Israel Tackles Its _Mental Health Problems on National Scale
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ings with top U. S. experts in the cultural and economic life of the ' brought about by differences in
field of mental health, Dr. Miller country than similar newcomers methods of child rearing and ed-
VERY REASONABLE. Expert on tak-
NEW YORK—Along with Isra- will discuss with officials of the surveyed in other parts of the ucation.
ing home movies for any occasion. el's unprecedented achievement in
Emerging from tests among Is-
National Institutes of Mental world.
LI 8-6780, ask for Louis Gold. Call
absorbing more than 1,000,000 im- Health in Bethesda, Md., the pos-
Dr. Miller attributes this success raelis of varying backgrounds is
evenings.
the fact that Jews from Oriental
PAINTING and decorating. Plastering migrants during the past decade sibility of joint research projects to the fact that Israel was estab-
and repairs. Work on job. Low cost. and a half, one of the country's between the two countries aimed lished as a nation devoted to the communities show a far lower in-
Best work. UN 4-8534.
outstanding accomplishments has at tackling major problems in com- absorption of immigrants and the cidence of obsessive neuroses —
PLACE to sell or equipment. TO 8-0147. been the research and development munity psychiatry, a field of grow- rehabilitation of Jewish victims of guilt and worry — so common
persecution. Mindful of the need, among their Western brothers. The
of migration settlement techniques ing importance in this country.
the
Government has devoted con- Oriental Jews, it was found, are
designed
to
minimize
the
emotional
Israel's
rapid
development
as
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upset usually associated with such a new country, with a large im- siderable effort and research in also far less prone to depression.
WURLITZER Organ. Model 4602 with
migrant population, has given it developing the best absorption
But what will happen when these
Leslie speaker and Maas chimes. Suit- migration efforts.
techniques with a minimum of emo- Oriental Jews become more West-
the advantage of starting out in
The techniques, which may serve
able for home or club. Private owner.
534-3940.
ernized and assume the stresses
as models for governments and in- the field of mental health unen- tional upset.
cumbered by outmoded institu-
RELAX-A-CIZOR. Excellent condition. stitutions throughout the world,
Solutions to many of the prob- and strains of an economically
Slightly used. DI 1-2685.
are the result of painstaking stud- , tions and with the full coopera- lems were not always evident at more developed way of life? Will
also take on the accompan,
ies conducted by Israel's Mental tion of the Government interest- first. Dr. Miller notes that Israel
MISCELLANEOUS WANTED
Health Services, a division of the ed in developing the best means had abandoned earlier attempts to ing neuroses? Yes, says Dr.
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of absorbing the newcomers.
integrate immigrants into Israeli unless some way can be found to
TURN YOUR OLD SUITS, topcoats, Ministry of Health, headed by Dr.
Louis Miller, a South African-born
The - country's success in dealing society as rapidly as possible, when cope with the problem.
shoes into cash. DI 2-3717.
psychiatrist, who has served the with the problem is shown by the it was found that such attempts at
Research now under way in Is-
cause of mental health in Israel fact that its immigrant population, speed left their mark on the new- rael is seeking to find just such a
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since the establishment of the a large proportion of them concen- corners. solution—a proper balance be-
tration camp victims and other vic-
State.
Current practice encourages slow tween the Western and Oriental
REFINISHING, REPAIRING, RE-
Currently in this country for a tims of persecution, are today far change in the way of life of the im- ways of life; a sort of affluence
STORING of old furniture and an-
tiques. Expert work. Reasonable_
six-week visit of lectures and meet- better integrated into the social, , migrants who are now settled in without the ulcers.
prices. Pick-up and delivery.
I homogeneous ethnic groups aimed
Israeli mental health research-
Decore Antiques, inc.
at preserving their sociological ers are also beginning to direct
Highland Park
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forms, instead of subjecting them their attention to the problems of
, to the harsh process of conforming the aging, which are not yet too
TO 1-5357
to a general "Israeli type." Ethnic troublesome in Israel simply be-
! differences are preserved with the cause the proportion of aged per-
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- for cultural, social and tremely high. Compared with the
critics
and
epigones by
the dozen
portunities
Jean Starr Untermeyer's "Pri-
DECORATOR furniture and drapery.
among
less-gifted
poets.
