Dr. Edgar, Authors
Volume on Bard
and Psychology
Dr . Irving I. Edgar, Detroit
area psychiatrist, has just had his
book published on "Shakespeare,
Medicine and Psychiatry." (Phil-
osphical Library, 15 E. 40th; N.Y.
10016).
This book hi. a chronological-
historical survey and evaluation
of critical opinion of the medical
and psychopath-
ological lama-
edge in the
works of Shakes-
peare. The book
gives an histori-
cal picture of
the age in which
Shakespeare
lived.
It also deals
with the psycho-
:analytic ap-
proach to Shake-
speare's w r i t-
, particular-
Dr. Edgar ly in relation to
"Hamlet" and "lcmg Lear." The
author feels that the psychoana-
lytic approach to Shakespeare's'
works has been conducive to a
large body of valid Shakespear-
ean criticism.
The bibliography in the book is
considered the most extensive of
its kind in this field of Shakes-
peare commentary.
Dr. Edgar received Ids MD
in 1227, and later, his MA in
English literature in 1I33 — all
at Wayne State University. He
also attended the gr a d•a t e
school at the'Univensity of Mich-
igan and the Nestrapsycidahic
Insulate dune.
He is a diplomate of the Ameri-
can Board of Neurology and Psy-
chiatry, a fellow of the American
College of Physicians and a fel-
low of the 'American Psychiatric
Association_
Dr. Edgar was special lecturer
in medical history at Wayne State
University Medical School from
-1935 to 1954.
He is on the psychiatric staffs
of Sinai,' Grace, Crittenton, Jen-
nings Memorial and other hospi-
tals. He was - assistant medical
director of St. Clair Hospital from
1958 to 1970.
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Daniel Cooper Assails.
Soviet Anti-Semitism at
Capitol Demonstration
• State Sen. Daniel S. Cooper,
joined by Attorney General Frank
-Kelley, addressed a group on the
steps of the State Capitol protest-
ing the injustices perpetrated
against Soviet Jewry.
Cooper stated that "many ene-
mies of Jewry would clothe them-
selves in pseudo-intellectual col-
loquy and protest that the quarrel
is not with Jews but -with Zion-
-•ists." He added that this is just a
new form of anti-Semitism, but
the pattern. is the same and has
been the same for hundreds of
years.
He related the plight of the Jews
since diarist times, and stated
that "the .country that my father
fled -is. Conducting mock trials be-
cause Jews want to emigrate tO
Israel."
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SUCCESS STORY: American Jews who cherish the notion that Jewish
fund raising in the United States is pre-eminent in the Jewish world,
will be surprised to learn that the Jewish community of Antwerp,
Belgium, is the "number one" among individual Jewish communities
in the world. The Jewish community in Switzerland also surpasses
the United States in per capita giving. In France, where the Jewish
community has increased from 175,000 after the war.to 550,000—and
where there are . probably more takers than givers—Jewish fund rais-
ing results begin to compare with the American result.
This evaluation comes from Henry L. Zucker, a most outstanding
figure in the 'field of American Jewish communal work, who is the
executive vice • president of the Jewish Community Federation of
Cleveland. He is also chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee's
advisory body on overseas community organization and fund raising.
Zucker, who participated in the delegation sent by the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds to Europe to cement relation-
ships between the European and American Jewish communities, is of
the opinion that the JDC has done a tremendous job in promoting
in Europe modern methods to organize and unify Jewish communities
and to raise funds.. He emphasized -it in a report presented at a
meeting of the JDC Administrative Committee. -
Zucker is .especially impressed with the achievements of the
Fonds Social Juif in Paris, the first American-type Jewish Federation
in - all Europe. 'With Paris today the largest Jewish community in
Western Europe, to which so' much of_ Europe looks for leadership,
the fund-raising. and planning activities of the FSJU have now reached
a point where they can be compared favorably with the activities of
some of the larger Jewish federations in the' United States," Zucker
reported.
