Philadelphia Print Shop Specializes
in Ragoli Palau, Tshiluba, Hebrew
Maurice Jacobs' shop is some-
times called the United Nations
of printers—simply because his in-
ternational staff on Arch Street,
Philadelphia, can handle 165 lan-
guages, from Afghan to Zulu.
A recent article by Hans Knight
in. Philadelphia's Sunday Bulletin
Magazine deScribed Jacobs' print
shop employes as
representing "the
greatest concen-
tration of lingu-
istic wealth this
side of the
United Nations
int e r p reters'
lounge."
Among the
scholarly books
a n d magazines
turned out for
univer s ities,
churches and
synagogues a r e
such non - "pop"
items as a Bible Jacobs
translated into Ragoli (the lan-
guage of the natives of Kenya),
Palau, Tshiluba and philosophical
dissertations transcribed into Ara-
bic.
Jacobs, former managing di-
rector of the Jewish Publication
Society, branched out on his own
in 1950. With him, went David
Skaraton, Jacobs' vice president,
who runs the shop, checks manu-
scripts and does "odd jobs" that
may require his fluency in He-
brew, Russian, Yiddish . and "oth-
ers."
Like the Ukrainian-born Skara-
ton, the print shop's staff is inter-
national in origin. Dr. Helmut
Frank, former rabbi in Worms,
West Germany, holds a Phd from
the University of Berlin. A refugee
from Hitler Germany, he speaks
German, English, Greek, Latin, He-
brew, French ,-and Arabic.
Meyer Weitzel, another former
JPS staff member, comes from Po-
land. He knows. Polish, Russian,
German, Yiddish and Hebrew. He
and the others have been working
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for two years on an edition of the
Greek Bible.
Isadore Hoffman, a one-time
theological seminary student in Po-
land, is a labor camp refugee and
former teacher in ORT training
schools in Germany. He speaks 11
languages, and now is working on
Arabic. -
There are, also, Dr. Menahem
G. Glenn, of Lithuania, column-
ist for the Jewish Exponent and
a teacher of literature at . Gratz
College, and Philip Herstein, Po-
lish-born student of Hebrew,
English, French, Spanish, Rus-
sian, Polish, German, Latin,
Greek, and Arabic.
The shop possesses the first two
Monotype machines for setting He-
brew in the country.. Weitzel was
the second worker in the United
States .t0 learn to print on the
Hebrew machine.
Although boners are few, Jacobs
said, there is one worth mention-
ing:
"There's a phrase in the Book of
Isaiah: ve be willing and obedi-
ent ye shall eat the good of the
land; but if ye refuse and rebel,
ye shall be devoured with the
Sword'
" 'When they were making the
plates for the Bible,' Jacobs told
his interviewers, 'a nervous young-
ster dropped the type. In his em-
barrassment, he hastily reset the
passage himself. The proof was
read 13 times. But when the book
came out, the passage read: 'If ye
be willing . ye shall eat the good
of the land: but if ye refuse and
rebel, ye shall eat the good of
•hP land.'"
Today. the "Wicked Bible" is a
collector's item.
Israel, U.S. Sian Pact
for Surplus U.S. Gonds
2 U.S Finns to Conduct
Study on Desalination
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Kaiser Engineering Co. of ,Oak-
land, Calif. and the Catalytic Con-
struction Co. of Philadelphia have
been- chosen to carry out a tech-
nical study in Israel to determine
the feasibility of the joint desalt-
ing program of Israel and the
United States. The program aims
to determine the usefulness of nu-
clear energy for such desalting
programs.
The Oakland firm specializes in
nuclear and hydroelectric power
and treatment plants. The . Phila-
delphia firm specializes in chemi-
cal processing plants including de-
salting operations. Work will start
immediately on the $300,000 pro-
ject which is scheduled to take be-
tween eight and nine months for
completion.
A tentative agreement was sign-
ed with the formal contract to be
completed in Israel in January. It
was understood that Kaiser Engi-
neering and Catalytic Construc-
tion would cooperate with Israeli
engineers specializing in this field.
Gen Tzvi Tsur, chief coordinator
of the Israel desalting program
and members of his delegation
have returned to I§rael.
Social Democrat Slams
Indemnification Bill Delay
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
BONN—Dr. Franz Barzig, spokes-
man for the Social Democratic
Party, Tuesday assailed Chancel-
lor Ludwig Erhard and the West
German government for failure to
complete action on the new indem-
nification bill which should have
been adopted this year by the Ger-
man parliament but was postponed
until 1965.
Dr. Barzig criticized the govern-
ment's reparations policy at a
press conference here.
DeGaulle to Nasser: Lay Off Israel;
Egypt Gets $280-Million Soviet Loan
LONDON (JTA) — President ing to the Sunday Observer, in
out
Charles de Gaulle of France has wolves not only the
sent former Premier Edgar Faure of the loan pledge made by IChru-
to Cairo to warn Egypt's Presi- shchev, but also a general review
of USSR-Egyptian relations.
dent Nasser against. the danger of
Afghanistan Jewry
involving himself in another war
The Jewish Community of Af-
against Israel as a diversion to
cover the Egyptian leader's eco- ghanistan. which is believed to
date back to the end of Biblical
nomic difficulties.
times, today is estimated to total
A Cairo dispatch reported that
about 1,000 persons, the majority
the USSR's deputy prime minis-
of whom live in Herat.
ter, Alexander Shelepin, one of
the most influential members of .
the Kremlin's new regime, has
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grant of a $280,000,000 loan to
Egypt. The loan had been prom-
ised to Nasser last May by the
then USSR prime minister, Ni-
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er an increase in Franco-Arab
trade if he refrains from attack-
ing Israel. On Nasser's acceptance
of these terms, the Telegraph dis-
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WASHINGTON—Israel and the
t'nited States sinned Tuesday an
additional agreement for purchase
of 17.4 million dollars more in sur-
nlus American commodities. bring-
ing the total for 1965 to 34.4 mil
lion dollars.
Ambassador Avraham Barman
signed the asreement which ex-
pands the assistance Israel - re-
ceives under public law 480.
In 1963-64 Israel obtained 25.5
million dollars worth of surplus
U.S. commodities.
The 17.4 million dollars in the
new transaction covers feed grains,
12.2 dollars: rice .4 dollars; beef
3 dollars; tobacco .2 dollars and
ocean transportation 1.6 dollars.
Sixty-five per cent of the Israel
pounds generated by the transac-
tion.s will be loaned to Israel to
finance economic development, in-
cluding construction of new secon-
dary schools.
Twenty per cent will be set
aside in Israel pounds to pay for
research for American government
a gene i es and scientific transla-
tions.
The remaining 15 per cent is
designated for loans to Israel and
American private enterprise.
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New York Dedicates
Stephen Wise Towers
NEW YORK — The first public
housing project in the United States
to bear the name of a rabbi was
dedicated with the dedication of
Stephen Wise Towers. ,
I . . and now for the small fry
The development honors the
memory of the late Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise, former president of the
American Jewish Congress and
founder of the Stephen Wise Free
Synagogue.
Built with state aid by the New
York City Housing Authority at a
cost of $8,500,000, the develop-
ment consists of two apartment
buildings in the Stryckers Bay
section of Manhattan. The first of
399 families that will live in the
development moved in last week.
Mayor Robert Wagner attended
the dedication.
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