12—Friday, March 8, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
.. and Me'
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
SHOLOM ALEICIIEM STORY: Admirers of the great Jewish writer
Sholom Aleichem—on whose works the extremely successful Broadway
play "Fiddler on the Roof" is based . . . will now have, for the first
time, the opportunity to learn more about his personal life ... Strange
as it may seem, the biography of this pillar of Jewish literature,
whose works have been translated into about two scores of languages,
has never been written . . . An attempt to acquaint his multitude of
readers with his trials and tribulations since boyhood was made by
himself in the form of a quasi-autobiography written by him in third
person, but he died unfortunately before he even reached the descrip-
tion of his 22nd year of age . . . To fill this gap, his daughter Marie
Waife-Goldberg has now written a book of memoirs about her father
under the title "My Father, Sholom Aleichem" . . . Published by
Simon and Schuster, the volUme reveals the struggle Sholom Aleihem,
whose real name was Sholom Rabinowitz, had faced in making a
living when he was already famous as a writer . . . The book brings
out the frustrations and disappointments of the "Jewish Mark Twain"
—as Sholom Aleichem was called by Americans—and the critical
financial situations in which he often found himself even at the
height of his literary success, when his works were read by millions
of people . . . His highest income ever was $100 a week when he lived
in the United States and wrote for a Yiddish daily newspaper . . .
This exceptional period lasted only one year; the paper could not afford
to renew the contract with him when it expired . . . He was then
compelled to work for $40 a week which was hardly sufficient to provide
for his large family . . . In Europe, the publishers paid him no royal-
ties despite the fact that they were making huge profits from his books
. . . When his financial difficulties, about which he avoided discus-
sion, became known to his literary friends in Warsaw, they threatened
the publishers to make public the extent to which the latter were
exploiting Sholom Aleichem' . . .'This, the publishers realized, would
have provoked mass condemnations and probably even a boycott
against te em on the part of the readers . . . They then reluctantly
agreed to pay him some royalties . . . World War I broke out, and
the agreements became valueless because of the conditions created by
Cie war . . . Then Sholom Aleichem decided to emigrate to the United
States for the second time, although his first visit—in 1906—did not
inspire him to remain in this country for more than eight months.
* * *
NO BED OF ROSES: Sholom Aleichem's second stay in the United
States lasted only about a year and a half ... He died in New York in
May 1916 . . . His funeral was the largest ever seen in the city, with
more than 100,000 mourners following the funeral procession . . .
Tributes were paid to him on the floor of the House of Representatives
in Washington .. . However, with all his fame and glory as a writer,
he died a poor and broken man . . . despite the fact that he was
beloved by all elements of American Jewry ... During his two periods
of residence in the United States he was honored with banquets and
receptions some of which were attended by such Jewish notables as
Jacob Schiff. Felix Warburg, Nathan Straus and other leaders of the
Jewish aristocracy who were socially distant from the East European
Jewish immigrants . . . Yet, these distinguished and rich Jews did
nothing to help Sholom Aleichem stabilize his material position.
LIFE WITH FATHER: Mrs. Waife-Goldberg describes very vividly
and with great feelings the "life with father" which the members of
Sholom Aleichem's family lived. . In "My Father, Sholom Aleichem"
Mrs. Waite-Goldberg relates how the great author covered up his
financial troubles by talking about them with a sense of humor.
Ancient Mosaic Asks for 'Peace Unto Israel'
JERUSALEM — Thirty - seveni salem , 1,898 years ago.
years ago, a synagogue was un -
The inscribed floor was taken
earthed at Ussafiye, a Druze vil -
to the Palestine Archaeological
- n Nlount Carmel. The svna -
Museum in Jerusalem, known as
gogue, which had been built in the
the Rockefeller Museum. The
(lays of the Talmud, had a beauti; museum had been inaccessible
Sul mosaic floor, as had many of to Israelis for the last 19 years
the synagogues which flourished in
—since 1948 and the War of In-
the north of Israel after the des -
dependence — and was recovered
truction of the Temple in Jeru-
only during the Six-Day War.
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The curators of the Israel Mu-
seum reopened the galleries of the
Rockefeller Museum, while
officials of the Israel government
department of antiquities examined
the storage rooms. Many Jewish
inscriptions stored there for the
past 19 years were taken up to
the galleries, as was the mosaic
floor from the synagogue of
Ussafiye. It carried a thought
composed by King David some
3,000 years ago.
The pebbles of the mosaic again
on view spelt out three words from
Psalms 128: "Peace upon IsraeL"
Von Thadden Hoofing It
After Losing License
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
BONN — Adolf von Thadden,
chairman of the neo-Nazi National
Democratic Party, had his drivers
license rescinded by Hannover
police Tuesday after his car ran
into a road construction barrier.
He was given a blood test to de-
termine whether he was -driving
while intoxicated. The results of
the test were not disclosed.
Regarding
Abortions
in Israel
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world Zionist affairs department
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