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VOLUME XXXIV—No. 18
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Soviet Presses Attacks on
Israel; Hushes Up Nasser's
Condemnation of Communism
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
Educators Assail 'Sporadic,
Unscientific' Approach to
Methods of Teaching Hebrew
A group of 60 leading American Jewish educators, represent-
ing a cross section of Jewish religious and cultural organizations
in the United States, called for the promotion of a central re-
source for the theory and practice of the teaching of Hebrew on
all levels. The educators, who participated in the Institute of
Hanhalat Halashon which convened in Rockaway Park, New York,
charged the initiators of the Institute — the Department of Edu-
cation and .Culture of the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Amer-
ican Association for Jewish Education — with the task of preparing
the groundwork for such a coordinating project.
The full text of the Institute's proceedings will be published
later.
The speakers at the three-day Institute, who represented
more than 30 organizations and institutions of higher learning,
were unanimous in their criticism of "sporadic and unscientific"
methods of teaching Hebrew which fail to take into account the
latest findings in the field of linguistics. They urged extensive
use of new audio-visual teaching aids such as phonograph records
and tape recorders which could extend a Hebraic atmosphere
beyond the classroom into the Jewish home. They deplored the
fact that American teachers of Hebrew often lack fluency in the
language they teach, and asked that Israeli educators working in
the United States pass through a preliminary training period
which would enable thein to relate more significantly to the
American child and American language habits.
Emphasizing the lack of a suitable body to coordinate the
plethora of educational institutions and organizations and to chan-
nel the contributions of individuals to the field of Hebrew lan-
guage teaching, the educators outlined the scope of the proposed
central resource as follows:
Collect and evaluate textbooks, syllabi, articles and' other
materials on teaching Hebrew produced in this country, in Israel
and elsewhere.
Collect and prepare abstracts of articles and books on teach-
ing foreign languages in the United States.
Evaluate Israeli Hebrew materials with a view to adapting
them for use in this country.
Serve as a clearing house in the field of Hebrew language
instruction.
Disseminate information about new materials, successful ex- -
periments and other developments in the field.
Plan, suggest, and evaluate experimental projects to be car-
ried out by various Bureaus of Jewish Education and Teachers
Colleges.
Encourage qualified individuals to undertake specific tasks
of research and experimentation.
Offer assistance and guidance to centers of foreign language
teaching and linguistics and to graduate departments of educa-
tion and foreign languages at universities and Jewish institutions
of learning in carrying on research in the field of Hebrew
linguistics (for Masters' and Ph.D. theses).
Arrange workshops for teachers of Hebrew throughout the
country in cooperation with existing educational and professional
organizations and agencies, on a national, regional and local level.
LONDON.—The Soviet press is continuing its attacks against Israel. The
copy of the newspaper Pravda, received Tuesday from Moscow, couples Israel's
alleged "aggressivity and rearmament" with the visit to the Middle East of
United States Assistant Secretary of State William M. Rountree. The Russian
Communist Party's organ says that Israel's attitude and Rountree's visit "are
links in a chain of imperialism erected by the United States and meant to im-
prison the people of the Middle East."
At the same time, however, the Soviet press is still holding down the lid
on the recent anti-Communist remarks uttered by United Arab Republic Presi-
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser. Nasser's "victory" speech last week at Port Said was
reported in the Soviet Press, but not a word was mentioned of his condemna-
tion of Communist activities in his own domain.
Pravda continues, as it has for some time now, to insist that "the West is
actively arming Israel and pushing the Jews to attack the United Arab Republic."
New Anti-Jewish Attacks in Ukrainian Broadcast
MUNICH.—An inciting anti-Jewish broadcast in the Ukrainian language,
addressed to all Ukrainians in the Soviet Union, was monitored here Tuesday.
The broadcast came from a station in Kirovograd which disseminates material
over the air for editorial guidance to the Soviet press in the Ukraine.
Contrary to the broadcasts over the Moscow radio, which limit themselves
to attacks on Israel, the Ukrainian broadcast contained attacks on Jews in gen-
eral in addition to usual Communist charges against Israel. It went out of its
way to emphasize that although the Communist revolution abolished the anti-
Jewish laws of the Czarist regime, Jewish "nationalists" not only abroad, but
also in Soviet Russia and in the Ukraine, "adopted an inimical attitude toward
the Soviet regime."
To justify this inciting propaganda against the Jews, the broadcast re-
ferred to Lenin, stating that he allegedly declared that "reactionary essence
characterizes the growing national unity of Jews." This was the first direct
attack on Jews in the Soviet Union over the Soviet radio since the Khrushchev
Ship Carrying
Israel Cargo
Reaches Eilat
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The
S. S. Sylvik, a Norwegian
freighter that has been over-
due at the Port of Eilat after
.negotiating the Suez Canal, is
safe in port. Fears had been
voiced that it might have
been seized by the United
Arab Republic while passing
through the Canal.
The Sylvik brought more
than 2,000 tons of sulphur
for the phosphate plant in
Timnah, north of Eilat. When
it finally landed, the captain
of the vessel reported that
the delay in his passage
through the Suez Canal was
due to relatively normal
causes, involving formation
of a southbound convoy, and
some further slowing-up be-
cause another ship ahead of
the Sylvik had developed en-
gine trouble.
regime. Starting with the usual attacks against Zionism,
the broadcast said:
"After the victory of the great October Socialist
• Revolution, leaders of Jewish bourgeois nationalists
adopted an inimical attitude toward the Soviet regime.
"They concluded agreements with Denikin, White
Russian general, and Petlyura, chairman of the directo-
rate of the Ukrainian national government, despite the
horrible Jewish pogroms committed by their gangs in
the Ukraine and Byelorussia. In one of Kharkov's black-
hundred (Chornosotenna) papers in July 1919, the Zion-
ists published an appeal entitled 'to all Russian citizens of
Judaic extraction' in which they urged all Jews to join
Denikin's army. Throughout the Soviet regime, Jewish
bourgeois nationalists have conducted inimical activities
against the USSR: Jewish bourgeois nationalists enjoy
great support from the American imperialists, for in-
stance; from Rockefeller who recently gave them several
million rubles.
"The Jewish bourgeoisie has widely advertised the
State of Israel as a shrine and refuge for the Jewish peo-
ple, but everybody knows that this shrine has been a
tool in the hands of the imperialists. It has been used to
deceive the working masses of Jews in various countries
and make them subservient instruments in the imperi-
alists' hands. The Zionists are also indoctrinating indi-
vidual Jews with a nationalist spirit, trying to enlist them
in anti - Soviet activities, and forcing them to become
traitors to their fatherland."
(Continued on Page 24)