The Jewish. Welfa; Federa-
tion of- Detroit was presented
with a Certificate of Award at
the 30th General Assembly of
the' Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds for
the excellence of its series of
direct mail campaign solicita-
tions. The series took first place
in the Best Single Campaign
Piece category in the Council's
annual Best in Interpretation
composition. Judge Theodore
Levin, right, former President
of Federation, is .shown receiv-
ing the Certificate of Award
from Isadore Shifrin, CJFWF
chairman of publicity services
committee. Shifrin said that
individually, and as a group the
series represented a fresh and
original approach to the per-
ennial problem of exciting the
contributor. Marvin Diamond
is' public relations director of
the Detroit Federation.

Zionist Non-Identification
with Israel Parties Gains
Adherents, Daroff Says

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Samuel
Daroff, president of the Ameri-
can Jewish League for Israel,
has declared that the Leag,ue ■ s
principle. of non-identification
with any political party in Is-
rael "is rapidly gaining ad-
herents in all sectors of
Diaspora Zionism and its im-
pact is being increasingly felt."
Daroff, addressing a meeting
of the organization's board, also
said that the "call today is for
centralization and for the eli-
mination of duplicite and over-
lapping efforts" and that "the
demand of the hour is a single
Zionist organization in . every
country." _
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld,
vice-president, said the purpose
of the League was "to act as a
catalyst for unification." He
said that "we must define our
present situation and re-define
our objectives in the light of
today's Zionist needs."

TZ

Myths and fables about Jews
that were prevalent for many
years, even in this country, are
revealed in their various forms
in "The Jew in the Old Ameri-
can Folklore," by Dr. Rudolf
Glanz, of 620 W. 171st St., New
York 32, and published by
Waldon Press.
Recognition of the merits of
Dr. Glanz's extensive research
work into the subject of Ameri-
can folklore is indicated by
the fact that the publication of
the book was made possible
with the help of the Alexander
Kohut Memorial Foundation.

Author df an earlier work,
"Jew and Yankee: A His-
toric Comparison," Dr. Glanz
goes into detail, in his new
book, to show the implica-
tions of the Jew-Yankee com-

Seven Governors Named
by Weizmann Institute

parisons. Those who assigned
traits of cheating to the
Yankees linked them to
Jews, often in their venom
speaking of them as worse
than Jews. • Later there de-
v e l o p e d other folkloristic
myths about Jews as "pork-
haters, "old cib" men, and
similar characters.

So-called "Jewish features"
played a part in folklore. Dr.
Glanz show how ideas about a
Jewish nose or forehead de-
veloped. There also is the folk-
lore of conversion, of Bible
lore and "chosen people" myths.
"Indeed," Dr. Glanz writes,
"there is no lack of Biblical
images to guide th
to the real e
of t
American
, and which in
the en
11 help to bring
abou
new kind of folklore
American business/ folk-

The "wandering Jew" fear
also was "applied to the un-
known that so often seemed to
pose as a threat."
Dr. Glanz devotes himself
also to a study of definitions
and the sources of nicknames
applied to Jews, such as "kike,"
"sheeny" and others. He states:
"The etymology of the term
`sheeny' is obscure to the
linguistics of our times. Never
Thereupon he pro
theless the possibility of
show the 'extent of
derivation from 'swine' ca
about driving a ba
be excluded . . "
He deals with other d
tions and jests. He poin
the applicatiOn of such na
as "Jew-Fish," the naming o
towns after Jews, such as
"Oppenheim," or Connersville,
N. Y., named after Jakob
Kohner, and he writes:

REHOVOTH — Seven prom-
inent scientists and business mag-
nates in the U.S.A., Great Britain
and Israel were elected members
of the Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence board of governors at the
conference in London, it was an-
"Those names had no fur-
nounced by Meyer W. Weisgal,
chairman- of the Institute's execu- ther stimulating effect on the
tive council, on his return to folklore. However, in the Far
Israel.
West the name 'Levi' devel-
Weisgal named the new Gover- oped into a generic term for
nors of the famed Rehovoth re- jeans, in memory of -Levi
search center as:
_Strauss who had first given

Prof. Christian Anfinsen, head of
the Laboratory of Cellular Physiology
and Metabolism at the National Heart
Institute in Bethesda, Md., and editor
of the periodical "Advances in Pro-
tein Chemistry;"
Charles Clore, of London, one of
Britain's leading financiers and prop-
erty development magnate;
Prof. Maurice Goldhaber, director
of Brookhaven National Laboratory
at Upton, Long Island, one of the
foremost American research centers;
Dr. Gustav Levi, chief engineer
and director of the technical divi-
sion at the Israel Electric Corpora-
tion, Haifa;
Dr. Isador Lubin, economist, of
Rutgers State University at New
Brunswick, N. J., principal consult
to the Jewish Agency Inc. of
York;
Siegfried Ullmann, Ame
dustrialist and philanth
New York;
Prof. Jerrold Zachari
of the Massachusetts Ins
nology, member of P
nedy's Scientific Advi

name symbol may at the same ruptcies, legal complications
time remind us of the dura- about a mythical Mr. Failin-
bility of the role of the JeW stein, and he comments that
in the American clothing "a psychology of all against
field."
.one can produce only prej-

them their durability. This

udices" and that the product
of such folk-fantasy "Mr. Fail-
upski is a monstrosity."
Dr. Glanz also deals with the
folklore of Jewish peddlers in
America, the fiction of portKay-
ing the Jew as a dark shadow
and other misrepresentations as
evident in aneodotes, ditties
There
re peddler g
ries.
These and scores o othe
revelations expose the
the
and fables
an old Ame can
folklore
the Jew was
a
Glanz's research
to understand that
rgotten period
s folklore.

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Illinois House
Israel Bond Cam

The House of Representa
of Illinois has endorsed the
State of Israel Bond campaign
as "a potent instrument for
the economic strengthening of
the democracy of Israel, which
is dedicated to the principles of
human brotherhood and en-
lightened fellowship among . all
nations and creeds."
The Illinois legislative body
adopted a resolution in support
of the Israel Bond drive in con-
junction with the "Man of the
Year" dinner in Chicago on
Dee. 17 in honor of Harris Perl-
stein, veteran Jewish civic and
communal leader of Chicago.

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