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Kataki (by Shimon Wincelberg) is a play, originally done on television (TIME, March 24, 1958), with two characters, one of them a Japanese soldier who speaks all but a few of his lines in Japanese. Marooned with him on a South Pacific island near the end of World War II is a bird-brained, teen-age American G.I. who chitters with naive notions and cliches. The Japanese is seemingly incapable of an ignoble act, while the American is a bundle of petty spites and treachery...
...most explicitly stated in The Last Mohican, a wry and witty fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
Israel's population now stands at 1,800,000. Said Defense Ministry Director Shimon Peres last week: "Israel's security will not be assured until we have a population of 5,000,000." To which Israel's worried Arab neighbors ask: How long will it be before Israel is demanding Lebensraum...
Referring to the recent high level Czech purge as "Nazi-like," Shimon Chasdi 3G, native of Palestine and former captain in the Israeli army, expressed apprehension about the spread of anti-Semitism in the Soviet sphere...
From the viewpoint of a moderately successful Jewish merchant, the future in Bobruisk, Belorussia looked very dim after the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1920 Joseph Hecht and his wife decided to send their husky young sons, Shimon and Yehyel, to Palestine. It was a lucky break for the Hecht brothers, because as time went by, the chances of getting out of the Soviet Union diminished to nil. Mr. & Mrs. Hecht were forced to stay in Bobruisk. Shimon and Yehyel became foundation members of Degania B, a communal settlement in the Jordan Valley...