24 Friday, August 22, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
`Marranos' Depicts Tragic Era for Jews
Bar-Ilan Prof. Kanovsky, Israel
Economic Expert, Speaks Sept. 4-
Prof. Eliahu Kanovsky,
noted Israeli economic ex-
pert and member ,of the
Bar-Ilan University fa-
culty, will outline current
problems confronting Israel
at a parlor meeting 8 p.m.
Sept. 4 at the Southfield
home of Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Schlussel.
Emery Klein and Robert
Naftaly, co-chairmen of the
annual Bar-Ilan dinner, to
be held at Cong. Shaarey
Zedek Sept. 23, announced
History and drama are
closely allied in the express-
ive novel The Marranos,"
by Liliane Webb (Andrews
and McMeel) which por-
trays one of the most tragic
events in Jewish history,
the Spanish Inquisition.
It was during this period,
that an underground resis-
tance group of Jews evolved
in Spain, comprised of de-_
scendants of Jews forcibly
converted to Christianity.
These Jews were contemp-
tuously called `Marranos'
(swine) by their fellow coun-
trymen. Fear was a way of
life for the Marranos, yet
they conspired to put an end
to the Inquisition and bring
religious liberty back to
that the meeting of the
planning committee at the
home of the Schlussels will
also hear reports on the pro-
gress being made to enroll
an increased number of
people in support of schol-
arships at Bar-Ilan, as
means of providing educa-
tional needs vital to Israeli
students.
Prof. Kanovsky is a na-
tive of Winnipeg, Man-
itoba, Canada. In addi-
tion to his Bar-Ban posi-
PROF. KANOVSKY
FORESTS
that bear your name
tion he is a senior re-
searcher at Tel Aviv Uni-
versity's Shiloah Center
for Middle Eastern
Studies.
Prof.
Since • 1972,
Kanovsky has specialized
on -the economic implica-
tions of peace in the Middle
Eak,. He has written
numerous articles on
Mideast economics and his
four books cover the eco-
nomic development of the
Israeli kibutz, Jordan and
Syria, and The Economic
Impact of the Six-Day War:
Israel, the Occupied Ter-
ritories, Egypt, Jordan."
Russian Jews
Focus of New
Heirlooms' Tale
Three generations of a
Russian-Jewish family un-
fold before the reader's eyes
in "Heirlooms," a novel by
Carole Morgan (Macmil-
lan).
Eager with the newness
of her adventure, Nehuma
leaves the Ukraine in her
youth and, while aboard the
ship, agrees to marry a
handsome fellow immig-
rant. Once settled in New
York's Lower East Side, she
discovers that it is really
Morris, her husband's
brother, whom she loves.
It is at this point that the
story begins in earnest. She
leaves her husband, taking
with her their two daugh-
ters and begins a new life
with Morris. She and Morris
have another daughter,
Liebe, around whose life the
story continues to revolve.
The novel _concludes with
the birth of Liebe's daugh-
ter.
Long after you have gone, forests in Israel
renewing themselves in the cycle of sea-
sons, will keep your memory ever green.
When making your Will, provide that a
forest in Israel be planted, in your name or
in that of someone dear to you, handing
down your last wish from generation to
generation.
There seem to be but
three ways for a nation to
acquire wealth: the first is
by war, as the Romans did,
in plundering their con-
quered neighbors — this is
robbery; the second by
commerce, which is gener-
ally cheating; and the third
A bequest to the J.N.F. is a bequest to the
by agriculture, the only
entire Jewish people, linking the name
honest way, wherein man
of the Testator with Israel in perpetuity.
receives a real increase of
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Depicts Shtetl
Life in Europe
"The Last Jews of
Raduti," a 25-page photo-
graphic study by Laurence
Salzmann and Dan Rotten-
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(July) issue of GEO Maga-
zine.
The essay depicts both the
beauty and the squalor of
present-day Jewish life in
the Romanian shtetl of
Raduti, a village in the Car-
pathian Mountains near the
Soviet border.
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buried.
While Isabel's mind be-
longs to this dedicated
group of people struggling
for survival, her heart be-
longs to a Dominican friar,
Rafael Cortes, who has
dedicated his life to becom-
ing the Grand Inquisitor of
Spain.
Author Liliane Webb was
born and raised in Ger
many. Her first marriage, t
a Spanish Jew, awakened
her interest in the history of
this unique group of people.
Her research for the novel
included a five-month stay
with a Jewish family in
Tangier, Spain.
Spain.
It is in this world that the
novel's heroine, Isabel Val-
derocas, the descendant of a
wealthy old Christian fam-
ily with impeccable creden-
tials, discovers that she is in
fact, of Jewish descent and if
she is exposed, she will be
burned at the stake.
Isabel's -struggle to aid
in the plight of her fellow
Marranos plunges her
into the midst of court in-
trigues where she be-
comes a secret agent for
the Count Duke Olivares
and into the secret tun-
nels of Toledo where her
Jewish heritage is
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