Ziva Rodann Israeli Actress in New Hit Film

The anti-slavery demonstra-
tors were holding a meeting at
Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.
Suddenly a group of "Copper-
heads"—defenders of slavery—
stormed into the assembly room,
heckling the speaker and doing
their best to break up the meet-
ing. Feeling had mounted to the
boiling point, when an unknown
man, seated in the first row,
climbed on his chair and "in
vigorous German" delivered a
tirade against slavery.
The angry "Copperhead" mob
surged toward him, and he was
saved only by his friends who
surrounded him on the platform
and helped him escape. The year
was 1858, and the man was
Michael Heilprin, scholar, jour-

HOLLYWOOD—Ziva Rodann,
the 26-year-old Israeli beauty
who has been called a modern
Venus de Milo, most recently
returned from a trip to Europe
and her home country. While
in Tel Aviv, she attended the
Israell premiere of "Samar," a
picture shot in the Philippines
in which she co - starred with
George Montgomery. In South-
ern France, she went before the
cameras in Joseph E. Levine's
production of "Young Girls of
Good Families" under French
"New Wave" director Pierre
Montersal, portraying the only
American girl in the picture
with Fred Clark as her father.
During an afternoon chat in
her very modest, but tastefully
decorated Beverly Hills apart-
ment, Ziva told about her last
junket which took her across
Europe but around Germany—
a country she doesn't wish to
visit. In Israel, where she had
not been for three years, she
found that she was more popu-
lar than Marlene Dietrich. The
premiere of "Samar" held in
Miss Rodann's honor, was the
first one of its kind, because
pictures open in Tel Aviv nor-
mally without any fanfare.
Ziva is negotiating to portray
a starring role in Brazilian
movie under Massimo G. Alvi-
ani's direction in an unusual
story in which she actually would
play- four different parts. She
has made an earlier picture in
Brazil„ "Macumba Love" and
also attended the official open-
ing of the new capital. In addi-
tion in looking for screen as-
signments, Miss Rodann is also
busy in the integration move-
ment in Los Angeles.
The Haifa-born Ziva, a stu-
dent of the Habima while in her
teens, a graduate of the Jerusa-
lem University in arts, history
and languages, a.member of the
Chamber Theater of Tel Aviv,
and disciple of pantomimists
Marcel Marceau and Ehai K.
Ophir, a dancer with the Israeli
Ballet Theater, at the age of
17 joined the Armed Forces of
her native country to spend one
year in the infantry and later
in special services section. Dis-

K "ap lan-Hochberg
Troth Announced

MISS SHARON KAPLAN

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Kaplan
of Ypres Blvd., Windsor, Ont.,
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Sharon Ann, to
Ted J. Hochberg, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. Hochberg of Hall
Ave., Windsor.
The prospective bridegroom is
an alumnae of Assumption Uni-
versity and Osgood Hall Law
School. The wedding will take
place Dec. 29 at the Shaarey
Shomayim Synagogue, Windsor.

See Atom Test Ban
as Breakthrough for
Peace in Mid-East

JERUSALEM (JTA) - Israeli
officials indicated a belief that
the next session of the United
Nations General Assembly,
which opens Sept. 17, will seek
. to exploit the current relaxation
of East-West tensions and the
new international spirit of the
three-power nuclear test ban pact
to pierce the deadlock on the
Israeli-Arab dispute.
Hopes were indicated that the
discussion on the Arab refugee
problem at the Assembly would
be moderate and constructive, as
a result of the new international
spirit.
A top Foreign Ministry official
indicated that Israel would sup-
port all measures at the Assem-
bly against South Africa's racial
policies, short of expulsion. Mrs.
Golda Meir, Israeli's Foreign
Minister, will again head the
Israeli delegation. Gideon Ra-
phael, the Foreign Ministry's as-
sistant director-general left for
New York to augment the Israeli
mission to the next Assembly.

Israel Economic Progress

Recent figures disclose that
Israel is succeeding in narrow-
ing her trade gap. Between Oc-
tober of last year and this past
April imports declined from
$361,000,000 to $354,000,000,
while exports rose from $172,-
000,000 to $221,000,000. For the
period, the trade deficit was
cut by 30 per cent. Citrus and
diamonds led the export in-
crease. Further progress may
be noted from the fact that Is-
rael's exports rose by $50,000,-
000 for the first six months of
1963 as compared' to the first
half of 1962.

