Americtin Coach S eeks to Bring Over 3
Israeli Fencers for World Tourney
Israel is new - at .
THE RETROIT - JEWISM NEWS
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Friday, Febroory 5, 1471-15
the -sport of
fencing, but just as she has ex- fencing team to the world cham. Va., will be glad to put them up in the 800- and 1,500-meter races.
celled at soccer, so also may her pionship held at Ankara, Turkey. at their home during the interim This, one month after giving birth
fencers become of International
quality.
M. R. Garret, fencing coach at
the University of Illinois, who last
year was Israeli national fencing
coach and director of the Acad-
emy for Fencing Teachers, wrote
to Detroit sports enthusiast Harry
Platt:
"Six years ago there were
about 30 fencers In all of Israel
and only three or four teachers
of the sport. Today, through the
efforts of Judge Amnon Carmi,
president of the Israel Fencing
Federation, there are approxi-
mately 60 teachers and over
2,500 fencers in Israel.
"The courage, dedication, and
desire on the part of the people
to cope with their present pro-
blems and still maintain normalcy
is something to make you proud,
I am sure.
"For example, last June, the Is-
raeli soccer team qualified for
participation In the World Cham-
pionships at Mexico City. They as-
tounded the world by tying Italy in
the final preliminary game.
"Last September, for the first
time In its history, Israel sent its
Though it did not perform at opti-
mum level, much were accomplish-
ed and learned from this tourna-
ment. Sixteen-yearold Ye h u d a
Weinstein, one of the three fenc-
ers whom I would like to see
come to the United States for the
Junior World Championships,
(April 8-11 at the University of
Notre Dame), qualified for the
second round in the world tourna-
ment in Ankara.
"Fencing is a prominent sport
for Jews all over the world.
Russia, currently dominating the
sport internationally, had five
Jews on their team In Ankara.
"Since the Israeli citizens are so
heavily taxed and since so much
of the money in Israel must ne-
cessarily be spent for defense,
education, and care of the immi-
grating population, the biggest
problem Judge Carmi has is loc-
ating funds to support the sport
of fencing. We must, therefore,
look to friends outside of Israel.
The total transportation cost for
the three fencers would be $2,151.
"I will try to have housing and
meals provided for them by Jew-
ish families living in South Bend.
Friends of mine In Alexandrie,
Two Israeli- Students Will Catalog
Rare Books at Dropsie University
PHILADELPHIA — Two Israeli
doctoral students were selected to
conduct a new bibliographical re-
search program for the library at
Dropsie University.
Arie Zvi Ben-Yoseph and Zvi
Tamari are • the students engaged
in cataloging the many unclassi-
fied books and manuscripts in the
vaults at the postgraduate univer-
sity.
Before coming to Dropsie, Ben-
Yoseph was director of cataloging
for the library at Bar-Ilan Univer-
sity. Tamari, a graduate of Tel
Aviv University, taught Hebrew
and Bible at the Colegio Israelita
in Mexico before matriculating at
Dropsie.
Their wide knowledge of He-
brew and the biblical languages
will help them authenticate the
authors of countless manuscripts
by identifying handwriting and
the dating of the scripts, and by
comparing . the various manu-
scripts attributed to an author.
They also will classify countless
numbers et books aecsrdiag to
language and subject, in many
eases necessary to establish date
and place of publication.
The library project will make
much material available to stu-
dents and scholars for the first
time. Many of the manuscripts are
oneofakind and have been stored
in underground vaults at the uni-
versity to..Insure their preserva-
tion. •
Also to be undertaken by the
students is the completion of cata-
loging the microfilm collection of
-rare Hebraica manuscripts and
documents from the USSR. This
collection was acquired by Dr.
Abraham I. Katsh, president of
Dropsie, during his five visits to
the Eastern European countries,
and the material is nbw being
made available for the first time
to Western scholars.
- Dropsie is the major repository
in the United States of ancient and
rare books and manuscripts. The
library contains over 100,000 vol-
, umes of books and periodicals and
is particularly rich in publications
on biblical and rabbinical learn-
ing, the Semitic languages. Jewish
Arabs in Union Election
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Five
East Jerusalem Arabs are candi-
dates for the National Congress
of the Metalworkers Trade Union,
al division of Histadrut.
In the general elections for the
Histadrut Convention which took
Place last year a number of East
Jerusalem Arabs had announced
their candidacy, but withdrew from
the elections after receiving sev-
eral threatening letters.
history, Assyriology and Egyptol-
ogy.
In addition to many collections
of rare Judeo-Arabic manuscripts
and books, the Dropsie library in-
cludes 450 fragments from the
Cairo Geniza in Hebrew and Ara-
bic; 256 Oriental manuscripts in
Arabic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, Samari-
tan, Coptic, Persian, Sanscrit and
Turkish; some fragments of Coptic
papyri; 32 incunabula; 290 16th
Century books and many other
rarities, including the oldest Pass-
over Ilagada extant.
between the Junior World Cham-
pionships and the Martini-Rossi
.competitions in New York the fol-
lowing weekend.
"Time is of essence because
these young people must be ex-
cused from sehOol or obtain a
leave from military duty. Going
through, the rigorous details of
obtaining shots, passports, etc.,
as well as filing entry applica-
tion for the tournament are
equally time consuming.
"Contributions earmarked for
this cause and sent to the United
States Sports Committee for Is-
rael, at the New Yorker Hotel.
New York, New York, c/o Haskell
Cohen, are deductible for income
tax purposes. Your consideration
would be greatly appreciated."
• • •
JERUSALEM—Israeli athletes
collected six gold, six silver and
five -bronze medals at the Asian
Games in Bangkok.
In 12 days of competition be-
tween more than 2,000 athletes
from 18 countries, Israel placed
sixth in the final medal tally.
Hanna Shezifi and Esther Shach-
morov were credited with being
the two stars of the team by the
leader of Israel's contingent,
Shmuel Lalkin.
Mrs. Shezin, 27, setrecord wins
to a baby. daughter. She received
the Asian Track and Field Fede-
ration's Award as the outstanding
woman athlete of the 1970 Games.
Miss Shachmorov, 19, surpassed
in the women's pentathlon and
100-meter hurdles.
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