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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 Friday, May 9, 1980
'Belonging' Extolls Israel's Heroes, Builders
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"Belonging" (Holt, Rine-
hart and Winston) is James
McNeish's most recent
book. His others include
"Fire Under the Ashes,"
"The Glass Zoo" and "As for
the Godwits."
In "Belonging," the
author presents portraits of
individuals representing a
broad spectrum of Israeli
pioneers, including Albert
Winn of America, Amos Av-
riel of Canada, Ada Sereni
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of Israel.
Albert Winn, an Ameri-
can from Pennsylvania,
made Kibutz Arad, located
on a hill in the middle of a
desert on the Jordanian
border, his home. Many of
the other members of the
kibutz were likewise
Americans. However, his
closest kibutz friends were
members of a Christian
family.
At first, Albert, an
"oleh hadasz," a new im-
migrant, was regarded
by his colleagues as a for-
eigner who spoke He-
brew with an American
accent.
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growing date palms and
chrysanthemums. The lat-
ter the kibutz exports to
Holland.
But Albert, instead of
growing flowers, tends to
cows — he is one of Israel's
cowboys.
Impressive is Amos Av-
riel's account. A Canadian
Jew, he came to Israel in
1940 on the last boat prior to
Pearl Harbor. In Canada, he
says, "he hadn't done a
day's work." Asked once, at
age eight, by a saleslady,
"What do you want to be
when you are big?" He re-
plied, "I want to be a
worker." "God forbid," she
said.
In the kibutz, Amos
worked during the day
and stood guard at night.
Composed of 50 people,
the kibutz was sur-
rounded by 30,000 Arabs.
"Any minute," Amos
thought, they are going
to walk over us." Luckily,
the Arabs believed that
the kibutz was well-
armed and were scared
to attack. Actually, it had
neither weapons nor
money to purchase any.
To prevent a slaughter,
the kibutz leaders decided
to raid a British arsenal and
steal some of its arms. Un-
fortunately, the raiders, in-
cluding Amos, were caught
red-handed and sentenced
to long prison terms.
From prison Amos wrote
to his friends in Canada:
"Why me? I don't know
what I have done to deserve
this honor."
Dramatic is Ada Sereni's
account of her husband
Enzo's ardent devotion to
Eretz Yisrael and his tragic
death
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Both Ada and Enzo
came from assimilated
Jewish-Italian homes.
Enzo's family had lived in
Rome since the time of
Julius Caesar, and Ada's
settled there in 1492, soon
after the expulsion of the
Jews from Spain.
'To Israel they came in
1927. Enzo, 21 years old, a
socialist-pacifist, a doctor of
philosophy, and a man of
brilliant intellect and pro-
found sensitivity, "wanted
to be a pioneer, a Zionist in
Zion, and give his life to this
cause." In Israel he became
a worker in an orange grove
and a labor organizer.
During the 1936-1939
Arab riots, Golda Meir
wrote, Enzo would go alone
and unarmed about the
Arab villages at night, be-
cause he felt it was his duty
to try and calm the Arab
population. Ada disagreed,
"He wasn't unarmed, he just
would not take a gun. He
went with a whistle and a
stick."
In 1944, at age 39, against
the advice of Ben-Gurion
and others, Enzo flew to
Italy to organize a Jewish
resistance movement and
rescue Jews from the Nazi
murderers.
Tragically, instead of
dropping him from the
plane behind the German
lines as planned, Enzo
was parachuted directly
on top of the German
positions. He was caught,
sent to Dachau and exe-
cuted.
In his "Postscript,"
McNeish writes: "In 1954 a
memorial service for the
parachutists from Palestine
who died fulfilling their
mission, including Enzo Se-
reni, was held by the Sea of
Galilee. During the cere-
mony a small plane bring-
ing a. message from the
President crashed out of
control - among the spec-
tators. Among those killed
were Ada and Enzo's only
son Daniel and his wife."
Yoram Krivine, age 24,
recounts his Yom Kippur
War experiences both on the
Syrian- and Egyptian fronts,
and relates perceptively
and stirringly his friends'
and his mental and emo-
tional problems caused by
the incessant cannon and
the machine gun shelling.
He remembers, for instance,
"one soldier jumping off
onto the bridge trembling
with fear and saying, 'I don't
want to pass, I don't want to
pass the bridge.' He was
taken back."
Even after the war,
Yoram suffered from "de-
pressions, tensions,
stomach trouble." Most
freightening were the
nightmares: he would see
"soldiers -around him corn-
ing out from holes."
Nevertheless, Yoram as-
sures that the war had a
humanizing effect on him
and liberated him from his
feelings of inferiority and
inadequacy.
I hold that the char-
acteristic of the present age
is craving credulity.
—Benjamin Disraeli
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