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 Happy New Year BILL MONETTA'S 0-SOLE-M10 RESTAURANT 1.9631 W. 9 Mile Road of Coolidge, Oak Park LI 6-8200 LOANS UP TO $1,000.00 IN ONE DAY on your SIGNATURE CAR HOUSEHOLD Phone Now for Quick Service Victory Loan & Investment Company There's an Office Near You 10316 Woodwprd of Trowbridge • 9111 Linwood - ot Joy Rood 866-2900 898-3533 New Year Greetings PALOMBO'S RESTAURANT Detroit's Finest Italian-American Cuisine The Environment Leaves Nothing to Be- Desired 20401"W. 8 Mile Rd. Jabotinsky For. Reservations Call — KE 5-3635 Holiday Greetings The Great Lakes Mutual Life Insurance to, LIFE INSURANCE FOR ALL Louis C. Blount. 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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 ' 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 • 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." '7OrVi 3 'T And now. during these Sacred Days, we regret our deeds. and :H7ni 1 niLpxtli a4 ,Tx .7tp 1 T • , • T plead; "Hear our voice ! If you do • • • 1 . not recognize our appearance, rec- rirTW N' 0 ? n; 1'77 /TV; r17. 7.1 17.1 30 '71 1' 12 rok3 ognize our voice, for we are your 17 Ta ,:rt7, tp7;, children; have compassion on us 14 ." „j 11.1r and receive with compassion our n'T P141'it)iX '17. 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