`Squeegee' Review: Pryce-Jones' Work `Next Generation' Is Marked by Realism About Israelis David Pryce - Jones makes a in Israel, or the threat from Arabs and it certainly carries to Nasser's broadcasts, one of the Ziprin on 'A Day vastly different approach to Israel Arabs, the atonement of a young with it a warning that there is cousins once said with a wide Israelis than th• usual trav- German or the integration of a the threat of a fifth column smile; generally they were too in Negro Ghetto' and eler in his "Next Generation," young girl who settled in a kibbutz wherever there are Arabs. There polite or too circumspect to offer BY NATHAN ZIPRIN Editor, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate What happens to people when they are caught in the quagmire of a ghetto from . which there seems no hope for escape? Quite obviously not all react alike. Some in the pit of hopelessness shout defiance at heaven. Others find solace in drink, in sex and in vio- lence of living. Some struggle to escape and suffer in the process bruises of heart and mind while others just keep on pounding at the walls of the pit until they are released by madness. Some halt in contemplation of their fate and what brought it on while others see in submission the only path to release. published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston (383 Madison, N.Y. 17). In these "Travels in Israel," as the collection of impressions is subtitled, his concern is with people, with men, women and chil- dren, and with incidents relating to the country's development. Whether it is the religious issue Labor Problems Discussed by Israel Trade Unionists (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) after coming here from Hungary is the Nasser influence, there by way of Australia, there are are the irritations that cause vivid accounts of life in Israel in fear. this collection of 10 descriptive Amidst "Some Arabs," Pryce- stories. They are travelogues, but Jones reports: "None of the young- in a sense they could be labeled er generation wore the traditional short stories. Arab clothes. Occasionally they At least two of the stories are would give up the attempt of twist- ing their tongues on the English considered by the author himself as news reports. One, "The Last language and instead switch on the Word," is about the Eichmann huge radio in the corner and we would listen to dolorous Arab trial. The other is the famous Yossele Schumacher story—the music. The radio is for listening account of the kidnapped boy whose case involved the extreme Israeli Cartoonist Wins orthodox who desired to assure 1C ompe titi on his receiving an ultra-orthodox I n t erns t education. MONTREAL (JTA) — Jacob "Erna and Joseph" is a story Shilo, an Israeli cartoonist, was that is in large measure about the declared here winner of the grand two newcomers' daughter Rosa prize in the International Salon of who likes kibbutz life and her Cartoonists. His winning drawing, access to love with a Tunisian boy. given the top $5,000 prize, shows There was a family rift, but even- efforts being made to smuggle a tually they all left the kibbutz. man out of the Rome airport in- The story throws some light on side bass-violin cases. The cartoon is a take-off on the kibbutz life. Then there is the story about unsuccessful Egyptian attempts to the young German lad, Dieter, who smuggle out of Rome last year a came to Israel to atone. There isn't man charged with being a spy for really much atoning, but he did Israel. The exhibit which gave come to Israel to labor there. It Shilo the grand prize has entries from 131 artists in 26 countries. is a "German Aftermath." Other stories deal with persons TIBERIAS — The 10th national convention of the National Workers Trade Union, the labor affiliate of the rightwing Herut Party, opened here Tuesday night with 177 dele- gates representing 81,000 members attending. Halt any Negro in Harlem or Secretary General Eliezer Shos- in any of the black ghettoes of our tak presented a report on labor land and the story is the •ame- and wage problems, mandatory ar- of sordidness, poverty, despair, biration on disputes in essential hopelessness, loneliness and of national services and national darkened paths. Until recent years, health insurance problems. the Negro story has been told Labor Minister Yigal Allon and mainly by social reformers, by sta- Herut party leader Menahem Bei- tisticians, by historians and journal- gin also spoke. The convention ists in terms of statistics and de- ended Thursday. scriptive adjectives which, how- ever correct and reliable, seem to Veteran harness driver Sucher detract rather than add to the pic- Werner was honored at Yonkers ture. Currently the poets and the Raceway by the Society for the —all real, each mirroring life, in novelists have gotten around to the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. each a reflection of some problem theme, and what may hopefully Werner, whose stable is a home involving Israel's rebirth. In "Some Arabs" the reviewer emerge is a canvas that is bound to many pets and who has long to arouse the attention and the been known for his kindness to finds the most valuable material conscience - of white America. animals, was presented with a to judge Israel's position realis- tically. It is a report on Israeli One such recent book is "Squee- plaque. gee," a novel (Horizon Press) by Jack Siegel. Wisely, the author does not attempt to deal with the theme in terms of a problem but in the idiom of human experiences transpiring in a single day. On the surface the events limned by the author are minor, for they are the experiences that are bound to come to all who live in the dark- ness of the ghetto, but when the day is over they form a mosaic of powerful impact, Benny Robin- son and his wife Althea have long lived in poverty and in humilia- tion and on this day their quest for work brings them in contact, each in a separate way, with a distraught Jewish couple whose daughter has married a Negro. In the course of the day's events Benny and his wife learn that de- spair and hopelessness are not unique to them alone, but that agony, lust, fear and confusion are the lot of all people as they strug- gle to establish identity in a mix- ed-up world. All men have redemptive mo- ments. Benny Robinson has his at the end of a traumatic day when it dawns on him that lust for flesh offers no release from the troubles that rip a man's intestines apart and that a man's path is in the end determined by his capacity to be a man and, for him, to be a black man in a white world. This is not a novel for the im- mature, the squeamish or the fear- ful of four letter words. If sensu- ousness dominates its theme, it is only because lust rules wherever hope is gone. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12 Friday, August 13, 1965 — realities, but it is the book's real- ism that recommends it very highly. MALE LEAD WANTED 16 to 19 yrs. old. Must sing and act. A GOOD MAN TO KNOW! For Some of the best buys on new Pontiacs and Tempests SAUL BEECH AT Packer Pontiac 353-3948 Evenings Only 18650 LIVERNOIS 1 block South of 7 UN 3.9300 EIGHTH YEAR Beginning September, 1965 In the modern clasrooms of the Jewish Community Center Building, 15110 W. 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