Outstanding in the last years was the organization 'in 1967 of the
Appeal Unifie, a French United Jewish Appeal, which includes the
domestic responsibilities of the FSJU and the Israel responsibilities
of the Keren Hayesod. This organization has had the invaluable hell•
of an American professional, Ernest Michel, who was recruited for
this position with the help of the JDC. Michel has established a solid
base for substantial fund-raising among Jews of France for the first
time. He returned recently to the United States to become the execu-
tiv head of the New York United Jewish Appeal.
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UNIQUE COMMUNITY: Henry Zucker believes that American Jewry
has a good deal to learn from the Jewry of Western Europe in sev-
eral aspects of common problems. He found that the Europeans no
longer look on the American Jewish community as a benefactor com-
munity, nor upon the European community -as the recipient of Amer-
ican financial aid.
However, the Jewish communities in Europe—including France—
are still in need of JDC financial assistance toward the refugee prob-
lem in their countries; they also still require and desire - the Amer-
ican technical assistance which the JDC gives them. On the other
hand, Western European financial assistance to Israel and to Jews
elsewhere is far greater than the amount of refugee aid they receive.
In addition to the very substantial help to Israel, the communities of
Western Europe have begun to give financial assistance to other
Jewish communities in Europe and around the world, including the
needy Jews in Cuba.
Zucker is not enthusiastic about the Jewish community in Eng-
land where there is no . central body for joint planning and financing
of the domestic heeds. The weakness in Jewish community organiza-
tion in England has made it very difficult for English Jewry to even
sustain .the high level of support for Israel developed in 1967, the
year of the Six-Day War. The current level, though still substantial,
is only about 30 per cent of the 1967 result.
But "Hank"—as Henry Zucker is affectionately called by friends
and Jewish community leaders in the United States—is, highly en-
thusiastic about the Jewish leadership in Antwerp. The Antwerp ctim--
munity is to him "unique" in all of Western 'Europe in a variety of
ways. He tells the story of how about a dozen outstanding campaigners
are walking around the diamond bourse in the city, their pockets
bulging with pledge cards, with the result that Antwerp raises more
money on a per capita basis for Jewish causes - than in any other
city in the world.
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THE JDC ROLE: The - encouraging developnients reported by Zucker
are a tribute to 'the dedicated efforts of the JDC to restore the shat-
tered Jewish communities in Europe after World War II. It was the
JDC that organized in 1960, the leaders of various countries in Europe
into a. European Council of Jewisli Communities. - The council is still
not a strong organization, but its existence gives its member-groups
the assurance that they. are - completely independent Jewish communi-
ties working as self-respecting partneri with the other Jewish com-
munities of the world.. • . .
The JDC program in community organization and fund-raising
focuses tin the community as a whole, It is not like other JDC serv-'
ices which are directed' at specific functional activities, such as
health, education or social service. It relates primarily to the central .
Organization in each community, abroad. -It helps the communities to -
organize themselves more effectively, to unify the community; to raise
the maximum of -Money, and to plan for the development. of the com-
munity.
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Beduin Fighter for. Israel-Cited for Bravery
JERUSALEM—A Beduin soldier, of the Suez Canal front. The patrol
who died fighting alongside the was ambushed and Sgt. Shibli
jumped from his vehicle and began
Israelis, was awarded a citation throwing hand grenades at the'
for bravery on Dec.-4. A brother enemy force... . He continued do-
of the late Sgt. liussein Shibli, bf ing this a few times until he was
Icier Shibili near Mount Tabor, cut down by enemy- fire."
was presented with the' award by One of 'the sergeant's brothers
General Ariel Sharon.
is now serving with the Israel De,
The citation; in part; reads: "On fense Forces. From this village of
April 27, Sgt. Shibli participated 1,300 Beduins, 23 have served and
in a patrol at the northern -sector three died in the Six-Day War.
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