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DAYS Of JU110%1ENT, by Harvey
Falk, ShengoId Publisher,
"Days of Judgment" is a mo-
ronic fairy tale about the genera-
tion gap and how it affects an
Orthodox rabbi and his family.
Rabbi Abraham Cohen and his
wife Miriam of fictional Adams-
town, N. Y., have two children,
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David and Esther. David. 23, a
graduate student and instructor of
philosophy at a university, is a
brilliant student but has "joined"
the New Left. He considers himself
a rebel Jew, like Spinoza. His
younger sister, Esther, is a mem-
ber of a commune, replete with
sex, drugs and apathy, and all of
the other stereotypes of freaks
(Falk calls them hippies), that
come into mind.
David and Esther have been
away from home and haven't
talked with their parents or friends
for some time. But during the
course of one year. from one Yom
Kippur, to the next, the two live
a whole set of wild and implaus-
ible experiences which eventually
lead them back home.
There is nothing about this
book which is good. Its simple
writing style and sentence struc-
ture would embarrass a high
school student, and the dialogue
and descriptive writing is just
as bad.
The characters are one dimen-
sional and unreal. The rabbi and
his wife aren't ordinary people,
but super-Jews. The rabbi is from
a poor home. His parents want
him to enter a profession, but even
though he has no money he wants
to go to Europe to study to become
a rabbi. He goes to Poland,
studies hard, wins honors, joins
the Polish resistance and saves
his best friend's life while simul-
taneously under attack from the
Nazis and sabotaging a troop
train. He conies home to New
York, builds up a congregation
from nothing, and is able to walk
into a bank president's office and
secure a loan for a near bank-
rupt plumber in a matter of
minutes.
Miriam received a degree in
education, while studying Talmud
on the side. She is an excellent
musician, bookkeeper, organizer of
a bikur cholem society, honorary
PTA president, editor of a biweek-
ly newspaper, teacher of sister-
hood classes and maker of chicken
soup and kreplach.
The plot, or lack of it, is even
more implausible. Unable to
think of an original idea, Falk
borrows every cliche about the
New Left and counter-culture
and calls it a story. He even
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r..- aches a new low point in taste
in American literature when he
uses an incident that is patterned
after the Kent State tragedy.
Falk pictures David and Esther
as children who have lost their
way and have no real commitment
to the life they lead. As David and
Esther live their experiences they
recall passages from the Talmud
and Torah that sort of act as their
own personal Jiminy Crickett.
Falk is supposedly offering the
reader an objective look at the
generation gap and how a good
Jewish background can close it .
But with his biases and ignorance
of the hows and whys of the alter-
native life styles. he has only
widened it. For example, "The
Students for Democratic Action
(Student for Democratic Society)
lean toward Socialism." From this
statement, Falk lumps all social-
ists with Marx and Lenin and
finally to the godless commie
countries. He writes, "did anyone
know of a Marxist society with a
strong religious background?"
Not only is the Left godless to
Falk, but anti-American. "Leftist
as he had become, David
couldn't help but admire the
basic freedoms guaranteed by
th. American Constitution." The
aut•or apparently doesn't know
that Israel is a democratic
socialist state.
Esther and her friends are dealt
with in the game fashion.
"Days of Judgment" is a poor
book, and one that doesn't bother
to explain or understand why
young people believe and act as
they do. Falk gives us the sim-
plistic answers, but is incapable
of asking the right complex ques•
Lions. The book is Falk's first
novel, (the book jacket tells us he
is active in the field of education
and has written for various jour-
nals and periodicals), does succeed
in destroying one old axiom,
"there is at least one good hook in
all of us."
—STEVE RAPHAEL
, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
The Power of a Language
Friday, June 9, 1972 - 39
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