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Boris Smolar's
'The Chocolate Dear—Israel's Notable Novel
Two survivors from the Nazi make a personal visit but to write an inheritance of the ideas that
to ascertain that he stem from the Holocaust.
Holocaust are described in a instead
Gouri is a brilliant writer.
I I dramatic narrative that is certain was wanted: And the guess is that
is to attract widest attention in this the uncle and family, too, did not His narrative is marked by im-
pressive dialogues. The effects
era of renewed interest in • the , survive.
It is the dream of the scheme of a tragic are are in evidence
happenings in and after the Hit-
ler era. The reunion of the two of a chocolate deal, proposed by throughout the story.
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
In "The Chocolate Deal" we
men, their anguish, their search Rudi to L.% Holman who plays
JEWISH POVERTY: The American Jewish Committee is now for security and a new life, we his impressive role in the story, ' have another outstanding work
taking a new look at the anti-poverty program. Like all other major are introduced to a psychological- that is the climax of the story. by a Hebrew writer, and it marks
Jewish organizations, it is active in supporting the war on poverty. social theme of immense propor- It all ends in a dream. But the an addition to important literary
tions.
mere, proposal is a suggestion of products coming from Israel.
However, it has established that poor Jews are often the "forgotten
"The Chocolate Deal" is the
men" in urban anti-poverty programs and are frequently skipped in English title of the great novel I THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 10,1968-11
these programs.
by Haim Gouri which appeared'
Contrary to the prevailing opinion that there are no Jews in this in Hebrew as "Iskat Hashokolad.•'
country in need of anti-poverty aid, many will be surprised to learn The translator is Seymour I
that there still are far more poor Jews in the United States than one Simckes. It was published by I
might think. A sample study by the U. S. Census Bureau in 1957 Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Mordi and Rubi meet, in an un-
established that about 8 per cent of urban Jewish families had annual
incomes under $2,000, as compared with 10 per cent among all urban named European city, recognize VI
..Mies. Today, the American Jewish Committee believes there are each otsaer, go to Rubi's poor
York City alone, some 50,000 to 100,000 Jews whose income, abode, seek their way into the
by one or another yardstick, puts them among the poor. In the new life. Mordi dies, Rudi carries
Williamsburg section of Brooklyn—a jumble of crumbling tenements on.
and public housing barracks, where the Jewish residents are mostly
The title of the book is linked
Hasidim—the JewS do figure in anti-poverty programs. But not in
to a scheme concocted by Rudi,
the rest of the city. There are about 160,000 residents in Williamsburg
who proposes spreading the
and about 30,000 of them are Jews. Of the $650,00 spent for summer
word that the vast amount of
poverty programs last year, about $118,000 went for projects sponsored
available
surplus
chocolates
by Jews or addressed to Jews.
cause a disease; he would buy
up the lot, then disprove the
Leaders of the American Jewish Committee wonder whether some
rumor and make a fortune.
of the approaches to the war on poverty do not need to be re-examined.
What it does is expose and ex-
That war, they point out, was originally conceived not merely to plode the black market tendencies
lower temperatures inside the black ghettoes, but to bring aid to all that were rampant in the days
the poor. They recognize the fact that the plight of the Negro poor is of the Hitler terror when men re-
the most acute and must remain the first priority, but they also insist sorted to all sorts of schemes to
live and to survive, and the .dra-
that a way must be found to meet the needs of poor Negroes without matic Gouri theme is a brilliant
neglecting other ethnic groups. description of the urge for the
stir- ,
-
COMMUNITY CAMPAIGNS: Fund-raising 1968 campaigns in many V1V al the dream of regaining
Jewish communities throughout the country are still in their early dignity that was lost.
We Have Mother's Day Cards From Israel
There is a mark of tragedy in
stages. But reports received to date by the Council of Jewish Federa-
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reporting increases, compared to last year., The UJA Israel Emergency
Fund campaign across the nation is also producing striking results in
many cases but is yielding less than 1967. Many of the contributors
have increased both their regular and emergency gifts. However the
contributions to the Israel Emergency Fund this year are smaller
from those who dipped into their capital in the emergency drive of
Take the picture of my Mother,
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Artist Whistler
Speaks of Art
`,Arrangement in Grey and Black.' Now
The trend can be judged from reports received from communities that is what it is. To me it is interesting
a picture of my mother; but what
approaching the half-way mark in the 1968 campaign. Eighty-four such as
can or ought the public to care about
communities report a total for both the regular and IEF drives of the identity of the portrait?"
891.500.000. This compares with $97,600,000 from the same contributors
"If familiarity can breed contempt,
Art — or what is currently
in 1967—almost 94 per 'cent of last year's total gifts in the regular and certainly
taken for it — has been brought to its
all-time peak emergency campaigns. The regular campaign is running lowest stage of intimacy."
14 per cent ahead on a card-for-card basis; the IEF is running 24
"If the man who paints only the tree,
or flower, or other surface he sees
per cent below.
Among the communities which have already completed 50 per cent
or more of their 196 combined card values. 12 are running ahead
of 1967 in their totals fOr the regular and IEF. They include Milwaukee,
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before him were an artist, the king of
artists would be the - photographer."
The author of these statements
was possibly the greatest artist in
all Victorian England. He was also
a ferocious wit, a master of invec-
tive. and a sharp-tongued, biting
critic. He waged a one-man war
that revolutionized the British art
world and forced the public to ac-
cept impressionism. He verbally at-
tacked anyone — and everyone:---
who dared misunderstand his art.
He . flayed Oscar Wilcle in a public
correspondence, drove Aubrey
Beardsley to tears, and forced Swin-
burne into a retreat. His name
was James Abbott McNeil Whistler
and he was as talented at making
enemies as he was at painting pic-
tures.
Whistler's most famous feud be-
gan when critic John Ruskin saw
one of the artist's "Nocturnes" ex-
hibited at the Grosvenor Gallery.
"I have seen, and heard," wrote
Ruskin, "much of cockney impu-
dence before now; but never ex-
pected to hear a coxcomb ask two
hundred guineas for flinging a pot
of paint in the public's face." Rus-
kin's criticism so infuriated Whis-
tler that he initiated the celebrated
libel case "Whistler vs. Ruskin,"
In the trial that followed, Whistler
won a moral victory—he made the
opposition lawyers look like fools.
forced Ruskin to retire, but was
awarded only a farthing in dam-
ages.
Highlights from this trial and
from the artist's famous feuds with
Swinburne, Wilde, and others are
found in Whistler's well-known
book, "The Gentle Art of Making
Enemies."
The Dover paperback edition of
this book is a reproduction of the
1892 edition, which Whistler de-
signed. himself.
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