6—THE JEWISH NEWS
Tercentenary Group Asks
Urged to Merge All Forces
of over-all American Jewish
By Jewish News
programs.
Special COrrespondent
While there were many dis-
NEW YORK—The American
tinguished speakers on the
Jewish Tercentenary Committee,. conference program, the show
at the Lint official meeting of was literally stolen by Herman
the body that was set up to Wouk, author of "The Caine
celebrate the 300th anniversary Mutiny" (the novel now on
of the settlement of the first the best-seller list for the
Jewish group in this country in
105th consecutive week, who
1654, outlined a program of ac- is scheduled to address the
tivities at Hotel Commodore Women's Division of the De-
that will include the publication
troit Allied Jewish Campaign
of an extensive history of the at a luncheon at the Shaarey
Jews in America, research into Zedek on Monday). Mr. Wouk
historical facts, public celebra-
called for a re-examination of
tions of civic and religious ne- the great Jewish treasures and
ture, radio and TV programs for the strengthening of Jew-
and other events.
ish traditions. He told the
For this purpose, it was in- famous story about the young-
dicated by Ralph E. Samuel. ster in a southern community
chairman, Albert M. Greenfield, who complained to his father
chairman of the finance com- that Jewish lore was not as
mittee, and other men active on rich as the Christian and gave
the committee, a sum of .$1,000,- as an example the great selec-
000 will be needed. At the sug- tion "The Lord Is My Shep-
gestion of Isidore Sobeloff of herd, I Shall Not Want . . -."
Detroit, the finance committee The father, unfamiliar with it,
now is undertaking a survey of went to the rabbi for a brief-
communities with the view of ing and to learn that it was
assigning quotas which Federa-
Psalm 23, that there are 150
tions and Welfare Funds will be• Psalms and that if he had at-
asked to assume.
tended synagogue regularly he
Several of t he committee
members pointed out that the
Jewish Publication Society, the
Jewish Historical Society, the
Message of Israel and the Eter-
nal Light, the national civic-
protective organizations which
already are publishing vast
amounts of material, should use
their manpower and resources
towards the fulfillment of some
of the objectives set up by the
committee for the projected cel-
ebration.
Severe criticism was leveled
at attempts to create new ma-
chinery for the celebration
while there are in existence
available groups which al-
ready are pursuing some of
the functions included in the
tercentenary program.
A concession to the critics was
a statement to the effect that
"the program still is in transi-
tion" and that "the steering
committee is still working on it."
This was accepted as yielding
to urgent•requests that overlap-
ping in community activities
and in fund-raising should be
avoided and that wherever and
whenever possible there should
be a fusion of existing forces in
all efforts for the advancement
WILL ENJOY
CLEAN RUGS
would have known how to ad-
vise this son- ,--that they are
a part of our Hebrew treaures.
Wouk quoted the Psalm in the
original Hebrew, and, as a
devout orthodox Jew, by cov-
ering his head with his yar-
mulke.
Addresses were delivered at
the various sessions by Nobel
Prize winners Selman A. Waks-
man, Isidore I. Rabi, Leon
H. Kaiserling, Joseph Proskauer,
Dr. Israel Goldstein, Dr. David
deSola Pool, Dr. Oscar. Handlin
and others—leaders from a
number of cities in the land.
The letter written by George
Washington to the Newport Jew-
ish Community was read by
Claude Rains.
In a message to the confer-
ence, President Eisenhower
stated in part: a
The library of Congress which, 12-point slug . with a Highcap
in its branch of the Govern- mold_ and aligns with 10-point
ment Printing Office, had the Roman. When Hebrew and Ro-
man type appear on 'the same
first fonts of Hebrew type in line on the catalog cards, they
the Nation's Capital, has been are set on separate lines and
Zionist leader David -Wert- hand-setting the type for the cut to fit in a single line, since
heim, of New York, died last Library's catalog cards for He- the Hebrew text reads from
week in Havana. He was strick- braic works since 1900. But it right to left, while Roman reads
en earlier on a plane between has recently installed two fonts from left to right.
Miami and Havana after ad- of Hebrew matrices for one of
Among the advantages of the
dressing a Zionist meeting in its composing machines.
new cards, in addition to the
Miami. He was 54 years old.
