Sponsor Fete Sells $51,000 in Bonds
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 31, 1968-31
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Criterion Club Elects
Nate Rubin, President
At the luncheon sponsored by the Detroit Chapter of Sponsors
of Israel held at the Great Lakes Club, at which $51,000 in Israel
Bond subscriptions was announced, with Countess Antoinette
Rinaldini-Cardelli, as the guest of honor are (from left) seated, Mes-
dames S. L. A. Marshall, Max Stollman, Charles Milan, Louis Berry,
Countess Cardelli, Morris L. Schaver, Joseph Holtzman and David
Pollack; standing, Mesdames Joseph Katchke, Philip Helfman,
Norman Allan, Sidney Schwartz and Irwin Green. Mrs. Berry is the
Israel fashion show chairman; Mrs. Schaver is Israel Bond Women's
Division chairman; Mrs. Holtzman was the luncheon co-chairman
eon. Paid-up sponsors of Israel were pinned by Countess Cardelli.
and Mrs. Pollack, the Sponsor chairman and chairman of the lunch-
Hebrew U. Prof., Dr. Jacob Landau,
to Spend Year on WSU Semitics Staff
A wide curriculum and an addi-
tion to the staff have been an-
nounced by the Near Eastern
languages and literatures depart-
ment of Wayne State University.
The department offers instruc-
tion in Hebrew, Arabic and Ara-
maic, in addition to more general
courses dealing with the history
and civilization of the Near East
from its origins to present day and
instruction in highly specialized
areas.
New to the staff for the year
1968-69 is Dr. Jacob Landau, visit-
Mitchell-Tracht Rites
Are Planned for Sept. c4
MISS BARBARA MITCHELL
Mr. and Mrs. Martin E. Mitch-
ell of Scotia Ave., Oak Park, an-
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Barbara Diane to Larry
Allan Tracht, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Herman Tracht of W. Maple Rd.,
Birmingham.
Mr. Tracht is a graduate of the
Detroit Institute of Technology.
A Sept. 8 wedding is planned.
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ing professor of Near Eastern lan-
guages from the Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem, where he is sen-
ior lecturer in political science. He
holds a PhD from the University
of London and has taught at Bran.
deis and the University of Cali-
fornia.
For the academic year that Dr.
Landau will be on the staff, Dr.
Jacob Lassner will be on leave of
absence. Associate professor and
chairman of the department, Dr.
Lassner has taught at Wayne State
since 1963. He has a book, "The
Topography of Baghdad in the
Early Middle Ages" in press and
is currently preparing a compan-
ion volume on the city of Samarra.
Dr. Landau, whose books and
articles have ranged from Near
Eastern history and politics to
modern Arabic literature, Arab
theater and cinema, will offer a
complement to the courses of Dr.
Max Kanustin and Dr. Daniel
Reisman.
Rabbi Kapustin, adjunct. profes-
sor in post-biblical Hebrew and
Jewish history and thought, holds
a PhD degree in Semitic languages
and literatures magna cum laude
from the University of Heidelberg.
His rabbinical degree is from the
Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin;
and from 1935 to 1937, he taught
Bible, Talmud and Jewish history
at the Rabbinical College of Frank-
furt. He has been director of
Wayne State University's Hillel
Foundation since 1948 and has
written works on the Mishna, rab-
binics and Semitics. He is current-
ly preparing a critical edition and
commentary of the Mishna Treatise
Chullin.
Dr. Reisman, who received his
PhD degree from the University of
Pennsylvania, has worked in Sum-
erology, Assyriology and biblical
studies. He is presently preparing
a body of Sumerian divine hymns
from hitherto unpublished frag-
ments. He instructs in ancient Near
Eastern studies and Hebrew lan-
guage.
In addition to courses in lan-
g•ages the department offers such
courses as Seminar in Develop-
ment of Hebrew Language and
Literature, History and Civilization
of the Ancient Near East, History
of the Arabs, Civilization of the
Medieval Near East and Readings
in Arabic Literature and biblical
and post-biblical Aramaic.
The department offers both bach-
elors and masters degrees in He-
brew and Arabic. In addition, ac-
cording to the department bro-
chure, it functions as a service de-
partment for political scientists
historians, a nth ropologists, geo-
graphers and archaeologists" who
may wish to acquaint themselves
with the traditions of this very
crucial area in world affairs."
The Criterion Club will install
the following officers at a dinner-
dance 8 p.m. Saturday at Danny's
Hour Glass: Nate Rubin, presi-
dent; Jenny Marian, Frances Kir-
cidel and Pearl Greenstein, vice
presidents; Gertrude Edelstein,
counselor; Betty Weinberg and
Charles Gross, secretaries; Ann
Mondrow, treasurer; Sid Berman,
historian; and Bertha Miller, Henry
Gottlieb, Eve Lang, Edith Finkel
and Pauline Bernstein, directors.
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