"The Wisdom of the East — chairman and secretary of the
Connections and Contrasts" will Conference, on the Rabbinic
open the third annual Confer- aspect.
ence of the Department of Near.
A discussion will f o 11 o w
Eastern Languages and Litera- among members of the panel
tures May 7-9 at Wayne State and audience. As part of the
University.
Borman Near Eastern Lecture
Under the chairmanship of S e r i e s, the evening discus-
Prof Ephraim A. Speiser, world- sions Sunday and Monday are
famous orientalist and chairman open to the public without
Goetze of Yale University and
a talk on the "Epic of Gilga-
mesh" by Prof. Speiser.
Dr. G. Merrill Lenox, Direc-
tor of the Detroit and Michigan
Council of Churches, will pre-
side at noon luncheon and Fr.
registration fee.
At 10 a.m. Monday in the
PROF. IL L. GINSBERG
.
of the department of Semitics
at the University of Pennsyl-
vania, the conference will focus
on "The Literary Heritage of
the Near East."
Participants in the opening
session, to be held 8:30 p.m.
Sunday in the Community Arts
Auditorium, will be Prof. Sam-
uel N. Kramer
of the Univer-
sity of Penn-
sylvania, with
the Sumerian
viewpoint;
Prof. John A.
Wilson, direc-
tor of the Ori-
ental Institute,
Prof- Kramer University
of Chicago, Egyptian heritage;
Prof: Harold L. Ginsberg of the
Jewish Theological Seminary,
Biblical; Prof. Franz Rosenthal of
Yale University, Aramaic and
Arabic; and Prof. Abram Spiro,
WSU Near Eastern department
McGregor Memorial Conference
Center, Profs. Kramer and Gins-
berg will discuss, respectively,
Sumerian and Ugaritic "Epics."
Following a panel-audience dis-
cussion, luncheon will be
served. C. Allen Harlan, presi-
dent of the Harlan Electric Co.,
will preside, and the Rt. Rev.
Msgr. Carrol F. Deady of the
Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit,
will deliver the invocation.
Winfred Harb is o'n, vice-
president of academic adminis-
tration at WSU; Leonard Kasl
member of the Detroit Bo
of Education; Williain V. Ma
acting associate dean of
WSU College of Liberal
and Drs. Speiser and Spiro i 11
discuss "Near Eastern Stu
at Wayne State University."
Following lunehebn, at 2.30,
"Mightier Than the Pyramids,"
a lecture on Egyptian literature,
will be delivered by Prof. Wil-
son.
"Elusive Aspects of Biblical
Literature" will be discussed
at the public lecture in the
Community Arts Auditorium
8:30 p.m. Monday. Prof. John
L. McKenzie, S.J.; of Loyola
University will speak on "The
Poetry of the Old Testament"
and Profs. Ginsberg and Spei-
ser will discuss "Wisdom
Theme s" and "J," respec-
tively.
The opening Tuesday ses-
sion, 10 a.nt, in the McGregor
C en t e r • will be - centered on
"From the Land of Nimrod —
Aspects of Akkadian Litera-
ture." A general appraisal will
be rendered by Prof. Albrecht
Difficulties Beset Moroccan Jews
CASABLANCA, (JTA)—Jew-
Hopes among some ele-
ish students in Morocco were ments of Moroccan Jewish
reported to have been the re- leadership for a Government
statute giving _ M o r o c c a n
cent victims- of a new act of Jewry a position similar to
discrimination - in a competition that of the Moslem commu-
to send three students from nity in relations with the
Morocco to study electronics Government were also be-
lieved to have been dashed
in France.
The contest was organized• by by the recent death of Em-
an electrical energy unit on the barrek Bekkai, Moroccan Min-
basis that the _three students ister of the Interior.
The Minister, who had p
with the highest, grades would
be sent to France. When the sided at the Congress of Je
results showed that the top Communities in Rabat rec
three contestants were all Jews, had declared himself re
the initial promise was forgot- grant such status to the
ten and three Moslem candi- can Jewish communities.
dates, who ranked fourth, fifth peared unlikely that a su
and sixth in the competition, re- to the post would appr
ceived the study trips instead. project.
