Word: simonize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Jewish Information Service, in Los Angeles. This soft-sell approach reflects the historic reluctance of Jews to seek converts: the traditional Jewish code enjoins rabbis to discourage prospective converts at least three times. But if applicants insist, the code provides a mechanism for conversion. Rabbi Ralph Simon, new president of the Jewish Information Society, is calling for more "aggressive presentation of Judaism, with conviction on the part of those who do this work that we possess unique truths, that can contribute to a peaceful and perfected world...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...
...Great Forgery, by Edith Simon. The hero of this ironical novel, a scruffy old painter who forges a Holbein to show the art experts up as Philistines, is a fine, randy character who bears a strong resemblance to Joyce Gary's Gulley Jimson...
...GREAT FORGERY (501 pp.)-Edith Simon-Little, Brown...
This question was raised and left unanswered in actuality by the postwar trial of Holland's Han van Meegeren for forging Vermeers-the case that prompted Edith Simon to write this novel. The 44-year-old wife of a University of Edinburgh don, Author Simon was born in Berlin of German parents, did not learn English until her parents moved to Britain when she was 14. Since then, she has published ten books in English, ranging from a distinguished study of the Knights Templars to The Golden Hand, a novel of 14th century England that ranks with the finest...