30 Friday, November 3, 1918

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
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FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE

Joe Forbes

riHouse Demo-
cratic Majority
Floor Leader
'_One of Michi-
gan's "Ten best
Legislators," .. .
_Detroit News
!Vice President;
National Asso-
ciation of Jewish
Legislators.

FOR STATE SENATOR

Doug Ross

Former Director,
Common Cause
and the Michigan
Citizens Lobby.
[ Director of
statewide cam-
paign to revise
the Single Busi-
ness Tax.
EBoard Member,
American Jewish
Committee and
Anti-Defamation
League.

Democrat
JOE FORBES
State Representative

DOUG ROSS
Democrat
for State Senator

Paid for by:

Citizens to Re-elect Joe Forbes, 24541 Harding, Oak Park,
Michigan 48237 and Friends of Ross, 15565 Northland Dr.,
Southfield, Michigan 48075.

Isaac Bashevis Singer,
the first Yiddish writer to
win the Nobel Prize for Lit-
erature, thinks that the
Yiddish language has cer-
tain vitamins not found in
any other language. He
doesn't identify the vita-
mins, maybe they are vita-
min Gimmel or Daled, but
anyway, we think there is
something in what he says.
Sometimes we have won-
dered how it would be if
Yiddish were the American
language. Suppose the
President of the United
States spoke in Yiddish and
it was the language of Con-
gress. Would some Senator
say to another, "Hak nit
kein chynik?" We suspect
one effect of the change to
Yiddish would be shorter
speeches. I think Yiddish
comes to the point quicker.
The Libs would like it. Yid-
dish is Mammeh Loshen.
There is more circum-
locution in English and
sometimes English is pecul-
iar in other ways. For in-
stance, when you greet
someone in English, you
say, "How do you do?"
What kind of a question
is that? How do you do
what? and when you part
with someone, in English,
g." What
you say, "So lon
does that mean? Why not
as well. say, "So short or
so broad?"
Yiddish doesn't have this
nonsense.
Another advantage to a
change-off from English to
Yiddish would be a matter
of reading and spelling.
There is no problem of spel-
ling, in Yiddish. America
today is greatly concerned
over the large number of
people who have gone to
school but are unable to
read. They would have no
trouble with Yiddish, since
Yiddish is phonetic.
Anyway, we are glad Mr.
Singer has won the prize. It
reminds me of the time I
won a prize. It was in either
the second or third grade
grammar school. It was just
before Washington's Birth-
day and the prize I won was
for making the most words
of the letters of the name
George Washington. The
prize itself was a big_choco-
late bar which looked to me
then something like a Nobel
Prize.
Rock singer Roberta
Flack according to the
newspapers is as much ex-
cited about Israel as any
good Zionist. She played be-
fore standing-room-only
audiences in Israel and they
loved her, she says.
In Israel, she found no
race prejudice. "I didn't feel
black or white, just a per-
son."
She gave six concerts
but she took in the Israel
scene as well. She liked,
she says to stop in the
streets "just to rap with
the people."
Israel, she declares, is no
stranger to rock music. The
country is small but her per
capita record sales in Israel

were surpassed by few
others. She left Israel with
the feeling that it is a very
special land — "It's a
mind-blower."
In these days when there
seems to be so little time for
things, Herman Wouk .has
brought forth one of the
largest, if not the largest,
single novel in a generation.
It is over 1,200 pages. It is
mostly about the World War
II period. It is history fic-
tionalized.
We haven't read the
book, but one point in the
review we read makes us
feel we should like to read it.
He tells a good deal about
the atom bomb and its chief
maker, Dr. Oppenheimer.
The peculiar thing about
the atom bomb is that most
of the scientists who were
engaged in fashioning it in
their hearts hated to be
making it. They did it only
because of the fear that the
Nazis might beat them to it.
The end of the war might
have been terribly different
if Hitler had such a bomb.
Prof. Oppenheimer him-
self after the war, as will be
recalled, went over to Israel
and was associated with Dr.
Weizmann's great scientific
research institution in Re-
hovot.

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