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MAYOR
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Nathan Phillips, Qc
NATE WRITES BESTSELLER — "Mayor of All the I-eople", the memoirs of Nathan Phillips, Q.C., a beloved niayor of the Queen Qty, is hitthig the bestseller list in Toronto book stores. A caindid book written in the tight, humorous style of this great Torontonian, it has a special interest for the Jewish reader as it depicts a typical Canadian Jewish family at the turn oi the century. The Canadian Jewish News will review this book in its Hanuka magazine appearing December 22nd. (Photographed above in the cover of this book.)'
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By TALAN BRADLEY
"Rebecca Wept at the morals, religion and even
Wailing Wal", a history in politics. An authentic poet
verse by Gad Shelaso is always must be active in
magnificent in scope. We politics. He Is also respons-
are swept along to ex- ible. The poet's demand
perience all of the joys Is: "Don't be silent!" Look
and hardships, grief and love of those who throughout histoiy have sought to pray at the Wailing Wall. We first meet and lace all of the horrors of the recent Arab-Israeli wir, arid are given a hopeful look into the future of Israel. . "And they say again: "If it should liappen we shall need a weapon. Ploughshares are the Lord's, thus we change them into swords."
"And the message cheering that the time Is Hearing, We shall see — all meii free! Tyrants disappearing!"
Gad Shelaso's verse seems to me full of real poetic feeling. He has sometimes splendid images, for instance when the nurse Rebecca kissed the stones at the Wailing Wall:
"This is such a heavenly bliss — You've never know bliss—You've never known a sweeter kiss."
And many other expression of iinusual beauty; and his emotional quality Is direct and intense.
Although. I cannot agree with Plato when he says that poets are a danger to, the well-ordered state, nor witti Shelley when he calls them the "unacknowledged lejgislators of. the . world," poets undeniably have great influence upon society.
Poetry certainly has something to do with love,
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what appened to the Jewish people in the last three thousand years:
"To wander in the wilderness of Sinai Where the sand w^ dry, the wanderer to mortify. Now, more than three thousand years after the Eodus To suffer tourments like Tantalus..."
"Thus the pale Rebecca at the Wailing Wall, Damp from tears "her black shawl; Prayed for her children on that Wednesday; She didn't know that one of them, Saul Had just passed away. . The shell of an Arab had killed him today." , * ♦ *
Gad Shelaso has been writing all his life, and has had numerous poems, stories arid articles published in Germany and South America. He speaks and writes fluently in four languages. When he was thirteen years old he translated Henrik Ibsen's dramatic poem, "Peer bynt." In 1965 he won a literary pirze: The Writer's Digest Article Writuig Contest..
In addition to "Rebecca at the Wailing WaU" the author has provided delightful glimpses of his own first days in Canada, and many a Canadian would profit by reading his first impression of this country^ which we all too often take : for granted. He asked in this volume;
"Where are the poets and philosophers to glorify  this  most exquisite.
beauty of Ciinada?." ■ ■' * • •
In short, this is.a proud book, a lesson in pride. whioh should be carefully studied: by readers of all faiths, and all hatiohalities lilr. Alan Bradley Is professor at Ryerson Polytech-ntcal iiiistitute.
The Canadian Jewish News; Friday, December 8th, 1967 - Page 7
^<'ws reporter
Numerous clergymen . rabbis, priests, ministers iind Catholic nuns, — met lust Thursday evening in ;i Montreal hotel to b|d (arewell to an unusual guest from Israel. An evening before in Toronto, close to ninety Christian clergymen of all denominations gathered in the home of a leading Protestant minister to hear this visitor.
Who is this man who could attract the attention of and be heard iJy rabbis and Christian clergymen?
Till now very few except specialists in the problems of Israel have heard the name of Assump-tionist Father Jean Roger of Jerusalem's Notre Dame de France.
In 1950, several years after the liberation of France in which Jean Roger (at that time a layman) took part, the head of the Augustinians of the Assumption, one of Europe's most famous Ord-ers> called in Father Jean and said:
—Father, there is a position at the Notre Damd Monestery iri Jerusalem. Haw jnany weeks would you require to prepare should you accept it? Father Roger replied:
— When does the next plane leave for Jerusalem?
Since then, for seventeen years Father Jan Roger has not budged from the Holy City except on special assignments.
When asked how long he expects to stay in Israel, his answer to this reporter was: as long as I live.
Father Roger's great love is Jerusalem the Golden. His favorite photo-- graph Is one -taken on a -hill overlooking the beautiful city.
The surprise came right at the beginning of the interview when Father Roger addressed this reporter in Hebrew—lucid, modem, Israeli Hebrew. • Thus & Jewish newspaperman and a Catholic priest on a visit to Canada discussed all possible topics-in Hebrew with a Sephardic pronunciation. it soimded remarkable when the priest, upon being questioned about what he sees in the State 6f Israel, replied In Hebrew: Etzba elokim (God's finger).
To Father Roger the rebirth of Israel is a manifestation of God's love.
Roger, 49, who was bom Jean Roger Hene In a suburb of Paris, spent his hearly years hi a typical bourgeois French milieu. His father is an auditor, in fact, Herie Sr. spent many years . In America with his family were Father Roger leamed to speak American English which he masters along with perfect German.' Father Roger received his degrees in English and German philology at the Sorbonne. He. also studied child psychology. In Israel he learned to speak pei^ect Hebrew, and Arabic.
He entered the clergy in : 1940 after the defeat of ; France. When he was re- ^ leased ffbiW the army, he ■ was heartbroken, depressed; he found consolation in the Order of the As-siunptionist. He then ent- ; ered the Seminary and became a priest.
