THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 1964 63 '
Our Voice- A Puzzle for Our Literati
t-'ultural Revelations — the Newest-
A certain king had an only son, r‘
tenderly and delicately reared from 1---Ahallenge to Jewish• Publishers.
Hear
A Parable
for Erev Rosh Hashanah c,
from Responsa of Bar Leval
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childhood. And his father loved
• easy to pass judgment. The cul-
By SHIN FEY SAMAKH
him and reared him i n the ways
tural approaches already are so
A Seven Arts Feature Syndicate
of righteousness and led him to
Article
crowded with obstacles that ad-
the bridal canopy; and all he' wish-
Jewish literati would do well to
ditional ones should be avoided.
ed was to see him going in a study the advance announcements
But his is certain: Readership
straight way. "And he looked that issued in recent weeks by leading i s not sufficiently exploited, books
it should - bring forth grapes;' but American publishers. They'll find that are published are not read
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alack. it brought forth sour grapes" that the best known producers of by large numbers, and what we
(Isaiah 5:2). The good qualities books in this country are issuing need much -more than a, campaign
that his father had planted in him. important works of general inter- to sell books and to enroll JPS
the son exchanged for ugly ones. est to Jews—volumes about Jews, members is to encourage that
He stubbornly followed his eviI„ by Jews. dealing with important books that are published should be
heart, deserted the ways of his historical data that have a special read.
youth and clung to a foreign girl. appeal to us.
Can we attain this? Once we
The king seeing his erring deeds,', Farrar, Straus & Co.. Holt, Rine- do, the problem will be solved,
banished his son from his palace hart and Winston, Doubleday, and the puzzle presented to the
and sent him to another land.
Harper, Macmillan — all have literati will become a simple mat-
For many years. the son wander. "Jewish titled works" in the lists ter of linking the printed word
ed from village to village and from of publications due to come off with the People of the Book.. In-
city to city. His clothes became the press in the coming months. , deed, first we must make the term
torn and tattered; his face chang-
When the editor of The De- People of the Book real and not
ed, until he was not to be recogniz- troit Jewish News revealed the a farce.
ed as a prince. After many days of plight of our publishing houses in
weary wandering he remembered a recent editorial, when he indi-
HEBREW CORNER
his kingly father and his palace cated that the Jewish Publication
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and he yearned to return to the Society has a very small member-
Zev
house of his father. So strong be- ship and urged. an increase in its
". . . I was then about se Yen or
came his yearning, that he wand- ranks ten-fold, he reportedly was possiby younger when I asked mother
ered many days without stopping. told by several people very close will
we Jews in the future have a
country? She answered: certainly—it's
And when he stood before his to the JPS: Is it any wonder that foolish to ask such a question. Since
it was sufficient
father, ragged and pale, he cried the interest in •PS is not what it then I aksed no more.
,s Tahuis is an excerpt from
and begged his mercy and sobbing should be, when so many non- Jfoarbotm
inesk;
tobiography.
Jabotinsky was born in Odessa in
fell at his father's feet and asked Jews also are publishing import- 1880
and died in New York in 1940.
to be forgiven for the sins he ant Jewish books?
His life was devoted to Zionism and
ral.
This may or may not be . a par- Eretz was
had committed. But his father
journalist. excellent writer, poet
did not recognize him. because his
answer
In his youth he became
face had greatly changed.
it does suggest that the field is popular in Russia as a writer and
journalist in the Russian language.
Then he cried bitterly: "Father. much vaster than we imagine. that There is great acclaim for his Hebrew
publishers are better aware of translations of Roman and classical
, father, if you do not recognize my
literature. He lectured in 12 langilages.
fat face, you must remember my potentialities in Jewish literary
Before World War I Jabotinsky fought
voice, for my voice has not chang- ranks. that the problem may really against intermarriage in the Diaspora.
He demanded that the Hebrew language
ed." Then his father recognized be not so much the publishing of be used in everyday life by the Jews
him and seeing his true repent- Jewish books as the Jewish reader- in the Galuth. It- was in that period
that he began to speak about a Jewish
ance, he gathered him into his ship.
army. During World War Li, together
house.
Perhaps the Jewish publishing with Trumpeldor he established the
Jewish brigades in the British army. The
This parable was told by the houses—that includes the Reform Jewish brigades intik part in taking
famous Rabbi Mishullam I. Ha- and Conservative presses. JPS. Eretz Israel by the British from the
After the war Jabotinsky was
Levi of Stanislav ( 19th Century
Bloch. Hebrew. Publishing. Shen- Turks.
among the founders of the Haganah in
before he began to recite the gold. Ktav, Behrman. Schlesinger. Jerusalem. After the Arab riots of
1920 the British sentenced him to 15
prayer "Hear Our Voice," the pent- and others—really do not realize years.
He was held in the Acre prison.
tential prayer of "Remember the what a vast field is open for however shortly aTterwards he was
from the country and not
Covenant" on. Erev Rosh Hashanah. them. Some works that could have deported
permitted to return.
in his will Jabotinsky asked that his
And he said: "So it is with us been the products of Jewish pub-
remains be taken. to Eretz Israel. this
all. We are all sons to the Lord. fishers have become the products on
condition that it be done "on the
he King above kings. The Holy of non - Jews. Does this indicate a specification of a Jewish government."
This year-24 years after his death—
One. Blessed be He. loved and de- lack of vision?
the government of Israel decided that
This critic may himself I be
his remains be brought to the State of
sired us. and exalted us above
"~
groping in the dark.
every folk and gave us His sacred
It iinn't
Translation of Hebrew Column. Pub-
. lisped by Brith Ivrith Olamith, Jerusalem.
Torah, so that we may go the
straight way of righteousness; but
alack, we have turned aside from
t hat path. we have departed from
His goodly commandments."
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