Mrs. Schwartzenfeld, Detroiter, One of First to Aid Vietnamese
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
The boxes were sent by Dr. E.
Rosner, 4824 Ave. I, Brooklyn,
N.Y., and Mrs. A. Schwartzen-
feld, 18266 Indiana St., Detroit,
Mich., the latter a subscriber of
The Detroit Jewish News.
Capt. Linver reported: "I took
the soap and our medical corps-
man to a VC-controlled hamlet
about 2 kilometers from the post
. . . When the 'doe and I paid
our call last week, the people
were a little bit afraid. But by
going house-to-house, passing out
soap, we gradually won them over.
Doc treated over 200 people in a
little over an hour. For some, it
was the first time they had ever
had any kind of medical treat-
ment.
"The pay-off came on the night
of 18-19 January. The Viet Cong
attacked the village with two com-
panies. Some of the villagers
warned our security squad two
hours before the VC hit the vil-
lage. Our squad withdrew from
the village in time.
"The really significant factor
was that the villagers did not tell
WASHINGTON — A Brooklyn
doctor and a Detroit housewife
who sent gifts of soap to a Jewish
officer serving on an anti-guer-
rilla team in Vietnam helped turn
a village against the Viet Cong,
possibly saving American lives.
Capt. Sidney Linver, U.S. Army,
commands an advisory team at-
tached to South Vietnamese
"ARVN" forces. During the recent
visit of a Jewish War Veterans
Delegation, the captain was as-
signed as escort officer and ac-
companied the visitors. He ex-
plained the need for simple items
like bars of soap for poor villagers
.whose friendship the American
troops would like to win.
The JWV officials, upon return,
asked this reporter to write that
persons wishing to assist Capt.
Linver's undertaking mail simple
items like soap to the captain,
care of Advisory Team 97, A.P.O.
96314, Postmaster, San Francisco.
A number of readers of Jewish
weeklies responded. But the first
two packages to arrive were signi- the VC that our squad had
ficant. Their contents figured in withdrawn or which way they had
gone. As a result, the two VC
dramatic events.
Mrs. Gay's Brief History, 'Jews
in America,' "Views Status in U.S.
"Jews in America," published
ner in which displaced persons
by Basic Books (404 Park, S.,
N. Y. 16), is subtitled by the
author, Ruth Gay, as "a short his-
tory." Anything akin to such a
story, in less than 200 pages, could
not possibly be more than a brief
account of a rich history of Jewry
in this country.
Tracing sketchily American
Jewry's beginning, 1654-1820, Mrs.
Gay—she is the wife of Dr. Peter
Gay, professor of history at Colum-
bia University—describes the be-
ginning of Jewish migrations to
this continent. She begins with
1815, when there were 3,000 Jews
were welcomed here and their
Americanization form another tell-
ing chapter entitled "The Quick
and the Dead."
The religious revival, the devel-
opment of seminaries and other
religious institutions are related
here and the manner in which
new forms of American Jewish
life materialized is enumerated.
A concluding chapter, about the
present, describes the status of
American Jewry today, tells about
the economic life, Jews in the arts
and sciences, how Jews vote and
their role in politics, the status of
religious groupings, cultural activi-
ties and philanthropy.
What about the future of Jewry
in America and outlines early Jew-
ish activities, leading up to the
year 1880 when larger numbers of
Jews began to settle here in what
became "The Golden Land."
With the arrival of the large
numbers toward the end of the
last century, Jews also undertook
the establishment of schools, re-
lief societies, religious institutions.
Their development is part of her
outline.
Then began the period of anti-
Semitism in Europe, the out-
burst of bigotry in this country,
and another chapter shows how
Jews who sought refuge here
were prevented from settling on
these shores by restrictive im-
migration laws.
The Hitler era made demands for
another open door and the man-
a fire fight
among themselves when they hit
the village from two different di-
companies started
Christological Approach of Novelist
Reduces Effect of Story About Hosea
in America? Mrs. Gay states: priest, Amaziah, who wanted Go-
"America is the land of surprises. mer for himself, and his role de-
In the past in Jewish history,
there was a series of standard
situations in which Jews found
themselves. Where they were ex-
cluded from the society around
them, their own internal life grew
rich in organizations, in noteworthy
men, in serious intellectual ac-
tivity. Where they were accepted
into society, their internal life
tended to be restricted to its more
formal and obligatory characteris-
tics. But in America, where all
things are possible, both styles of
Jewish life have come true at
once."
