arising from the Commu- Soviet official in recent years.
Israel as the guests of Otto a young nation in a hurry, a nist Chinese military buildup , The 52-year-old engineer. who
Preminger during part of the
people in ferment who won't on the coast across the Formosa was born in the Crimea. has
filming of "Exodus." We stayed
even take yes for an answer. Strait has focussed attention on been employed in the construc-
Over eighty years ago, three awak-
at that old British hotel in Haifa Parellels with the opening of ' the small band of American tion of industrial enterprises.
; ened in Yemen the first immigration
to the Eretz-Israel movement.
—the name now escapes ' our own frontier West came Jewish personnel in the U. S.
The appointment of a Jew
The journey was • difficult. The
and from there fanned out over' constantly to mind.
Armed Forces on duty in the to such a high post was believed
roads were considered dangerous.
pretty much of the country,
Israel. when the modern Is- area. Lt. Cmdr. William J. Jas- by some observers to have sig- Robbers waited on the roads to rob
belongings of the travelers.
save only the Negev desert.
raelis reclaimed it. was per- per. a Naval dental officer sta- nificance in the light of charges the
Among the families that immi-
What are some of my impres- haps the most dismal moon- tioned in Taipei, in a letter to in Western countries that there grated
to Eretz-Israel was the Kasor
sions of Israel? Well. there were pocked-looking piece of real the National Jewish Welfare has been an anti-Semitic cam- family. a member of which was a
boy of 6, named Shalom. This boy
a great many. some of which i 'estate in the Near East. Today Board (JWB). tells something paign in the Soviet Union.
is today the eldest of the Yemenite
Rabbis in Israel, the only one who
still haven't sorted out I was it is one of the beautiful garden of the situation:
outlived the first group of immi-
"We have about 50 or 60 Jews
and am deeply impressed. not spots of the world. These peo-
grants from Yemen.
only with the country and its ple have literally carved a na- on all Taiwan (Formosa) and. Bnai Zion to Open
The Journey from Yemen to Jeru-
salem took almost a year. Many of
people, but with what a tre- tion out of sand and solid rock. being a military congregation. `Mendel Fisher House'
the
travelers could not stand the
mendous revelation it is to an Experts tend to account for it we are nameless. We meet
sufferings, gave up hope, left the
group and turned toward other coun-
American to visit there. For by a miracle of modern agricul monthly at the U. S. Naval Sup- at Ein Hod, Israel
tries: to India and to Aden. Only a
example when I went there I tore. I• prefer to account for it port Activity Chapel in Taipei.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A large few of the group reached Jerusalem.
still nourished some vague hazy as a triumph of the human Chaplain Ralph Kingsley, the Bnai Zion delegation left for
Rabbi Shalom Kasor, the last sur-
Jewish chaplain of the 13th Air Israel to inauguarate the Mendel vivor of this immigration group, tell:
notion about what a Jew should spirit.
about the hardships that the firs
Force, flies a 900-mile round Fisher Students' House at Ein us
look like. My trip totally blast-
group of immigrants suffered in the
On the Jerusalem, going over,
The Jews of Jerusalem were
ed this delusion. Conceding the were hundreds of American trip each month to officiate. Hod. the artist colony near Haifa. country.
poor in those days and they could
futility and danger of –making .Jews. mostly' elderly. who were Obviously. once a month is not
The Art Colony already con- ' not help the immigrants. The Yeme-
nites lived in the synagogues of the
broad generalizations about any visiting Israel for the first time. satisfactory, but under the cir- thins the Nlinnette Fisher Ceram-; old
city, in coal bins, and later in
people, I discovered that the Talking with them. getting to cumstances, this is the best that ics Institute established by Bnai tents. For a long period they were
without work. Most of them were
modern Israelites are among know them, left me with the can be arranged."
Zion in memory of the late wife gold
and silver smiths and Jerusalem
Commander Jasper notes that of Fisher. Now the Students' in those
the most diverse. dynamic and powerful conviction that the
days did not need this type
craftsmen. Later they built them-
handsome people in the world. fact of Israel had given them— JWB shipped kosher foods and House will serve as a dormitory of
selves
houses
set up the Yeme-
religious materials to Formosa for students attending the insti- nite quarter of and
The little old man in the black an d Jews h
Jerusalem
over— a
Rabb'
i shalom
m Kasor himself stu-
skull cap and square beard has , tremendous exaltation of the for Passover. and has provided tute. $50,000 was raised for the died
Yeshivot and
suplies for the High Holy Days. Students' House by Bnai Zion speaks n Yiddish kenazic
well.
gone with the wind. spirit. I am not talking about
Translation of Hebrew text. Pub-
This is a country of youth on : patriotism or loyalty — t h e s e JWB is the government-auth- and the Jewish National Fund
ed by Beth Ivrith Olamith, Jeru-
orized agency for religious and as well as friends of Fisher.
salem.
the march (Captain Epstein of good people were American to
our crossing ship. the Jerusa- the core. What had happened morale services to Jews in the I
lem, was a tottering veteran of was more than that a handful U. S. Armed Forces and veter-1
ans hospitals. and recruits en-
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42). and the very air crackles of Jews had found a physical dorses and serves Jewish cha-
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with youth. vigor and driving home: those great pioneers of
plains for all branches of the
purpose. Comparisons are in- the earth. the Jews of the
evitable. While I suspect that world. had after many centuries military service. It is also a
member agency of USO and is
most of our own young people found a spiritual core. The wan-
regard peace-time military serv- dering Jew had at last come the national association of Jew-
ish Community Centers and
ice as a pain in the neck to be home.
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somehow endured and gotten I I came away from Israel with
"Master Sergeant Ben Mill-
over with. in Israel I got the the firm conviction that 40,000,- stein, U. S. Army, and I have
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distinct impression that to most 000 Arabs will never dislodge
designed and built a suitable
young Israelis. for whom mili- ' these people. If anything ever teakwood Ark and a Ner Tamid.
tary service means courting real does it might be the clunky old Unfortunately. we have not
danger and death from hills cars most of them are obliged to been successful in locating a
t
and borders bristling with ene- drive at high speeds along
Com- Sefer Torah which we desper-
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mies, a hitch in the army is paratively narrow windy roads. ately need," Commander Jasper
coveted with all the zeal
of a (It seems a pity that our glut- writes. "To my knowledge. ,
sports car by Our own young- ted used-car dealers and - the there are no Chinese Jews on
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Israelis can't get together, to Taiwan, yet our small congrega-
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the vast benefit of both.) But I Ition boasts of such diverse back-
the usual delusions that the am sure that this electric young ;grounds as Shanghai, Paris,
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talents of the Jew lay largely nation will whip that problem, I Lebanon, Turk e y, Greece.
in trading and money changing. just as it banished some myths
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French Morocco and the U.S.A.
Young Israel rapidly blasted and old wives' tales from the
"Actually, there are a thou-
that myth. Everyone works in
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Israel. sometimes at the most
Michigan.
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LONDON, (JTA (—Sir Keith isters.
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nent Jews active in the Con- Parliamentary Secretary in the
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servative Party and in various same Ministry. Since 1961, he his family with him on Taiwan,
high governmental posts. was had been Minister of State on went on active duty in the
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USSR's 'Jewish' Appointment Is
g Best Selling Novelist Robert Traver's
(justice Voelker) Impression of Israel: Significant in View of Charges of
`10,000,000 Arabs Can't Dislodge Israel' Increasing Soviet Anti-SemitiSm

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Souse lIIpressions of Israel

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