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Authors Ehud Ben Yehuda, Chayim Grade
to Spark Jewish Book Fair Programs
Ehud Ben Yehuda, noted
pioneer in modern Hebrew, and
Chayim Grade, distinguished
Yiddish author and lecturer,
will combine to highlight
Yiddish-Hebrew Night, of the
Jewish Book Fair on Nov. 24.
The Sunday evening audience
will hear Ben Yehuda talk in
Hebrew on "Hebrew and Its
Culture: A Spiritual Bridge be-
tween Israel and the Diaspora."
In addition, the renowned lexi-
cographer will be among the
speakers at Men's Night, Nov.
25, and a participant in the
Ladies' Day program that after-
noon
Grade, speaking in Yiddish,
will round out Sunday evening's
Yiddish - Hebrew program with
a discussion in Yiddish of
"Present Problems in Yiddish
Literature."
Ben Yehuda, the son of
Eliezer Ben Yehuda, is re-
nowned for his part in con-
tinuing his father's monumental
work, the compilation of the
Hebrew Thesaurus and Dic-
tionary.
Born in Jerusalem in 1897,
Ben Yehuda was one of first
Jewish children of Palestirfe to
speak Hebrew as his mother
tongue, his father having first
introduced Hebrew in 1880 as
the everyday language in the
Jewish Palestinian colonies.
Grade, currently a writer for
The Day-Morning Journal, has
published books of poetry and
prose, among them "The Mus-
sarists," "Generations," "Over-
grown Paths," "Refugees," and
"The Light of Extinguished
Stars." He received the Bimko
prizes for his book "My Mother's
Will," and the LaMed prize for
"My Mother's Sabbath Days."
Born in Wilna in 1910, Grade
is an authority on the young
writers of Wilna and their con-
tributions to Yiddish literature.
Chairman for Yiddish-Hebrew
Night will be Louis LaMed.
Bernard Isaacs will introduce
Ben Yehuda; and Saul Maltz
will introduce Grade.
During his stay in Detroit,
Ben Yehuda also will speak
to the Kvutzah Ivrit. Grade will 1
he heard by a group of mein-I
bers of the Jewish National
Workers Alliance, Sholem Alei-
chem Institute and the Work-
men's Circle.
In preparation for the Book
Fair, delegates from co-spon-
soring organizations to the over-
all committee met last week,
under the chairmanship of Dr.
Norman Drachler, Book Fair
chairman.
Reports were heard on the
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opening program, scheduled for
the evening of Nov. 23, Yiddish-
Hebrew Night, the, children's
program, Ladies' Day, and
men's Night. Also reporting on
CHAYIM GRADE
shop co-chairman; Mrs. Philip
Bernstein, Ladies' Day chair-
man; Mrs. Etta Davis, Business
& Professional Chapter, Bnai
Brith; Joseph Edelman, Jewish
Community Council; Mrs. Leon
Firestone, Cong. Beth Shalom;
Sidney Goldstein, Detroit Pub-
lic Library, Parkman Branch;
Sidney Guyer, Landsmanschaft
Council; Mrs. H. L. Jackson,
Book Fair co-chairman; Mrs.
Charlotte Levitan, S h e r u t h
League; Mrs. Max Meilman,
George Gershwin Chapter, Bnai
Brith; Mrs. Goldie Mirvis,
Henry Morgenthau Chapter,
Bnai Brith; George Mogill, I. L.
Peretz School.
Others are Robert Morrison,
delegate-at-large from the gen-
eral community; Mrs. Joseph
Plotnick, gift shop co-chairman;
Nathan Rubenstein, Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Council; Dr.
Leonard Sidlow, Jewish Com-
munity Council; Mrs. Nathan
Spevakow, Book Fair co-chair-
man; Mrs. Benjamin B. Stamell,
Detroit Chapter, National Coun-
cil of Jewish Women; and Mrs.
Natalie Victor, Sholem Alei-
chem Institute.
Open 1st Section
ofNetvInsta uteof
Negev Research
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The first
completed section of the Negev
Research Institute at Beersheba
was officially opened this week-
end. Among those present were
representatives of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) which has incorpo-
EHUD BEN YEHUDA
rated the institute in its world-
their activities were the chair- wide network of research in
men of volunteers, displays, the arid zone.
book orders and publicity.
The completed section in-
Representing the community cludes several administrative
on the Book Fair committee and service buildings and one
are:
laboratory building housing the
Mrs. Louis Berenstein, gift institute's meteorological unit,
an experimental plant to har-
ness solar energy for the de-
salting of brackish ground wat-
ers. Construction is to begin
soon on a second laboratory
building for research with min-
erals found in Israel and their
industrial exploitation.
The Beersheba institute is to
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become the country's center for
to The Jewish News
arid zone research which has
UNITED NATIONS — There been carried out hitherto at the
would be "trouble" along the Hebrew University and the Is-
Gaza Strip frontier and in the rael Institute of Technology at
Aqaba area leading to Israel's Haifa. It will make a study
port of Elath if it were not of environmental physiology and
for presence of the United and the adjustment of man and
Nations Emergency Force in best to the arid conditions pre-
those regions, Henry Cabot vailing in the Negev. The in-
Lodge, chairman of the United stitute will also house the Dead
States delegation, declared here Sea works laboratories.
Wednesday night.
Prior to the opening cere-
Lodge gave that evaluation monies, the assembled scien-
of the situation in a state- tists held a conference at the
ment marking the first anni- Hias House in Beersheba and
versary of UNEF, which was discussed the vegetation and
created by the UN General water supply of the Negev, the
Assembly exactly a year ago. problem of living conditions in
"Last year at this time," the desert, the use of solar en-
Lodge noted, "the world was ergy for industry in the Negev
in the middle of an unprece- and desalination of water by
dented and highly dangerous electrodialysis. The lectures
crisis. The UNEF made it pos- were given by staff members
sible for attacking forces to of the Hebrew University and
Lodge Commends
UN Force on
1st Anniversary
withdraw. It has brought quiet Jechnion.
to the Gaza Strip and to the
straits of Tiran. It has thus
enabled the world to take a
turn away from war.
"It is gratifying that one
year later areas patrolled by
UNEF are still quiet. I might
add that without UNEF, it is
clear to me anyway, that once
again there would be trouble."
Lodge, in his statement,
voiced warm congratulations to
the General Assembly for cre-
ating UNEF, to Secretary Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold and
UNEF commander Maj Gen.
E. L. M. Burns for using "tact,
wisdom and energy" in setting
up the force and directing its
operations, and to the officers
Only Light Damage
from Israel Quake
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
small earthquake struck Israel
Sunday, registering light to
moderate strength in this city,
Tel Aviv and throughout Gali-
lee. The 30-second tremor ap-
parently centered in the Safad
area.
In Galilee, the area closest
to the shock, doors were
knocked out of kilter, windows
were smashed and 1 a in p s
knocked over.
In this city,
where the Hebrew University's
and men of the force whom seismographs picked up read-
America wished "continued ings of the quake, only win-
success in their vital work of dows were broken in various
keeping the peace."
sections of the city.
Last yea?, according to the cations aggregating 70 million
Economic Report of the Presi- weeks, 85 per cent of them
dent ,employed people took va- with pay. This is a new high.
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