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Below is a partial list describing qualified people who
are now available to work. If you would be interested in
interviewing one or more of these people, or if you know
of opportunities within other companies in the com
munity, please contact Louis Albert at 366-0358.
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
BA-Arch««ology. Native of Israel where he served in the
military. Experienced as a supervisor in the textile industry
being responsible for hiring/firing and the monitoring of
machines and production. Has also been an outside salesman
and a convenience store clerk. Seeking manager trainee posi
tion.
BS-Buslness. Coordinator of Administrative Support Ser
vices. Experienced in office management, sales and
marketing, public relations, contract negotiations and ad
ministrative, accounts receivable, credit and collections, per
sonnel, inventory control, purchasing, customer service,
supervision of computer programs and operation. Supervised
mail order/retail sales In excess of $3M. Planning/set-up of
Trade Shows. Available immediately.
BA'Economlcs. Aggressive salesperson with proven suc
cess in real estate. Exceptional ability in sales training and
motivation of others coupled with good administration and
fiscal skills. Clear understanding of finance. With partners
formed a real estate organization which expanded in 8 years
from to $10M in sales. Seeks managerial position in
financial or personnel setting.
Manufacturing Manager. BA degree. Seeking full-time
position as plant manager. Excellent experience in operations
management including inventory control, scheduling,
warehousing, customer relations, AR/AP. Achievement
oriented. Solid work history. Willing to relocate.
CITY PLANNING
M.S.-City Planning. Last oosition as fiscal assistant to New
York City Council President included financial analysis for the
Board of Education, Police, Fire and Sanitation Departments.
Background in public finance skills. Experienced as a staff
analyst dealing with block grants. HUD and urban renewal.
Seeking position in the Carolinas or Georgia. Immediate
availability.
DATA PROCESSING
BS-Special Education. Experienced in operation of CRT for
an IBI\/I 34 system. Background includes front desk clerk for a
major hotel catering to conventions, customer sales and
special education teaching. Skilled in project organization.
Seeking challenging position in private sector.
HUMAN SERVICES
MEd- Reading/Guidance with Counseling Emphasis. Ex
perience includes teaching, design of instructional aids, ad
ministrative organization of reading programs, counseling
and testing. Past sales experience. Interested in personnel
and/or training fields.
SECRETARIAL/CLERICAL
Medical Receptionist. 2 years college. Has been a technical
manuals writer with responsibility for organization,
copywriting, editing, printing and layout. Experienced in
secretarial, receptionist and accounting clerk duties — in
cluding appointment scheduling, light typing, workmen's
compensation, A/R, A/P, patient charts, and use of mag card
machine and 10-key. Seeking full time or part-time position.
Secretary/Receptlonlat. Seeking full-time position requir
ing good organizational and secretarial skills, as well as abili
ty to deal with public. Experience in both business and human
services settings. Available immediately.
PART-TIME
Retired small business ov^ner with experience in manage
ment, sales and warehousing. Looking for opportunities in a
business or service setting.
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JUJB
Jewish Books in Review
' is a service of the fWB Jewish Book Council,
15 East 26th St., New York. N.Y. 10010
The Holocaust in Fiction
Tzili: The Story of a Life. By
Aharon Appelfeld;
translated by Dalya Bilu.
E.P. Dutton, Inc., 2 Park
Avenue, New York, NY
10016.1982.141 pages. $12.95.
A Book of Songs. By Merritt
Linn. St. Martin’s Press, 175
Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
10010.1982. 309 pages. $13.95.
Reviewed by Peter Heilman
Tzili Kraus is a dull-witted
child born last to a poor but
upwardly striving family
somewhere in pre-war
middle-Europe. Whil^ her
bright siblings study madly,
she grows up “neglected
among the abandoned ob
jects in the yard.” Yet, when
the destruction comes, it is
Tzili alone who survives,
hiding in a shed.
Tzili wanders in the
woods. In a stroke of instinc
tive genius she tells the
goyim that she is the
daughter of “Maria,” an in
famous prostitute. Repeated
ly fleeing harsh treatment,
she encounters Mark, an
older Jewish survivor hiding
in a mountain top forest. He
builds a bunker, im
pregnates her, and disap
pears. Tzili goes on suffering
and surviving.
At war’s end, T^ili finds
herself among a group of
Jewish camp survivors —
people, as the author hastens
to show us, whose moral
compass has been severely
shaken. Tzili’s baby is
stillborn. As this stark
novella ends, Tzili is aboard
a boat bound for Palestine.
She has been taken under the
wing of a “fat woman,”
formerly a cabaret singer,
who hugs a brandy bottle
and sings lullabies not in
Hebrew but in Hungarian.
This simple story fairly
quakes with malevolent
vibrations. As in Badenheim
1939, the book that introduc
ed his work to Americans,
Appelfeld scorns those
myopic Jews who will not see
the signs of approaching
holocaust. Even Mark, who
gets Tzili pregnant, ends up
besotted by vodka, just like
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the goyim. the only one who
is worthy is Tzili herself,
who could not connect with
the Jewish world that was
destroyed.
Strong stuff — and very
disturbing.
A Book of Songs is set in a
nameless concentration
camp that might as well be
Auschwitz. Many of the in
mates had been musicians.
Now they work as an “or
chestra” amid a great din, in
a shop filled with rows of
machines that convert scrap
metal to shrapnel.
Among the inmates is a
mute artist who sketches on
a frosted night window, an
acid-tongued “poet” who
was in fact only a clerk in
normal life, a violinist who*
mimes playing the instru
ment he once had, and a
saintly philosopher who af
firms the value of life even in
the camp before killing
himself. Then there is the
narrator, who does not say
much about his former life.
So long as they can work,
these men have the chance to
live one more day.
The only symbol of beauty
here is a small, gnome-like
boy who packs a violin
beneath his filthy jacket. In
return for bread he makes
music of unearthly beauty
rise from beneath his bow. It
touches even the camp
guards, who allow the boy to
roam freely.
Given the blackness of the
death camp milieu, it is
astonishing that the author
does not allow his characters
to become the walking dead.
They still think, feel, and
talk with fervent intensity.
The only major question
about this fine book, in fact,
is whether so much in the
human equation could sur
vive in a realm where
humanity is ruthlessly strip
ped away.
Though both of these
strong novels have at their
center a Jewish child
wandering alone in
Holocaust times, it is strik
ing how different they are in
outlook. Appelfeld has
nothing good to say about
.middle-class European
Jewry on the eve of its
destruction. Linn brings the
enslaved remnant of these
same people lovingly to life.
Perhaps Appelfeld, the
European-born Israeli, has
seen too much while Linn,
the Oregon opthalmologist,
has seen not enough,
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Peter Heilman is the author
of Avenue of the Righteous
and The Auschwitz Album.
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