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Gillon's 'Cup of Fury' Deals With NCJW Dedicates `Ark Prayers'—inspired Poems .
"Prayers from the Ark," by
Holocaust Survivor, Israel Defense Hebrew U. High Carmen
There are 27 poems in Car-
B e r n o s de Gasztold,

"Cup of Fury" aptly describes eyes of the European Jew
the bitterness of a survivor from
. I look into his eyes and
Nazi terrorism who managed to I can see all mankind re-
circumvent British control and flected in them, in its dignity,
to get to Palestine shortly be fear and anguish. Not in joy,
fore Israel's statehood.
however, this I cannot find in
The novel, by Adam Gillon, him. It's frightening . . ."
was published as an Astra Book
In this fashion a non-Jew
by Twayne Publishers (31 evaluates a new Jewish settler
Union Sq. W., N. Y. 3). The in Israel and sees in him sem-
novelist, himself a survivor blances of self-hatred. The
from the holocaust, was an novelist chooses to describe it
underground fighter who went as an "age-old Jewish trait"—
to Israel where he earned his a fault that will not be accepted
Ph. D. at the Hebrew Univer- too easily but which certainly
sity College, New Paltz.
fits Ben Lande. It is the Kang-
Ben Lande, the hero of "Cup ton' Notebook that proves a qual-
of Fury," jumped from an "il- ifying factor in support of Gil-
legal" ship of Haifa and escaped lon's thesis.
Mrs. Charles Hymes of Min-
British searchers. He was cared
Miriam's love for Ben, as she
for back to good health by a pays final tribute to him, re- neapolis, president of the Na-
Sabra, Miriam Gorman, who fell mains firm. The loyalty to the tional Council of Jewish
deeply in love with him.
cause of freedom is unshaken Women, accents keys to the
For a time Ben was secre- as she returns to her post as a new half-million dollar He-
tive. The Nazi horrors left their defender of the state. In this brew University High School
scars and he was morbid. He sense "Cup of Fury" retains campus of buildings in Jeru-
salem from Prof. Alexander
insisted he was not a Zionist, its forcefulness.
M. Dushkin, chairman of the
at first he showed no interest
school's board of trustees. The
in Israel's struggle, and his Mourner Prohibited
model school was provided by
moroseness made him a prob-
to Trim His Nails
lem of Miriam.
the women's educational and
A mourner is prohibited from service organization.
But then came the war for
independence and Ben not only trimming his nails.
This prohibition is found in
became a part of it but lost his
life in the fight for Israel's the Talmud (Mo'ed Katan 18a.)
freedom.
It is evidently traced to the
Several love affairs are part Bible where the laws of the cap-
of the plot in "Cup of Fury"— tive woman required her to
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Ben's .and others. One of them mourn her status and to let her
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is that of a non-Jewish news- nails grow. The reason is that
paperman. Fred Langton, who during the period of mourning
was in lave with an Israeli girl the mourner is prohibited from
who was hesitant in her res- taking notice of his physical
ponses to him. Soon he learned person, to help him realize that
the cause - of her remorse: she there is more to a person than
had been violated by Nazis and his physical existence, and thus
was prostituted by them. The the physical loss of his dear
American journalist, after a ones does not mean that he has
brief spell of anguish, gave her lost all contact with his love,
his love and became the chron- his soul, etc. Thus a mourner
icler of the events recorded in does not look at himself in a
mirror, does not cut his hair,
Gillon's novel.
In Fred's journal there is a doesn't wear new clothes, etc.
description of Ben. "I was The 13rohibition against cutting
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published by Viking Press (625
Madison, NY22), is an inspired
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Except that the author is a
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Except that, due to illness,
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men has been living in a Bene-
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ers from the Ark" is not Christo-
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