HE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ch 21, 1975
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Slurs to Jews Spoil Novel
Memoirs. They're usually
light reminicences of the
good ol' days and the bad ol'
days and often evoke a tear
or two. But rarely do they
feature subjective judg-
ments on particular reli-
gious groups. And if they do
then the book is a failure.
That is why Dorothy
Scannell's "Mother Knew
Best," is a failure.
Mrs. Scannell's little au-
tobiographical piece is in-
sulting — insulting not only
to the intelligent adult
reader, but to the Jewish
audience alone.
Published by Pantheon
Books, it is an account of
the author's younger days
on London's east side, an
area which is dominated
by the poor. One of nine
children, Mrs. Scannell
details her girlhood in a
poor imitation of the popu-
lar "Cheaper by the
Dozen."
However, what is disturb-
ing about this piece is the
distorted picture of Jews it
presents. The author
achieves this by detailing
unattractive features of the
Jewish persons with whom
she comes in contact. To
make matters worse, only
the Jewish characters are
labeled by their religious
affiliation; none of the oth-
ers' religious denominations
are alluded to at all.
Following are some of the
Jewish characters and their
descriptions:
Look for this Kosher
identification on the
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bottles. We have five
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are Kosher for Passover.
All in pint bottles.
All delicious.
• Abelson the chemist:
"He was a very charming,
very polite Jewish gentle-
man with thick pebble
glasses, very guttural and
adenoidish. We would wait
excitedly for, on completion
of our business, he would
say, 'And ith there anythig
elth?' and this never failed
to amuse us."
• Mo Finer, the dentist:
"He was a large brutal-
looking man with a red
face and thick lips. He
ways appeared to be eat-
ing and wiping his mouth
on a grubby white overall.
He pulled teeth free if the
victim was willing to sit in
the window for a public
extraction, a novel if noisy
way of advertising . . . I
believe Mo removed teeth
free without anesthetics of
any kind. We never went
to Mo Finer."
• Annie, "mother's Jew-
ish friend": "Mother had a
Jewish friend, Annie, a
dark-haired lady who would
bring us sheets of hard bis-
cuits with little holes in
them. I couldn't stop eating
them but Mother said they
would dry up my blood.
Mother was very proud of
having Annie come to see
us. She said if a Jewish per-
son is your friend, you have
a friend for life. Therefore I
thought I must try to get a
Jewish friend."
• Selina Lipshitz, class-
mate: "Her name was Selina
Lipshitz, but the teacher
never liked to say her name
and always called her, very
firmly and obviously so we
wouldn't be mistaken, 'Lip-
sips.' So I couldn't take such
a name home if even the
teacher couldn't speak, it
because it was rude."
On Miss Lipshitz, Mrs.
Scannell writes, "there was
the problem of her name,
which was a pity for she
was always so nice to me
and would have made a
lovely bosom pal."
Imagine not being able
to develop a friendship
with someone just because
that person's name
couldn't be spoken at one's
home. Better still, imagine
the teacher's stupidity in
modifying it to her own
.needs!
Reviving from the slurs
pointed at her Jewish char-
acters, one may find bother-
some the level of intellig-
ence needed to read such a
book_ that of a 10-year-old
child. But even then, it
would be insulting to give a
book with such distorted
images to children, because
in 1975, they know better.
—HEIDI PRESS
Arabs Studying
Israel Problems
Five Delicious
Sugar Free Faygo
Red Pop Root Beer Frosh
Pineapple/Orange. Passion Fruit Punch
"Prepared under the supervision of the Council Of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit'
TEL AVIV (Zins) — Gen-
eral Yehoshafat Harkavy,
one of Israel's foremost ex-
perts on the Arab world, has
advised that in the last few
years a number of special
institutes have been estab-
lished in various Arab capi-
tals to study the problems
of Israel.
All sorts of subjects are
researched in these insti-
tutes that have a relation-
ship to the Jewish state,
m aspects of Israel's mili-
tary strategy to women in
Israel.
Arafat Doubts That Kissinger
Can Help Egypt; Threat Issued
He said the Palestine Lib-
NEW YORK — Tomor-
row's issue of the Saturday eration Organizatidn will
Review will carry a story mount more raids on Israel
quoting Palestine Libera- aldng the lines of the Savoy
tion Organization leader Hotel attack and would
Yasir Arafat as saying that "strike at any Israeli target
Egyptian President Anwar wherever we can reach it, in
Sadat is "misguided" if he ,Israel, or in Japan or in the
believes U.S. Secretary of United States."
State Henry Kissinger can
help Egypt recover lands
held by Israel since the Six-
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CONGREGATION 1111AI DAVID
Saturday Review editor
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viewed Arafat in Beirut re-
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machinegun on his lap.
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Aiafat tried to justify . the
PLO's use of terrorism,
and said he doubted if he
would have been invited to
the United Nations last
fall if the PLO had not sus-
tained its militancy.
Arafat claimed that the
PLO is approaching a point
where -violence will giv-e way
to rationalization, but a
Damascus, report this week
contradicted him.
The threat was issued by
Zouheir Mohsen, head of the
PLO's military section and
of the Syrian-sponsored Al-
Saiga terrorist group.
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