Ethiopian Jew Introduces U.S.-Style Campaigning

By CHARLES WEISS, Jr.
tee created to launch a massive
( A Seven Arts Feature)
attack on illiteracy among Ethio-
. ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — One pia's 22,000,000 people. More than
hundred and fifty couples gathered 90 percent cannot read or write.
at a hotel here recently for the
Both the dinner and the cam-
first $100-a-plate fund-raising din-
paign are largely the work of a
ner in Ethiopia's history.
bearded
young Ethiopian Jew,
Each of the diners contributed
100 Ethiopian dollars — roughly Ephraim Isaac. Son of a Yemenite
equivalent to 40 United States dol- silversmith who migrated across
lars—to a unique private commit- the Red Sea from Aden 40 years
ago, Isaac holds American degrees
in music, philosophy, divinity and
the history and philosophy of re-
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from an Ethiopian ethnic group
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closely related to the Falashas.
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Isaac organized the Committee
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for Ethiopian Illiteracy while he
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was a student at Harvard Univer-
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sity and president of the Ethiopian
Students Organization in the United
States in 1963-64. Headquarters
were established at Philips Brooke
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House at Harvard University. The
original sponsors included Sen.
Jacob Javits, the New York Re-
publican, and Dr. Clark Kerr, then
president of the University of Cali-
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fornia. Isaac and the committee
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started with $100 and, by tireless
canvassing of students and local
business people, raised $10,000 in
the first two years.
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The campaign won the enthusi-
astic support of Emperor Haile
Selassie, who became its patron.
The Crown Prince is honorary
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president. The Minister of Educa-
Madison Heights, Mich.
tion is chairman of the board. Gov-
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ernment newspapers lauded 31-
year-old Isaac's dedication. Local
radio and television have given the
drive strong backing. A sample
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The gains illustrate the immen-
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aid and scarce government rev-
enues are being concentrated on
the secondary education needed
to organize the country's eco-
nomic potential. There are only
about 1,400 high school seniors in
the whole country. Half of the
committee's $48,000 budget
comes from the Emperor. The
remainder must be raised pri-
vately. Even when the funds
finally become available, teach-
ers must be hired, books printed,
buildings rented and maintained.

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Isaac conceived the plan for his
American-style campaign as a
graduate student at the Harvard
University Department of Near
Eastern Languages and Literature.
While he was a Harvard student,
he was organist for Hillel religious
services and a contributor to its
literary magazine. He is now back
in Ethiopia to complete a Ph D
thesis on "The Question of Hebraic
and Jewish Influence on Ethiopian
History and Religion."

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whelming; What To Do? Student
Finds A Way."

In musical English, laced with
Hebrew and Aramaic, Isaac tells
of his dreams of universal literacy
in his native land. To him, illiter-
acy is the equivalent of imprison-
ment and blindness. An illiterate
person "cannot read instructions on
fertilizer and seed packages. He
cannot read instructions on ma-
chinery. He cannot read traffic
signs or public health messages.
He cannot even take a message
over the telephone. For only five
dollars we can teach an Ethiopian
to read and open up to him a whole
new world."

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