A combined toboggan, ski and
people who lost their livestock. sled party sponsored by the Hillel
Fortunately, only four • villagers Day School Dad's Club for SM.
were wounded by VC grenades, dents, parents and friends will be
and were treated by our medics. held at Mt. Holly 10 a.m. Feb. 13.
"We now own another village The
group will meet at the school
and it all started with a few bars
of soap and some pills made in at 9 a.m.
rections. Just to add to the con-
fusion, our squad outside the vil-
lage called in artillery and mortar
fire on the VC. The box score at
the end of the action read VC America," said Capt. Linver.
He mentioned Dr. Rosner and
casualties: 25 killed, 15 wounded.
Mrs. Schwartzenfeld and said "I
Our casualties: none.
can't thank these people enough
"The fighting in the village re-
sulted in the loss of livestock and or begin to explain the contri-
the burning of rice belonging to bution they have made."
The captain asked Monroe
the villagers. In the morning we
took in enough rice to replace that Sheinberg, national executive di-
lost and some for the poorer fam- rector of JWV, whom he met in
ilies. The district chief paid the Vienam, to thank the donors.
Biblical novels are difficult
even when data about the char-
acters of ancient times is easily
available. When a writer under-
takes to write a narrative based
on the life of Hosea, he undertakes
a most challenging duty.
This is the case with Armin
Ziemer, a retired minister who, at
the age of 80, produced a novel
based on the life of Hosea.
Issued under the title "Of Love
and Fury," by Pageant Press (101
5th, NY3), this novel traces the
marriage of Hosea to Gomer bath
'Diblaim, the temple dancer, the
harlot who betrayed him to marry
the king.
It was on divine order that
Hosea married the harlot, and
Ziemer in his novel, traces the
story of the minor prophet by fol-
lowing the biblical facts. He ex-
tends the theme, however, by
introducing other historical facts
into the drama — the flaming
cattle who stampeded to create
havoc in Assyrian ranks during
an existing warfare, fight and
conquest, the training of Gomer
to read as well as sing, the dom-
ination of Queen Tamaro over
King Menahem and the role
at that time of the Prophet Amos
who spoke out wrathfully against
the sinner of his day.
There is the story of the high
picts the lascivousness among
priests in those troubled times.
But the major interest is in Go-
mer. She is the unfaithful wife.
The biblical story commands
Hosea, "Go, take thee a wife of
harlotry and children of harlotry
. . ." The command was fulfilled.
Hosea suffered, and his suffering
is interpreted in the role of Israel's
sinning and the demand for atone-
ment and for elimination of evil.
The novelist's license plays a
great role here. The Rev. Ziemer,
in his portrayal of Gomer the
daughter of Diblaim, describes
her as a scheming woman who
Hillel Dads Throw Bail
sonal religion that the world has
ever known, with no mediacy be-
tween Man and God. They ignored the
Hebrew hierarchy that for a thousand
years typified God and perished with
the nation, but what the prophets de-
clared, from Moses to Malachi, has
lived through the millenniums of his-
tory. Hosea blazed the way for those
who followed him, who quoted his
language and used his incomparable
figures of speech, even the Nazarene,
Jesus the Christ, who came to fulfill
the Law of God and the ethic of
Prophecy."
In this fashion, instead of being
novelist the author is proselytizer,
and his work immediately loses
much of its effect on a Jewish
reader.
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A DANCING GIFT
used Hosea to set up a Rule of
Joy in the notorious Jezebel pal-
ace. She drives out Tyrian harlots
from the palace, herself to become
the dominant figure. She has her
charms and her lures.
There is tenderness between
Hosea and Gomer as the story
ends on a peaceful note.
Interesting enough, as a Chris-
tian minister, the aged author in-
sists upon giving his novel a Chris-
tological motivation. His conclud-
ing paragraph is a sermon (signed
The Author) in, which he states:
"The Age of the Prophets of Jehovah
was the most tragic of Israel's history.
Their 'Thus saith the Lord' struggled
against tremendous odds, to give their
race a spiritual anchorage while the
glorious Kingdom of David was crushed
by ferocious invasions. Out of their
personal experience with God these
men gave to their people and the
world the only absolutely, purely spir-
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