Thursday, July 14, 1949
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Samaritans to Get
Assistance from JDC
NEW YORK—Some 200 Sam-
aritans in Nablus, Palestine, a
people who ,repaesent a living
link with the Bible. but who are
now faced with starvation and
possible extinction as an after-
math of the recent Palestine con-
flict, will receive emergency aid
from the Joint. Distribution Com-
mittee, major American agency
aiding distressed Jews abroad.
Moses A, Leavitt, executive
vice-chairman of the JDC, an-
nounced July 9, that following
an urgent plea for help in behalf
of the Samaritans, the JDC had
voted an emergency appropria-
tion of $1,200 monthly to feed and
assist the group.
PLEAS REJECTED
The JDC was advised, accord-
ing to Leavitt, that other relief
bodies now assisting Arabs in the
Nablus region, which is Arab
held, had rejected pleas of help
froni the Samaritans, on the
grounds that they were not war
refugees, The Samaritans, who
tend flocks and work at simple
crafts, had their usual means of
earning a livelihood disrupted in
the recent Arab-Jewish fighting.
The 200 Samaritans of Nablus,
representing 40 families, are
tredited with being direct de-
scendents of a once, populous peo-
ple which figures prominently in
both the Old and New Testa-
ments. Inbreeding, war and dis-
aster. extended over 27 centuries,
has reduced the Samaritans to
their present small number.
Originally,
the
Samaritans
were settled in central Palestine
in the year 719 B.C., by Shalman-
• sser, king of Assyria, to occupy
Israel Alters
Customs Rules
WASHINGTON—New customs
regulations have gone into effect
in Israel, Gideon Strauss, Consul
in charge of commercial affairs,
announced.
The customs charge on food
gift parcels has been sharply re-
duced from 30 percent ad valorem
to a nominal figure of 25 cents
liar each 4.4 pounds (40 Israeli
mils per kilogram).
Immigrants will be exempt
from luxury taxes on their per-
sonal effects and equipment. On
used motor vehicles, immigrants
will in the future pay a flat duty
of 30 percent ad valorem, and
the previous specific duty and
luxury tux will no longer be
levied.
A new method of computation
will reduce the amount of luxury
tax which applies to gifts of elec-
trical appliances, cars, etc. It will
be computed on the basis of the
tost of the article including in-
surance and freight to Israel and
customs duty.
Romanians Fire
8 Pro-Zionists'
BUCHAREST— (WNS) —Eight
teachers in the recently formed!
government-sponsored Jew i s h
.schools here and at Yassi have
been fired from their posts be-1
cause they failed to impress their
pupils with the "menace" repre- I
aented by Zionism.
Two female teachers were dis-
missed because they criticized a
✓ rnber o textbooks published
by the Soviet government press
for use in Jewish schools. The
teachers were said to have as-
serted that the orthography em-
ployed in those books made it
impossible for children to learn
how to read and write a good
Yiddish.
At the same time it was an-
nounced that the Yiddish theater
Rt Yassi had been given the rank
.. a state theater with the em-
ployes going on the government
payroll.
T. get the worthwhile news
flinot, read the sprightly Jewish
Chronicle.
territories left vacant by the 10
tribes of Israel forceably exiled
by conquerors to distant lands.
These came to be known as the
Ten Lost Tribes.
ONCE HAD TEMPLE
The Samaritans, in the course
of centuries, adopted the Five
Books of Moses as the basis of
their religion, and once had a
Holy Temple. The Samaritans
are not, however, regarded as
Jews by Rabbinical authorities,
Leavitt pointed out, though their
religion resembles a primitive
form of Judaism.
The colorful Samaritan observ-
ance of Passover, celebrating the
Exodus of the Jews from Egypt•
however. was formerly a stand-
ard attraction for tourists in the
Holy Land, who journeyed to
Nablus to witness the religious
rites.
Page Five
Lauds Israeli Music
Molly Segal Group
Picks Mrs. Markowitz
Mrs. N. Markowitz will repre-
sent the Molly Segal Auxiliary
at the convention of the Jewish
Consumptive Relief Society at
Denver, Colo., Aug, 12-14. A spe-
cial meeting, has been called by
Mrs. M. Shapiro, president, for
Tuesday in Mrs. Markowitz'
honor,
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Sholem Asch
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Jewish Indians
May Be Sons
lof Marranos
NEW YORK—The Jews of
Vents Prieta, Mexico, are of pure
Indian or Mestigo type physically,
but regard themselves as de-
scendants of Marranos, a survey
conducted by Prof. Raphael
Patai, revealed.
Prof. Patai received the first
Ph.D. degree conferred by the
Hebrew University.
The Jewish Indians know little
of Judaism, Prof. Patai found,
but their Jewish consciousness is
very strong and they gather in
the Synagogue on Saturday to
pray (mostly 'in Spanish).
They believe that they lost
their original appearance as a re-
sult of several generations of in-
termarriage with the local In-
diana.
Until the study is completed,
however, Prof. Patai will not
state conclusively whether their
assumption is correct.
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CONTINO AT FOX
Dick Contino, one of the coun-
try's most popular musicians,
comes to the stage of the Fox
Theater to head the big show for
one week starting Friday.
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NEW YORK—(WNS)—Sholein
Ascii, noted Yiddish novelist, an-
nounced that he had severed all
connections with the Jewish Cul-
ture Alliance, known as YIKUF,
because the organization had
"ignored the pogrom which Sov-
iet Russia has been conducting
against Jewish publications and
Jewish culture."
In a letter published in "The
Day," New York Yiddish daily,
Asch accused YIKUF, an alleged
pro-Soviet organization formed
before the war for the purpose of
spreading Yiddish culture through
the dissemination of books, of
shutting "the mouths" of the
contributors to its publication
"Yiddishe Kultur" and of ignor-
ing and "condemning to obscurity
all who dared to protest against
the injustice."
RAPS 'KULTUR'
Asch did not give full details
in h4 letter, but it is believed
his Arts were directed against
a recent "Yiddishe Kultur" issue
which failed to react to the re-
ported disappearance of many of
the outstanding Soviet Jewish
writers.
In an editorial reacting to
Arch's letter, the Communist
"Morning Freiheit" accused the
novelist of "capitulating to re-
action." It said there "isn't a
single word of truth" in the con-
clusions drawn by the anti-Soviet
propagandists, but it failed to
make any reference to the re-
ported arrest of the Soviet Jewish
writers and to the closing down
of all Jewish publications in Rus-
sia.
In rebuttal of the claim of
"Pravda" as reporting that a new
show had opened at the Moscow
Jewish Theatre and that that
event was proof that the Soviet
government was encouraging
Jewish culture.
INQUIRY SLATED
The reported disappearance of
the Jewish writers in Russia has
been widely discussed in the
Jewish press. So far these re-
ports have neither been denied
nor confirmed by those in a posi-
tion to know the facts.
One of the leading associations
of Jewish writers here, it was re-
ported, is planning to send an
inquiry about the matter to the
Soviet ambassador in the United
States, who was said to have ig-
nored a private inquiry made by
a Jewish writer with pronounced
pro-Soviet leanings.
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