Both
economic improvement. United States, where about 11 per
Reasonable. EL 6-2804, call after 5 p.m. vate Collection," published by
Such procedures could only be cent of the population is over 65,
Pound, who was ultimately more I
Knopf, is introduced as a volume
hopeful, and Eliot had been ' followed, Dr. Miller points out, if Israel's 4.3 per cent does not pre-
of "personal reminiscences." It is
keenly aware of the loss in our '• the immigrants were settled in sent a major problem in coping
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all of that, but much more. It is a
time of moral idealism and of ' rural towns rather than in cities, with their needs.
commentary on the works of many
As successful as Israel's mental
the social and personal malig-1 since the larger cities forced too
of the world's most distinguished
health program has been in the
nancies that followed in the I rapid an equalization process.
writers and poets. It gives an ac-
Israel, according to Dr. Miller, past, Dr. Miller is optimistic of
wake of that decline. It may be
count of the eminent author's life,
or Six Million
offers ideal opport unities for re- even more success in the future.
that
Pound's
violent
reformer's
'
her numerous friendships, and re-
ardor first planted the anti-Semi- search in sociological changes He points out that, compared with
A photograph of Nazi victims,
looking out without hope from be- veals much about the great who
and the United States, his country has
tic virus in Eliot. Viewing the brought about by migration
hind the barbed wires of a Nazi pass in review in the pages of this
latter in the round, one would in the westernization process ex- i a more adequate per capita supply
perienced by Oriental communi- I of professionals in the mental
concentration camp, haunted the fascinating work.
have thought that fastidiousness
eld. But the most encour-
i , ties.
Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg,
composer, Yossel ben Herschel. He
that
seems
to
be Under
at the
of I con-
health
f
his writing
and being
would!
near core
laboratory-like
aging factor
still seems to be the
could not forget the forlorn faces Robert Frost, Amy Lowell, Sieg-
have restrained him from invi- ! ditions, scientists can observe in support given by the Government
of the innocent men, women and fried Sassoon and many others play
an invi- .! Israel the changes in personality ..in this vital field.
children doomed to perish. He set their roles here.
diousness, especially
clown the words of a requiem:
And, of course, Louis Unter-
diousness which included (and '
meyer, Jean Starr's husband un-
O rest ye brethren,
excluded) a whole people. Be- !
Solemn hearted,
1926,
plays
his
part
in
this
till
Kin of Israel,
sides, I wondered then, as I do '
In thy fortress and thy tower,
story of the life of a very dis- I
now, are Jews any more free-
In thy glory of God's power
tinguished woman whose influ-
Shall there be no vanquished hour,
thinking than other people with
ence continues to be felt in '
but peace—
active curiosity and the urge to-
o rest ye brethren,
• literary circles.
r1:4tici "2IY?
•
Solemn hearted,
ward learning?" ,
Kin of Israel,
"Private Collection" has a most
Jean Starr Untermeyer will be
Now departed.
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interesting chapter on the author's 79 in May. Her current work re-
Thy sorrows ended,
Calm abides thee,
childhood, and there we learn tains a youthful outlook on life.
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In thy heaven,
about her Jewish background, her Lovers of good literature will cher- C1'7171' 4,000
God's earth hides thee.
Ye shall be His unforsaken,
I grandmother's piety, her refusal to ish her "Private Collection" as they
To His holy hill be taken,
eat non-kosher food on the boat have all her previous works—
By His hand shall ye awaken
- in peace—
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that brought her to this country.
poetry and prose.
O rest ye brethren,
And we learn about the "Christ-
Solemn hearted,
Kin of Israel,
killer" charge she heard as a youth
. Now departed.
He who walks with wise men will
that upset her and introduced her
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The composer set these words to her heritage...
become wise; But the companion of 326
to music. This vocal requiem,
But the major expression on anti- fools will smart for it.
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called Elegy in F Minor for the Semitism, reflecting on her Jew- I
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Six Million, has been published by ish experiences, is to be found in
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at, ;71:4t$7,1 717
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the Pandian Press of Stamford,
her
chapter
"Ezra
Pound:
The
illo-
-
Corner
Hebrew
Conn. The E 1 e g y has been per sale of a .'
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formed in synagogues by cantors
paragraph that throws light not '
and choral groups.
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song, Prayer for a Child, only on the anti-Semite Pound but -
In a -
also
on
the
recently-deceased
T.
