Friday, November 8, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S-12
of Greenfield Announces Winter Classes
Yeshivah Names Intelligibility and Accuracy Called Y.I.
The winter season of Friday classes are held in various
homes to which friends and
Board Members Merits of Revised Bible Translation; night classes of Young Israel of members
are invited.
Greenfield will begin 8:30 p.m.
The Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
has elected Mrs. Celia Handler Orlinsky Traces History of Revision today at the home of Mr. and 2'7,000 U. S. Jewish Teachers
as president and Rabbi Joseph
Hirsch, vice-president, of the
board of directors. Others
named to office were Mesdames
Evelyn Rockove, second vice-
president; Judy Zentman, treas-
urer; Shirley Shoenig and
Goldie Wrotslaysky; secretaries;
Hannah Bakst and Leah Silver,
House Committee; Rosie Baum,
Blanche Burg, Bella Flam, and
Sara Goldenberg, committee
chairmen; Hannah Greenbaum,
telephone squad; Harriet Pen-
fil, publicity; and Ethel Abrams
Liason officer.
Rabbi Eric Greenbaum is the
representative to the Y.B.Y.
Board of Directors. Members-
at-large will be Mesdames
Esther Baksr, Esther Carmen,
Lillian Cohen, Eugene Gold-
berg, Eva Hertz, Rae Kaplan,
Bessie Mittelman, Norma Poss,
Hadassah Prero, Helen Spitzer,
Mollie White, Henry Baum,
Anne Cohen, Mollie Isbee, Dor-
othy Hirsch, Dr. Leon Burg and
Rabbi Sholom Goldstein.
A board meeting will be held
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
Jack Poss, 19191 Indiana.
Bible translations as factors
in the interest of intelligibility
and accuracy, and the importance
of the revised translation of the
Torah recently issued by the
Jewish Publication Society of
America, were described in a
highly enlightening address de-
livered by Dr. Harry M. Orlin-
sky, at Temple Beth El, Monday
night.
Dr. Orlinsky, who is Profes-
sor of Bible at Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion in New York, was the
chairman of the committee of
scholars who prepared the re-
vised Bible translation. He gave
the second in the Scholar Lec-
ture Series of Beth El, and was
introduced by Dr. Richard C.
Hertz who also conducted the
discussion a n d question-and-
answer period that followed the
lecture.
Dr. Orlinsky's address, in
which he traced the back-
ground of Bible translations,
described how in the Age of
Reason, people began to re-
turn to the Bible to help
solve their problems and dif-
ficulties. Bible translation, Dr.
Orlinsky pointed out, became
"world phenomena." But since
the Bible in earlier transla-
tions "was unintelligible to
them, they began increasingly
to demand new translations in
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language they could under-
stand. Intelligibility in lan-
guage and accuracy in transla-
tion is what people demand-
ed."
These were described by Dr.
Orlinsky as "the grass roots de-
sires on the part of people" in
their anxiety for new Bible
translations.
Describing the earliest Jewish
translations of the Bible—the
Targum Unkelus of the Aramaic,
the Septuagint — Dr. Orlinsky
said that "no matter where a
Jewish community existed, there
was certain to be a Bible trans-
lation—in Yiddish, French, Ger-
man, English and other lan-
Mrs. Sol B. Cohen, 14121 Win-
Jewish schools in the United
chester. Rabbi Joshua Sperka States have a total of about 27,-
will lead the class. During the 000 teachers in primary, ele-
winter season, Friday night mentary and secondary grades.
JEFFREY LEVITIN
15151 Northfield
Oak Park, Michigan
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LORI KANAT
15971 Jeanette
Southfield, Michigan
guages."
He compared the Isaac Lesser
translations of 1885 with the
first JPS translation of 1917 and
said the former had much more
merit. He rejected the criticisms
of some of the Orthodox spokes-
men and charged that the at-
tacks were not over traditional
interpretations, implying that
they were matters of hegemony
and authority.
The Dead Sea Scrolls did
not provide any help to trans-
lators, Dr. Orlinsky stated in
reply to a question from the
audience. "They were com-
posed too late," he said, "and
were of help to us in only one
instance."
He said that the King James
Version was unintelligible, that
when it first was imposed upon
the English during the struggle
with the Catholic Church, in
1611, the language already was
obsolete.
Witty as well as informative,
Prof. Orlinsky was lengthily ap-
plauded by a large and apprecia-
tive audience.
In his introductory remarks,
Dr. Hertz told of the beginnings
of the JPS effort, in 1955, to
provide a revised translation of
the Torah, and commended the
project and its great value to
Jewry and the world.
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Beth El Scholar
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Series Presents
Friedman,Sachar
Two noted scholars—Dr. Mau-
rice Friedman and Dr. Abram
L. Sachar—will deliver the con-
cluding lectures in the Temple
Beth El Scholar Series now be-
ing given on
the general
theme of "Con-
troversial Is-
sues Facing
Ame r i can
Jewry."
Dr. Fried-
man, who will
speak on Nov.
11, is profes-
sor of philoso-
phy at Sarah
Lawrence Col-
lege and is a
member of the
faculty of the
New School
for Social Re-
Dr. Friedman search in New
York. He is an authority on
Hasidism and is one of the chief
interpreters of the works of Dr.
Martin Buber.
Dr. Sachar, president of Bran-
deis University, will conclude
the lecture series on Nov. 18.
He is a nationally known schol-
ar and historian.
The public is invited to all
the lectures. Admission is free.
Beth Moses to Mark
60th Anniversary
Cong. Beth Moses will launch
its 60th anniversary celebration
with a Melava Malkeh 8:30 p.m.
Saturday at the synagogue, an-
nounces Mrs. Bess Gonte, pro-
gram chairman. Irving Feldman
is chairman of the 60th anni-
versary committee.
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