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Disraeli as Lover, Author, Respecter of Jewish
Heritage Described in Novel by Maurice Edelman

26--Friday, Oct. 27, 1972

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Non-Aggression and Cannibalism

An Englishman, French. he grabbed a gun from his
man - and an Israeli were shirt and shot dead the chief
olutionary" ideas to figh t !explicit rituals of the genii - "Christianity is the comple- captured by a literate tribe and his three sons, and to-
poverty, and they came in fleeting masses, whether i n Lion of Judaism. That was of cannibals. The captives gether with the Englishman
good stead for him.
temple or cathedral. A t the mystery our Lord re- were already in the cooking and Frenchman ran off into
he vealed," This is the language pot when the chief said to the woods. When they were
But the novel Is introdue• Bevis Marko' area
had
wondered at the solemn, of proselytizers.
them they could have one safe, the panting Englishman
tory to his political career.
It ends on the note of his top-hatted gentlemen, dress-
Disraeli gave up his Hen- last wish, however unreas- demanded to know why the
maiden speech during which ed in the English mode ex• rietta who in their love life onable. The Englishman Israeli had not used the gun
he was heckled and which cept for their prayer shawls, "twined around him like an asked for a plate of the best before. Replied the Israeli,
he concluded with: "I sit reciting in 'Hebrew the in- octopus," nevertheless he English roast z beef and a "What, and be charged with
-antations of their desert an- still longed for her "like an dish of plum pudding, The being the aggressor?"
down now. But the time will
Besides dealing with a ma- tonic when you will hear cestors. And at St. Mar- Orpheus in hell seeking his chief said his number one
—Jewish Digest
jor love affair in which the me!" He soon began to learn garet's his wonder returned
son. and Oxford graduate,
lost Eurydice."
future prime minister of that his speech was marked at the brilliance at the prin-
would tend to it. The French.
That's
how
strong
that
at-
England was involved, how- by an acceptance of his cely celebrants with their
man requested a bottle of Suit Against Knesset
ever. the Edelman novel ser- courage more extensively English faces and Greco- tachment was.
rare champagne, and an hour
While this is major In the in private with the tribe's Member Withdrawn
ves as an introduction to the than he had realized, and Roman robes that remem-
JERUSALEM — Joe Stas-
Disraeli political role, and Edelman makes it apparent bered the splendor of a still Edelman novel, the discus- most beautiful maiden. The
Finns about Disraeli's books, number two son, a gradu- her, whose name has been
that Disraeli had begun his earlier priesthood."
linked
char
,
with organized crime
the
especially
about
climb in his political life In
ate of the Sorbonne, was
That's the religious code
in the United States and who
• iter Alroy, are of additional asked to handle matters.
are seriousness.
of 'the man who was to be ,
now lives In Israel, has with-
interest. On his visit with
"Our beginnings are when ccme prime minister of Eng-
The Israeli requested that
drawn an IL 300,000 ($72,000)
Rothschild he discusses Al-
we decide them," he told land and whose novels con-
the tribe's strongest man suit against Aguda MK Men-
roy and the financier corn-
Mrs. Wyndham Lewis who tained messianic assertions
kick him as hard as he could
ahem Porush and his hotel
ments on the Sabbatai Zvi
was later to become Mrs. about the Jews from whose
in the seat of the pants. The company after the two men
incident in Jewish history.
assignment went to the num-
Disraeli and afterward Vis- fold his father had pulled
reached an out-of-court
Rothschild points out that
countess Beaconsfield) after him away with baptism.
ber three son, the inter- settlement.
Disraeli may have based Al-
his election to Parliament.
In "Disraeli in Love," roy on Sabbatai who ended tribal wrestling champion.
The company, founded by
It's a note of merit in a nov- there is an advance intro-
The kick landed the Israeli Rabbi Porush, operates the
as a Moslem and failed. Dis-
el that will fascinate the
duction of our hero to a raeli answers that "any Mes- 20 feet beyond the cooking Central Hotel near Davidka
readers with its excellent
Rothschild. Later in life he siah who fails is a false Mes- pots and the lineup of tribes- Square in Jerusalem. Slasher
English style and the bril- was to have greater dealings
his feet, claimed In his suit that he
siah. But the greatness of a men. As he got to