S.
the composer has memorialized
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the the children who perished in Eliot:
This is the story of the San
"The Nobel Prize winner of which
sank opposite the coast of Turkey.
tr Tri
the concentration camps. He also
A. ruthless Bulgarian colonel expelled
has composed songs of hope,1948. T. S. Eliot, had declared,
during the world war 4,000 Jews from
ritiPtg
in the course of a lecture at the Bulgaria. Where could they go? In
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Brave Men of Israel and Thirty
Europe Hitler ruled, and in Eretz Israel
UniVerSity:
of
Virginia,..
that
in
Thousand Soldiers in honor of the
English were ensconced and did not
the homogeneous society toward the
let a Jew come in.
Israeli nation where survivors of
Then the San Salvador appeared in
which
he-.was
looking
and
plan-
the concentration camps have
the shape of a tiny antiquated boat.
ning- there would be no- place The
--
ship's timber was rotten, but hopes
found a new hope.
for 'free-thinking • Jews.' Eliot, ran high as 326 illegals embarked.
The ship was crowded; there was no
whose influence was then at its room to move, but the illegals sang the
House and wealth are an inheri-
t, had already found fol- anthem: Hatikvah. There were no
heigh
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tance from fathers; But a sensible
on board; only the captain and
lowers for his social canons, as workers
wife is agift from the Lord.
a few sailors were there. The young
—Proverbs well as sycophants among the lads said: "Rowing a boat is a wonder-
BY JACOB
L. CHERNOFSKY
(Copyright. 1965, JTA, Inc.)
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Jean Starr Untermeyer's 'Private
Collection' Contains Interesting
Comment on Bias of Pound, Eliot
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Inspires Elegy
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ful sport" . . . and they sat and rowed.
40 -1?
Two hours passed. Bulgaria was left
rrTzri ritgrpT
trn?
behind. The sea was stormy, the waves
were high, three days the ship tossed
`Bnai Yiddish Society' Established
1774.4 rzicp
and turned on the waves, till it reached
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!trn trrT4ts4
the Turkish coast safely. Morning came.
The
illegals
saw
from
the
deck
of
the
to Fight Assimilation Boost Language tiny
rr7pu 1,,t3 .r3, '717n1 nt , 7?tzm ninu r11.3 mhpl 1o4 vtpsyn
ship the picturesque Bosporus
and Istanbul. The illegals paid in full,
.11*v2 1D4pin
NEW YORK—The fight to pre- chairman, and Itzchok Kozlovsky, for water and bread.
During the night a storm began.
serve the Yiddish language as the secretary, the organization will at- 326
people went down into the hold on
nrxri
.rintt
the captain's order. There wasn't room
i 7k3 12pp7
"foundation of and the safeguard leaders
tempt to as expose
assimilationist
Jews who
"have be- for even 40 persons. It was difficult to
stand
up.
It
was
difficult
even
to
breathe.
Irn .41 rRjr4
n,r,atiri
for our national survival and a bul- come estranged from Jewish life
424
Suddenly a noise was heard. People
wark against assimilation" • has and have lost sight of their Jew- began to shout: A hole in the ship;
rit r2 inikt 117;y rkt 234
Water; The illegals tried to stop up the
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been taken up by a new group ish roots. Jewish continuity• and hole with blankets and coats. But the
called the "Bnai Yiddish" Society survival do not seem to be their water continued to rise.
t34 41 trr:
There was one rescue boat. The cap-
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here. concern. We therefore regard the tain
and sailor jumped into it and fled
The "Sons of Yiddish" group assimilationist leaders as a dan- to the shore. The wrecked ship was
inz 11273 niva 119
entnnz 17i-ra
without a captain. 234 persons were
plans to form branch societies gerous element, a threat • to our left
drowned that night and only 120 were
niman wain rr-rix rzVirTi
saved.
throughout the country to help future . . ."
nowp on'?
For many days afterwards the sea
The
societies
will
be
open
to
combat assimilationist tenden-
cast up the dead bodies on the shore.
!or rt tv fl ailp t rir
cies "in a systematic and all — whether religious or secu- 119 bodies were buried in a large com-
to'.. r p t/rTi npr.1?7p
,
,
planned manner." lar in outlook — interested in pre-
According to Lazar Becker, serving Jewish cultural values.
Divisions of "Bnai Yiddish Youth,"
comprised of Yiddish - speaking
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
young people, also are planned.
38 Friday, February 26, 1965
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mon grave in Turkey.
Several months ago the bodies reached
Israel to find their eternal resting place
in a country where they had not been
granted to live.
Translation of Hebrew column pub-
lished by Brit Ivrit Olamit, Jerusalem.
(3,,??1 7ir rrlvi m7 rit,t4t1)