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British-Jewish Historical Data Detailed
Heinrich Graetz (known here as
(London Correspondent
the Jewish Macaulay), to lecture at
to The Jewish News)
the
Royal Albert Hall. The great
LONDON — The Jewish popula-
tion of London at the time of the Jewish historian was received
Anglo-Jewish Historical Exhibition with deference and acclaimed
(1887) numbered about 60,000. wherever he appeared at recep-
Sir Moses Mon tefiore, who tions and gatherings. His lecture
visited Palestine seven times, in- on "Historic Parallels in Anglo-
fluenced London Jewry to be con- Jewish History" on June 16. 1887,
scious of its Jewishness. He was a testimony to his trust in
sought the rights of the persecuted Anglo-Jewry.
He suggested the establishment
Jews. and in times of danger he
instilled into the community the of a "Jewish Academy" in London
feeling of Jewish solidarity. He to promote Jewish science. In the
died at the age of 101, two years past, Graetz stated, the Anglo-
Jewish community had been pas-
before the exhibition.
The Jews of England had equal sive but because of Sir Moses
rights with their fellow citizens. Montefiore, not only Anglo-Jewry
They could become members of but world Jewry manifested Jew-
Parliament, of the House of ish solidarity.
A Jewish Academy in Paris
Lords, professors and doctors.
Jews' College, founded in 1855 for would be condemned, said Graetz,
the training of rabbis and teach- as a kind of clericalism, in Ger-
ers. was the center of Jewish stu- many as a piece of Jewish imper-
dies. Asher Myers was the editor tinence, but in England it would
of the Jewish Chronicle, Moses be received with approbation to
Gaster had just been elected ha- train not only Jewish scholars but
ham of the Spanish and Portugu- also Jewish leaders. A Jewish
ese Congregation and Israel Zang- Academy in London in 1887 could
will's popularity as a writer had have developed into a Jewish
University but Anglo-Jewry did
begun.
In the old Anglo-Jewish homes' not understand the call of Hein-
rich
Graetz.
(of Sephardi origin) "Ladino"
The Historical Society
could be heard, and in White-
The exhibition slowed down the
chapel Yiddish was the main'
stormy
chaos of strange ideas
language. Jews from European
countries arrived in growing num- within Anglo-Jewry, and drew at-
bers and settled in Whitechapel. tention to the importance of Jew-
They established synagogues, lit- ish science and knowledge.
Leading members of the Pales-
erary societies, and founded Yid-1
tine Exploration Fund belonged to
dish and Hebrew papers.
the
non-Jewish forerunners who
They were poor, worked hard 1
but did not become slaves of the propagated Jewish colonization.
tailor's shears! Anarchists and I The Palestine Exploration Fund
nihilists had their headquarters in ' put at the disposal of the exhibi-
Whitechapel and missionaries en- tion the famous map of Western
deavored to capture the souls of Palestine. Two non-Jewish fore-
runners of Zionism, Laurence Oli-
Whitechapel Jewry.
phant, author of "The Land of
The Historical Exhibition
The idea of the exhibition came , Gilead," and .Holman Hunt, the
from Isidore Spielman, who later painter, as well as Col. A. Golds-
became editor of a monthly sup- mid and E. H. d'Avigdor, who a
plement of the Jewish Chronicle—
"Darkest Russia—A Journal of Bronx Jewish Y Closes
Persecution" (1891-1892). .He pro-
posed an "Anglo-Jewish Historical After 35 Years; City
Exhibition" to promote the knowl- Taking Over Its Program
NEW YORK (JTA)—The 35-year
edge of Jewish history. 1
After months of preparation, a career of a Jewish Y in the Bronx
General Committee of nearly 200 will come to an end in about six
members, headed by the philan- months but the programs it creat-
thropist F. D. Mocatta, was set ed for the Negro and Puerto
up. Nearly 300 persons and a few Rican poor in its neighborhood
dozen synagogues and institutions will continue under new auspices.
offered 2,600 exhibits concerning The East Bronx Y, which began
Jewish ecclesiastical art: Jewish operations in a storefront location
history and Palestine: documents, in the Hunts Point area in 1934,
manuscripts, prints, books and has moved three times to its pre-
portraits illustrating Jewish his- sent—and final—site, as the neigh-
tor• before the expulsion of 1290, borhoods it served changed from
and from the time of Manasseh Jewish to Gentile. In each of
ben Israel until the era of the its three homes, a series of pro-
Montefiores and Rothschilds. The grams was created to meet the
Public Record Office, the British needs of poor Negroes and Puerto
Museum and the South Kensington Ricans who settled in each section
Museum arranged supplementary as Jews moves elsewhere.
exhibitions of over 320 objects of
Jewish interest.
