Friday, August 27, BR 23
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Novelized Promised Land' Deals With Jewish Pioneering
Gloria Goldreich, already
having attained recognition
as a novelist with her book
on the era of the Holocaust,
reaches new heights with
"This Promised Land'?
(Berkley Books) in which
she deals with halutziut,
with the early years of
Jewish pioneering in Pales-
tine, with the struggles and
the characteristics of a cast
of characters that typifies
the generation that pre-
ceded Israel's statehood.
Personal involvement in
Israel, her Zionist back-
ground, life in Israel, pro-
vided her with a back-
ground that becomes evi-
dent in this interesting
novel.
A native of Brooklyn, Ms.
Goldreich was born of
Jewish' immigrant parents
from Russia. Upon her
graduation from Brandeis
University, Ms. Goldreich
went to Israel for three
years. While doing
graduate work in Jewish
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The great Torah commen-
tator Rashi supported him-
, self by cultivating a vine-
yard in his native France.
—M. Hirsh Goldberg
history at the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem, Ms.
Goldreich wrote critical es-
says and short stories which
appeared in Commentary,
.Hadassah, McCall's Ladies
Home Journal, Family Cir-
cle, Women's Day and Red-
book.
Ms. Goldreich is the
author of "Four Days"
and Leah's Journey,"
which won the National
Jewish Book Award for
Fiction in 1979.
The "Promised Land"
story is summarized as fol-
lows:
Lured by the prophet's
song and by fiery Zionist
tracts, Jewish families
came from the dark shtetls
and ghettoes of Europe to
claim a land where oranges
burned bright and where
men and women could walk
proud and free. -
Yehuda and Rivka Was-
serman are among these
pioneers, leaving behind
the oppression of Czarist
Russia to join the first wave
of Zionists in 1888. Settling
with their four children on a
desolate desert farm, they
changed their name to
Maimon, and after eight
years of crushing labor and
frustrations, they are re-
warded by an overflowing
abundance of rich harvests.
Soon the Maimons'
four children have come
of age, anxious to explore
the dazzling variety of
opportunities the new
land has to offer. Twins
Saul and David join a
kibutz and ride in the
"Shomar " a band of fear-
less armed kibutz protec-
tors.
Sara, the only daughter,
deeply embittered when her
husband is killed by
marauding Arabs, turns-
away from Israel's dream to
live with a new,husband in
Poland as gentiles. Mean-
while, Ezra, the youngest,
rejects the higher aims of
scholasticism for which,bis
father has destined him, to
become a leading Zionist
crusader,' fighting at Gal-
lipoli and representing
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JERUSALEM (JTA) —
The Likud coalition con-
tinues to maintain a large
lead over the opposition
Labor Alignment among Is-
raelis, according to the
,latest public opinion poll
published here last week.
The poll, conducted by .the
Dahaf Research Institute
for the monthly magazine
Monitin, showed that Likud
would get 61 seats in the
120-seat Knesset if elec-
tions were held now — the
same number as was shown
in a poll last month but up
from 51 last May. The Labor
Alignment would get 38
seats — compared to 39 in
July and 45 last May.
Jewish interests in New
York. City and in parleys
with Winston Churchill at
the Balfour accords.
As "This Promised Land"
sweeps to a close in 1922,
the reader learns of Eira's
dream for Israeli indepen-
dence.
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