Residential Care
Project to Get Aid
at June 21 Party

A party has been arranged for 5 -9 p.m. June 21—Father's Day—at Tel-Twelve
Mall, to assist the projects of the Parents Association for Jewish Residential Care.
Free refreshments, Gus' Coney Islands, entertainment and sociability will be pro-
vided at no charge to contributors for the tasks in behalf of the retarded youth
sponsored by the PAJRC. All are welcome.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Urgent Need
for Stronger
Public Relations
in Defense
of Justice
for Israel

Michigan Weekly

Editorial
Page 4

Review of Jewish News

Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

27 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400 June 12, 1970

VOL. LVI I, No. 13

What Makes
Legislators Act
Justly ... and
How Does Youth
Develop as
Statesmen?

Commentary
Page 2

57.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c

`Let Nasser Talk to Us, We
Will Go to Cairo"—Golda
Pleads for Move to Peace

Encouraging Words by Rogers:
Israel to Get Some U. S. Planes

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Secretary of State William P. Rogers indicated
Sunday that Israel would get some of the Phantom and Skyhawk jets it has
asked for. Rogers, appearing on the CBS television program "Meet the Press,"
said a decision on the sale of more jet fighters to Israel would be announced
very soon—"before a few weeks." Asked if a decision has already been made
and was being withheld until the manner and timing of the announcement was
decided, Rogers replied, "I wouldn't want to say that exactly."
At the same time, Newsweek magazine reported that Rogers will announce
shortly that Israel is to get about 15 Phantoms and 50 Skyhawks, supposedly
replacements
for aircraft lost in combat over the Suez Canal zone. Newsweek
as
reported that "for weeks, the U.S. State Department tried to sell Israel on
making this replacement deal in private. Israel, however, appears to have won
in its insistence on a public commitment." Israel has asked the United States
to sell it 25 more Phantoms and about 100 Skyhawks.
Rogers, in his television remarks, indicated that the United States was follow-
ing a policy of reassuring Israel while trying not to alienate the Arab world in
the matter of the jet sales. "What we want to do is make it clear to Israel that
our policy has not changed," he said. "It's in our best interest to be sure that
Israel survives as a nation. That's been our policy and it will continue to be
our policy. So we have to take whatever action we think is necessary to give the
assurances that they need that their independence and sovereignty is going to
be continued," Rogers told the newsmen.
"At the same time," he said, "we want to do it in a balanced and measured
way so that we don't signal to the Arabs that we are so behind Israel that we'll
support them no matter what they do. The reason for that is that we want
to keep the door open for negotiations. We're going to do everything we can in
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—Premier Golda Meir, in a renewed appeal for
Egyptian participation in peace negotiations, has announced that Israeli govern-

ment representatives are prepared to go to Cairo to talk peace. In an interview
published Friday in the Jerusalem Arabic daily Al Anba on the third anniver-
sary of the Six-Day War, Mrs. Meir stated she was "convinced that peace will
come," observing "Both we and our neighbors need it."
Referring to President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mrs. Meir asked: "Does he
want the present situation or is he willing to make peace?" If he is willing, she
said, "Then let him sit down with us and talk." Referring to Israel's willingness
to go to Cairo, Mrs. Meir said: "We do not insist on prestige." Discussing the
consequence of the Middle East conflict in terms of loss of lives among the
Israelies and Arabs, Mrs. Meir declared:
"We are not ashamed to admit," she said, "that the war brings us heavy
suffering. We are not ashamed to admit that every death on this battlefield cuts
deep wounds into our hearts. The same applies to the Arab nations, even if
their leaders do not want to admit it." This was an apparent reference to the
Egyptian contention that it can afford to lose several wars on the road to victory,
while Israel cannot afford to lose a single one. "I refuse to believe," Mrs. Meir
continued, "that Jewish mothers love their sons more than Arab mothers. All
mothers in the world want their children to live and not to get killed in the war."
In another development, Mrs. Meir has rejected the suggestion at the
Labor Party bureau meeting to outlaw the pro-Soviet Rakah Party and the ultra-
leftist anti-Zionist Matzpen group. (Israeli Socialist Organization).
(Matzpen's representative Arie Bober, who had spoken at Wayne State
University and Arab groups here, was a guest on the Today tv program
Tuesday, presenting the views of the extremist group whose numbers are said
to be anywhere from 200 to 500 members in Israel. Bober said on the tv program
that his group is backed by Prof. Noam Chomsky, I. F. Stone and their associates
in this country).

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By LAWRENCE MARW I C K
Head, Hebraic Section, Library of Congress
The initial months of the new decade will mark the completion of half a millennium of Hebrew printing,
and to mark the occasion the Hebraic section of the Library of Congress has selected from its collections
some rare volumes produced during these early days of Hebrew printing. These are displayed in an exhibit
on view in the foyer of the fifth floor, Annex Building.
The first known Hebrew book bearing a date of completion appeared at Reggio di Calabria at the
extreme south of Italy in February 1475; other—undated—books, however, are thought by certain experts
to be older than the Reggio publication, and to date from the start of the 1470s or earlier. The exhibit
includes several first editions and shows characteristics of Hebrew incunabula and 16th Century books, among
them examples of decorative borders and ornamental initials, colophons, printers' devices, title pages,
owners' notes and censors' signatures.
The beginnings of Hebrew typography are uncertain. As early as 1444-4G, in the decade preceding the
appearance of the first dated printed matter, there may have been an attempt to print Hebrew as well as
Latin with movable types at Avignon in France. This has been inferred from archival records, which are,
however, susceptible of several interpretations, and no tangible evidence is available to prove the existence
there of a functioning press.
In Spain Hebrew printing was almost certainly under way by 1476, but it may possibly have commenced
some time before. It is to Italy, though, that most authorities assign priority. Although the Reggio di Calabria
book bears the date 1475, a press in the Italian peninsula was printing Hebrew books before 1480, perhaps
before 1470. These volumes have been ascribed to Rome by most specialists, and the oldest are thought to
antedate the Reggio publication. The beginning of the 1970s, therefore, seems a fitting time to mark the
completion of 500 years of Hebrew printing.
The number of Hebrew incunable editions extant in whole or part is variously estimated at from
100 to over 200; the latest census of Incunabula in American Libraries inventories 127 separate editions.
This is, of course, only a minute fraction of the approximately 40,000 books, pamphlets and broadsides
reputed to have issued from 15th Century presses, of which more more than 12,000 editions are recorded in the
United States. For the hundred years that follow, a figure of 4,000 Hebrew publications has been mentioned,
but it is not clear with what assurance. The earliest Hebrew printed books have not, by and large, survived
in perfect copies nor are they for the most part in mint condition. Although the vicissitudes of Jewish history
are probably responsible for some of the loss, it is also true that the books were acquired to be used rather
than admired, and some show signs of heavy wear.
The literature printed was largely religious in nature, with biblical books and their commentaries,
talmudic tractates and commentaries, codes of Jewish law and collections of lore, legal responsa, liturgical
works and prayer books, and ethical and philosophical treatises accounting for the greater part of the
production. Hebrew grammar and prosody, history, voyages, medicine and belles-lettres make up a far more
modest proportion. With but one or two exceptions, contemporary authors were not published at the outset.
In half a millennium of activity, Hebrew printing has been disseminated throughout the world. To the
early Hebrew printers almost certainly belongs the honor of having spread the invention to Portugal (Faro,
1487), to the continent of Africa (Fez, 1516), and to the Near East (Constantinople, 1493), (Cairo, 1557),
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