nalist and liberal. Sources at the
American Jewish Archives give
an insight into the character of
this fearless American Jew,
whose voice was never stilled in
behalf of the rights of man.
Three years after the tu-
multuous Philadelphia meet-
ing, a famous New York rabbi,
Morris Raphall, wrote an ar-
ticle on the "Bible View of
Slavery." Basing his argu-
ments on the Ten Command-
ments and other biblical pas-
sages which condone the in-
stitution, Rabbi Raphall con-
cluded that "slaveholding is no
siii, and that slave property is
expressly placed under the
protection of the Ten Com-
mandments."
Again Michael Heilprin rose
to the challenge. He printed an
answer to the rabbi in the New
York Daily Tribune and asked:
"Must the stigma of Egyptian
principles be fastened on the
people of Israel by Israelitish
lips themselves?" Yet, when the
Civil War was over, in Balance,
a political weekly which Heil-
prin edited for several months,
he devoted many of his articles
to solemnly warning the Ameri-
can people to be just and mod-
erate in their dealings with the
defeated South.
Heilprin's entire background
conditioned him to fight for hu-
man freedom and dignity. Born
in 1823 in Russian Poland, he
escaped to Hungary nineteen
years later to evade the Polish
oppressions and joined Louis
Kossuth's movement for the
liberation of Hungary. Mean-
while, he had established a book
store and gained some reputa-
tion as a writer. When the Hun-
garian Revolution of 1848 col-
lapsed, Heilprin escaped the
Austrians and fled back to Pol-
and and then to Paris. He had
mastered the English language,
and in 1856 America, the Land
of the Free, beckoned to him.
Heilprin had been in America
only a month when he began to
take part in the anti-slavery
struggle. At first he earned a
meager living in this country by
teaching, but in 1858 he became
a member of the editorial staff
of Appleton's New American
Cyclopaedia.
By 1865, his writing and scho-
larship had attracted attention
and he was asked to become a
contributor to the Nation, with
which he continued to be asso-
ciated for twenty years. Most
of his writing was on critical
and historical subjects, and the
range of his interests displays
his scholarship. Some of the
subjects he encompassed were
"The Jewish Reform Movement,"
"English Towns," "An Essay on
Foreign Names," and "Metter-
nich's Memoirs."
When, in 1881, pogroms im-
pelled Russian Jews to flee to
the United States, Heilprin
worked intensively for Jewish
agricultural colonization. He
was the first secretary of the
Montefiore Agricultural Aid
Society, which attempted to
found Russian Jewish Refugee
colonies in several states.
Not all these attempts were
successful, but a number of
settlements in Oregon and New
Jersey flourished for many
years. A memorandum prepared
by Heilprin in 1888 at the re-
quest of the American ambassa-
dor to Turkey, Oscar Straus,
greatly influenced Baron de
Hirsch to establish a $2,500,000
fund in America to aid the Rus-
sian Jewish refugees.
Michael Heilprin was the
father of two distinguished sons.
Angelo Heilprin was a scientist-
explorer, while Louis Heilprin,
a scholar and journalist, edited
Nelson's Encyclopedia, was an
associate editor of the New In-
ternational Encyclopedia, and
collaborated with his brother
Angelo in editing Lippincott's
New Gazeteer.

(Copyright, 1963, JTA, Inc.)

BY HERBERT G. LUFT

Slave's Progeny
Will Celebrate
Bar Mitzvah

Rabbi Yaakov Jacobs, writing
in the "Young Israel Viewpoint"
of New York, tells the curious
story of Sherman Dean who will
celebrate his Bar Mitzvah Satur-
day morning.
Young Sherman, of Corona,
Long Island, is an American
Negro whose great-grandfather
was a slave in Virginia until the
Emancipation Proclamation and
who died in 1927 at the age
of 106.
Under the influence of their
aunt,. Mrs. Rosetta Buggs, Sher-
man's family was extremely anx-
ious to become Jews. Sherman,
his mother, aunt and six sisters
were able to convince the rab-
binic authorities of the sincer-
ity of their desire. In the sum-
mer of 1962 the family was for-
mally inducted into the faith.
In September of last year,
Sherman entered the Haichel
Haf torah, a Yeshiva in New
York, and studied under an ac-
celerated program. He is now
receiving instruction in Talmud
and is so enthusiastic about his
faith and religious studies that
he hopes some day to enter the
Rabbinate.
Mrs. Buggs explained that her
grandfather came from Pales-
tine and later went to Africa
where he was captured and sold
into slavery. She recalls that he
observed a Sunday "Shabbos"
and during "Easter" he pre-
pared wine and "flat bread."
She added that she always felt
Jewish and prayed that some
day she would actually be
Jewish.

covered on a trip to the U.S.
by producer Sam Siegel, she
started her career in Hollywood
by appearing briefly in the Jeff
Chandler movie, "The Tattered
Dress." Unemployed for a period
of many months, she became a
Hebrew teacher and sometimes
posed for magazines in a "semi-
nude."
In 1958 selected by the Holly-
wood Foreign Press Association
as Miss Golden Globe, she be-
came active again in films with
roles in "The Brothers Karama-
zov," "King Creole," and oppo-
site Kirk Douglas in "Last Train
From Gun Hill." She admits that
she was miscast and badly han-
dled in "The Story of Ruth."
Returning from Brazil in 1960,
she swung into TV work with
starring roles in "The Third
Man" (opposite Michael Rennie),
"Mr. Lucky" (co-starring with
John Vivyan and Ross Martin),
"Not for Hire," "Have Gun Will
Travel," "Death Valley Days,"
"Hawaiian Eye," "Perry Mason,"
and "Dick Powell Show." Dis-
playing great versatility, Ziva
has portrayed French, Italian,
American, East Indian, Gypsy
women; it is impossible to pin
down her accent, linguists call
it "continental," though she still
speaks Hebrew whenever she is
with friends from her native
country.
Ziva Rodann lives unconven-
tionally and highly independent
by her own code of ethics. She
says she is happiest when she
is in love; however, that she is
unattached at the present, does
not date very much and likes to
be alone. She draws and collects
art, designs hats and clothes.
Widely read in world litera-

ture, she is articulate, likes to
discuss plays and master pieces
of the cinema. She believes in
the artistic development of mo-
tion pictures, though she hasn't
yet had the chance to play in
films of her own choice and
portray roles she desires. She
loves music, modern as well as
the classics.
Ziva Rodann, no prude, admits
that her bikini in the Levine
production completed in Nice is
the most daring unclad attire of
the film, but discards her affair
with the younger Aga Khan
strictly as a publicity stunt with-
out a grain of truth.
Unlike many other newcomers
to these shores, she loves Amer-
ica and the American people.
She showed me her Hebrew
prayer book and wants to make
it clear that she is an observing
Jewess—without any attachment
to organized religion. She is
tolerant towards other races, es-
pecially feels that Israel should
and will get along with the
Arabs, with the latter needing
education.
Ziva has contributed much
time and effort to Jewish organi-
zations, especially in the sale of
Israel Bonds.

25 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, August 23, 1963

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