THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 5, 1963
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Daniel-Rops' Christological View
'Daily Life in Jesus' Time'
Much Wisdom in in "Daily
Angus' Exciting Pincus' Novel:
Life in the Time of justice for all peoples, resorts
by Henri Daniel-Raps, to a certain amount of accepted
`Jerusalem Road' `Friends, Lovers' Unique 'Heaven, Jesus"
translated from the French by bias when the Christ idea is
Patrick O'Brian, published by discussed.
Born in Poland where he wit-
Suspense Novel nessed the extermination of Man and Carrot' Hawthorn Books (50 5th, Then there is a narrowed
Newest Works of Fiction
"Heaven, Man and Carrot" by NY 11), approaches the Jewish view of the Jewish command
"Death on Jerusalem Road," Jews by the Germans in his
an exciting mystery novel by home town, in 1942, Oscar Dr. Morris Mandel, educator and element sympathetically. It of- "to raise a hedge around the
author who is engaged in pri- fers explanations in relation to Law." There existed a uni-
Douglas Angus, published by
Random House, has nothing to Pincus, at the age of , went vate psychological enterprises, Jewish reactions to the new versalism also in relation to
do with the Holy Land. Jerusa- into hiding in a cave and sur- is a unique title. Subtitled Christian sect in the early years that, and it should be con-
lem Road is a residential area vived the Nazi holocaust. He "How to Add Life to Our Years," of its emergence with attempts sidered well.
near Boston in this suspenseful lived in Italy for two years this interesting book, published to evaluate historical data ob-
It should be acknowledged,
murder story.
however, that in the main Henri
after the war before coming by Jonathan David (131 E. 23rd, jectively.
Nevertheless, it is a thor- Daniel-Rops exhorted fairness
Indeed, there is one Jewish to this country. He has earned N. Y.), is filled with wisdom
character in it—a survivor from university degrees and his spe- and seeks to light a torch for oughly Christological work and in his approach to his theme,
and his "Daily Life in the
the Hitler atrocities with whom cialty now is in the field of the better living and offers guid- must be viewed as such.
the murdered girl was infatu- theory of lubrication. In addi- ance along many paths.
It is doubtful whether the Time of Jesus" certainly is not
The title is based on a legend,
ated. But that is merely inci- tion, he has turned novelist
scholarship inherent in the antagonistic to Jewry; it is
dental, since the guilty one in and has written an autobio- about a man who died, who thoroughly honest approaches merely completely Christologi-
the death of the girl was an en- graphical work which has ap- found a place not to his liking, of the French author can pos- cal and therefore at times ex-
tirely different person.
peared in Israel and will soon in hot quarters, in an uncom- sibly be acceptable. For in- pects that approach from Jews,
fortable bed, and he griped,
Indeed. the guilt has psycho- be published in an English asking to be taken out of there. stance, Israel is charged with I especially from the Jews of
logical angles: it could have translation.
An angel asked what good he exclusivism, and we read: "By Jesus' time.
been a young man who, practic- I His experiences in Poland had done in his life, and the the time of Christ, Rabbi Ben
ing at psychiatry, may have , are reflected in his novel, man recalled "giving a carrot Zakkai had not yet uttered his Pathologist, Zionist
placed erroneous ideas into the "Friends and Lovers," which to a half - starved donkey." extreme words: 'The best of the
has been issued by World Pub- Whereupon a huge carrot ap- unbelievers, kill him!' This was Dr. Rezek Dies, 68
dead girl's mind.
The, story itself is exciting. lishing Co.
MIAMI, (JTA) — Dr. Philip
peared and the man was told not to be said until the perse-
It holds the reader's attention
The hero in this story, Dr. to take hold of it and he would cution of Hadrian, when the R. Rezek, a leading pathologist
from beginning to end. It is so- Marek Prager, has several love be saved. But when hundreds rabbi had seen his beloved and a veteran Zionist, died at
ciological as well as psychologi- affairs, becomes especially at- of somls saw the miracle, as the master, Rabbi Akiba, died a his home here at the age of 68.
cal, and the narrator, a crimi- tached to one girl, Christina, man grabbed the carrot he martyr's death under the hooks He was director of. the Division
nologist in the case who fell in who gives him solace and is shouted, "Let go! Go get your of the Roman excutioners. It of Pathologic Anatomy of the
love with the daughter of the able to respond to him in his own carrot if you want to be may not have reflected the Pathology Laboratories at Jack-
man who struck the death bloW, despair. In the main, however, saved!" Whereupon the carrot whole of the ethical teaching son Memorial Hospital here.
dropped and the man was re- of the rabbis, but this maxim
infuses many interesting ideas he is a very lonely man.
A native of Austria, Dr. Rezek
into the story.
Marek's tragic recollections turned to his destination.
certainly interpreted the feel- belonged to the same Bnai Brith
Thus the author teaches the ings of the more violent men Lodge in Vienna as Dr. Sig-
Angus has written an un- of Warsaw also cause him to
usually good mystery. It de- delve into Jewish historical errors of selfishness. He de- among the Jews: the others did mund Freud. Last year he was
serves a top spot on the fiction data, to enter into a discussion scribes man's importance to not seek to kill the goyim, but guest lecturer in pathology at
with Christina's father, Judge himself; the value of things and merely to flee them like the the Hebrew University in Jeru-
list.
Sonderville, about the creativ- the inability to buy values for plague and to spit in front of salem.
ity of Jews. There is an alterca- money; love and marriage; de- their idols- when the chance of-
tion over the Jewishness even linquency and moral breakdown fered."
