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Hebrew University Scholarships

Encouraged by Bernard Cherrick

Detroit's role in support of the
Hebrew University in • Jerusalem
was reviewed at a luncheon meet-
ing Tuesday, at the Standard Club,
by Bernard Cherrick, vice presi-
dent of the university, who was a
guest here for two days to confer
with academicians and local lead-
ers.

•

Reviewing the history of uni-
versity-building in Israel. Cherrick
pointed to the basic role of the
great educational institution as the
very foundation for state building
in Israel and as a major factor in
providing the growing community
with scientific and cultural media
to elevate standards and to serve
in the creation of the society that
has emerged into statehood.

education at the university; Abra-
ham Borman and Emma Schaver,
who are establishing dormitories
on the Hebrew U. campus, and
Charles E. Feinberg, whose efforts
are responsible for the extension
of library services at the univer-
sity. He also expressed gratitude
to Joseph Jackier, who hosted the
luncheon, for his efforts as current
chairman of the Detroit Commit-
tee for the Hebrew University.
Jackier and Max Hershen, Mid-
west director of American Friends
of the Hebrew University, spoke of
current needs for enlarged local
support for the university. They
outlined plans for activities here
during the coming year and joined
the guest speaker in urging the
financing of more scholarships in
the Hebrew University by Detroit-
ers.

Recalling the first steps toward
the founding of the university,
Cherrick recalled that Dr. Chaim
Weizmann's first request even
before the end of World War I Democratic Official
was that General Allenby, con-
queror of Jerusalem from the Resigns After Alleged
Turks, grant permission to es-
tablish the university on Mount Slur Against Jew
Scopus.
PITTSBURGH (JTA) — State
Rep. Andrew T. Fenrich resigned
He then explained how, even last
Friday as Allegheny County

under most difficult conditions, in
the trying years of 1946 and 1948,1
David Ben-Gurion recognized the
importance of establishing new
quarters for the university. He also
recalled that in 1948 David Ben-
Gurion, pressed for time, funds.
manpower in Israel's defense,
nevertheless recognized the sig-
nificance of establishing the foun-
dation for the medical school at
the university.
"It is because of the acceptance
of the principle of halutziut u'mada
—pioneering and scientific know I-
edge—that we were able to make
the progress now in evidence,"
Cherrick said. "That is why, in
spite of the needs for military
defense, the Israel government
grants the most important portion
of its budget to education."

Cherrick spoke of the current
development of the Mount Scopus
campus of the university and he
urged greater support for the
school of higher learning which
now has a student body of 15,000.
Commending the work of De-
troiters, Cherrick recalled the work
of Leonard N. Simons and his
leadership in establishing the De-
troit building on the Hebrew Uni-
versity campus. He also spoke with
gratitude of the work of Abe Shill-
man, who has financed a chair in

Democratic primary cc:nmittee sec-
retary after his office sent a let-
ter to party workers that apparent-
ly called Democratic gubernatorial
Candidate Milton J. Shapp "that
little Jew."

Although Fenrich did not sign
the letter, and claimed that a ty-
pographical error was to blame.
he took responsibility for the let-
ter emanating from his office and
quit his 15-year party post under
pressure from county leaders.

He will continue in his post of
state representative, which he
has held since 1949. He has been
accused in the past of racial
slurs, but none has been sub-
stantiated, and he has not been
linked to hate groups. His name
and those of two other primary
committee officials were typed in
at the bottom of the letter.

In the controversial phrase, a
three-letter word was blacked out
in the phrase "that little—Shapp"
in all copies of the letter. Shapp
who has run unsuccessfully for
governor in the past, is a promi-
nent Jewish millionaire. There was
no hard proof, however, that the
deleted word was "Jew."

Current Studies at Hebrew U.: Link
of German Dialects and Yiddish
and a Look at Tel Aviv's Growth'

JERUSALEM — The connection
between the old German dialects
and Yiddish is the subject of a
PhD thesis by Klaus Cuno, a 29-
year-old Catholic student from
Bonn, at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
Cuno became interested in this
subject when he was working at
the Institute. for Historical Studies
of the Rhineland, department of
language history.

