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"The Apprenticeship of with the other waiters who a helping hand Duddy — or some pathos to the otherwise
Duddy Kravitz" is worth see- are medical school students Doodle as his grandfather amusing tale. It has to be a
ing for the $1,200, all-color from Mc Gill University calls him — is always there. tale — for where else could
"Happy Bar Mitzva Benjie' working at summer jobs.
The events with Virgil you find such chutzpa in a
Bar Mitzva scene, complete
A constant apple polisher Roseboro, the epileptic, and 20-year-old, and get a half
with a montage of African searching to make "a quick Mr. Dingleman, "the Boy dozen bagels for 10 cents?
tribal ritual, feats of daring buck," Duddy becomes the Wonder" gangster type, and
—Heidi Press
and "Goodbye Columbus"- house man for the resort's
type reception, which only roulette table. He collects
the rabbi can call a work of fantastic sums from the .eag-
Boris Smolar's
art. er vacationers, until one
The movie, filmed by Can- jealous med student — who
ada's International Cinemed- also owns the roulette gathe
is Center Ltd., and released — comes into the game and
through Paramount, tells of bleeds the house blind. How-
a very aggressive, Montreal ever, the rigged roulette
Jewish boy's apprenticeship wheel is discovered and all
Ed'
Emeritus
Emeritus , JTA
to manhood — how he be- of Duddy's money is re-
comes his own man. turned.
(Copyright 1974, JTA Inc.)
Starring Richard Dreyfuss,
Poor Duddy, with his ner-
THE JDC SAGA: The Joint Distribution Committee—
who appeared in "American vows tick — scratching — and
Graffiti," the movie, which irritating laugh, meets the which is now in its 60th year of existence—has been part
is filled with Yiddishe shtik- inevitable shiksa, Yvette, and parcel of Jewish history ever since it was founded in
lach, begins with the first of with whom he falls in love. 1914. There is no country in the world where the JDC
Duddy's foibles — he defects With Yvette he manages to has not, at one time or another, come to the aid of the
from his high school march- buy a lakefront property, lot local Jewish population.
A number of books reflecting the history of the JDC
ing organization, by lot, always remembering
From there he goes to his his grandfather's teachings. have appeared during the years but none of them dealt
rich Uncle Benji's garment He goes into the movie bus- fully and in depth with the period prior to World War II.
factory, but becoines disillus- mess with the Christianized This is probably because the authors had little opportunity
ioned after hearing his old- name of Dudley Kane and to study closely the JDC archives of those years, or be-
style, immigrant Jewish produces Bar Mitzva and cause they were removed a- full generation from that
grandfather tell him that "a wedding extravaganzas such period.
man without land is a no- as "Happy Bar Mitzva Ben-
As it happened, the JDC work during the first quarter
body." jie" with a two-bit black- of a century of its existence was no less instrumental in
Taking his grandfather's balled movie director Peter the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Jewish life than
advice, Duddy begins to earn Friar. Friar defects with the in the years following World War II, especially in Poland
his fortune at a 1930ish orcompany camera and Dudley where the great majority of the 3,000,000 Jews depended
'40isni Montreal Jewish sum- Kane Enterprises goes for I on aid from American Jewry.
mer resort. As a waiter to broke.
Polish Jewry found itself completely devastated at the
the nouveau riche Jews, Dud-
He likes to get involved in i end of World War I. It was also embroiled in an atmo-
dy almost grovels for a de- everything, mostly to make ! sphere of anti-Semitism which had no equal even during
cent tip while competing money, but if someone needs ' the years when Poland was a part of Czarist Russia. The
JDC had a tremendous job to do there is restoring Jewish
economic, cultural and communal life back to comparative
normalcy. It carried out its mission successfully to a point
of being ready to hand it over to the local Jewish leader-
ship in 1939. But then the Nazis marched into Poland and
KENNETH A. DISHELL I roar, a pilot program in ad- the Holocaust period started.
has been elected president of vanced professional study for
In the course of the first 25 years of its existence, the
BARNEY L. KEYWELL CO., established life underwriters, JDC has—through its affiliate known as Agrojoint—helped
a subsidiary of Key Interna- at the insurer's Springfield to reconstitute also the life of some 300,000 Jews in the
tional, Inc. The Keywell Co. home office.
