Jewish Publication Society Expanding Projects, Elects William Fishman President By Jewish News Special Correspondent PHILADELPHIA — Mark ing another year of progress in book publishing and in presenting to the English-reading public a number of volumes devoted to Jewish stu- dies, the 81st annual meeting of the Jewish Publication Society em- barked on another year of exten- sive efforts to assure the issuance of a number of noteworthy books covering many areas of Jewish interest.' - Nume .rous commissions devoted to studying manuscripts on a va- riety of subjects reported on ap- proved documents that embrace biographical, historical and biblical studies and projected volumes on art, fiction and children's litera- ture. During the coming year, a number of important works to be published by JPS will include translations of outstanding crea• tions in Hebrew by Israeli au- thors. Dr. Jacob R. Marcus presided' over a special meeting of a pub- lications committee devoted to American Jewish historical sub- jects. The JPS publications committee under the chairmanship of Edwin Wolf II heard reports from Dr. Ger- son Cohen. on projected works from the Hebrew; and reports were submitted on behalf of the committee preparing the revised Bible translation, and committees that are studying submitted manu- scripts on belle letters, modern and medieval history. Dr. Chaim Potok, who was re- elected editor of the society, re- ported that "Notes on the Bible Translation" by Prof. Harry Or- linsky and Alexander Altmann's biography of Maimonides are MIAMI (JTA)—The Dade Coun- School Board has instructed school heads to give full recogni- tion to major Jewish holidays and the Sabbath in mapping various school events and to excuse Jewish students from classes and other activities at those times. "No is- sue should be made of the possible absences of these students on Jew- ish holidays," the directive said. ty — Rene Cassin to Receive Brandeis Honorary Degree at June Commencement WALTHAM—Roger N. Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Lib- erties Union, and Nobel Prize win- ner Rene Cassin will be speakers Recently published books of Jewish interest by American au- thors displayed at the Fourth Jerusalem International Book Fair through arrangements made by the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish Welfare Board hold the interest of Israel's Prime Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir. With Mrs. Meir is Dr. Sol Liptzin, a past president of the Jewish Book Council and chairman of its Israel branch_ at Brandeis University's 18th com- mencement exercises June 8. During the exercises, honorary degrees will be bestowed upon 13 distinguished persons from various fields, including journalism, gov- ernment, labor, business and law. In addition, academic degrees will be awarded to 544 under- graduate students from the col- lege of arts and sciences and 96 graduate students from the grad- uate school of arts and sciences and the Florence Heller Grad- uate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare. that philanthropic funds are used for Israel's military defenses, the article utilizes statements by the extreme anti-Zionist, Rabbi Elmer Berger. The Wall Street Journal article claims that U.S. public opinion has been swayed by Israeli arguments "almost to the exclusion of the Arab point-of-view." Berger. who recently was ousted from vice presidency of the Amer- ican Council for Judaism, is quot- ed with reference to Israel as stat- ing that the U.S. government "leaves its citizens vulnerable to exploitation by a foreign state." Protests also have been sounded against articles by Henry Taylor in the Detroit News. His argu- ments are considered as being tinged with anti-Israel sentiments. Yiddish Singer Succeeds Emigre Nahama Lifshitz LONDON (JTA)—Soviet Jewry, or that segment of it that still responds to Yiddish performers in a traditional vein, has apparently found a successor to Nahama Lif- shitz, the popular Yiddish actress Short Brothers and Harland, a par- and folk singer who emigrated to tially state-owned aircraft manu- The honorary degree recipients Israel. facturer in Belfast. Northern Ire- will be Baldwin; Cassin, principal The new star is Sophia Seiton, land, said last January that the author of the Universal Declara- rockets could be operational by the tion of Human Rights; Ramsey a laureate of the Soviet Commit- tee for World Peace. Her perfor- time Israel gets American Phan- Clark, former U.S. attorney gen- mances and readings of Yiddish tom jets. eral; Norman Cousins, editor of and Russian poetry were hailed in The Tigercat, a land version of the Saturday Review; Coretta the British Seacat, is a small and Scott King, widow of Dr. Martin the April edition of Sovietish Heim- highly maneuverable rocket that Luther King Jr.; Salvador Ponce land, the USSR's only Yiddish can be operated from mobile trail- Lopez. Philippine ambassador to magazine. Critic Moshe Goldblatt wrote ers, has a range of about 20.000 the United States; John Usher feet and is largely geared for air- Monro, former dean of Harvard that Miss Seiton's