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. - - Passover Greetings the Weizman:, Institute of Science at Rehovoth. * * * 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 For Appointment Phone UNiversity 2-8413 Holiday Greetings 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- Best Wishes to Our Friends and Patrons sadah Publishers Ltd. of Tel For a Most Joyous Passover Italian Dinners Cocktail Lounge Aviv and Jerusalem. Many Jews, who in any event 18300 Woodward had little sense of kinship or TO. 9-9865 affinity with the community Largest China and Glassware Display purported as their own, profes- Wholesale and Retail sed to see in the holocaust in For Restaurant — Home — Synagogue Europe the writing on the wall 7500 N. Telegraph Rd., 5 Miles N. of Monroe, Mich. so far as their own personal ex- Holiday Best Wishes istences were concerned. They WOodwa rd 3-1618 • withdrew, or tried to withdraw, .,•••••••••••••• RAY WILLIAMS DANCING STUDIO inobtrusively from communal notice or to give up their com- Mambo—Tango---Rhumba munal ties; they changed their Group or Individual Instruction for Adults and Children names to more gentilic patrony- Holiday Best Wishes 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 18963 LIVERNOIS UN. 4-2535 a macabre play of words in Neor Seven Mile Road Hebrew by transposing a letter Export Packaging-Rust Proofing-Forwarding in the familiar apothogem "Kol Yisroel Haverim"—all Is- rael are brethren—by indicating 12345 Schaefer that, if the process of assimila- TExas 4-7500 • tion continued, it would soon be Holiday Greetings a sinister "Kol Yisroel Haserim" —all Israel are missing. The problem of Who is a Jew? therefore faced the or- Season's Most Cordial Wishes ganizers of the Jewish 'Who's Who." I would like to illus- trate the type of mentality current among certain circles • 17800 W: 7 MILE RD. KE. 2-0659 commonly regarded as Jews in Spring-Air Mattresses the following incident: when 0•111•41+0041•• I was in London last year, the United Kingdom representa- tive -of "Who's Who in World 14288 Meyers Rd. TE. 4-4390 Jewry" showed me a letter re- Holiday Greetings ceived from a prominent pro- fessor at a Liverpool universi- ty, who had never been known until then to repudiate his Bookkeeping Systems Installed Jewishness. 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