Nun Also Wept at the Wall . . •
By NATHAN ZIPR1N
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Sister Felicia lives in quiet sanc-
tity in a quiet village in West-
chester, N. Y., spending her
days "far from the maddening
crowd" in a school for adolescent
girls conducted by the Sisters of
St. Mary's in the Field. The girls
for the most part are socially and
emotionally disturbed and the dedi-
cation of the school and the nuns
is to heal -their mutilated spirits
and repair if possible the damage
that had been visited upon them
by a disturbed social order.
The task is a challenging one,
demanding almost round-the-clock
concentration. But the world has
changed for nuns—even as it has
changed for all of us—and there
is growing awareness in many a
cloister of the new climate and of
the need of widening horizons. This
writer has no way of determining
Sister Felicia's views of the world
of today, but she is- a poetess and
that is what counts with him.
Some months . ago, Sister Felicfa
came across a picture of an agony-
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torn Israeli soldier standing bent
in weeping and in wishing before
the Wailing Wall with a gun on
his side. The picture moved her to
tears, compassion and poetizing in
a manner as if she, a true Chris-
tian woman, tco had been among
our ancients who stood at Sinai,
and she created what in this
writer's judgment is a masterpiece
in human depth.
THE SOLDIER WEEPING AT
THE WESTERN WALL
By Sister Felicia
Community of St. Mary's
Asa, my uncle, died at the wall—
In a village called Lubin, he died at
the wall,.
With twenty-six others
Th e SS shot them all.-
For him, and for them, I weep at
the Wall.
Sarah, my cousin, died at the wall—
In a chamber at Auschwitz, she died
at the wall,
With a child at her breast,
So hungry—so small.
For her and the child, I weep at the
Wall.
Sholom, my brotner, died at the wall.
On the Syrian border, he died at the
wall
Of the house he had built:
He was rugged and tall.
For my brother Sholom, I weep at
the Wall.
0 God of my lathers, I fought for
this Wall
For my uncle and those who fell
with him—for all; -
For my cousin, her baby, so hungry,
so small
For my brother Sholom—rugged and
tall.
Now let my tears win the right—just
to fall.
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study mission to the old Jewish
centers of Europe and the new
Jewish h9meland of Israel, two of
the young men had celebrated be-
lated Bnai Mitzva at the Wailing
Wall, and three others planned to
attend an -Israeli university.
These were the most visible re-
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Prof. Henry Braun, 'who teaches
English at Temple University in
Philadelphia, has gained distinc-
tion as a poet and his small vol-
ume, "The Virgil Gods," just pub-
lished by Atheneum (122•E. 42nd,
N.Y. 17), is an indication of the
universality of his themes.
He writes abouth "Myths" and
we quote to indicate the power of
his verses:
Antiquities
Found at Gaza
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The second volume of "In the
New World," written in Hebrew
by Tina Levitan, has been publish-
ed by the Jewish Education Com-
mittee Press of New York. The
first volume, also dealing with the
role the Jew played in American
history, appeared recently and was
reviewed in The Jewish News.
Volume II of "In the New
World" has stories about the Feast
"Honestly, sir, what good
of Tabernacles at Valley Forge;
are myths?"
Rebecca Gratz, the Jewess of Phil-
adelphia; Judah Touro, the phil-
anthropist from New Orleans; Mor-
(What good am I, that is,
decai Emanuel N o a h, the first
whose myth is "sir,"
Zionist in America; Abraham Lin-
One has to try:)
coln and the flag; Emma Lazarus _
— the poet of freedom; the story I.-
"Myths are stuff that lives
of Jacob Schiff, and other histori-
are made on . . ."
cal events.
"In the New World" is one of
(No! Twenty fates guard
a Lador series of illustrated He-
their lives.
brew books for young students
A girl who sleeps with
which have been hailed as a "valu-
swans . . . What can you
able and constructive addition to
do but lay eggs?
Hebrew literary projects." The
Or make it real!)
Board of Education of New York
City has for many years required
He writes about "The Night Be-
the reading of the Lador books fore the Bar Mitzva" and reflects
in its high school Hebrew courses. about "the hypnotizing of fear."
And in a poem "The Wall" there
The poem appeared in a recent
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli
issue of Pioneer Woman, published
by Pioneer Women, the Women's police aided by local constables
conducted
a peaceful search of the
Labor Zionist Organization of
Gaza Strip township of Dir el .
America.
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some of the townspeple dug up in
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"There is enough left in
me of the good Jew to
need a wall somewhere to
come back to."
The entire collection has power,
foretelling a future to be watched
as an assurance of the widest rec-
ognition for a skilled poet.
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