Zelda Popkin Utilizes Wide
Knowledge for Latest Novel
Portraying Family Tragedies

Her wide knowledge of Jewish
affairs, her many experiences in
social work, her overseas activi-
ties in Israel, the
role she played in
public relations—
these have come
in good stead in
Zelda Popkin's
production of her
newest novel,
"Herman H a d
Two Daughters,"
published by Lip-
pincott.
Woven into her Mrs. Popkin
plot are numerous activities of
Jewish families in a small com-
munity, their mutual as well as
varying relationships, their Jew-
ish devotions which eventually lead
to the younger generation straying
from Orthodoxy into an extreme
and little-understood reformism,
the changes that occur between
generations and the steps that are
taken by children of immigrants
to alter their status, to acquire
economic stability, to abandon the
old ways while emphasizing their
Americanism.
Many are the details related to
these phenomena in Mrs. Pop-
kin's book: name - changing,
challenges to the mores of the
time, yet the retention of cer-
tain loyalties, such as the desire
for the children to know they are
Jews, the frequency with which
Yiddishisms are used, the nos-
talgic recollections of the era of
the parents, — and the ensuing
tragedies.
"Herman Has Two Daughters"
is about Celia and Jessie Weiss.
The former marries through a
"shiddukh": she is wed to a young
fellow who was being saved from
charges of having fathered an
illegitimate child in his rela-
tions with a non-Jewish girl. But
Celia doesn't know it. The narrator
of the tale, Sam Rosenbaum the
reported friend of the Weiss fam-
ily, does. And there is Jessie,
playwright, free as a bird, lover of
cigarettes, drink, sex relations —
all without scruples.
Celia starts as the underdog and
ends the victor: she is the survivor
in the mass-tragedy that is the
emerging totality of the Popkin
novel. Her daughter marries a
nice Jewish boy, but she has a pre-
marital love affair with the or-
phaned illegitimate son of Celia's
husband. Celia's daughter dies in
the waters of the Mediterranean
while on a visit in Israel, and it is
not established whether she com-
mitted suicide. Neither she nor her
mother know that the Catholic lad
she had the affair with was her
brother. But Sam Rosenbaum does,
and he tells Jessie.
SaM eventually marries a sur-
vivor from concentration camp
tragedies. The small community
whence Sam stemmed does not
understand him. The smug new-
ly rich are unable to fathom
the numbers on the arms of
Sam's bride. That, too, is part
of the tragedy about Jewish life
in the Zelda Popkin story.
Thus, in the course of the nar-

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rative, the evidences of anti-
Semitism in the small town where
the story commences are exposed
as a symptom of an era that ex-
perienced hatred; the role of youth
is indicated in the manner in
which Jewish loyalties are bur-
lesqued; the drives during the
Hitler era are defined in the man-
ner in which honor-seeking gained
a foothold in philanthropy.
Israel's emergence, as well as
overseas relief - work, part of the
Sam Rosenbaum aspect of this
tale, also echo the experiences of
Zelda Popkin, on her own, and
earlier together with her late hus-
band Louis Popkin, who was an
eminent public relations man.
Her novel has portions that are
dragged out, a bit boring, but in
its totality, "Herman Had Two
Daughters" is an able description
of human experiences and conflicts
and of the transitional aspects of
Jewish life in America.

Infant TY in Israel
Matures: 1st Strike

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM—Israelis have yet
to see the inauguration of regular
television broadcasts, but Tuesday
they had their first strike of TV
workers.
Some 30 foreign technicians
hired by the government to help
establish national TV here staged
a one-day walkout to protest what
they claimed were smaller wages
than they had been promised.
The technicians were not persu-
aded by the explanation that their
salaries only appeared smaller be-
cause of tax deductions, Negotia-
tions are under way.
Television is still in the experi-
mental stage in Israel although
there have already been several
national broadcasts. The most spec-
tacular was live coverage of the
Independence Day parade in Jeru-
salem May 2.

Israel to Join UN Parley
on Outer Space Uses

UNITED NATIONS — Israel is
one of 67 nations that have ac-
cepted invitations to participate
in a United Nations Conference
on the exploration and peaceful
uses of outer space which will be
held in Vienna Aug 14-27.
The objectives of the conference
are the examination of practical
benefits to be derived from space
research and exploration and of
the opportunities available to non-
space powers for international co-
operation in space activities.

Arab Traders Extended
Incentives by Israel Govt.

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel au-
thorities have agreed to offer ex-
port incentives to Arab traders in
all Israel-occupied territories, in-
cluding the Gaza Strip. The incen-
tives will be identical to the pre-
miums earned by Israeli exporters.
Earnings in foreign currency,
which entitle exporters to premi-
ums, will include Jordanian dinars
paid for exports to the East Bank.
Like other foreign currencies, the
dinars will have to be converted
into Israeli pounds to qualify for
the premiums.

Israel Expects to Increase
Citrus Exports by 10 Pct.

