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Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from'Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.

THE D ETROIT J E1

United States

WASHINGTON—The Bnai Brith Vocational Service reported
that there are at least 3,000 unfilled positions currently in the
American rabbinate and Jewish community work, with many of
the positions paying $10,000 a year and more. . . . Bnai Brith
has announced its support for the proposal that the United
States purchase United Nations bonds "in order to lift the
threat of insolvency from the UN and to strengthen the prestige
and authority of the international organization. . . . Congress-
man James Byrnes of Philadelphiold the House he hopes "that
in the future the U. S. delegation to the United Nations will not
find it necessary to vote against a resolution calling for direct
negotiations between the Arab countries and Israel," referring
to the U. S. delegation's vote last December against a 15-nation
sponsored resolution calling for direct Middle Eastern negotia-
tions.

NORWALK, Conn.—Officials of the Norwalk Jewish Center,
which was almost totally destroyed last week in a raging fire,
said that many offers of help have been received from churches
and other organizations in the Norwalk area to rebuild the
facility.

CLEVELAND—Western Reserve University announced re-
ceipt of a gift of $50,000 from the Saltzman Foundation, Shirley
and Maurice Saltzman, who is vice president of the Cleveland
Jewish Community Federation, to be used to attract and keep
distinguished faculty members. . . . Israel Katz, candidate for
the doctor of social work degree at Western University, has
been named director of the Paul Baerwald School of Social
Work of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

NEW YORK—The keel will be laid next month for a new
23,000 ton luxury liner, the SS Shalom, to be built by Chantiers
d I'Atlantique of St. Nazaire, for the Zim-Israel Navigation Co.,
to be used on the firm's New York to Haifa run.. .. The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem has been awarded a $108,000 grant by
the Rockefeller Foundation here to finance the continuation
throueh 1965 of the university's investigation of irrigation
methods and agricultural systems used more than 2,000 years
ago in the Negev Desert. . . . The Brooklyn Jewish Community
Council warned Mayor Robert Wagner that the curbing of
Jewish funerals on Sunday would cause "serious difficulties"
for the traditional American religious freedom of 1,900,000
Jcw , in this city." . . . Israel continues to seek a special eco-
nomic relationship with the European Common Market, Israeli
Ambassador Avraham Harman replied to a question from Con-
gressman Emanuel Celler on a television interview on Sunday.
.. . The founding of the Bergen-Belsen Association of the sur-
vivors of the infamous Nazi concentration camp was announced
here by Josef Rosensaft, former chairman of the Central Com-
mittee of the Liberated Jews in Germany and now president of
this new organization.

