"Alone, No Longer," Dramatic Story of Battle
Against Mis. use of Term Le rosy, Brilliantly
Related by Sianle3r Stein (Sidney M. Levyson)

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
S. Oakland Symphony
Campaigns for Support; Friday, September 11, 1964-23
Miss Dubow 1st Soloist
If it is

The annual membership drive in
support of the South Oakland Sym-
phony begins Monday throughout
Of the many types of heroes who ing back to his grandfather, Paul more factors contribute towards South Oakland County with the
signing of a proclamattion by eight
emerge on the scene in defense of Levyson, "an only-partially-recon- making this a very great book.
human rights. there are the unsung structed Confederate, a deep-in-
miatiyerosrs representing their commu-
The personal testament is in it- n
who expose untruths and who plead the-heart-of Texan," and tells how self significant. But of even greater
for recognition of human values.
a doctor in New York was horrified value is the emphasis he places on
The document, declaring the
There are many who are battling to find that he had the skin the Biblical mistranslations. He week ending Sept. 21 as "South
for fair medical treatment and for disease, had ordered him to leave maintains that "the g r ea t e s t Oakland Symphony Week." reflects
the abandonment of misuse of the city, .so that the author of this triumph" in the campaign he and - support.gathered for the South Oak-
terms that brand them as repellent ' book finally was sent to the "leper" those who aided him conducted land Symphony Society- and the
when, as a matter of fact, they are hospital where he and the other "came in. August 1962, when the
more than 70-piece orchestra
now considered curable.
I inmate were placed behind barbed ten-man panel of British scholars which it guides and finances.
Chief among such men of courage wires, were deprived of their revising the translation of the Old
Louis P. Miller of Royal Oak
is Stanley Stein. who, in a deeply citizenship rights to vote in Amer- Testament announced that the word. Township is chairman of the so-
moving book "Alone No Longer," ican elections and were treated as 'leprosy' would be omitted from ciety's executive committee.
published by Funk and Wagnalls incurably diseased people. That was ' the new translation."
The first concerts again will be
(300 Lexington. NY 17), relates ho, his life began in Carville:
Stein states that the latter re- under the direction of Wayne Dun,
"the story of a man who refused there he began a battle for justice • vision, going on for 15 years, will lap. who also heads the Schoolcraft
to be one of the Living Dead!" I which resulted in triumphs for the
take another four before the ap College music department.
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In this most valuable book. the , branded people, the restoration of I pearance of the new version, that
The first concert will be Oct. 13.
author. whose story was written their rights as equal citizens, the
the exact term to be used still Marilyn Dubow will be violin solo-
together with Lawrence G. Bloch- admission that "leprosy" is a mis-
is under discussion, but that ist.
man, shows that what has been nomer and that the disease from
tentative use of "an affliction of
referred to as "leprosy" has been which these people suffered is, in-
the skin" has been suggested by
The True International Touch!
miscalled, that the skin disease is deed, curable.
Dr. Godfrey R. Driver, Oxford
curable, that those who have been
Thus, Stanley Stein once again • professor of Semitic philology.
Loncionr4N11•12d.
referred to as lepers have been un- is Sidney. Maurice Levysbn. Until
To Dr. Robert Cochrane, "who
justly isolated from mankind.
he had won his battle he had lived has probably done more than any
In "Alone No Longer," Stein, in anonymity. But he always wanted one person to influence the trans-
his mask.
whose real name is Sidney Maur- his own name and he reaffirms it. lators' thinking," Dr. Driver had
ice Levyson, shows why "leprosy" He regained it after much suffer- written that "the blame of course
should be referred to by the true ing. after great struggle, having lost lies with you doctors for misusing
term—Hansen's Disease—as med- his eyesight in the course of his a word."
icine calls it today. He presents illness.
This reviewer feels that up to
himself under his true name
A relative of his, however, had this point the. above analysis of
which he was forced to abandon
traced him and acknowledged "Alone No Longer- is inadequate.
when he was sent to U. S. Marine
him. He tells at the outset of There are so many angles. so many
Hospital No. 66 at Carville, La. j having been in Detroit in 1923 interesting episodes, so much in this
This is such a dramatic story
to attend the wedding of his journalistic and verbal struggle to
that Stein's book ought to be - placed
cousin Trudie Beisman. He had correct an error, • in the Stein-
in every library, should be read by
already been ill then but his Levyson story. that his book might
all who serve in the medical pro-
doctor urged him to go to the be used as .a textbook in human
fession and should be read by lay-
ceremony. But in 1948, when he values and social relations. Suffice
men who should not again be mis-
appeared as Stanley Stein on a it to say that what has thus far
informed about the .disease.
radio broadcast "We the People," been related presents a plea in
that originated from Carville, support of the Stein campaign: let
"Alone No Longer" is exactly
Trudie wrote to tell him "we his book be read very widely so
what the title of the book implies
—that those who were shunned as
think you are Sidney Levyson," that a very grave error should be
and several years later she came corrected where there still needs to
"lepers" should be helped in the
to visit him, accompanied by her be removal of a .misused term that
search for cures and should not be
second husband Mel. It was then has rendered so much injustice to
condemned to a life of separation •
from human ranks.
that hg told her that he felt an abused groun of unfortunately
human again—"like a mensch, as afflicted people.
Stein (Levyson) makes much
my mother would have said."
—P.S.
of the fact that the misuse of
the term "leper" is traceable to '
The immense value of this book
mistranslation in the Bible. He is that Stein lists the cures that Israel's Blind Take
maintains that the misuse of the were previously used—some still
term first in the Septuagint and extant—and the newly dscovered Summer Vacations
then in all subsequent transla. ,medication that goes a long way in
JERUSALEM—Pioneering Israel
tions of Leviticus chapters XIII- helping cure the skin-diseased who has pioneered in a new realm:
vacations for the blind. This sum-
XV have unjustly branded the ' suffer from the Hansen ailment.
skin-diseased as "lepers." He
His experiences at Carville. the mer marked the introduction of
states: "The new Catholic Bible newspaper he set up, The Sixty-Six this rehabilitation program by the
carries a footnote • pointing out Star—the 66 being the hospital des- Jerusalem Institute for the Blind.
A village populated by blind
that Biblical leprosy and Han- ignation—in the columns of which
sen's Disease are not the same. he fotight his battle for justice; the persons south of Jerusalem is well-
The Jewish Publication Society is ' many interesting people with whom known throughout Israel for its ad-
also cooperating in rectifying the he lived - and. struggled and the vanced industrieS and workshops.
translation." But both the 1920 nurses and the doctors, many of Jacob Igra. director-general of the
and the new 1962 JPS Bible whom also emerge as heroes in this Jerusalem Institute offered the
translation still use the term, and battle; the distaff side of the cam- villagers a change of scenery when
discovered that his institute is
the rectifying is yet to be done. paign out of which develop a num- partially
idle during the summer
Stein tells his life's story, lead- ber of romances—these and many months.
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