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel is ex-
pected to increase its export of
citrus by 10 per cent during the
coming season, to 42,000,000 crates,
according to Mordechai Makleff,
newly appointed general manager
of the Citrus Marketing Board.
But he said that this year's export
of 39,000,000 crates brought only
$83,600,000 while the previous
season's export of 35,000,000
crates netted $84,600,000.

Mrs. Meir Firm
on Quitting Labor
Party Secretariat

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Mrs. Golda
Meir held firm to her decision
to relinquish' her post as general
secretary of the Israel Labor Party,
effective Aug. 1,
Efforts to dissuade her, made at
a meeting of the party's leadership
bureau, were unavailing, and Mrs.
Meir rejected proposals that she
retain the post for some months
longer.
In view of her determination to
retire, the meeting agreed to refer
her resignation to the party's sec-
retariat, which had originally elec-
ted her. It is understood that some
Israeli political elements are plan-
ning to attempt to bring public
pressure to bear on Mrs. Meir to
change her mind. Mrs. Meir, who
just turned 70, told—friends that
while she will quit her post, she
will not leave political life and
will "be there whenever needed."
Talks between the Israeli Labor
and Mapam parties on alignment
between the two have resulted in
the setting up of two committees—
one to air general issues and the
political aspects of such proposals
and the second_ to study the impli-
cations of such a union in Histad-
rut, Israel's labor federation.

Indian MP Assails Policy
of Govt. Toward Israel

NEW DELHI (JTA) — M. P.
Bhargava, a Congress Party mem-
ber of the Indian Parliament, ac-
cused his government of "imma-
turity" in its foreign policy and
said that an example was its at-
titude toward Israel. Indian for-
eign policy has been consistently
pro-Arab in the Middle East dis-
pute, and New Delhi maintains no
diplomatic ties with Israel.

Bonn Justice Minister
Renews Plea on Statute

BONN (JTA)—The federal min-
ister of justice, Gustav Heineman,
renewed his plea for abolition of
the statute of limitations on the
prosecution of Nazi war cirminals
accused of murder. The statute
goes into effect on Dec. 31, 1969.
Heineman said he doubted that a
majority could be found for abol-
ition in the Bundestag, West Ger-
many's lower house.

Secret West Bank Drive
Fights Israeli Taxation

JERUSALEM (JTA)—An under-
ground campaign has been started
on the West Bank to persuade the
Arab residents to refrain from
paying taxes to Israeli authorities.
Leaflets urging the Arabs to ob-
serve a tax strike were being cir-
culated clandestinely in some of
the West Bank towns.

10—Friday, July 19, 1968

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Hadassah, Orthodox Union Malben Opens Center
for Aged in Jerusalem
Press for U.S. Gun Law

NEW YORK (JTA)—Hadas-
sah, the women's Zionist organ-
ization of America, announced
that it has petitioned every mem-
ber of the U.S. Senate and House
of Representatives to support ef-
fective gun-control legislation
and pledged that its 318,000
members in all 50 states will
"keep this issue alive until the
pr o p e r legislation has been
passed."
The announcement, by Mrs.
Mortimer Jacobson, n a t i o n al
president, was regarded as an
unprecedented action by the or-
ganization which has hitherto
concerned itself with projects to
develop Israel and help its needy.
It reflected the growing concern
ill the American Jewish commu-
nity for strong federal control
of the proliferation of firearms.
A similar appeal to Congress
to pass President Johnson's gun-
control law was made by Rabbi
Joseph Karasick, president of
the Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations.

Feisal Reported Financing
New 'Protocols' Edition

LONDON JTA) — A new and
large edition of the "Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" is being fin-
anced by King Feisal of Saudi Ara-
bia. The long-discredited "Proto-
cols," a virulent anti-Semitic pub-
lication purporting to be of Jewish
origin, has been published in Rus-
sia and has appeared in various
forms since the beginning of the
century.
Sources disclose that 200,000
copies are being printed in French,
most of them destined for French-
speaking Africa. Distribution by
Arab League offices has already
begun. Another 100,000 issues are
being prepared in English, Span-
ish, Italian and Arabic. The "Pro-
tocols" have been freshly edited
by the "Islamic Institute for Re-
search and Publication" in Beirut.

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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV—Israel's first health,
counseling and guidance center for
the aged has been opened in Jeru-
salem by Malben, the agency min-
istering to the needs of ill, aged
and handicapped immigrants.
Harold Trobe, general director
of Malben, told members of the
United Jewish Appeal's Young Lea,.
dership Mission that Jerusalem
was selected as the site of the neW
center because of the large con-
centration of people of advanced
age there. Malben is operated by
the Joint Distribution Committee
and the Jewish Agency.

Israel Prospects for Oil
in Several African Lands

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel is
prospecting for oil in several Afri-
can countries in order to widen its
sources of the vital fuel. it was re-
ported here by an Israel Treasury
spokesman.
The names of the countries are
a closely guarded secret, but the
prospecting is being done by the
National Petroleum Co. with the
assistance of Israeli oil geologists
and other experts, he said.
He also reported that several
Latin American countries have in,
vited Israel to help in the search
for minerals other than petroleum.

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