Panoramic View of Jewish History, Personalities in Netv Epstein Book Dr. Morris Epstein is one of the distinguished authorities on juvenile literature in this coun- try. As editor of World Over, the magazine for Jewish youth published by the Jewish Educa- tion Committee of New York, he has made a note wo r thy contribution to the efforts to provide proper read- ing material for our boys and girls. Author of several books f o r children, his latest work, e "A 2icture Pa- rade of Jewish History," just published by Shengold (45 W. 45th, NY 36), enriches Dr. Epstein t h e material he is producing,whether through World Over or in book form. Adding to the merits of this new book are the artistic con- tributions of Maurice del Bour- go and F. L. Blake, bath of whom have also made valuable contributions with their illus- trations for children's maga- zines and books. By means of comic cartoons, which accompany the well told narratives, important mo- ments in Jewish history are recounted in "A Picture Pa- rade of J e wish History." Events and persOnalities are reviewed with the skill which has distinguished Dr. Epstein in his activities in the field of children's literature. Explaining the resort to com- ics in the efforts to reach the children about historical events, Dr. Epstein states in his intro- duction that comics "are easy to read, easy to understand ... . have color and immediacy . . . portray a world of heroes in which the bad are punished and the good rewarded." He adds that comics, "used properly, can instruct as well as entertain." He declares: "If these cartoon stories introduce children to famous faces, places, dates, and happenings; if the ready accessibility of the back- ground texts increases their chance of being read; if a pleas- ant sense of familiarity-is arous- ed when the cast of characters is encountered in more formal study, an author's fond hopes will have been fulfilled." The texts and their accom- panying cartoon - comics in "A Picture Parade of Jewish His- tory" prove his points. Commencing with an ex- .. planation of "The Septua- gint," the first translation of the Bible by. 70 scholars, into Greek, 22 centuries ago, Dr. Epstein devotes his book to personality studies of Hillel, Akiba, Yochanan Ben Zakkai, Bar Kochba, Judah Ha-Nasi, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Rashi, Judah Ha-Levi, Maimonides, Benjamin of Tudela, Meir of Rothenberg, Nahman i d e s, Isaac Abravanel, and many others—great men, and wo- men as well, of olden times and of our own era. A chapter, and as in all other instances the accompanying car- toon, is devoted to the friends of Columbus. There are chap- ters devoted to Daniel Bomberg, the French Christian aristocrat who, in the 15th century, pub- lished Hebrew , books; - Joseph _ Nasi, a Marrano who became a • favorite of the Turkish sultan; Shabbatai Zevi the false. Mes- siah, Menasseh Ben Israel, As- ser Levy, Ba'al Shem Tov, Solo- mon Da Costa, Moses Mendels- sohn, Levi Yitzhak of Berdit- chev, Hershel Ostropolier, the Jester, Akiba Eger and other great figures. There is a page and a cartoon devoted to the American Revo- '4n • and following it are arti- cles dealing with Thomas Ken- nedy who authored the "Jew bill" in Maryland, aimed at making Jews full citizens; Re- becca Gratz, Judah Touro, Mor- decai Noah, Uriah P. Levy, Adolph Sutro. Then comes a page and a cartoon on the Civil War and it is followed by personalities of that time — Rabbi David Einhorn and others listed in a section entitled "Lincoln and the Jews." Others include Moses Mon- tefiore, Isaac Adolphe Cremieux, Emma Lazarus, Edmond de Rothschild, Alf r e d Dreyfus, Theodor Herzl, Hermann Scha- pira, Solomon Schechter, Louis Marshall, Arthur James Balfour, Chaim Weizmann, Eliezer Ben Yehuda, Henrietta Szold, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Orde Wingate. Then come sections dealing with the Warsaw Ghetto hero- ism and with Hanna Senesh; with the rebirth of the State of Israel and the story of General Mickey Marcus; with Stephen S. Wise, Safed, Degania and Albert Einstein. By including very distinguish- ed Christians, noted places and great events, the story assumes more-inclusive merit. Dr. Ep- stein has made another good contribution to Jewish litera- ture with this new book, and very many adults as well as their children will do well to acquaint themselves with the stories incorporated in this in- teresting volume. JNF 'Youth Parley Calls for Leaders NEW YORK, (JTA) — Fifty young Jewish leaders, attending a three-day Youth Leadership Conference organized here by the Jewish National Fund, is- sued a call for expanded par- ticipation by American Jewish young people in the work of the JNF. The delegates .pproved a res- olution declaring that "Ameri- can Jewry stands in need of a strong and rejuvenated leader- ship in order to cope with the problems at home, to strengthen Jewish life abroad and to aid in the development of Israel." The resolution urged the JNF to create "a national JNF Young Leadership Council" with the goals of enrolling a maximum number of American Jewish young people in the work of the JNF, including particularly the work of the JNF Foundation. Jewish Leaders Are Received by Catholic Clergymen in Venezuela CARACAS, Venezuela, (JTA) — Marc Turkow, the secretary of the South American execu- tive of the World Jewish Con- gres,S, accompanied by leaderS of the Venezuelan JeWish coni- munity and members of the Bnai • Brith, were received in speCial audience by Cardinal Quintero and Monsignor Hen- riquek. The. Cardinal expressed . his sympathy with the terms of the memorandum submitted by the World Conference of Jew- ish Organizations to the Vati- can, and condemned racial hat- red as being anti-Christian. 