Page Sixteen
Friday, Docember 20, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
Bc4aban Honored for JDA Efforts
1946 LaMed Awards Isaacs to Address
Go To 2 Translations Educators' Conclave
Chicago, Dec. 26-28
The English committee of the In
Louis LaMed Foundation for the
Bernard Isaacs, United Hebrew
Advancement of Hebrew and Yid-.
dish Literature announces the Schools superintendent, is among
following winners of prizes for the speakers for the second an-
Henry Monsky (left), president of Bnai Brith and Harvey D.
Gibson (right), nationally known financier and former American
Red Cross commissioner to Great Britain during the war, joined in
an eloquent testimonial to Barney Balaban (center), president of
Paramount Pictures recently, for his efforts on behalf of the Joint
Defense Appeal and the work of the American Jewish Committee
and the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith in fighting anti-
Semitisin.
Plans to meet the resurgence of racial and religious bigotry in
the United States will be given a full dress review when the extra-
ordinary National Conference of the Joint Defense Appeal convenes
in St. Louis on Jan. 4. The Conference will be attended by more
than 1.000 Jewish welfa:.e and community leaders from every section
of the nation. It will continue through Jan. 6, with principal
sessions at Coronado Hotel.
Dreidels and Lathes
Hanukah Highlights
As part of its program service to
the Jewish community centers and
as well as the entir,
Ji•,. i community. the National
Jewish Welfare Board has issued a
76-page tnanual entitled "Hanu-
kah." which contains a wealth of
mat, rtal designeci to develop cre-
ative programs and projects for
youth and adults on this increas-
ingly popular Jewish festival. From
th.tt manual we have extracted
this compendium of facts which
throws light on Hanukah and its
historical significance.
nual conference of midwestern
1946:
"The Old Country," by Julius Jewish educators which will Tegt
and Frances Butwin, published Dec. 26 to 28 at the College of
Jewish Studies in Chicago.
by Crown Publishers.
The conference willdiscuss pro-
"Letters from the Desert," by
Moshe Mosenson, translated from grams of studies for secondary
the Hebrew by Hilda Auerbach Hebrews .sChbols and institutions
and edited with an introduction of higher Jewish learning and
by Shiomo Grodzensky, published will consider plans for improve-
ment of the summer school camp
by Sharon Books, Inc.
The Louis LaMed Foundation program, Sharon, launched last
gives annual prizes to the best summer at Buchanan, Mich..
The meeting will include a con-
books in Hebrew and Yiddish.
This is the first time that the clave of Hebrew-speaking youth
foundation is offering prizes for from midwestern communities
Jewish works which are transla- which will conclude with a Mlava
tions into English from the He- Malka reunion of campers at
brew and Yiddish or interpreta- Sharon.
tions of Jewish life made in the
HOW TO STUDY
able for dying young. They asked
him to pray for them, but he ad-
Hanukah saga. The writers were original Judah Maccabeus and his vised them to be of a charitable
followers of the
brothers fought against the Hel- disposition in order to prolong
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life. —Midrash.
lenistic spirit of athletics.
after the events portrayed in the the Maccabi movement, but the
The quaint origin of latkes as
the most popular Hanukah deli-
cacy is supposed to be the pan-
cakes hastily _prepared by the
Jewish women I'7o-r the soldiers of
Maccabeus when they halted for
rest while pursuing the troops of
the Syrians.' So strengthened
were the Maccabean warriors by
tho,ie pancakes, that Judas Mac-
cabeos is supposed to have de-
creed that Jews should eat latkes
on Hanukah.
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The traditional Hanukah drei-
ders foUr Hebrew letters on each
side—Nun, Gimmel, Hay and
Shin, are the initials of the
Hebrew words Ness Godol Hoyoh
Shorn, meaning, "a great miracle
occurred there," the miracle be-
ing the eight days during which
the oil burned in the Temple.
