Richard Ellmann's New Masterful Analysis / N of oyce s U l ysses' and ts Jewish Hero No other authority on James Joyce could possibly have pop- ularized the eminent Irish author Richard Ellmann has succeeded in all his works about him. Ell- mann. former Detroiter. son of the late Judge James I. Ellmann and of Mrs. Ellmann who now resides in Fort Lauderdale. Fla., is pres- ently Goldsmiths' P r o f es so r of English Literature at Oxford Uni- versity. His newest work, "Ulys- ses on the Liffey." an Oxford Press book, is another gem in the series of Ellmann books on this subject. To the Joyce story, the River Liffey that flows into Dublin Bay and has a role in this review of the characters and the character- istic of the "Ulysses" that has as- sumed such great significance, Prof. Ellmann has added valuable interpretations of the Jewish as- pects of a story about the chief character. Leopold Bloom, that has enchanted a growing audience. a trumpety enthusiasm, a desire not to live in the present but to live in a petrified past and speak a dead language." This is said tkv Ellmann in con- nection with his reference to Bloom's interest in Passover: - In ruminating about Passover. Bloom was reminded by the way printers read backward, of how his father iced to read the Hebrew of the Passover service. 'Pesah. Next year in Jerusalem. Dear, 0 Dear: All that long business about that , brought us out of the land of Egypt and into the house of bondage alleluia.' This bloomisin is moti- vated by his unsentimental percep- tion that Moses did not free the Jews from bondage, that they have gone from captivity to captivity." We have, as an example, in a description of one of the episodes in "Ulysses," Prof. Ellmann's comment that "Joyce . . must have Bloom, nominally a Chris- tian, avow himself to be a Jew, and so at the expense of prud- ence." Prof. Ellmann dissects Bloom's other Jewish attitudes, the con- cern with the Zionist idea. There is the message transmitted to Bloom in Dlugacz's butcher shop: strasse, Berlin) — the Hebrew term is confusing—Edit.) "The most Olympian messages arc those which come to Bloom from the heavens, first by the agency of a cloud, then by the agency of the sun lie has let his mind dandle Palestine as the promised land. crowded with olive trees, citrons, oranges. Though not a Zionist—he considers DMgacz an enthusiast and has an 18th-Cen fury suspicion of enthusiasm as of superstition—he feels a slight sympathy: 'Nothing doing. Still an idea behind it.' But a moment lat- er a grey cloud covers over the sun, the same cloud which made Stephen see the ocean as a 'bowl of bitter waters'. Bloom deflates Zionism as Stephen elsewhere de- flates Irish causes. The promise of the promised land has long since been broken: "Bloom realizes from the Zionist leaflet Agendath Netaim, a re- development project in Palestine, with headquarters at 34 Bleibtreu. OltitillOded The characters take a deep in- By BEN GALLOR terest in Jewish affairs, as indicat- (Copyright 5972, JTA, Inc.) ed by Eilmann: "Bloom and Ste- A leading Conservative rabbi. phen discuss various examples of examining the impact of the duplicity, false allegation, and er- "rapidly-changing soc i et y" on ror such as 'Bacon and hamlet,' American Judaism. has predicted ritual murder by Jews (the Pro- that the huge congregations pre- tocols of the Elders of Zion). cases sently housed in the "large, corm of forged identity (the Tichborne • Plex, all-inclusive" synagogue will claimant)." soon he replaced by "much smaller ❑ nits," in which "a hundred or so At the very outset Ellmann notes: families join together in a felloW- "Joyce could have made his Jew- ship of Jewish living." ish hero Orthodox, an archaic sur- The prediction was made by vivor from a past older then Hom- Rabbi Max J. Routtenberg. a for- er into an unfamiliar and gentile mer president of the Rabbinical world. But while the antiquity of Assembly, the association of Con- the Jews undoubtedly attracted servative rabbis. Rabbi Routten .foyce. he had no real interest in ',erg prefaced prediction with Judaism as a r..digion, and gave 'he assertion that "the day of the Bloom none. The models he prob- biz conglomerate synagogue has ably had in mind for his hero were just about run its course. There i. conspicuously remote from reli a arossina• realization in .our so. a gious zeal: Alfred Hunter ws .1 ciel y, in 'general, and in ,m r - it ,. o ropod li lIongarian .to . 