THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS . .
38—Friday, May 5, 1967

McKay to Publish
Firit Lieber Novel

Israel's Recession and Immigration

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By ELIAHU SALPETF:R

Mrs. Harold Silver
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Dies in Israel

migrants from scores of other in a nation of new immigrants; in
ZIA Correspondent in Israel
} countries. Ile was probably given his old country he was a member
(Copyright, 1461, JTA, Inc.)
Mrs. Harold (Feigel) Silver,
a house or an apartment in one of of the more privileged class of formerly of Detroit, died April 26
JERUSALEM—It is almost a
-
n the development towns where "intelligentsia." And while a in Israel where
official axiom here that Israel
she and Mr. Silver
, Joel Lieber's novel, "flow the present . economic recession i s many of his citizens came from the grandmother from Yemen came to- were making their home.
Fishes Live." was published April caused, to a large extent, b s same country as he did. And as gether with all her children and
The Silvers, of Jerusalem, had
Y long as as he had a job. he was grandchildren, and a grandma
28 by David McKay Company.
the dwindling of mass immOratio
been visiting their daughter in Urim
more or less happy with his lot. from Britain can fly home any for the Passover holiday and while
For his first novel, Lieber has to this country. The arrival of ten
chosen a subject of considerable of thousands and even hundreds o s Immigrants from the States. on time to see her dear ones left there Mrs. Silver became ill and
emotional impact—anthropophagy, thousands of new immigrants i f the other hand. came from an in- behind. the situation is entirely was rushed to Beersheba, where
or by its more familiar synonym, earlier years, though straining t n clividualistic society. Each pres- different if the old lady arrived she died. Funeral services were
• ented an individual problem of from elsewhere. She is very happy
cannibalism.
breaking point Israel's finaneia
held in Israel.
absoroti
our earn w as' I. e • o tb be near her son and grandchil-
Russian-born Mrs. Silver, who
A ship on its way from Europe resources, kept the economy 'run
dren
the
idea
that
the
initiative
for
solv-
in Tel Aviv. But the grand-
nine
in high gear to provide hous
was in her late 60s, had resided in
to the United States blows up and
- ing his problems had to come from children do not understand her
Detroit from 1933 to 1963. The
sinks. Hundreds lose their lives. ing. employment and. services fo ✓
him and not from the authorities. Yiddish and she cannot talk in
One lifeboat manages to pull away. the newly-arrived.
couple left for Israel upon the res-
The newcomers under the their Hebrew. After a few months,
Aboard are II people. They are
ignation of Mr.
The firmness of the economi c . family-reunion scheme also she will also long to see
her daugh- Silver as director
Isaac Wolfe, former Jewish ter- foundations laid in those hecti
c present, each one of them, an ter and grandchildren left behind
rorist against the British in Pales- years, left much to be desired
of the Jewish
individual problem. But life in —but she cannot just buy an air-
tine and fighter for Israeli inde- though few people then had time
Family and Chil-
their old country trained them ticket next summer and visit them
pendence: Betsy French, young, to worry about long-term implica
d r e n's Service.
-
to
expect the authorities not only again. Free university education.
attractive, clad only in a man's Lions. On the other hand, the con
Mr.
Silver had
-
to provide theni jobs, housing free health services, cheap theater
white dinner jacket; Byron Holt, siderable concern often expressed
and education, but also take care and opera are things expected by also been the
well-off advertising executive in about the sociological implications,
executive
direc-
of their leisure time. Some voice members of the `intelligentsia"
his late 20s: eleven-year-old An- in terms of Inter-human relation-
tor
Resettle-
the sentence "Nobody cares what there, but are not necessarily the
drew Wallace; a retired Conserva- ships. has proved so far less justi-
ment Service and
I do after work" not in a tone case in Israel.
tive Jewish couple, Mr. and Mrs. fied than it seemed in the fifties.
held many im-
of satisfaction but as a corn-
Difficult as these individual portant chai r-
Simon Sachs; seasick George Tensions between ethnic groups.
plaint. Also, a doctor or engineer problems are. Israeli authorities
Moore; steward Ronnie Williams; and between "Oriental" immi-
Mrs. Silver
manships on the
for example, who arrives to expect most of them to be solved
crew member Bernoldi; Mario grants (i.e. 402m Moslem coun-
join
his welt-established middle on an individual basis—exactly local, state and national scene with
Parker, male nurse; and Sieg- tries) and Eurirpean immigrants in
regard to his interest in child and
class children here, will prob- because the numbers involved are
fried Trial). German-American bus- general have considerably dim-
welfare programs.
ably have—in absolute terms— so limited: But everybody in Is-
inessman.
inished. The very fact that tens