93 Per Cent of Jews Dedicate Mizrachi Women's Vocational in U.S. Covered by Anti-Bias Laws Israel High School Israel's newest vocational high school for girls was dedi- cated in Beersheva, Wednesday. Minister of the Interior Moshe Haim Shapiro and representa- tives of the American and Can- adian embassies participated in opening the school built at a cost of more than a quarter of a million dollars by the Miz- rachi Women's Organization of America and its sister organiza- tion in Canada. Mrs. Dvorah Rabinowitz, for- merly of Thomas River, N. J., now a resident of Ramat Aviv, Israel, represented the Ameri- can women's religious-Zionist organization at the dedication. Mrs. Goldie Cohen, of Montreal, represented the Canadian don- ors. A student body of 200 girls, drawn mainly from recently ar- rived immigrant families of North African and 'Near Eastern origin, will be served by the new institution. Curricula to be offered will include secretarial and commer- cial training; home economics, cooking and dietetic courses and dressmaking and fashion de- sign. New Bill Would End Restaurant, Hotel Bias in Quebec MONTREAL, (JTA) — An amendment to the Hotel Act, banning religious or racial dis- crimination by any hotel, res- taurant or camping ground in the Province of Quebec, was in- troduced in the Quebec Provin- cial Parliament. The Canadian Jewish Con- gress here announced that the provisions of the draft bill are "acceptable as interim meas- ures until such time as more specialized legislation can be obtained." If en a c t e d, the amendment will bring Quebec into line with six other Cana- dian provinces that have anti- bias laws of one kind or an- other on their statute bOoks. Press Defamation Bill Revised in Israel JERUSALEM, ( J T A ) — All major objections to the widely criticized press defamation bill were removed in a revised ver- sion submitted to Israel's parlia- ment. Originally placed before the Knesset in February, 1962, the bill evoked sharp criticism. It was withdrawn by the cabinet which referred it to a Minis- terial Law Committee. T h e amended measure eliminates as punishable libels committed in overseas publications written by correspondents stationed in Israel. It also has dropped a clause which would have author- ized Israeli courts to ban publi- cation of judgments in defama- tion cases. The new version also provides that accurate reporting of pub- lic proceedings constitutes a good defense even if defamatory, a situation hitherto subject to prosecution. A 1 s o eliminated were provisions that the printer' of a newspaper is liable for defamatory articles and that courts may shut down news- papers guilty of libel. New York Federation Teachers' Council Will Served 900,000 Plant Ben-Zvi Forest NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Fed- JERUSALEM—The Teachers' Council on behalf of the JNF has decided on a special pro- ject for school children—to plant a 10,000 trees forest in memory of Yitzhak Ben Zvi, the late President of the State of Israel. The initiative for this pro- ject was taken simultaneously by scores of schools in all parts of the country, all of them re- questing a JNF project to com- memorate the beloved Presi- dent. eration of Jewish Philanthropies of New York now represents more than 90 per cent of the metropolitan area's Jewish-spon- sored health and social welfare agencies, Lawrence A. Wien, president of the Federation re- ported at the organization's 46th annual meeting. The 116 Feder- ation agencies served, during the past year, more than_900,000 per- sons, the greatest number in their history, he said. Want ads get quick results! Dryfoos, Publisher of N.Y. Times, Dies NEW YORK (JTA)—Funeral services were held here at Tem- ple Emanu-El Monday for the late Orvil E. Dryfoos, president and publisher of the New York Times, who died this weekend at the age of 50. He was a member of that Reform congre- gation. He was also a member of the board of trustees of the Baron de Hirsch Fund. Dryfoos, who was married to the eldest child of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, became president of the Times in 1957 and took over the duties of publisher in 1961. His wife is a grandchild of the late Adolph S. Ochs, who had been publisher of the Times from 1896 until his death in 1935. Statements of condolence over Dryfoos' death were made