Kasrilevke'
Freedman-Acherman Neiv York Educator Dr. Chaim Potok Schocken to Publish 'Inside
Ben Shahn has illustrated this to turn the tables on tragedy. It is
Troth Solemnized Here Appointed Associate Editor of JPS edition of Sholom Aleichem's "In- the story of Reb Yozifl, Kasrilevke's
MRS. JEROME FREEDMAN
Leah Ackerman and Jerome
Freedman were married Sunday
at Cong. Beth Abraham. Parents
of the couple are Cantor and Mrs.
Shabtai Ackerman of Woodingham
Dr., and Mr. and Mrs. Phil Freed-
man of Mark Twain Ave. Rabbi
Israel Halpern and Cantor Acker-
man officiated.
The bride wore a floor-length
gown of silk organza and Chantilly
lace over peau de soie trimmed
with seed pearls.
The Jewish Publication Society
of America, which has its national
headquarters in Philadelphia, has
selected Dr. Chaim Potok of New
York as associate editor, Sol
Satinsky, president of the society,
announced.
Dr. Potok will assume his duties
on Sept. 1 and will be associated
with Dr. Solomon Grayzel, who has
served as editor for more than 25
years.
Satinsky said: "Dr. Potok brings
a wealth of academic and editorial
experience to his new position, so
that the JPS will now be enabled
to expand its activities as the only
organization in American Jewish
life which is devoted to the sole
purpose of publishing good books
as one of the means of preserving
and enhancing the Jewish culture
and tradition."
Born and raised in New York
City, Dr. Chaim Potok was grad-
uated from Yeshiva University in
1954 with a BA summa cum laude
in English literature, then received
The maid of honor was Jere
Gottfurcht. Bridesmaids were
Mrs. Lawrence Katkowsky, Mrs.
Donald Sachs, Mrs. Doris Zaget
and Esther Barry of Montreal.
The flower girl was Bonnie
Sachs.
Best man for his brother was
Robert Freedman, and ushers were
Fred Ackerman, brother of the
bride, Fred Berkley, Lawrence Kat-
kowsky, David Levy and Donald
Sachs.
After a honeymoon in Florida
the couple will reside on Green-
field Rd.
Jewish Agency
Opens Office for
Michigan Ohio
,
A new office of the Aliyah De-
partment of the Jewish Agency has
been opened for the states of Mich-
igan and Ohio.
The regional office will be lo-
cated in Celveland, at 13947 Cedar
Rd., Room 202. Shmuel Wirzberger,
who recently arrived from Israel,
will represent this area.
Wirzberger, who will be visiting
Detroit frequently, will make his
first trip here on Tuesday and
Wednesday, for the purpose of
meeting with people interested in
obtaining authoritative information
about business, professions, jobs,
housing, schooling and learning
Hebrew in Israel.
Interviews will be held at the
Labor Zionist Institute. Call DI
1-0669 in advance for an appoint-
ment.
Keep quiet and people will think
you a philosopher.—Latin proverb.
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DR. CHADI POTOK
rabbinic ordination in 1954 from
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America, together with the He-
brew Prize Homiletcis Prize.
He served as national director
of the Leaders Training Fellow-
ship (a nationwide youth group un-
der the auspices of the Teachers
Institute of the Seminary) from
1954 to 1955 and then entered the
U.S. Army as a chaplain. In Korea
for sixteen months, he was with
a medical battalion and a front
line combat engineer battalion.
After separation from the Army,
Dr. Potok served as director of
Camp Ramah in California from
1957 to 1959 and was also a mem-
ber of the faculty of the University
of Judaism in Los Angeles. He was
in Philadelphia from 1959 to 1963
as Scholar-in-Residence at Har
Zion Temple, then spent the aca-
demic year 1963-64 in Israel -com-
pleting his doctoral dissertation in
WEN
roOR
philosophy—receiving his doctorate
from The University of Pennsyl-
vania in 1965. During the past
academic year, Dr. Potok has been
a member of the faculty of the
Teachers Institute of the Seminary.
Immigrant Study
Wins Israel Prize
for Judith Shuval
Judith T. Shuval, research as-
sociate at the Israel Institute of
Applied Social Research, has been
awarded the Israel Prize for the
Social Sciences for her book, "Im-
migrants on the Threshold." A
chapter of the book is based on
the paper for which she was
awarded the Helen L. DeRoy
Award of the Society for the Study
of Social Problems.
The book, published by Atherton
Press, a division of Prentice-Hall,
is the first large-scale empirical
study of the adjustment problems
of immigrants. Dr. Shuval reports
on the attitudes and behavior of
almost 2,000 people from 20 coun-
tries during their first year in
Israel.
In a letter to Helen DeRoy, well-
known Detroit philanthropist, Dr.
Shuval expressed her appreciation
to Mrs. DeRoy for her "part in the
earliest stages of this research."
American - born and educated,
Dr. Shuval received her PhD from
Radcliffe College in 1955 and
teaches in the sociology depart-
ment of the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. Since 1949, she has
lived and engaged in research in
Israel, working in the fields of
immigration, acculturation a n d ,
more recently, medical sociology.
The Institute for Applied Social
Research conducted an indepen-
dent study of the adjustment of
immigrants to Israel back in 1949
and 1950, but lack of funds brought
an end to the study just as the
field work had been completed.
Grants from several foundations
and from UNESCO permitted an-
alysis of the study almost 10 years
later, and Dr. Shuval's book re-
ports the result of the investiga-
tion.
Radomer Sets Elections
Radomer Aid and Ladies Society
will hold a special meeting 8:30
p.m. Tuesday at the Workmen's
Circle Center. The discussion will
center on election of new officers.
Refreshments will be served by
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Alfield,
21675 Stratford, and Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Sherman, 21644 Stratford Ct.,
Oak Park, in honor of the Bar
Mitzvah of their grandson, Larry
,Howard Sherman.
side Kasrilevke," tales of the
author's pilgrimage to his legen-
dary home town, a town now trans-
planted to Broadway in "Fiddler
on the Roof." "Inside Kasrilevke"
will be published by Schocken
Books on Sept. 20.
Kasrilevke symbolizes any one
of hundreds of Jewish towns in
Eastern Europe fifty, sixty, and
seventy years ago. Sholom Alei-
chem portrays the essence and
vitality of a Kasrilevke in transi-
tion from the old, isolated commu-
nity to a more modern town which
has trains and tramways, hotels
and restaurants, and even a theater
featuring an actor from America.
Characterizations of the many in-
habitants of Kasrilevke, and the
situations which they live through,
are told with a Yiddish humor of
which Sholom Aleichem is the
supreme exponent. The humor of
inversion, of self-analysis and in-
trospective satire, the humor used
80-year-old rabbi who leads the
Kasrilevkites from profound des-
pair after the "great fire" of Kas-
rilevke, to rebuild their beloved
city.
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