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BY JACK SIEGEL
(A Seven Arts Feature)
With "The Center of the Action"
(Random House). Jerome Weld-
man has produced his 28th book.
Weidman, who scored big with his
first book "I Can Get It for You
Wholesale" in 1937, should have
called this one "I Now Sell It Re-
tail." And, in fact, it probably costs
about three times as much as his
first novel.
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This is another one about a heel.
now called Ted Leff. It is a regur-
gitation and rehash of the first
book although the garniture is
prime nostalgia with a seasoning
of sophistication and studied Yid-
dishisms (like somebody called
Shvenger). On that level, this novel
does not come off. In "Wholesale,"
Weidman was writing of his time.
the East Side. FDR, the Ghetto.
the Depression. These were almost
sufficient motivation to propel a
Pal Joey type to make it big, even
at the expense of others. Although
during that same period, there
were young people who slugged it
out on the streets, against the De-
pression, against Fascism of even
in Spain and who were devoted to
the common and future good. In
many ways, like the young people
today. But those are not 'Weidnian's
people. His first novel had a fresh
and authentic folk quality when it
appeared in 1937. The attempt now
to repeat does not work: it is not
of our times. Of course, Weidman
had "matoored" to use the word
he gives a totally unbelievable
woman character in his book. He
is wiser, more soignee and even
Premier Golda Meir Angered by Rafi;
Labor Party Rift Believed Averted
of Information Israel Galili. Gen.
Dayan rejected supporters pro-
posals that he run for premier on
Golda Meir angrily stalked out of
a separate ticket.
a rally of members of the Rafi fac-
tion of the Israel Labor Party here
During the discussion a Rafi dele-
Monday night after one delegate gate charged that Rafi members
accused her of bias against Rafi would be subordinated after the
By ITZHAK SHARGIL
TEL AVIV ;JTA) — Premier
followers. The rally was attended
by several thousand supporters of
Defense Minister Moshe Dayan.
Mrs. Meir appeared at her own
request to appeal for Labor Party
unity and urged the Rafi members
not to break away from its ranks.
She exhorted the delegates, "in
the name of Zionism and the ideals
of the labor movement," to remain
within the Labor Party and claim-
ed that to split away would be "an
unforgiveable luxury" for which
"everybody would be ashamed."
Gen. Dayan had told his fol-
lowers earlier that, while he had
no serious grievances against the
Labor Party leadership, he had
no intention of leaving the party
or creating a new political fac-
tion. Mrs. Meir's appeal for unity
was also supported by Minister
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has adopted some Bellowisms, like
making classical references, you
shouldn't think he, at least, is a
dope.
But whoever heard of a Rabbi,
in 1937. postponing a communal
responsibility on account of a
tax audit? Rabbis, then, were
a dignified step ahead of relief.
Weidman's geography does get
mixed up. In an effort to make
his major character Mr. All-New
York, he has had him born on the
East Side, living in the Bronx
and going to Thomas Jefferson
High School. which Weidman says
is in New York. But Jefferson is
in Brooklyn and this faux pas
is an affront to the authentic
New Yorker. How can you mix
up Brooklyn with the Bronx? It
was especially in those days,
grounds for war.
And Weidman's characters are
all smart. They can each shoot a
quip from the hip. Mr. Leff, the
hero, in his plotting to become the
first Jewish conglomerate, always
sizes up an adversary right, and
fails only once, with the woman
who is unbelievable as a character.
He attaches crutches and oddities
to people, such as Wasp-type law-
yer who doesn't use articles in his
speech like "the" and "an."
- Action" is a pointless tale, full
of sound and some fury, trying
to signify something. It makes
no contribution to understanding
the range of human experience.
It doesn't even reflect soberly,
or sweetly, on the poignant sense
of yesteryear, the WPA. Home
Relief, the 15 million unemployed
or the encoming war (dealt with
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Oct. 28 Knesset elections and ac-
cused the premier of being against
the • reappointment of Gen. Dayan
as defense minister. Mrs. Meir took
the remarks as a personal insult
and walked out of the meeting de-
spite Gen. Dayan's plea that she
remain. She was accompanied by
Galili.
in half a page). And Deidman
tells his story in frequent gag
asides. This way he steps on his
own dialogue and reduces its im-
pact.
But a good movie it will make,
if they can get Paul Newman (the
other Paul, Muni, is dead) to play
the lead. What's wrong with a yarn
about a Jewish boy who fails to
make it in the garment center and
moves into publishing over the
back of a shnook accountant
(whose wife he later marries!) out-
smarts a second generation Yecke
publisher, exploits a vulnerable and
unattractive girl (who blooms on
the last page into a morning glory)
and hooks onto a Streicher carica
ture Jew? Mr. Leff makes two
marriages, neither of them com-
prehensible. What woman would
want to share her twin bed with
such a monster? But Leff, unlike
Portnoy, loved his Mamma, so
don't expect torrid sex scenes with
Shikses. All the girls are Jewish
so they're good except their morals
are corrupt when it comes to
moohla, the ruble of the realm.
But once you put aside all this
mish-mash, decide you'll read the
book so you won't have to go to
the movie (which would make a
30—Friday, July 11, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Assistance for ,Draftees
BUFFALO, N.Y. (JTA) — The
Jewish Center of greater Buffalo
has established a military informa-
tion service to inform young men
of draft age of their responsibilities
and options under the Selective
Service Act. According to Mrs. Al-
vin Small, director of adult and
young adult activities, the service
provides information on draft class-
ifications, enlistment opportunities
in the various services, officer
training programs and procedures
for requesting deferments and
other information. The data was
gathered by Jewish Center volun-
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and recruiting centers.
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The Love Tutors.
The Rafi leadership will meet
shortly to decide on their future
course of action but it appeared
that a split was averted, at least
for the time being. The Rafi fol-
lowers are bitter against the party
leadership for allegedly excluding
them from deliberations on election
strategy.
Gen. Dayan said that Rafi mem-
bers felt like "second class"
members of the Labor Party, which
was
as formed last year by the mer-
ger of Rafi, Achdut Avodah and
Mapai. Rafi was created when a
faction within Mapai broke away
under the leadership of former
Premier- David Ben-Gurion who
disagreed with the policies of his
successor, the late Premier Levi
Eshkol,
Opinion polls published here in-
dicated that a list headed by Gen.
Dayan could poll up to 30 per cent
of the vote in October.
NPD Rally at Dachau
Challenged by Opposition
BONN (JTA) — The Dachau
branch of the extremist right-wing
National Democratic party an-
nounced plans to hold a rally at the
site of the Nazi death camp later
this month and was promptly chal-
lenged by the leftist Democratic
Action group in nearby Munich.
A spokesman for the NPD branch
said a prominent speaker was ex-
pected to lead the rally. The Mu-
nich group said such a rally should
not be held near the site of a camp
which bad become "a symbol of
horror of Nazi barbarism in the
whole world."
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