Mental Instability Issue in Rubens Novel
Bernice Rubens, the London
(England) novelist, is a skillful
story teller. She has a good under-
standing of Jewish backgrounds
and in her treatment of Jewish
characters in her new novel,
- Chosen
People," - has undertaken
to probe into Jewish ways of life.
Yet the reviewer must ask why
the title "Chosen People" for this
Atheneum-published novel. T h e
problem-son Norman Zweck in this
story does introduce it with his i
prayer towards the end of the
book. In the home for the dement-
ed, after losing his father who suf-
fered over him so much, having
lost a close friend in the institu-
tion who provided him with an
addict's pills. Norman prays: "Dear
God." (And the novelits inserted
here the comment: It was a word,
after all, that covered everybody)
"Dear God, Loh after us cold and
chosen ones."
This does not prove the title to
be correct and the implication so
convincing. Some magazines have
gone overboard to acclaim this
work. Suddenly it becomes a ,low-
ish novel. Suddenly even the New
Ydrk Times reviewer likens Nor-
man's mother to Portnoy's mother
in the widely acclaimed pornogra-
phic Roth novel.
Actually, "Chosen People" is a
story about "rueshugayirn: (Ber-
nice Rubens is careless in use of
' 16—Friday, September 19, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
I Lidov's Art Work Widely Acclaimed
Arthur Lidov, world famous art-
ist w h o is now working on the final
stages of his painting, "Science
fear," in I the New York City
studio. is featured in "Science
Year." the World Book Science
Annual, with his mural and an
levels as it was conceived and
executed. Contemporary as the fin-
ished mural is, its original symbol-
ism and meaning are clear and
fo i r rceful. "
essay "Man and
H is Universe"
niverse" in Science Year
explanatory essay explaining his analyses the acclaimed work
and
adds to the artistic honors ac-
- Man and His Universe."
Distributed to more than 500,000 quired by Lidov.
homes. the science annual's inclu-
sion of the Lidov "Man and His
Universe" mural is viewed in art
circles as a noteworthy rise to
li ti) Only women's reducing
fame by one of the great artists of
resort In the midwest
ri
our time. .
Lost Up to 10 Lbs.
a Week
Lidov, who is a nephew of Miss
821 Lake Shore Dr.
Anna Oxenhandler, well known De-
Michigan City, Indiana
troit educator, also was featured
219-TR 2.8593
in the Life Magazine special Off to
the Moon issue.
Commissioned by the J. Walter
Thompson Co. to do the now famed
Lidov Mural, the eminent artist
SHERIDAN SPA
Hebrew words—for instance us-
1 ing the "olab Hasholorn" for a
woman). Just because Norman's
On Practice of Judaism
father was a rabbi—he had gone
into the grocery business—does
sot make him and his progeny
"chosen." It's sort of a distor-
the Jewish 'families kept a strict-
By BEN GALLOB
the novel, excellent as
tion—since
(Copyright 1969, JTA. Inc.) r
ly or moderately kosher home. The
such, could easily be applied with
A study of Jewish high school Yiddish language was found to be
the same forcefulness to Eng-
and college students in New York significant in the homes of most
lish, Italian, Serb, Yugoslavian
City suggests that the much-tbs. students. Only 10 per cent of the
or any other chosen people.
cussed generation gap is non - total 536 students reported that
has been acclaimed in a special
Nevertheless. it has a Jewish artistic brochure.
existent between the young people Yiddish expressions were never
At Mid-America's fabulous resorts..
and their parents in respect to the used in their homes. Yiddish is Angle. There_is the mixed marriage
"The result of Lidov's planning,"
&playtime paradise whereyou'lleent
degree of "religiousness" of the used even among Reform group —Norman's sister. But its having the Thompson Co. statement as-
• Terrific food
two generations. families in which parents are occurred is also traceable to the
serts, "is a multifaceted work of
• Beautiful imietpottl
evils of Norman who had misled
The study was made by Dr. Vic- mainly native-born.
and patio
art, to be understood on as many ,
A
majority
of
the
students
ex-
his
sister:-
•
• All sports
for D. Sanua, associate professor
pressed
interest
in
Israel,
with
•
Gala floor ems
the
school
of
education
at
the
in
In "Chosen People" there are the
/1 • Free
City College of New York. A report about 28 per cent indicating they aspects of incest, homosexuality, Relief Agency ,Leader _
Golf
would
like
to
settle
in
Israel.
A,
G.
NEW YORK— Albraham
on the findings appears in the cur-
resort to the pill.
