`Past Eve and Adam's,' Splendid
Novel: Links All Faiths in Amit
Dr. Silver Confers with Ben-Zvi
Extension of Austrian
Deadline for Claims
Not Intended for Jews
LONDON, (JTA)The exten-
Jane; the passions that run
through a developing commu-
sion of the deadline for the
nity like Thatcher and the
registration of claims by vic-
prejudices that faced the vari-
tims of the Nazi era in Austria,
ous actors in this drama—these
to March 31, 1964, does not
form a most impressive narra•
apply to Jewish Nazi victims
tive.
from Austria.
Not least among the excit-
Dr. F. L. Brassloff, of the
ing elements in the story is the
United Restitution Organization,
fine relationship that developed
said the indemnification claims
between Fay, Stein and his wife
of such Jews were covered by
Judy. They occupied the same
other legal measures. He said
home together, there were no
the extension was provided
antagonisms, the Steins finally
under an amendment to a law
remained in. Massachusetts, Sid-
regulating the registration of
ney having been given a teach-
damages caused by resettlement
ing job in the community high
or expulsion. He explained it
school. There were some evi-
applied to "Volksdeutsche" and
dences of prejudice at the out-
expellees.
set, but they vanished. On the
whole the portrayal is a very
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Dr. Abba Hillel Silver (right), chairman of the board of
Like Fay, who experienced
privations before he learned of governors of the Israel Bond Organization, is shown with
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his inheritance, Stein, too, was President Itzhak Ben-Zvi during his current visit to Israel.
a struggling artist. His wife Dr. Silver also met with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and
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gave birth to a son—to keep other key Israelis, with whom he discussed the redemption of
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Judy's mother in Brooklyn. "He Israeli officials congratulated the veteran American Jewish
worked up a theory that any- leader on his 70th birthday and his many years of outstanding
one who lived in New York service to- Jewry.
for long became abstract, non-
objective or, as he liked to put
it, 'unnatural.' . . . He began
to threaten his mother-in-law
with imminent emigration to
Israel, and nothing could make
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Thomas Curley has produced
a truly great novel in his "Past
Eve and Adam's," published by
Atheneum (162 E. 38th, N.Y.,
16). The young author has
succeeded in linking people of
all faiths in a story that is
filled with drama, that has
psychological and moral fac-
tors, the theme of which is
universal and yet it belongs to
the two spheres in which it is
enacted—New York and Boston.
It is the story of Gerald
Weems the Protestant, Sidney
Stein the Jew and Philip Fay,
whose Catholic family in
Thatcher, Mass. — the locale
listed in the story—plays a
major role in the story:
Weems had left Thatcher for
New York where he is begin-
ning to succeed in the financial
world. He met Jane who later
became his wife and a fine rela-
tionship developed between
them. But Gerald had been in
in love with Philip's sister Mary
whose father prevented her
from marrying him.
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On a casual walk near his
rooming house on 15th Street
in New York, Gerald spotted
Philip. When Gerald's aunt
died and he again visited his
MasSachusetts home to lay
claim to the estate that was
willed to him, he learned that
Philip, who left his home after
a bitter argument with his fa-
ther, also had inherited a for-
tune—his father having left
his estate to him. Gerald began
his search, upon his return to
New York; located Philip, and
the result was that the young
Catholic returned to Massa-
chusetts, together with his
friend Stein with whom he had
shared an interest as artists
who peddled their wares to-
gether and later shared their
home together.
Then commenced - a drama
during which Philip learns that
Mary was prevented from mar-
rying Gerald because her fa-
ther, who had had an affair
with Gerald's . aunt, told her,
Gerald was her illegitimate half
brother. It was developed that
Philip had been married. When
he acquired his new wealth,
he went in search of his young
daughter, took her away from
her mother, who that very night
died from an overdose of sleep-
ing pills.
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The numerous complications
that arose, the dramatic de-
tails of a story that reveals
family struggles, Philip's dis-
appearances and his final flight,
after conceding that his young
daughter should remain as the
adopted child of Gerald and
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