7 0 sag ' r I'tt 71. mos' frongartan , .%Ith .1mAtsli c icarac"orc-I., , '‘The dialectic of the two images in Bloom's mind. of Zion and Sodom, may be illustrated - r- SVIlacroUllle Called scarcely Jewis h. and Ettore ti hinitz (Balt) Stevol had !named Because of .117%re' I' Mtian. m liking for fact. the history of Mole is not irreles tnt wmo No. not like that A barren land. bare waster. Volcanic lake. the dead sea: no fish. weedless. sunk deep in the earth. No wind would lift those waves. grey metal, poisonous fogy' waters. Brimstone they called it rain- ing down: the cities of the plain: So- dom, Gomorrah. Edom. istitation:, n p.77- 7colar. I7v 7:e i- is net ',niter !7' ' ha! - ZION Illeibtreustrasse BeaPale stine heas enited utification ( enthusiasm The Perfect False Life (Heaven) stmom Students' Network Plans National Conclave in June NEW YORK (JTA)—The North which are its voice in the corn. munity. For over a year the JTA has. been supplying the Students' Net- work with its daily and weekly publications f o r dissemination through the student newspapers. The announcement said that If students are expected to - attend WHEN YOU 'Ac A COCKTAIL the convention representing the en- tire spectrum of the Jewish student movement in the U.S. and Canada. The program will deal with the fu- ture of the movement including swig 00010100 • 000,00 0 S • • '2 0•10. the 60 Jewish student newspapers American Jewish Students' Net- work announced that it will hold its third annual convention June 9- 11 at Camp Moshava in Indian Orchard, Pa RI:exact/lig *No IINP• frIpM••• ON • • • ••••••• ■ ••••••• TORINO 500 2 DR. H.T. • • • DEMO • $2,395 POWER STEERING AM RADIO • VINYL IRIM ANTIDOTE Antidote 51011y •ample hedwarmed rpsh . Esdelity/Infidelits 11 ...trthly Paradise I Middle Earth) Non-Zionist/Non-Sodomist With his "Ulysses on the Prof. Ellmann has additionally en ached his library on Joyce---an , : his writings on the subject indeed begin ti• fill more than a sing! , library shelf. Analytically, the new work is among the most enlighten, ing in Joycean studies and it mark ,-: a new, glorious chapter in the scholar's career. At r • on this inflated !clot • McDONALD FORD FARM 14240 W. 7 MILE — AT LODGE EXPRESSWAY OPEN MON & THURS. TIL 9 — ALL DAY SAT . CALL TODAY — 341-3800 *0 • 111,0074M1,0111~ • ••••••••• ■•■• 000000000000 041HIN. ir ■ larimrs I 00 I •' Irishmen may be cmoparod - always ilein7 7 so ter •-•rat doNee • poNT Aciogi ,s Stettlien indicates .7. stood in his zilch:7'7ot, 7i • tkm, just as, being a Christian convert. he is post-Judaic and being Judaic-Christian he is post- Joyce's honk compre- flomeric. hends layer upon layer of the past - • Having taken Bloom to a Chris_ lion country, Ellmann also points I to the Jewish-Irish relationships. Ellmann refers to John F. Taylor's oration in defense of , the Irish tan- guage. He states that "the analogy ' drawn by Taylor between Jew and Irish will not sustain a confidence in the national mission of either people" and he adds: "Jews anti I •• • • • • • • ‘`Iv/,- NEW 1972 .a. Pm: itittom ' 17,7 3oth Century man. and .Ins or. therefore conterred upon him the 'race of unbelief. 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S u h congregational '.zroups, he contended, ". ill not re I quire the services of a salaried rabbi and will he largely self sit icient - lie suggested that the only other programs in the syna- gogue would be classes for adults and holiday celchrations for the Cal/ .0•"" congregational family, with all 0/110.1. being "pros riled by various agencies in the commu- 000° pity." other services Rabbi Routtenberg also asserted • that the "second basic shift" in the next 10 to 20 years would he from the congregation to the corn- moody - as the unit of organized i s h life Historically, he e I he noted. "the 1.'0[1111'111[711y aruvl )7)1, II ol ew center ■■ ( Jish all Jewish concerns resolvc , i MIKE MILEN 354-1515 0353-4700 "LuAt JAX Kar Wash 28845 TELEGRAPH AT 2 MILE RD SOU HE E D / I 1 1111111V lam