30 Friday, September 9, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JES Publishes in English a Leading Israeli Author
PHILADELPHIA — The
Other Side of the Wall," a
new Jewish Publication
Society offering, introduces
the English-reading public
to the unique voice and
vision of Nathan Shaham,
—time---tam
one of Israel's most promi-
nent writers. Author of 26
books in Hebrew, including
10 novels, Shaham has also
served as cultural attache to
the United States.
He has been hailed as an
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authentic portrayer of the
conflicts and ideals that
abide in the depth of the Is-
raeli soul. "The Other Side
of the Wall" is the fiist of
Shaham's book-length fic-
tion to appear in English
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kibutz woman who has be-
translation.
The three stories in the come the erotic guardian
volume form a compelling over her married neighbor's
picture of Israeli society as clandestine love life. • The
seen through the lives and experiences of daily sharing
spirit of kibutz pioneers. In and the high-minded
the opening story, "S/S idealism of the- kibutz., set
Cairo City," a delegate to a against the private weak-
1939 Geneva Zionist con- nesses of people striving to
vention writes a series of . create utopia out of a grudg-
letters to a lover, another , ing earth, leading inexora-
delegate, who has returned bly to downfall under the.
to Poland. crushing weight of public
virtue.
•
As the shadows of the
The
last
novella,
"The
impending disaster are
of the Earth," is about
cast across Europe, the Salt
delegates, still refusing to an old kibutznik's first trip
accept the full implica- to America. In what seems
tions • of the Holocaust, like an ironic variation of
are nevertheless grateful the first story, the old Man
to board a Palestine- is stunned by — and even-
bound ship. On the ship, tually succumbs to — the
the skepticism and fears life he finds in the great
of ideologues, suddenly metropolis, a life hostile to
turned into ordinary vic- every vision of social life for
which he has striven back
tims, is exposed.
home.
Shaham's writing is his-
The central, title novella
probes deeply into the torically resonant and so-
cially - perceptive, while
psyche of a bookish young
Akiva Teachers Picket School
Teachers were scheduled gan Employment Relations.
By ALAN HITSKY
Akiva Hebrew Day to report to Akiva 'Sept. 6 Commission.
Akiva filed for Chapter
School teachers began and the school has sent the
walking a picket line striking teachers letters, XI federal bankruptcy pro-
morning, threatening to hire perma- tection last year. Chapter -
Thursday
threatening the resumption nent replacements if the XI was lifted last spring.
teachers do not report.
of classes Sept. 12.
The teachers have filed Susan Marwil, president
SZ, Teachers
an unfair labor practice of the Akiva teachers union,
in Negotiations
charge against Akiva, said the organization has
Religious school teachers
claiming the school's filed the unfair labor prac-
at
Cong. Shaarey Zedek are
negotiators have estab- tice charge claiming the
currently negotiating a new
lished pre-conditions to the school's negotiators refuse contract with the school.
negotiations. to discuss any issues unless
Akiva has asked the the seniority and assign- Last Friday, Shaarey
teachers to alter seniority ment clauses are approved. Zedek educational director
and teacher assignment A spokesman for the Marvin Kasoff said negotia
clauses in the present con- union, which is affiliated tions are "on-going" and
tract. Steven Cohen, an at- with the Michigan Federa- "we have every expectation
torney representing Akiva tion of Teachers, said it may that they will be suc- •
in the negotiations, said be 3-6 weeks before the un- cessful." Classes are
salaries are also a major is- fair labor practice charge scheduled to resume at
sue. will be heard by the Michi- Shaarey Zedek on Sept. 11.
Israelis Use Front-Line Hypnosis
Treatment on Shell-Shock Troops
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Israel Defense Force medi-
cal corps successfully used
hypnosis and suggestion to
treat battle-fatigued
(shell-shocked) soldiers at
front area treatment cen-
ters during the Lebanon
war, returning them fully
recovered to their battle
units within a day or so,
without any 'after effects.
The treatment was de-
scribed last week at the
week-long international
congress of the Israel and
European societies of hyp-
nosis in psychotherapy and
psychosomatic medicines
meeting at the Rambam
hospital in HAIFA. The con-
ference was attended by
some 250 psychologists,
psychiatrists, physicians
and dentists, including 150
delegates from abroad.
Drs. A. Levy and M.
Neumann, of the Tel Aviv
University medical school,
said that on the baSis of ear-
lier experience in the Yom
Kippur War, doctors this
time treated their patients
at a military installation set
up close to the front line,
under full war conditions of
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steeped in the tradition of
the land and in the pioneer-
ing spirit of the kibutz, of
which he has been a
member for nearly 40 years.
Shaham was born in
Tel Aviv in 1925. He is the
son of Eliezer Steinman,
the noted Hebrew author
and essayist. A member
of Kibutz Bet Alfa since
1945, he served as vice
chairman of the Israeli
Broadcasting Authority,
has worked as an editor
in the Sifriyat Poalim
publishing house, and
has also edited a bi-
monthly magazine.
Besides his books,
Shaham has written three
collections -of short fiction,
several children's books and
travel accounts, as well as
nine plays, several of which
have been translated and
performed abroad. He is the
recipient of five literary
awards in Israel.
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uniforms and discipline.
The doctors said that
the uniforms, military
discipline, timetables
and rifle fire made for a
realistic atmosphere and
made it possible to treat
soldiers and return them
to their units in little
more than 24 hours.
Hypnosis also made it
possible to uncover the
soldier's unconscious guilt
feelings about surviving
while a comrade was killed,
helping to instill in him the
feeling that he did rightly
by at least saving himself,
the doctors said.
Beirut Horror
Israeli Defense Minister
Ariel Sharon told the judi-
cial commission of inquiry
last October that while it
was assumed that when Is-
rael sent the Phalangists
into the Palestinian refugee
camps there would be civi-
lian deaths, "None of us,
myself included, ever for
one moment in our worst
dreams anticipated or
feared a horror like that."
Her eyes are homes of si-
lent prayer.