THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16 Friday, July 1, 1977
`Reunion' Captures Jewish Soul During Hitler's Rise in Germany
introduction to "Reunion":
He (Uhlman) also suc-
ceeds in lending his narra-
tive a musical quality
which is both haunting and
lyrical. 'My wounds,' his
hero, Hans Schwarz, writes,
have not healed, and to be
reminded of Germany is to
have salt rubbed into
them.' Yet his memories
are suffused with yearning
for 'the soft, serene bluish
hills of Swabia, covered
with vineyards and
crowned with castles,' and
for 'the Black Forest where
the dark woods, smelling of
mushrooms and the tears of
amber-coloured mastic,
were threaded through by
trout streams with sawmills
on their banks.'
Hans Schwarz is the teen-
age son of a Jewish doctor
in Uhlman's novella. Count
Konradin von Hohenfels be-
comes his classmate and
closest friend.
Through this boyhood
friendship is described the
darkening clouds , on the
German horizon : Schwarz's
father calls the rise of the
Nazis a temporary illness
and Hohenfels' mother, the
By ALAN HITSKY
Rarely does such a small
volume contain as much im-
pact as the 112-page novella
"Reunion" (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux) by Fred Uh-
lman.
An anti-Nazi lawyer who
was 'forced to leave Ger-
many in 1933, Uhlman cap-
tures Germany in transition
in 1932 and 1933.
For those who were born
after the Holocaust, Uh-
lman transforms the words
of history into human
terms. And for those who
lived through the tragedy,
in the words of author Ar-
thur Koestler who wrote an
ALLGRAPHICS
313-352-59 _ 17
School, Club or
Athletic Group
BAR MITZVA SHIRTS
IMPRINTED T-SHIRTS
SWEATSHIRTS, JACKETS
ATHLETIC WEAR
AND PATCHES
No order too large
or too small
Other imprinted material
available.
WHOLESALE TO ALCM
NEW CADILLAC?
BUY OR LEASE FROM
ANDY BLAU
in BIRMINGHAM at
WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC
CALL BUS. MI 4-1930
RES. 642-6836
1350 N. WOODWARD, BIRMINGHAM
CUSTOM
TABLE PAD
A LASTING GIFT
• HAND-CRAFTED • CUSTOM STYLING
PROMPT DELIVERY
PHONE 345-5350
MADE IN MICHIGAN
UNITED TABLE PAD CO.
Our 30th Year
N. N.
N. N. N.
N. N. N. N
countess, proudly displays
Adolf Hitler's photograph
on her dressing table.
As the story progresses,
the outside pressures begin
their erosion, leading to the
inevitable disintegration of
the friendship.
"We always stopped out-
side the iron grille crowned
by two griffons which car-
A,
"A new type of man is
taking over leadership of
the most technically ad-
vanced companies in Amer-
ica," says Michael Mac-
coby. "In contrast to
jungle-fighter industrialists
of the past, he is driven not
to build or to preside over
empires, but to organize
winning teams. Unlike the
security-seeking organiza-
tion man, he is excited by
the chance to cut deals and
to gamble.
"Although more coopera-
tive and less hardened than
the autocratic empire
builder and less dependent
than the organization man,
he is more detached and
emotionally inaccessible
than either. And he is trou-
bled by it : the new industri-
al leader can recognize that
his work develops his head,
but not his heart."
Maccoby's "The Game-
sman" (Simon and Schus-
ter) is based on intensive in-
terviews with 250 business
managers from 12 major
American companies. Mac-
coby, a practicing psycho-
analyst, determined to find
out who is running Amer-
ica's business and what, in
effect, makes him run.
In the course of his in-
vestigation, Maccoby discov-
ered that the corporation is
populated by four basically
different character types:
The Craftsman, as the
name implies, holds tradi-
tional values, including the
MAD SIDEWALK SALES SATURDAY, JULY 9,
10 to 6 p.m.
Sunday, July 10 12 to 5 p.m.
INCREDIBLE SAVINGS -ENTERTAINMENT
GING GONG SHOW
SAT., July 9,1 p.m., Plaza
EVERGREEN
al . 12 Mile
_Southfield
"Occasionally, I waited a
minute or two, staring
through the iron bars, hop-
ing that Sesame might open
again and he would reap-
pear, beckoning me to
come in. But he never did,
the door was as forbidding
as the two griffons, which
looked down on me,- cruel
and pitiless, their sharp
claws and Wit tongues
`The Gamesman ' Depicts Modern Businessman
EVERGREEN PLAZA HAPPENINGS:
MAD MIDNIGHT SALE,
Friday, JULY 8 1 7 p.m. to Midnight
—
ried the armorial shield of
the Hohenfels, until he said
goodbye, opened the heavy
gate and walked up the
scented, oleander-bordered
path leading to the portico
and main entrance. He
knocked lightly on the huge
black door, the door slid si-
lently back and Konradin
disappeared as if forever.
Talented People Needed
Auditions, Thurs., July 7,
7 p.m. Music Stand
Entry Blanks
At Any Evergreen Plaza Merchant
Evergreen & 12 Mile, Southfield
For further details call 559-8762
(The Ging Gong Show is outside,
bring chairs)
work ethic, respect for
people, concern for quality
and thrift. When he talks
about his work, he shows
an interest in the process of
making something; he
enjoys building. He sees
others, co-workers as well
as superiors, in terms of
whether they help or hinder
him in doing a craftsman-
like job.
