Welts' Son-in-Law Works of Palestinian-Born Bourla
On Exhibit at NYC Jewish Museum
Writes Thrilling
Baseball History

.7ales of Yore' Enhance
Jewish Pocket Books

Jewish News readers will re-
call the review in these columns
of the sensational novel by Robert
Smith. "Hotel on the Lake," deal-
ing with anti-Semitism at sum-
mer resorts. We hailed that
novel---published in 1943 by
Farrlr & Rinehart—as one of
the outstanding stories exposing
bigotry among vacationists.
Mr. Smith, son-in-law of Mr.
and Mrs. Melville S. Welt, in 1945
authored another good novel,
"The Homan Image," published
by Harper & Bros.
Now we are treated to an ex-
c•llent full-length historical work
on "Baseball. - which was publish-
ed for Mr. Smith by Simon Et
Eichoster.
••Baseball the game, the men
who played it, and its place in

"The Battle of the Talmud,"
one of the -episodes deals with
Rabbi Joselman's interview with
Emperor Maximilian and with the
apostate Johannes Pfefferkorn.
From an historical and dramatic
point of view, these tales are
fascinating and should serve to
inspire modern readers who may
be in need of courage in an hour
of despair.
Thus far, the entire series of
"Jewish Pocket Books" has prov-
ed most valuable.

the excellence of his chapter on
"Gangsters, Bums and Heroes,"
in which he points out how epi-
thets often are flung at baseball

A 'Greenhorn'

"JERUSALEM PANORAMA," A PAINTING BY ODED BOURLA.

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Champion of •rthodoxy

Merchant Preferred
Studies to Business

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ODED BOURLA, 31-year-old

Palestinian born painter, com-
poser, sculptor and writer, whose
works will be on exhibit until
Aug. 31 at the Jewish Museum,
92nd St. and Fifth Ave., New
York City. The Museum is con-
ducted under the auspices of the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America.

Jews Form 8.2 Pct.
Of College Students
In U.S. and Canada

The rare instance of a merch-
ant who does not want any cus-
tomers was found in Germany in
the middle 1800's, in the person
of Seligman Bamberger, out-
standing champion of Orthodox
Judaism.
Bamberger became a rabbi
when he was 20 years old, but
opened a general store by which
to earn a living. An enthusias-
tic scholar, he is said to have
chased away prospective custo-
mers, saying "Is there no other
shop here that you must come
and bother use while I am study-
ing?"
Finally. in 1840, he became a
rabbi at Wuerzburg. where he
opened a Yeshivah which became
famed for its scholarship and
sincerity of purpose.
Bamberger's energies were
bent on the one task of preserv-
ing and spreading Orthodoxy
despite the fact that Reform
Judaism, at that time, was rapid-
ly attaining prominence in Cen-
tral Europe.

WASHINGTON — Jewish stu- India Orders Afghan
dents constitute 8.2 percent of Refugees To Leave
the total enrollment in colleges
T h e
BOMBAY, India, (JTA)
and universities of the U. S. and
Indian Government has is-
new
Canada, according to prelimin-
sued an ultimatum to a group of

—

ary findings of the Decennial
Census of Jewish College Stu-
dents. Leon J. Obermayer, chair-
man of the Bnai Brith Voca-
tional Service Commission, an-
nounced.
The percentage is based on en-
rollment data of 1,565 schools
out of 1,720, which makes the
census 91 percent complete.
A similar census taken by the

280 Afghan Jews who have been
living in India since early this

Bnai Brith Hillel Research Bur-
eau in 1935 indicated the Jewish
proportion to be 8.8 percent in
1,511 schools. The 1935 survey
was 92 percent complete.
The small decline in the pro-
portion of Jewish students from
8.8 percent to 8.2 percent means
there are today about 7,500 few-
er Jewish students than if the
proportion had remained entire-
ly stable.

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year, after fleeing persecution in
Afghanistan, that they must leave
the country by Sept. 24, which
falls on Yom Kippur.

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PHILADELPHIA — Eddie Can-
Jewish Pocket Books, the pro-
tor, noted stage and screen star,
ject of the Agudath Israel Youth has received the 1947 award pre-
Council of America, published by sented by the SI:70,000,000 United
the Spero Foundation, 113 W. Jewish Appeal "for outstanding
42nd St., New York 18, again humanitarian service" in devot-
ing unceasing effort in behalf of

proved its value as a cultural
contribution to American Jewry
with its latest 25-cent pamphlet,
"Tales of Yore," from the life of
Rabbi Joselman of Rosheim.
Edited by Rabbi Markus Leh-
mann, this booklet contains spis-
odes from Rabbi Joselman's story.
The readers are introduced in
dramatic and fascinating fashion
to one of the great figures in 16th
century Jewry.

American life - is the full title of
the Smith work which promises,
like so many Simon & Schuster
works, to become a best seller.
Some ‘vill be disappointed that
My. Smith should have made only
passing reference to Hank Green-
bet g. But he makes up for it by

players. how readily they are
gutten used to, how "Jewish ball-
players are sometimes greeted
with epithets which sheltered folk
imagine never appeared anywhere
but in the journals of Nazi Ger-
many. -
There is a fine chapter in this
hook on Negro players, and the
audio! reveals a true spirit of
spot tsiiiiinship in the press in the
•.ise of John Rooseyclt Robinson.
• • •
When Robert Smith was six
y•,irs old. he crawled under the
nstile of a Cleveland ball park
and saw his first professional
He has been a baseball
gdme.
fan eve!
New England has been Smith's
bailiwick for most of his life. He
was tun n in Boston, attended
school in Winthrop and Brook-
line. Mass., and was a member of
the class of 1927 at Brown Uni-
verslty After college, he worked
M hotels and lumber camps in
NIaine and a department store in
Boston. He has been on the staffs
of mina•roos ,newspapers includ-
ing the Boston Post, Denver Post,
Buffalo Courier
Wichita Bec o
Express and the Toronto Globe
and Malt.
In 1033• he began conducting a
correspondence course in journal-
As a teacher of
He :•■■ ,'S.
LS111
foul nab-m. I got myself a few
th , ws.ind friends and acquaint-
ance, all over the world. There
Is hardly a city in the country
where I don't have someone I
once col responded with and if
anybody ever feels like an argu-
ment. 1 believe that writing can
he taught by correspondence be-
cause I've done it."
In 1940. Mr. Smith became
president of The Magazine Insti-
tute. a school of magazine writ-
ing. He divides his time between
his home in Lenox, Massachusetts
and his hunting camp in Eustis,
Maine. He is married to Janet
Welt, magazine writer, and has
three children, two sons and a
daughter. He has coached basket-
ball. boxing. football and base-
ball at The Lenox School for
He is also coach of The
Boys.
Lenox Town Baseball Team.

Friday, Septeltbar,12, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS ,

Page Fifty-Two

the relief, rehabilitation and re-
settlement of the 1,500,000 Jewish
survivors in Europe.
The presentation was made on
behalf of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
general chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, by Barney Bala-
ban, president of Paramount Pic-
tiires, and head of the motion pic-
ture division of the UJA, at a
dinner in the Bellevue Stratford

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