THE JEWISH NEWS - 57i
A Tome of Many Names
Friday, March 27, 1953
By JULIAN L. MELTZER
On a l'iSit to this country on behalf of
tC•pyrieht, 1953, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
The publication of a "Who's Who in
World Jewry" ' in Jerusalem, the first
of its kind in the English language. is
among Israel's important projects. Mr.
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the Weizman:, Institute of Science at
Rehovoth.
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To Our Friends and Customers
The idea of embarking on the
compilation of a "Who's Who in
World Jewry" first occurred to
Alexander Peli, of Jerusalem,
16276 WYOMING near Curtis Ave.
who is at present on a visit to
the United States. Mr. Peli is
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one of the directors of Encyclo-
paedia Publishing Co. Ltd., pub-
lishers of the authoritative En- ■
cyclopaedia Hebraica (now up to
the. fifth volume) and of Mas-
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sadah Publishers Ltd. of Tel
For a Most Joyous Passover
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Aviv and Jerusalem.
Many Jews, who in any event
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had little sense of kinship or
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affinity with the community
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so far as their own personal ex-
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istences were concerned. They
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inobtrusively from communal
notice or to give up their com-
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munal ties; they changed their
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names to more gentilic patrony-
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rnics, or they went out of the
Monday to Friday, 1 :00 to 11 :00 p.m.
faith
altogether.
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Indeed, one might perpetrate
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a macabre play of words in
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Hebrew by transposing a letter
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in the familiar apothogem
"Kol Yisroel Haverim"—all Is-
rael are brethren—by indicating
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that, if the process of assimila-
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tion continued, it would soon be
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a sinister "Kol Yisroel Haserim"
—all Israel are missing.
The problem of Who is a
Jew? therefore faced the or-
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ganizers of the Jewish 'Who's
Who." I would like to illus-
trate the type of mentality
current among certain circles
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commonly regarded as Jews in
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the following incident: when
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I was in London last year, the
United Kingdom representa-
tive -of "Who's Who in World
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Jewry" showed me a letter re-
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ceived from a prominent pro-
fessor at a Liverpool universi-
ty, who had never been known
until then to repudiate his
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In returning the blank ques-
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tionnaire sent him for com-
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pletion, the prOfessor had
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curtly written: "I do not wish
to be included in a Ghetto
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Again, in the course of organ-
zing the activity on the conti-
nent of Europe, it was found
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t hat many well-known Jews
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were masquerading behind gen-
t ile names in France and Den-
mark. The same was true in
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0 ther countries ranging from
S cotland to South Africa. The
epresentative in Australia and
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New Zealand had a rueful report
to make upon the response from
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uctant to appear in a "Ghetto"
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On the whole, the responses
throughout the world have
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been satisfactory, and the
eventual two volumes will con-
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tain a composite picture of
Jewish eminence in many
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walks of life.
It was the late Dr. Chaim.
eizmann who said that the
b irth of a Jewish state gave the
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J ewish people the opportunity
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a fter 2,000 years to make their
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d istinctive contribution to the
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ti fiable Jewish group, instead of
a s nationals of the countries in
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w hich they lived.
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The way our late, great Presi
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"We have always given our
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b est to the gentile nations among
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w horn we lived, and kept our
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By
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m ann. with his keen insight into
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h uman motives meant that the
Je wish people, through the
er mergence of the state of Israel,
w ould in the future be credited
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wi th and earn the prestige for
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hatever outstanding contribu-
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do n it made toward cultural and
sc ientific advancement, instead
of the ledger account being
m ade up in the name of the
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co untry in which the Jewish
co ntributor was domiciled.
Meltzer, a noted writer and publicist
who has lived in Israel 32 years, dis-
cusses the work now in preparation
under his editorship. He is at present
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