Mrs. Silver was active in the
a
higher standard of living than rael would prefer to be the prob-
The boat drifts. There are no of thousands arrived from the
Jewish
National Fund and Labor
he had in his old country. lem of much larger dimensions.
rations aboard. One person dies, same country helped each individ-
Zionist
movement (Histadrut) and
In Israel, however, he is likely gladly accepting it as a price of
then another, and all slowly weak- ual of each ethnic group to over-
had also been a member of the
en. After more than two weeks, come some of the initial difficulties to be yet another new immigrant mass immigration.
committee on services to the aged
the suggestion is made that the of life in a new country.
of the Jewish Family and Chil-
lifeboat company draw lots, the
dren's Service. She had been ac-
Mass immigration brought
loser to sacrifice his life that the
tive as a visitor to the sick and
"mass-problems," for which the
others might live. This is rejected
homeless in hospitals and institu-
government
and
the
Jew
ish
by the majority but in the night.
tions.
Agency tried to develop mass
one person is killed and all con-
Besides her husband. she leaves
solutions. Parallel to this, there
sume the forbidden nourishment.
a son, Dr. Reuben of Cleveland
were the problems of a different
A few days later, the lifeboat
Israel hasn't had much luck wi th Israeli sympathies," and he con
lleights; a daughter, Mrs. Philip
kind of the much smaller num-
is sighted and rescued, The sur-
( Rena) Schwartzberg of Urim; and
ber of immigrants from Western some of the United Nations tru ce ments that when he arrived at
vivors are questioned on their sur-
a six grandchildren.
countries. While for immigrants supervisors. General Burns caus ed
prisingly good physical condition
from, say, Yemen, Iran or Mo- some trouble. Now we have e% , i- Jordan session "it was presume d
Those wishing to contact Mr.
and the killing and the eating are
rocco it was a question of dence of a lack of friendship, per- by Jordanian Intelligence . . . h e Silver may reach him at Neve
confessed. The last part of "How
haps eves cordial-
had come Straight from the arm s Granot 2, Knisa 6, Jerusalem. .
absorbing
them
into
the
modern
the Fishes Live" is the trial of
twentieth century- social and ity, on the part of
of an Israeli mistress in the Jew
the two survivors accused of the '
economic fabric of Israel, for Maj. Gen. C a r
ish sector."
murder. The story is full of sus-
von Horn who was
1 Mrs. Margoshes Dies
newcomers
from
the
United
pense, both in the days at sea
Again, Walter Eyten, directo ✓
States or Britain there was the chief of staff of
NEW YORK (JTA) — Mrs. Rose
and in tin- trial that follows,
the
UN
Truce
Su-
general
of
the
Israel
foreign
of
' Kirschenbaum-Margoshes, wife of
effort to adapt to the lower
flee. is referred to as "high-browed . Dr. Samuel Margoshes and a Yid-
. standard of living in this coun- pervisory Organ-
ization. If we are
dart-eyed man of r a the r shor t dish author in her own right, died
try.
Benjamin Merkle. 70
to judge by what
stature," and he writes about thei ✓ here at the age of 80.
These days. Israel is facing an he wrote, and the
first meeting:
Benjamin Merkle. former owner
Born in Galicia, she came to the
for 30 years of Victory Market in entirely new kind of problem in way he wrote, in
"Eytan did all the talking on thi s United States in 1903. Under her
Wyaridotte died Monday at age 70. the field of immigrant absorption.
i s "Soldiering
occasion. With him in the room wa s pen-name of Kirschenbaum-Mar-
Mr. Merkle was a retired sales- In the past two years a small num- for Peace," which
Yosef Tekoah, Siberian-born direr - goshes, she wrote for various Yid-
man for Mohawk Furniture for ber of Jews, who have close rela- has been publish-
for of armistice affairs with whom dish dailies and magazines, includ-
the past 11 years. and he was a tives in Israel, were permitted to ed by David Mc-
I was destined to have many tortu - ing Der Yiddisher Kempfer, the
charter member of Temple Israel. reunite with their families here. Kay Co. (750 3rd, ,
ous dealings. I regret to say tha t Jewish Daily Forward, the Tage-
Born in New York. Mr. Merkle was Their number runs only into the NYI7), he is not
even at this first meeting Tekoah's - Blatt, and the Jewish Almanac. She
look and manner reminded me for also contributed to the English-
a 50-year resident of Detroit. lie hundreds. but they present a chal- renderingthe:
lenge for which those who han- cause of good re- Gen. von Horn
lived at 19$41 Cranbrook.
cibly of the reptilian order Ophidia language Jewish press.
dled the absorption of tens of
. . " Later. he writes. he struck
Survivin_!! him are his wife, Rose: thousands in the past are not yet lations much service.
As a young woman, Mrs. Mar-
up
"a happy relationship" with
a ifaughteri Mrs. Melvin (Ellen) fully prepared.
When he describes Arab spokes . 1
goshes worked in the New York
Yosef. Then- he states that he
Rosen of :van Francisco; t h r e e
men
or
other
UN
officials.
they
port
as translator helping Jewish
An immigrant from Iraq. for
brothers, Sam, Saul and William;
have "kind eyes" (in the case of sensed a latent resentment in For- immigrants to explain their prob-
