Yiddish Culture

Large Refugee Family
Finds Haven in America

Learning About the Shofar

Congress Starts
$1,000,000 Drive

NEW YORK (JTA) — T h e
World Congress for Yiddish Cul
ture concluded its five-day session
here with the proclamation of a
$1,000,000 campaign to prOmote
Yiddish schools, literature, the-
ater and art in Jewish commun-
ities throughout the world. The
sum is to be raised within a per-
iod of three years..
The Congress decided to estab-
lish a. permanent organization to
deal • with projects for strength-
ening of Yiddish culture in var-
ious countries. It adopted a num-
ber of resolutiOns on plans for
coordinating the activities of var-
ious Jewish cultural groups and
especially with developing edu-
cational- work among Jewish
youth. A world council com-
posed of 250 members was elected
at the concluding session. -
The newly: formed organization
will arrange a Jewish music fes-
tival In New York and will or-
ganize Jewish singing societies in
cities with a large Jewish popu-
lation. It will also promote art
by arranging exhibitions of the
works of Jewish artists. One such
exhibition in which eighty well-
known Jewish artists are partici-
pating opened at the Jewish Mu-
seum here.

Weil Urges Suppor4
Of Center Movement
By Local Communities

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Maxi-
mum community support for the
Jewish Center movement was
urged at the Jewish Center, Di-
vision Committee's annual two-
day meeting at the Hotel Com-
modore.. The appeal for full
community support of Jewish
_Centers was voiced by Frank L.
Weil, president of the Jewish
Welfare Board, sponsor of the
Center Committee, who em-
phasized, that "in these decisive
.times the Jewish Center has a
vital role 'to play in its service
to the total community."
The Jewish Centers by their
efforts to "enrich with significant
Jewish content the community's
-cultural resources" are making
giant strides toward achieving.. a
"more meaningful and positive
Jewish life in America," he de-
clared.
Reporting on the Center Com-
, mittee's ,activities last y e a r,
Philip Klutznick, its chairman,
'stated that 1,750 organizations
in 47 states commemorated Jew-
ish Book Mdnth, that the Jewish
Music Festival attracted interest
and participation in and beyond
America and that the Center
Division's publications depart-
ment distributed over 26,000
items of literature. S. D. Gersh-
ovitz, JWB executive director,
disclosed that some $3,000,000
;worth of -construction was be-
'gun this year by various Jewish
centers,
Mit. Samuel R. Glogower
:Detroit •was _elected to the na-
tional executive committee of
the JWB Center Division.

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Jewish Immigration to
South Africa Banned

LONDON, (JTA)—Jewish
migration to South Africa has
been banned, it was reported
from Johannesburg. In the futUre
only close relatives • of Jewish
residents of South Africa will be
given visas to enter the country.
It is this policy which is behind
the official policy of carefully,
screening all prospective immi.
grants just established by . Inter•,
for Minister TheOpilus E. Dongest.-

BEST WISHES

FOR A

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Best Wishes

For A

Happy New Year

The significance of the blowing of the Shofar (ram's horn)
at morning weekday services during the month preceding Rosh
Hashanah is explained to two newly-arrived. DP brothers, DANNY,
3 (center), and JOSEPH MACHEMSTEIN, 5, by REV. DR.
EZEKIEL LANDAU, in the synagogue of HIAS (Ilebrew \Immi-
grant Aid Society) headquarters at 425 Lafayette St., New York.

Jewish Book Awards
Announced by Council

NEW YORK — The Jewish
Book Council, sponsored by the
National Jewish Welfare Board,
announces that it will make two
literary awards --- one for a work
of fiction, the other for a non-
fiction book, "which have literary
merit and are of general Jewish
interest." Both works must have
been written and published in
English; in the .United States, be-
tween July 1, 1947 and June 30,
1948. The awards will be an-
nounced in January, 1949.
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil of Washington, D. C., has do-
nated the prize of $500 which
will be awarded to an author of
a non-fiction work of Jewish in-
terest and literary merit. Samuel
Daroff of Philadelphia,. president
of the Allied Jewish Appeal and
member of the JWB board of di-
rectors, is the donor of the $250
prize for the best work of fiction
Of • Jewish interest -- either a
novel or a c011ection of stories.

Clay Asked to Disregard
Ban on Exit Visas to DPs

WASHINGTON, (JTA)— Rep.
Ethanuel Celler of New York
cabled Gen. Lucius D. Clay in
Berlin urging him to "disobey
the order of Assistant Secretary
of State Charles E. Saltzman that
seeks to interfere with your au-
thority to grant • exit visas to
Jewish DPs of military age en
route to Palestine."
He informed Clay that the
General has "widespread sup-
port back home for continuing
your humanitarian policy of free-
ly granting exit visas to all Jews
seeking to make Israel their
home." The Congressional in-
tention, Cellar asserted, is to
close DP camps in Germany as
soon as possible.

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'Hilldring Wains Against
Aiding Israel 'Irregulars'

BALTIMORE (JTA)—"Ameri-
'cans who • have given aid and
comfort to the irregular forces in
'Israel must share responsibility
.;for the tragic murder of Count
Folke Bernadette in Jerusalem,"
Major General: John H. Hilldring,
former Assistant' Secretary of
State for Occupied Areas and
American ,delegate to the United
!Nations, told chore than 200 Jew-
ish leaders . from .all parts of
:Maryland :who' assembled. here
.:for the • Maryland State Confer-
•ience of the • $250,000,000 United
Jewish Appeal.
Gen. Hilldring Urged continued
support of the work of the UJA
!agencies. He described his own
work in behalf of the occupants
Hof displaced persons camps and
emphasized: the urgent need for
'assistance for --thoe who immi-
'''grate to - ,
as well as for
!those
who reitiaifi in Europe or
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c ome to Atherica; Lee L. bop--:
kin, prominent Baltirxiore coin-
; ,munal leader, was re-elected
''Maryland.. regional chairman.

With the arrival of a 16-year;-
:old bay from Italy recently, one
of the lafgest families of Jewish
refligees to find haven in the
United States — consisting of a
former Hungarian rabbi, his
:wife, and eight of their nine
children—was reunited in New
York at the national Reception
Center of United. Service for
New Americans.
The family includes Rabbi and
Mrs. Naftali Gross and their
children Armin, Israel, Michael,
Moses, Rosa, Samuel, Sarah, and
Chaim, who range in age from
four to 18. Israel is the one who
has just come to this country.
The others arrived a few weeks
ago, also from Italy, where the
oldest son, Schaye, has remained
with his wife.

THE JEWISH NEWS-•-53
Friday, October 1, 1948

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