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Helene Deutsch: Fascinating Story of Eminent Psychiatrist

Helene Deutsch is a re-
markable lady. She will be
89 on Oct. 9, yet she displays
the vigor of a busy lifetime
in her autobiography, "Con-
frontations With Myself,"
published by W. W. Norton
and Co.
She calls her book "An
Epilogue" because in her
earlier works ("The Psy-
chology of Women" and
others) she had already
made some personal refer-
e"
is autobiography actual-
ly also is a great work about
Sigmund Freud with whom
she worked very closely and
under whom she had the
distinction of acting as his
assistant in Vienna.
And it is a book about her
husband, Dr. Felix Deutsch,
an eminent physician who
was Freud's personal medi-
cal guide and adviser and
who first discovered, in 1923,
that the great psychoanalyst
suffered from cancer. The
Deutsches were married 52
years, a happy union that
ended with his death in 1964.
Dr. Helen Deutsch, who in
her own rights rose to a high
place in world psychiatry,
relates in her life's story the
good family life, the loyal-
ties, the working-together of
a medical team that could
collaborate on endless con-
tributions to the advance-
ment of medical skills.
"Confrontations with My-
self" has many distinctions.

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It is the story of a brilliant
girl who could rebel in her
youth, yet reconstruct her
loyalties on the basis of
many personal achieve-
ments. Her marriage was a
civil one, yet her loyalties
were Jewish.
Her background was as-
similatory, but the Jewish
influence was not lacking.
There is evident in many
instances a sense of Jewish
pride, and there is never a
yielding to anti-Semitic pres-
sures.
Her husband - she mar-
ried after a love affair with
an older map-is introduced
as a dedicated Zionist. With
him she began her frequent
travels to Israel, and there
"he became involved in a
special project to study the
paintings of Jewish children
in Israel who had been
driven out of their various
countries by the Nazis."
Primarily, this splendid
book relates Dr. Helene
Deutsch's activities in psy-
chiatry, and her close work
with Freud. Because of the
relationship established with
Sigmund Freud. the heroine
of this autobiography also
became a very close friend
of and collaborator with
Anna Freud, the daughter of
Sigmund Freud. She assisted
her in her projects in London
where they visited often.
F o r psychiatrists, t h e
Helene Deutsch story is a
splendid portrayal of psy-
chiatric experiences. The
world's most noted leaders
in the field of psychosomatic

studies and tests are spoken autobiography:
"My husband and I had
of here, Dr. Deutsch having
bought a small home in
worked closely with them.
She worked primarily in Cambridge that we adapted
Vienna and much of the to our needs by making ad-
autobiography is about Aus- ditions. Finally we had
tria, until the period of something we had never had
in Vienna: our own house
horror under Nazism.
Dr. Deutsch and her son, and a garden. A house in
now Prof. Martin Deutsch Cambridge naturally came
of MIT, an eminent physi- with neighbors and the
cist, left Austria in 1934, and American neighborly atmos-
her husband and his father phere. We were greeted
stayed on for another year. warmly with the words, 'We
Abandonment of the Viennese don't resent Jews like you!'
home and their work there As I heard them, I thought
was tragic for them, especi- of the saying of a well-known
ally since they had to aban- anti-Semittic Buergermeister
don the relationship with of Vienna: 'I'll decide who's
Freud. But the contact with a Jew and who isn't.' It was
him, when he left Vienna all so paradoxical. I was
and came to London in 1938, born in anti-Semitic Poland
and grew up in Vienna dur-
was never interrupted.
The beginning of the story ing its most intense anti-
is in Przemysl in Poland. Semitic phase, but it was
Dr. Deutsch writes that she only in America that I en-
always considered herself countered personal anti-
Polish while her husband in- Semitism for the first time."
When she first visited the
sisted on Jewish nationality.
The autobiography indicates United States in 1930, the
a strong retention of her now defunct N. Y. Herald
knowledge of Polish by Tribune carried a front page
story, with her photograph,
Helene Deutsch.
Helene Deutsch was an announcing: "A Lady-in-
ultra-liberal. As a youth she Waiting at the Freudian
became engrossed in social- Court." This would have
ism. In Vienna she be- been such an excellent title
friended many noted radicals for her book! Because she
and Rosa Luxemberg's ac- emerges as a brilliant lady,
tivities drew her to the and at the Freudian court
Polish-Jewish socialist. It de- she was a personality of
veloped into a working note, recognized by the
friendship between them. m aster.
As she relates it, Helene
An interesting comment on
anti-Semitism is worth al- Deutsch's life . story is inter-
luding to. Describing her esting and the lady-in-wait-
early years in this country, ing is regal. Her autobio-
the psychiatrist states in her graphy is genuinely notable.

