Israel Tackles Its _Mental Health Problems on National Scale 50—BUSINESS CARDS I. SCHWARTZ. All kinds of carpenter work, no job too big or small. BR 3-4826, LI 5-4035. 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 MISCELLANEOUS 55 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. 55 A 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 ANTIQUES 56 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 16527 Hamilton 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- 57—FOR SALE: HOUSEHOLD , families gradually exposed to op- sons in the population is not ex- GOODS AND FURNISHINGS - 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 • . • 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. .717:?71.1 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. tj - q vtz17 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— ►- 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 `7t# r4;:i 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. L 217 1'7;7 called Elegy in F Minor for the Semitism, reflecting on her Jew- I —Proverbs Six Million, has been published by ish experiences, is to be found in M:17 • at, ;71:4t$7,1 717 ,111 . ? 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 .' . • '717 • formed in synagogues by cantors paragraph that throws light not ' and choral groups. ! t7 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 .-- 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 '717 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 7 1117, tt.,1: 326 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.) - — - — — Jean Starr Untermeyer's 'Private Collection' Contains Interesting Comment on Bias of Pound, Eliot V ict ims' Photo Inspires Elegy )., - f 114-1-Irr: rqpn rrl'..7 17D L2 memo 'pin '.21n nat?ln 174tip 1x'? .rrT la'?1mp ?1-).-?'?'7 ran uL.2tr Lnntr yIt34I t*? 12nT a171 ,r:rt?a;t i : .ta4 ;nL; ip" nro -p rrirri rTppn sninl 173 nlipro ?.?;x nt'pn toir77 (I T(; crtplmn • '7;L\ ntzi n, i4'11.7 1';itz*L7 r1 ,71:4FTI 1 `Illecrals' Return ra, n'7n1 tr-prinn, riFppn ri7'ry3. to the Homeland_ .1.- r.)70:, , tom ...r*p tr)ia n'-la'71z .tr.1-1;7_tp ratan ,nvy rrri in;a7, nar'pan rilnt? ail7yp rilrar3 trtrpnri .x4 n:;t2pn rrTazsrir ilea .t2tizautrtirq.c.)np:n orrtpizn tw.n tr'rPIPDri - 127 te.7. 7.? 9P4 nivtr,4 anspn n'rr.ir17 1-1Tral i riFpart, taip.n tzt;,, r te, 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 :7v4'7 l'rnr); -1 !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 .1t743 120 j7 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- .9iri7 '7kt ni-An niwa r)15 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 — 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)