12—Friday, May 22, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Impressive History of Yeshiva
University by Eminent Alumnus
Much research has gone into the
writing of "The Story of Yeshiva
University—the First Jewish Uni-
versity of America," published by
Macmillan.
Rabbi Gilbert Klaperman of
Lawrence, N. Y. currently assist-
ant professor of
sociology at the
university, pres-
ident of the New
York Board of
Rabbis and chair-
man of the World
Academy in Je-
rusalem, has
devled into all the
records and as a
Yeshiva Univer-
sity graduate was
able to acquire
the intimate in-
terest which em-
anates from the
records he offers Rabbi Klaperman
as a history of one of the great
Jewish institutions in America.
Former Supreme Court Justice
and U. S. delegate to the United
Nations Arthur J. Goldberg, in an
introduction, pays honor to the
university, expresses his pride in
Dr. Revel
Dr. Belkin
its accomplishments as an honor-
ary alumnus and emphasizes that
"Yeshiva University has moved
the teaching of the Jewish faith
into the society which surrounds
it."
It is an Interesting history
that commenced with the Etz
Chaim Yeshiva In 1886, was fol-
lowed by the Itzhak Elhanan
Theological Seminary which gave
semiha to many Orthodox rab-
bis, then came the founding of
Yeshiva College and now the
high status of Yeshiva Univer-
sity.
Rabbi Klaperman's study im-
presses the reader not purely for
its historical analysis of the devel-
Yeshiva U. Scholarship Group Named
The appointment of 15 scholar-
ship co-chairmen to be symbolic of
the 15th annual dinner of the De-
troit Friends of Yeshiva University
was announced by Nathan I. Goldin
and David Pollack, co-chairmen of
the annual campaign which will
culminate on June 25 with the
dinner at Shaarey Zedek Syna-
gogue. Former Supreme Court
Justice Abe Fortas will be the
guest speaker.
The scholarship co-chairmen in-
clude: Mandell L. Berman, Louis
Berry, Jack Bushkin, Avern L.
Cohn, Irvin I. Cohn, Howard S.
Danzig, Reuben Dubrinsky, Louis
M. Elliman, Nathan Fishman, Ir-
win Green, Jack Korman, Sol Less-
man, Julius Rotenberg, Isadore
Winkelman and Charles S. Wolpin.
Detroit Friends chairman Abra-
ham Borman will be host at the
campaign kickoff brunch, 11 a.m.
Sunday, at Shaarey Zedek. Dr.
A. Leo Levin, vice president for
academic affairs of Yeshiva Uni-
versity, will be the speaker at the
brunch.
Goldin and Pollack also announce
that campaign offices have been
opened at 909 Washington Boule-
vard, 964-2330, and that the fol-
lowing have been appointed mem-
bers of the dinner campaign com-
mittee:
Philip Ash, Samuel Berger, Da•
vid I. Berris, Paul Borman, Paul
D. Borman, Rabbi Aaron Brander,
lopment of a univerity, from the
roots of a yeshiva and the Rabbi
Isaac Elhanan Theological Semi-
nary (RIETS) that followed but
also for the review it provides of
Orthodox educational progress in
America.
It is an educational study and in
the process the author introduces
many of the distinguished leaders
who were responsible for the
growth of the schools, including
the founding president of RIETS,
Dr. Bernard Revel, the universi-
ty's current president, Dr. Samuel
Belkin, the many other leaders
who figured in the advancement of
learning through the media of the
schools that played a role in Yeshi-
va University's creative efforts.
There is marked tribute to Dr.
Revel, recognition of the serv-
ices of Dr. Belkin, reference to
the Inspiration that came from
Rabbi Yitzhak Yaacov Reiner,
founder of the great yeshiva of
Lida and of the Mizrachi move-
ment, and, of course, to Rabbi
Isaac Elhanan whose name bears
the RIETS name.
Rabbi Klaperman touches upon
the Mizrachi movement, its emi-
nent leaders, Rabbi Meyer Merlin
who adopted the name Bar-Ilan
which now is perpetuated in Bar-
Ilan University in Israel, and num- Morris J. Brandwine, Rabbi Jay
merous other Orthodox functions !Braverman, Robert Brody, Norman
and accomplishments in this coun- Cottler, A. J. Cutler, Julius Feigel-
man, Morton Feigenson, Joseph D.
try
Feldman, Walter L. Field, Dr.
The growth of the rabbinical Leon Fill, Hyman Freedland, Jo-
college and the expansion into a seph Frankel, William A. Genser,
nationally acknowledged university Jack Greisman, Rabbi Irwin
merge in this story by an author Groner, Jack I. Kraisman, Joseph
who, as a graduate who made his Lee, Morris Ben Lewis, Jack Lieb-
alma mater his theme, has pro- erman, Hyman Lipsitz, Isidore
duced an excellent study of the Muskovitz, Meyer H. Must, Werner
Jewish university.
Osten, Max R. Ostrow, Irving I.
Completing his third decade in
the rabbinate, Rabbi Klaperman
has also taught at the school of
religion of the State University of
Iowa. He is a past president of the
Jewish Book Council of America
and of the Yeshiva College Alumni
Association. During World War II,
Rabbi Klaperman served as a
chaplain in the Canadian Army,
and in 1956, he was a member of
a rabbinic fact-finding commission
that spent seven weeks of study in
the countries behind the iron cur-
tain. Rabbi Klaperman has also
been a chaplain at the Nassau
County Jail in Mineola, N.Y., a
member of the American Zionist
Council and chairman of the Rab-
binic Committee of OAT.
Palman, Henry Pariser, David
Rosen, David Safran, I. William
Sherr, Richard Sloan, Nathan So-
berman, Harold Soble, Max Sosin,
Rabbi Samuel S. Stollman, Morris
Tulupman, and William J. Wein-
stein.
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