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PAGE 12 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 21, 1986 Great Agents Servicing Greater Atlanta Residential—Com mercial Call for tree market evaluation 792 N. Highland Atlanta ALTOK5 875-4555 [0 Book review ‘Worlds Torn Asunder’ DYER Si OVER EUROPEAN DELIVERY CENTER U.S. MODELS AT EUROPEAN PRICES SAVE THOUSANDS 1986 BMW 325 . . . $17,775 1986 Volvo 740 Turbo .. . . $18,860 1986 Mercedes-Benz 300E ...... $32,985 1986 Volvo DL ..... . . . . $13,535 1986 Porsche 944 . . . . $22,050 1986 Mercedes-Benz 420 SEL ... $43,380 OTHER MODELS AVAILABLE .. SALES AND LEASING Call Bill Dennison Today DYER & DYER 5260 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. V Chamblee, GA 30341 (404) 452-0077 800-286-6016 In Georgia 800-241-3061 Outside GA. AUDI • BMW • MERCEDES-BENZ VOLVO • PORSCHE ‘ Worlds Torn Asunder, by Dov Herd Edelstein, KTA \ Publishing House. Hoboken, X.J., $12.95 Reviewed by Dr. Philip Wendkos Atlanta. I9K6. High-tech, punk rock, hedonism, crime, spoiled youth, controlled diets, physical fitness, lots of money to be made and to spend, relative security, smiling faces, insured survival, arrogance, few children receiving an intensive Jewish education based on tradition and Halacha. Auschwitz, 1944. Grimness, bleak future, preparing oneself to die, subsisting on bread crumbs and inferior food, doing without necessities, subjugation, imposed feeling of inferioi ity, no ego nor id allowed to be asserted, sickness, submission, a majority of Jews who speak Yiddish and know tra ditional Jewish sources and love Judaism. What a contrast! Can the aver age Jew of today (who was not a victim of the Holocaust) begin to comprehend what it was like to be trapped in the web of the Nazi net? To be brutally assaulted in a crimi nal way just because one happens to be Jewish? To be separated in a brutal and painful way—from brother, sister, parent, child at the arrival of an infamous concentra tion camp like Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen? If the horror of these frightful situations is not something which would interest the contemporary Jew, then perhaps a reflection about a world which was de- Author’s paternal stroyed, a dream which was a- bruptly shattered and just what this world was for a European Jew would be of value for all of us. This world included a myriad of rabbis and rebbes, poshute yiden, banditen, scholars, luftmenschen, books, institutions, teachers, busi nessmen, beggars, itinerant sellers of goods, hazzanim, doveners, shochtim, store owners, trades men, smiths, artists, treggers, yeshivot. An intensive, close-knit Jewish life. Respect for bubbe and Zaide, maintenance of the mikva and the soup kitchen, a society where the average boy of 10 in the heder could quote a pasuk at an appropriate occasion for a special purpose and the prayers could be recited “oisenveinik.” The head of a yeshiva boy was filled with Gem- ara, Mishneh B'rurah, Yoreh Dayah, Oruch HaShulhan, Pose- kim, Tosefta, She'elot Ut'shuvot, Rashi. Ibn Ezra, Magen Avraham the Mahara'm Shi/... while the heart showed compassion, feeling. 66 66 LOVE’’ AND UNDERSTANDING”. • • TWO WORDS THAT ARE OUR FOUNDATION AND OUR PLEDGE While undoubtedly KING SPRINGS VILLAGE Health Care Center provides the finest nursing facilities in the South, our goal is to make our residents comfortable, happy, and secure by providing the ultimate in professional care and a wide range of social and recreational programs. That’s why KING SPRINGS VILLAGE Health Care Center provides the little “extras” that assure a feeling of privacy, dignity, and independence. Our emphasis is always on the quality of life. Extra care . . . Extra service Extra interest. Let us show you “love” and “understanding" in action. You are warmly invited to visit and observe firsthand our wide range of social and recreational programs, and to meet our dedicated staff. We are confident that you will like what you see. Kosher Meals upon Request Appro Admis KING SPRINGS VILLAGE HEALTH CARE CENTER 404 King Springs Village Pkwy. Smyrna, Georgia 30080 (404) 432-4444 Dave Morgan, Administrator Owned By: Henry & Barbara Grossberg Israel & Yetra Goldberg grandparents. loving, a self-effacing and modest personality. Rarely has a book or work on the Holocaust reflected this world in its totality. Such a book, how ever, is “Worlds Torn Asunder.” This is due in large measure to the fact that the author writes from the standpoint ot a religious, obser vant Jew who enumerates inci dents where religious Jews attemp ted to uphold the traditions and rituals even under the most horri ble circumstances. We all know about the Holo caust. Some of us know more than others. This particular book will cause us to reflect on what we know, and it will make our appre ciation of the survivors’ ordeals more acute. In my opinion, every mature Jew should read and own this book, in order to fulfill the impor tant Mitzva of Zachor Mo She- asah L'kha Amalek (Remember what the Amalekites/Nazis did to you as a people). Rabbi Edelstein is to be strongly commended for his arduous efforts in putting into words what he experienced as a testament to our generation in ful filling the scriptural dictum K’tov Zikaron Basefer (preserving what the Amalekites did to us for the future generations). Lo Tishkah! You must never allow yourselves to forget what occurred! Autographed copies of" Worlds Torn Asunder” may he obtained by calling 394-1682 in the Atlanta area. BOOKS ARE OUR BAG! 20th Annual &%a*utei4. USED BOOK SALE Saturday, April 12 s 3 Donation Opening Night Apr. 13-Apr. 17,10 a.m.-9 p.m. Bargain Day, Wed., 4/16 Books-by-the-bag Thurs. 4/17 Toco Hills Shopping Center Parking Lot 231-6211 Book Donations Now Accepted Tax Deductible