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Zacuto's `Almanach' on Exhibit
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"The Almanach Perpetuum" by Abraham Zacuto, printed
in Leiria, Portugal, 1496, detailing astronomical tables and
calculations used by Vasco de Gama and Christopher Colum-
bus on their epoch making voyages, is part of the current
library exhibit of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America,
New York. The exhibit portrays books and manuscripts on a
broad variety of subjects culled from the library, and intended
to depict the scope of the library collection. All of the items
exhibited are shown as background material for the three
editions of the two volume work "The Jews: Their History,
Culture and Religion s"- edited by Chancellor Dr. Louis Finkel-
stein. The exhibit will continue through Nov. 20 in the Sem-
inary lounge, 3080 Broadway, New York.
Dibner'S Novel, 'God for Tomorrow,'
Severe Attack on Nazis, Neo-Nazis
Cologne reportorial .job. He
A novel, full of drama and
is asked at one point by his
terror, depicting the search for
a son of Hitler in Berlin, contact man in Berlin why
he is concerned about Jews,
emerges also as an indictment
of Nazism, a condemnation of since "we've got rid of prac-
German intrigues, a warning i tically all our Jews and
against aspirations of neo-Nazis ttiere's precious little left to
once again to elevate a Hitler hate. But recalling the era of
Cologne, Cooper had written
in their aim to dominate the
that it was not that Ge'rman
world.
Martin Dibner, author of "A city alone, where the swas-
God for Tomorrow," published tika-daubings commenced in
by Doubleday, came to his new 1958, but that the hate that
task of exposing the Nazis and commenced there is in
their brutality with a back- "every village and town and
ground of marked experience. city. An the world."
His earlier novels, "Showcase,"
Fred Cooper in this story
"Sleeping Giant." "The Deep condemns neo-Nazis while Ger-
Six" and other novels already mans point to historical experi-
have won for him fame and ences, one of them asserting
that "we. are and must be bar-
esteem.
For "A God for Tomor- barians always."
row" he had undertaken a
To one Nazi de f ender
study of conditions in Ger-
Cooper says: "Each time you
many and acquired a thor-
open your mouth I see twelve
ough knowledge of condi-
million dead bodies, fleshless
tions in both East and West
skin-and-bone corpses piled
Berlin.
high, rotting in pits, shoveled
The novel is about an Ameri- into furnaces. I see syna-
can newspaperman who was gogues smeared with swas-
given the assignment of pro- tikas. I see raped nuns and
ceeding to Berlin, there to lo- ruined churches. I see a
cate a boy who was reported world in flames. And all of
to have been fathered by Adolf it resulting from the kind of
smooth talk you're talking'
Hitle r. The newspaperman,
Fred Cooper, had just gained now . . ."
fame for his expose of anti-
This is the m a n n e r of
Semitism in Cologne. He left Cooper's excoriation of N
his vacation spot in Saint- and Nazism. It may be e
Tropez against his wishes to but it serves to keep
proceed on his new mission— memory of the ho
and on a perilous task that in-
"A God for To
volved him in thhe intrigues well - written,
between those who wished to rated story. It
murar the Hitler-boy, because a German
of their anti-Nazism, and the how some
ermans op
neo-Nazis who wished to find Nazism. T
anti-Nazi
the boy and once again to ele- exists her
ai
but the
vate a Hitler to - German leader- tack is
zism
ship.
e tone
Nazism,
The boy and his nurse are the novel
rtain -
ritten
located. He neither hears nor to disple
mans.
speaks, but in the course of
the excitement occasioned by Spingold
enter
his identification he suddenly At Brande U 'ersity
addresses the Nurse as
con-
volutio
New and
"mother," indicating that with
an abandonment of fear he cepts in per teach-
ing facilities and in theatrical
probably could speak.
But as the various forces con- architecture will be introduced
verge, both he and the nurse with the construction of the
vanish again. Cooper locates a $2,500,000 Nate B. and Frances
girl in the story with whom he Spingold Theater Arts Center
had fallen in love and his task is at Brandeis University. Ground
breaking took place Nov. 5, on
considered accomplished.
The charges against • Ger- the Waltham, Mass. campus.
The Theater Arts Center will
mans are of specific impor-
tance in "A God for Tomor- be underwritten through the
row," which is like a Jere- generosity of Mrs. Frances
miad in its excoriation of the Spingold, wife of the late Nate
Nazis of Hitler's day and the B. Spingold, who was vice-presi-
neo - Nazis of the present. dent and director of Columbia
Cooper keeps referring to the i Pictures Corporation, and his
horrors he found during his !estate.
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA) —
Trial of 10 San Francisco
youths, indicted for conspiracy
in the 15-month. long anti-
Semitic harassment of Mr. and
Mrs. William Bowman, was set
for Dec. 4 before Judge Harry
Neubarth.
Nine of the youths pleaded
not guilty at a hearing. The
tenth defendant, Gerald Kilro
did not plead because hi
was before the
preme Court
move to
th
Judge
barth told the de-
fendant
t the hearing that h
had r
that "the B wma
are
cann
stan
stupi
n the
curre
It devel-
ops, h
anyone here
ved, directly or
has bee
indirectly, I consider it my
duty to be very severe with
you."
The referen
was to re
anti-
Semitic t
and at-
tacks o
n car and
home om which the couple
oper
a furniture
sine
The • turn of the'h s
le
police
gu
at t
co •
re • ence.
e 15- nt
erroris
en • br fly when p
p and arr
12
g a
sp
you
t
of the
eniles.
uven
ere placed
The
on in probation and
sentenced to pay a share of the
damage they had caused to the
property of the couple.
Letter by Ben-Gurion on Supreme
Court Appointments Causes Row
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
statements made by individuals
nor that he could be -expected
JERUSALEM — A letter by to give the Knesset assurances as
Prime Minister David Ben- to what other people try to
Gurion, which declared it was a effect.
serious mistake that non-Ash-
kenazi representatives were not
rnities
named to Israel's Supreme 3
Court and which was circulat
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during the recent election
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