THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

From Fiction to Psychology: Books
Prove to Be Stimulating Reading

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"The Fixer," the story
of the Mendel Beiliss
blood libel case in Russia
in 1911, novellized by
Bernard Malamud, has
already sold 2,000,000
copies. Originally pub-
lished as a hard cover by
Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, it has been issued
as a paperback by Pock-
et, Books.
Utilized for a novel; all
the basic facts in the
notoriously atrocious
case, which was en-
/ gineered by the Czarist
government to charge an
innocent Jew with ritual.
murder, was incorpo-
rated in this novel by
Malainud.

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Crime on Her Mind

From Pantheon Books,
a Random House divi-
sion, comes a voluminous
paperback, "Crime on
Her Mind," containing 15
stories about female de-
tectives. Commencing
with women sleuths of
the Victorian era, down to
the present century, the
tales in this large book
will fascinate lovers of
detective stories as well
as historians who wish to
study narrations describ-
ing events dating back
more than a century.

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Meditation

Alan Watts must have
been influenced in his
philosophic thinking by
Hasidic lore. Acclaimed
as a spiritual thinker,
Watts' "Meditation: How
to Do It - indicates the
basics of his philosophy.

BERNARD MALAMUD

The paperback was pub-
lished by Pyramid Publi-
cations.

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Medical Nemesis

In "Medical Nemesis"
(Pantheon Books), Dr.
Ivan Illich explains
shortcomings among
physicians and the book's
subtitle, "The Expropria-
tion of Health," reveals
the indictment in this ex-
tensive study.
Primarily, it is a review
of "iatrogenesis - which is
defined as "illness caused
by doctors."
DocumentirTg his
charges, Dr. Illich main-
tains that medicine has
not fulfilled the faith that
has been placed in it.
The warnings in Illich's
book are based on
charges of industrializa-
tion of medicine and the
need for some retrogres-
sion.

Fund-Raising
Techniques:
An Art Expertly
Defined
Fund-raising is a skill-
ful task. An authority
whose deep study defines
it expertly, defines it as
an "art."
In "The Art of Fund-
Raising" (Harper and
Row), Irving R. Warner
goes into the minutest
details of the tasks in-
volved in philanthrophic
efforts.
This is a work of excel-
lence for the lay worker.
For the professional, for
the social scientists, it
ha's special merit.
All the problems, all the
obligations, the manner
of approaching potential
givers, the techniques of
mobilizing forces, of con-
tacting donors — there
isn't a factor involved in
the philanthrophic "art"
that is missing from the
well-prepared Warner
book.

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Personal Renaissance:
Making It, 40 to 50

"What used to be a slo-
gan a generation ago,
that "life begins at 40," is
passe. Drs. Joel and Lois
Davitz, in "Making It
From 40 to 50" (Random
House), define the per-
sonal renaissAnce of men
and women meeting their
many problems and
achieving them.
This
psychological
study is based on years of
'joint research, pointing
to more growth in the for-
ties, to achievement.

Miss Universe a Zionist Product

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)

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New York, Chicago,
Miami. We need a song
about Tel Aviv. It might
be something like:
0 Belle of Zion
For you I am sighin'
The papers last month
were, of course, full of the
Jimmy Carter story. We
like Jimmy's mother.
When her son came to her
and told her that he was
going to run for 'presi-
dent, she said, "Take your
foot off my bed."

The papers report that
a Tel Aviv girl has won
the beauty contest and
been named Miss Uni-
verse.
How will that sit with
the United Nations which
has called Zionism racist?
Universe and racist are
contradictory, and how
can they reconcile them-
selves to the fact that the
most Zionist of all towns
should produce Miss Uni-
verse?
That sounds just like a
Tel Aviv was the first Jewish mother. Perhaps a
100 percent Zionist pro- Jewish mother might have
duction. Most cities are said it a bit different. She
not planned. Someone would have said, "Well,
settles at a place, another Jimmy, I think you should
settles close by and in be a doctor, but if you want
time, a town arises. But to be president, run, but
Tel Aviv did not come remember I warned you
about that way. The and anyway, take your foot
Zionists took sand dunes off the bed. Did you see the
and decided to build a city laundry bill this week?"
which they called Tel
Jimmy must know
Aviv.
something about Jews. In
the navy he worked
And now that former under Admiral Hyman
sand dune is a big city with Rickover, the nuclear
one of its residents Miss man. Besides he is a
Universe.
peanut grower, and most
This should be an inspi- people don't know it, but
ration for the world. The the peanut is a relative of
world is full of sand beblach of which Jews are
dunes. Follow the exam- very fond. Scientifically
ple of the Zionists and speaking, the peanut is
make them into Tel Avivs not a nut, but a bean. It
and the world's un- grows on the ground, not
employment problem will on trees. In Hebrew, it is
be solved and it will be called egoz adama, which
full of beautiful girls.
means ground nut.
We have songs about
Senator Walter Mon-

