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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

October I 1943

UNIVERSITY

de: igned and installed in a local
A heartening event, though it Brach. How they are received is refugee communities in
Latin
factory not long ago by a Uni- oanie at a lime—last July--when hest expressed by it letter from America.
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versity scientist. This fact is im- Palestine seemed in imminent Lt. Dorothy Victor:
In the meantime the
D. c.
ance it will give to the full extent portant because ethylene happens danger of invasion, was the 50th
"A sweeter person never lived in Latin America is providing
to be needed as an ingredient of anniversary of the Jewish Na-
of its facilities.
intermediary compounds in the Ilona]. There was no celebration. than Ellen Miller, USO-JWB Di- food, clothing and medical aid. It
Looking forward to post-war manufacture of drugs, plastics, On the day of the anniversary, rector. She has so much charm is maintaining nurseries f r chip
conditions in the medical profes- and a good many other industrial a press conference was arranged and is so well-loved by every dren and old-age homes. I! i
s re,
sion, the University and Hadassall,products.
in the library, and for the par- WAC at Des Moines. She also: settling immigrants from urba n
which are partners in the great
made me feel as though I be-
The
University's
role
in
war-
titular
benefit
of
thejournalists
to
provincial
centers,
medical center on Mount Scopus, time industry (which is a natural some of the Library's choicest longed, and when graduation
where earn-
are planning to expand the pies- corollary of its services to Pal_ treasures in the way of ancient rolled around and I had no dear ing possibilities are higher. It i s
ent post-graduate school into an estinian industry in peacetime) Hebrew manuscripts and Hebrew one here, what could have been cooperating with local Jewish
institution fully equipped for the has been recognized in invitations incunabual (book printed before better than having Ellen pin on groups to establish loan banks and
credit cooperatives to supply capi-
instruction of undergraduates.
to be represented at the Pales- 1500) were brought up from their my bars. Yes, I owe a lot to tal for small enterprises. It is
The enterprise will involve some tinian Industrial Exhibition ;n concrete air raid shelter. There JWB . . . "
providing retraining
years
ears of careful planning and Cairo the summer before last, and could be no public exhibition be-
language classes and legal aid,
very large sums, but that is th
the , at the Jewish Industrial Exhibi- cause it •
was thought too much
FUTURE
Its special representative has just
only alternative to a serious tion in Tel-Aviv last autumn. In of a risk to keep the books
terminated a tour of South Amer.
shortage of Jewish physicians both cases its exhibits attracted above ground for more than an
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ion and will now establish per.
within the next 20 years, since wide attention.
hour or two. Word of the jubilee
manent representation in Latin
the war and persecutions have
self-reliant.
That
is
why
a
nursery
One of the most satisfactory was sent to universities and uni-
, e
prevented great numbers of young things about the University in versity libraries abroad, and which will care for children while America.
When at this time the J. D. C.
men and women from entering wartime
is that all the normal among the congratulations re- parents learn a language or a
European medical schools as they teaching, research, and publishing ceived in return were some very new trade, is as vital, if not more sends Rosh Hashonah greetings
would normally have done. Corn- activities go on as usual. There cordial and interesting messages so, as providing food or clothing to all its committees, and through
them to our stricken people
mittees are already studying the stay be fewer students and teach- from the Bodleian Library, the to newcomers.
throughout the world, the message
problems involved and assembling ers, but every department car- Library of Congress in Washing-
In Latin America is may be in effect says:
their facts, so as to be ready ries on. At the Institute of Jew- ton, the Institute of Jewish Re- said that the J. I). C. is in league
for the discussions that will be- ish
"From men and women of good
Studies, which might be called ligion in New York, and Yale with the future on a full-time will in America, to you who
(HT
gin
after
the
war.
the
heart
of
the
University,
well
University.
T
h
e
international
basis, because the future which in such travail, greetings of hope
Turning to the University's over
half the student body are brotherhood of scholars is still we are planning for the immi- and cheer. We who by the •cci-
wartime help to the farmers, taking
courses either in Bible,
grants there is already being dent of fate are far from the fall-
there is the heartening sight of Talmud, Hebrew, Philology, He- obviously a fact!
achieved in some measure. In ing bombs, and the machine gun
large quantities of new water brew Literature, Jewish Philoso-
Chile nearly one-third of the 12,- squads, the internment camps, the
supplies found in settlements phy and Mysticism, or in Jewish
SERVE-A-CAMP
1100 refugees who have entered prisons, the misery and the squa-
where borings have been made on History and Sociology. The staff
the country since 1935 have es- lor—we want you to know that we
the advice of the University's ge- are preparing the material from
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tablished some 800 new enterpris-
ologists. In these days of strict which to compile a historical die- program has been delegated to es employing •.300 Chilean work- are not forgetting you and that
rationing, there is no need to go tionttry
we are trying to relieve your
of Biblical Hebrew, and the members of the Speakers ers. In Cuba 500 refugees are sus-
into detail about what water • two of its members are serving Committee. These women are taining themselves and their fami- need and despair. Take heart,
