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...numbers tell much about the life and times of Chaim Serna, 43, a power-company foreman in Jerusalem. One of them, 108342, is tattooed on his left forearm, a souvenir of Auschwitz. The other is 612214 on the license of his blue Volkswagen. "If trading with Germany is good for Israel, and I think it is, then I am for it," he says. His countrymen, despite considerable resentment stemming from Nazi days, seem to agree. Trade between Germany and the new state of Israel is booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trade: Should an Israeli Buy a Volkswagen? | 4/11/1969 | See Source »

PAINTING Triump of the Clumsiest In the act of painting, Chaim Soutine was something to behold. For months, he would ponder the idea for a painting, then in a wild outburst fling the paint onto the canvas with such vehemence that on one occasion he dis located his thumb. A model who posed for him never forgot the experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Triumph of the Clumsiest | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...Pogroms. Much the same kind of progress was made in the captured Jordanian territory, where Brigadier General Chaim Herzog ruled as military governor from the office that King Hussein had used when he visited Old Jerusalem. Uniformed Jordanian police went back on duty, and the water and electricity systems opened up again. The U.N. agreed to resume the feeding, housing, education and medical care of some 400,000 Palestinian refugees in the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Coping with Victory | 6/23/1967 | See Source »

...CHOSEN, by Chaim Potok, pits a pair of Jewish teen-agers against one another with a backdrop of Brooklyn in the closing days of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 12, 1967 | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...this first novel, Chaim Potok, 38, editor of the Jewish Publication Society of America and graduate cum laude of a New York Jewish boyhood, brews up a hearty bowl of the same old chicken soup whose recipe was laid down a generation ago by Henry Roth in Call It Sleep and Daniel Fuchs in his Summer in Williamsburg trilogy. Potok, however, adds a slightly different flavor: the conflict of his youthful protagonists is resolved against the waning days of World War II on the home front-a back ground that, in the hands of novelists of all creeds, is becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Chicken Soup | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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