k- Fair
Yiddish Evening to Herald Jewish B
A foretaste of the delights to be
at the Jewish Book Fair will be
offered at a Yiddish Literary eve-
ning 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the
Jewish Center.
Mrs. Morris Friedman, chairman
of the Jewish Center Yiddish Com-
mittee, announces that critical re-
views of three Yiddish books will
be given by Dr. Shmarya H. Klein-
man, Jay Rosenshine and Wolf
Snyder. Movsas Goldoftas will
chair the evening, open to the
public.
Chayale Ash and her Yiddish
Musical Comedy Group will be a
highlight of the fair 8:15 p.m. Nov.
16.
The troupe — comprised of
Chayale Ash, Ari and Abraham
Fuhrman and
Edith Kaselman
— is returning
with an all-new
show, with the
addition of young
Rifka Margines.
The variety
show will include
folk songs, ex-
cerpts from the _. .
classical Yiddish Miss Margines
theater of Peretz and Sholom
Aleichem and Yiddish humor.
The comedy trio are profession.
als of Eastern Yiddish theater.
Mrs. Morris Friedman is chairman
of the evening, sponsored by the
Yiddish Committee.
In the Yiddish section of Book
Fair, visitors will find the' most
recent Yiddish publications from
all over the world.
Dr. Chaim Potok, whose novel
"The Chosen" was on the best
seller list for many months, will
be heard at a live radio and press
conference 3:30 p.m. Nov. 10 in
Shiffman Hall. It will be followed
by an autographing session.
Potok's father ....wanted him to
be an Orthodox
rabbi, but he al-
ways wanted to
be a writer; in
the end, they
both won. He
graduated from
Yeshiva Univer-
sity in New York
with a degree in
English literature
and subsequently
was ordained as
Dr. Potok
a rabbi at the
Jewish Theological Seminary. He
received his PhD from the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1965.
Since 1966 he has served as editor
of the Jewish Publication Society
of America.
The Potok press conference is
being cosponsored by the Bnai
Moshe 1968 Town Hall Series.
The men's club of Temple Beth
El will present Rabbi Herbert Tarr
8:30 p.m. Nov. 17 at tho Center.
He will speak on
"Heaven Help
Us," his current
best seller.
A native New
Yorker and a
graduate of Herz-
liah Teachers
College, Colum-
b i a University .:.
and Hebrew Tarr
Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion, Rabbi Tarr holds degrees
in education, English, comparative
literature and two degrees in He-
brew letters. He also is the author
of the "The Conversion of Chap-
lain Cohen."
Elie Wiesel will be featured
speaker for the evening sponsored
by the Detroit Bnai Brith council
8:30 p.m. Nov. 14.
Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz
and Buchenwald,-
has written "The
Town Beyond the
Wall," "The
Gates of the For-
est," "The Jews
of Silence," and
his newest, "Leg-
ends of Our
Time," among
others.
Wiesel received
the 1964 Prix Ri-
varol for "The
Town Beyond the
Wiesel
Wall," the Harry
and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction
Award of the Jewish Book Council
of America and the Jewish Heri-
tage Award in 1966.
R a b b i Immanuel Jakobovits,
chief rabbi of the United Jewish
Congregations of the British Com-
monwealth, will be guest speaker
8:45 a.m. Nov. 13 co-sponsored by
the Jewish National Fund and the
Zionist Organization df -tretroit.
Rabbi Jakobovits has- authored
liooks on law and medical ethics,
was formerly chief rabbi of Ire-
land and at one time rabbi of the
Fifth Avenue Temple, New York
City.
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Ghetto Uprising Marked
at Book Month Events
"Resistance and Redemption"
is the theme of the annual cele-
bration of Jewish Book Month Nov.
15-Dec. 15, in commemoration- of
the 25th anniversary of the ghetto
uprisings.
Dr. Judah Nadich, president of
the Jewish Book Council of the
National Jewish Welfare Board,
which sponsors the event, said that
the 2,000 groups in the United
States which will conduct Jewish
Book Month programs "will stimu-
late wide interest in the reading of
books by and about the heroic re-
sistance fighters."
American Jewish Archives' Exhibit to Feature
Historic Material During Book Fair at Center
A noteworthy feature in the 17th
annual Jewish Book Fair, which
will open at the Jewish Center on
Nov. 9, will be an exhibit of photo-
graphs, books and pamphlets pro-
vided for the oc-
casion by Ameri-
can Jewish Ar-
chives of Hebrew
Union College —
Jewish Institute
o f Religion i n
Cincinnati.
Dr. Jacob It.
Marcus, noted
historian, direc-
tor of the Ar-
Dr. Chyet
chives, and his
associate director, Dr. Stanley F.
Chyet, have selected material for
the exhibit based on major Jewish
historical events.
Some of the material in this ex- cus said, "is to make this material
available to all who are interested
hibit will be placed on sale.
The American Jewish Ar- in American Jewish history."
Explaining the objectives of the
chives, "a depository created to
keep alive for future generations AJArchives, a statement by Drs.
Marcus
and Chyet points out:
the important historic records of
"When Nazi Germany destroyed
Jews on the American conti-
nent," has catalogued important the European centers of Jewish
and rare documents that - pre- life during the 1940s, only two
serve the voice of American great Jewish communities remained
in the world to assume the burden
Jewry.