Until recently the limited de-
Mr. Wertheim was on a mis- mand for Hebraic catalog cards fact that they can be produced
sion as Latin-American director did not warrant the purchase of much faster, are: Neater ap-
for Histadrut when he suffered machine fonts of Hebrew char- pearance, increased accuracy.,
a coronary thrombosis. He held acters. In recent months, how-
this position, as well as the co- ever, the Library's intensive pro- and economy in the use of card
chairmanship of the National gram of cataloging Hebraica, stock—the elite size of the new
Committee for Labor Israel, both for itself and for cooperat- type minimizing the need for
since the end of World War II. ing libraries, has resulted in a using two cards for a single
He was general secretary of sufficient demand for the print- entry.
the Labor Zionist Organization ed catalog cards to indicate that
By purchasing printed catalog
of America from 1930 to 1945. In hand composition of the Hebrew
1949 he went to Tel Aviv for type could not keep pace with cards from the Library of Con-
gress, other libraries save not
two years as representative of the volume of cataloging.
only printing costs but the
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid So-
In October 1952, therefore, time and cost of cataloging the
ciety, to assist in the integra-
the Library, the Intertype Com- publications. In the case of
tion of immigrants there.
pany, and the Government Hebrew and other foreign-lan-
Born in Bessarabia, Mr. Wert- Printing Office began experi- guage materials, this service is
heim was the son of a rabbi and ments that led to the selection particularly important because
a descendant of the Baal Shem of suitable fonts of Hebrew type many libraries do not have per-
Tov, founder of the Hassidic and the necessary mechanical sonnel with sufficient knowl-
movement in Jewry. He received adjustments for their use. One edge of the language to do the
his education at the Universities of the new fonts is 8-point He- cataloging.
of Odessa and Berlin as well as brew, Font No. 122, which is set
the Berlin Academy of Jewish on an 8-point slug and aligns
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"The Jews of America, gen-
eration upon generation, have
brought to the task of build-
ing this great Nation in free-
dom, a special gift. It is that
deep and abiding faith of their
fathers, that vital element of
Judaeo- Christian civilization
kept glowingly alive by Jews
throughout the ages, from the
time of the ancient prophets
of Israel. Upon the moral
truths of this whole ancient
heritage, our nation was
founded and has ever lived."
Detroiters at the conference
besides Isidore Sobeloff included
Boris Joffe, William Cohen, Mr
and Mrs. Philip Slomovitz, Judge
Theodore Levin and sons, Jo-
seph and Charles.
Prof. Skoss, Arabic Expert
At Dropsie College, Dies
PHILADELPHIA, (JTA) — Dr.
Solomon L. Skoss, Professor of
Arabic Language and Literature
at Dropsie College, died here last
week at the age of 69. Born in
Russia, Prof. Skoss came to this
country in 1907. He studied at
several American universities
and at the Egyptian University
and the School of Oriental
Studies, both in Cairo. He wrote
several scholarly books and many
articles on Arab subjects.
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The sessions commenced
with a dinner Saturday night
and sessions all day Sunday.
At all of them, there was an
abundance of speeches, but
into the discussions was in-
jected the question of drawing
into the planned celebration
the machinery of existing Jew-
ish organizations.
.
Friday, April 17, 1953
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With the official closing of
their drive behind them, officers
and executive staff of the His-
tadrut Campaign are busily en-
gaged in laying plans for the
collection of outstanding monies.
Morris Lieberman, campaign
chairman, and Harry Schumer,
executive board chairman, an-
nounced a concerted effort to
collect pledges for immediate
transmission to Israel.
The local campaign has
pledged itself to the construc-
tion of the surgical pavilion of
the Eliezer Kaplan Memorial
Hospital in Israel. This hospital
in R.ehovot will provide medical
care to inhabitants of the Negev.
Histadrut officials state that
because of the effectiveness of a
"back to the land" campaign
recently instituted by Histadrut
in Israel, the rapid completion
of the hospital becomes increas-
ingly necessary. Many of the
1300 families who have already
left the crowded urban areas
during the last several months
have elected to settle in the
Negev region.
All campaign workers will be
contacted at . once and provided
with lists of outstanding pledges.
Lour Kasle, A. Hurand
Head Hint UJA. Drive
Louis Kasle was unanimously
elected general chairman of the
1953 Flint United Jewish Appeal,
with Arthur Hurand as associ-
ate chairman, at a special meet-
ing of community leaders.
Kasle was general chairman of
the 1949 and 1950 UJA cam-
paigns and is now the chairman
of the Flint Israel Bond Com-
mittee. Hurand is a member of
the board of governors of the
Flint Jewish Community Coun-
cil and Beth Israel -Congrega-
tion, and is affiliated with Bnai
Brith and the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America.
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The Detroit Jewish Community Is Invited
To Attend The
5th ,93raeli
act
-9nelepenctence
YOM HAATZMAUT CELEBRATION
Prominent Speaker—RABBI SHIMON EPHRATI
of Jerusalem
• Tefilot and Israel Songs by CANTOR JUDAH
GOLDRING of Congregation Beth Aaron.
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Youth Recitations
to be held at the
YOUNG ISRAEL YOUTH CENTER
DEXTER AT FULLERTON
SUNDAY, APRIL 19th, 1953, 8:30 R. m.
OR L'YOM,
5th of IYAR, 5713
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Refreshments
Sponsored by
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IN CONJUNCTION WITH LOCAL SYNAGOGUES
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