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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
Dropsie Volume of Essays by World
Scholars Honors Dr. A. A. Neuman's
70th Birthday, His 2-Decade Leadership
Dropsie College for Hebrew
and Cognate Learning, located
in Philadelphia, has taken note
NEW YORK — The Uruguayan Embassy in Washington has of the 70th birthday of Dr. Abra-
informed the World Jewish Congress here that steps have been ham A. Neuman, who has served
taken by the Uruguayan authorities to track down and punish the college as president for 20
:1:1 the perpetrators of recent swastika carving attacks in Monte- years, and has issued a volume
1,-] video . The Bnai Brith will open a regional district in
in his honor.
, Australia and New Zealand next month, according to Label A.
"Studies and Essays in Honor
I Katz, president . . . The National Council of Young Israel ap-
pealed to Gov. Nelson Rockfeller for corrective legislation to of Abraham A. Neuman" was
X end "the continuing and damaging discrimination against a edited by three noted scholars—
z particular group of Americans resulting from New York's anti- Profs. Solomon Zeitlin, Bernard-
quated Sunday closing law." . . . American Jews planning retire- D. Weinryb and Meir Ben-Horin
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ment in Israel were urged to consider doing so in a new facility , —and the 33 Jewish and Chris-
near Tel Aviv completed by Rassoo-Rural and Suburban Settle tian scholars who have contri-
buted articles to this book in-
ment Company.
clude the world's most noted
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UNITED
NATIONS,
N.
Y.—A
proposal
that
a
week
should
men of learning.
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be set aside annually by the United Nations for a concentrated
There are three essays in
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international effort to combat racial and religious intolerance Hebrew—by Drs. Louis Finkel-
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and discrimination has been made to the United Nations Eco- stein, Judah Rosenthal and
nomic and Social Council by the World Jewish Congress.
Israel Halperin—and the vari-
BRIDGEPORT—An obsolete fire engine, which had thirty
ety of subjects covered in this
= years of service in Bridgeport, has been given by Mayor Samuel volume made it stand out as
Tedesco to Camp JCC, the Jewish Community Center day camp.
a noteworthy contribution to
United States
DR. A. A. NEUMAN
Irving A. Agus; "Civilization of
`The Religious' " by Meir Ben-
Horin; "The Etymology of Arabic
Ma'tam 'Mourning Assembly' "
by Meir Bravmann; "Plurima
Mortis Imago by Godfrey Rollis
Driver; "Jewish Participants in
the Polish Insurrection of 1863"
by Abraham G. Duker; "Concern-
ing Experience and Revelation"
by Morton S. Enslin; "The Story
of Ascama I of the Spanish and
Portuguese Jewish Congregation
of London" by Isadore Epstein;
"Home Rituals and the Spanish
Synagogue" by Solomon B. Free-
hof; "Sequence of Identical verbs
in Biblical Hebrew and in Ugari-
tic" by Moshe Held; "New Light
on the Epoch of Akabiaj B.
Mahalalel" by Sidney B. Hoenig;
"Averroes"Ma'amar be-' Esem
ha-Galgal' " by Arthur Hyman;
"Baer's Targum Onkelos Text"
by Abraham I. Katsh; "The Mes-
sianic Idea in Qumran" by Wil-
liam S. LaSor; "The Liturgical
Use of Psalm 78:38" by Leon J.
Liebreich; "The Saadia — David
Ben Zakkai Controversy" by Ellis
Rivkin; "The Ordinary Jew in
the Middle Ages" by Cecil Roth;
"Rabbi Isaac Tama" by Simon
R. Schwartzfuchs; "Johann, the
High Priest's Decree" by Solo-
mon Zeitlin and "The Apocalypse
of Baruch" by Frank Zimmer-
mann.
brew language studies.
Dr. Francisco Cantera Burgos,
in the essay "Some Hebrew
Manuscripts from Seville," adds
valuable information on Spanish
Jewish history.
CLEVELAND—A threat of boycott by the Arab League Boy- American Jewish scholarship.