repertoire in- cludes the works of 40 Yiddish field protection. College and director of freshman The reported 514,400.000 deal is studies at Miles College; Princess poets and writers. He said that said to have been concluded just Ashraf Pahlavi, imperial highness some of her appearances are bill- prior to the Dec. 28 Israel raid of Iran: Jacob S. Potofsky, gen- ed as "An Evening of Yiddish Poe- on Beirut Airport. The Tigercat is eral president of the Amalgamated try," and her readings have cap- said to have a guidance system Clothing Workers of America; A. tivated her audiences . The magazine also reported that which works with considerable Philip Randolph. organizer of the precision. Jordan was reported to Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Por- if was trying to encourage Soviet Jewish painters and sculptors who have sought the missiles to guard ters; B • H. d airfields against the kind of light- Salvage: Meyer W. Weisgal, foun- feel somehow left out of the main- ning raid launched by Israel at the der and president of the Weiz- stream of Soviet art. A group of them gathered at Sovietish Heim- start of the 1967 war. mann Institute for Science: and land's editorial offices recently to While the sale had been an- Sir Isaac Wolfson, British busi- elect an "artists committee" that nounced last year, Emanuel nessman and philanthropist and work with the periodical. Shinwell, the veteran British founder and trustee of the Wolf- -Only a few Jewish artists have Labor Party leader, called the son Foundation. been acknowledged in the Soviet decision "incredible." He added r • r Union, and none of them attended that the British government "has African Films to Be Seen the meeting, according to the re- gone mad—stark staring mad." WALTHAM — The largest collec- port. Britain has been a strong advo- • • • cate of a Mid East arms embargo tion of African motion pictures ever assembled will be shown dur- Soviet Jews Go to Israel, but the unwillingness of the Soviet Union and the United States to stop ing a film festival at Brandeis arms supplies has prompted her to University's Gerstenzang Science Communist Paper Says LONDON—The Morning Star, of- keep her options open. The cur- Center this weekend. The festival, sponsored by the ficial organ of the Communist rent policy is to determine each Brandeis politics department, will Party here, reported that emigra- case on its merits. It was reported last month that be open to the public. The week- tion of Jewish families from Rus- the United States has agreed to a end-long program will feature con- sia to Israel has been resumed in 530.000.000 arms deal with Jordan. tinuous showings of both new and recent months. Following the Six-Day War, such including the sale of a second classic works by filmmakers work- squadron of 18 F - 104 Starfighter ing in Africa, a number of whom emigration was halted. Premier Jet Interceptors. The first squad- will be present at Brandeis to in- Alexei Kosygin earlier that year had told British journalists that ron is scheduled for delivery start- troduce their works. Soviet Jews could go to Israel, and ing in June. Movement of the sec- ond squadron may not begin for Warsaw Ghetto Sculpture entire families were allowed to do so. many months. Britain Sells Jorda is Tigercat Missiles — Defense JERUSALEM Minister Moshe Dayan told the Knesset Tuesday that Britain was selling to Jordan a considerable quantity of Tigercat ground-to-air missiles. But he did not specify how many of the rockets were in- volved in the transaction. Gen. Dayan told Israeli legis- lators that Soviet experts and ad- visers were guiding the Egyptian army in training. development and operational planning. Replying to questions, he said Israel had no knowledge of alleged cooperation between the Cuban army and Arab saboteurs. It was reported recently by an Israeli newspapers that the saboteurs were being trained in Cuba. Gen. Dayan also said that Havana de- nied news reports that the Cuban chief of staff was present with Arab guerrillas during a raid into Israel. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Wall Street Journal Article Protested; Used Anti-Israel Views as Its Source A storm of protests this week greeted an article on "Business Approach to Arab Hotspots" by Neil A. Martin in Monday's Wall Street Journal. Definitely anti-Israel, resorting to such propaganda as the charge 41,1sH sow F- among the books to be issued this year. A total of 13 titles are to be issued in 1969. Titles for 1970 also were evaluated and approved at the meeting. William B. Fishman. prominent Philadelphia industrialist and a The defense minister said that leader in many cultural move- he had told British Conservative ments. was elected president of Party leader Edward Heath re- JPS to succeed Joseph First who cently that it was impossible to was elected honorary president and free vessels stranded in the Suez a life member of the board of trus- Canal since the 1967 war so long tees. as the Egyptians continued to Lesser Zussman. who was re- violate the cease fire. elected executive director, report- The Tigercat missile