56th Volume of American Jewish Year Book
Dedicated to U.S. Tercentenary Celebration
AMERICAN JEWISH YEARBOOK, 1955,
Volume 56. (Tercentenary Edition.) Edi-
. tor. Morris Fine; Associate Editor, Jacob,
Sloan. Published by the American Jewish
Committee and The Jewish Publication
Society of America. xii, 682 pages, $5.00.
* * *
the next volume of the Year
Book, in which the editors prom-
ise an analysis of the hiptory
of Jewish social service in the
United States.
The Tercentenary section
comprises only a little more
than one-fifth of the 682 pages
of the Year Book. The remainder
of the pages are given over to
those reviews of annual develop-
ments in JeWish life in the
United States and abroad which
have served for so many years
as the best source of informa-
tion about Jewish • population,
geographic distribution, econom-
ic pursuits, communal life, an&
relations with other groups in
every country where there is
a significant Jewish community.
Of particular interest in Vol-
ume 56 are the pages explaining
the reason for Jewish concern
over -the current unrest in North
Africa, and the authoritative
chronicle of the Austrian resti-
tution tangle. Though it concen-
trates on communal affairs, as
always the Year Book devotes
space. to individuals who have
contributed to Jewish life: this
year they are the noted Talmu-
dic scholar Louis Ginzberg, the
profound Zionist theoretician
and philosopher Hayim Green-
berg, and the distinguished bi-
bliographer, Alexander Marx.
Much literary and research
activity has resulted from the
current Tercentenary celebra-
tion and many projects of a na-
tional and local character have
been promised. The present edi-
tion of the American Jewish
Year Book, however, which for
56 years has been going about
its task of recording the sober
details of Jewish life, both in the
United States and abroad, is
among the first to produce tan-
gible results.
Volume 56, is the .Year Book's
Tercentenary edition. As such,
it contains three special arti-
cles that analyze as well as des-
cribe the essence of the Jewish
experience in this country. The
articles attack thrs subject with
vigor from three different as-
pects:
First, Nathean (Hazer, 'a bril-
liant young sociologist and cur-
rently a Guggenheim fellow in
the field of Jewish sociology,
summarizes all the available
data about the social character-
istics of American Jews. Glazer
indicates incisively how tradi-
tional Jewish capacities and -
values, previously cramped with-
iti the confines of narrow
European possibilities, were lib- Town Hall Statement
erated in the Jewish immigrants
and enabled them to express Calls Its Speaker on
themselves fully in the free
Arab Itsue 'Unbiased'
American society.
Next, Pulitzer prize-winner
In its announcement that Its
Prof. Oscar Haridliri of Harvard
University goes on to describe next speaker, at 11 a.m. Wednes-
how American Jews, after day, in the Fisher Theater, on
achieving a large measure of the subject "Is There a Solution
civic and political equality in to the Arab-Israel Feud?" will
the new world, have come to be Dr. Nairollah Saifpour Fat-
face the new, much more com- emi,• the sponsor of the lecture,
plex twentieth-century problem the Detroit Town_ Hall, states
that "the Iranian' statesman will
of social discrimination.
a fair, unbiased analysis of
In an article that deals with give
the problem."
The Spiritual Life of American
The release further states
Jewry," Joseph Blau, an assist- that Dr. Fatemi is political ad-
ant professor of philosophy at visor to the Iranian delegation
Columbia University, thought- in the UN, and Princeton pro-
fully explores the development fessor, specializing in the Middle
• of Judaism both inside the syna- East, and that his brother was
gogue and Jewish .community, the former Prime • Minister of
and outside it, in the wide range Iran; that the speaker has writ-
of humanitarian and "mora- ten a number of books on the
listic" enterprises that American Middle East, including "Oil Dip-
Jews have participated in in this lomacy" and "The Diplomatic
country.
History of Persia."
Taken together, these three
What the release fails to point
articles, which aim to summa- out is that Dr.. Fatemi's brother,
rize existing information rather who was Foreign Minister to Dr.
than to expose novel facts or Mousadegh, recently was ex-
ideas, are successful in making ecuted by the present Iranian
American Jewish experience un- government. _
derstandable. We can look for-
ward with high expectations to Article by Rtibbi Hertz
.
In National Periodical
the
perfect cracker
. An\ article by Dr. Richard C.
Hertz, rabbi of Temple Beth El,
appears in the current issue of
American Judaism, official pub-
lication of American Reform
Judaism.
Entitled, "Questions Asked a
Rabbi," Dr. Hertz's' article re-
ports on addresses on Jewish
belief and • practices he !has de-
livered at college campuses.
