16 Friday, August 12, 1977THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israeli Receives Literary Prize
NEW YORK (JTA)—Aha-
ron Appelfeld, renowned
Hebrew short story writer
and novelist, has been se-
lected as the 1977 recipient
of the Irving and Bertha
Neuman Literary Prize
awarded annually by New
York University's Institute
of Hebrew Culture and Edu-
cation. John C. Sawhill,
NYU president, will make
the presentation at a recep-
tion in Appelfeld's honor
Monday at the Hebrew Uni-
versity's Givat Ram
campus in Jerusalem.
The prize, which consists
of a citation and a cash
award of $1,000, was estab-
lished in 1962 by Neuman, a
New York realtor, and his
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wife, Bertha, to be given
each year to an outstanding
Hebrew author in recogni-
tion of his or her contribu-
tion to Hebrew letters.
Since 1959, Appelfeld's
work has appeared in many
leading Hebrew journals.
His first collection of short
stories, "Smoke," was pub-
lished in 1962; "In the Fer-
tile Valley," 1964; "Frost
on the Ground," 1965;
"Steps of the River," 1971;
and "Skin and Gown," 1971.
An English translation of
some of his short stories, en-
titled "In the Wilderness,"
appeared in 1963. The domi-
nant theme of these writ-
ings is the impact of the
Holocaust on its victims.
Appelfeld has already
earned a number of literary
prizes, including the Bren-
ner, the USsishkin, the
Anne Frank awarded by the
government of The Nether-
lands, the Tel Aviv and the
Prime Minister's Awards.
Publisher of Herzl's 'Jewish State' Remained
an Anti-Zionist Despite Success of the Book
JOSEF FRAENKEL
By JOSEF FRAENKEL
The Jewish News Special
London Correspondent
LONDON—Before writing
"The Jewish State," Theod-
or Herzl had in 1894, writ-
ten a four-act drama, en-
titled "The New Ghetto." It
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passed from one producer
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to another, but they refused
to stage it as it was consid-
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only the author but the pub-
lisher too as "crazy." Even
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Herzl was already plan-
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State" himself, though he
felt embarrassed by the
thought that he might be re-
garded as a "business-
man," should the brochure
"sell." By coincidence, in
January 1896, he met Dr.
Max Breitenstein (1855-
1926) whom he had known
for a long time.
Dr. Breitenstein belonged
to a family highly respect-
ed in Iglau and had studied
law at the University of
Tuebingen. After com-
pleting his course he settled
in Vienna where he soon
made a name for himself in
juridical and literary cir-
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Mater" and together with
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came editor of "The Law
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He also took a lively inter-
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his death. His publications
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had a good public in
Vienna: his books and col-
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favorable criticism and a
ready acceptance at the
hands of readers.
His firm became one of
the best known in the for-
mer Austro-Hungarian mon-
archy. In the Ninth Dis-
trict, Waehringerstrasse 7/
9, he had set up his pub-
lishing house and bookshop,
and in time he published
about 200 books under the
heading Works of the Liter-
ary Society. Books by
Ebner-Eschenbach, Wild-
brandt, Schnitzler, etc.
were among those pub-
lished by him. He also is-
sued "Der Taufjude" by
Wittels, "Modern Judaism"
by Goldschmidt, "Religious
Trends," by Gelbhaus,
"Rohling contra Bloch" and
other interesting brochures
and books.
On Jan. 19, 1896, Herzl
read some passages from
"The Jewish State" to him.
The idealistic lawyer. who
also had good publishing in-
stinct and regarded the
whole thing as a kind of
Jewish "Robinson Crusoe,"
was so enthusiastic that he
immediately entered into a
contract with the author.
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After reading it, he stated
that he would probably not
have written "The Jewish
State" had he read Pin-
sker's "Auto-Emancipa-
tion" earlier.
On Feb. 14, 1896, the print-
ers delivered 3,000 copies of
`The Jewish State" to the
publishing firm of Breitens-
tein. "Hectic days, full of
palpitation
and
breath-
lessness,"
was
Herzl's
entry in his diary on that
day.
Dr. Breitenstein left 500
copies of "The Jewish
State" to Herzl. When the
bale containing these books
was brought into his room,
he felt "deeply shaken." He
realized that his life had
now taken a decisive turn..
The die had been cast for
him and for the Jewish
people.
Dr.
Breitenstein
dis-
played 20-25 copies in the
window of his bookshop,
and many university stu-
dents who passed stopped
to stare at the words "Jew-
ish State." Some joked and
passed on, others grew in-
terested and bought the
book.
Dr.
Breitenstein
had
never been a Zionist, in-
fluenced as he was by his
brother-in-law, Dr. Oppen-
heim, an anti-Zionist.
Immediately after the ap-
pearance of "The Jewish
State," a vehement cam-
paign was started against
Breitenstein and his firm.