Europe

Biography of One of. Most Noted Sculptors

Jacques Lipchitz, the world Hitler era.
Jewish piety, as related to
famous sculptor, recently was
in the limelight as the donor of the ceremonials depicted in the
300 of his original creations to Lipchitz story, is described with
be placed in the Jerusalem understanding, so that what-
Museum of Art. The announce- ever the faith of the reader it
ment of the gift was made by will be recognized for its dig-
Billy Rose at a party in honor nity and devotion.
The reader is never in
of the sculptor's 70th birthday
at the Lipchitz home, Hastings- doubt about Lipchitz' Jewish
devotions. While he was not
on-Hudson.
Lipchitz's life story is told in an observant Jew, he always
an intriguing biography by spoke up for his people, and
upon his father's death imme-
Irene Patai, "Encounters: The
Life of Jacques Lipchitz," pub- diately went to a Parish serv-
lished by Funk & Wagnalls, 153 ice to pray and to recite the
E. 24th, N. Y. 10. kaddish.
It was in Paris, when he was
Mrs. Patai, who already has
earned fame. with her novel issued an identity card upon
"The Valley of God," has incor- his arrival there in 1909, that
pora,ted into her story all the his name Jacob Lipchitz was
basic facts about Lipchitz' life, changed by a police official to
his devotion to his family and Jacques Lipchitz, and it re-
to his people, his many notable mained so from then on.
friendships and his "encounters" There is an intriguing ac-
which make his biography read count of Lipchitz' friendship
with the poet Max Jacob who
like a novel.
Lipchitz' childhood in Drus- flirted with Catholicism, from
kieniki, the Lithuanian spa, conversion to which he was
his difficulties with his Jew- temporarily swayed by Lip-
ish studies but his lifelong chitz. He later converted and
adherence to his faith, his his tragedy was that when the
aspirations to be a sculptor Germans came his conversion
and his eventual settlement didn't help . him and he died as
at Paris where he befriended a Jew in a concentration camp.
Equally interesting is Lip-
the best known art and liter-
ary figures, are among the chitz' friendship with the Ital-
accounts splendidly portrayed ian Jewish intellectual, Amedeo
Modigliani, who interested him-
in the well-told biography.
The skill with which Mrs. self in the Jewish knowledge
Patai depicts her interesting imparted to him by Lipchitz.
subject also provides an under- Other great names of Lipchitz'
standing of the economic condi- friends included Picasso, Diego
tions under which Jews labored Rivera, Chagall, Gertrude Stein,
in pre-war Russia, under sev- Stravinsky, N i j i n s k y, Leib
ere restrictions. "Encounters" Jaffe, the Zionist who died a
also includes accounts of the hero's death, and a score of
tragic days of the Kishineff others who pass in review in
pogrom, the sufferings of East this interesting biography and
European Jewry during World about whom many episodes are
War I and the horrors of the recorded.

World Jewish Congress European
Executive Sees Rise in Neo-Nazism

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

His love affair with Berthe,
and his later marriage to Yulla,
are related, in the latter union
the Lipchitz devotion again
being indicated to describe the
heartwarming elements of the
sculptor's character.
One of the most interesting
incidents in Lipchitz' story re-
lates to the commission he
received from the French
church of Nsiy to make a
bronze of a Virgin. lie hesi-
tated and then gave his con-
sent, on the condition that
the statue should have the
inscription: "Jacob Lipchitz,
Jew, faithful to the religion
of his ancestors, has made
this Virgin to foster under-
standing between men on
earth, that the life of the
spirit may prevail." It took
some time for a decision, and
then it came: the church dig-
nitaries agreed.
Lipchitz' devotion to his par-
ents, brothers, sisters and their
children are equally impressive.
The Patai story describes the
life of a genius in sculpture and
a very warm-hearted Jew. "En-
counters" is, indeed, an out-
standing biography of a great
man.

Hebrew Corner

100 Years Since Birth
of Henrietta Szold

Henrietta Szold—the founder of
Youth Aliyah—was born in Baltimore
in the United States. The years of
her childhood and youth were good
and blessed, only when she reached
the age of 20, did she come across
for the first time the suffering of
Israel. These were the days of the
pogroms against the Jews of Russia.
In 1909, she was then about the
age of fifty, she came for a visit
to the "Country". Here she found
a ..difficult _condition in _public
health, and upon her return to
America, through her enterprise
and exertion was founded the
Women's Zionist Organization of
America "Hadassah". After the
First World War Henrietta Szold
came to the Land of Israel for
the second time and lived in Jeru-
salem. When she was 72 she wanted
to return to her relatives, but then
began the terrible Chapter-Hitler
rose to power.
The "Mother" that felt the corn-
ing tragedy left immediately for
London and Berlin to lead the
"Youth Aliyah" project to mobilize
the Yishuv and Jews in the dia-
spora to participate in the project
of saving. the youth from the
"Hashoa" (mass murder) so as to
bring them up to the "Country".
She did this work with great de-
votion till her last day.
The youth related themselves to
her as - do children to a mother,
and that was to her the greatest
bliss than all. .

