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 111111 NI IN IN NM • INS authentic portrayer of the conflicts and ideals that abide in the depth of the Is- raeli soul. 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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 Have a Happy,' Healthy New Year from the staffs of N.W. DETROIT 15150 W. 7 Mi. Rd. 342-8822 Mon.-Fri. 8-5, Sat. 9-3 OLD ORCHARD Shopping Center WINDOW SHADE CO. Orchard Lk. Rd. at 15 Mi. Rd. 626-2400 W. Bloomfield Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Thurs. til 8 P.M. 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. at Greene Bros. Window Shade Co. "Your Discount Window Treatment and Telephone Store" 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.