211 Friday, April 28, 1918
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Boris Smolar's
Meyer Levin's Widely Acclaimed
Films Revived for Israel's 30th; `Between You
. . . and Me'
'Harvest' Supplements 'Settlers'
One of the most widely
acclaimed films dealing
with the settlement in
Palestine of survivors from
Nazism in defiance- of
British restrictions, is being
revived for showings during
Israel's 30th anniversary
year.
Meyer Levin's "The Illeg-
als," which was shown for
nearly two decades in many
lands, has been revised
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raid," which was the name
of one of the dilapidated
vessels on which the dis-
placed persons traveled to
Palestine.
Other Meyer Levin-
authored and directed films,
including "The Falashas,"
also will be revived for 30th
Israel anniversary_ year
showings, the noted author
said during his visit here
last week for two public ad-
dresses.
In his speeches here,
Levin, whose newest
novel, "The Harvest"
(Simon and Schuster),
has made the best seller
lists in many com-
munities, warned that the
anti-Israel sentiments in
evidence in this country
are mainly the result of
Communist and pro-
Communist elements. He
charged that even in the
literary field these ele-
ments antagonistic to Is-
rael have -invaded the
book publishing field,
with evidences of it
shown by prejudiced
book reviewers.
Levin's "The Harvest"
completes the historical re-
cord of Israel's rebirth
OlDfA I-10L6r
6aLtirday 0 cSunclay April 29-50 llam-5 pm
which commenced with
"The Settlers," the first in
the two-volume series.
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)
REPORT TO CONGRESS: There are close to 800 or-
ganized Jewish communities in the United States. They
raise over $480 million annually from one million con-
tributors who constitute only about one-half of all Jewish
families in the country. A statement to this effect was
submitted by the Council ofJewish Federations this month
"The Settlers" blended to a Congressional committee studying the impact of pri-
the chronicles of the vate giving for charitable and cultural purposes. The
Chaimovich family with statement pointed out that related Jewish agencies raised
the early history of an additional $140 million annually in the communities.
Zionism, foreshadowed This makes a total of $620 million.
in the emancipation of
The vast network ofJewish humanitarian services made
Palestine from Turkish possible by these contributions includes 61 hospitals and
rule, in the issuance of clinics; 88 institutions and agencies for care ofJewish aged;
the Balfour Declaration 101 agencies providing family and child welfare; 250 youth
and the establishment of and community centers; 260 centers for college youth on
a dynamic Jewish com- campuses, and a variety of other forms of assistance. A
munity in the ancient minimum estimate of persons individually served annually
homeland.
is more than 1,200.000. Many are served without regard to
race or creed, particularly in Jewish hospitals.
"The Harvest" covers
Expenditures for these services total over $2 billion an-
an even more massive
immigration, a period of nually. The difference between the funds provided by the
persecution and Jewish communities and the total expenditures is covered
Holocaust, a testing time in hospitals by federal and state aid and partially by pay-
for the Jews, not only of ments from patients. In the field of Jewish education —
Palestine but of the Dias- which the communities subsidize to the extent of about $20
pora. The blend of this million a year — the difference is covered by tuition and by
dynastic novel with ac- income from other sources.
THE SMALL COMMUNITIES: Nearly every Jewish
tual history gives it a
sense of authenticity. family in the small Jewish communities away from major
Many of the characters in metropolitan areas is a contributor to the UJA. When a
the background and oc- UJA representative arrives for a few hours in town, all
casionally in the center of Jews close their stores and offices during lunch hour. They
the action are recogniza- interrupt their business to attend the luncheon arranged
ble as major or minor fig- for the UJA man to hear his report and to present him with
ures in the struggle, from checks. The UJA representative then proceeds on the same
Ben-Gurion to the Mufti day in his auto to the next small community where the
of Jerusalem who would same scene is repeated the same evening at a gathering in
become a supporter of the home of one of the leaders of the tiny community. The
main problem for Jews in the very small communities is
Hitler.
securing Jewish education for their children. Another prob-
The actual issues of eco- lem is taking care of the needs of their elderly, providing
nomics, defense and 1 immi- them with opportunities for socializing, sightseeing, rec-
gration, the varied politics reation, entertainment and information. The main purpose
are integratla into the is usually to enable them to maintain themselves and pre-
700-page novel-
vent — or postpone — their institutionalizing.
In a city like Fort Worth, Texas, with a population of
Levin is able to keep the
novel moving despite the 750,000,. the Jewish community numbers about 3,000
"souls,"
of whom there are 240 "identified" senior citizens,
occasional need to explain
and provide background, 65 years of age or older. Some elderly Jews go from Fort
able to sketch his small Worth to live in the regional Home for the Aged in Dallas
army of characters, to evoke because of their loneliness or of their need for institutional
the mood and setting of the living. The situation is similar in other small communities.
Many of the elderly Jews there were born in Eastern
period between 1927 when
Mati leaves for Chicago and Europe and immigrated to this country decades ago—some
as
youngsters with their parents. They adjusted them-
1948 when the state of Is-
rael is proclaimed, to bring selves to living in the non-Jewish atmosphere and feel well
alive both the triumphs and integrated. The younger, American-born Jews consider
themselves part and parcel of the entire local population
tragedies of the period.
and are so considered also by the non-Jews in the locality.
Together with "The
Settlers," "The Harvest" is
planned for an eventual ap-
pearance as a packaged
paperback set.
Kurt Waldheim Is Asked for UN
Recognition of Jewish Refugees
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NEW YORK — The es-
tablishment of a special
United Nations unit for the
purpose of promoting
"Palestinian Rights" consti-
tutes a "deliberate refusal
to recognize the equal rights
of the 850,000 Jews who
were driven from the coun-
tries of the Arab world," Dr.
Heckel Haddad, spokesman
for the World Organization
of Jews From Arab Coun-
tries (WOJAC), has de-
clared.
Dr Haddad, in a letter to
Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim, urged that "the
question ofJewish refugees
from Arab lands be placed
on the agenda in any discus-
sion at the UN dealing with
Palestinians and refugees."
The letter from the
WOJAC spokesman re-
minded Secretary Wal-
dheim that Security Coun-
cil Resolution 242 called for
a "just resolution of the ref-
ugee problem" and that this
phraseology implied recog-
nition of all the refugees in
the Middle East. It pointed
out that "the refugee prob-
lem" necessarily included
Jews, driven or forcdd to flee
from Arab countries during
the Middle East conflicts,
whose "humanitarian and
legal rights (are) no less
deserving of world attention
than those of the Palesti-
nian Arabs."
The WOJAC communi-
cation also emphasized
the great antiquity of
the Jewish communities,
"as old as 2,500 years,"
which were uprooted and
destroyed when the Jews
fled for their lives in the
decade following the es-
tablishment of Israel.
"During that long his-
tory," it stated, the Jews
"contributed greatly to the
development of the coun-
tries of their birth." They
also "developed deep eco-
nomic, cultural and
spiritual ties tolhose coun-
tries."
These ties were sundered
when Jews 'were expelled
or forced to flee," WOJAC
stated, adding that "billions
of dollars in assets were con-
fiscated." Many Jewish ref-
ugees from Arab countries
"still suffer economic priva-
tion," it declared.
The letter concluded with
a plea for world attention
and discussion of the rights
for the Jewish refugees.