Brandeis' Arts Awards
Lecturer April 7 will be Dr. to Be Presented in NY
Prof. Shelomo D. Goitein to Discuss 'Rise of Islam, Influence on Judaism'
Dr. Shelomo D. Goitein, author-
ity on Islamic culture, will deliver
the next Midrasha Institute lec-
ture 8:15 p.m. Wednesday in the
Esther Berman Building. His topic
will be "The Rise of Islam and its
Influence on :
Jewish Life and
Jewish Thought."
Professor o V.:
Arabic at the:: :
University of
P ennsylvania ,,
graduate school:
while on leave
from the Hebrew
University, D r.
Goitein was foun-
der and first pre- Goitein
sident of the Israel Oriental Soc-
iety. He was director of the school
of Oriental studies at the Hebrew
University from 1949 to 1956.
Among his writings are "Jews
and Arabs, Their Contacts Through
the Ages," published in both a sec-
ond, revised edition and in paper-
back last year.
Dr. Goitein has done extensive
research on Arab history, Islam-
ic institutions and sociology and
Old Testament literature and
Hungarian Emigres
Picket German Consul
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK—Members of the
Association of Former Forced
Laborers and Deportees of Hun-
gary, an organization composed of
10,000 Hungarian Jews, picketed
the German consulate here Mon-
day, demanding that the Bonn gov-
ernment speed legislation to pro-
vide compensation to those victims
of Nazism who were unable to file
restitution applications prior to
October 1953.
The 50 pickets were led by Can-
tor Louis Goldstein and presented
a petition to the German consuar
officials.
Under West Germany's present
law, only Nazi victims who filed
restitution applications prior to
Oct. 1, 1953, may be considered
for compensation. An amendment
to the law has been pending in
Bonn's parliament for about a
year.
The amendment would permit
compensation applications by those
victims of Nazism who would not
file because they were still in coun-
tries behind the Iron Curtain by
the 1953 cut-off date.
Dr. Zoltan Klar, president of the
association, said the demonstration
was tied to the fact that Monday
was the 20th anniversary of the
Nazi occupation of Hungary.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, March 26, 1965
society. His main field of re-
search since 1950 has been with
Arabic documents from the Cai-
ro Geniza.
Born in Germany, Dr. Goitein
received his PhD from the Uni-
versity of Frankfort in 1923 after
studying Semitic languages, Islam-
ics and classical history there and
at the University of Berlin.
That year, he began his teach-
ing career in Israel at the Reali
School in Haifa and from there
joined the staff of the Hebrew
University. He has been both pro-
fessor of the history of Islam and
instructor in Moslem law on the
law school faculty.
Greek Contribution to Judaism Cited
by Dr. Ellis Rivkin at Opening Lecture
A quiet collision of two worlds
that altered the course of Jewish
history—and Judaism itself—was
explored Wednesday as the first
of four "Crises" to be taken up in
the annual Midrasha Institute
series.
"Judaism Encounters Hellenism:
the Pharisaic Response" was the
topic of Dr. Ellis Rivkin, professor
of Jewish history at Hebrew Union
College, Cincinnati. He addressed
a capacity crowd at the Esther Ber-
man Building.
Dr. Rivkin pointed out that it
was not the Five Books of Moses
but the ancient Greek concept of
"polis" that provided Judaism with
many ideas taken for granted as
being "native" to Judaism. Polis,
the term signifying the Greek city-
state and the attendant Hellenic
culture, came to Palestine on the
heels of Alexander the Great's con-
quests.
Without either side knowing
they were doing so, Dr. Rivkin
said, the Jews bowed to this cul-
ture by absorbing it. Not by imi-
tation, but by "transmutation," en-
tirely new forms were established.
"The polis provided the nec-
essary raw material for the
Mishnah," said Dr. Rivkin. "Its
form is not the Pentateuch form.
Mishnaic law is categorized; it
is a logical, deductive method in
the Greek manner.
"Take the idea of the Beth Din
Ha-Gadol, the Great Legislature, a
body characteristic of the Hellen-
itic world. There was never any
provision in a book of the Bible
for a - body to make new laws.
"The heart of the polis system
was the importance of the individ-
ual, his direct relationship to his
father god and the promise of re-
ward (or punishment) after death.
This you'll find in the Mishnah
but not in the Pentateuch."
Dr. Rivkin linked these innova-
YIDDISH THEATRE
at the
During the mandatory govern-
ment of Palestine he was senior
education officer to the govern-
ment and was founder and first
chairman of the Jerusalem Board
for Overseas Examinations.
Dr. Goitein has been teaching
at the University of Pennsylvania
since 1957. He is a fellow of the
American Academy of Jewish Re-
search and a member of the board
of directors, Conference of Jewish
Social Studies.