example, came with his entire
eign Minister Golda Meir.
and one grandchild.
lems to the immigration author-
family, pa re n t s, grandparents. Ralph Bunche), or good features
4.
4'
4.
and are friendly, but the Jews are
ities. She also did social work at
aunts. uncles, cousins. nephews, creating suspicion!
Versi4 for the Week
t ' s amazing to what degree the
the
Henry Street Settlement on
all. On his very first day in Israel
He that gathereth in summer is ' he was likely to meet other Iraqi
He seems to imply that Bunch e von Horn dislike for Israel and the New York's Lower East Side.
Israelis
carries
him.
Mrs.
Meir
is
a wise son: but he that sleepeth Jews who arrived before him and warned him against the Israelis,
in harvest is a son that causeth have already settled and he could and when von Horn speaks he often the Balku lady, everybody in Israel Dr. Frank Sternberg,
shame —Proverbs 10:5
talk in his native Arabic to im- intermingles Jews and Israelis and is plotting and scheming, but when
Dentist for 40 Years
the Jews are the culprits in his he writes about Arab leaders they
Dr. Frank C. Sternberg, 5094 W.
relationships with them, although are "remarkable" men.
Outer Dr., a dentist in Detroit for
he occasionally expresses regret,
To him Israel is always the trou-
that the peace sought by Israel ble maker and because General 40 years, died April 29. He was 68.
could not be attained.
Dr. Sternberg was born in Hun-
Laskov pleaded that Israel desires
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a chance to breathe he termed it gary and graduated from the Uni-
versity
of Indiana in 1923. He be-
"the Laskov Respiratory Theory."
Describing I sr a el Ambassador
longed to Phi . Epsilon Pi Frater-
Not infrequently, von Horn does nity. He had been retired for
Kidron who was among the first
with whom he negotiated, he refers not hesitate to commend the Arabs three years.
to him as "small, dark, and neat as having been so ready to cooper-
Dr. Sternberg leaves his wife,
with a high, sloping forehead,“ and ate with him—only Israelis were Ann; two daughters, Cherie and
he bad boys. It's no wonder that
that he "left him with the impres-
Wendy; two brothers, Dr. Harry
sion that the Israel government , he stood accused by Israel as a pre- and Dr. Jack; and two sisters, Mrs.
udiced commander of the UN force
would soon 'put me right'." In con-
Morris (Lois) Cohen - and Mrs.
on
the
Arab
borders.
trast he says, the United Arab Re-
Grace Buck.
public An
Omar Loutfi
"Soldiering for Peace" could well
"was a genial man who radiated be relabeled as being prejudiced
great charm and went out of his' against peace if it were to benefit
way to be friendly."
Israel. The win Horn book indicates
His introductory chapter, a sort in no uncertain terms that a UN
of historical resume of events pre- representative harmed Israel, had
ceding his assuming the UNTSO set out to gather data to harm the
For the first time science has found
post, speaks of the "hot seat" he new state, delighted in telling tales
a new healing substance with the as-
was offered, refers to his predec- o a f b fo ic ui t alJ s cwesses who were seducing
tonishing ability to shrink hemor-
Dr. Amos de Shalit (left), director general of the Weizmann
rhoids and to relieve pain — without
essors — American General Riley
surgery. In case after case, while
Institute of Science at Rehovot, has a high-energy chat with Dr. C.
who "had been regarded as taking
It's no wonder that Israel faced
gently relieving pain, actual reduc-
N. Yang. 1937 Nobel Laureate in Physics and New York State Uni-
too favorable a view of the Isra- s uch difficulties, when in their own
tion (shrinkage) took place. Most
yevsity professor, at the second International Conference on High
amazing of all — results were so thor-
ells." Danish General Bennike who m idst were enemies who were set
ough that sufferers made astonishing
Viler* Physics and Nuclear Structure held recently at the Weizmann
was declared persona non grata by o n denigrating nearly everything
statements like "Piles have ceased to
41.tititle. The conference, jointly organized by CERN, cooperative
be a problem!" The secret is a new
Israel and General Burns who was t he state did. From Israel's point
healing substance (Bio-Dyne®)— dis-
mulear research undertaking of 13 countries and the Weizmann
accused of favoring the Arabs. Then o f view "Soldiering for Peace"
covery of a world-famous research
Institute. was attended by 200 distinguished scientists from 22
he mentions Colonel Leary the - de- c ould easily be condemned as a for-
institute. This substance is now avail-
ountries, including representatives of 20 American universities and
able in suppository or ointment form
vout Catholic "was in high disfavor m er UN official's self-indictment 'as
ientific laboratories.
called PropiSratioa Eli. At all drag
with the Arabs who accused him of a n enemy within Israel's gates.
counters.

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Gen. von Horn's `Soldiering
for Peace': Was He an Enemy
Within, Schemer Against Israel?

I■ choNot Physics Parley Draws Experts

Shrinks Hemorrhoids
Without Surgery

Stops Itch—Relieves Pain