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Shudofsky Head Semitics Department

Three Noted Scholars Named by Wayne State
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Evans Wins First Round with Bigots

NEW YORK, (AJP) — The
stanch pro-Zionist Rev. Richard
E. Evans won the first round in
his battle against a group with-
in the Presbytery of New York
which is seeking to displace the
famous Labor Temple's inter-
faith and interracial programs
so that the N. Y. City Mission
Society congregations could be
installed in the building.

programs under Dr. Evans'
direction.
Warm praise for Labor Tem-
ple's role as a meeting-place for
people of all races and faiths,
was expressed at a meeting of
leading educators and city of-
ficials. Among them were
Charles Abrams, chairman of
the N. Y. State Commission
Against Discrimination; Nor-
man Thomas, Will Durant and
Dr. Frank Graham.
Dick Evans, as he is called'
by his friends, is known to
Jewish communities in various
parts of the country for the tour
he conducted years ago in be-
half of the Zionist cause. In ad-
dition to his Labor Temple
activities, Dr. Evans is chair-
man of the World Parliament of
Religions and president of the
Interfaith Committee for Peace
in the Holy Land.

Distinguished community Jewish Synagogue in London, East." He was co-director of the
: leaders joined with officials of England, in 1954. The following Institute of Youth Leadership,
ti Wayne State University in year he was named director of created by Massad and the
honoring Louis LaMed on his Jewish studies of the Union of Jewish Agency. A recipient of
60th birthday, last Monday, at Liberal and Progressive Syna- an American Council of Learned
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gogues of Great Britain and Societies research fellowship, he
University Hall.
has contributed articles to Da-
Recognition was given Mr. Ireland.
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Dr. Evans, who is director of
LaMed for his pioneering ef-
Dr. Gartner Known for, Initiating var and the Jersualem Post.
forts in establishing the La-
Queen's College Hebrew Studies He has been a member of the the old landthark on east 14th
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Med Chair for Jewish Studies,
Dr. Gartner has just com- Hebrew Division of Hunter Street and who has fought to
which has led to the creation pleted four years of teaching College and has served as drama maintain its universal charac-
of the Department of Semit- at Queen's College in New York. critic of the Hebrew weekly, ter, declared that the instigators
of the move to displace the La-
ics at Wayne University.
He has been associated with Hadoar.
He has had extensive pro- bor Temple program have ex-
Dean Victor Rapport of the that institution's Hebrew de-
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1-1 Wayne University College of partment since the fall of 1953, gramming and scriptwriting ex- hibited "the worst kind of sec-
as Liberal Arts announced at the when he was invited to initiate perience in radio and has been tarian selfishness."
luncheop that the LaMed Pro- Hebrew studies there. Besides a featured speaker of the Wis-
A resolution expressing de-
t>, fessorship will be held, begin- preparing the syllabi, selecting consin Jewish Center Lecture termination to insure the con-
Bureau.
• ning with the fall school term, texts, placing and guiding stu-
tinuance of Labor Temple's
Responding to the honor ex- unique ministry and reaffirming
1;4 by Dr. Abram Spiro,. a world dents, Dr. Gartner has taught
renowned Jewish scholar. As- part of the college's sequence tended him by Dean Rapport, full confidence in the leader-
LaMed said, at Monday's ship of its director, Dr. Evans,
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sistant professorships in the in contemporary civilization.
;if Semitics Department have been
Dr. Gartner, who. is compe- luncheon, that the major sat- received almost unanimous sup- Veteran Yiddish Actress
assigned to Dr. Lloyd P. Gart- tent in the Yiddish, French, isfaction he has derived from port at a recent meeting of the Wins Medal from Poland
ner, an eminent scholar, and German and Spanish languages communal work has been, Labor Temple Administrative
VIENNA (JTA) — The Polish
Dr. Maurice M. Shudofsky, who as well as in • Hebrew,- received spiritually, from the cultural
Board.
government has decorated Betty
contributions he was privi-
has resigned as head of the his early schooling at the He-
Negotiations between the Latovitcz, one of the oldest
faculty of the Midrasha of the brew Insititute of Boro Park, leged to make.
