THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Men and women with diabetes
can be found working in every
; profession and business, in govern-
I merit, industry, and in the highest
ranks in the arts and sports. The
key to "life as usual" is early
detection followed by proper treat.
I ment and control of the condition. {
Friday, November 7, 1969-71
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. and Me
The indifference of the American Jew to Jewish cultural antiquity
Can be seen from the fact that Jews who can afford to acquire his-
toric Jewish rarities do not display the slightest interest in so doing.
There were a few Jewish men of distinction who, a generation ago,
could boast of possessing Jewish relics and cultural antiques. They in-
cluded Felix M. Warburg, Lee M. Freedman, Abraham Rosenbach
and Lessing Rosenwald. Today there are none — this despite the
fact that there today are more wealthy Jews in this country than
ever before.
Affluent American non-Jews would pay a high price at auctions
in competing for the acquisition of a letter written by Mark Twain in
his own handwriting. But no American Jew would be interested in
acquiring — even for a small sum — an original letter or manuscript
written by Sholem Aleichem, the great Jewish author known as
"the Jewish Mark Twain." Many Americans would consider it a great
personal achievement to secure a collection of documents written,
or signed, by historic personalities. But how many American Jews
would seek to acquire handwritten letters by Prof. Albert Einstein
or Dr. Chaim Weizmann, or documents signed by them?
High prices are paid by Americans for handwritten texts by Long-
fellow and other great American poets. But who among Jews in this
country has shown an interest in paying even a modest price for a
manuscript by flayint Bialik. the great national poet of the Jewish
people? Who among American Jews of today has shown interest in
asquiring rare Ilagadot and ancient prayer books the way Some
Americans acquire ancient Bibles?
YIVO TREASURES: American Jews are not only uninterested
in spending money on rare cultural Jewish objects, they do not even
support properly the national Jewish institutions engaged in the col-
lection and salvation of such objects.
Take, for instance the VIVO which is holding its annual gathering
this weekend in New York. As an institute for Jewish research, the
YIVO maintains — among other things — a museum filled with
extremely valuable collections of rare manuscripts and tens of
thousands of photographs reflecting periods in Jewish life which are
long forgotten. In fact, it maintains the world's largest collection
of original documentary material on all aspects of past Jewish life
social, economic and cultural.
A museum of this caliber and standing would be the pride of any
nation. It would be supported in any country by wealthy patrons as
well as by state and local governments. YIVO has no such luck. It
has no government support: its existence depends on individual con-
tributions and from Jewish federations and welfare funds. Its indi-
vidual contributors are mostly middle class people who understand
the value of preserving Jewish cultural creations. The support from
the Jewish federations is very meager and far less than it should be.
The result is that YIVO does not have sufficient funds even to
catalogue some of its great and most valuable collections of the price-
less treasures it has assembled. Its basement is full of rare materials
and objects packed away in boxes. It would take only a few well-to-do
individual Jews to contribute a moderate sum earmarked for cata-
loging this or the other unassorted collections. It would be no special
effort for an agency like the New York Federation of Jewish Philan- '
thropies to include the YIVO on its list for several thousand dollars a I
year of support. This would make no dent in the close to $30 million
which the federation seeks to raise annually for its activities.
Yet, the New York Federation subventions of the Columbia Uni-
versity School for Social Work ignore the YIVO which is a source of
information for social workers, scholars and writers exploring every
phase of Jewish life from antiquity to today. Jewish federations out-
side of New York, although allocating some funds to YIVO, could also
do better. All that the YIVO gets from all the federations through- .
out the country is about 540.000 a year.
JEWISH STUDIES: The YIVO. which conducts a wide variety of
Jewish cultural activities—in addition to maintaining its museum and
archives of Jewish history—is holdng its annual conference this year
with a new important achievement. It comes to the conference with a
report on its establishment of a Center for Advanced Jewish Studies
chartered by the New York Board of Regents.
This is- a pioneering effort to serve the academic and scholarly
community on an inter-university basis. It is the first inter-university
institution of its kind in the Jewish field. Its aims include the training
of young scholars through graduate courses and research seminaries.
Also to assist universities and colleges whose faculty members and
graduate students may be doing research and writing in areas pertain-
ing specifically to Jewish life.
and master's theses on such
- Nearly 100 doctoral dissertations
topics are completed annually at American institutions of higher learn-
ing. The YIVO Center for Advanced Jewish Studies will enhance the
students and faculty members of
quality of such work. Already 47
the graduate seminars'
nine universities and colleges are enrolled in
They
include
three non - Jews.
of the Center for 1969 - 70.
While Jews in this country uho are in a position to provide sub-
stantial assistance to YIVO personally and through their foundations-
YIVO is a tax-exempt institution—neglect to do so. an experts voice
negligence. Says Dr. Lawrence Marwick,'
from Washington scolds such
head of the Hebraic section of the Library of Congress: "We must do
everything possible to maintain and safeguard the literary treasures ,
by the YIVO. This greatest of
assembled with such painstaking effort
complete record of Jewish life
Jewish collections, containing the most
ample promise of becoming the center
in Eastern Europe, and giving
this country, must not be
of sociological studies on Jewish life in
neglected."
It is no compliment to our Jews to have the Library of Congress
tell them that they neglect their duty to VIVO.
MAZUZAH
reg. $2.95
T H. Gran
(Copyright 1969, JTA Inc.)
JEWISH TREASURES: Jews in this country are not Jewish mu-
seum minded. They are not conscious of their institutions dedicated
to the gathering and preservation of Jewish cultural treasures. They
don't appreciate the value of an ancient Jewish manuscript, a rare
Jewish book, an old handwritten letter by a person prominent in
Jewish history.
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