means in the way of increased on the editorial board of the available in various parts of the lies by beim; diamond cutters, a hold on just a little longer, find
food supplies in a part of the
hope and sustenance in our help,
, Biblical Encyclopedia, which is country to explain the functions trade they learned in their new
world so largely dependent on to be a joint project of the Uni- and aims of the Women's Divi- homeland. We want to make this for the day is soon coming when
imports. Readers who know Pal- versity's
our righteous strength will tear
estine will remember the hard tiquities Museum of Jewish An- sion and at the same time to de- present the future of all other your chains away.
and Mossad Bialik. scribe the general set-up of the
struggle Kevuzath Ginegar in the
Or take the School of Oriental Jewish Welfare Board.
Emek had had for the past 20 Studies.
There the staff are go- The Committee for Work with
years for lack of water. In fact, ing ahead with their Concordance Women and Girls, whose chair-
one wonders if the Kevuzah to Classical Arabic Poetry (for man is Mrs. Samuel R. Glogower
would have been able to carry which
hundreds of thousands of of Detroit, is working in cooper-
on at all if not for the great cards have already been pre- ation with the USO committee of
Balfour Forest on its land, which pared)
and their critical edition the same name to serve girls
provides paid work for the Hay- of a famous work by an early living and working, in industrial
arim. That same bone-dry Gine- Moslem
historian named Balad- areas, women and girls working
gar recently celebrated its 20th
hurl. Several volumes of the lat- in Army camps, families of serv-
birthday with a "housewarming" ter have already been published, icemen living near camps and the
(if you may call it that) for its and three others are in prepara- WACs.
new ell which means a new lease tion. The graduates of the school
The War Efforts Committee,
of life for the Kevuzah thanks
are making good use of their headed by Mrs. Edward Popper,
to
having
followed
the
advice
of
knowledge
of
Oriental
languages
represents
the JWB on the Wont-
University geologist concerning and
cultures in teaching and offi- en's Interest Section of the War
the boring site. Three new settle- cial posts, and in friendly per- Department's Public Relations
ments in the south—Kfar Mena- sonal
hem, Gath, and Doroth---which tuals. contacts with Arab intellec- Bureau and transmits materials
and data received from the War
' have been having a hard time
English at the University has Department to national affiliated
are also rejoicing in water found at last attained to the dignity women's organizations. This com-
for them on their land by the of a "degree subject" with the mittee has the responsibility of
Hebrew University geologists.
The University medical scion- recent establishment of the Chair evaluating and planning projects
of English Literature and Insti- for use by communities in the
tists, also, do their share for the tutions. The occupant of the new war efforts program.
population of agriculture. The chair is Prof. Jacob Isaacs. Read-
U
va come for immunizing cattle
workers assi g ned to
against Theoleriasis, which used er in English at King's College, the WACs report regula rly to
University
of
London,
who
is
al-
the
Committee
for Work with
to take a heavy toll of the Pal-
605 FOX THEATRE BLDG.
estinian livestock, is an old story ready well and favorably known Women and Girls. There are three
CHERRY 6780
by this time. For the past two in Palestine thanks to a series of of them now: one at Fort Ogel-
public lectures on modern Eng- thorpe, Des Moines, and Daytona
years courses in the prevention lish
literature he delivered at the ;:777.7., ,
and cure of poultry diseases for University several years ago.
-
-
breeders and export have been Now though the teaching of Eng-
given at the University, and the lish at the Hebrew University is
letters of thanks made good read- very important from the academic
ing. This year a special course viewpoint, there is even more to
was given by University scien- it than that. It is recognized
tists for the veterinary surgeons that in the postwar era English
WE JOIN OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
at their request. It all sounds a will become increasingly domi-
matter of course until you re- nant as a means of communica-
member that in the last war the tion in the Diaspora, since Anglo-
settlers had no one to help them American Jewry has by force of
deal with disease among their tragic circumstance taken over
livestock, or as much of it as
wasn't requisitioned by the mili- the hegemony in general Jewish
affairs. Again, it has been real-
tary.
ized more and more in Palestine
Perhaps the most numerous in recent years that it is essential
contributions made by the Uni- for the Yishuv to form a much
IN EXTENDING
versity. are through the services closer
acquaintance with the Eng-
of applied science to industry. lish language, English literature,
But that is just where the censor and English institutions than,
BEST WISHES TO THE ENTIRE
steps in with his "Hush! That with its predominantly Russian,
sort of thing is a military secret;
Polish and German cultural back-
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOR A
knowing
about it might help the grounds,
I I
has ever had before.
. S till, It
I won't be giving Tangible it
proof of that growing
JOYOUS NEW YEAR
much away to say that University realization is seen in the crowded 1
scientists are experimenting with classes in English language and
processes for the manufacture literature at the University,
o plastics, like bakelite or syn- though no credits have hitherto
thetic horn, as substitutes for been allowed for what was desig-
metals, wood, and other raw ma- nated a "non-degree" subject.
terials. And it's an open secret The establishment of the new
that apparatus for making ethy- chair is therefore a right measure
lene in commercial quantities was taken at the right time.

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