THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, September 16, 1960 — 6
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Prof. Katsh Finds Uncensored Talmudic
Sections in Moscow; U. S. Gets Israeli
Translations of Soviet Scien
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Prof.
Abraham I. Katsh, chairman of
the Department of Hebrew
Studies at New York University,
told the New York Times cor-
respondent in Moscow that dur-
ing his current visit in Lenin-
grad, he discovered in the Pub-
lic Library there manuscripts
that record
original, un-
censored sec-
tions of the
Talmud a n d
show that the
names of Jesus
appeared in
the original
version of the
Talmud. The . . :::.:
manuscripts
were found by
him in the An-
tonin Genizah
Collection o f
the library,
Prof. Katsh
said.
Antonin was
a Russian
priest who, in
1860, went through the Genizah
—a storage place of old Hebrew
religious documents — in the
Cairo synagogue. Antonin was
able to select and take away
about 1,200 fragments of the
manuscripts, some dating from
the ninth century. Prof. Katsh
said the Antonin Collection in-
cluded fragments that were "ex-
tremely valuable" variants from
the present edition of the Tal-
mud.
The variants stem largely
from deletions made by the gov-
ernment censors of various
countries who struck out mate-
rial from successsive editions
after the printing of the Tal-
mudic compendium began in
the Sixteenth Century. Refer-
ences to Jesus appear to have
been struck out by civil censors
either out of caprice or because
they took the view that they
were derogatory.
The availability of the vari-
ants on Jesus and other devia-
tions from the accepted Talmud
will help scholars to better un-
derstand Talmudic law, Dr.
Katsh said. The Antonin Collec-
tion which Dr. Katsh micro-
filmed in its entirety, also con-
tains revealing material abou
the life of Jews in Egypt
the eleventh and twelfth
turies.
Israeli Translations of
Soviet Scientific Work
Acquired by the U.S.
WASHINGTON, (JTA The
first delivery of Soviet
ssian
scientific and technical
blica-
part
tions translated in Israel
ent
of a United States Gove
program financed by the
of
surplus agricultural corn di-
ties was announced by the
.
National Science Founda
and the Department of Co
merce.
_ The translations were pre-
pared by the Israel program for
scientific translations in Jeru-
salem under contract with the
National Science Foundation of
Washington. The Israeli pro-
gram has contracted for the
; ervices
Dep
and s
Dr.
man,
ec-
for o the
ational S nce
Foun on, d the
gram
in Is 1 had "the
ortant
effect stimulatin
xpanded
scientif informat"
exchange
without respec
to national
boundaries."
is translation
program, h
id, reinforces the
fort
American - scientists
ep abreast of significant
scientific developments abroad.
"Overcoming the language bar-
rier, a major impediment to free
communication of national re-
search findings, is a primary
concern of scientists every-
where today," he emphasized.
Two Items on UN Agenda
Are of Concern to Israel
By SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent at
the United Nations
(Copyright, 1960. JTA, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
A provisional agenda has been
drafted, 20 new delegation
desks have been installed, se-
curity in the form of an in-
creased number of uniformed_
and non-uniformed guards has
been tightened—and all is in
readiness for the 15th annual
session of the United Nations
General Assembly which con-
venes Tuesday.
The agenda contains 73
items. Only two of these mat-
ters concern Israel directly and
only one of this pair of items
is likely to elicit debate in
which ISrael will have to par-
ticipate.
The two items are: Continua-
tion of the United Nation
Emergency Force, and the
nual report of the director f
the United Nations Relief d
Works Agency for
b
Refugees.
USSR Accused of Concealing
of 24,620 Jewish Scientists
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Soviet Government is accused of
deliberately concealing the part
played by Soviet Jews in the
fields of science, agriculture
and industry. The charge was
substantiated by data showing
that there were 24,620 Jewish
scientific workers in the Soviet
Union in 1955—surpassed only
by the Russian group, with 144,-
285 — while not a single Jew
figures in the Soviet statistics
published in 1957 in the volume
"The Achievements of t h e
Soviet Regime in 40 years in
Figures."
