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May 11, 1973 - Image 41

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1973-05-11

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Arona McHugh's New Novel Effectively
Emphasizes Jewish Dignity and Historicity

Rev. Lowell Warns Separation Principle Periled

The Rev. C. Stanley Lowell beseige state legislatures to
intimacies and intrigue s,
Neither Tobias Meyer nor of Chevy Chase, Md., charges pass unconstitutional bills for few can grasp what is really
happening and those who un-
their jealousies and • love Miranda Behrens were re- in "The Great Church-State
the benefit of their institu- derstand do not seem to care.
affairs.
ligious, but they were linked Fraud," published 'by Luce, tions.
We move toward a powerful,
Chief among them in the as Jews by a tradition that that the traditional ideal of
"The great merger pro- wealthy and totally secular-
McHugh story is Tobias Vik- took them to a Reform serv- separation of church and ceeds
space. It is being ac- ized church formally and
tor Meyer, the German-born ice on Rosh Hashana in the state is being scuttled.
complished by a series of morally bound to a state
Jew who risked his life to Red Cross building.
He states that there are simplistic ruses most of them whose secular aspirations it
scuttle a ship it should not
There is comment in the hoaxes in power-seeking by so patent as to be laughable.
fall into the hands of the story about the mercenaries churches which imperil the Executive, legislative and fully shares. This arrange-
ment is not something bright
Germans; who lost track of regarding the Jewish family separation principle.
judiciary of the civil arm vie and new; it is something old
his wife and four children, of shipowners who are robbed
Pointing to many examples with churchmen in supplying
later to discover that she had by the Nazis. It is part of of quest by churches for fed- the rationale. A disastrous and drab. It is the dismal,
discredited thing that history
abandoned him for a lover in a resentment expressed eral funds, Rev. Lowell denouement looms because has recorded so often."
Russia and that the children throughout the book against warns that "within the fore-
are in East Germany; and anti-Semitism.
Friday, May 17, 1973-41
seeable future most church THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
WAC Sergeant Miranda Beh-
There is the search for institutions and programs
rens with who Meyer has his family backgrounds. As the will be financed by the
lovemaking on board ship or character in Mrs. McHugh's state."
on land—wherever they are. "The Luck of the Van
In his warnings
Rev
There is a regaining of Meers," Meyer believes he Lowell points to clerical
is pleased to announce
faith in the American way of may have descended from cycles "in oppression of the
ARONA McHUGH
people"
in
118th
Century
justice, when Meyer is helped Spanish and Portuguese Jews,
the addition of
the fame she had aleardy to secure his American citi- and when the matter of nam- France and 16th Century
acquired as a novelist, and zenship by a high' ranking ing children by Jews evolves, England and Germany. He
her story of the Van Meers American officer's interces- Miranda felt she should have declares:
brought her to Detroit in the sion to locate his children and been named Miriam and a
"The church seizes this
in addition to their already successful
year her book was published to expose his wife's disloyal- Barney should not substitute moment of its greatest wealth
by Doubleday (in 1969), as ties. There were doubts abou t for Baruch.
and power to mount an all-
one of the speakers in that it created by the jealousie
out attack on the separation
In the course of this n
year's Jewish Center Book of a colonel—also a Jew wh o rative, the authorr revived of church and state. It does
398-3566
541-2004
Fair.
was an object for trouble, the Jonah parable which what comes naturally; it
Now, in her newest novel, derision and difficulties—and added fame to her Van Meer uses its wealth and power
to get more wealth and pow-
"The Calling of the Mercenar- another officer on board ship. story.
er.
As we have seen, when
ies" also published by Double- But the unauenchable Meyer-
In the process of emphasiz-
day, Mrs. McHugh is again Behrens love triumphs —and ing the Jewish right to hu- state constitutions are to be
the expert on the habits and the lovemaking is a most im- mane treatments, the Mc- revised, the church is at the
actions of men and women passioned part of the McHugh Hugh account of the post- head of the line seeking
changes which will enable
on board ship, and again her novel.
Nazi period takes into
story is replete with Jewish
The numerous incidents account such experiences as it to draw tax support. And
incidents — except that this which cause references to the British interference with it is churchmen who today
time it is current history, it positive Jewish experiences Jewish migration to the Holy
relates to the Nazi era and again distinguish Mrs. Mc- Land and the tragedy of the
Join
its aftermath, to the Jewish Hugh's philo-Semitism. In the SS Exodus. There is an ex-
aims for statehood, to the re- course of the description of pression of resentment and a
vulsion of anything that the nautical adventures and condemnation of British atti-
smacks of the tragedies just the post-war challenges, tudes in 1947 — just prior to
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA)
experienced, in the immedi- there is embittered reference Israel's statehood.
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg,
ate aftermath of World War to the Exodus and strong
And in the lengthy asser- president of the American
II.
appeal for the rebirth of Jew-
: • : • 1
*Yet
tions
of Jewish loyalties, the Jewish Conress, said that
It is on the USAT Scudder ish statehood. These are oc-
"the great enterprise of Jew- ••••• • :
••
author
takes
the
reader
back
• -
that the - crew is engaged in currences in 1947, and while
to numerous other historic ish lift in the 1970s must be
the various aspects of the they are the prophetic in this incidents, including even the to transform our organiza-
calling, of the 'assigned U.S. novel, they are the pro-Zion- struggle of Lionel Rothchild tions so that they are con-
Complete
naval and army officers, their ist of the non-Jewish novelist. to gain' his seat in the British sciously designed to increase
At the very outset, there is House of Commons, more Jewish knowledge and com-
Includes: Swimming Pool (Olympic size) . . .
an indictment of the Nazi than a century ago, because mitment."
swimming lessons . . . lifeguards .. . children's
brutalities when there is com- he would not take the oath
In an address to the 44th
pool . . . Club House . . . locker rooms . . . card
and his ORCHESTRA ment about the "schoene as a Christian.
annual convention of the
room .. . TV .. . tennis courts . . volley ball
blonde maedchen (who) is
The McHugh task, in addi- National Federation of Jew-
"Music at its Best
courts . . . baseball field . .. horse- shoes . .
boiling Jewish bones for tion to the plot involving the ish Men's Clubs, attended by
for Your Guests"
soap."
bar-b-q and picnic area . . . restaurant facilities
1,000
delegates,
he
warned
seafaring cast of characters,
. . . ballroom .. .
557-7986
In the incident with the seems to be to give credence that Jewish communal institu-
colonel, who was abused to Jewish dignity and histor- tions were "failing to meet
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and his
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the fact that a Jewish colonel tale filled with action and rootedness in the Jewish
in the American army historic lessons. It is a bit group."
allowed himself to be spat at long--658 pages—but the end
398-
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Arona McHugh has mas-
tered the art of narrating
seafaring stories. In "The
Luck of the Van Meers" she
described the lives of adven-
turous sailors who were
linked with Jewish families
in several spheres. Her mas-
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