Megdell- Named to Brandeis' Council Brandeis University will honor Flint leader Joseph Megdell by in- duction him into the Brandeis President's Council at a dinner, May 19 at the Southmoor Country Club. Representing tne university will be Prof. David Keith Hardy, direc- tor of the Morse Center for Study of Communications at Brandeis University, in Waltharft, Mass. Chairing the dinner is Michael Pelavin, yound Flint attorney who heads the Flint Friends of Bran- deis. A public relations and advertis- ing consultant, Megdell has served as president of the Flint Jewish FOR A PROUD Commitment To Their JEWISH HERITAGE SEND YOUR CHILD TO AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL Community Council, president of the Urban League, general chair- man of the Flint United Jewish Appeal, chairman of the Flint Hu- man R e l a t i o n s Committee and chairman of the retailing division of t', e Chamber of Commerce. M—'dell is founder and past president of Yankee Stores and a director of Borman Food Stores, Inc. He is a recipient of the Re- tailers' Community Achievement Award. The President's Council of Bran- deis University is a body of dis- tingnished persons in many parts of the country who combine devo- tion for Brandeis with stature in their own community. Like other members of the President's Coun- cil Megdell has been invited to se7ve by the president of Brandeis; a president's counselor works on a nerson-to-person relationship with the president. - Prof. Hardy, whose documentary films have gained World-wide re- known. will discuss Southeast Asia. Hardy served in that region ac a captain in the British Royal Marines during World War II and later returned there is a journalist. He was director of Radio Hong Kong and correspondent for the London Times and BBC. H' last visited Southeast Asia in 1967 at the behest of the United Nations, under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation. He then pro- ceeded to India and Israel, con- sulting with government leaders and educational o f f i c e r s about means of improving communica- tions in developing countries. He is now professor of theater arts and director of the Morse Institute at Brandeis. Serving with Pelavin are; Philip Agree, Harry Binder, Samuel Cats- man. Lawrence Covitz, Edwin L. Elk, Dr. H. Maxwell Golden, Sum- ner Goldman, Saul S. Gorne, Dr. Erwin Gutowitz, Max W. Harris, Arthur Hurand, Louis Kasle, James Lebster, Dr. David Levenson, Dr. Ira B. Marder, Mayor Floyd Mc- . Cree, Michael D. Melet, Congress- man Donald Riegle, Jr., - Dr. Leon Bosky, Gilbert Rubenstein, Jack Shaprow and Edwin Schreiber. Czechoslovakian Jewry's Historic Record THE JEWS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA: published by the Jewish Publication. Society of America in co-operation with the Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews.- New York has edited the present be devoted to the final tragedy . Impressive, but nostalgic volume of annihilation. —a model of its kind. If other similar groups of sur- It is a credit to the promoters vivors of Jewish communities were A Review by Prof. CECIL ROTH and to the board of editors (Prof. to follow this lead and apply The historical record of the Jews of Czechoslovakia is, alas, (unless Guido Kisch, Prof. Hans Kohn, Dr. themselves to recording for pos- !_ am mistaken) the briefest of any Oskar K. Rabinowicz, Dr. Kurt terity while there is yet time the major Jewish group in the world. Wehle) whose names are them- record, organization and achieve- It began when the Czechoslovak selves a guarantee of the high ment of their immediate historic State was constituted out of the scholarly standard of the whole. background, the foundations would. debris of the Austro-HungarianAn idea of the scope can best be be laid to the compilation of the Empire in 1918; it ended (save for conveyed by listing the contents: definitive history of the Jewish the horrible denouement and the Guido Kisch, Jewish Historiography people in our day, which is so present tragic survival) when the in Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Hans so•ely needed. Nazis marched into Prague in The producers of this volume ' Kohn, Before 1918 in the Historic ' Ruth Kestenberg-Gladstein, are to be thanked, not only for March 1939. But during the inter- Lands, The Jews Between Czechs and Ger- ven 5 ng years it was a truly great mans in the. Historic Lands, 1848- what they have done, but also for community a model of its kind: the example they have st. 1918, Livia Rothkirchen, Slovakia, superbly orc'anized. boasting a 1848-1918 and Slovakia, 1918-1938, highly significant regional tradition THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Aryeh Sole, Subcarpathian and some of the most memorable Th'thenia, 1918-1938, Aharon Moshe 10—Friday, May 10, 1968 Jewish antiquities in Europe, the Rabinowicz, The Jewish Minority, home of persons who made out- Gustav Fleischmann, The Religious standing contributions to Jewish Congregation, 19 18 -19 3 8 , Hugo life in all its aspects as well as to European thourtht and literature. I Stransky, Religious Life in the His- tonic Lands, Joseph C. Pick, The It is this period, chronologically Economy, Egon Hostovsky, Jewish brief, but of tremendous signifi- Participation in Modern Czech Lit- cance, that is commemorated in erature, Avigdor Dagan, Jewish this monumental work. Themes in Czech Literature, Harry Before the war, a flourishing. Zohn, Participation in German Lit- Jewish historical society existed terature, Avigdor Dagan, The in. Czechoslovakia. the "Society for Press, Meir Farber, Publishing the History of the Jews in the Houses, and Paul Nettl. Music. Czechoslovak Republic," which was The present volume is the first responsible for the production of of three that are planned, and a scholarly Year Book containing it is intended that these be pro- materials of much importance by duced in rapid succession. The renowned scholars. second is to be in effect a con- . - This year marks the one tinuation of the first, dealing thousandth anniversary of the with additional aspects such as: arrival of the first known Jew education, einigratiOn, Jewish in the region, an event incident. Party, movements, in useums, ally commemorated by the gov- sports, scholars, theater, Zion- ernment when it issued a set of ism, etc.; the last volume will stamps bearing retiresentations of the local Jewish historical monu- ments. These stamps were with- drawn for obvious reasons at the time of the Six-Day War, but they are still available to collect- ors. Doubtless, in -happier circum- stances . the Prague Historical Society would have celebrated the event with some pomp and cir- cumstance. Instead. the successor of the organization, the "Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews," now centered and active in , , Fot$499, Lufthansa .does . mote than give you a 15-day Italian It keeps you from feeling like a touftt. Reconstructionists Back Kerner Report and Call for Study of Sexual Mornlity "I DO" says MARVIN ENGEL Salesman - Driver "I do," says Mr. Engel, "because I want my children to grow up as knowledgeable Jews with a love of Torah learning, of Amer- ica and of all mankind. 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College students attending as ob- servers reported. in a public session Sunday that student-sponsored ef- forts to develop experimental Sab- bath services had resulted in an increase in worship attendance and an awakened interest by liberal university students in Judaism. Joel Levine, a graduate of the University of Michigan who will enter Hebrew Union College (Re- form) in Cincinnati this fall, pointed out that the development of a Reconstructionist worship service, planned by the students themselves, had resulted in an attendance at the Hillel Founda- tion's evening worship from 25 to 200 students. In addition, the young people arranged once a month to conduct a joint service with the adult community. The federation adopted at its concluding session a resolution calling upon the Reconstructionist movement "to study the appropri- ateness of. traditional Jewish norms in confronting problems of sexual that challenge us in this d y." 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