Located on the campus of He- of Jewish leadership and maintain
brew Union College, the AJAr- the continuity of Jewish history.
chives includes a collection of many One, the Yishuv in the Holy Land,
hundreds of volumes of minute was — and remains — compelled
books, original and copies, reflect- to invest the bulk of its energies
ing the growth of American Jewish in self-defense and socio-economic
congregations, and data about development. The other, American
many movements, individuals, so- Jewry, was — and long will be —
cieties and American leaders who the only Jewish community able to
played a role in Jewish history. exercise effective and vigorous
"Our prime objective," Dr. Mar- hegemony on the world Jewish
scene. It is the Jews of America
who have had to shoulder the for-
midable and crucial task of pre-
serving, securing, and strengthen-
ing the age-old Jewish heritage,
one of the most honorable and most
significant legacies in human his-
tory.
"That is the raison d'etre of the
Forty Centuries of Jerusalem's History
Dramatic Volume by Kollek, Pearlman
In all instances, the Jerusalem
A great subject, tackled by two David its great significance.
Because it leads up to the story is accompanied by the splen-
distinguished personalities, is pre-
dramatic present by tracing the did collection of photographs, by
sented in a magnificent Random
Holy City's history from "The the drawings describing all eras
House book, "Jerusalem: A His-
Mists of Antiquity," the opening and the illustrative material gath-
tory of Forty Centuries."
chapter that covers the 2000- ered from all nations.
Jerusalem's Mayor Teddy Kol-
1000 BCE story, this volume
lek had the cooperation of Moshe
It is the Jerusalem that is sacred
assumes special significance. to all faiths that emerges as a
Pearlman, the well-known author,
The entire work develops the distinctive work, thanks to the
soldier and historian, in produc-
theme embracing the eras when dedication and vision of Mayor
ing this impressive historical rec-
Jerusalem commenced in the Koll ek and the accompanying
ord that is supplemented by 64
Bible story as the City of David, literary skill and splendid histori
full-color plates and 150 black and
continues as Solomon's Jerusa- cal research work of Pearlman.
white illustrations. They have pro-
lem, outlines the city's role dur-
ing the Divided Kingdom, deals
with the Prophets and the subse-
quent historical eras.
Hasmonean activities, the era
MAYOR TEDDY KOLLEK
MOSHE PEARLMAN
vided a study of the Holy City dat-
ing back to the 19th Century BCE,
continuing to the present. That is
why we have here 40 centuries of
recorded history, and the story is
replete with dramatic events and
with evidence of Jewry's role in
lending the City of Peace and of
of the rule of Herod, the Bar
Kokha revolt, the periods under
the Crusaders, Mamelukes, and
the deep religious interests in the
city by Christians and Moslems
precede the story of Jerusalem in
the current period, as the capital
of Israel.
Because of Kollek's dedication
to archaeology and his vast per-
sonal collection of art works, it
was possible for the two authors
to include in their joint venture
the accumulations of a mayor
under whose administration
Jerusalem has been reunited in
June of 1967.
While this history of 40 centuries
linked with Jerusalem gives a
splendid account of the battles of
the Six-Day War, the book's value
is in the detailed history of 4,000
years, the description of the city's
emergence as a capital in David's
kingdom and the resumption of the
role of a capital for Israel by this
holy center that is sacred to all
religious groups.
The Kollek - Pearlman volume
has special significance for Israelis
and their Jewish kinsmen, but its
value is not limited: it has an
attraction for peoples of all nations
because of the international char-
acter of the subject of a book that
emerges great in text as well as
photographically.
DR. JACOB R. MARCUS
American Jewish Archives. That is
why the Archives was established
in 1947 — to help American Jews
fulfill their spiritual and intellec-
tual obligations to themselves and
to world Jewry. Both the Archives
and its patron, the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re-
ligion, are committed to the
philosophy that only to the extent
that American Jews are familiar
with their 300-year-old experience
in this country will they be able
to carry out successfully the tasks
imposed on them by the history of
our times. Those who are .ignorant
of the Jewish past will be ill-
equipped to face the Jewish future.
"How does the Archives realize
its philosophy? It devotes itself
systematically to gathering, pre-
serving and evaluating the records
of the American Jewish past —
synagogal and societal records,
personal papers, diaries, memoirs,
governmental documents, news-
paper and magazine clippings,
photographs, and the like. What-
ever-illuminates the Jewish experi-
ence in the Western Hemisphere
is of interest, concern, and value.
The Archives asks you to deposit
such material in its growing col-
lection, so that it can be made
available to scholars and research-
ers for. historical study. Everyone
interested in the American Jewish
story `is invited to add his name to
the mailing list for our semi-annual
journal, American Jewish Archives.
"The American Jewish story is
a proud and inspiring story. It
deserves to be studied and under-
stood. To that end the American
Jewish Archives stands ready to
employ all the resources at its
disposal."
Paralympics Commemorated on Stamp
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New stamps issued by the philatelic service of the Israel Ministry
of Posts depict Israeli export industries and the "Paralympics" to be
held in Tel Aviv this month. Motifs of the export stamps are isotopes
(left) and fruits and flowers (bottom). All three are air mail stamps.
A basketball game is shown on the fourth stamp, which commemo-
rates the International Games for the Paralyzed.
56—Friday, November 1, 1968
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