_IPS Volume Salutes Israel's 25th Anniversary

Israel's 25th anniversary
inspired the Jewish Publica-
tion Society to produce what
its editor, Dr. Chaim Potok,
proposed: a book as a gift
on the birthday of the reborn
land. Major fictional works
of Israel storytellers were
selected, and James A.
Michener was chosen to
write an introduction and to
edit the book.
That's how "First Fruits-
a Harvest of 25 years of Is-
rael Writing" came into be-
ing, with the foreword by
Potok and the essay by
Michener.
If the Michener essay is
intended to sensationalize the
work, it does not reach the
expected heights. It is just
a little better than the or-
dinary account of Israel's
background and history, and
the flashes in it are limited
to Michener's enthusiasm
over the Negev and the
people of Israel. Otherwise
it is just a very nice tribute
to Israel and to Jewry -
hardly in the measure of the
previous similar writings
about Jewry and Israel by
the eminent author.
Similarly, there is a bit of
disappointment in Potok's
foreword. He expresses re-
gret that Amos Oz's "Cru-
sade" was not incorporated
in this volume. He urges
"the interested reader to
seek it out for its display of
craft and imagination."
That's puzzling: it is an out-
standing story, and since
there were-so Potok states
- "complex reasons" for
not utilizing it, why aggra-
vate it, since Oz is already
represented in this anthology.
The authors and their
works in "First Fruits" do,
indeed, provide notability to
the collection, even for those
who have already read the

stories. They deal with the
people and the problems of
Israel. They are influenced
by the wars and by the tra-
gedies that have marked
nation-building.
Benjamin Tammuz, Asher
Barash, S. Y. Agnon, Yitzhak
Shenhar, Aharon Megged,
Haim Hazaz, Yehuda Yaari,
Hanich Bartov, Avraham R.
Yehoshua, Natan Shacham,
Hedda Bosem, Yitzhak Or-
paz, Amos Oz, Yoram Kar-

niuk and Moshe Shamir.
Thus, Amos Oz is repre-
sented with a story that gives
due credit to recognition of
an eminent fiction writer.
Translators of the stories
include Hillel Halkin,
Walter Lever, Ben Halpern,
Aubrey Hodes, Israel Schen,
Miriam Arad, Dorothea
Shefer, Curt Leviant, Nich-
olas de Lange, T. Zandbank,
A. Levenston, and Zeva
Shapiro.

Israel Diamond Exports Zoom

By HAIM SHACHTER
JERUSALEM-The Israel
diamond industry soared to
a record export total of
$385,700,000 in 1972, con-
firming its position as the
world's major producer and
exporter of polished gem
diamonds.
During the past year, over-
seas sales of diamonds rose
by $120,000,000 or 45.4 per
cent over the figure for 1971.
The industry's performance
is reflected in a boost of 22.5
per cent in the number of
carats polished and sold, to
2,300,00G carats in 1972.
Moshe Schnitzer, president
of' the Israel Diamond Ex-
change, predicts that 1973
exports will top $450,000,000
and that $500,000,000 in an-
nual diamond sales from
Israel will be reached before
the end of 1974.
The principal factor in Is-
rael's 1972 performance was
the increased production and
sale of large-size diamonds
of half a carat or more.
Israel continues to produce
more than 80 per cent of the
world supply of melees,
smaller stones of 40 per
carat.
More than one out of every
three Israeli export dollars
*ere earned by polished dia-