by President Kennedy, Mayor Rob- ert F. Wagner, former Sen. Her- bert H. Lehman, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Rabbi Julius 2 Leaders of Morocco Mark, spiritual leader of Temple Jewish Community Emanu-El, Sen. Jacob K. Javits, Nominated as Deputies and many other outstanding per- CASABLANCA, (JTA) — Two sonalities in Jewish and other prominent leaders of the Moroc- American affairs. can Jewish community were nominated as candidates for Moe F. Wolfgang, Morocco's new Chamber of Dep- Popular Attorney, Dies uties, in the national elections An assistant Wayne County to be held May 17. They are Meyer Obadia, president of the prosecutor and popular Detroit Jewish Committee of Casablanca, attorney, Moe F. Wolfgang, and Meyer Toledano, now a 19016 Birchcrest, died May 28. member of the Casablanca City He was 54. Mr. Wolfgang was a graduate Council. of the Detroit College of Law Obadia is running on the ticket and was a member of the Mich- of the Front of Constitutional igan and Detroit bar associa- Institutions, a Royalist party tions. He had practiced law for founded by Minister of the In- three decades and was in charge terior Reda Guerdira. The con- of examinations for the prosecu- situency which he would repre- tor's office. sent is a district in • this city Mr. Wolfgang's wife, Myra, is where Jewish residents are in international vice-president of the majority. He has the official the Hotel and Restaurant Work- support of the Council of Jewish ers Union. Communities in Morocco. Tole- Other survivors are daugh- dano is running on the slate of ters, Laura and Martha; a sis- the National Union of Popular ter, Mrs. Max Cohen; and broth- Forces, an opposition party la- ers, Sidney and Louis. beled left of the Royalist group- Funeral services will be held ing. 10:45 today at the Kaufman The name of Dr. Leon Benze- Chapel. quen, the "elder statesman" of the Moroccan Jewish commun- ity, and former member of the Israel Health Ministry government cabinet, had been Chief Dr. Syman Dies put forward as a candidate for GENEVA, (JTA)—Dr. Saul Sy- the elections to the Chamber of man, director-general of the Is- Deputies. However, Benzequen rael Health Ministry, and head of had declined to run. the Israeli delegation to the World Health Organization As- sembly here, died at 54. Jewish School Gutted WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A spokesman for the American Jewish Congress told a House subcommittee that an estimated 93 per cent of the Jewish popu- lation of the United States was covered by state anti-bias • laws but that only 40 per cent of American Negroes live in states with such laws. Murray A. Gordon, a New York attorney, said that since World War II, states had passed laws outlawing job discrimina- tion and set up state FEPC's to enforce those laws. However, he said, while the record showed that such legislation could be passed and enforced at the state level, only national legislation "can deal with the problem na- tionally. State laws have been enacted in the areas where re- sistance to equality is weakest" by. Arsonists in Canada MONTREAL, (JTA) — The Montreal police assigned their top arson and bomb expert, Leo Plouffe, to investigate a fire, possibly of incendiary origin, which gutted seven of the 20 classrooms of the Jewish Folk- schule while the school's 500 pupils were in the lunchroom of the building. Zave Ettinger, executive ad- ministrator of the school, dis- closed that a telephone call had been received by the school on the day before the fire, warning that the institution would be burned. He said police searched the school at that time, but no suspicious objects were found. Shloimeh Wiseman, principal of the 40-year-old school, said that regular classes would con- tinue despite the fire damage. End Dispute in 18 N.Y. Jewish Centers NEW YORK, (JTA) — Eighteen YM-YWHA's and Jew- ish community centers in the greater New York area reopen- ed Monday after being shut down for more than a week due to a dispute with a labor union representing professional, cleri- cal and maintenance workers. The dispute was settled in negotiations concluded early this morning by Morris Tarshis, senior mediator of the City Labor Department. The terms include salary increases. The union voted acceptance of the terms. • • Noted Trial Lawyer Dies Harry Sacher, n o t e d trial lawyer, who had defended many Communists and became fam- ous as a representative of labor, who was convicted of contempt of Congress and was exonerated by the U.S. Supreme Court, died in his home in New York, May 2, at the age of 60. The Family of the Late ELSIE METLER Acknowledges w i t h grateful appreciation the many kind expres- sions of sympathy ex- tended by relatives and friends during the family's recent bereave- ment, with special thanks to Rabbi D. onin and Cantor Adler. The Family of the Late MORRIS COLDSM I TH Acknowledges w i t h grateful appreciation the many kind expres- sions of sympathy ex- tended by relatives and friends during the family's recent bereave- ment. I I