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Meyer Levin Assails Lillian Hellman in 'Obsession'

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 25, 1974-21

U.S. Zionist Groups Back IEF
Membership Role in UJA Drives

Advance reviews in Pub-
lishers Weekly and in the
New York Magazine have al-
NEW YORK — National ish League, Americans for
ready hailed "The Obsession"
as explosive, predicting it will Zionist organizations are tak- Progressive Israel and the
stir up a literary storm, a ing positive steps to insure Zionist Organization o f
scandal, and become a best total participation by their America.
"This will be a two-pronged
seller. Early readers have memberships in local Israel
wondered whether there will Emergency Fund campaigns, approach," Torczyner e x -
be a spate of lawsuits, but Paul Zuckerman, ,United Jew- plained, "aimed at securing a
Levin says his book passed ish Appeal general chairman contribution from every in-
dividual member of our Zion-
three legal readings. "Let announced.
Jacques Torczyner, promi- ist organizations, as well as
them sue. What I say is
nent member of the executive upgrading individual gifts.
joined another Jewish body true."
beyond the boundaries of the
Declaring that "a writer's of the World Zionist Organi- This approach can be of great
United Kingdom.
proper weapon is his writ- zation and a past president benefit to communities about
It did so only after receiv- ing," the author has privately of the Zionist Organization of to launch broad, citywide
ing from WJC President Dr. published his Anne Frank America, will serve as chair- mass appeals as part of their
Nahum Goldmann written play, giving the copies away man of the Zionist support- phase two campaigning."
assurances of its autonomy "for literary discussion." It. ing effort, Zuckerman an-
The Liberty of Art
in the affairs of British Jews is now in its third edition. nounced.
Eight Zionist organizations
To suppress the liberty of
and preservation of the tra- And to assure wide discus-
dition that only the board sion of "The Obsession," Le- with some 800,000 members art is like Herod's slaughter
speaks for British Jews to vin had a tholisand copies are taking part in the partici- of the innocents—an attempt
-the British government.
printed in advance, paper- pation drive, including Ha- to kill off the 'alteration of
The board, now affiliated bound, sending them out to dassah, Religious Zionists, the ideas, ideals, and ways
with the WJC, will replace writers, rabbis, public fig- Bnai Zion, United Zionists- and works of men at the
the British section of the ures, and "enemies." The Revisionists, American Jew- source.—Horace M. Kallen.
result he says has been phe-
WJC.
The overwhelming 224-28 nomenal. "I never had such
vote in favor of affiliation re- a strong preliminary reaction
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new Board of Deputies that able. Probably the enemies
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But there remained a hard ing published on the 50th
core of opinion in opposition anniversary of his writing
to move. Its spokesman, Solo- career, Levin says "I've ar-
mon Teff, a former board rived at the age when not
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president now in his 80's, much more can happen to
voiced the opposition views me, so with this book I'm
in the discussion that pre- putting myself on the line."
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A year ago, because of the
NEW YORK — Openly ac-
cusing playwright L i 11 i a n situation with "The Settlers,"
Hellman of having brought which he claims included a
about the suppression of his partial blacklisting on talk
dramatization of Anne shows in the New York area,
Frank's Diary because by her Levin took a huge ad in the
ideological lights his work New York Times to warn
was "too Jewish," author
Meyer Levin, in his new book,
"The Obsession," to be pub-
lished Feb. 16, recounts what
he presents as a 20-year
nightmare in which he strug-
LONDON (JTA) — The
gled for his career against
smears, literary denigration, need to conform with chang-
and character assassination. ing times won over tradition
Levin alleges that his pro- in an historic vote Sunday
longed fight against the sup- by the Board of Deputies of
pression of his play, in favor British Jews to affiliate with
of a more bland version the World Jewish Congress.
It was the first time in its
whose writing was supervised
more
than two centuries of
by Miss Hellman, has brought
on mafia-like literary diffi- existence that the represen-
culties which culminated with tative body of British Jewry
the "silent treatment" of his
big novel, "The Settlers," for
the book received not a single
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review in the national maga-
zines.
"It's done by creating a
negative atmosphere, by a
CAPE TOWN (JTA)—The
pass-the-word campaign," he
three sons and three daugh-
says, declaring that this ef- ters born to Susan and Colin
fect emanates from a literary
Rosenkowitz are making
coterie that is anti-Israel and
good progress at a nursing
assimilationist regarding Jew- home here and the boys will
ish identity. Not only is his
work affected, he says, but
the general range of thinking
and writing on Jewish ex-
istence.
While his one-man struggle
against the suppression of his
play forms the connecting
narrative, Levin describes his
treatment by four psycho-
analysts during the long
period of the obsession. "In
Moscow, writers simply get
sent to an insane asylum,
but in New York you can be
driven to the analyst's
couch," he bitterly jests.

against hidden censorship as
a method of mind manipula-
tion. "For some people, in-
cluding some Jews," he said,
"anything Jewish is too Jew-
ish." "The Obsession" docu-
ments his case.

British Board of Deputies Ends
214-Year Tradition, Joins WJC

Rosenkowitz
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