• Rare Ilagadalis Behind the Iron Curtain Passover Greetings I who is director of that library stance, one of them shows Jacob and holds the chair of Hebrew wrestling with the Angel. By ALFRED H. PAUL (Copyright. 1962, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) BLUE FLASH CHEMICAL CO. culture at the university. Turning back to the map, this As you tell your children the 1904 Maryland Blvd. here is reporter found it one of the ei■ age-old story of the liberation ! The map mentioned an old Hagadah. There are most fascinating documents he az Birmingham, Michigan of the ancient Hebrews from lin has ever viewed. Of course. the Egyptian bondage, would you other unique editions of the route of the Jews through the illustrate the history I Hagadah in the library run by wilderness was imagined by the like to *4 with a map. showing exactly Dr. Katsh. They are not origi- where the slaves fleeing Egypt nals---but they are filmed copies anonymous artist. But scholars o Happy Passover os had crossed the Red Sea, the of the originals—on microfilm. have checked the map for its -7- 2 disposition of the Tribes of Is- tortuous paths they wound Prof. Katsh has devoted years rael, and have found the map 4. through the Sinai Desert for 40 of study. research and highly reconstructing their positions I complicated negotiations to ob- accurately, as told in the Bible. , years, the spot Wholesale Me :its ra tain microfilmed copies of these w here they Down in the lower right - hand 14210 Grand River VE 5-4853 as well as of old Hagadahs w j crossed the corner, there is a female figure, Z Jordan to en- many thousands of other print apparently riding an alligator- ter Palestine. ed books and manuscripts. — = ■■■ ••••••1410.4 ■• •■■ 14.111 ■ 0”.•MIM ( ■•■ ..M. ■0■■•■■ INSIMMHIMIKNIIIMO ■ ••1.11•11M.1•• ■■ 1=11 his unique efforts, that's Egypt. so labeled. One cc j and the ... Through many thousands of such ancient finds in accurate position to- 1 sition of Is I Greetings • day's Eilat, the Dead Sea. the g rael's tribes in books and documents may now i s-s be studied by Western scholars. Mediterranean- coast (the Med- ! JOHN A. BROOKS, INC. their land of • iterranean is called the Big I i has brought to this country milk and hon • He Sea), and Lake Kineret. Jericho * BROOKS LAWN SPRINKLER CO. ., a mass of Jewish historical ma is there. as are Hebron and Originator of Lawn Underground Sprinkling System There is such terials which. until he started many other cities that we know Rain's Only Rival Since 1915 a map in exist- his project, were virtually un- E in Israel today. as well as many ence. All JOU attainable unless one traveled i 20122 Livernois UN 3-9650 i landmarks and portions h ■ •••••••••••■.1111•0 IMINNIIIIII.HOMM.■.•••■■.■...■0■1.0•1•0-4■1100.11■ A AIM., ■••••• • •■■•• WIZ to Leningrad. Moscow or Buda- , have to do is = f the Israeli terrain. including _ 1 o - to get an ac- E- pest — and obtained the permis- mountains and valleys. credited .schol- sion of the Communist authori-; The map even shows the di- Passover Greetings to All ar to go to the - ties to search. rections of the compass. except Prof. Katsh Library of Our Friends and Patrons One finds among his treas- that North. instead of pointing Hcbraica and Judaica, at New ures the filmed Hagadah vertically upward as our maps York University. and ask Prof. which, in parallel columns, show, is pointed in what we Abraham I. Katsh. the scholar , tells the story of Passover in would consider a Southwest po- FO 6-2060 f o u r languages: Hebrew, sition; however, if you turn to 538 W. 7 Mile Rd. between John R and Woodward Judeo-German (the ol de s t the North as shown on the map, HAPPY PASSOVER form of Yiddish), Ladino, and you put the picture into proper purest Italian (in Hebrew perspective. Wayne characters). From Hungary alone, Dr. Standard Service Happy Passover to Our Friends and Patrons Katsh has brought microfilms There are many "portraits" of 15,000 documents and 20141 W. 8 Mile Rd. Of Moses and his brother Aaron, Detroit, Michigan and others which illustrate vari- books; many thousands of ()th- for in 1 ers are from the famous- KE 8 9875 ous Biblical scenes ■ I BROOKS PACKING CO. — L. — BROWN'S CREAMERY Cohen & Son Kosher Meat & Poultry Market — Baron David Guinzburg col- IOL—_ —col 10 i lection in Leningrad. We find lin Passover Greetings s hi treasures copies of p , among a r ; documents dating back to the Quality Awning Co.! year 1021. There are cop- tol II IPPY PASSOVER AUTO CITY GLASS CO. ■ Auto Glass Installed Insurance Work 16431 I W. 7 Mile Rd. Detroit E verythi fig in aluminum eariva, titierglas awnings 0 Mirrors Glass Top, 35, Mich. ies of papers in Hebrew, I;1 Arabic, Aramaic, Judeo-Ger ' man, Judeo - Arabic. Ladino D i - acters): There are liturgical .. manuscripts. 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