Workmen's Circle
to Mark 70th Year
Jewish College Courses 'Irrelevant'
to Needs of Young Jews—Judah Shapiro
NEW YORK — The labor move-
ment will participate in the 70th
jubilee commemoration of the
Workmen's Circle at Hunter Col-
lege Sunday.
The Workmen's Circle was
founded 70 years ago by a handful
of Jewish Immigrants on the Lower
East Side; sweatshops, slums and
tuberculosis were its targets.
When, on Sunday afternoon,
more than 2,000 persons listen to
the Workmen's Circle Chorus sing
its organizational hymn, its fight
on sweatshops will have been won.
It is now part of the United Hous-
ing Foundation's fight against
slums, and it has long ago sold
its TB, sanitorium in Liberty, New
York.
With some 65,000 families in a
network of branches across the
United States and Canada, the
Workmen's Circle remains a par-
ticipant in labor's continued fight
for economic and social justice.
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Judah
J. Shapiro, historian and sociolo-
gist, said Jewish courses on most
American college campuses are
"Irrelevant" to the needs of young
Jews searching for Jewish identity
and commitment.
If such courses are to become
meaningful to Jewish students,
they must be moved away from
their present orientation of teach-
ing about Jews in terms of ancient
history or theology, and towards
teaching the history of 19th and
20th Century East European Jewry
where the roots of modern Jew-
ish life lie, he said.
Dr. Shapiro spoke at a luncheon
held by the YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research, marking its 30th
anniversary in the United States
and honoring Dr. Nathan Reich,
active in YIVO for three decades,
on the occasion of pis 70th birth-
day. Dr. Reich, professor of eco-
nomics at Hunter College, is chair-
man of YIVO's board of directors
and its .commission on research
and training.
Dr. Shapiro said that Jewish
youth would be able to relate to
the heritage and history of East
European Jewry in the last cen-
tury and a half because this
period is closest both in time and
historical circumstances to that
of today.
For this reason, Dr. Shapiro said,
the YIVO Center for Advanced
Jewish Studies, of which he is sec-
retary, was established in 1968 to
develop "cadres" of Jewish pro-
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Sunday
Special
By MOSHE H. ZIRIN
One time or another, almost
every person finds himself engaged
in the mental game "What would
have happened if I had taken the
other alternative?" For the little
guy, the game involves specula-
tion about possible turns in his
life and maybe those close to him;
public figures' games involve
groups of people, nations or even
mankind. It is a rare occasion that
worldwide consequences would
show up in the average person's
"game." This however, is what
happened in the game of the old-
timers of Na'an, the Israeli kibutz.
The background of the game was
as follows:
In 1934, a certain Bernard Katz,
an active Zionist in Germany, de-
cided it was time to get out of
Nazi Germany. He contacted his
friend in Na'an, and applied for a
membership in that kibutz. As an
owner of a car, he offered to bring
his car along and become the kib-
utz's driver. The kibutz's condition
for membership was that the appli-
cant could be assigned to any job.
Bernard Katz was discouraged and
moved to England.
You may have read of this Ber-
nard recently. He is Sir Bernard,
the famous professor, head of the
department of biophysics at Lon-
don's University College and a re-
cent recipient of the Nobel Prize
in medicine and physiology.
Back to the "game," which is
not an easy one: If his terms were
accepted, would Dr. Katz have re-
mained as a driver in the kibutz?
Maybe. On the other hand, consider
this: His friend in the kibutz,
whom he had contacted on the mat-
ter of membership, is Dr. Weiser,
now a department head in the larg-
est hospital in Tel Aviv.
Piety, stretched beyond a cer-
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