liance of impressive literary with that family in England's
had Invested capital in the
Messiah lies In his ability
skill.
behalf.
company which the rabbi
to make men dream. With- 4 Mapam Leaders
Edelman's
frequent
em-
Curiously, at one point Dis- cut the dream, there's no
was supposed to repay him.
MAURICE EDELMAN
phasis is on Disraeli's un- raeli, conversing with Lord fulfillment."
Urge Labor Break
Rabbi Porush denied, how-
the reader gets a mighty failing references to his Jew- Lyndherst,
says:
ever,
that he owed Slasher
"In the
Mapam's political committee
An incident in the Edel-
good understanding of the ish background. He kept re- East End of London you will
man story worth recording are sponsoring a motion urg- any money.
lover-novelist and his ambi- ferring to the Lord, but he see the Jew celebrating the
The rabbi said he would
is about Lyndherst and Dis- ing the faction to break away
tion from the work of a man gloried in his heritage, like Feast of Tabernacles. My
raeli's sister Sarah. There is from the Labor Alignment pay Stasher back IL 300,000
who is himself a member of a true con •rt rel; Aline con- Lord, a race that persists
plus
interest over eight years
an intimate chat between the and run for the Knesset on
the House of Commons.
tinuity of
Judaism •nto in celebrating its vintage
two and Lyndherst, who a separate list in next year's as part of the settlement.
•
Edelman is an ideal per- Christianity
though it has no fruits to would have been welcome elections.
Stasher lives in Tel Aviv.
son to write about Disraeli.
There is reference to the gather must certainly regain into the Disraeli family as
The four sponsors are
The author of "Disraeli in synagogue his father had left its vineyards."
Sarah's betrothed, asked Naftali Ben Moshe, head of
Love," like the man he wrote and in wli.. e Benjamin J.•,Js
This reviewer was always Sarah what she thought about the party's trade union sec-
about, is not only in the reared as 0 child — the fa- under the impression that mixed marriages. She ven- tion;
Chaika Grosman of Ki-
Photography
British parliament: he is a mous and historic Bevis the comment about the in- tured the opinion,
that it de- butz Evron; Latif Dori, of
novelist of note and there- Marks. At
very outset
vincibility of Jews and Juda- pended on who the people the Mapam youth movement;
Weddings • Bor Mitevos
fore shares with his hero a of his story Edelman defir , , ism was made by Isaac were. "One of those people
and Mouhamed Wattad, an
like leaning to politics and Disraeli's r•:.:ude On r '- D'Israeli, the father, rather is myself," the Lord-Chan-
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Arab Mapam leader.
literary activity. Besides, ion, It is Wule at 3 cnurch than by the .son Benjamin cellor-to-be replied. Sarah
The four said they did not
Edelman, a leader in the service
that
Disraeli's Disraeli.
beamed, until Lyndherst told rule out cooperation with the
Board of Jewish Deputies of thoughts are thus collected
After making that state- her he planned to marry labor Party.
British Jewry, has a deep by the author of this inter-
JEWELRY
ment to Lyndherst, in reply Miss Georgina Goldsmith,
Jewish interest , and he esting
to LyInherst s assertion "Hut member of a prominent Jew-
makes it a point to empha-
"It is not the place that
"Ile had to admit to him-
you are a Christian," Edel- ish family. "The surge of
size Disraeli's Jewish inter- self that ritual was one
honors the man, but the man
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ests even as one who was thing, faith another. He rec-
It's a brilliant novel about who honors the place." —
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baptized.
The Talmud.
ognized that the abstractions
the man who was to become
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There were others who of theology !: Jet take fern ,
his country's prime minister,
'craved for Disraeli's affec- and flesh in - - .far to be •• •
later to become Lord Beac-
prehended b:. the multit. 'c
tions, but his chief sexual
onsfield. Excellence in style,
and that wi'. Tirough
involvement was with Hen
or.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ku- significance of cast, a well
Live worship could a church pat liolim, Israel's largest motivated novel — Maurice
:-$.7A'''s••% ' • *" -
be sust ye' like his sick fund, announced that
Edelma n's "Disraeli in
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father
ha '
re,; ,
.•! organized Arab workers
Love" is outstanding.
Iron) !ue
, ,agor uc rather from the occupied territories
—P. S.
than
/1 ■ •
- 1:.
,.f an who have jobs in Israel will
office t•eir.,
he eligible for its medical