Theme of the Midrasha Insti-
tute, named for the late Mina
and Theodore Bargman, has as
its theme this year, "Crises in
Jewish History."
tions directly to the Pharisees, a
group of separatists (or "Payru-
shim," heretics, as their Sadducee
foes preferred to call them) that
broke with the established practice
of a priestly system ordained in
the Bible.
Whereas the Pentateuch provid-
ed for a system of priests descend-
ed from Moses' brother Aaron, the
Pharisees insisted that members of
the Hasmonean family were en-
titled to the high offices of the
priesthood.
The Hasmoneans, (remembered
best for the revolt of Judah the
Maccabee and his brothers) were
on the receiving end of the oral
law, said the Pharisees; God
gave not only the written law at
Sinai, they said, but an oral law,
as well. Joshua transmitted the
latter to the elders, the elders
to the prophets, the prophets to
the men of the Great Assembly,
and finally to the Pharisees.
The Pharisees thus sought to
legitimatize a new priesthood and
in so doing carried out a revolu-
tion even more significant that the
Maccabean revolt. For with this
revolution came all the innovations
in forms—from new kinds of law
(such as the oral code of conduct,
or halakahah), to new names and
concepts of God as a personal Fa-
ther, to a new scholar class that
taught by example, not by the pen.
Incidentally, Dr. Rivkin attributed
the absence of any Pharisaic tradi-
tion to the fact that the Pharisees
recorded nothing.
Who, then, won this Hellenic-
Judaic "conflict of cultures?" No
one and every one, according to
Dr. Rivkin. There would have been
a vastly different Judaism without
"polis": "For Judaism to grow and
develop," he said, "what is needed
is transmutation, not imitation. Ju-
daism is such that it absorbs, and
what comes out of this is a new
identity."
Presented by FARBAND CITY COMMITTEE
APRIL 3, 1965-8:00 P.M.
Jewish Community Center
Selig Adler, professor of Amer-
ican history at the State College
of New York and author of major
articles and studies, on the topic
"Emancipation, 1700-1850: The Or-
igins of the Modern Crisis in Free-
-dom." On April 14, Rabbi Arthur
Hertzberg, author and rabbi Of
Temple Emanu-El of Englewood,
N.J., will discuss "Jewish Survival
in a Free Society and the Role of
Israel."
Israel Will Train
9,000 Teachers in
Next Three Years
WALTHAM, Mass — Eight dis-
tinguished artists in the fields of
music, poetry, theatre and painting
will be the 1965 recipients of
Brandeis University's Creative Arts
Awards.
A special award, designed to
honor a person or group in any
area of the arts for notable cre-
ative achievement, will also be pre-
s ented at the awards ceremony,
which will begin at 4 p.m. Sunday
at New York's Sheraton-East Hotel.
Sir Tyrone Guthrie, director of
the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in
Minneapolis, will deliver the prin-
cipal address.
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JERUSALEM—Education Minis-
ter Zalman Aranne told the Knes-
set Tuesday that 9,000 teachers
will be trained in the next three
years to meet the teacher shortage
in Israel.
He also announced , that educa-
tional television would begin in
1966 and reported that one-third
of the 100,000 children attending
secondary schools were exempt
from tuition payments. He said
that in the next three years the
percentage was expected to reach
50.
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AN URGENT APPEAL FROM
Moles Chetim Organization of Detroit
With the approaching Holiday of Passover, The Moies Chetim
-
Organization of Detroit, dedicated volunteers, again appeal to you
to help carry on the tradition that No Jewish Family in our midst
shall be denied the necessities for Passover.
Through the co-operation of the Wayne County Bureau of
Social Aid, Department of Public Welfare, Aid to Dependent Children
and all the Relief giving Organizations of Detroit, the lists of Jewish
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FARBAND CITY COMMITTEE
MR. HARRY SCHUMER, FARBAND PRESIDENT
Announces
AARON DE ROY
THEATRE
BANQUET DINNER
TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1965-6:30 P.M.
in the
Morris L. Schaver Auditorium, 19161 Schaefer
In Honor of MR. JACOB KATZMAN
A New Musical Review
Secretary
General
A New Branch (English Speaking) Will Be Installed
"ZU SINGEN UN
ZU ZOGEN"
A Musical Program — For Reservations Call 864-6608
The Internationally Renowned
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Tickets May Be Obtained at 19161 Schaefer
Call 864-6608 and UN 4-6319
or Jewish Center at the Entrance
JACOB KATZMAN
SHIFRA LEHRER
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Farband-Labor Zionist Order
The official KABOLAS PONIM will be at 9:00 p.m. sharp in the
some auditorium. The public is invited.
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