VIENNA—Liquidation of unclaimed or heirless property will
ROME — Anti-Semitic forces ating internationally, to subvert
yield 55.600,000 for the benefit of persecutees living in Austria, are increasing activities in efforts and undermine democracy
Finance Minister Josef Klaus reported.
to undermine the democratic sys- throughout the world."
The Executive also examined
PARIS—A new ordinance of the French government was tem in West Germany and other
the Jewish situation and pro-
published here last week which will enable a large number of countries, members of the Euro-
spects
in North Africa, the So-
French Jews, who were stateless during World War II, to apply pean Executive of the World
Jewish Congress agreed Wednes- viet Union and other areas where
for damages for wartime Nazi persecutions.
Jewish communities were en-
day.
Meeting at Milan, the Execu- countering difficulties in the
LONDON—An organization named British Friends of Israel
has been formed here, according to its chairman Morris Gersh- tive called attention to the con- free exercise of a Jewish way of
lick, to act as a means whereby all who are pro-Israel, whether tinuing growth of Nazi anti-Sem- life and maintenance of their
Zionists or not, can associate together in a common cause on itic elements conducting open religious and cultural institu-
Translation of Hebrew column.
tions.
behalf of Israel to assist in creating a more informed public on large-scale propaganda.
Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
1' Jerusalem.
In a strong resolution, the Ex-
significant matters relating to Israel and to combat anti-Israel
activities." ... The most recent volume published in the Popular ecutive memo issued by the Cen-
Jewi,41 Library series of the World Jewish Congress-British tral Council of Jews in Germany
Setcion is Rabbi Dr. S. M. Lehrman's "The World of the concerned the dangers involved
in the freedom with which neo-
Nazi organizations in West Ger-
(;ENEVA—The delegation maintained by the International many were able to disseminate
Committee of the Red Cross in Cairo since the beginning of the propaganda to poison the minds
second world war in 1939, with an interruption of four years of Germans, particularly German
from 1952 to 1956, has closed down . . . Israel's new economic youth, against Jews.
policy sparked by the recent devaluation of the pound was
The resolution cited slan-
101,11.(1 here by the Council of General Agreement on Tariffs
derous attacks keyed to the
d Trade.
argument that the Nazis did
not murder 6,000,000 Euro-
Israel
pean Jewish men, women and
USALEM—More than a third of a million dollars for the children during World War IL
Jerusalem YMIIA is already in hand and construction of the
The resolution called on the
project will begin shortly, reported Sanford Solender, executive West German federal govern-
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ice president of the National Jewish Welfare Board of New ment to take immediate steps
York. . . Burmese-Israel friendship is "axiomatic," Mrs. Golda to eradicate Nazi influence by
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Israel's Foreign Minister, told a press conference here applying "sternly" and effec-
following her recent return from a five-week tour of the Far tiVely legal and administrative
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Shimshon Arad, former Israel Consul in New York measures available for that pur-
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and member of the Israel delegation to the United Nations, has pose.
been appointed head of the American Division of the Israel
"Nazi anti-Semitism aims are
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Foreign Nlinistry.
not merely an assault on Jews,"
the resolution declared. "They
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TEL AVIV—Nachman Shtarkes, the elderly Orthodox Jew are part of a general design by
who was sent back to jail for failing to produce his long-missing.
reactionary organizations, cooper-
grandson. Yossele Schumacher, whom he allegedly kidnapped
for fear the boy would not get a sufficiently "Orthadox up- $4.5 Million Invested
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bringing," went on a hunger strike Feb. 22 in an effort to ebtain
his release. . . . Delegates to the Canadian Hadassah-Wizo con- by PEC in Israel in '61
Palestine Economic Corpora-
vention, which concluded recently in Israel, presented to Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion an antique French-Canadian rocking tion invested a record $4,447,000
chair and footstool to mark the event, the first of its kind in in various Israeli projects dur-
Israel. . . . The 14th world convention of Wizo—Women's In- ing 1961, according to a state-
ternational Zionist Organization — has decided on a three- ment by PEC President Joseph
chairmen body to head its executive, which by a previous Meyerhoff in the annual report
decision is a merger of the World and the Israel executives. . . . for 1961 distributed to the cor-
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special publicity campaign be undertaken simultaneously in throughout the U.S.
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week culminating with Israel's Independence Day, which falls on 000 has already been committed
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