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Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. and Me'
(Copyright, 1964, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Communal Currents:
Ecumenical Council Will Get Stronger Draft on Attitude of Jews
ROME, (JTA)—A spokesman
for the Ecumenical Council
stated that the Vatican docu-
ment on the attitude of the
Catholic Church toward Jews
and anti-Semitism—which was
not taken up at last year's ses-
sion of the Council—has been
rewritten and strengthened for
presentation to the third ses-
sion of the Council which will
begin in September. -
The redrafting was done by
the Ecumenical Council's Secre-
tariat for Promoting Christian
Unity, headed by Augustin
Cardinal Bea, who is known as
a great friend of the Jews, the
spokesman said.
He called the revised text
"a distinct improvement" on
Leaders of the United Jewish Appeal, satisfied with the march
of the UJA campaign this year. feel that more funds will be
raised throughout the country in the 1964 drive than in the pre-
vious year . . . Pre-Passover giving this year has been higher
than last year in communities where the campaign has already
been started . .. A factor is the UJA Young Leadership program
which has brough much "young blood" into local leadership . . .
Deputy Premier Eban, who had not been to this country for several
years, was very much impressed with the hundreds of new young
faces he saw in the ranks of the UJA leadership during this
tour . . He had never seen anything like that before he left
his post in the U.S. as Israel Ambassador in Washington . . . An
indication of the good response which the UJA meets now in its Toronto Jews to Adopt
campaign was the atmosphere which marked the Midwest and
West Coast regional conference of the United Jewish Appeal Youths of Other Faiths
which took place in the last weeks . . . There are still communities
TORONTO, (JTA) — Jews
where the UJA campaign will start at the end of the summer; will be allowed to adopt babies
however, the certainty exists that the 1964 drive will in total of other faiths effective immed-
exceed the results of 1963.
iately, it has been announced
be the Metropolitan Toronto
Soviet Echoes:
The discriminations against the Jewish religion in the Soviet Children's Aid Society. There
Union—expressing themselves not only in making difficulties for has always been a long waiting
Jews to bake matzoth for Passover—are best seen from a book list of Jews wishing to adopt.
published in the Soviet Union on the Russian Orthodox Church For eight years prior to 1959
there, entitled "The Russian Orthodox Church — Organization, the Jewish Family and Child
Situation, Activity," published in Russian, English, German, Service of Toronto could only
French, Italian, Spanish and Arabic . . . It constitutes evidence find an average of three chil-
of the flexibility in Soviet official policy when dealing with an dren a year for adoption. At the
"approved" religion, as compared to the rigid denial of facilities end of 1963 there were 90 ap-
to Judaism . . . The book shows that the Soviet government per- proved couples on the JFCS
mits the Russian Orthodox Church to maintain contact with waiting list.
dioceses, parishes and missions overseas . . A central Church
body is permitted to supervise local churches throughout the
USSR and to maintain contact with non-Orthodox Christian com-
munities abroad by correspondence . . . It controls secondary
and higher theological establishmets which include eight seminaries
and two higher academies, in addition to maintaining correspond-
ence course for hundreds of students . . . It publishes a monthly
magazine, Bibles, religious textbooks, sermons and patriarchal
messages . . . It maintains a candle factory, workshops for the
production of church requisites like priests' crosses, crucifixes for
believers, incense and other religious objects, including icons .. .
The book describes in great detail the considerable network of
overseas relations maintained by the Church, both with its own
constituent bodies in foreign countries and with other Christian
churches . . . Judaism, a world religion with a far longer history
and traditions and a wider terrestial dispersion, is, in contrast,
not even a poor relation . . It is not permitted to maintain a
central organization of any kind to link the few synagogues still
allowed to exist in the Soviet Union ... It has no facilities at all
for publishing essential religious literature, and no Hebrew Bible,
or even a Jewish calendar has been published in the Soviet Union
since 1917 . . . It is not permitted to establish any contact what-
soever with branches of religious Jewry outside of the Soviet
Union . . . Its believers are actively persecuted by the authorities
and pilloried in the Soviet press . . . The book published by the
Church is liberally illustrated and shows, among other items,
Hebrew texts displayed on the walls in a class room at the Church
Academy in Moscow intended for students attending lectures on
dogmatic theology . . . Since the teaching of Hebrew to Jews
is prohibited in the Soviet Union, it seems that the only way
Jews can learn their own holy tongue would be by studying for
the Russian Orthodox priesthood.
the draft which was before
No details on the changes
the Council's second plenary were disclosed.
session last fall. That draft
included statements that Jews
could not be held responsible
for the crucifixion of Christ
Shippan Pt., Stamford, Conn.
and that Catholics were tin-
der obligation to condemn
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Passover Haggadot:
Various editions of the Passover Haggadah have been printed
throughout the world since the first Haggadah was published in
year 1482 in Guadalaxara, Spain . . . The first bibliography of
Hagadot was brought out in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1902, by
Samuel Wiener, librarian in the Russian Academy of Sciences .. .
It listed 909 editions and it remained the standard work for about
60 years . . . In 1960, an extensive bibliography was brought out
in Jerusalem by Abraham Yaari that listed 2,717 editions printed
up to 1960 . . Since then 300 editions have been listed as
addenda to Yaari's bibliography which is considered a master-
piece . .. Thus a collector would have to look for 3,017 Hagadot
printed at various times in various languages if he were ambitious
to get a full collection of printed Hagadot . . . There are early
Italian Hagadot, French Hagadot, Frankfurt Hagadot, Amsterdam
Hagadot, the famous Illustrated Prague Haggadah, Yemenite
Hagadot and other rare Hagadot . . . A selection of 111 Hagadot
is now being exhibited at the Kol Ami Museum, Highland Park,
Ill., Chicago Jewry being fortunate to have this Jewish museum
on its North Shore . .. Some of the displayed Hagadot are rare
editions, not known to bibliographers and librarians . . . The
first printed Haggadah appeared in Spain only seven years after
the first Hebrew book was printed in 1475 . .. It had no illustra-
tions, ornaments or even vowels . . . Only a single copy of this
edition is preserved in the Shocken Incunabula collection of the
Jewish National Library in Jerusalem . . . The first Haggadah
printed with commentary was published in 1505 in Constantinople;
the commentary is by Prince Don Asaac Abarbanel, son of the
treasurer of King Alfonso V of Portugal . . . The first illustrated
Haggadah was printed in Constantinople in 1715; only four leaves
from this Haggadah remain, three of them in the Jewish Theologic-
al Seminary in New York . . . The first complete illustrated
Haggadah—preserved in its entirety—was printed in Prague in
1527 . . . It remains to this day one of the most beautiful editions
of the Haggadah . . . The Sarajevo 113ggadah is a beautifully
illuminated manuscript from about the year 1370 . . . Another
beautifully illuminated Haggadah manuscript of that period is the
Kaufmann Haggadah in Budapest . . . Complete facsimile editions
of these two rare Hagadot—the originals of which are now in the
museums of Sarajevo and Budapest, respectively—are available
for $25 each.
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