Oil Fed to Israel's Industries
Our Film Folk
By HERBERT G. LUFT
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
Oil to keep the wheels of Israel's industries turning is brought by
tanker to Elath, Israel's strategic port constructed on the Gulf of
Aqaba with the aid of Israel Bonds. Approximately ninety percent of
Israel's oil requirements must still be met by imports. Above, oil is
unloaded from a 48,000-ton supertanker to be carried to the refineries
at Haifa by a pipeline built with Israel Bond funds. Elathi's port
facilities are now being expanded, with present plans calling for a
capacity of 500,000 tons per year.
Splendid 'Unorthodox Mystery'
Kemelinan's 'Friday the Rabbi
Slept Late' Is Uniquely Jewish
At last we have an exciting "un- search for the murderer, and a po-
orthodox mystery" (as the book is liceman on the beat, who had lied
when he said he had not seen
subtitled) with .a Jewish theme!
"Friday the Rabbi Slept Late," Rabbi Small on his way home after
published by Crown (419 Park Ave. the midnight of the murder, was
S., N.Y. 16), gives its author, Harry discovered to be the guilty man.
Rabbi Small said he had greeted
Kemelman, high status.
The title itself is unique. The the policeman on his quick trot
rabbi, - David Small, had been at- home that night, and the police-
tending services in his Barnard's man was hiding facts to divert at-
Crossing (-near Lynn, Mass.) con- tention.
gregation regularly.
Thus the mystery was solved.
But that Friday he slept later— But Kemelman's is more than a
he had come home after midnight, mystery: it is a bit of good writing
having become involved in new that delves into Talmudic lore. The
books and in Maimonides manu- conversations of the rabbi with the
scripts in his study—and he decided policeman, the injection of Jewish
not to attend services. Instead, he ideas into a mystery theme, makes
received a visitor—a police officer this a unique story.
* * *
who came to inform him that a
young girl was found strangled on
Branded "the Temple Murder,"
the synagogue parking lot and her
pocketbook was found in his car. the case not only dragged in the
rabbi but also his congregants who
* * *
Rabbi Small thus fell under sus- began to become jittery.
But the talmudically trained
picion of murder. He had left his
key behind him when he was rabbi did his own thinking. He
through with his studies and he turned sleuth, visited the room in
walked home. The plot thickened. which the murdered girl lived,
A non-member of his congregation figured out a possible reason for
was found to have taken the victim her having left it in a nightgown
of the murder to a show and dinner and raincoat and suggested that
before her murder, and upon the the only man she might have dated
dialectical pleadings of Rabbi Small —a policeman, the one who lied
about not having seen the rabbi
he was released.
Meanwhile, the congregation was on the night of the murde•—could
split over Rabbi Small's status. He be the guilty man.
That's how it developed-, and
had admirers and there were those
who disliked him and who were Jewish law as studied by Rabbi
determined to let him go after his Small in the Talmud came into
first year's service. But when the good use in solving the mystery.
* * *
murder charge came up, matters
For instance, Rabbi Small's ex-
were complicated and there were
continuous postponements of action planations of the difference between
a rabbi and a non-Jewish preacher,
by the congregational board.
Rabbi - Small befriended the po- his analysis of the right to ques-
lice officer who exchanged visits tion and to challenge, his assertions
with him, and in the course of their regarding the privileges of congre-
fraternization there developed an gants who are not his flock but
anti-Semitic situation in the com- fellow-men. help in the emergence
munity. The bigots came forward of "Friday the Rabbi Slept Late"
with threats, with midnight calls as a noteworthy novel and a mar-
harassing the rabbi, members of the velous mystery story.
Rabbi Small is the eventual vic-
congregation and others.
* * *
tor. He is reelected. He -gains the
But Rabbi Small, an idealist, de- admiration of his congregants and
voted to his calling, steeped in rab- the community. He makes friends
binic knowledge, rationalized, ana- among non-Jews, especially the po-
lyzed situations, succeeded in get- lice officer. And Harry Kernel-
ting the police to continue the man's first novel establishes him
as a writer of note from whom
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS I many more good tales are to be
26 Friday, July 24, 1964 . expected. —P.S.
HOLLYWOOD — Kirk Douglas
has replaced Stephen Boyd in the
starring role of "The Unknown
Battle."
.Based on the novel by Col. Knut
Haukelid, Norway's most decorated
military hero, "The Unknown
Battle" tells us the authentic story
of how seven Norwegian patriots
blew up the German Heavy Water
Concentration in Telemark, thus
saving the free world from the
onslaught of Nazi A-Bombs during
World War II. Douglas is set to
portray Col. Haukelid, who was a
member of the team which carried
out what Winston Churchill de-
scribes as the single most impor-
tant act of sabotage in World War
II.
The script has been completed
by Ivan Moffat and Ben Barzman.
