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modern Hebrew publications and
from recent authors in Yiddish,
German and English. He has ex
plored books of law and religion —
Orthodox, Conservative and Re
form — for religious observances of
the festival in home, community
and synagogue. He has searched
the realms of music, art, short
story, biography, poetry and drama
to unearth great Purim riches. He
has encircled the globe to find out
how special events produced spe
cial Purims in widely separated
communities where they celebrated
local escapes from dire perils. To
have done all this testifies to the
patient and exhaustive labor that
the author has invested to create
this volume. Furthermore, he has
organized this plethora of Purimi-
ana interestingly and attractively
in five “Books” and has presented
his material in a lively and read
able style.
In specialized fields, Rabbi Good
man has wisely enlisted the assis
tance of experts, thus enhancing
the authority and value of his book.
Dr. Solomon Grayzel, well-known
Jewish historian, has written a
scholarly and illuminating account
of the various theories about “The
Origin of Purim”; Prof. A. W. Bin
der contributes an informative
chapter on “Purim in Music,” litur
gical, hasidic, modern Hebrew, Yid
dish and English; Mrs. Rachel
Wischnitzer writes expertly on
“The Purim Story in Art”; Miss
Dvora Lapson presents “Purim
Dances” in which she tells how
the festival can be celebrated in
dances today; Mrs. Libbie Braver-
man offers practical suggestions
for “Purim Parties and Programs”
for schools, centers and home cele
brations; and Dr. Jacob Shatsky
RABBI GOODMAN
. . . writes about Purim
discusses learnedly yet engagingly
on “The History of Purim Plays.”
Nor are "Purim Delicacies” over
looked. At last the modest kreplah,
the shy verenikes and the roly-
poly nahit find themselves in the
company of the lordly hamantasch
and raised to respectable official
dom in the pages of this delightful
and informative book.
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Novel of the
We’ve often wontered why the
modern-day chain store life never
inspired an author to chronicle the
trials and tribulations of this mani
festation of modern times.
Well, it has been done by a Geor
gia author, Jack Kaye, of Albany,
Ga., whose “Honey Shops” (2.50)
has just been published by Dor-
rance & Co., Inc.
Mr. Kaye himself has had several
years’ experience in this field, per
haps more than he would care to
relate. He has been connected with
leading apparel chain stores
throughout the nation, helping in
the creation of some and sitting in
on the closing of others. He only
recently opened his own dress
shop.
He knows the field whereof he
writes. His easy-to-read book has
interest to the thousands of us who
have personally or through mem
bers of our families observed the
chain store phenomenon or any
mercantile venture for that matter.
Chain store business is a world of
intrigue and sharpness, of clever
management and manipulation, a
field of enterprise in which people
rise to opportunities and yet seem
constantly imperiled by driving
impersonality. Careers loom into
brilliance and fruition because of
initiative, special abilities or “pull.”
They fall inexplicably in the face
of pressure.
All of which furnishes fascinat-
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ing background to Mr. Kaye’s
“Honey Shops.” It is a tale of
modern chain store buccaneers and
personnel, their loves and frustra
tions, their successes and failures.
He tells the story well and his
characters come to life with the
same ready-to-madeness and pat
tern which is the stock and trade
of “Honey Shops,” or any of the
familiar chain titles.
Primarily, “Honey Shops” is the
story of Frank Burtee, a World War
I veteran, newly married and his
experience in the chain store world.
Another leading character is Fen
ton Burland, a brother of the big
shot, a ladies’ man who had a
sweetheart in every Honey Shop.
— ADOLPH ROSENBERG
For Book Month
The Jewish Book Council of
America has announced that it has
published for Jewish Community
zations five pamphlets on Jewish
books and Jewish book programs,
as well as book lists, two radio
Centers and other Jewish organi-
transcriptions of children’s pro
grams, a poster and other pieces on
Jewish books. The Council is spon
sored by the National Jewish Wel
fare Board (JWB) and is the or
ganizer of the annual observance
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