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 17, 1973-37

Clerics Back Israel on Holy City

Several Catholic leaders
have rallied to support what
they call fair Israeli con'..rol
of Jerusalem.
In a letter to the Chicago
Tribune, the Rev. John T.
Pawlikowski said that-the ac-
cusation that Israel has des-
ecrated and closed shrines is
"without substance." He said
the scandal over the shrines
was caused by inter-Christian
rivalries that still persist in
the city. He questions Why
Jordanian leaders never pro-
tested their government's de-
struction of Jewish shrines in
Jerusalem after the 1948 war.
Rev. Pawiikovigci said that
after the Six-Day War, the
Israeli parliament passed
laws for the protection of the
shrines. They were opened to
the public and upgraded af-
ter the Israelis took control.
Fr. Edward H. Flannery
writes in America, National
Catholic Weekly, that "Jerus-
alemite Arabs accept more
and more the fact of Israeli
administration and are mere
inclined to become full-
fledged partners in it.
"Mayor Teddy Kollek and
especially Deputy Mayor
Meron Benvenisti inspire both
Jewish and Arab citizens with
a new confidence that per-
manent reconciliation and
peace are possible."
Fr. Flannery said in a
report to The Western Catho-

lic that in the Jerusalem con-
troversy "the case against
Israel has been factually in-
complete and unfair."
When Jordan ruled the city
for 19 years, Jewish holy
places were destroyed and
Jews were forbidden to enter
the Old City. "Now that, un-
der Jewish 'control, all holy
places are open to all and
protected by the government
and the city unified and at
peace, a barrage of protest
has been raised," Fr.
Flannery said.

Israel Stock Report

NEW YORK (JTA) -The
following quotations from the
Tel Aviv Stock Exchange are
provided to the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency by Leumi Se-
curities, 18 E. 48 St., New
York, N.Y. 10017. This is a
selected list of the most ac-
five stocks.

Africa Israel
Alliance '13'
ATA 'C'
Bank Leumi
Bank Leuml
Investment
Delek
Discount Bank
Investment
Electra
Electric Wire
and Cable
General Mortgage
Bank
Hassnrh Lnsurance
Mehedrin Citrus
Shemen
Taal Plywood

Closing Prices
8/6
8/13
$ 6.64
$ 6.86
12.38
11.90
.29
.29
.74
.73

.52
.47

.52
.46

3.12
2.85

3.09
2.88

1.26

1.27

2.84
6.06
.50
1.37
1.46

2.80
5.78
.47
1.42
1.45

NOW

IS THE TIME TO

Place Your New Year
Greetings in

THE JEWISH NEWS

Holiday Issue-Sept. 28

There's no better way
to say

mond sales, the industry's
$385,700,000 in overseas
sales forming a sizable pro-
portion of Israel's exports of
approximately $1,000,000,000
in 1972.
The United States was
again the leading market for
Israeli diamonds, its pur-
chases having risen from
$74,000,000 in 1971 to $104,-
000,000. It is believed that
American buyers obtain from
other trading sources an-
other $20-to $30,000,000 in
gems polished in Israel.
The joint body for promo-
tion of the industry, the
Israel Diamond Institute, is
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monds from Israel last year,
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compared with $29,000,000 I
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each in 1971.
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Other major markets in
Family
and
order of their imports in IMr. and Mrs.
1972 were: Holland ($40,- I
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500,000); Switzerland ($38,-
1
200,000); Belgium ($29,- I Address
1
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Zip Code
($19,500,000); United King- ' City
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Check Enclosed (circle one) $5-$1 . 0-$l5-more l
($8,630,000); Singapore ($6,-
900,000) • and Canada ($6,-
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