dale,
the
vice-
presidential candidate,
from Minnesota, went out
of his way in his accep-
tance speech to praise Is-
rael. I am proud of Min-
nesota and thereby, as
Shakespeare says,
"hangs a tale." A true
story of one of my own re-
latives who settled in
Minnesota. He came to
this country about the
same time as my father,
way back in the days of
Grover Cleveland. His
first job was in New York.
One day a man came into
the store where he
worked, looking very
prosperous.
My relative was impre-
ssed ,and learned the
stranger was from out of
town — from a place
which sounded to my
cousin something like
Appolis. As soon as my re-
lative received his weekly
salary, he went to the
railroad station and
asked for a ticket to Ap-
polis.
Did he want Annapolis,
Indianapolis or Min-
neapolis, asked the ticket
agent? My cousin wasn't
sure. Anyway, the ticket
agent sold him a ticket to
Minneapolis.
The story has a happy
ending. This cousin be-
came one of the leading
furriers in the area.
If you read the papers,
do you need fiction?

The manner of handl-
ing difficulties at the
given ages are the result
of extensive studies in
this instructive work.
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Emotional Therapy:
A Complete Guide

Dr. Joel KoveL, as-
sociate professor of
psychiatry at Albert
Einstein College of
Medicine, believes there
are modifying ways of
treating solutions to
emotional problems.
Himself a practicing
psychiatrist, he views al-
ternative ways of provid-
ing solutions to the dis-
tressed.
The many therapeutic
treatments and the prob-
lems involved in effecting
psychiatric treatments
and cures are analyzed in
Dr. Kovel's "A Complete
Guide to Therapy: From
Psychoanalysis to Be-
havior Modification"
(Pantheon Books). Dr.
Kovel's analytical work,
will be found useful as a
guide for the lay reader
as well.

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Dramatic Story
of the Human Body

Dr. Ronald J. Glasser
describes how man's im-
munity to bacteriological
dangers, the resistance to
viruses, functions in
keeping the body alive.
"The Body is the Hero"
(Random House) is a
dramatic story of the sci-
entific experiences, of the
achievements of many of
the very great in
medicine, of historical
developments. It is the
story of immunity as it af-
fects some while eluding
others.
This dramatic story
reads like a novel as it re-
veals the power of the
body, pointing to the
mechanisms made for
survival as well as those
that deal with threaten-
ing elements. It is a book
of merit professionally
and as fascinating for
the lay reader. In sum-
mation, the book's great
merit is the topic's defini-
tion.

Latin Torah Study
Up, Rabbi Reports

NEW YORK — An ac-
count of a sudden upsw-
ing in the levels of Torah
education in Buenos
Aires was rendered by
Rabbi Moshe Sherer,
executive president of
Agudath Israel of
America, in a report to
the organization's- na-
tional administrative
council, upon his return
from a religious mission
in South America.
The Agudath Israel
leader stated that since
his previous visit to that
region six years ago, a
new generation of
Torah-loyal Argentine-
born youth has de-
veloped, in large measure
due to the full-day
yeshiva and kollel
(graduate school) estab-
lished in Buenos Aires six
years ago by the local
Agudath Israel organiza-
tion.

Friday, August 6, 1976 23

Malamud Novel
Banned in East

NEW YORK (JTA) —
"The Fixer," Bernard
Malamud's Pulitzer Prize
winning novel of Jewish
life in Czarist Russia, was
among the nine books the
Long Island school board
has ordered removed
from the district's lib-
raries and classrooms.
The ban was imposed de-
spite recommendations
against it by the school
board's own advisory
panel.
Board
President
Richard Ahrens issued a
statement claiming that
the books were consi-
dered "lacking in educa-
tional value and not to be
used as curriculum mate-
rial." When the board
first ordered the books
removed four months ago
it described them as "ob-
jectionable,
vulgar,.
anti-Christian,
anti-
Semitic and degrading to
women. -
In addition to "The
Fixer," the books re-
moved include Desmond
Morris' zoological study,
"The Naked Ape" and
Kurt _Vonnegut's
"Slaughterhouse Five."

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