Dr. Speiser, Famous Orientalist,
Chairs Near Eastern Conference
Civil Servants Oppose `Separatism' of Jewish Council in Morocco
CASABLANCA, (JTA) — A
group of Jewish civil servants
declared in a statement in the
Moroccan Arab press they did
not recognize the Council of
Moroccan Jewish Communities
and that they plan to organize
their own association in a few
weeks.
The Jewish civil servants h
previously fought the Co
when it held a national con-
ference on March 19 to discuss
steps to improve the situation
of the Jews of Morroco.
They specifically opposed a
resolution adopted . at the con-
ference ask'
Gover o organize
c-
wry into a co y sepa-
ate• from that of the Moslem
community but one which would
have the s
ights as t
OS-
lems.
N.Y. Reform
The civ
• w
Urge Kenne to Ask reported o
or t o
Dr. Leo
enzaq I -n,
former
Immigratio Revision Ministe the Moroccan Govern-
NEW YORK,
A) — Presi- ment. Benzaquen was receiv
dent John F. Kenne
as urged
to submit proposals to
for revising the McCarran-Walter
Immigration Act as further proof
of "our fervent desire to elimi-
this week by King Hassan H.
The civil servants declared they
propose to organize their own
congress to counterbalance the
Council, which they contended
did not right to speak
ur
Moroccan
Jewr ,
"in order at the
principles o
tegration
y pre-
vail over tho
of separ sm."
They argued
t their c gress
would bring together Je
and
lems not only from
rocco
also from abroad.
The Unive
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of Michigan
ment opened in
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DR. ABRAM SPIRO
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DR. EPHRAIM SPEISER
Dr. E-p hralm A. Speiser, elusions. Basically, the problem
world-famous orientalist a n d is one of historical method in
head of the department of dealing with early traditions of
Semitics at the University of Israel which are preserved in
Pennsylvania, has been named saga form, having reached that
chairman of the third annual form through centuries of oral
conference of the Department transmission."
of Neat Easttern Languages and
On Prophetism in Is r a e I,
Literatures of Wayne State Uni- Wright said that in the past
versity, May 7-9.
scholarship has made the pro-
The conference, to focus on phet into a mystic or into a so-
`The Literatary Heritage of the cial reformer-politican, a n d
Near East," will be held in the "more recently the dominant
Community Arts Auditorium emphasis has been on his role
and McGregor Memorial Con- as a cultic functionary. Yet
ference Center. Registrations none of these interpretations
are now being accepted. Checks sufficiently grapples with the
for $5 per participant and $2 problem of his official capacity,
per luncheon should be made nor with the symbolic under-
payable to Wayne State Uni- standing which he held of his
versity.
mission.
The appointment of Speiser,
"Recent research greatly clar-
who spoke at the Conference ifies his self-understanding as
• last year on Near Eastern law, an official appointed to act on
was announced by Dr. Abram earth as announcer and ex-
Spiro, secretary of the confer. pounder of the acts of the heav-
ence and chairman of the WSU enly government," Wright con-
Department of Near Eastern tinued. "And what he said
Languages and Literatures.
either in denunciatio n
Altough the conference itself hope was dependent up
is sponsored by Wayne State decisions of the Divine Council,
University and the Semitics De- which in turn were closely
partment, -evening .lectures at geared to current events."
the Community Arts Auditor-
ium May 7 and 8will be open to
the public without registration
fee, as part of the Borman Near
Eastern Lecture series.
There will be a $5 registra,
flan fee for the entire confer-
ence. -
Reservations now also -are
being taken, at $2, for. the
luncheon to be held from 12
noon to 2:30 p.m. Monday and
Tuesday.
Checks should be made pay-
able to Wayne State University
and addressed to the Depart-
ment of Near Eastern Lan-
guages and Literatures, Detroit
2, and should be in no later
than May 2.
Recent Borman lectures were
delivered April 13 by Prof. G.
Ernest Wright, of the. Harvard
Divinity School, who discussed
at 2 p.m. "History and the Pa-
triarchs: Conflict Amongst the
Historians of Israel" and that
evening "Prophetism in Israel:
New Perspectives in Recent Re-
search."
In his talk on history and the
Patriarchs, Dr. Wright said,
"The situation among modern
scholars attempting to recon-
struct the early history of Israel
is nothing short of chaos. Vari-
ous schools separate in proced-
ures and arrive at different con-
To Our
nate international tensions."
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Wise Free Synagogue, at an all-
day Leadership Conference on
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expressed the American tradition
of humanity and compassion in
pleading for a better immigration
policy, to bring to the Congress
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Maisels Named High
Court Judge in Africa
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA)—Is-
rael ,Maisels, a prominent barris-
ter ' and a leader of the South
African Jewish community, will
becOme a judge of the High
Court of Southern Rhodesia, ef-
fective next May.
Maisels, 55, is a former presi-
dent of the South African Board
of Jewish Deputies and is cur-
rently a vice-president.
(The Guardian of Manchester,
commenting on the appointment,
described Maisels as a strong foe
of apartheid who has championed
the rights of the African in South
Africa.)
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