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Page 6 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE February 3, 1978
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Passover
At The Concord
The Concord Hotel Presents With Pride
His Excellency
Who has served as Foreign
Minister of the State of Israel,
Ambassador to the United
Nations, and to the United
States, President of the
Weitzman Institute and Best
Selling Author will speak
on* Peace in the Middle East;
Saturday, April 22nd
at 3:00 RM.
Cantor Herman Malamood
assisted by the Concord Symphony Choir directed
by Jonathan Weiss will officiate at the Sedarim
and Services.
Rabbi Dr. Stuart Rosenberg
will conduct a Program of Lectures and Seminars.
Rabbi Simon Cohen &
Rabbi Solomon Saphier
Supervise scrupulous dietary adherence.
Jan Peeree
international Operatic, Concert and Recording Star in
a Special Holiday Concert, Saturday, April 29th.
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Kafka’s letters spark
interest in his genius
Franz Kafka, the genius whose name will live jn literary history among
the great of all time, left many unpubllsfiEcI manuscripts which will
continue to intrigue the readers and will retain the popularity of the
great author in a spirit of constant revival.
Schocken Books first published his works in Germany. The Schocken
publishers in the United States continued that tradition of being the
Kafka publishers.
Earlier this year Schocken produced “The Complete Stories of Kafka.”
Now comes another treasure, “Letters to Friends, Family and Editors.”
Adherents to the Kafka tradition, students of his works and his
admirers, will be intrigued by the contents of this immense work.
Kafka (1883-1924) especially inspired tfie eminent author and Jewish
activist Max Brod (1884-1968), who was his editor and who continued to
gather and assure the publication of his works through the years.
The letters to Brod add immensely to the link between them which
becomes apparent again in the newest of the Schocken Books on Kafka.
The “Letters,” published for the first time in English, reveals the Kafka
role as Kafka in his student days, as an insurance agent in his adult life
and as a writer. The agonies of the author as a dying man are described in
some of the letters.
In addition to Brod, the letters include some to Felix Weltsch and
Oskar Baum.
Kafka’s personality emerges from these letters. His professional career
becomes apparent.
Final notes by Kafka, in his last days, scribbled on pieces of paper,
appear in the final pages of his book.
Translated from German by Richard and Clara Winston, these
“Letters" are based on “Briefe—1902-24” edited by Brod.
‘Bride-capture’ custom
causes problem in Israel
Tel Aviv (Itim).—In sentencing
Binyamin Hihinashvilli to six
years in jail for abducting and
raping a 14-year-old girl, the
District Court here came out
strongly against the Soviet
Georgian custom of bride-capture.
Although recognizing that it was
not dealing with a simple case of
rape, but rather with a time-
honored, albeit repugnant,
custom, the court nojed that the
Soviet authorities had themselves
been trying to stamp out the
practice for the past 60 years. It is
incumbent on the courts here to
drive home to members of the
country’s Georgian community
that not only would the custom not
be tolerated in Israel, but that they
now live in a state whose citizens
could not with impunity take the
law into their own hands and force
their will on others, the District
Court stated.
The court also sentenced Natala
Dzindzihashvilli to a year in prison
for her part in the incident, which
took place in August 1976. The 24-
year-old woman had gone to the
girl's school, dressed as a nurse,
and told the principal that she had
come to take the girl to Assaf
Harofe hospital, where her mother
had been taken after being hurt in a
car accident.
The woman had then taken the
girl to the Ben Shemen Forest near
Ramie, where they were met by
Hihinashvilli, who then raped her
in the forest. He then took her to
the fiat of a friend, Yosef
Michalshvilli, in Lod. (Michal-
shvilli was last week given a one-
year suspended sentence.) He kept
her there for two days, forcing her
to have sexual intercourse with
him on several occasions.