He was fascinated by the con-
nection he saw between the an-
cient Rhineland dialects and
Yiddish-90 per cent of which, he
claims, was originally based on
German dialects. However, the
influence on Yiddish of such dia-
lects, some of which are still
spoken todaY in various areas
including the Cologne region,
later decreased to about 60 per
cent due to the influence of
Hebrew.

Wanting to develop this research
into a doctoral thesis, Cuno applied
to institutions throughout the world
and was accepted at the Institute
of Jewish Research (YIVO) in New
York on the condition that he
should carry out a preliminary
study project at the Hebrew Uni-
versity. Cuno came to Israel in
December 1969 to study Yiddish
literature and ancient and modern
Hebrew on a one-year scholarship.
Cuno is one of 23 German stu-
dents at the Hebrew University this
year. During the last 10 years, a
dozen German students have stud-
ied annually at the university. Most
of them are not Jewish but are
doing graduate work on Jewish
studies.

Current research at the Hebrew
University's department of geog-
raphy pays increasing attention
to urban studies. Recently, Prof.

David Amiran and Dr. Arye

Schachar have been examining
Tel Aviv—a "conurbation" com-
posed of a metropolitan area
uniting a number of local authori-
ties.

Today, some 35 per cent of Is-
rael's population lives within the
conurbation of Tel Aviv. From 1960
onward, there has been a slight
decline in the weight of this popu-
lation within the entire population
of the country; nevertheless the
extent of important services con-
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS centrated in this region, as com-
pared with those distributed
48—Friday, May 29, 1970
throughout the rest of Israel, con-
tinues to be of extreme importance.
Thus, a high percentage of those
concerned with trade, banking, in-
surance and manufacturing are
From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
citizens of metropolitan Tel Aviv,
40 Years Ago This Week-1930
and to these must be added many
The Jewish Agency condemned the Palestine inquiry commission's working in the wholesale trade,
conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to support Zionist com- personal services, entertainment,

Bayit area near Jaffa. Certain which, for the most part, found
stages accompanying the founding employment there.
of Ahuzat Bayit are characteristic
As Tel Aviv enters the 1970s, the
of the initial development displayed conurbation now extends over a
by all conurbations.
continuous, built-up urban area
The quarter, which constitutes spreading from the center of Tel
the nucleus of Tel Aviv, was sited Aviv to the municipalities of
near an existing large town—Jaffa. Ramat Gan, Givatayim, Bat Yam
Ahuzat Bayit's garden city char- and Holon. By the end of 1968, the
acter was preserved up to the be- population of metropolitan Tel
ginning cf the 1920s. But Tel Aviv's Aviv had reached close to 1,000,000,
rapid growth in population and tripling in size in the 20 years
political conflicts between the Arab from 1948.
population of Jaffa and the Jewish
Since 1948 there has been an
citizens of Tel Aviv created pres-
absolute decline in the Tel Aviv-
sures to develop means of liveli- Jaffa population. This is primar-
hood within the city itself. And so,
ily due to an internal migration
in the '20s, Tel Aviv ceased to be
within the metropolitan area
a garden suburb and became in- which is weighted against Tel
stead a city based on manufactur-
Aviv - Jaffa itself. Similarly, in
ing and on trade.
the period 1965-1968, the birth
By 1933, it had outstripped
rate level in Tel Aviv-Jaffa was
Jaffa in size, and the weight of
the lowest in Israel — six per
metropolitan authority was con-
1,000 citizens. Clearly the aver-
centrated there rather than in
age age there is rising.
the parent city. Ramat Gan, the
Prof. Amiran and Dr. Schachar
Borohov quarter, Bnai Brak, the point out that without large devel-
Nahlat Yitzhak quarter and Bat opment plans, the development of
Yam also developed during the new residential neighborhoods to
'20s.
the east of Nahal Ayalon and an
In the period 1930-1948 demo- extensive rebuilding program, there
graphic superiority too passed from is no reasonable chance of Tel
Jaffa to Tel Aviv, and the '30s, in Aviv's population growing in the
fact, constituted the city's fastest future.
period of growth.
The .,process of migration from
The suburbs underwent two
parallel processes of development: Tel Aviv will continue: the indus-
trial
and commercial use of land
beginning to unite and organize
into large municipal units on the not designated for residential ac-
commodation
will grow and extend
one hand, and, on the other, being
subject to an urbanization which over ever greater areas, forcing
the
city's
inhabitants
to move out
transformed them from suburbs
possessed of an agricultural char- of town. Increasingly, people will
want
to
get
away
from
the center
acter to townships with developing
of the city 'and all its attendant
industries, workshops and trade.
nuisances:
noise,
air
pollution,
This was the process by which
an industrial belt developed around lack of open spaces, lack of chil-
the metropolitan area from north dren's playgrounds, density of
Jaffa via south and east Tel Aviv building, etc. Particularly signifi-
and into northern Ramat Gan and cant is the number of young and
middle aged people among those
Bnai Brak.
And in its wake, there was already leaving the town.
created the phenomenon of a com-
One attempt to overcome
muter population traveling between the problems inherent in municipal
Tel Aviv and its urban surround. fragmentation has been the estab-
ings.
lishment of urban unions providing
Following the establishment of a legal and administrative frame-