Modern complexes in Jewish
In his introduction to this col-
cott Office at Beirut. Lebanon. was sharply rejected by a group
life are interestingly reviewed
of Cleveland investors. headed by Howard Abrams, vice president lection of essays, Dr. Zeitlin pays in Prof. Horace M. Kallen's "On
honor to Dr. Neuman as an his-
of Curtis Industries. Inc., here.
Being Jewish Today."
torian who "demonstrates sover-
Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky, in
LOS ANGELES — Jewish children in need of foster homes eign mastery of his sources and
here are being placed with Catholic or Protestant families be- keen sensitivity to historical "The Tribal System of Israel
cause no Jewish foster homes are available for them, according facts," as demonstrated in his and Related Groups in the
to an announcement by the division of child welfare services two-volume work "The Jews in Period of the Judges," states
of the Los Angeles County Bureau of Public Assistance.
1 Spain"; whose "Judaism" is "a that the concept of amphi-
SAN FRANCISCO — President Kennedy and the U.S. Sen- comprehensive portrayal of the ctyony—the confederacy of
ate were urged to ratify the International Genocide Convention interdependence of Judaism and tribes—was not more pre-
in a resolution approved at the 40th annual convention here the Jewish people"; who "reveals valent in Israel' than anywhere
of the Bnai Brith Women's Gratid Lodge of District 4.
his gift of interpretation in all else, and adds: "Israel in the
period of the Judges consisted
his historical essays."
of tribes and city-states that Hebrew Corner
Latin America
Prof. Zeitlin also outlines, in shared much in religious belief
RIO DE JANEIRO---A total of 130 Brazilian Jews emigrated his introduction, the conception
and practice and that spoke
to Israel. for permanent settlement there. during the first six of the college idea by Dropsie's the same language; but their
months of this year. according to figures released here by the founder, Moses Aaron Dropsie. economic and geographical
emigration department of the Zionist Organization of Brazil . . . Dr. Neuman was one of the first conditions, their disposition
"Bnal Brith" is the largest and
The late Chaim Weinberg, who amassed wealth here after ar- instructors, in history, at the to commerce rather than to oldest
Jewish organization in the
riving as an immigrant from Ukrainia, and dide childless a year , college, at its inception in 1907, agriculture, the extent to world. It was found in the year of
1843 in the United States and spread
ago. has willed his entire wealth to the Jewish Community of Sau two years after the death of the which they were exposed to rapidly
all over the world. Every
Paulo. The funds. amounting to 100,000,000 cruzeiros (over founder who had bequeathed his invasion and even conquest of iyear thousands of new members
the organization.
($250,000) were left for use of the Jewish community's welfare possessions for the purpose of varying might and duration— enter
The organization is not political
services. Weinberg provided in his will only that sufficient funds establishing the school of higher these were the factors that and its purpose is to develop broth-
learning for people of all faiths. determined the actions of the erhood and friendship and to unite
for his widow's livelihood be provided for the rest of her life.
the nation through the important
i Dr. Cyrus Adler was Dropsie's
principle of Israel, its Torah and
MEXICO CITY—Delegates froth the entire Caribbean area first president, and after his tribes."
land; to spread knowledge; to help
"The Colonial Jewish Peddler" others; visit the sick and help the
and from Mexico participated in a Central American conference death in 1940 Dr. Neuman was
and orphan.
by Maxwell Whiteman and "Ezra widow
of the Jewish National Fund. Jacob Tzur, chairman of the JNF
For this purpose the organization
elevated to the post. The de- Stiles Writes a Hebrew Letter" has world and local institutions,
board of directors at Jerusalem. was the guest of honor. Tzur velopments
at the school under by Edwain Wolf II are valu- such as "Hiller institutes in uni-
addressed a large mass meeting held at the Jewish Sports Center
versities all over the •world, the
Dr. Neuman's leadership are able monographs on American Anti-defamation
here, and was tendered special receptions by the Zionist Federa- reviewed
League and others.
by Dr. Zeitlin. Jewish history.
The influence of "Baal Brith" is
tion of Mexico. the central committee of the organized Jewish
great. In connection with the State
The eminence of the scholars
Prof. Weinryb's "The Begin- of Israel its influence is both politi-
community in this country. and the representatives of both the
participating in this volume nings of East-European Jewry in cally
and also through actual under-
Ashkenazi(' and Sephardic congregations here.
is evidenced by many essays, Legend and Historiography" is a takings.
