Rabbi Donin Gets Ph. D. June 9; Thesis Evaluates Detroit Schools Rabbi Hayim Donin will receive his Ph. D. degree at the Wayne State University commencement exercises in Cobo Hall June 9. Specializing in the area of phi- losophy and history of education, his doctoral thesis was on the sub- ject "A Critical Inquiry Into the Value Presuppositions Underlying Jewish Education in Metropolitan Detroit." Rabbi Donin, who was ordained at Isaac Elchanan Theological Sem- inary, earned his B.A. at Yeshiva RABBI HAYINI DONIN University and his M.A. at Colum- bia University. In the former he specialized in chemistry and in the latter in guidance and coun- seling. In his thesis for his Ph.D., Rabbi Donin reviewed thorough. ly, and in the main obejctively, the various functioning schools in Detroit, their curricula, and their ideological approaches. He indicates, in one of his sum- maries, that "significant differ- ences are to be found in the cur- ricula and texts followed by the Reform group, and those followed by the secular Yiddish group." He then states: "It was found by this writer that no significant differences are to be found either in the texts used in the basic curriculum followed in the Orthodox, Conservative and community schools." But he as- serts that "it must be presumed that even among the latter three groups the treatment of at least some of the subjects studied will vary considerably from group to group depending upon their ap- proach to ceremonial laws and to principles of faith." Reviewing the objectives of the community schools — United He- brew Schools — as well as the Conservative, Orthodox, Reform, Yiddish and secular educational groups, Rabbi Donin has made a deep study of underlying values, DAYENI pursuing numerous comparisons on the basis of historical analyses of traditional Jewish educational ex- periences. The teaching of Hebrew, the Siddur, history, laws and cus- toms and religious beliefs is under scrutiny, and educational implications and current pro- posals are indicated. Many charts are the result of Rabbi Donin's studies and re- searches during which factual data was accumulated, teachers were interviewed and schools' super- visors were consulted. One of the most illuminating charts deals with the emphasis on subject areas. There was the Yes reply to the teaching of Hebrew reading, teaching of history and principles of faith and Jewish life in America by all the schools. Siddur and Humash are taught by all the schools except the com- bined Jewish school. Conversation_ al Hebrew is taught only in the Orthodox, Conservative, communi- ty and labor Zionist schools. Yid- dish grammar and conversational Yiddish are limited to the labor Zionist and combined Jewish school. Laws and customs are taught in all but the labor Zionist and com- bined Jewish school. The Mishna studies are offered only in the Right Orthodox and Orthodox schools. State of Israel and cur- rent events courses are given in all the schools except the Right Orthodox. There is a vast amount of in- formation in Rabbi Donin's study. It will no doubt serve as a guide in seeking information about the Detroit Jewish school system, and other communities will undoubt- edly find great interest in it as an application to their own needs and conditions. WJCongress Plans Body to Study Jewish Affairs LONDON (JTA) — The govern- ing council of the World Jewish Congress decided to set up in Lon- don an Institute of Jewish Affairs which will act as a research body . for contemporary Jewish studies. Some of the work of the institute will continue to be centered in New York. Dr. S. J. Roth will be director of the institute here. Two scholars will act as research advisers. They are Dr. Julius Gould, professor of sociology at Nottingham Univer- sity; and Dr. Lionel Kochan, reader in modern European history at the University of East Anglia. ORT's Schools Nearly 20,000 persons are en- rolled in ORT vocational schools in 17 countries throughout the world. About 75 per cent of them are in Israel. BY HENRY LEONARD1 WSU Dedicates Malbin Memorial Theater Library Wayne State University dedicat- ed the new Lisette Freund Malbin Memorial Library for the theater arts during ceremonies at the Hil- berry Classic Theater May 19. The library, containing several rare volumes, was established in memory of his wife by Dr. Barnett Malbin, a Detroit orthodontist. Believed to be the only one of its kind in the state, the library will be temporarily housed above the foyer of the.Hilberry Theater. It will con- tain 1000 volumes, plus recordings of plays by famous actors and actresses of the English-speaking stage. Rare volume will include O'Dell's "Complete Annals of the New York Stage to 1895," all editions of Gor- don Craig's "Masque," a rare thea- trical magazine published from 1904 to 1911, and complete volumes of America's lost plays. Dr. William R. Feast, WSU pres- ident, acknowledged the gift on be- half of the university. Rabbi Rich- ard Hertz of Temple Beth El par- ticipated in the program. Mrs. Malbin, in whose memory the library was dedicated, was af- filiated with the Michigan Reper- tory Players and the Lydia Mendel- sohn Theater in Ann Arbor in 1931-32. She was a member of the Civic Repertory Theater in New York in 1935 and served as stage manager for the Chicago company of the play "Dead End" in 1936. She died in 1961 The library will serve chiefly as a research center for advanced theater students, according to WSU Theater Director Leonard Leone. `Refractions,' Essays in Comparative Literature Discussed by Prof. Levitt In "Refractions—Essays in Com- parative Literature," published by Oxford University Press (417 5th, NY16), Prof. Harry Levin, head of the department of comparative literature at Harvard University, has incorporated 18 of his essays, some being texts of lectures he has delivered. Explaining refraction as "the fact or phenomenon of a ray of light, heat, the sight of being di- the reader and the student toward social spheres, censorship, modern- ist scopes, and a score of other re- lated topics. Commencing with the "Seman- tics of Culture," Prof. Levin dis- cusses the meaning of myths, tra- ditionalism and realism in litera- ture, all in their relation to nu- merous literary experiences. In "Literature and Exile" there are challenging views on Paster- nak, Pound, Mann and other world famous figures. English Renaissance and Shake- speare add masterfully to discus- sions of literary themes that relate to discussion of comparative writ- ings. Then there are discussions of sociology in the novel, of the role of women in literature and a score of other important themes that ele- vate "Refractions" to an important role in modern literary criticism. verted of deflected from its pre- vious course in passing obliquely out of one medium into another of different density," Prof. Levin states: "If we let that ray of light stand for communication or expression, then we may assume that whatever turn it takes is de- termined by the nature of the me- dium." His aim therefore is to "transfer the term from physics to critcism." He applies it to literature and con- siders it a refraction rather than a reflection of life. "To be educated," he declares, "is to be liberated, so far as one's personal limitations per- mit, from the provincialism of subcultures." His contention is that "an Amer- ican cannot understand himself un- til he begins to grasp the idea of Europe. Speaking and writing En- glish with a difference, he ap proaches English literature from a distance, with elective sympathy rather than ancestral piety. . . . He should have no misgivings .. . about the present as a vantage point for taking stock of inherited treasure and accumulated research —a spectacle so absorbing and panoramic that conclusions from it are bound to be tentative and Michael Kurtz, son of Mr. and reports of it fragmentary." 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