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12 April 16, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
A Jewish Family's Problems Focus of Newest Potok Novel
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"The Promise" and "My
"In the Beginning" Name is Asher Lev."
(Alfred A. Knopf), is Chaim
"In the Beginning" is the
Potok's fourth novel. The story
of the Lurie family.
others are "'The Chosen," Max, the head of the family,
born and raised in East Gal-
icia, had distinguished him-
self for bravery in the Polish
army and defending Jews in
a pogrom in which his
brother David was killed
and he wounded.
His wife Ruth, the
mother of two children,
studied in Vienna and wrote
poetry in her youth.
Davie, the novel's prota-
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gonist, was a sickly, but
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grew older, he became in-
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sensche Hypothese" by the
ultra-Orthodox Rabbi David
Hoffmann. This book and
many others were be-
gueathed to Davie by a
neighbor who took a liking
to him before her death.
Rabbi Hoffmann's book
aroused Davie's curiosity in
higher biblical criticism;
and he started reading
books of the genre. His
father objected to Davie
reading books he regarded
irreligious, anti-Jewish and
written in German. "I am
uncomfortable with Ger-
man books in my house," his
father said. "It is like having
a member of an evil family
. . . I cannot begin to tell
you how much I hate the
Germans and everything
that is German. That land is
inhabited by the hosts of the
Angel of Death. Whatever
they touch they poison."
Davie, in turn, resented
his father's attitude. The
result was a Kulturkampf
in which his family,
friends, colleagues, and
teachers were allied
against him.
"In the Beginning" is an
interesting and well-written
novel 'embellished with sa-
cred Hebrew words and vul-
gar Yiddish expressions.
Tension Persists in Arab Villages
CHAIM POTOK
terested in literature and
writing.
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Ten-
The Luries were tradi- sion and an undercurrent of
tional Jews concerned with bitterness and hostility
Jewish problems. They lived persisted in Arab villages in
in a Jewish-Catholic neigh- Galilee, more than two
borhood where the syn- weeks after the Arab gen-
agogue faced the church.
eral strike and the riots that
Davie, by the time he was accompanied it.
six-years-old, could read
Some of the tension is at-
Hebrew and English, sub- tributed to the fact that
jects he taught himself. scores of villagers, mostly
Having a keen sense of jus- youths, are still in detention
tice, he would get perturbed awaiting trial for attacking
by acts he considered un- security forces and damag-
just.
ing property during the
It is well to remember riots.
that the author ingen-
Israeli authorities have
iously interwove Davie's refused appeals from local
life story with the history elders to release the youths
of the Jewish people of on grounds that the "hot-
that period.
heads" have learned their
This review would have lesson.
been incomplete hadn't I
The situation has been
recorded the Kulturkampf aggravated by the at-
that suddenly erupted in the tempts of local Arab lead-
Lurie household.
ers who had opposed the
It was caused by the book general strike and violence
"die wichtingsten Instanzen
to re-establish their image
gegen die Graf-Well-hou- among the townspeople
and villagers. The village
heads in such places as
Sakhnin, Araba and Dier
Hanna, scenes of some of
the worst rioting, are now
blaming Israeli security
forces for provoking the vi-
olence.
Meanwhile, the child care
center at Tamra remains
closed because the Jewish
physician and nurses refuse
to return unless they are
given special protection. The
clinic was badly damaged
by stone-throwing youths.
Similar clinics were re
opened in other Arab vil-
lages after the authorities
provided protection for their
personnel.
In New York, meanwhile,
members of Breira have.
addressed an open letter to
Israel's leaders critical of re-
cent Israeli police actions
and policies toward Arab
Israeli citizens in the Galilee
and Palestinian Arabs in
the West Bank.
The executive board of
Breira, which issued the let-
ter, points out that police
action is not enough to solve
-
the Arab-Jewish conflic
but that "moral outrage" is
not enough either. The
group outlined a plan for a
political initiative toward
the Arab Israeli minority
and toward Palestinian Ar-
abs on the West Bank.
Breira is promoting an
overall peace settlement in
the Middle East and a
"revitalization and democra-
tization of American Jewish
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