lems generated by the Na-
tional Industrial Recovery
Act but in Naphtali's trans-
formation from an insecure
diffident immigrant to a
leader in the neighborhood
Sephardic community.
The universal theme of
guilt is the cornerstone of the
second short story, Moshe
Weller, which demonstrates a
typically Jewish method of
> .° expiating this most unpleas-
ant of human conditions.
Once again we find our-
selves on the Lower East Side
of New York, the time in
1937. Moshe Weller, an um-
brella fixer and thinker, has
a past that plagues and tor-
ments him. He has kept his
secret fom his wife, Dvorka,
with whom he is very much
in love. She does not know
that as a child Moshe, swim-
ming with his best friend,
Yossi Beltzer, witnessed his
drowning and is blamed for
/' failing to save him.
Dvorka is distressed by the
nightmares Moshe has re-
peatedly over the ten years of
their married life. The only
other flaw in the marriage is
that the couple has been un-
able to have a child which
they both want. Moshe
further torments himself by
wondering if he is the cause
of their childlessness and as-
sumes, if he is, it is punish-
`, ment for his not saving Yossi.
Gellin takes the reader into
the hearts and lives of these
simple yet believable char-
acters and even gives us a
joyous ending to the tale.
The author's style in both
stories is straight forward
and unembellished, suitably
matching the simplicity of
- the story line itself. While
the characters are not heroic
/— or the stories memorable, one
does get caught up in reading
Gellin.
With the centennial cele-
/D brations honoring the Statue
of Liberty fresh in our
memories, the theme of these
stories becomes all the more
/— forceful. There is, however, a
timelessness about them too:
what I would call a primor-
dial quality which for 20th
Century Jews makes reading
this book a compelling and
rewarding experience.

Prayer Day
Observed

New York — The two mil-
lion member United
Synagogue of American has
designated Oct. 25 at the end
of Sukkot, as Yom Atzeret
L'chaim, to be observed as a
day of synagogue attendance
and prayer.
The Conservative move-
ment's innovation is designed
to raise the consciousness of
Conservative Jews to the
growing danger of universal
nuclear holocaust, according
to Franklin Kreutzer, inter-
national president of United
Synagogue.

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