The decision to ignore the
If 'a new Minister is
three top winners because they from the Istiqlal party,
were Jewish was reported to has claimed the Ministry
have followed publication of long time, the project was se
protests by Moroccan news- certain to be rejected. M. Bek-
papers which charged that as kai had also committed himself
soon as the three Jewish stu- to granting passports to Jews
dents finished their studies, who wanted them. If the new
they would go to Israel to stay. Interior Minister is an Istiqlal
A typical Arab newspaper com- representative,. Moroccan Jews
ment was that "Morocco must seeking passports seem likely
not prepare Israel's technical to experience many difficulties.
experts."
The Moroccan opposition
It was also reported here that newspaper, L'Avant Gard e,
twenty Jews alegedly trying to which expresses the views of
emigrate to Israel were arrested the Moroccan Union of 'Labor,
by Moroccan police, April 15, came out editorially in opposi-
at Melilla, in Northern Morocco, tion to the proposal for special
according to a report printed status. The newspaper said that
here by Al Adam, ..the newspaper Moroccan Jews should have
organ of the Istiqlal Party.
their own organization only for
The paper demanded that the social and religious purposes.
Government take "severe The newspaper also lauded the
measures to punish the guilty," declaration by a number of
and that Morocco prosecute
Jewish intellectuals and senior
"the leaders of Zionism." Al
Alam also stated that the leader government officials who "com-
of the arrested group of Jews bat anti-Semitism together with
had escaped arrest.
Zionist activity." .
anti-Semitic teacher who fled
from West Germany to avoid a
one-year jail term for saying
publicly that not enough Jews
had been gassed, was en route
to Tripoli.
Zind was pla
Italian ship
had hi
since
Nap
lea
to
wa
sail
A lower
d that his
West Germany. When the Rome
Court of Cassation, Italy's high-
est court; upheld the lower
court, Zind was released from
jail. He reportedly had been
en route to a teaching job in
when he was arrested in
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Scripture and Its Problems"; Rev.
Dr. Walter Markowicz, professor,
Sacred Heart Seminary (R.C.), on
"Early Near Eastern Christian
Monasticism"; and Dr. Speiser,
on "Crises in the Bible and
Today."
The final session beginning
at 2:30 p.m. will be "Neighbors
and Heirs," a discussion of Hit-
tite and Arabic literature by
Prof. Goetze and Rosenthal.
Closing remarks will be de-
livered by Dr. Randall M.
Whaley, vice-president for grad-
uate studies and research at
WSU.
Registrations for the confer-
ence are now being accepted.
Checks for $5. per participant
and $2 per luncheon should be
made payable to Wayne State
University.
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Bonn Drops Charges
of Ukraine Atrocities
- BONN, (JTA)—The investiga-
tion against the Ukrainian SS bat-
talion, "Bergma which for-
••
mer Ref
Iinister
Oberla
er had b •
Ner,
has
en closed, according to an
a 'uncement by the Bonn pros-
ution office.
The Association of Vic
Nazism had filed charges ag nst
the battalio accus
bers of. c
ittin
Russia
pr
no
ch
ender resigned
in-
ist st last May
his ac-
tivities in the
period had
become a s
of widespread
conten
nd debate both in
ermany and abroad.
JFK to Ask Extension
for Civil Rights Body
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An
extension ' of the life of the
Civil Rights Commission, sched-
uled to end its activities in
November, will be asked of
Congress by the Kennedy Ad-
ministration.
The Commission was created
in 1957 for a two-year term and
was extended in 1959 by Con-
gress for another two years. It
was indicated that the Adminis-
tration has always assumed that
the Commission would be con-
tinued and that civil rights of-
ficials in the Administration
simply had not yet gotten
around to putting a request
before Congress.
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Stephen Becker — this book grips the
reader with its warmth, simplicity, humor
and understanding of people. A book to
read, discuss, remember. 4.95. Get your
copy now in Hudson's Book Shop: Down-
town, Mezzanine; Northland and Eastland.
9 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, April 28, 1961
`Wisdom of the East-Connections and Contrasts'
German Anti-Semite Ushered Out of Italy
NAPLES, (JTA)—Professor offense was a political one and
Will Open Third Near Eastern Conference at WSU Ludwig Zind of Offenbach, the refused to extradite him to