Bonds Are Bnildino- New Israel Areas 'Yemen Rebel Leader
Vows Concessions to
Israel If Egypt Ousted
ROME (ZINS)—A sensational in-
terview with the leader of the Ye-
menite rebels, the Imam El Bader,
published in the newspaper
"Roma," as reprinted in all Arab
newspapers.
In the interview, which was not
denied by the Imam, the rebel
leader declared that he has ceased
believing the Arabs and that hence-
forth he will lean toward England
and the state of Israel.
The Imam further said that with
the exception of Saudi Arabia all
the Arabs did not help in the fight
against the Egyptian invaders. On
the other hand, he received aid
from the state of Israel. He pledged
that after the expulsion of the Egy-
ptians from Yemen he would grant
Israel special concessions in the
country.
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The building of homes and factories with the help of Israel
Bond funds is the key to the growth of Israel's new towns and the
dispersal of population and industry. The construction of housing
accommodations, such as this new apartment building, provides jobs
for new immigrants, and spurs the development of the Negev and
the Galilee. More than 550,000 housing units have been built since
Israel became a state, with Israel Bonds playing a major role.
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Greenberg
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
The American novelist, John
Steinbeck, who has been visiting
Israel, found that many there took
his name to be Steinberg. Com-
menting on it, Steinbeck told how,
some years ago, a reporter came
to interview him when by chance
the artist for the New Yorker
magazine, Steinberg, was his guest.
Between them, they decided to
play a prank on the reporter. The
two interchanged roles and Stein-
beck, the writer, professed to be
the artist, and discoursed on art,
while Steinberg, the artist, pre-
tended to be the novelist and spoke
to the reporter on literature. The
two had an amusing time.
Steinberg seems to be a favo-
• rite name among Jews, but there
do not seem to be many Stein-
bergs among non-Jews, although
there is a town in Georgia called
Steinberg or rather Stone Moun-
tain, Ga. Stone mountain of course
means the same thing as Stein-
berg. Stone Mountain, Ga., is the
place where the famous Borglum
sculpture is carved on the moun-
tain.
Jews seem to have gone in
heavily for mountain nomencla-
ture. There are Goldberg and
Silverberg and Greenberg. The
ancient prophets said, "I will lift
up mine eyes unto the hills from
whence cometh our strength" and
Jews seem determined to follow
in the spirit of the prophet. If
they felt oppressed, down at the
bottom, by a mountainous name
perhaps their spirit was lifted.
However, such names are not con-
fined entirely to the Jews. Let us
remember that in one of the states
of the Union, a very Yankee state
is called Greenberg, Vermont. Ver-
mont is French for Greenberg.
Montor is French for Goldberg and
Belmont is French for Schoenberg.
Most of these so-called Jewish
names were taken from their sur-
rounding towns, countries; names
like Cracow, Berliner, Pollak. Na-
ture supplied others; Applebaum
of Birnbaum.
The desire to Americanize them
is understandable, but it seems to
me it is generally messed up. For
instance, take the name Birnbaum,
which means Pear Tree. American-
izing it, some would change it per-
haps to Burnham, which means
nothing at all. I think a simple
translation to English would be
much better. Instead of Mr. Birn-
I
Also a State
baum, Mr. Pear Tree. "How are
you, Mr. Pear Tree" sounds won-
derful to me. It would bring a real
refreshing note of Nature into ur-
ban life.
Years back, it was said that Pres-
ident Taft objected to appointing
Judge Mayer Sulzberger to the
Supreme Court on the ground of
his name. Since then, there has
been a Frankfurter and Goldberg
on the Supreme Court bench and
the country has managed to sur-
vive.
In Puritan days, Hebrew names
were preferred above all. Some
historian has written that in York-
shire, in any schoolhouse you
could find all of the 12 sons
of Jacob. In one page of the local
records, there are three Hepzibahs,
taken from the Old Testament.
The philosophy of naming chil-
dren was different in ancient
Israel. Take the case of the child
born to. Abraham. Nowadays,
probably Sarah would say: "Don't
you think we should name him
after Grandpa Terah or maybe
get some nice-sounding name like
Seymour or Throckmorton?"
But what actually happened?