The leaders of the Union of
Austrian Jews and of the
Vienna Jewish community
flung bitter reproaches at
"poor" Breitenstein and
even forced the intimidated
publisher to issue the first
counter-brochure Against, Zi-
onism.
Barely two months after
the appearance of "The
Jewish State," on April 1
1896, the anti-Zionist pampL
let "National Judaism" was
published by Chief Rabbi
Dr. Guedemann Who was
first a supporter and sub-
sequently an opponent of
Herzl. It was expected that
every Jew who bought
"The Jewish State" would
at the same time take the
"antidote," the pamphlet
"National Judaism."
Shortly before Dr. Brei-
tenstein's death, his ar-
chives were searched on
the occasion of the 30th an-
niversary of its publication
of the manuscript of "The
Jewish State." Dr. Breitens-
tein, however, who had
kept the manuscripts of all
the books he had ever pub-
lished, was unable to find
Herzl's. In fact this manu-
script with Herzl's hand-
written corrections, has not
been found to this day. I,
too, have often tried my
luck, but in vain.
To the end of his life, Dr.
Breitenstein remained an
anti-Zionist and the Holli-
nek brothers anti-Semites.
Volume of Foreign Investment
in Israel Reported Increasing
THEODOR HERZL
Herzl was really glad to
have at last found a pub-
lisher, and felt greatly re-
lieved after signing the con-
tract. He did not expect re-
sounding success and
planned to continue ibis liter-
ary work and in particular
to rewrite "The New
Ghetto."
To none of his previous
work had he devoted so
much care and attention.
He insisted on seeing all
the proofs, corrected them
himself and sent them to
the Chief Rabbi of Vienna.
Dr. M. Guedemann, or
showed them to Eduard
Bacher of the "Neue Freie
Presse," and invited their
comments. On Feb. 1, the
proofs of the brochure were
ready. Herzl - went over
them once again, super-
vised the corrections and
the printing at the works of
the brothers Hollinek.
These people were anti-
Semites, supporters of Karl
Lueger of the Christian So-
cialists. Herzl talked with
the Hollineks about the Jew-
ish question and they de-
clared that it was "high
time - that a Jew wrote a
book of this kind.
While "The Jewish State"
was being printed. Herzl re-
ceived from Dr. J. Bloch,
the editor of a Jewish week-
ly in Vienna, the brochure
"Auto-Emancipation."
NEW , YORK—According
to figures released by the
Government of Israel In-
vestment Authority, the vol-
ume of foreign investment
in Israel increased dramati-
cally during the first half of
1977.
Foreign investments in
the form of equity, during
January to June, 1977 total-
ed $113,265,000, a seven-fold
jump over the same period
in 1976 when they totaled
$17,110,000. (The 1976 fig-
ure, however, was unusu-
ally low because in-
vestments were delayed
pending passage of the new
investment law in August,
1976. )
It was noted that the total
size of the investments ac-
tually amounted to a much
higher figure than was re-
ported, because the Israel
government regularly sup-
lies between 50-70 percent
financing for most ndustri-
industri-
al. investments and the
al
above-mentioned figures
are equity only.
The majority of new in-
vestments — close to 80 per-
cent — have been made by
American companies.
These have been for the
most part medium-sized
firms, ranging in size from
$10 to $300 million. Almost
all of the new investments
and expansions are geared
to reach export markets, no-
tably the European Com-
mon Market, which opened
its doors to Israeli goods
duty-free last month, and
the United States, with
whom Israel also enjoys a
duty-free agreement.
U.S.
companies have
been attracted by several
factors, including:
• A series of financial in-
centives and tax con-
.
cessions which were in-
stituted during the past
year, as a result of the new
Law for the Encour-
agement of Capital In-
vestments and the sub-
sequently passed Ronnel
Amendment.
• The free trade agree-
ment with the Common
Market, which became ef-
fective July 1, 1977, opening
up a duty-free marcet of
270 million consumers to
U.S. firms.
• The duty-free agree-
ment with the U.S. which
allows over 2700 Israel-
made product categories
duty-free access to the
United States.
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• The outstanding success
of other U.S. companies
with investments in Israel,
many of them in the high
technology fields, including
Miles Laboratories, Moto-
rola, Control Data and Gen-
eral Telephone and El
tronics.
Investments may be boost-
ed by a major Israel exposi-
tion of the high-technology
industries, called IsraTech
78, to be held June 4-8. 1978
in Jerusalem. IsraTech will
feature all of the major Is-
raeli companies currently
operating in the metal-
working and electronic
fields.
For information about in-
vesting in Israel, or about
IsraTech 78, write the Gov-
ernment of Israel In-.
vestment Authority, 641 Le-
xin on Ave., New York,
N.Y10022.
Roberto Burle-Marx. Bra-
zilian Jewish landscape ar-
chitect, designed six patios
for the UNESCO building in
Paris.