THE DETROIT JEWISH sNEWS 22 Friday, 'Mardi 14, 1975 -7 0z161)S Serene Novel: 'A Book of Life' 26001 COOLIDGE HWY. -- OAK PAR ,. 543-334k A man who has lost two families and survived two holocausts should have a right to bitterness and hatred. But Martin Gray does not see it that way, and in "A Book of Life" (Sea- bury Press), a sequel to his best seller "For Those I Loved," Gray offers happi- ness, courage and hope to a woOd starved of those quali- ties. A first look at Gray's Seventh Annual PASSOVER SEDER Sponsored By CONGREGATION BNAI MOSHE and BANQUET CATERERS FIRST NIGHT WED., MARCH 26, 7:15 p.m. TRADITIONAL SEDER CONDUCTED BY DR. MOSES LEHRMAN Assisted By RABBI STANLEY ROSENBAUM With HAllAN LOUIS KLEIN CATERED BY BANQUET CATERERS, Inc. The Al Rosenberg Family Accepted After Fri. Mar. 21 For Information Call BANQUET CATERERS or BNAI MOSHE - OFFICE 548 -9147 548-9000 Under Supervision of Vaad Harabonim of Detroit Guaranteed Farm Fresh EGGS For Passover AA JUMBO FREE! Delivery 357-4787 or 626-8138 Corps personnel in many countries. To helpJewish families in the. military prepare for Passover, JWB provides a cassette recording describ- ing the preparation for the seder. NEW YORK — Jewish military families, men at isolated posts, and patients in Veterans Administration hospitals will be able to have sedorim for Passover as a result of arrangements by the Jewish Welfare Board and hundreds of community groups throughout the U.S. - Complete Passover Dinner — Everything Included No Reservations after I'd reached America book might scare away to- with such difficulty. Those day's sophisticated reading of other women glimpsed audience. Yet Martin Gray amid ruins in Warsaw, offers a simple, easy to read seen an instant and then philosophy of life that truly lost forever .. ." accomplishes the author's She thanked Gray for intention of inspiring the reader, while refraining writing the book, and ex- from any syrupy lecturing plained that it had given her that one might expect from daughter new courage after several setbacks. Suddenly, a book like this. Gray explained, he had Gray wrote "For Those I Loved" after the tragic found new purpose in his death of his wife and four _ life as the old woman told children during a forest fire him, "You must continue to around their home in south- speak, to tell people. They ern France. While fleeing do not know. Sometimes a through the flames and few words are enough. How, smoke in the family auto- one doesn't know, but they are and everything changes mobile, Mrs. Gray drove off for them. It's as if they'd the mountain road. A resistance fighter in suddenly discovered what the Warsaw Ghetto at age they had not seen." In these times of Water- 14, and a survivor of Tre- blinka, Gray explains how gate, of every man for him- his life was aimless until self, Martin Gray has an an- he met his wife, and how swer to this and the 30-year much joy they received question of why millions from life while watching refused to resist, or even un- derstand their approaching their children grow. Instead of languishing in doom in the Holocaust: "All those thin-faced his remorse after the loss of his family, Gray started the men, heads slightly bowed, Dina Gray Foundation in who refused to fight for France to help prevent trag- their lives, who refused to edies such as his and wrote hate. They went to' their deaths calmly, tranquilly. I "For Those I Loved." In his own words, "A • had chosen another way: Book of Life" is dedicated combat. And we were right "To those who by the thou- to resist. I know we were. "But I learned not to sands have written to tell me their friendship. To condemn those righteous those who have silently men. I understand them shared my hardship. To better today than I could those who have asked about then. They were what re- mained to us of goodness. the meaning of life . . ." Interspersing personal They testified that man, no examples of himself and matter what the circumst- friends, Gray weaves a pat- ances, can refuse to "kill tern of advice and vignettes. and to hate." Gray describes how these For example, he tells how, after writing his first book, Jews fought with their eyes he went through the aimless and their minds, pitying rounds of public appear- their executioners. ances at book counters. Peo- "Without them by our ple were unanimously sym- sides," he said, "what would pathetic and understanding, we have been if not like our but Gray felt himself in an enemies?" He concludes:' "For he' aimless void, filled with de- who shows himself to others spair. with the sole force of his "And then this old self, he who is true, who woman had come up to me. speaks without artific and She held herself straight who refuses hatred, the just against the table with my man who is harmony with book to her chest. And be- himself, whatever his per- hind her smile I seemed to sonal fate — he is heard by see other old faces; that of others. And his source does my mother welcoming me t die. Its spring where." "A Book of Life" is a pow- erful novel in which the au- thor emminently succeeds in leading the reader to an inner sense of peace with himSelf and his world. 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