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Honor Dr. Sabin
at N.Y. Reception

'Trevor-Roper Describes Christian
Philo-Semitic Period in Horizon

CBS-TV Dickering for
Ballet Version of the
Dybbuk for Next Season
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
CBS Television network is nego-
tiating with Composer-Conduc-
tor Leonard Bernstein and
Choreographer Jerome Robbins
to prepare a ballet version of
the "Dybbuk," Variety, the en-
tertainment weekly, reported.
The ballet would be a one-
time program for use next sea-
son and the network is prepared
to spend between $30,000 and
$35,000 for the adaptation.

Shimshon Arad Named
Acting Consular Chief

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire

to The Jewish, News)
If: . - R. Trevor-Roper, eminent for the readmission of Jews to
NEW YORK -- Shimshan
British author whose exposes of England. The Portuguese Jesuit
Arad on Tuesday became acting
Nazism, and especially of the missionary, Antonio Vieira, be-
Consul General for Israel • in
activities of Heinrich Himm- lieved Jews should be recalled
New York as Consul -General
ler, drew worldwide attention,. to Portugual to re-create the
Simcha Pratt sailed for ISrael
describes "Europe's Brief Flood country's wealth and greatness.
aboard the SS Zion.
Tide Of:Philp-Semitism," in a
Menasseh ben Israel met with
Pratt is going home to be-
most interesting article in the disappointment, but in the end
came director of the Division
current issue of Horizon Maga- England's doors were opened.
of International Organizations
zine.
At first there were a few rich
in the Foreign Ministry at
Analyzing the "old story" of Jews from Spain and Portugal
Jerusalem. •
anti-Seinitisni by declaring that who arrived — the ."King's
Shimshon Binyamin E 1 i a v
"there is scarcely a recorded Jews,"—but the dooi remained
will succeed Pratt as Consul
legally
open.
This
was part of Classified ads bring fast results! General about May 1. •
Century in which the Jews have
not been persecuted," Trevor= that golden 30-year period of
Roper differentiates between philo-Semitism, when Christians
Dr. ALBERT B. SABIN the philo-Semitism of kings who and Jews were drawn together
(right), who developed the shower favors to Jews through by a messianic idea. The Chris-
live virus anti-polio vaccine, the influence • of "the King's . tians had hoped to convert the .
is honored in New York's Uni- Jews" who served the mon- Jew's. In the end, "Christian and
versity House, national head- archs in financial capacities, Jewish messianism failed to
quarters of the American and the -brief period he de- merge . . . . By 1660 mystical
'Friends of the Hebrew Uni- scribe's in his illuminating ar- Protestant philo-Sernitism was
versity, by Dr. JOHN II. GAR- ticle. .
dead . . . . Jewish messianism
LOCK, president of the Amer-
- The movement he describes still had a few years to run.
ican Jewish Physician's Com-
existed in Protestant coun- Menasseh ben Israel died, a
mittee, who was chairman of
tries betWeen .1630 and 1660. year before Cromwell, heart-
the event. Dr. Sabin, who lec-
."It culminated," Trevor-Rop- broken by the failure of his
tured at Hebrew University
er states in his article, "in theatrical gestures, but the
last summer, plans' to return
Oliver Cromwell's readmis- movement he represented went
for a series of lectures in
Sion of the Jews to England on .... Vieira was in the hands
1961.
after an exile of 350 years. of the Inquisition, threatened
, And it was not inspired by with the stake for his partiality
New• York Jewish Federation .
financial need or even by in- to the Jews. Only the Jews were
tellectual advantage: it sprang left with their illusions. When
Reports $18,400,000 Raised
the messianic year came, they
- NEW YORK, (JTA)—A rec- from a genuine, if somewhat had to go it alone."
ord of $18;400,000 in gifts and erack-brained, cult of the
At this point, the reader is
Jews."
pledges has been received to
told of the Sabbata Zevi epi-
The
lengthy
•
description
of
date by the Federation. of Jew ,
sode, of the false messiah's con-
IA Philanthropies of New york philo Semitic activitiei adds to version to Mohammedanism:
in its 1959-60 campaign, it was the -importance of the 'eminent
"From that time onward, the
disclosed by Gustave L., Levy, author's essay. He refers to basis of Jewish, as of Christian,
-other
philo-Semitic
evidences,
president of the Federation.
-
He
messianism had crumbled. With
Predicted that another $600,000 for instance: "In the Middle it crumbled also the last ele
Would be added to that sum -be- Ages it was -Jews whc conveyed
ment in that brief and strange
fore the end of the fiscal year Arabic science into Christian
thought. It was Jews also -- episode, the unique experienee
in September.
converted Jews who had never of one generation, mystical
The number of people aided fallen under the full sway of Christian philo-Semitism."
by the Jewish Federation's 116 Christian doctrine — who loos-
The issue of Horizon carrying
affiliated agencies in 1959
ened the oppressive religion of this important essay also has
passed the three-quarter million
another highly interesting arti-
mark, totaling 757,000 and set- Renaissance Spain. Continual- die, "Pilgrim to the Holy
ly, in such times, adventurous
ting another record, Mr. Levy
Mount," containing the descrip-
reported. This figure compares men trusted themselves to Jew- tion of the arduous journey to
with 620,000 aided three years ish guides."
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Roper, are elements that in-
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Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Orthodox
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Rabbis-of the United States and Canada; and by the mi.-.
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