THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, January 9, 1970
Sabin Takes Over Weizmann Institute as Weisgal Bids Adieu as President
REilOVOT — A scientific race
for human betterment to match
the space race was urged as the
scientific goal of t'.e next decade
JERUSALEM—A street in the by Meyer W. Weisgal as he relin-
name of the late Isaac Shmaya quished the presidency of the
Eliachar, the first president of the Weizmann Institute of Science to
United Jewish Community in Jeru- Dr. Albert B. Sabin.
salem, has been dedicated on the
Dr. Sabin took up residence in
Hebrew University's Givat Ram Rehovot and assumed his official
campus.
duties as president Jan. 1.
The Eliachar family, one of the I
Before leaving Israel for a
oldest Jewish families in Jeru-
protracted stay abroad, Weisgal,
salem, were owners of land on
who was named chancellor of
which part of the campus was
the institute by the board of gov-
built.
ernors, foresaw for the Weiz-
The family has lived in Jeru-
mann Institute - successful new
salem for 18 generations, and its
tasks" focused on "human bet-
history is connected with important
terment," as well as science
events in Palestine and the Mid-1 more extensively "dedicated to
Elle East during the last centuries.
research directly concerned with
In the 15th Century, it was one of
the economic development of Is-
the prominent Jewish families in
rael."
the city of Ijar in Spain (Sara-
gossa) whence the family immi- ,
grated to Palestine in the year
1485, seven years before the Jews
were expelled from Spain.
In Palestine, the members of the
NEW YORK — American pro-
family were referred to as El Ijar.
pointing to their original residence fessionals in the field of mental
in Spain, and this name eventual- deficiency are intensifying their
campaign for the withdrawal of
ly was changed to Eliachar.
Warsaw as the site of an interna-
tional congress next summer be-
cause of Poland's reported anti-
Semitic and repressive policies.
The latest round against conven-
Fine Clothes for
ing the Second Congress of the In-
Over 35 Years
ternational Association for Scien-
tific Study of Mental Deficiency
(IASSMD) in Warsaw was carried
to the editorial pages of the Ameri-
can Journal of Mental Deficiency
by Dr. Martin B.;filler, associate
professor of educa• ion at Yeshiva
University's Ferkauf Graduate
3 Special Groups
School of Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Hebrew U. Street Named
for Old Jerusalem Family
His own first task is to complete
the manuscript o' his memoirs,
covering more than half a cen-
tury devoted to the renascence of
the Jewish state, spanning three
continents and embracing the
worlds of journalism, drama, lit-
erature and science, the last 25
of which were devoted to the
Weizmann Institute.
The closeset political and scien-
tific associate of Dr. Weizmann,
Weisgal had served as Dr. Weiz-
mann's personal, political repre-
sentative, f r o m 1940 until the
founding of the Jewish state.
As general editor and chairman
of the editorial board of the Weiz-
mann Archives, Weisgal will con-
: tinue the over-all supervision of
the publication of the letters and
papers of Dr. Weizmann covering
a 60-year period. A 12-volume work
Campaign Waged t o Remove Warsaw
as Site for Mental Deficiency Parley
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Dr. Miller is the sponsor of a
unanimously adopted resolution
calling for a shifting of Warsaw
as a site at last May's annual
meeting of the American Asso-
ciation on Mental 'Deficiency,
held in San Francisco.
"The issue involved," Dr. Miller
writes. "is the way socially con-
scious scientists respond to the
specific and flagrant behavior of •
a country whose national policy
is racist, and whose contempt for
basic tenets of decency, including
fundamental rights of the scien-
tific and academic communities.
is horribly evident."
IASSMD. whose executive coun-
cil is composed of members from
21 countries including three from
Eastern Europe, voted for the
Warsaw site at its 1967 Congress
in Montpellier, France. The selec- •
tion was reaffirmed in September
by a 15-5 council vote.
Dr. Miller said that the 1967
vote was acceptable to him and
others at the time because of the
"liberalizing trends" of Wladyslaw
Gomulka's regime and because
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with the spirit of detente" between
East and West.
is expected to emerge. The first
volume has been published in Ile-
brew; and in English by Oxford
University Press. A second vol-
ume is now in press. An editorial
staff of 40 is currently working
on the project at Beit Weizmann
here.
(Later, at the annual meeting
of the editorial board of the Weiz-
man Archives, Weisgal stated that
the voluminous archives, which
contain over 20,000 of the late
president's letters to and from var-
ious correspondents, as well as
tens of thousands of other items,
would in due course be moved to
Beit Weizmann.)
Looking ahead to the next de-
cade, Weisgal said:
"Although I am no scientist, it
is evident to a lay mind, such as
my own, that as we stand on the
threshold of the seventh decade of
the century, the Weizmann Insti-
tute, as indeed science generally,
wherever pursued, will be called
upon to tackle major, new scien-
tific tasks during the coming de-
Since 1967, however, "the
Polish government has outraged
much of the world with a se-
ries of extraordinary actions,
including a vicious and explicit
anti-Zionist campaign which has
led to the outright persecution
of many Jews, including scien-
tists and academicians, along
with many non-Jews who were
sympathetic with the plight of
their Polish brethren," Dr. Mil-
ler said.
cade.
"In the coming decade and
later, mankind must look to its
health and wealth for the sake
of human betterment, Just as it
has begun looking and travelling
to the moon and the stars. If
there's to be a space race, there
must
also be
a welfare
damental knowledge the sole re-
sponsibility of our scientists," be
said. "Among the most important
tasks I foresee for the Weizmann
Institute during the '70s is a more
intensive dedication of the Insti-
tute to research directly concern-
ed with economic development of
Israel.
"I am confident all this MR be
achieved with luster and distinc-
tion, in the spirit of Dr. Weiz-
mann's heritage of service, under
the brilliant and able guidance of
Albert Sabin. He is in effect the
most illustrious new immigrant
whom Israel has been privileged
to welcome in recent times."
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and contacts both in the United
States and abroad to urge a boy-
cott of the conference if it is held
in Warsaw.
Youth Aliya Opens
Israel Schools to
American Youth
(Format to be DISCONTINUED as 01 19711
N ow for the very first time, these
NEW YORK — Youth Aliya fa-
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to American children, it was an-
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