In
the
State of Israel the organ-
including "Saadia on the valuable essay on the emergence ization scored
many achievements
Europe
Trinity and Incarnation," by of one of the most important in the past and present; a Jewish
hospital was built in Tel Aviv, the
LONDON — The Union of Jewish Communities of Czecho- Prof. Harry A. Wolfson of
National University Library, the
slovakia has voted to erect a monument in the old Jewish ceme- Harvard University, who dis- groups in world Jewry.
first Hebrew kindergarten, a beauti-
Other meritorious
in ful old-age home, clubs and libraries
tery at Prague to honor the memories of the 280.000 Czecho-
cusses Saadia's views on vari- this significant volume essays
in honor for immigrant children and the like
slovakian Jews murdered during the Nazi holocaust, a Prague ous Christologies, including the
were all built.
of Dr. Neuman are:
The organization has 76 lodges in
dispatch received here reported . . The dismissal of Colin
Ebionites, and in which he
"The Oral Traditions of Pre- Israel.
Jordan, leader of the British National Socialist movement, from
criticized the doctrine of the Crusade Ashkenazic Jewry" by
Trnsl at ion of Hreolumn
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ithe Ivrit h Ol amith ,
his teaching position in a Coventry school, was recommended Trinity.
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by the school's governors.
In "The Papal Bull Sicut
PARIS—A Joint Distribution Committee official reported Judeis" Dr. Solomon Grayzell,
here that the entry into France this year of 50,000 Jews from editor of the Jewish Publication
Algeria has confronted the French Jewish community and the Society, indicates that the Bull,
.ID(' with one of the most critical emergency refugee problems from which Canon Law was
drawn, and which was most often
in Europe since the immediate postwar years.
repeated in papal utterance con-
VIENNA — The long-pending exchange of German and cerning the Jews, was not a
Hin
Austrian ratifications of the agreement between the two coun- pronouncement that protected
tries, whereby both will share. in compensating Austrian victims Jews in the Middle Ages. Sicut llitcrP14'41Kti 1:t?
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of Nazism and other Austrian nationals who suffered losses Judeis, Dr. Grayzell writes, was
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(luring the •tiazi regime. will take place next month.
limited in its application "to
FRANKFURT -- The Hesse administrative court ruled that such Jews who plotted no injury
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a person who concealed from the authorities the fact that he to the Christian faith." He adds: "T'"P"'W' 11179mn .0"1 1:7kil
participated in mass exterminations during the Nazi regime, "What was left of the Bull Sicut 7tP1731? %7'14
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Judeis on the eve of the Renais-
could be deprived of his rights as a civil servant.
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BONN — Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, a former SS gen- sance and the Reformation was ;1417;7? 1n ,z7 K`1 tP7 11111 74
eral who headed a special task force to kill Jews and partisans the one basic principle: Thou
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in Nazi-occupied Poland. went on trial on charges of killing ple forget . . . It is a fact that
seven political opponents of the Nazi regime in 1933.
the papacy never abandoned this
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JOHANNESBURG — The formation of an anti-Semitic stu-
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dent organization. calling itself The Fascist Society, was an-
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JERUSALEM — Israel and the Ivory Coast signed a treaty The manuscript from which they
of mutual friendship and agreement for cultural and technical were taken was actually in
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cooperation as the highlight of the current state visit of Presi- Samaritan characters. Some of
dent Felix Houphouet-Boigny . . . A plaque was unveiled in a the proverbs are traced to the
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Jewish Serfdom" by Prof.
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Israeli Gadna cadets and two air force officers left for the
Salo W. Baron is another of
United States as guests of the United States Civil Air Patrol
the noteworthy essays in this
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Agency establish a central authority for Western immigration,
William C h o m s k y's "The
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integrating many offices now dealing separately with this Growth and Progress of Modern
problem,. was being studied here by a special Jewish Agency Hebrew" throws much light on
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committee, headed by Dloshe Shama, chairman of the Agency. the advancement made in He-
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