"The Unknown Battle" is sched-
uled to roll Nov. 15. Anthony Mann
(whose "The Fall of the Roman
Empire" is curr ently playing
throughout the country) will leave
shortly for South Norway to scout
locations for the saga of Nordic
resistance against German aggres-
sion. Col. Haukelid will be his
technical adViser.
* *
Otto Preminger began filming
with Kirk Douglas "In Harm's
Way" at Pearl Harbor. Players in
the all-star cast are now arriving
in Honolulu daily including John
Wayne, Patricia Neal, Brandon
de Wilde, Jill Haworth and Burgess
Meredith. The time in the picture,
based on James Bassett's best-sell-
ing novel, is the night of Decem-
ber 6, 1941, and the days immedi-
ately following the attack on
Pearl Harbor. The story gives us
the reaction of men and women
involved in the Pacific conflict,
reflecting their hopes, fears and
sacrifices.
Director Henry Levin is shooting
in Europe for producer Irving
Allen the color spectacle, "The
Rise of Genghis Khan," in which
Stephen Boyd shares star laurels
with James Mason, Telly Savales
and Omar Shariff (the latter of
"Lawrence of Arabia" fame).
Jules C. Stein, chairman of the
board and founder of MCA (the
company controlling Universal Pic-
tures) and for several decades one
of the entertainment industry's
leading figures, was honored for
his efforts to combat blindness by
being elected an honorary mem-
ber of the Association for Research
in Ophthalmology.
Research to Prevent Blindness,
Inc., a voluntary foundoation
headed by Stein, himself a prac-
ticing ophthalmologist prior to his
entrance into the agency business,
already has given $500,000 in
grants to 27 institutions, and has
spurred a building campaign for
a 54,950,000 eye research center
at the University of California in
Los Angeles. The UCLA center
will be called the Jules Stein
Eye Institute, in recognition of a
personal gift of $1,250,000 from
the Stein family.
$400 Million to Develop
Water Resources Seen
by Israel in Next Decade
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel will
spend between $300- and $400,-
000,000 in the next 10 years for
the development of water re-
sources, Prime Minister Levi Esh-
kol announced.
He revealed the plans for spend-
ing that amount on water resources
when he addressed a visiting dele-
gation of Bonds for Israel leaders
from Chicago. He said the funds
will be used for financing desalina-
tion research and plants, comple-
tion of the National Water Car-
rier, projects for the use of rain-
water and other programs.
S REALTY CO.
Russian Hebraic Treasures Stem
From Trove of Fragments in Cairo
The great mass of documents,
letters and literary remains found
nearly seven decades ago in the
ancient "Genizah" (from the He-
brew ganaz, to store away), of
Cairo has not lost any of its historic
importance, according to Abraham
I. Katsh, writing of the Hebrew
collections in Russia in The Jew-
ish World.
The trove of historic material
was preserved through the cen-
turies by the Jewish community
of Fos tat (old Cairo), Egypt, in
an old synagogue where succes-
sive generations deposited
sacred and secular materials in
a concealed chamber. The care-
fully sealed room was kept a
secret until the 19th century.
In Jewish tradition, pages of
books that could no longer be used
were protected from defilement
by being hidden. Happily for schol-
arship, the Genizah encompassed
any disqualified or disgraced book,
a refuge for a class of non-religious
writings that are of tremendous
value to Jewish history.
Cairo Genizah fragments num-
ber over 200,000 and deal with
religious, secular, and historical
documents and related materials
in Hebrew, Arabic and other cog-
nate languages.
Abraham Firkowitch ( 1 7 8 5 -
1874), a Russian Jew, traveled
to Cairo, Palestine and Constan-
tinople and succeeded in bring-
ing together the largest collec-
tion of Hebrew, Samaritan and
early Karaitic manuscripts in
the world. Many of the docu-
ments in the collection came
from the Cairo Genizah.
The Leningrad Public Library
houses part of the collection, as
well as the collection of about
1,200 fragments of the Cairo Keni-
zah brought together by Antonin
Kapustin, a Russian who lived in
Jerusalem from 1865 until his
death in 1894. One of the first to
hear about the Cairo storehouse,
he made a choice selection of the
material. This • Russian collection
has been kept inaccessible to all
-
but a few Western scholars.
The Leningrad Institute of Asi-
atic Peoples (formerly the Oriental
Institute), houses a number of col-
lections of Hebrew manuscripts
and rare books, among them the
Friendliana Collection, named for
Jewish philanthropist Aryeh Leib
Friedland who assembled the large
Hebraic collection in 1890.
The manuscript collection in
the Institute is rich in Bible,
biblical commentaries, linguistic
Material, Karaitic literature,
Kabbalah and documents per-
taining to the history of Russian
and Oriental Jewish customs
and communities.
The Soviet Hebraic collections
comprise a representation of He-
brew work in all fields of learning;
ancient, medieval and modern.
There is hardly a subject that is
nat included in the USSR collec-
tions. The whole gamut of Jewish
learning covering every country
in the world in a variety of tongues
— from Near Eastern to European
languages — is represented.
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