14—Friday, December 30, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Romanian Rabbi Invites
Goldberg to Synagogue
Hillel Day School Receives Award
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) — Chief Romanian Rabbi
Moses Rosen paid a courtesy call
to Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg
at the United States Mission to the
United Nations, accompanied by
Morris B. Abram, American Jew-
ish Committee president, who is
the United States representative
to the UN Commission on Human
Rights.
Ambassador Goldberg expressed
a desire to visit Romania soon,
and Rabbi Rosen invited the am-
bassador to speak at his synagogue
in Bucharest. The ambassador
asked Rabbi Rosen to extend his
warmest greetings to the Jewish
community and to all of the people
of Romania.
Ellmann's Superb Classic:
'The Letters of James Joyce'
Prof. Richard Ellmann again has
made a notable contribution to
world literature with his "Letters
of James Joyce" (Vols. II and III)
which have been published by Vi-
king Press. Already famed for his
prize-winning biography of James
Joyce, Ellmann's collected letters
become immensely valuable for
students of literature in general,
Joyce in particular and the trends
of an important era in creative
writing.
To Ellmann, Joyce is "a Parrell
of art." The collected letters are
a study in egotism. They reveal
the artist, the poet, the novelist.
The first of the three volumes
of letters was edited by Stuart
Gilbert and published in 1957. Then
Viking Honors Author
Prof. and Mrs. Richard Ell-
mann were guests in New York
this week at a reception ar-
ranged by Viking Press, honor-
ing the author of "The Letters
of Joyce."
works of Guglielmo Ferrero he
states about "Young Europe": "He
has a fine chapter on anti-Semitism
. . . He says that Karl Marx has
the apocalyptic imagination and
makes Arbageddon a war between
capital and labor. The most arro-
gant statement made by Israel so
far, he says, not excluding the
Gospel of Jesus is Marx's procla-
mation that socialism is the ful-
filment of a natural law. In con-
sidering the Jews he slips in Jesus
between Lassalle and Lombrosso:
the latter too (Ferrero's father-in-
law) is a Jew."
With reference to Joyce's com-
ment on the play "Ahasuerus"
by Her?nann Heijermans (1864-
1924), a footnote states: "The
Wandering Jew lends his name
as the title but does not appear
in the play: possibly Joyce found
here a hint for 'Ulysses,' where
also an analogy is asserted al-
though the title character never
appears."
On several occasions, Joyce
mentioned the Swiss suspicion that
Gilbert already was able to point he was a Jew. Commenting on this
to Ellmann as the authority on belief by the Zurich police he wrote
.Toyce. Ellmann's two volumes con- on Oct. 29, 1940, when he was tem-
I ain 1.130 of Joyce's letters. His porarily denied the permit from
introduction is a superb addendum Berne to reside in Switzerland:
to his biography of .Toyce.
"I am thunderstruck! There's a
A number of unusual references
remarkable discovery!" Again, on
to Jews will he found in Joyce's
Nov.. 1940. he write: "They do
not want me because I am a Jew."
letters. There is an interesting
Ile reiterated it and on Nov. 23,
note, for example, by Prof. Hein-
1940, he wrote: "I fear . . . that
rich Straumann about the ex-
if they did not want me there be-
change of correspondence with
cause they believed me to be a
Martha Fleicchmann. Joyce had
Jew (Intelligence Service, no
taken her for a Jewess. Strau-
doubt?). after reading my declara-
mann states that her parents and
tion they will want me less and
her grandmother were not con-
less as they perceive that I am
sidered Jewish by the people in
not a Jew at all." Two days later
the Swiss village of Ueken
he wrote again: "Switzerland, hav-
(Aargu) where they lived in the
ing discovered that I am not a
first part of the 19th century.
Jew from Judea but an Aryan from
In a letter to Martha Fleisch-
Erin has asked not only for the
mann in 1918 Joyce had written:
10 references already given but
"And I thought: a Jewess. If I
also for a bank deposit and a
am wrong, you must not be
guaranty of 500,000 francs together
offended. Jesus Christ put on his
. . . I have made it but I fear
human body: in the womb of a
that after reading my declaration
Jewish woman."
the Swiss will see too clearly that
In one of his appended explana-
I am not a Jew and will reject me
tory notes. Ellmann refers to
again."
Joyce's "love of scholarship"
In a letter to his daughter-in-
which "enabled him to speculate
ingeniously about the origins of law. Helen Joyce, Jan. 18, 1935,
Joyce
asked: "Please ask all the
Greek and Semitic civilizations.
about the naturalistic basis for Jews in America to get up a sub-
Ulysses'... semi-mythical wander- scription for me as I am planning
to enter the poorhouse on St. Pat-
ings . . ."
rick's Day next." This may have
Writing to his brother Stanislaus been one of his many elements of
(Nov. 13, 1906), James Joyce men- fun-poking.
tioned the .Tewishness of Georg
A year earlier he told of having
Brandes and commenting on the
Dimona Library Dedicated
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The John
Miles Davidson Memorial Library
at the new Edith Lehman compre-
hensive high school in Dimona was
dedicated Monday by New York
State Supreme Court Justice Lee
Davidson.
Rabbi Simon Murciano (right), headmaster of Hillel Day School,
receives a trophy in behalf of the school from Dr. Harry Maisel,
president of the Dads' Club of Hillel. The award was presented to
the school at a Hanuka assembly for excellence in Hebraic studies.