The charge was made in a
report on the situation of the
Jews in the Soviet Union pub-
lished by the Christian Science
Monitor. The newspaper pointed
out that the statistical tables on
the number of scientific work-
ers according to nationality pub-
lished in the 1957 volume listed
300 Turkmenians, 100 Tazhiks,
and 300 Moldavians in the total
of 223,893 scientists, but omit-
ted to mention the number of
Jewish scientists.
The fact that there were 24,-
620 Jewish scientific workers in
the Soviet Union in 1955 was
indicated in the Soviet periodi-
cal Voprosy Filosofii (Problems
of. Philosophy), the Christian
Science Monitor stressed. It also
pointed out that the 1957 vol-
ume on the Soviet achievements
during 40 years of existence
n and printing of
tely 50,000 pages
n material. Included i
y technical material of th
demy of Sciences lof th
e
The first of these items is,
as far as Israel is concerned,
routine. UNEF, deployed along
the Gaza Strip border facing
Israel, and at Sharm el Sheik
overlooking the Gulf of Akaba,
is there to stay awhile. The an-
nual report of Secretary Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold de-
clares: "It was difficult in pres-
ent circumstances to foresee
when UNEF might be with-
drawn without inviting the risk
of dangerous consequences."
UNEF is shown, in the re-
port, to have a strength of
about 5,350 officers and men.
UNEF does maintain tranquil-
ity in the controls.
During
year
by
Ham
skj o
e notes
s" had occurre•
137 Inc
B t
were all of a minor
. The only argument h e
be as to how much money
to be appropriated
maintenance and 0
10
f
UNEF. Russia is
kick
—and just as sure t
noth-
ing to UNEF.
states
will cer
y,
continu-
ance of N.
s usual-
remain del
ue s far as
their I NE
ass ments ar
concer ed.
In
ma jold's ann
report, there
s alway a
section devoted
the " • es-
tine Question." This, t , is
routine. Many recall t
years
when Israel-Arab iss
were
debated by the Sec
y Coun-
1 on almost
ontinuous
Now—not
single Coun-
CI
been devoted
•
to any e Israeli or Arab
complaints. There were com-
plaints—but only in letters "in-
forming" the Council. Neither
Israel nor any of the Arab
states requested a Council
meeting. This fact indicates a
certain amount of tranquility.
The item that will bring de-
bate involving Israel is the an-
nual report of the head of
UNRWA. As always, the Arab
delegation heads will howl and
rail against Israel. Israel, of
course, will have to reply.
What will happen? Nothing!
UNRWA will get its annual ap-
propriation—and the Arabs will
continue to live in misery, their
hatred against Israel being
fanned by the Arab rulers who
use them as a political football.
Israel's delegation will be
here in strength—led, for a
time by Foreign Minister
Golda Meir, and with Michael
S. Comay as permanent chair-
man.
carried no designation "J " or
"Jewish" in its 358 page
The paper pointed out at
in the official Soviet tens of
Feb. 2, 268,000 persons decl
themselves as Jewish—roug
1.1 percent of the Soviet pop
lation. In addition, some 800,-
000 Jews are believed to have
registered as Russians or
Ukrainians, raising the ratio to
just below 1.5 percent.
"Yet," the paper emphasized,
"among the some 1,300 deputies
of the two houses of the Su-
preme Soviet there are only
three Jews—not quite .25 per-
cent — and among the some
250 members and candidate
members of the Central Com-
mittee of the Soviet Communist
Party there are only two Jews
—less than .8 percent. There
also has been a drastic decline
in the number of Jewish stu-
dents in Soviet universities —
from 13 percent, in 1935, to be-
tween two and three percent
today.
"As individuals, Jews have
been removed in large numbers
from responsible positions in
the military and diplomatic
service. Unlike other indige-
nous cults — Pravoslays, Bap-
tists, and Moslems — Jews are
not allowed to have a nation-
wide federation of their relig-
ious communities," the report
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