10—THE BULLETIN—Friday, September 13. 1974
RECENT BOOKS OF lEWISH INTEREST
Israel's social goals bound BRANDT PORTRAYED up with Palestinian issue
AS STATESMAN
LAND OF THE HEART Israelis, Arabs, the Territories
and the Future By Arie Lova Eliav. Translated
by Judith Yalon. The Jewish Publication Society of America $6.95.
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THE ORIGINAL Hebrew edition of Eliav's book two year sago generated an explosive debate within Israel. Particularly engrossing were the forthright, then rather unconventional, arguments (by a leading Israel political personality) on behalf of a separate Palestinian State, and the insistence on a need to "reinstate the discarded values" of traditional Zionism.
Now, although expanded to take into account the tumultuous events of the past year or so, the English edition, as similarly reflected in Eliav's own enhanced political fortunes, is less likely ^ to cause a storm. Many of the questions he posed then are at least being asked and by a great meny people. This he considers vital, even if there is no general subscribing to the precise solutions he advocates.
Eliav could not have had a more "legitimate" personal record from which to launch an exercise of self-appraisal! Commander of illegal immigrant ships, service in the Israel embassy in Moscow, at one time Labor party secretary-general and still a prominent Labor Knesset member.
CERTAINLY, too, there is little controversial about his reading of Zionist-Palestine history and the reinstatement of a fully-fledged Jewish presence in Israel, which covers the first third of the book. But it is very much a personal document, rather than history-Eliav's own testament-and it is this which makes the book so absorbing and not a little important.
Israel was not all Golda Meir, however much a lone voice Eliav's appeared at the time. His emphasis in the book is on the Palestinian issue as the heart of the Jewish-Arab problem and he is convinced that the unravelling of the issue can produce a solution to it. Eliav does advocate a program-the formation of a Palestinain state east of Israel and encompassing most of the
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West Bank including Jordan-but it is the impact of the problem on Israel as a society that concerns him most.
He calls on Israelis to face up to the problem of the Palestinians, to recognize its existence, at least to call it by its right name-something which until recently some Israeli leaders of varying political persuasion were reluctant to do.
ISRAEL, he says, "ought to deal humbly with the question of Palestinian Arab nationalism's historic rights-if on coming to Eretz Israel a century ago we
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had found a reliable modern and large population with a highly developed national consciousness it ia very doubtful whether we would have been able to launch the Zionist enterprise at all."
Eliav is aware of the diplomatic danger in the solution he puts forward, or does he emerge frtHn this politcal testament an absolute dove committed to peace on any terms.
"We have to decide what kind of Israel we want," he writes. The social values Israel should aspire to, the creation of a new Jewish society based on the qualities ofjustice, equality and human freedom, are for him inextricably bound up with a territorial solution to the Palestinian-Arab problem.
Just as Egypt appears to be in the throes ofa post-Nasser period of de-ideologizing, so one senses Israel to be drawn into the same process. If we have yet to see the demise of an Israeli pragmatism that had become an ideology, Eliav is clearly a man to speed this process. JCNS.
WILLY BRANDT Portrait of a Statesman By Terence Prittie. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. $9.
BY RICHARD GRUNBERGER
IF THIS BOOK had appeared only a few months ago it could have been an inspiring parable for our time — the story.of a man who had fought the good fight and won through in the end. We now know that our times are too tainted to give rise to-such parables, and that Willy Brandt has been pushed into the political shadows by the interplay of Communist treachery with Right-wing vilification.
The shadows were precisely where Brandt's life had started in North Germany on the eve of the Great War. The illegitimate son of a salesgirl, he grew up in an atmosphere of emotional and material deprivation.
The end of the war brought additional upheavals, but also the return of the grandfather who was to provide Brandt both with his first real home and his lifelong political philosophy: Socialism.
Poltically precocious, the future Chancellor became a Social Democrat party worker in his mid-teens, and was only 19 when the advent of Nazism caused him to emigrate. He spent 12 years in exile, remaining in Norway till the Nazi invasion, and then escaped to Sweden.
FOR A GOOD part of that time, disaster followed upon disaster: Hitler grew stronger and his designated victims, instead of fighting him, surrendered or fought each other. (Fratricide on the Left was something Brandt observed at first hand as the Spanish Civil War correspondent of Scandinavian Socialist papers.)
These experiences helped him to clarify his ideas, and by the end of Hitler's War he had very definite views on the future of Germany. In the divided country he (and the German Sociaist Party, the SPD) would neither surrender to the East nor tie themselves completely to the West.
Though Brandt was not yet leader of the SPD, as mayor of West Berlin he stood at a flash-
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JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL of Jewish Welfare Board presented 1974 National Jewish Book Awards—the highest honor in American Jewi^ literature—to the above authors. From left—Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, for The Mask Jews Wear: The self-Decep-tions of American Jewry; Dr. Bernard D. Weinryb, for The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100 to 1800^ Yuri Suhl, for Uncle Misha's Partisans, and Dr. Isaiah Friedman, for The Question of Palestine: 1914-1918: British-Jewisb-Arab Relations. Other winners were Francine Prose, for Judah the Pious, and Harold Schhnmel, for his translation of Yehuda Amichai's Songs 4>f Jerusalem and Myself.
Announce essay contest
LOS ANGELES —The Congress of American Jews from Poland in Los Angeles, a philanthropic, non-profit corporation, has announced a student essay contest on the topic: "The Holocaust, a concern of all men: its causes, its aftermath and ways of preventing a recurrence."
The contest is open to students of high schools, colleges, universities and other educational
institutions. Each entry must reflect independent research efforts ofthe contestant and should be between 4,000 and 7,000 words. The closing date for submission of entries is April 30, 1975.
All manuscripts should be addressed to: Benjamin Grey, Chairman Contest Commission, Congress of American Jews from Poland, 6534 Moore Drive, Los Angeles, California 90048.
point of the Cold War from the mid-1950s onwards. Ten years later he became Foreign Minister in a coalition with the CDU, and in 1969 Social Democrat Chancellor.
The 1969 elections were the first in German history to effect a real change of government. Equally momentous was the emergence of a German Chancellor armed not so much with Deutsch-marks as with moral integrity.
As a former active anti-Nazi — not exactly an asset in internal German politics —Brandtenjoyed more trust abroad than any other Bonn politician. This enabled him to initiate East-West detente and also to make his gesture of expiation for German collective guilt at the Warsaw Ghetto memorial both moving and meaningful.
THE UNFORTUNATE fact that he subsequently failed to brave Arab terrorist blackmail somewhat tarnished this image; even so in an imperfect world Brandt brought rare moral purpose to the exercise of political power.
This portrait of a statesman" does justice both to its subject and its author.
Does Mr. Prittie know though, I wonder, of Brandt's predilection for the odd Yiddish phrase — like shmontzes for trivia? This endearing habit reminds one of happier days when no gathering of the European Left lacked a Jewish minyan.
JCNS.
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