Meyer Levin Defines The Settlers' Objectives,
Criticizes New Left Cabal's Anti-Israel Motives
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Netr Start in Israel for Tiro Syrians
The Settlers" by Meyer Levin
JERUSALEM JTA) — Two aging female Syrian bears from
Washington, D C , hate arriueii at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo where
they will , tse mated with the. 700 . , two male Syrian bears, the 7.00 . :Z
director. Prof. Aharon Shulov of the Hebrew Umversitv. 'reported •
this week,
The bears are a gift of the National Zoological Park in Wash-
ington, where keepers only recently discovered that their two bears
were both female. Zoo officials base been waiting in s a In for user
29 years for an offspring of this rare animal.
In the hopes that the bears will still he able to reproduce, then
are undergoing hormone therapy and "zoopsychological - treatment--
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is rising on the best seller list.
• The classic novel that reconstructs
earlier Zionist history in pre-Israel
Palestine, describing the Jewish
pioneering spirit, is receiving ac-
• claim in many communities, and
in some it tops the best-seller list.
With this Simon and Schuster-
published novel gaining wide at-
7! tention, the author, on his two-day
.1 visit to Detroit this week, de-
scribed the research he conducted
s in delineating the dramatic epi-
sodes in his novel_
tie had conferred with pioneers
4 and their families and while ''The
Settlers - is a novel it must be
viewed also as history.
It is also the high mark in a
career of a writer whose entire
life's work denotes dedication to
Jewish needs, with specific in-
terest in Zionism and Israel.
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He emphasizes his role as "a
Jewish writer" and while he
writes neither in Yiddish nor in
Hebrew but in English, he ex-
plains: "By Jewish, as a defini-
tion for my writing career, I
mean one who is most pervasive-
ly conscious of the whole Jewish
experience -
the experience of
the Jews in America, the Hobo-
caust, the Israel experience. As
a Jewish writer, my frame of
reference is Jewish life, history.
belief, thought, character, cul-
ture, ethos."
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He does not exclude influence
and material from the world at
large. lie describes himself as an
American as well as a Jewish
Charles E. Feinberg of Detroit (left) presented complete works
writer, with "the Jewish part
of Meyer Levin to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. University Rector
closest to me." and on that score
Prof. Jacob Katz (center) is shown accepting the gift in the presence
1 he spoke angrily about other Jew-
of the author, Meyer Levin.
) ish writers who called him chauvi-
nistic because of it. few years there
- has been a dentiousness. To portray a world,
In his resentment — and he countermove of young people, in- evil as it may he, wherein the
uttered it in the course of a p
lea telligent, curious, seeking Jewish- individual and the group can still
for strengthening Jewish values in jness and its values. A considerable fight for an over-all society of free-
Jewish ranks — Levin said he ! number have come here. Writers
dom and justice in which, for our
"never understood why such ab- will arise from among them. A
particular part, the Jewish ethos
sorption in Jewishly-related ex- current of writing by authors who
and identity shall, unfettered, fruit-
periences is wrong in Jews while feel the continuing Jewish ethos
fully continue toward its prophetic
we do not consider it contrary
to ; has always exsisted in America.
perception of what God wants of
universalism for a Dostoevsky to too. In it you will find the work of
man"
• he Russian-immersed, or a Balzac Ludwig Lesvisohn, Maurice Sam-
to he French-minded." Ile added. uels,
Charles
Angoff.
Gerald
Correct all v- our own faults by
"How can we project universalism G reen.
Myron Kaufman. Chaim
observing those of others
through the particplar if we dis. Potok. Wallace rslarkfield. Herman
solve the particular7"
Wouk. Cynthia Ozick. Hugh Nissen.
Levinfurthermore charged
son and Bernard Ma la mud, to
that while •'a literary m afia mono a few Jewish schola r,hip
seeks to suppress my positive ha , never been nose
widciy 3C-
Jewish content in books," that 1,,,
there is "an anti-Israel cabal
Loin was distressed
with a tremendous clout in the
elistortions
of a
review
literary world" that is working
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with the New Lett to harm Is-
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resiewer gate the mieressi,-
reel.
the'
LeyiMs novel miiii - a!eA
This New Left group. most of Jeo , „ h„ were
own' Jewish writers. were accused (Iris
en Arabs from their land
es- Levin as aiming
- to wean
-00 the c on tr a r y," Les in
Jewish idealists away from their
said. "I showed how we replaced
Jewish particularism for the sake
Arabs when their effendi land.
rkf the world revolution."
owners
sold the land to Jews. I
Re...alling the law suit he con-
•
ducted against the father of Anne showed how our pioneers — the
Frank, when his dramatic version settlers — paid heavily and wet-
of the Frank case was rejected, • corned the neighborliness of
Arabs befriending them. It was
•, Levin reiterated that the re-
• •
fusal to stage his play also was later. under the Mufti, that
part of an effort to suppress the • trouble brewed:'
Jewish emphasis
Levin
expressed hope for a
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played," he said, "in Israel, where in Jewish ranks. tie said: - I hope
- it has proved successful, and only the youth of today will recognize
three months ago at Brandeis itself in the Zionist Socialist pio-
•. University where there was en- neers of 'The Settlers' who came
thusiasm for my dramatic inter- from Russia 65 years ago.
Pretation of the very Jewish Anne youni: people seeking a valid way
Frank. Rut the cabal keeps op- of life. with their egalitarianism.
posing me—and my Jewish views " their self-labor, their women's lib.
In his criticism of the "cabal - their naturism. vegetarianism,
and the New Left, Levin also their . generation gap. their passion.
condemned the effort to make ;
"What is wanted is a society
Zionism a bad word. ••I
open. aware. free. actively eipia!,-
be-
lieve." he said,
is time our
tarian in its goal: the Jewish smr:*
to en m unity bee-a me alerted to ..strives for this all over the w or:d
such doctrinaire effects in liter-
and in their eagerness i".,n
attire."
some of our sons and dali,
Expressing confidence that there reed to be reminded that this
Are new trends. more positive, he includes ourselves. the Jews . a
said:
well-
'I don't pretend this particular
"If I too am tendentious in what
effect is determinant. In the last I write, this is the aim of my ten
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