Dean Rapport announced the Presbytery of New York, whose Yiddish actresses in Poland,
United Hebrew Schools to take in Brooklyn, N.Y. His subse-
Church Extension Committee with a gold medal in recogni-
the Wayne University post.
quent general education was at addition of Rabbi Morris Adler,
The courses until now taught New Utrecht High School and who gave the convocation, to the controls Labor Temple, and the tion for her appearing on the
at Wayne University by Louis Brooklyn College, where he advisory board of the LaMed N.Y. City Missions Society, Jewish stage for 50 years. She
Panush will terminate in the was awarded a B.A. with honors Chair for Jewish Studies at have been directed toward the is now a member of the Jewish
coming year, and will there- in 1948. The College also pre- Wayne State University. Other displacement of the current State Theater in Poland.
after be taught by Dr. Shudof- sented him with the Domovs members of the board are Mr.
sky, according to Dean Rap- Prize in history, his field of and Mrs. LaMed, Dr. Max
Bardenstein, Victor- Linden,
port, who was host at Monday's concentration.
If your child has never been a camper,
luncheon.
He attended the Herziliah Philip Slomovitz, Judge Theo-
this is an invitation to enroll your son
Dr. Spiro a Noted Researcher Hebrew High School and Teach- dore Levin, Dr. Max Kapustin,
of Pseudo-Philo Manuscripts
ers Institute from which he Sidney Shevitz, Boris Joffe and
or daughter at . .
Dr. • Spiro is known for his graduated in 1945. He also was Dr. Norman Drachler.
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CORRECTION
work on recently-discovered active in Hillel and Zionist ac-
The Jewish News regrets the
manuscripts of Pseudo-Philo, on tivities.
which he presently is continuing
His studies having been in- error in last week's announce-
research. An affiliate of the terrupted by a year in the ment regarding the Wayne Uni-
For Three Weeks of Delightful Camping
Society of Biblical Literature armed service, he pursued grad- versity Hebrew courses. It was
and Exegisis in the country, he uate work in history at the wrongly stated that Dr. Isaac
is a participant in the American University of Pennsylvania, Rabinowitz had been teaching
Academy for Jewish Research where he received an M.A. de- the Hebrew courses. Dr. Rabin-
and the British Societies for Old gree in 1949. He studied Jewish owitz taught courses in Jewish
. Testament Study, Jewish Study history and, Hebrew poetry at history and philosophy. The
We; regret we cannot accommodate any additional campers until
and Near Eastern Studies, Cam- Dropsie College, Philadelphia, teacher in the Hebrew language
July 30.
Our enrollment is complete.
bridge University. He is noted and Jewish history at Columbia department at Wayne State
for his articles published in the University. He spent the winter University for the last 10 years
PHONE COLLECT: GReenwood 9-7791
British Liberal Jewish Monthly. and spring of 1952 in England, was Louis Panush, to whom we
Born in Poland, Dr. Spiro doing research on Jewish im- now give full credit for having
Bernard Jaffe, Director
popularized the Hebrew courses.
received his early secular and migration to that country.
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Jewish education in Brzesko-
Dr. Gartner has been affili-
Nowe and Cracow, where his ated with Hebrew schools and Plan Israel Forest
father was a member of the Jewish camps in New York and
rabbinate. Upon graduating Philadelphia. He has acted as In Honor of LaMed
At a surprise dinner given
from the Rabbinical College of executive secretary of the
Mir, largest and most renowned Conference on Jewish Relations, in honor of Louis LaMed's. 60th
yeshivah. in Europe at that and has contributed extensive birthday, Wednesday evening,
time, he was ordained by the research to the American Jew- at the Furniture Club, Dr. A.