Sarah had laughed when she was
told that she would have a child,
so she named her child, Isaac,
meaning laughter.
Leah had felt that her husband
Jacob liked his wife Rachel better
than herself. She had suffered, and
giving her husband a child, she
felt, God had "seen" her suffer-
ing, so she named her first child
Reuben, which stems from the He-
brew word "to see." There was no
naming after relatives or trying
to find a pretty-sounding name.
Some of the ancients thought
certain names were lucky. We
haven't that superstition, but many
think a good name helpful in a
career. Judy Garland's last name
was given her by George Jessel.
Ethel Zimmerman became Ethel
Merman for her career's sake.
Samuel Clemens was the real name
of Mark Twain and the name Sho-
lem Aleichem fits better than
Rabinowitz, the original name of
the Yiddish writer.
'Swiftwater,' Exciting
Paul Annixter Novel
Paul Annixter has written hun-
dreds of short stories. He is the
author of a new novel, "Swift-
water," which has just been pub-
lished by Hill and Wang (141 5th,
NY 10). It is an impressive work
about trappers and it is, in a sense,
an important description of our
north woods and the activities
there of hunters.
Maine and its exciting wild life,
experiences in the wildwoods, a
community's reactions to the trap-
pers and their courage form an
American epic emanating from
"Swiftwater."
Those who love wild life, who
appreciate adventure, who welcome
acquaintance with the beauties of
our north, will love this story.
It is no wonder that "Swift-
water" has been made into a movie
by Walt Disney under the title
"Those Calloways."
First Jewish Coins
Scholars contend that the
Greeks first invented coinage in
the 7th Century B.C.E. What
Abraham paid to the inhabitants
of Heth was silver which was
weighed and not necessarily coins.
(Genesis 23:16). The same was
probably true of Jeremiah who
weighed out the purchase money
for a field (Jeremiah 32:9). In the
books of Ezra and Nehemiah we
find definite coins mentioned in
the sums of money used for the
restoration of the temple (Ezra
2:69 and Nehemiah '7:70). The
earliest Jewish coins found by ar-
chaeologists date from the 5th Cen-
tury B.C.E. It is not too clear as to
whether the requirement of the
half-shekel tax mentioned in the
book of Exodus was a coin or sim-
ply a weight of silver. If it was a
coin, Jewish coinage would be even
earlier than Greek coinage. Most
cnosider the half-shekel tax money
mentioned in the Book of Exodus
to be a weight of metal and not a
coined currency. It is interesting to
note that some consider the prac-
tice of giving the children "Chanu-
kah gelt" (Chanukah money) in
the form of coins as a means of
remembering that one of the
things that was re-established by
the victory of the Maccabees over
the Graeco-Syrian tyrants was the
right of the Jews to have their
own coins minted. Indeed there
are coins which bear a Maccabean
imprint.
NEW YORK — Was archi-Nazi
Martin Bormann in reality a spy
for the Soviet Union?
Cornelius Ryan, author of the
best-selling book "The Longest
Day," reported that German in-
telligence officers he interviewed
for a new book believe that Bor-
mann, Hitler's closest confidant,
may actually have been a spy for
Russia.
In fact, rumors about his where-
abouts may have strayed from
the truth: he may be in Russia,
,Ryan conjectured at a press con-
ference for the book "The Last
Battle" (Simon & Shuster) corn-
ing out March 28.
(In "The Last 100 Years," by
John Toland, published by Ran-
dom House, and in practically
every authoritative work on Hitler
and Hitlerism, Martin Bormann
is identified as Hitler's right-hand
man and as the one person he
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trusted to be his successor.
Hitler, Toland pointed out, had
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Israel Exports Top '65
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Exports
Zangwiil was asked what his from Israel in the months of Janu-
Christian name was. "My Chris- ary-February 1966, were 106,500,000
tian name is Israel," he said.
as compared with 87,200,000 for the
Middle names were not common
in earlier days. It was not until
the sixth President that we come
upon one with two given names.
Probably, in the future, we may
all lose even that one name and
become ZIP code numbers instead.
Martin Bormann Spy for USSR?
corresponding period last year, an
increase of 22 per cent. Exports in
February totaled 56,400,000 over
43,400,000 in February of last year.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, March 18, 1966
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