maker ed on the international book exhi- bit in Jerusalem which he attended as the JPS representative and as Nazi Deporter of Jews the delegate from the United `Didn't Know.' He Says States which was one of 32 nations (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) sponsoring the event that attracted WEST BERLIN—A former offi- tens of thousands of participants. Prof. Maurice Hindus of Bran- cial at World War II Gestapo head- deis University, in an address in quarters in Berlin claimed at his which be reviewed the record of trial Monday that he did not know fiction writing by Jews in this about the real fate of the thousands country from the time of Abra- of Jews he ordered deported to ham Cahan's "The Rise of David Nazi death camps. Fritz Woehren, 64, is the princi- Levinsky" to the current era of Malamud and Roth and Mailer, pal defendant among nine former stated that "Jewish writing has Gestapo aides charged with mur- outgrown the need for patronage der and complicity in murder. and can stand on its own feet." They have been labeled "desk kill- Dr. Hindus, whose new book ers" by the prosecution, and their "The Old East Side" will be pub- trial is the first in which ex-Nazis lished by JPS this year, told of the have been indicted for murder al- lack of interest in Jewish subjects, though they were far from the as was indicated in the denigration scene of the crime. Woehren, a former captain in of Cahan's work when it first ap- the SS (Elite Guard), worked in peared, and traced the growth of the Jewish affairs section of concern and the increasing inter- Gestapo headquarters. His eight est. as indicated in Harper's pres- co-defendants are charged with ent emphasis on Cahan's novel which it first hesitated to publish.: complicity in murder for having He emphasized the absorption to- carried out his orders which re- sulted in the deaths of thousands day of themes and artifacts of of Jews between 1940 and 1945. Jewish fiction and the triumphs There were originally 12 de- attained by Jewish authors. Miami Honors Holidays 46 Friday, May 9, 1969 at California Cemetery The Morning Star special corres- LOS ANGELES — The famous pondent from Moscow pointed out Yeshiva U. Students Warsaw Ghetto sculptures by Ber- that Israeli papers are not permit- Score High in Math Test nard Baruch Zakheim, West Coast ted to make public mention of the NEW YORK — A team of Yes- hiva College undergraduates out- paced 75 per cent of student math teams from 209 colleges and uni- versities in the United States and Canada in the 29th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Com- petition, last fall. According to scores released by the Mathematical Association of America, the eight-man team from Yeshiva College, the undergradu- ate college of liberal arts and sciences of Yeshiva University, in New York City, ranked 47th in the six-hour examination. The prosecution said that the de- Dr. Henry Lisman, professor of fendants must have been aware of mathematics at the college, said what happened to deported Jews that three members of the team because all death certificates were scored high enough to have their returned to their office so that the names included in the list of names fendants, but one died, and two others became ill and will be tried separately. files could be closed. published by the Putnam Competi- The prosecution charged in a tion Committee. 720-page indictment that Woehren was "filled with hatred against the Tourism brings more than 13,- Jews and had been convinced of 000,000 travelers to Michigan each the necessity of killing them." Jewish artist who has been called "an angry Moses," will be put on display at Mount Sinai Memorial Park soon, it was announced by Benjamin Dwoskin, general man- ager. The six monumental sculptures arrived from Berkeley, where they have been on exhibit at the Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum since last September. Zakheim, born in Warsaw, has lived for many years in Sebasto- pol, Calif. He has won countless honors, prizes and commissions in recent years but his contribution to the walls of San Francisco's Coit Tower brought him his great- est fame and is now part of Americana. , Keep this truth ever before you —ignorance never did anyone any harm, error alone is fatal, and we do not lose our way through ignor- ance but through self-confidence. ',I-Rousseau. origin of immigrants and the ar- rival of them from Socialist coun- tries including the Soviet Union. The paper added that "the over- whelming majority" of Soviet Jews feel "at home" where they are. Julius Katchen, Pianist NEW YORK (JTA)—Julius Kat- chen, American concert pianist who made his debut at age 10 and performed as a child with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, died in Paris last week at age 42. Mr. Katchen interrupted his ca- reer as a child prodigy to attend high school and college. He was graduated from Haverford College in 1945 and accepted a fellowship from the French government. He made Paris his permanent resi- dence and gave most of his con- certs in Europe. In recent years, he specialized in the music of Brahms.