December 24, 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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RIP VAN WINKLE
closely knitted to the development
lish, Hebrew and Yiddish which
•
e Jew ish
and rise of Jewish life in this serves as a guide to th
By DR. EMIL AMBERG
in addition to the Bul-
country as well as in other parts book-lover.
letin, which is distributed free the
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of the world.
There is no doubht that Rip would learn of the abnormal men-
world over, the company issues
tal state of some nations, led by
At
Bloch's
one
finds
all
sorts
periodically various Judaica and
ers in America" and was the guid-
more or less confirmed psycho.
Winkle
would
be
greatly
sur-
ing spirit of the firm. To him goes of people. In Mr. Bloch's office you Hebraica catalogues and selected Van
prised if he would awake from a paths, namely, by individuals
the credit for having spread the feel the pulse of Jewish life. It book lists.
Mrs Charles Bloch in his time sleep of twenty years today. He whose thinking is deranged and
printed word among Jews in all serves as a rendezvous for Jewish
foreign to our way of thinking.
walks of life. He made it the intellectuals — rabbis, teachers, purchased the copyrights and would be sad, apprehensive and
And yet, he might be hopeful.
most important publishing center students and laity. It has earned plates of many important Anglo- hopeful. He would be sad because He would be consoled by the co-
in American Jewry. The firm, the position of being the central Jewish works in order to reprint the world has been plunged into operation, the perseverence, the
which boasts the country's finest clearing hous of Judaica and He- them for wider dessemination. The
understanding, tile purposeful ac-
famous Zionist classic "Rome and an abyss of suffering by a nation tions and the enthusiasm which
collection of Judaica and Hebraica, braica.
A
few
illustrations
will
bear
continues today under the leader-
Jerusalem" by Moses Hess has re- which once was considered to be govern that part of the human
ship of his younger son, Edward witness to this. The Bloch Pub- cently
re-issued
Bloch's.
The been
Bloch
imprint by
covers
every among the leaders of enlightened race which is activated by the
lishing
Company
is
proud
to
act
H. Bloch.
humanity. • He would learn that high moral principles of truth,
Completing its 90th year, the as official American agents for the branch of Judaism. There are text-
justice and tolerance, principles
Bloch Publishing Co., also known publications of the Hebrew Uni- books to meet the various types of history repeats itself in a way on which the sanity and future
as "The Jewish Book Concern," versity of Jerusalem. It represents curricula and general Jewish lit- commensurate with the principles of mankind should be based.
is not merely "another firm' of and acts as distril utors for such erature including such subjects as existing at the time when he went
A legendary Rip Van Winkle
moch•ei sefarim, dealers in books. institutions as the Alexander Ko- Bible, liturgy, music, biography, to sleep.
may awaken again, we hope soon,
lt has become known on the one but Memorial Foundation, the history, theology, rabbinics and
The diplomatic negotiations of and may see, we pray, a new
hand as an Otzar Hosefarim, a Talmud Publishing of Jerusalem, current poetry, not to mention its
"Treasury of Jewish Books" and the Rabbi Kook Foundation and famous Jewish Cook Book, of late are similar to those described world, a better world, a world
on the other, a sort of central the Torah v'Avodh Library of Pal- which many editions have been by Tucydides when he speaks of which shall harbor more security
clearing house for Judaism in estine, and serves as distributors printed and more than 150,000 the various efforts and considers and happiness for all the inhabit-
America—a true Bet Vaud Lech- of all important Palestinian pub- copies have been sold. Bloch's re- ti .ons of the Greeks. His descrip- ants of the earth.
achmint (the gathering place of lications.
Bloch takes pride in being the dal department promotes the sale
the wise) because there is found
distributors of the pub- of books of Jewish interest pub- tion holds good today and is use-
reflected contditions of Jewish life largest
and American Judaism with all its lications of the Jewish Publica- lisped the world over, regardless ful Rip
reading
all.
Van for
Winkle
would be
paradoxes and curiosities — for tion Society of Philadelphia and of language or subject and a spe-
whatver transpires at Bloch's is those of the Department of Syno- cial department is devoted to re- shocked beyond expression by the
Sincere Chanukah Greetings!
gogue and School Extension and ligious ceremonial objects. Among sub-animal actions of some men
of the Union of American Hebrew its patrons are also many priests, sub-anu
ministers and students and teach- exhibited by abominable atrocities
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foreign to decent human minds.
Brotherhood of
Congregations in Cincinna
serving also as the selling agents ers of denominational seminaries The counterpart of some inhuman
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actions in the past would be found
of hundreds of authors and vari- and Commemorating
schools.
Sleeping Car Porters
nine decades of by him multiplied in extent and
ous educatioal institutions.
During these many years the championing Jewish culture, the aggravated in severity. He would
SOBERMAN
firm has supplied books to numer- Bloch firm has recently issued a notice a repetition of the incredi-
BENNIE SMITH
ous synagogue and center libra- new catalogue of English Judaica, ble cruelties committed in the 30
MILGROM
rice to Y.M.H.A.'s and to theo- classified by subjects and indexed years' war exemplified by the
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In conclusion, it may be said storming
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Ri Van
would be ap-
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Since the war it has dessemin- has never deviated from the tea- prehensive
future
when
s of of
the the
many
opinions
.
ated prayerbooks and other reli- tlitions and ideals established by he learn in the world today. He
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ican armed forces through the Na- gentile alike as a laison agency
tional Jewish Welfare Board for on behalf of Jewish cultural val-
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