30 Friday, November 3, 1918 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS I.B. Singer Discovers Choose the very best! • • of Yiddish Vitamtns By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.) lirlltl 7 - Wu-Jeri111 II iii111[055111111 1711.1:1 •-' 17, ULAJIJ . --- - 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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