Dizzy was a lover and a
Beau Brummel. Ile was
deeply involved with Lady
Sykes and the Benjamin Dis-
raeli-Henrietta Sykes affair
occupies most of the 400
pages in "Disraeli in Love,"
the delightful novel by Mau-
rice Edelman, published by
Stein and Day.

MICHAEL KAPLIT

FIRESTONE

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Arab Workers to
Get Medical Aid

Crown Kosher Caterers, in,

CONGREGATION B'NAI MOSHE

renoun,•0••' • • • col- , • r• of 47,,
nunal Disraeli him-
self, ,bough reared in the
Christian faith since boyhood,
regarder eeclesiastical riles
as more accidental that es-
ential, more useful for
'oilers than for himself, and
heir celebration more nee
•scars for public Herorum
hart for personal sits moo.
o'or his own part he pre•
erred religion to he a mys-
ery rather than a display,
he invisible Sliekhina
and
he arcane Holy of Hobe.- to
is priests and Levitt., and
censers, and the Nane too
aered to he spokl, to the

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

rielta whose husband, Sir
Francis Sykes. also had his
amours and didn't care a
bit if Benjamin was his I
wife's bedmate. But Henri-
etta, beautiful, witty, full of
love, also had other affairs,
and soon Ben left • her and
made his parliamentary de- I
sires his chief objective.

lie failed once, twice at
the halls. Soon he had the
interest of Sir Robert Peel,
and the Lord Chancellor
Lyndhurst befriended him.
Disraeli had his own "rev-

Zionists, Jews Set
Latin Conference

servicees.

announcement follow-
ed the signing of an agree-
ment between Kupat Holmi
' and the government.
j The Labor Nlinister Yosef
Almogi who signed the ac-
cord for the government said

The

'this was a sign of further
progress in social benefits
for all organized workers in

Israel .

Thai-Israel Pact OKs
Reciprocal Air Rights

Rehovot Hosts Parley

REHOVOT — Twenty-four
young scientists from 16
countries met at the Weiz-
mann Institute in Rehovot
last week for a two-week
course in the molecular
aspects of anti-genicity and
immunoglobulins. The course
is a combined venture of
the World Health Organiza-
tion, the International Cell
Research Organization,
UNESCO and the institute.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
• four-man Israeli delegation
in Bangkok has signed a
civil aviation agreement with
i Thailand providing for re-
ciprocal landing rights in
each country.
The delegation was headed
by Ephraim Zussman, di•
rector of civil aviation at
the transport ministry.
The agreement, which was
concluded in principle some
time ago, provides El Al
with a link in its projected
Far Eastern route which it
hopes to extend to the Philip-
pines, Japan and eventually
Australia.

"JUDGE ANDHEn c.

WOOD

HI 'ENDS AIRES' (JTA)—A
j cunt conference of the World
Zionist Organization and the
World Jewish Congress will
be held here Saturday-Thurs-
day with some 400 delegates
e xpected..
According to Dr. Lazar°
Rubinson, chairman of the
Argentine Zionist Organiza-
tion, the conference Will pro-
ject Jewish policy In Latin
America for the next 3-4
years.
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