the state, Tel Aviv went through work for cooperation between a

yet a further process of develop- number of local authorities to im-
ment and absorbed into the metro- plement such joint programs as
politan area a mass immigration sewage disposal and fire fighting.

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This Week in History

plaints against alleged lack of sympathy on the part of the Palestine
government. Britain indicated general support of the findings.
The Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union initiated an
effort to attract Jewish youth to industry and labor.
Pierre Van Paasen, American journalist dispatched to Bucharest
by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, found Romanian Jews "starving"
despite full granaries.
Rabbi Meer Berlin, president of World Mizrachi, Orthodox Zion-
ists, was feted on his 50th birthday.
Prof. Monroe E. Deutsch was elected vice president of the Univer-
sity of California, the second Jew in such a post in the United States.
Bavaria enacted an anti-shehita law, effective Oct. 1, despite
assurances by the German ambassador to the United States a week
earlier that such a measure would be illegal.
A Semitic union was formed in Egypt to rally Arabs and Jews for
the common welfare of the country.
10 Years Ago This Week-1960
Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and the Soviet govern-
ment both asserted Adolf Eichmann could properly be tried in Israel.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Zionist Organization,
pressed for a tribunal representing countries victimized by Eichmann,
headed by an Israeli judge.
Isaac Toubin • executive director of the American Association for
Jewish Education, said that the $60,000,000 spent for the religious edu-
cation of Jewish children in the current year was "unprecedented"
but "inadequate."
History book publishers denied charges by the Association of Teach-

,

ers of Social Studies that their texts tended to "sugarcoat" and "pussy-
foot" on Nazi crimes against minorities.
The justice department said it was permissible for marines to
belong the neo-Nazi groups because, unlike Communist organizations,
they were not a threat to United States security.
Prime Minister Ben-Gurion reported that Israel had rehabiliated

20,000 Arabs at a cost of $5,600,000.

advertising and computer sciences
—all vital to Israel's economy.
The first stage in the creation
of what has come to be the metro-
politan Tel Aviv area, was the es-
tablishment, in 1909, of the Ahuzat

WhoWere Horim?

The interest in archeology in Israel
greatly exceeds that of other countries.
And perhaps the reason for this is that
archeology brings to life the ancient
past of the land and the Bible.
Near Beersheba, for some years now,
archeological digs have been organized.
The objective of the digs is to discover
who were the ancient Inhabitants of the
Negev, how they lived, and from what
they made their living.
The archeologists discovered in this
region six villages in which men lived
some 5,000 years ago. These ancient in-
habitants of the Negev lived in under-
ground houses. They were not ordinary
caves, but actual houses which were
dug in the earth.
The researchers think that these are
the . Horim," a nation mentioned in
the Bible, about whom, until now, we
knew nothing. The "forint.' were en-
gaged in agriculture. In their houses
were found vessels of copper and wood
and statues of bone and ivory which
surpass the beauty of similar articles
which were found in Babylonia and
Egypt.
These interesting digs attract archeo-
logists from many countries, and also
amateur archeologists from the settle-
ments in the Negev, who want to know
who preceded them in the life and the
work in this region of the country.
Translation of Hebrew column pub-
lished by Brit Ivrit Olamit with the
assistance of the Foundation for the
Commemoration of Jewish Culture.

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