S. Rogaff, who presented a
rabbinate of Warsaw. He then ish Tercentenary Documentary
"This Is Your Life" skit, an-
studied at Jersualem's Hebrew History of Jews in the U.S.
nounced plans to plant a forest
University, where he received Dr. Shudofsky Widely-Heard
prizes for Talmudic and Bibli- Tri-Language Lecturer, Author in Israel, on Jewish National
Fund soil, in LaMed's honor. A
cal scholarship.
Dr. Shudofsky, who has lec- certificate was presented to La-
In 1937 he emigrated to the
tured widely ' in this country, Med to indicate that a start had
United States, where he took Canada, Israel, France and
up Semitic language studies, Italy, is known for his extensive been made for the planting of
the proposed forest.
at Columbia University. The
publications in English, Hebrew
Members of the family, in-
academic pursuits were inter-
and Yiddish. Author of fiction, cluding two surprise guests
rupted when Dr. Spiro de-
drama and verse, he has writ- from New York, LaMed's sister,
cided to work for enough
ten articles on Hebrew camp- Mrs. Carl Weinstein, and her
funds to rescue his family
ing.
daughter, Mrs. Harry Magdoff,
from Hitler-occupied Poland.
He received his early educa- participated in the "This Is
DETROIT—CLEVELAND
He taught in a New York tion at the Yeshivat Chafetz Your Life" program.
First, the amazing pageant of the Detroit skyline; skyscrapers,
yeshivah and lectured in a Chaim and in the public schools
With
Slomoyitz as
shipyards, auto plants, historic old Fort Wayne; our good
Jewish Center on Jewish phi- of Baltimore, Md. While en- toastmaster, tributes were paid
neighbor Ccnada to the south; ships large and small slipping
losophy, in addition to serv-
rolled in Johns Hopkins Uni- to LaMed by his brother, Jack
past in the great river; green islands, lighthouses, barges,
ing as an assistant rabbi. In versity, he attended Baltimore Malamud; Albert Elazar, M.
speedboats, cruisers; giant dredges digging the St. Lawrence
1942, he was elected rabbi of Hebrew College. From the lat- Friedman, Joseph Haggai, M.
Seaway channel. In an hour you can see more wonders than
Cong. Bnai Israel, in Albu- ter institution he was graduated Madoff of Windsor, M. Michlin
stay-at-homes see in a lifetime.
querque, N. M.
And, one of the most wonderful sights is the S. S. Aqua-
with highest honors in 1935. He and Dr. I. Bennish. LaMed re-
rama herself, the finest day cruise ship in the world—with
His rescue efforts having been then taught in the Baltimore sponded by expressing appreci-
elevators, escalators, picture window lounges, sun decks, free
in vain, he entered the chap- Hebrew Schools. At Johns Hop- ation for the • honors accorded
nursery with R.N. care, games, dance band on every cruise,
lains' corps of the U.S. Army in kins he was elected to Phi him.
unlimited dancing free, snack buffets, cocktail lounge, restau-
1944. Serving in southern Ger- Beta Kappa. In 1940 he ob-
In the speeches and in many
rants at popular prices, full course dinner only $2.50.
many, he was singled out as tained a PhD in English.
messages from national leaders,
Fares as low as $8.50 round trip to Cleve-
adviser on Jewish affairs to the
The following year he was LaMed was acclaimed for estab-
land, children up to 5 years free; 5-11 half
Bavarian commander and su- appointed instructor in Eng- lishing the LaMed Cultural
fare, rates for group outings. Auto. $9.00
pervised all Jewish displaced lish at the University of Wis- Fund and the LaMed Chair in
incl. tax one way; saves _180 mile drive.
persons in that locality.
consin. He then served as field Jewish Studies at Wayne 'Uni-
Leave Detroit 8:15 a.m. EST Wed., Thurs.,
For his efforts on behalf director for the American Red versity.
Fri., Sat.; return 11:00 p.m. EST same day.
of the DPs, he received an Cross. He entered the armed
Leave Detroit 4:00 p.m. EST Sun., Mon.,
Tues., arrive Cleveland 11:00 p.m. EDST.
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and other citations.
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Following his Army term, he
In 1945 he returned to Wis-
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