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Entertaining Stories in New Edition of Gellin Writings

A brave man thinks no
one is superior who does
him an injury; for he has it
then in his power to make
himself superior to the
other by forgiving it.
—Seneca

By JESSIE STERN

Included in the second
edition of William Gellin's
"Hidden from View and
Other Stories" (Shengold)
are three new stories which
reveal an even richer tech-
nique than those in the orig-
inal edition.
Gellin's pen works like a
drawing from the hand of a
consummate artist. His line
is delicate and sparse, mak-
ing the stories all the more
powerful. Gellin's work
proves the dictum that
sometimes less is more.
"How the Least Became
the First" is a poignant
story which assaults the

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reader's senses with images
of life in Bialysok, Poland,
sometime between 1880 and
1914. It is also the story of
Ephraim Belsan who was
born on the eve of Passover
to Malke and Beryl, unex-
ceptional folk, who,
nonetheless, expected a
great deal from their only
son.
Beryl could not hide his
disappointment that de-
spite Ephraim's intellec-
tual prowess he was
small and physically un-
derdeveloped. A with-
drawn and quiet child,
Ephraim's personality
never flowered until he
attended the yeshiva.
There he developed a
close friendship with
Shmuel (disabled by a club
foot), Binyomin (a hunch-
back), Yitzchok (a nearsigh-
ted boy), and Leibish (an or-
phan). They were quite a
fivesome, and Ephraim be-
came the undisputed leader
which gave him the confi-
dence he lacked as a
younger child.
Ephraim becomes a mas-
ter tailor, and when the
story concludes he is about
to leave for America alone
at the age of 18. Despite his
dimunitive size, his new-
found self assurance has
made him confident that he
will make a new life for
himself in the New World
and pave the way for his
family and friends to follow.
"It Happened on Allen
Street" is a departure. Most
of Gellin's stories depict
Ashkenazic Jews. This is a
riveting story of Dahoud
Malhani, an Iraqi Jewish
merchant and his friends on
the Lower East Side of New
York City.

WILLIAM GELLIN

Here Gellin treats us to
a look at a different
Jewish culture, but we
learn that all Jews — in-
deed all human beings —
have the same need for
the trust that true friend-
ship brings to a relation-
ship.
Our author, who himself
celebrated his 83rd birth-
day last summer, concludes
this series with "Paradise,"
a story about two friends in
their mid-80s, who for many
years have been meeting
regularly once a week at the
same kosher vegetarian
restaurant for lunch. This
story describes one of their
meetings.

The theme is life and
death, but though the sub-

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Ram campus of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
The collection, assembled
over a period of years by
Eran Laor of Jerusalem,
comprises 4,000 items, in-
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travel journals, and in-
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printed, produced in Ger-
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Laor amassed his collec-
tion over three decades,
most of which were spent in
Geneva, Switzerland,
where he served for 25 years
as treasurer of the Jewish
Agency in Europe. Most of
the maps are related to the

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ject deals with ultimate is-
sues, Gellin is so skillful
that by scaling these awe-
some subjects down and
putting them in a miniature
context, the reader is not
overwhelmed but is able to
deal with the enormity of
the issues.
Frank Rabinowitz and
Sam Smolowitz, the friends,
are every man looking back
...o.uer a long life and project-
ing the end of the journey.
In each of his short
stories Gellin writes with
an absence of verbosity
and with a poetic tender-
ness. And finally, it seems
to this reviewer that it
remains the task of the
short story writer to get
across the Character of
the protagonists with an
economy of words. The
short story teller hasn't
the luxury the novelist
has of leisurely building
the subtle changes that
make a character both
convincing and credible.
Gellin's strength is that
with apparent ease he is
able to set a mood and de-
scribe a locale out of which
step ordinary people -in
whom the reader is bound to
take an extraordinary
interest.
I recommend these
newest stories and the
entire collection to the
reader.

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land of Israel or the Jewish
people.
Laor, who is now in his
80s, explained that his
passion for maps and
travel books was kindled
during a brief stay in
Teheran, Iran, on a
Jewish Agency mission
in 1945. With patience
and a feeling for the
"game" of collecting, he
managed with limited fi-
nancial means to assem-
ble the largest private
collection of its kind in
the world.
Among the unusual maps
in the collection, in addition
to the first printed map, is
one which was drawn by a
monk at the Santa Caterina
Monastery in Sinai, printed
in 1736. It is an imaginative
montage portraying events
that took place in the region
from the Exodus until the
artist's lifetime.
Another purports to be a
map of the military roads of
the Roman Empire. An item
from 19th Century Ger-
many shows a hook-nosed
Jew gazing longingly at a
map of Eretz Israel.

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