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 in Mr own Driveway! Right 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 • passed from one producer • to another, but they refused to stage it as it was consid- ** • ered too "Jewish"—the pre- • Certified by the National • miere did not in fact take Automotive Institute of Excellence place until 1898. Publishers, comes. to your home or office with like producers, were chary • the'"garage-on- wheels.' of handling the play, and Valet service that doesn't Herzl was in the end con- • cost one penny extra: • strained to publish it him- ■ Expert diagnostic tune-up • • • self. Many years elapsed be- ■ Electronic analyzer — all engine systems fore any publisher evinced ■ Professionally trained • willingness to deal with it. mechanics • When the manuscript of • ■ Perfect results assured • Herzl's brochure, "The Jew- • Expanded Services • ish State," was finished he Call Sanford Rosenberg • • was unable . to find a pub- • for your car problems • lisher.. 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Even VERTICAL BLINDS LAMINATED SHADES Cronbach, a Jewish pub- SLIM LINE BLINDS WOVEN WOODS lisher of Berlin, rejected DRAPES w/matching WALLPA1 1-BED SPREADS the manuscript after perus- al, as did the firm of Dun- ker and Humbolt. off Herzl was already plan- ning to publish "The Jewish Free Estimates Free Estimates 559-8209 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- FULL TIME cles. In 1876 he founded the PROTECTION FROM academic weekly "Alma Mater" and together with • Burglary the popular lawyer Dr. • Vandalism Pisko, edited "The Juridic- • Fire al Journal." Soon after- • Personal Attack wards, he took up the busi- MARV CHECK MARV ROSEN ness of publishing and be- came editor of "The Law At A Price You Can Afford Court." He also took a lively inter- Automatically Notifies NO IFONE est in the foundation of the within seconds Police Dept. & Fire Dept. Central Office New Vienna Conservatory of which he was vice-presi- 'Hidden Wire Installation dent, an office he held until You Won't Know his death. His publications We've Been There had a good public in Vienna: his books and col- emergency reporting system with 24 hr. protection lections ("Commers Book," AMERICAN PROTECTIVE "Speeches of the Austrian 838 Parliament," "Some Basic ALARM INC. Objections," etc.) met with THE JUN -UP MAN MOVING? HOUSEHOLD SALES IN ° YOUR HOME 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. ESTATES LIQUIDATED 25% to % HURTIG WINDOW INTERIORS _7008 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. • • 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.