32' fridiy March 26,1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Christian Club
Claim Debated
Freeman's No Time for Tears'
Disappointing to Diehard Fans
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Cynthia Freeman has let
me down. A diehard
Freeman fan, I couldn't wait
for "No Time for Tears" (Ar-
bor House) after having en-
joyed "Portraits", "Come
Pour the Wine" and espe-
cially "Days of Winter."
Yet, "No Time for Tears"
was a disappointment.
Perhaps it was the inclusion
of so many historical inci-
dents (real and others
created for the story) that
crowded the story, dragged
it on. Whatever it was, it
was not prime Freeman.
The story revolves around
the Rabinsky - Landau fam-
ily, principally Chavala
Rabinsky Landau. We are
introduced to the pogrom-
era Rabinskys who flee
their native Russia for pre-
state Israel.
As the story unfolds,
we are reacquainted with
all the misfortunes our
co-religiohists suffered
under the Turks, the
Mufti, the British and fi-
nally, when statehood is
declared, at the hands of
the Arabs.
The plot follows two
courses: half of the charac-
ters are devout Zionists who
will sacrifice all for a Jewish
homeland, while the other
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half, not forgetting their
roots, are not so inclined
and even go to the point to
hide their Jewish identities.
For example, Chavala
Rabinsky Landau, the
heroine, so to speak, is ad-
mirable for her pluck and
her ambition, and ulti-
mately for her unending
support of the Jewish home-
land. However, she is not
that dedicated, and at the
risk of her marriage, she
goes to America eventually
becoming a leading New
York jeweler — a far cry
from Chavala Rabinsky of
the shtetl who scrubbed,
cleaned and cooked for her
motherless family.
Chavala's husband,
Dovid Landau, is to be ad-
mired for his dedication to
the Jewish cause. A sus-
vivor of a particularly
brutal pogrom, Landau fol-
lows his Zionist ideal to
pre-state Israel, where he
becomes a leading force in
fighting for Israel's inde-
pendence.
However, he and
Chavala are two
strong-willed persons —
he can't leave Israel and
she can't leave America
— and so somehow, their
marriage survives a dis-
tance of thousands of
miles.
Chavala's sister Sheine
becomes a "hider," chang-
ing her name to the non-
denominational "Elsa
Beck." To attend a nursing
school in pre-World War II
Germany, she creates a fake
ancestry to hide her Jewish
2rigins. She further marries
a German who knows her
true identity, but the couple
keep the secret from her
husband's very anti-Jewish
family.
Sheine and her husband
have a son, Erich Hausman,
whose story takes an odd
twist. Eventually, Sheine's
true identity is discovered
and she and her son are sent
to the death camps, where
she dies.- The husband, so
distraught, takes his life.
Meanwhile, Erich becomes
a nameless refugee on a
ship, campained by, lo and
behold, his cousin Joshua
Landau, Chavala's son.
When Erich is acquainted
with his Jewish relatives he
swears off his German
background to become as
Yehudah Rabinsky, a free-
dom fighter for Israel.
Perhaps in trying to make
the story credible, Mrs.
Freeman got bogged down
in detail. Too bad. The
characters are believable
and the story has pos-
sibilities, but the devotion
to detail just drags the story
on.
To diehard Cynthia
Freeman fans, be
forewarned. To all others,
make sure you have a lot of
time.
CHICAGO (JTA) — An
assertion by the director of
the Israel Aliya Center in
North America that a Rus-
sian Christian club in
Chicago, operated by a mis-
sionary church, had more
than tripled its Russian
Jewish membership during
the past year has been chal-
lenged by the Jewish Fed-
eration of Metropolitan
Chicago.
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Ban Is Disputec '
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
Some 53.4 percent of Is-
raelis responding to a recent
poll did not agree with the
prohibition against Jewish
prayer on the Temple
Mount. Some 29.7 percent
agreed with the ban and
16.9 percent offered no opin-
ion.
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