Hartford Agencies Mix
Two young historians, Joseph Talents for Better Help
Jacobs. 33, and Lucien Wolf, 30,
HARTFORD (JTA) — A long-
prepared the scholarly catalogue range planning process among
for the exhibition.
Hartford Jewish community agen-
Exhibit 2091—"The Shapira MS" cies is being coordinated by a new
—consisted of 15 fragments alleg-
committee of the Hartford Jewish
ed to be the original manuscript Federation, according to Charles
of the Book of Deuteronomy. M. Rubenstein, federation president.
Shapira. a Jewish convert and
He reported that an Inter-
antique dealer in Jerusalem, as- Agency Planning Committee,
serted that the manuscripts were headed by Herbert Savin, has been
discovered near the Dead Sea and holding meetings to develop a pro-
offered them to the British Mu- gram for coordinated a ction
seum at the price of $1,000,000 among such agencies. They in-
pounds. Experts at first declared clude the Jewish Community Cen-
these manuscripts to be authentic, ter, the Hebrew Home, the Jewish
but later said they were forgeries. Family Service and Mount Sinai
In the last 20 years scholars
HospitaL
have again discussed the - Shapira
Scrolls which the firm of Quaritch
bad placed at the disposal of the Boost Passover Grants
exhibition. But they had dis- to Needy NYC Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — A seven
appeared. What actually happened
to them after 1887 is not known.
per cent increase in grants to
The exhibition at the Royal Al- needy Jews in the New York area
bert Hall was opened in April 1887 to provide adequate Passover sup-
and (during the 12 weeks) was plies for the holiday was in-
visited by 12,000 persons, who stituted this year by the Joint
paid the admission fee of one shil- Passover Association, reflecting
ling each.
the rising costs of food in the
Heinrich Graetz in London
area. The association, an affiliate
During the exhibition lectures of the Federation of Jewish Phil-
were held on Jewish subjects. It anthropies, was established 43
was an optimistic gesture of the years ago to assure Passover sup-
time to invite to London Prof. plies for needy - Jews.
By JOSEF FRAENKEL
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DAIA Looks to Right and Left for Anti-Semitism
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Dis-
Dr. Jose Kestelman, DAIA sec-
turbing new manifestations of retary, said anti-Semitism had
few years later were to become anti-Semitism, from extreme left- been felt increasingly since the
leaders of Hovevei Zion, aided the ist as well as extreme right-wing beginning of the year and re-
elements, occupied the attention marked that in the case of leftist
exhibition.
During the months when the of the DAIA, the central repre- groups, some individuals of Jew-
exhibition was open, in April 1887, sentative body of Argentine Jewry ish extraction had a part in it.
young people in Whitechapel form- at a meeting of its executive
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ed an association, "Kadima," council here. The meeting was
which soon had 150 members. It attended by representatives of the 34—Friday, April 4, 1969
major
cities
and
the
provinces.
organized regular lectures on his-
tory, literature and Palestine.
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The Jewish Historical Society
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arranges meetings at which scho-
lars, historians and writers give
lectures, attended by the spiritual
aristocrats of London Jewry. The
society has published dozens of
books and 21 "Transactions." The
last "Transactions: Sessions 1962-
67" 1968, p. 352) consists of over
20 lectures and is edited by
J. M. Shaftesley. It is however a
pity that the "Transactions" were
published without an index. A
book of this kind without an index
is like a room without windows. It
is no consolation to know that an
index covering "several volumes"
is to be published in 10 years'
time or near the end of the cen-
tury.
The 75th anniversary celebration
should encourage the Jewish His-
torical Society, under the presi-
dency of Cecil Roth, to double its
activities to establish branches in
Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow,
to treble the membership and its
circle of scholars and historians.
Rise, Jewish Historical Society of
England, promote Jewish studies,
increase Jewish knowledge and
revive historic memories, and you
may yet become the Jewish
Academy proposed by Heinrich
Graetz in 1887.
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