THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

U.S. Academies
Seek Applicants

Higham's 'Send These to Me,' Academic But Rewarding

Congressman James J.
Blanchard, (D-18th Dist.), is
accepting applications from
area young men and women
interested in being nomi-
nated to attend the United
States Air Force, Military
or Naval Academy.
Blanchard will nominate
20 high school seniors next
January for consideration
by each of the three service
academies. Nominations
will be made for the class of
1980 which will enter the
academies in June 1976.
Interested students
should send their college
entrance exam results, high
school records. and a re-
sume of extra-curricular
activities to his Washington
office. 515 Cannon H.O.B..
Washington, D.C. 20515.
Applications deadline is
Dec. 1. For information, call
Blanchard's district office,
543-1106.

Fisher Denies He'll
Be Top Fund-Raiser

Financier Max Fisher de-
nied reports Sunday that he
may become President
Ford's top campaign fund-
raiser.
Fisher said that despite
the resignations of the Nov.
2 and 3 men in Mr. Ford's
campaign organization, the
fund-raising was "going all
right."

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John Higham is our coun-
try's leading historian of the
ways in which Americans
have reacted to immigrants
arriving on our shores.
Twenty years ago he wrote
the definitive book on the
subject, and he has contin-

ued to think and write about
the impact of immigration
and immigrants on Ameri-
ca's history and culture.
Now, in time for the Bi-
centennial, he has gathered
his essays of the past two
decades in "Send These to
Me: Jews and Other Immi-
grants in Urban America."

Zelda Popkin's 'Dear Once,'
Touching Look at Jewish Life

Jewish immigrants mak-
ing good in America — it's
an old story and not news-
worthy anymore, but in
Zelda Popkin's heartwarm-
ing "Dear Once," the story is
told anew as if one is hear-
ing it for the first time. Mrs.
Popkin will speak 1 p.m.
Thursday in the DeRoy
Theater at the Jewish Com-
munity Center for the 24th
annual Center Book Fair.
Published by J. B. Lippin-
cott, Mrs. Popkin's "Dear
Once" is a two-part novel,
the first half detailing the
arrival and lives in America
of the Springer family, Reu-
ben, Ada, Hannah and
Daisy, all of whose Jewish
names (Chana, Chaya etc.)
were changed to sound more
"American" as they arrived
on the New York shores,
and their father, Yankel.
Told by Ada's daughter,
Mildred, the story talks
about Ada's and Hannah's
successful arranged mar-
riages, Daisy's unrequited
love for one man and unfor-
tunate arranged marriage
to another and Reuben's
business success but un-
happy marriage to Fanny,
regarded by the family as a
yenta.
An outsider could never
appreciate the happy-sad
story of the Springers and
their offspring, nor the Yid-
dishe flavoring that even the
current generation of Jew-
ish children understands.

Throughout the book,
the Springers' confusion

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with the language often
evokes a smile. As they
move into their Brooklyn
flat, a kindly Irish neigh-
bor, Mrs. Fitzsimmons
comes to help. Unfamiliar
with the name, Reuben
calls her Mrs. Fitz-
simmons, pronouncing the
latter part like a Jewish
side dish.

The title of the book has
many meanings. Does it re-
fer to that strong inbred
family bond that Jews know
so well? With the anxiety of
the Depression, hard times,
a bad marriage match and
later the McCarthy trials,
does it refer to those who
were dear once and no
longer are? That is for the
reader to decide.
The second part of the
book is almost a sequel,
where Millie, Ada's daugh-
ter, is the focus and not the
Springer sisters and
brother.

Following the story of
her relatives, which be-
gins around the turn of the
century, is Millie's story,
another half-happy, half-
sad tale of her tormented
marriage to a nouveau
riche and newly famous
actor James Burns — le-
gally changed from Jacob
Bernstein, former City
College of New York stu-
dent.

Her rejection of the old
fashioned Jewish ways com-
bined with the poverty of a
struggling actor's family in
New York to the success and
glamor that Hollywood
brings until an unfortunate
incident revived during the
McCarthy era, evoke alter-
nate tears of joy and sad-
ness.
And what becomes of her
dear ones? They write, but
distances and successes
keep them far away until, of
course, there is trouble and
the family pulls together.
The book, better than
"Fiddler on the Roof," cap-
tures the hurt, the happi-
ness, the Jewish ways of
life. A reader who completes
it without tears in his or her
eyes does not have a heart.
It is a truly great and pas-
sionate novel.

—H.P.

Blood Pressure
Screening Near

Sentry Drug Stores will
sponsor a free blood pres-
sure screening 1-4:30 p.m.
Tuesday at its Coolidge and
Nine Mile location in Oak
Park.
A nurse will do the
screening and give counsel-
ing on high blood pressure.
Persons with a high reading
will be referred to a physi-
cian.

This slender volume makes
timely reading for anyone
concerned with the past and
future of the world's oldest
and largest democratic
"nation of nations."
There is little that is even
remotely "ethnic" about
Higham or his ancestral
background, but he has keen
sympathy and understand-
ing for the part that immi-
grants, especially Jews,
have played in our national
development.

Five of nine essays in
"Send These to Me" deal
with aspects of both Amer-
ican and American Jewish
history. Studies of poetess
Emma Lazarus and novel-
ist-journalist Abraham
Cahan provide insights
about changing meanings
the Statue of Liberty has
had in different periods of
our history, and the cul-
tural conflicts Russian
Jews faced in adjusting to
life in the United States.

Most interesting, and per-
haps controversial, are three
essays about anti-Semitism
and American culture. At a
time when alarmists inter-
pret any remark critical of
interests held dear by
American Jewry as the har-
binger of an American holo-
caust, Higham's carefully
wrought appraisals of our
nation's history and values
provide reassurance, as well
as tools for distinguishing
the merely sensational from
the truly sinister.
Two additional essays not
directly related to Jewish
topics treat "ethnic plural-
ism," a concept formulated
by Horace Kallen and ela-
borated by other American
Jewish intellectuals for
more than a half century.

CANTOR SIDNEY

to the "ethnic experience," it
provides rewardingly differ-
ent perspectives on what
America and its immigrants
have meant and continue to
mean to each other.

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Appealing though the
notion may be, Higham
concludes, it is defective as
a description of the way in
which America's various
groups have interacted
throughout our history. In
its place he proposes a
model called "pluralistic
integration," one that may
not please theorists of the
old school but one which
commands attention.

Higham's prose, befitting
his subject matter, is a trifle
academic but always grace-
ful. "Send These to Me" is a
book that deserves reading
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