26—Friday, January 5, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
World Jewish Press Surveyed by Fraenkel
tion, the number of English- lan-
ern Europe, 17 in the Americas,
"In the very few countries where
guage papers rises to 52 percent
seven in Asia and three in Af-
the publication of a Jewish press
and Yiddish to 19 percent.
rica.
There
is
no
Jewish
press
in
is barred, limited or made delib-
Of the papers listed, 261 are
North Africa or the Arab coun•
erately difficult, the right of Jews
monthlies; 161, weeklies; 57, fort-
tries. There are few Jewish
to live a Jewish life is also in
nightlies;
35, dailies (of which
publications
in
the
Soviet
Union
jeopardy," concludes Josef Fraen-
those published outside Israel,
or Eastern Europe in compari-
kel in the sixth edition of his book,
numbering
10, are all in Yiddish);
son
to
the
number
of
Jews
in
"The Jewish Press of the World,"
and 372, others.
these countries.
published by the cultural depart-
Fraenkel gives the name, ad-
Of the 886 Jewish papers in the
ment of the World Jewish Con
world, the largest percentage, 38 dress, editor, publisher, language
gress.
Fraenkel's book, useful for both percent are in the English lan- and frequency of each publication
scholars and journalists, gives a guage. Hebrew follows with 25 listed. His booklet can be pur-
country-by-country breakdown of percent, Yiddish with 15 percent, chased through the World Jewish
all Jewish publications, including French with 6 percent, Spanish- Congress office, N.Y., 15 E. 84th
valuable factual information on Portuguese with 5 percent and St., New York.
each, and a summary of the sta- German with 4 percent. If one
excludes Israel from the calcula-
tistics in chart form.
FOR THE BEST IN
There are 886 Jewish dailies,
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
weeklies, monthlies, annuals and
other publications in the world. Israel Defense Budget Seen
The countries with the largest to Hit $600,000,000
And His Orchestra
number are generally those with
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Ha'aretz
the largest Jewish communities. reports from qualified sources that
DI 1-1609
Israel accounts for 306 publica- Israel's defense budget for 1968
tions and the United States for 245. will amount to 2,000,000,000 pounds
Next come the United Kingdom. ($600,000,000).
France, Argentina, South Africa.
Possible presidential candidates Richard Nixon (left), former
Officially, the defense ministry's
Canada and Australia.
vice president, and Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York (right),
budget is 1,450,000,000 pounds, an
Of the 79 countries where there
talk with Sen. Jacob Javits, R•N.Y., in New York as the latter cele-
increase of 50 per cent over that
BRIDES — BAR MITZVAS
is a Jewish press. 23 are in
brates his 21st year in public life. Javits has expressed interest in the
of 1967, which was 984,000,000
Treasurecritiosi4rmti. Forever
Europe, including eight in East-
vice presidential nomination.
pounds.
Added to this are special sub-
sidies derived from other alloca-
tions for defense purposes. These
are expected to total 500,000,000
pounds in 1968, compared with
"Cranbrook House," 500 Lone 160,000,000 in 1967.
Orchestra and Entertainment
"It was not until 1904, when
Pine Road, Bloomfield, originally
The finance ministry estimates
Albert Kahn (1869-1942), a rabbi's
the home of George Gough Booth, that income from various taxes
son from Rhaunen in the German
now a center for the Episcopal will produce 3,015,000,000 pounds
province of Westphalia, opened
Church; the General Motors Build- compared with 3,240,000,000 in
his own office in Detroit that the
ing, the New Center Building, the 1967. At the same time, the normal
architecture of Michigan became
General Library Building on the government expenditures are esti-
of international importance."
University of Michigan campus, mated at 3,850,000,000 pounds com-
NATIONALLY ADVERTISED
In this fashion, Archives of
the Fisher Building, the University pared with 4,460,000,000 last year.
American Art Professor Wayne
STERLING SILVER
of Michigan's Hill Auditorium, The budget for economic develop-
Andrews of Wayne State Univer-
Kahn's favorite of all his buildings ment will be reduced from 2,110.-1
NORTHWOOD
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sity, commences his evaluation of
—the William L. Clements Library 000,000 in 1967 to 1,840,000,000 I 2602 N. Woodward LI. 9-1885
the eminent architect's creative la-
of American history on the Uni- pounds in 1968.
bors in his introduction to his
versity of Michigan campus, the
"Architecture in Michigan—A Pho-
series of buildings for Edsel B.
tographic Survey," published by
Ford in Grosse Pointe, the Grosse
BETTER THAN EVER!
Wayne State University Press.
Pointe mansion for the late Alvan
Mr. Kahn, an office boy at the
Macauley, the Dodge plant design
age of 10, was given drawing les-
in Warren.
sons by the sculptor Julius MeIch-
Architectural designs portrayed
ers, father of the painter Gari
in this volume include those of
Melchers, on Sundays, "and when
Frank
Lloyd Wright, Victor Gruen,
he was not yet 16 he went to work
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Minoru Yamasaki, Eero Saarinen,
sketching for the firm of Mason
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A. Platt, William B. Strat-
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and Rice," receiving for the first
ALBERT KAHN
ton,
ton, Alfred G. Wilson, Eliel Saari-
nine month the monthly salary of
$30, Prof. Andrews explains, quot- fond of reminding his clients: nen, and many others.
WE RENT AND SELL
ing Mr. Kahn as follows:
-Evolution is preferable to revo-
Global Peace Mission
"When I began, the real archi- lution."
The descriptive work by Prof.
tects would design only mu-
Andrews is primarily photographic, of Interfaith Leaders
seums, cathedrals, capitals, mon-
Including the New Double Breasted Tuxedo
with
100 pages of pictures of the
ments. The office boy was con-
ALSO FEATURING A FINE SELECTION OF
accomplished works of Michigan to Visit Crisis Areas
sidered good enough to do fac-
architects and seven pages of text
NEW YORK — A delegation of
tories. I'm still that office boy
designing factories. I have no —in addition to the list of photo- top clergymen left on a global
graphs, a bibliography and the ex- peace mission to the crisis areas of
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dignity to be impaired."
The resume of accomplishments planatory cutlines for the illustra- the world for consulation with key
religious
leaders
on
strategies
for
tions.
by Michigan architects is featured
Illustrations of Alpert Kahn ar- re-establishing peace.
by a lengthy account of the crea-
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tive efforts of the late Mr. Kahn chitectural accomplishments in
Traveling on behalf of the Inter-
UN 4-7408
who, Dr. Andrews recalls, was the Andrews volume include:
national Inter-Religious Sympo-
sium on Peace, the delegates in-
clude such prominent figures as
Harold E. Stassen (American Bap-
tist), Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath
BY HENRY LEONARD
NEW-AIR COOLED
(Reform Jewish), Dr. Lana Mc-
Lean Greeley (Unitarian Univer-
salist), Bishop John Burt (Episco-
pal), Bishop John Wesley Lord
and Bishop James K. Matthews
(Methodist), and Msgr. Edward G.
FIRST MAJOR ADVANCEMENT SINCE MS
Murray (Roman Catholic.)
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