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While the actual meaning of
Hanukah is dedication because
the Temple was rededicated dur-
ing the events which the holiday
commemorates, among the many
explanations advanced for the
origin of the name Hanukah is ;1
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that it comes from Chanok, or
Enoch. a character in Genesis.
the great - great - grandson of
Adam, who lived 365 years, and
who is associated by mystics with
light because his years on earth
equaled the number of days of
the sun's journey.
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"Moat-Tzur," (Rock of Ages)
the familiar hymn that is sung
Sentence Jewish Youth
To 18-Year Prison Term
• JERSULEM, (JTA)—Benjamin
Yossee Kimchin, 16-year-olci Jew-
ish youth, was convicted of at-
tempted robbery of a bank ,in
Jaffa and illegally bearing arms,
and was sentenced to 18 and 12-
year concurrent prison terms.
In addition the military court
brdered that he receive 18 strokes
of the lash. Whert the verdict was
read, he shouted: "DO' you expect
to be in Palestine 18 years?"
Kimchin, who 'appeared in
court in a military shirt and
shorts, refused to enter a plea.
A second Jewish • youth, 17, is
held on a similar charge.
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fairly bursting with
tenderness, then
drenched in rich
tomato seece—thers
"pod eating!
Scholars to Re-establish
literatures of these languages.
The English committee is com- 'Partisan Yeshiva' in N. J.
posed of Dr. Solomon Grayzel,
NEW YORK (JTA)—The sur-
chairman; Dr. Ludwig Lewisohn
viving remnant of a group of
and Marvin Lowenthal.
rabbis and students who were
hidden by the Czech and Slovak
Foundation Rewards Three
partisans and continued their re-I
s ligious studies in forest hide-OUts
for Literary Work
NEW YORK (JTA) — Prof. between battles with the Nazis!
Chaim Tchernowitz, H. Levick arrived in New York aboard the!
and Simcha Petrush have been "Ide de France."
There were 42 in the group, in-
named the winners of the annual
prize awarded by the Louis La- cluding noted Czechoslovak rah
med Foundation for the best bis, their students, and the wive
books published in Hebrew and and children of a few of the mer.
most of whom are from 18 to 25
Yiddish during the year.
years old.
Prof. Tchernowitz was given
The scholars are planning to re-
the prize for his Hebrew volume, established their institution which
"The Wise Men of Odessa;" Lei- became known as "Partisan
vick for a book of Yiddish poems, Yeshiva" at Somerville, N. J. A
"I Was Not in Tremblinka," and residence has been furnished for
Petrushka for his translation them there by United Service for
from Hebrew into Yiddish of the New Americans. The JDC ar-
Mishnayoth, a digest of Jewish ranged ocean passage to the U. S
ritual and jurisprudence. Each
for the group.
after the kindling of the Hanukah
lights, is not a Jewish melody but
an adaptation of an old German
folk song of the Middle Ages.
This German tune has also been
utilized by Christians, Martin
Luther having employed it for
his chorals. One of the poems in
Lord Byron's "Hebrew Melodies"
The story of Hanukah does not —"On Jordan's Banks"—was set
to..-the music of "Maoz Tzur" by
appear in the Old Testament but the great poet's Jewish friend,
is recounted in post-Biblical Isaac Nathan.
Boks of the Maccabees, all writ-
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author will receive ;400.
ten in Greek by Palestinian, The name of Maccabeus, hero
Rabbi Meier came to a place
Alexandrian and Cyrenese Jew- of the Hanukah story, has been
where he found a family remark-
preserved
in
the
name
of
many
ish writers within half a century Jewish sports groups, notably
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Small class, limited to 10, being
formed for serious high school stu-
debts. to develop personal effec-
tiveness in study.
Intelligence and personality tests
for each member. Individual in-
te ry iev:s for parents before and
after class.
Individual guidance under profes-
sional direction Details in person,
by mail.
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