Noted Yiddish Author
of Karl Marx, and then this of children; and a score of other
While
it
is
immediately
ex-
Zainval Diamant Dies
dialogue ensues: – subjects.
He concludes with advice: plained that there is a prin-
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Zainval
Judge Sonderville: "When I
ciple of Jewish universalism,
Yael Dayan, the daughter of see a Jewish scientist, there is in "Take Hold of the Carrot! By the author, by taking a Ben Diamant, a Yiddish author who
Israel's Minister of Agriculture his eyes a few years of perse- all means, take hold, hang on to Zakkai statement out of con- served as a volunteer in the
French Army in World War II
Moshe Dayan, has attracted curion, a look beyond the man my carrot, and together we will
wide attention with her novels who is facing him. You look at be lifted into God's celestial text, without elaborating to in- and who was taken prisoner by
dicate the general Jewish atti- the German army in 1940, died
which have had divided pro and German and English scientists, region, HEAVEN."
tude of fairness to all and of June 27 from a heart ailment.
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con comments from readers and and they could be field marshals.
He was 59.
critics. An Israeli sabra — na- Can you think of Einstein as a Banknote an d Book:
. -
He came to the. United States
tive-born—she writes in Eng- field marshal?"
SmolenskIn
Story
in 1948 and joined the editorial
lish. She spends several months
Marek: "All you are saying,
From Panim El Panim
a year in Greece and it is there Judge Sonderville, is that Jews
Semicha is the traditional con- staff of the Biographical Dic-
The author Peretz Smolenskin ferring
of Rabbinic authority tionary of Modern Jewish Liter-
that she has written her new- are a people with their own re-
est novel, "Dust," which has ligion, their own racial features, once paid a visit to a wealthy upon one who is qualified by ature, which is being published
been published by World Pub- their own national characteris- businessman with the intention virtue of scholarship, piety and by the Congress for Jewish Cul-
of selling him one of his books.
lishing Co.
tics."
The rich man was very flattered integrity to be entrusted with ture.
"Dust" introduces a number
Judge Sonderville: "I suppose to have the author call on him; the same. It dates back to the
of . Israeli characters, settlers that IS what I am saying."
he not only purchased the book, first transfer of the mantle of
who are engaged in building a
Marek's associations, his re- paying no less than ten roubles leadership from Moses to Joshua
The. Family of the Late
new kibbutz, men and women lationship to Sedney, who does
as found in the Bible.
with varying degrees of loyalty not hesitate to claim credit for for it (which was considerably
"And the Lord said unto
more than its fixed price), but
ANNA ZACK
and devotion.
others' works, the men and even invited the writer to stay Moses, Take thee Joshua, the
As a novel that describes the women in this story, all com- and spend some time with him. son of Nun, a man in whom
Acknowledges with
new life in a new settlement, it bine to make Pincus' novel
grateful appreciation
In the course of a pleasant is the spirit, and lay thine hand
has some merit. One wonders, unique. It is a well written conversation at the fireside, the . upon him; and set him before
the many kind expres-
however, what is attained by work, even if there seem to be host produced a box of cigars, Eleazer the priest, and before
sions of sympathy ex-
the extremism of one who does more lovers than friends in the offered a cigar to his guest and all the congregation; and give
tended by relatives
not have any interest in build- cast of characters.
and friends during the
took one himself. He then tore him a charge in their sight ..."
family's recent be-
ing a new Jewish life, as one
a page out of the newly-pur- (No. 27: 18-20).
reavement.
character in "Dust" states, or
Semicha
is
a
particular
kind
chased
book,
lit
it
in
the
fire-
in - the love stories—and the Israel Discount Bank
place, and used it to light his of ordination — it is peculiarly
heroine herself ends in death. Offers Public Shares
cigar. Without any hesitation, Jewish, historic, and Masoretic
From Yael Dayan one would
For the first time Israel Dis- Smolenskin extracted the ten- in nature. Only orthodox rabbis
expect a delineation of life. In count Bank, Ltd., has offered its rouble note he had just received have the power to confer Semi-
a sense, her story is morbid. It shares to the public last month from his host and used that to cha. Only men who have con-
The Family of the Late
certainly is not inspiring. It and sold the entire issue com- light his cigar.
secrated their lives to the pro-
MRS. CELIA
mulgation of Torah Judaism and
won't make Zionists. prising $3.33 par value shares
Hungarian Leader
who dedicated many years to
Portraying as it does a side at 6.66 each, thus increasing its
SHMARAK
of life in Israel that is not capital and reserves from $5,-
Leopold Lipschitz, a 19th cen- the intensive and arduous study
Acknowledges
with
awaited, for example, by tour- 750,000 to $11,500,000. Discount tury leader of the Budapest of Talmud and Jewish law, may'
grateful appreciation
ists, it has a place in literature Bank, the second largest com- Jewish community, did much to qualify to receive Semicha. Semi-
the many kind expres-
from the viewpoint of truth mercial bank in Israel, sold its promote Zionism among the cha is what distinguishes the
sions of sympathy ex-
and reality. But a better ray of new issue simultaneously in Is- city's Orthodox Jews. He made orthodox rabbi from others. Only
tended by relatives
light is expected in a pioneer- rael and abroad. Kuhn, Loeb & a special study of blood libel the "musmach" (ordained) may
and friends during the
ing country. Co. sold 212,000 shares of this accusations which was useful in properly answer "She-ailos"
family's recent be-
Miss Dayan writes well. She issue through private place- the eventual acquittal of a (questions of Jewish law).
reavement.
is a good narrator, even if her ment among small groups of group of Jews falsely accused
plot is not totally acceptable.
of the alleged crime in 1882.
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