Hebrew Documents
in Vatican Library
Microfilmed for U.S.
ST. LOUIS (JTA) — Hitherto
unknown Jewish contributions
to medieval learning are being
found among the rare hand-
written Hebrew manuscripts
which are now available on
microfilm at St. Louis Univer-
sity. The 800 microfilmed vol-
umes constitute the complete
collection of Hebrew manu-
scripts now in the Vatican Li-
brary in Rome.
Initial study of the micro-
filmed manuscripts has dis-
closed previously u n k n own
medical writings on the art of
healing as it was practiced five
centuries ago. Among the new-
ly disclosed Jewish contribu-
tions are a 13th-century astro-
nomical astrological explana-
tion, a Pentateuch for syna-
gogue use and rich stores of
Biblical commentaries.
The p r i c el es s manuscripts
were inaccessible to scholars
outside of the Papal archives
until two years ago when they
were microfilmed as a gift from
Richard Cardinal Cushing of
Boston to St. Louis University
and Brandeis University.
The Papal library began gath-
ering Hebrew manuscripts as
early as the 14th Century and
systematic collections began in
the 15th century, according to
the St. Louis Light, an Eng-
lish-Jewish publication. A large
group of Hebrew codices was
acquired from the Palatinate
Library of Heidelberg in 1622
and in 1657, the Vatican ac-
quired the collections of the
Dukes of Urbino.
Prof. Alexander Altmann of
Brandeis University told the
Jewish weekly that the manu-
scripts included many which
were "relatively unknown or
completely unknown, having
never been published or even
catalogued."
Charles Ermatinger, Vatican
film librarian at St. Louis Uni-
versity, said that the manu-
scripts provided "ample evi-
dence of the important role
played by Jews in the spread of
philosophical and scientific
learning in the Middle Ages and
the Renaissance."
movements. He is a member of tion of the McCarran-Walter Act
the faculty of Yeshiva Univer- which deprives naturalized citi-
zens of their citizenship if they
sity.
return to their country of origin
and remain there three years or
longer.
The issue has significance for
some born in Palestine who later
became naturalized Americans
and experienced difficulties un-
der the McCarran-Walter Act
after returning to Israel. The
immediate case testing the law is
that of Mrs. Angelika Schneider,
against naturalized American
citizens.
Mrs. Schneider's attorneys
have depicted her loss of natural-
ized citizenship as an arbitrary
discrimination between native
born and naturalized citizens.
She was penalized with loss of
naturalization because she re-
turned to Germany and remained
there over three years. Mrs.
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Senate gave final ratification by
a unanimous vote to a conven-
tion on extradition between the
United States and Israel. The
treaty was signed at Washing-
ton on Dec. 10, 1962.
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Announcement was made this
week by Phillip Stollman, chair-
man of the American Commit-
tee for Bar-Ilan University, that
Dr. Joseph H. Lookstein, presi-
dent of Bar-Ilan University, will
be the guest speaker at the an-
nual dinner of Detroit Friends
of Bar-Ilan, to be held at the
Shaarek Zedek in Southfield on
Tuesday evening, Nov. 26.
Awards to the two distin-
guished women to be honored
at the dinner—Mrs. Joseph H.
Ehrlich and Mrs. Theodore Barg-
\ - -qw• man — will be
made at the
dinner by
Rabbi Morris
Adler.
Irwin I. Cohn
is general
chairman of
the annual
banquet a n d
Max M. Fisher
is the honor-
ary chairman
Rabbi Look-
stein, one of
the most emi-
nent orators in
American
Jewry, who
Rabbi Adler recently re-
turned from another periodic
visit to Bar-Ilan University in
Ramat Gan, Israel, will bring to
the banquet a report on the
university's most recent accom-
plishments and plans for the ex-
tension of its scientific pro-
grams. Dr. Lookstein is a Jew-
ish Welfare Board leader, has
been active for many years in
Mizrachi, Joint Distribution
Committee and many other
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Supreme Court to Rule on Naturalized Citizens in Homelands
Dr. Lookstein to Address Annual U.S.
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The a German-American woman who Schneider acquired her citizen-
Court agreed to rule has claimed that the law un- ship after World War II.
Bar-Han Universi ty Event Nov. 26 Supreme
on the constitutionality of a por- constitutionally discriminates