Natliaii i'hillip.s' boisterous ,|)(iiiti{'al oarotT spslnned of Ti»ri>iUo*a growing up years, (l.uring which linu' lie jul.lod, eajolt'd aiul luaMot'Uvred Cily (,'ouneil out of adiilosci'iicu :■ and iiuii mulurily.. And id ways. liV was .■. Toronbt'sbosl friend., ih're is his fast-paeed. irreverenl autoI)io>,'rapliy-^ . lest anyone forget ■ ■■   Nathan J'hiliii)s. .
.Ma.vor of all the Teoplo the memoirs of
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Father Roger was active in the French Resiistance Movement. In those dark years he first came face^ to face \vith the Jewish problem when he was engaged actively in saving Jews from the Nazis. Because of this activity, the Germans placed a price on his head and sentenced him to death in absentia. He is one of the few As-sumptlonlst who grows a beard (which stems from the underground years) and which he keeps in order not to forget those days of course, with the permission Of his superiors.
Many were impressed by Father Roger's tour of Canada;. He came hereunder the sponsorship of the Israeli Government Tourist Office and Alitalia Air-Unes.
Vhe prhicipal task of the Assumptionist Fathers in the Holy Lind Is the care and guidance pilgrim groups. In fact, this Order is considered a pioneer in pilgrunages to the Holy Land, In 1882 the Assumptionist Fathers organized one thousand people, no
mean achievement In those days.
During his tour to Canada, Father Roger told Catholics and other Christians how important, it is for them to see j^e Holy Land, especially now thaj; all holy sites ai;e».within one country.
One of the proudest positions Father Jean holds is that of the Priest in (Charge of the Negev. He is the Priest of Beer-sheba, the city of Abraham, which he emphasizes with unusual satisfaction.
In many ways Father Rogers is unusual. For example, when this reporter asked him that he thought of the Cairistian-Jewlsh Dialogue, he answered:
"It is perhaps too early, and one can understand the hesitation in some Jewish circles. It is a generation too soon, for Jews and Christians first must known eiicii other. Jews must be convinced that when Christian open tiie Dialogue, this is not a canidiifiage fOr inducing Jews to change their religion. Dialogue and unity between all Christians. Is important now. and
A PRIEST WHOSE EVERmiY TONGl/E IS HEBREW. Father Jean Roger of the Order of As-sumptionists, who is head of Jerusalem's Notre Dame de France. Father Roger, who speaks a perfect, mo. dem, Israeli Hebrew visited Canada recently as guest of the Israeli Government Tourst Office and AlitaUa Airlines.
Imperative. But the dialogue between Jews and Christians wil cdme whnn, we know each other better.
"I remember wheii I first came to Jerusalem, what did I know about Jews except a few cliche phrases I leamed in tiie Seminary? But now I know the Jewish people. I learn more everyday; I love the Holy Land. There is the mystery of God hovering over that little patch of earth."
The most interesting feature of the farewell meeting for Father Roger In Montreal was: he was presented to the assembly by an orthodox rabbi from Jerusalem, Dr. Shmuel Nathan.
• In I'iddler oh the Roof thoiiiih the song, If T W a Rich Mani, is among the most whistled and sung, little is said about the composers.
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, lyricist and composer respectively of Fiddler, are two pleasant, modest and unassuming young Americans who delight in Fiddler's success, mainly because of the opportunity it has given them to travel and meet new people.
Both come from a traditional Jewish background of East Euronean origin. "But we don't read Yiddish," says Hamick, and we were only suoerfl-cially familiar with the stO-jies of Sholem Aleichem. I read them when f was too yoimg to appreciate them and at that thne I didn't find them funny at all.
When I reread them ia preparation for Fiddler, It was a revelation.
"I feel that writing this show has brought me closer to my own Jevdsh background. My research reminded me of many things I had forgotten and acquainted me with many thhigs I had never known. My lyrics were hispired partly by what I remembered from my own chUd
hood and partly by a marvelous book called. Life . Is with People. Thiis is a study Of East European Jewry, and it became bur Bible while we were work-iAg on Fiddler."
Asked which was his favorite number, Harnick chose two, for personal reasons. "One is the duet. Do You Love Me? Though my own parents were not literally like Tevye and Golda, there were certain elements In them which I tried to write into the song.
Also, in the Sabbath prayer, I used the line, "May you be like Ruth and like Esther," because my mother's name is Esther."
The two are gratified to know that so many non-Jews have foimd the show meaningful. Some of them say it reminds them of their own grandparents. One of Fiddler's most de-' voted fans In America was a nun who saw a preview of the show in Detroit.
Hamick and Bock never before hav used a Jewish theme and lave no plans for anothe Jewish musical despite nunierous appeals from ;helr friends. "We think we have w^i^ then it out," they explained. It Is wiser to do some-
thing conipletely dlffereitf each time.
Rabbi Hariy Horwitz will play the role of a rabbi In I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! the Warner Bros.—Seven Arts motion picture comedy starring Peter Sellers. Rabbi Horwitz, as an acfor, is known professionally as Hal Horton.
Executive producers are Paul Mazursky arid Larry Tucker, son of opera singer Richard Tucker.
• Joseph Lebworth will produce the motion picture. The Experiment, a comedy about a sexual research project on a small Ohio college campus.
• The Sergeiant stars Rod Stelger and John Phillip Law. Richard Goldstone is producer. It is being film ed on location In Franjp.
• Sidney Glazier, porducer Mostel comedy. The Producers, has acquired rights to Malamud's short story. Black Is My Favorite Color, which deals with the romantic and social difficulties encountered by a lonely Jewish storekeeper in Harlem and the Negro woman he loves.
Mostel most likely will play the storekeeper, with {Production scheduled to beghi in New York In the spring.
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