Soviet Union by settling them on land in Crimea and in
imports standard and spe-
the Ukraine, and by training many of them as artisans.
cialty fasteners, imports spe-
The Communist regime had classified them as former
cial. machinery and dies, Teacher Seeks Piano traders and deprived them of all rights, including the right
packages and markets fas-
to work, to bread-cards, to dwellings, to medical care and
teners to manufacturers of Students, Teachers
to sending their children to state schools. The Agrojoint
Fedcra Horowitz is seek- undertook to make their existence adaptable to Soviet
numerous end products, pack-
ages and markets fasteners ing students and would like conditions of life. It helped them to regain their rights by
for the retail market, and to start a piano workshop converting them into productive elements—farmers and
produces and sells certain for teachers. She also would artisans.
plastic consumer products.
like to start a studio for
The last years of the first quarter of a century of the
gifted and advanced students. JDC existence faced also the great tragedy of the Jews in
She is an accomplished Germany. The Nazi war did not break out till Sept. 1,
L. CARL ROSSMAN, for-
1939, but Hitler's war on German Jewry started furiously
merly affiliated with the pianist and teacher, having with the very first day of his coming to power in 1933.
Xerox Corp., has joined the studied at Romania's State The JDC had to undertake tremendous obligations to help
TRERICE DEVELOPMENT Conservatory in Bucharest,
Jews within Nazi Germany as well as those who fled the
AND MANAGEMENT CO. of and was a member of the Third Reich and became helpless refugees in countries
Southfield, as retail leasing Israel Broadcasting Sym- of the free world. This was no easy task to perform, but
phony Orchestra.
*
the JDC—traditionally alert and active—performed it with
great dedication and maximum energy.
Mrs.
Horowitz,
a
member
NORMAN A. PAPPAS of
*
*
Old Timber Ave., Farming- of the staff of the Rubin
A
BROTHER'S
KEEPER:
All
these JDC efforts and
Academy
of
Music
in
Jer-
ton Hills, an associate of the
Detroit branch office of CON- usalem, has been in the U.S. achievements are brought out excellently in "My Brother's
NECTICUT GENERAL LIFE since 1969 when she accepted Keeper," a book by the Jewish historian Dr. Yehuda Bauer,
INSURANCE CO., has quali- a teaching post at the Uni- published this week by the Jewish Publication Society.
Born in Prague and settled in Israel since 1939, Dr.
fied for the Honor Table, the versity of North Carolina.
company's highest honor for She has given recitals in Bauer is now a professor at the Hebrew University of
its field sales representatives. Washington, D.C., and at the Jerusalem. He is no newcomer in the field of writing
Lincoln Center for the Per- Jewish contemporary history. He is the author of several
*
forming Arts in New York. books on Jewish subjects, including a volume on "Briha"
THE NEXT STEP, at Or- She also was a soloist with —the Jewish underground activities in conducting illegal
chard Mall, Maple and Or- tthe Charlotte (N.C.) Sym-. immigration to Palestine of the remnants of Jews who sur-
vived the Nazi concentration camps.
chard Lake Rds. will have phony Orchestra.
Dr. Bauer's "My Brother's Keeper" is a book pre-
a "last call" sale today
Moving to Detroit one year
through Monday. More than ago, Mrs. Horowitz has been senting the history and activities of the JDC in East Eu-
1,000 pairs of women's, men's the guest of the Music Study ropean lands—and in Germany during the early years of
and children's shoes will be Club, the University of Michi- the Nazi regime—against a background of general polit-
on sale with values of up to V2 gan at Dearborn, Eastern ical and economic developments. In the light of such a
off. Hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Michigan University and the presentation, the despair of the affected Jews, their needs
Friday; and 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Masonic Temple—Music for and what the JDC has done for them, comes out drama-
tically vivid in Dr. Bauer's book.
Saturday and Monday.
People series.
Supreme research has been done by the author in
, For information, she can preparing his material for the book. This can be seen from
PAUL L. SHERIZEN, be reached at her home, 559- the details and the data which he presents to illustrate
certain situations. Many of the facts he relates are brought
Detroit agent-associate of 7062.
out for the first time. One can say that none of the books
MASSACHUSETTS M U TA L
on JDC written before by other authors—all of them with
LIFE. INSURANCE CO. was
BORN LOSER
high scholarly reputations—have contained such extensive
among a group of million-
A faint heart may never
dollar life underwriters re- have won the fair lady—nor background and data on Jewish life in East European
cently taking part in his com- did it ever get away from countries as presented by Dr. Bauer.
pany's veteran agents sem- one.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 16, 1974-33

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