A replica of the trophy will be presented to the outstanding graduate
in June at the first graduation exercises of Hillel Day School.
seen "a Palestine company play-
ing 'Jacob and Rachel' in . . .
Hebrew, not Yiddish. It was very
remarkable and barbaric."
Herzl Institute Honors Laureates
Joyce had come to the aid of
Jewish refugees and helped some
to establish themselves in foreign
lands, some into the U.S.
These letters collected by Ell-
mann are echoes of a rich life, of
the attitudes of a genius with many
idiosyncrasies. In no other way,
perhaps, could the true character
and the real image of James Joyce
emerge as they do in this work, so
splendidly evaluated by a brilliant
biographer.
Prof. Ellmann is the son of
Judge and Mrs. James I. Ellmann
of Detroit.
Israel Builds Laser. Beam
of Carbon Dioxide Gas
NEW YORK—The first carbon
dioxide gas Laser beam has been
constructed in Israel, it was re-
vealed by Maurice M. Rosen, presi-
dent of the American Technion
Society.
The Laser was built of parts
made or purchased in Israel, under
the direction of Dr. U. Oppenheim,
associate professor of physics at
the Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa.
Prof. Oppenheim said he plan-
ned to use the Laser for "basic re-
search in the field of molecular
Spectroscopy." Prof. Oppenheim
said that the carbon dioxide gas
Laser "opens up exciting possibil-
ities, especially in the field of long-
range communications in outer
spa c e and data transmission
through the atmosphere."
Fisher Hosts Reception for Overseas Leaders
Max M. Fisher of Detroit, general chairman of the nationwide Jewish Appeal (second from right,
was host at a luncheon honoring the distinguished leaders of Jewish communities in Europe and South
America who participated in the UJA's 29th annual national conference in New York. From left with
Mr. Fisher are Max Mazin of Spain, president of the Jewish Community of Madrid; Gunnar Josephson
of Sweden, president of the Jewish Community of Stockholm; Baron Edmond De Rothschild of France,
vice preSident of Alliance Israelite Universelle; Sir Isaac Wolfson of England, president of the United
Synagogue of Great Britain, and Werner Nachmann, representing the Central Council of Jews in West
Germany. Also attending the LTJA conference but not shown in the picture was Dr. Moyses Kauffman
of Brazil, president of the Confederacao Israelita.
Tributes to Shmuel Yosef Agnon of Israel and Nelly Sachs,
German exile now living in Sweden, were voiced at a special Herzl
Institute meeting in New York conducted by Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
(speaking) president of the Theodor Herzl Foundation. Speakers
were, from left: Theodor Schocken, publisher of Agnon's works; Ye-
huda Amihai, Israel poet and novelist; Dr. Marie Syrkin, editor of
"The Jewish Frontier," and Dr. Eisig Silberschlag, dean of. Boston
Hebrew Teachers College.
Brevities
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Attorney NATHAN E. SHUR
took part in a panel on "What
a Lawyer Desires of a Good Sec-
retary" at the recent presentation
of certificates to secretaries who
completed the eighth session of
the Florence Rose Study Course
for legal secretaries. Elaine Todd,
secretary of Albert M. Colman,
received recognition for oustand-
ing achievement and perfect at-
tendance while attending the course
of study.
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American Institute of Steel Con-
struction awarded the firm of
ZIEGELMAN AND ZIEGELMAN,
architects, the 1966 architectural
award of excellence for their de-
sign of the Birmingham Bloomfield
Bank, a correspondent of the Bank
of t h e Commonwealth, Wixom
Branch. The Contractor was Se-
bold and Kage, Inc. of Bloomfield
Hills. Structural Engineer Sam
Tavernit.
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CALORIE COUNTERS, a non-
profit organization of women dedi-
cated to the battle of the bulge.
will meet Tuesday evening. Visi-
tors, who are welcome, may call
862-6935 or KE-55247 for informa-
tion.
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Wayne County Republican Chair-
man Henry R. Sladek has an-
nounced the appointment of two
more vice-chairmen to the County
Committee. He has named IRWIN
BURDICK of 19400 Warrington as
a special assistant and vice-chair-
man in charge of "personnel utili-
zation." An additional vice-chair-
manship went to JOHN F. BOYLE.
Aliens Advised to Report
Addresses in January
Walter A. Sahli of the Immigra-
and Naturalization Service
stated that aliens in the United
States will be required to report
their addresses to the attorney
general in January.
tion
All aliens, with few exceptions,
who are in the United States on
Jan. 1 each year must report their
addresses by the end of that month.
Only accredited diplomats and per-
sons accredited to certain interna
tional organizations are excused
from this requirement.
The form with which to make the
report can be obtained from any
post office or Immigration and
Naturalization Service Office during
January.
Sahli said that the law provides
severe penalties for failure to com-
ply with the reporting requirement.
NY Federation Seeks
Students for Counselors
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Fed-
eration of Jewish Philanthropies
of New York announced that it
was offering a career-building ex-
perience to 1,000 college students
who wish to work, to serve their
community and at the same time
to become involved in an educa-
tional process by serving as coun-
selors at summer camps.
A s p e c i a 1 camp placement
bureau was opened by the feder-
ation employment and guidance
service at its headquarters here
to interview college students and
others for positions as general
counselors next summer at the 52
summer country camps and city
day camps sponsored by the fed-
eration.