The Jungle Fighter lusts
for power. He experiences
life and work as a jungle
where it is eat or be eaten,
and the winners destroy the
losers. A major part of his
psychic resources is budg-
eted for his internal depart-
ment of defense. Jungle
fighters tend to see their
peers as either accomplices
or enemies, and their subor-
dinates as objects to be
used.
The Company Man bases
his sense of identity on
being part of the protective
organization. At his weak-
est, he is fearful and sub-
missive, seeking aecurity
even more than success. At
his strongest, he is con-
cerned with the human side
of the company, interested
in the feelings of the people
around him, and committed
to maintaining corporate in-
tegrity. The most creative
company men sustain an at-
mosphere of cooperation
and stimulation, but they
tend to lack the daring to
lead highly competitive and
innovative organizations.
The Gamesman sees busi-
ness life in general, and his
career in particular, in
terms of options and possi-
bilities, as if he were play-
ing a game. He likes to
take risks and is fascinated
by techniques and new
methods. The contest hypes
him up, and he commu-
nicates his enthusiam, ener-
gizing his peers and subordi-
nates like the quarterback
oil a football team. Unlike
the jungle fighter, the game-
sman competes not to build
an empire or to pile up
riches, but to gain fame,
glory, the exhilaration of
victory. His main goal is to
be known as a winner; his
deepest fear, to be labeled
a loser. -
An important chapter is
Anti-Semitic
Journal Banned
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—
The Argentine government
has banned distribution,
sale and circulation of the
latest issue of the ultra-
right journal Cabildo, which
contains several virulent
anti-Semitic attacks. Any
other publication that might
replace Cabildo- is also for-
bidden by the decree.
-"The Head and the Heart."
In it Maccoby examines the
gamesman's obsession with
protecting his career, with
the result that he "con-
stantly betrays himself.
since he must ignore ideal-
istic, compassionate, and
courageous impulses that
might jeopardize his fu-
ture."
Michael Maccoby is a fel-
low of the Institute for Pol-
icy Studies and director of
the Harvard Project on
Technology, Work, and
Character.
shaped like sickles ready to
cut out my heart."
When eventually Konra-
din does admit Hans to his
home, it is always when his
parents are strangely ab-
sent. Finally the inevitable
occurs, as Konradin is
drawn into the circle
around Hitler : "Slowly Kon-
radin shut the iron gates
which were to separate me
from his new world. I knew
and he . knew that I could
never cross the frontier
again and that the House of
the Hohenfels was closed to
me forever."
As final as this scene ap-
pears, Uhlman surprises
the reader with his ending,
exploring even more deeply
the soul of those who were
forced to flee Germany.
In the words of Koestler,
"Hundreds of bulky tomes
have now been written
about the age when corpses
were melted into soap to
keep the master-race
clean; yet I sincerely be-
lieve that this slim volume
will find its lasting place on
the shelves.
Zionism Quiz
This quiz was prepared from material offered in courses
sponsored by the American Jewish Committee's Academy
for Jewish-Studies Without Walls.
(Copyright 1.977, JTA, Inc.)
•
1. Jerusalem was liberated from Turkish rule in 1918 by:
_ A. David. Lloyd George
B. General Allenby of the British forces.
C. Lord Balfour
D. the French Foreign Legion
2. The first High Commissioner of Palestine appointed by
the British government in 1920 was:
A. Colonel T.E. Lawrence
B. General Allenby
C. Sir Herbert Samuel
D. Lord Balfour
3. The White Paper of 1922:
A. established Emir Feisal as King of Syria
B. Set up a series of emirates on the Arabian coast
C. Separated Tiansjordan from Palestine
D. helped elect Feisal King of Iraq
4. The first Labor Zionist group founded in New York in
1903 was called:
A. The Jewish Frontier
B. Poalei Zion
—
C. Jewish National Workers Alliance.
D. The Mizrachi-Bund
5. The founder of Hadassah in 1912 was:
A. Golda Meir
B. Henrietta Szold
C. Beba Idelson
D. Marie Syrkin
6. The American Council for Judaism led by Lessing Rose-
nwald was:
A. Fiercely pro-Zionist
B. moderately pro-Zionist
C. moderately anti-Zionist
D. Fiercely anti-Zionist
7. The "Jewish Legion" established in World War I was:
A. a. group of Jewish settlers in Palestine who guarded
the safety of Jewish colonies.
B. another name for the Zion Mule Corps that fought
under British command at Gallipoli in 1915.
C. separate Jewish units fighting in the Russian army.
D. Jewish units in the British army established in 1917
to fight in the Middle Eastern theater of war.
8. An important source of strength to Zionism in America
proved to be
A. the Reform congregations
B. the Orthodox congregations
C. the Jewish Theological Seminary
D. the non-religious Jews
9. Louis _D. Brandeis, later Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court, was converted to Zionism by:
A. leaders of the Reform movement
B. Orthodox Jewish leaders
C. Judge Felix Frankfurter
D. Herzl's friend Jacob de Haas
10. Article 4 of the League of Nations Mandate for Pales-
tine provided for:
A. the establishment of a Jewish state
B. the founding of the Jewish National Fund
C. the formation of the Jewish Agency to advise the ad-
ministration
D. the establishment of the Hagana.
ANSWERS
'L
G
'g !fl !D 'CD *Z
0 '01 t CI '6 'D 'CU
-