One experience about which
Dr. Hertz writes took place dur-
ing a Religious Emphasis Week
at a college where he was in-
vited along with a Catholic
priest and .Protestant minister.
Typical of the questions asked
Dr. Hertz, according to his ar-
ticle, was, "How come, Rabbi,
that Jews do such a good job in
family life and have so few di-
vorces." In his answer the rab-
bi spoke about the centuries
during which Jews stressed the
"sanctity of home life."
Rabbi Hertz reports that in
one class, the instructor said to
the students, "When the rabbi
talks of the Bible, you can close
your eyes and almost liear Jesus
himself teaching the fishermen
of Galilee, for Jesus was a Jew
like this rabbi."
.
anyone can enjoy
lam Tam crackers-
- but
only Manischewitz
can bake 'em!
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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7
Friday, February 11, 1955 .
Eisenhower Ex-Aide
To Speak in New York
Col. J. R. Elyachar, during
World War II commanding offi-
cer of Gen. -Eisenhower's techni,
cal intelligence corps, will be
guest speaker at =
the jubilee din-
ner of the His-
tadruth I v r ith
of America Feb.
20, at Hotel
Commodore,
New York.
Guest of hon-
or at the din-
ner, which will
cele b r ate the Col. Elyachar
Tercentenary of Jewish settle-
ment in America, will be Dr. Na.-
hurb. Goldmann, director of the
Jewish Agency.
Col. -Elyachar, head of the en-
gineering firm, was born - in Je-
rusalem and graduated from
that city's Teacher's Seminary.
He later studied engineering in
Beirut and France, coming here
when he was 29.
Co-chairmen of the dinner
are the noted Zionists and He-
braists Dr. Moses Torczyner and
Irving Neuman. Other partici-
pants will be. Dr. Emmanuel
Neumann, Rabbi. Abba Hillel Sil-
ver, Mrs. Rose Halprin, Morti-
mer May, Mrs. R. Shulman and
others, who will represent the
leading organizations in Ameri-
can and world Jewry.
JNF. Postpones Planned
Dinner in Deference to
Allied Jevs ■ ish Campaign
The Jewish National Fund,
which receives its major sup-
port through the United Israel
Appeal, largest beneficiary of
the United Jewish -Appeal, and
the Allied Jewish Campaign of
Detroit, has indicated its re-
spect for the priority of the Al -
lied drive.
At a meeting of the execu-
tive of the board of the Jewish
National Fund of Detroit, a
resolution w a s unanimously
adopted to postpone a dinner
planned for March 22, at which
the Jewish National Fund had
planned to pay tribute to
Governor Mennen G. Williams
and Lieutenant Governor Philip
A. Hart, until after the closing
of the Allied Jewish Campaign.
In a communication to the
Jewish Welfare Federation the
leadership of the JNF expressed
its full-hearted intention to
give the Allied Jewish Campaign
the support it needs and deserves
and pledged "complete - concen-
tration of every effort and force
towards the successful attain-
ment of the campaign' goal."
,
Batei Avoth Holds Dinner
For Children's Village
Construction of a Detroit Home
in the .Batei Avoth Children's
Village near Bnei Brak, Israel,
has been almost completed, the
sponsoring committee announc-
es. The committee will hold an
informal -dinner at 6:30 p.m.,
Thursday, at Holiday Manor.
Rabbi Joseph Kahaneman,
who inspired the project about
two years ago, will make a prog-
ress report and- show films of
the village and children. A per-
manent picture album of all
sponsors will be placed in the
Detroit Home.
All persons interested in this
children's project are invited to
attend. For reservations, call
TO. 9-1709, TO. 8-4387, or TE.
4-9326.
Yeshivath Mlavah Malka
Postponed to Feb. 19
A inlavah malkah planned by
representatives of 30 Orthodox
synagogues to plan dedication
ceremonies for the new building
of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah has
been postponed from Feb. 12 to
Sen. Neuberger Speaks
8:30 p.m., Feb. 19.
Rabbi Meyer Schwartzman, of
At Dinner on Saturday
U. S. Senator Richard L. Neu- Winnipeg, Canada, will be guest
berger of Oregon will speak at a speaker at the program, the last
dinner at Latin Quarter this public meeting to be held in the
old temporary annex. The new
Saturday night. -
Reservations for the dinner building is scheduled to open
may be .made by calling Mrs. after March 1, announces Daniel
Louis Tendier,. 3734 Calvert,"TU. I A. Laven, chairman of the ex-
ecutive board
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