20 Friday, December 16, 1977 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

`Peoples of Israel' Book Describes Israel Melting Pot

Israel is in the limelight,
therefore the Israelis are
the subjects of unique inter-
est and concern by all man-
kind.
They are a unique people
because they truly form the
Melting Pot of World Jewry.
When Nicolai Canetti
gathered the photographs
and Carl U. Quinn wrote the
commentary for the book
"The Peoples of Israel"
(Bobbs-Merrill Co.), they
pluralized the title to em-
phasize they were dealing
with the many peoples of
Israel.
This is the fact that
emerges from this magnifi-
cent collaboration, illustra-
tively and with text, about

those who emerged as a
united nation from among
the ingathered from all na-
tions of the world. Canetti
has won recognition for his
-photographic skills in the
United States, in European
and African countries and
his labors in Israel have
gained him special dis-
tinction.
Carl Underhill Quinn, a
Roman Catholic parish
priest in New York, is a
linguist, translator and a
student of Judaica. He serv-
es on the advisory council of
the United Nations Associ-
ation. His thorough study of
Jewish history, so movingly
related in the text to this
book, is one of the most

impressive works by a non-
Jew on the history of the
Jews.
The photos not only sup-
plement the text : they give
credence to this volume's
immense undertaking of
covering pictorially, with
the explanatory essay, the
entire gamut of Jewish ex-
perience. The story really
begins with Abraham, be-
cause of the earnestness
with which the compilers
trace the ancient in order to
link it with the present.
Therefore, the story gains
completeness because in the
portrayal there are Jews
from all lands, from China
and from all the Moslem
countries, from the Amen-

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can and European conti-
nents.
Here are shown Jews at
home, in prayer, at work.
Jews are shown under
Christian as well as Islamic
rule, and in Israel they are
unified into a community
that is shown here in all its
wholesomeness, without dis-
regarding the less affluent
who struggle to attain their
roles in Israel society and
who are irretrievably part
of the society so well deli-
neated here as the peoples
of Israel.
They are the Orthodox
and the secularists, Sephar-
dim and Ashkenazim, new
settlers and sabras, and old
timers who trace their right
to the land from time imme-
morial.
Yemenites and the Bene
Israel of India, Russian set-
tlers and those with the nu-
merals indicating they are
survivors from Nazism —
these are the peoples who
form a nation.
Because the melting pot is
so fascinating it is deeply
moving to read a Catholic
priest's story of the Jew as
he depicts it in the textual
presentation by Carl Quinn.
Here is an excerpt that
gives proof of the thorough-
ness of the research he had
done for this remarkable
essay:
' "By the 1970's the popu-

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trend towards lighter foods
and beverages that are less
rich and only mildly sweet
has resulted in the in-
troduction of a new line of
kosher wines, Manischewitz
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pink, a red and a white.
The family management
of the Manischewitz Wine
Co.,who founded it 40 years
ago and still owns and oper-
ates it in Brooklyn, N.Y.,
decided to produce a wine
that was light, cool, crisp,
but still was made accord-
ing to the highest standards
of kashrut for the approval
and enjoyment of Orthodox
Jews.
Like all Manischewitz
wines, Manischewitz Light
Concordia Wines are pro-
duced under strict super-
vision by the winery's two
rabbis, Joseph I. Singer and
Solomon B. Shapiro and
their mashgikhim.
From the crushing of the
grapes and the boiling of
their juices (yayin mevu-
shal) which guarantees the
bottle may be opened with-
out violating the kashrut of
the contents to the final
bottling, every stage is su-
pervised by these rabbis. •
They issue certificates of
kashrut, declaring the wines
kosher for Passover and all
year round.

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lation of Israel included
some 2,800,000 Jews, 360,000
Moslems, 80,000 Christians
(of various backgrounds),
38,000 Druzes and other mi-
norities. The national lan-
guages are Hebrew (a sim-
plified and modernized
version of the classical lan-
guage) and Arabic. But
Yiddish and Ladino are
widely spoken and under-
stood, as well as English,
German, Russian and other
languages spoken by the
various ethnic grdups that
have enriched the country's
population."
* * *
"Our visits with the
people will, for obvious rea-
sons, begin with the Jewish
communities. By liturgical
tradition there has been a
division since the Middle
Ages between Sephardim
and Ashkenazim, a division
which is manifested reli-
giously to the extent that
there are two Grand Rab-
bis, one from each tradition.
Roughly half the Jewish
population belongs to the
Sephardic group and it is
with them that we start our
visit."
* * *
"Since even before the
Romans destroyed the Sec-
ond Temple in Jerusalem,
Jews had been emigrating
beyond the meager borders
of the land of Palestine,
beyond the land of Abra-

ham, which had already for
centuries been in the hands
of non-Jewish conquerors.
In the major cities of the
then known Western world
there were Jewish colonies.
In the great metropolis of
Alexandria (a Greek-speak-
ing city in Ptolemaic Egypt,
where the Greek mainland
(Salonika, Corinth), in Asia
Minor, and in many other
areas of what was to be-
come the Roman Empire,
there were settlements of
Jews.
"One of the earliest histo-
rians of Judaism, Josephus
Flavius, a Pharisee, and a'
controversial figure among
the patriots, remains the
greatest recorder of Jewish
history in the early years of
the Common Era. He had
won Roman citizenship,
while approximately at the
same time a Jewish philoso-
pher, Philo of Alexandria, a
scion of a prominent Egyp-
tian family, achieved fame
as one of the chief inter-
preters of the Greek philos-
ophers Plato and Pyth-
agoras, attempting to
reconcile their thought with
that of the Judaism of the
time. The Diaspora had al-
ready become a reality."
These historical analyses
are multiplied in this article
era by era, area by area,
adding immensely to . the
value of a very noteworthy
book.—P.S.

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