Nor tow !Weal
Becker, executive director from
rent issue of "Jewish Education," similar number indicated they
"WHERE
VACATION
As
a
study
in
the
illnesses
of
the
1952 to 1956 of the International
published by the National Council would like to visit Israel for a
DREAMS COPAL TRuEr
of Jewish Education. The findings year and 37 per cent said they mind, the Ruhens novel excells. It Rescue Committee, a nonsectarian
were based on replies to a ques- would like to visit Israel at least is in that realm that it serves as a relief organization formed in war-
tionnaire given to 307 high school briefly. Only 7 per cent expressed study in dementia, in mental in- time to aid German-Jewish refu-
students and 229 college students, total disinterest in visiting Israel. stability.
gees, died Sunday at age 75.
both boys and girls.
• Mr. Becker was retired assistant
Dr. Sanua explained that the
executive director of CARE, Inc.
criterion for selection of the stu-
Born in Latvia, Mr. Becker served
dent subjects was that of getting
The new world' to which Isaiah on boards of many refugee groups.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1969, JTA, Inc- )
representative subjects of groups
aspired was one in which "Every
exposed to varying forms and in-
It was the week of Tisha b'Ay and suffering would disappear.
tensities of Jewish education.
1492 that Columbus set sail on the
The high school subjects includ- voyage to America.
SEE or CALL
ed 65 attending an all-day Jewish
It was the week of Tisha b'Av
school, 64 attending a Jewish after-
1969,
that
Americans
set
out
for
the
noon school, 60 'attending a Re-
moon.
form Sunday school, 48 attending
a public high school and 70 mem- Alas, history books are not al-
Surrounded 'by the symbols of
bers of Hashomer Hatzair, a leftist ways very just. For instance, the medical achievement—heart trans-
Zionist youth group. most recent biographer of Colum- plants, vast hospital complexes,
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The college students included 105 bus. Morrison, doesn't mention that nationwide health programs — we
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attending three municipal colleges Columbus' friend, Luis de Santan- are seldom aware of the great
who were members of Jewish or- gell, was Jewish.
efforts that were made to trans-
It was Santangell who per- form America from a position of
ganizations on campus and 124
shaded Queen Isabella to change
students attending Yeshiva Uni-
medical backwardness to one of
versity and its Stern College for her mind. When he heard that
the _ world's great leaders in
she had sent Columbus away medical research and technology.
Women.
empty-handed, he rushed to the The story of this great leap and
Dr. Sanua reported that "the
most striking finding" was "the
queen, arguing with great fervor, the pioneer who led it is the sub-
little difference fotind In the
pointing to the numerous advan- ject of Simon and James Flex-
tages which might accrue to ner's "William Henry Welch and
religious attitudes of the two
generations." He declared that
Spain if the expedtition were sue-
the Heroic Age of American Medi-
cessful. Spain might even attain
the widely-held theory that the
cine," (Dover paperback reprint).
younger generation was break-
great wealth, he said. The Span-
Simon Flqxner, one of Welch's
ing away from Jewish traditions
ish royalty knew only one way to
colleagues at Johns Hopkins and
obtain wealth, to confiscate Jew-
was not supported, at least in his
his son James, provide a color-
study, but he added a caution
ish possessions. Santangell show-
ful account of the man whose
that the sample was limited.
ed them there were better ways.
career dominated an exciting
Ile reported that. "little differ
Furthermore. Santangell pointed
epoch in American medical his-
ence" was found between the ex- out that there were government
tory, one which has earned him
tent and degree of Jewish "roll funds available for such a project.
the position as the father of
giousness"- of the parents and In addition,- he offered to invest
American medicine.
their children and that "no evid- personally in it and he did invest
Crude and imprecise as it was.
ence was found as to conflicting some mililons of "maravedi" in the
the 16th Century also had its medi-
views on this subject between the enterprise.
two generations." The findings
The Santangells were the Roths- cal pioneers, the foremost of
were that only the high school childs of Spain and one of the few whom was the French surgeon,
students attending public schools families which enjoyed some im- Ambroise Pare. Chief, physician to
and members of Hashomer Hat- munity from the Inquisition, al- nearly a dozen French dukes,
zair were less religious thw their though one of the Santangells too noblemen and monarchs, Pare did
more than any other man to raise
parents. While. the overwhelming was burned at the auto da fe.
the despised profession of barber-
majority of parents of Reform
Santangell was probably one of surgery to a position of dignity
families were native born, parents
in all other groups were mainly the few Jews coming down to see and esteem: "The Apologie and
Columbus off. Most of the other Treatise of Ambroise P are"
foreign-horn.
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