$40,000 Jewish Welfare Federation Grant

Friday, May 19, 1972-15

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75,000 March in Rain in NYC to Salute Israel

NEW YORK (JTA)---Some 75,- r ed a counter march along the line
000 youths from the metropolitan of the parade.
New York area marched along
Police reported there was a brief
Fifth Ave. for four-and-a-half hours confrontation between the Arab
in the pouring rain Sunday in the marchers and some JDLers, but
variety of demonstration proj-
eighth annual Salute to Israel there was no violence and no ar-
ects with seed money and par-
Parade. There were 63 floats and rests were made. The parade was
ticipates with other funding
some 40 bands from 10 states. sponsored by the American Zionist
sources in launching experimen-
Israel Ambassador to the United Youth Federation.
tal programs which it would like
Nations Yosef Tekoah and Itzhak - --
to see established on a continu-
Rabin, Israel's ambassador to the
ing basis.
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United States, addressed the crowd. *
purcrtone option
The new courses in Jewish his-
The largest marching groups
tory' will round-out present in-.
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were from Bnai Akiva and the *
Factory. trained experts
struction in such subjects as He-
Jewish Defense League. The lat-
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brew, Tannaitic literature, politics
ter group was accompanied by a *
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and government in Israel, Jewish
contingent of police.
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social and political thought, and
Some 20 Arab students conduct- ;s. * 4: * 7800
will serve as the focal point for
Judaic studies. Some 15 courses
presently offered at the Univer-
sity are included. It is expected
that the presence of a profession-
al Jewish historian on the campus
will have an impact on the Bet
Midrash now sponsored by the
United Hebrew States Schools and
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the tidied Foundation. as well as
on the Hillel Foundation program
itself.
The Jewish Community Founda-
tion secures its financing from the
income of the Federation Endow-
10 MILE 8 GREENFIELD
ment Fund.

Provides for a U-M History Professorship

A program which will make it
possible for a student to select I
Judaic Studies as his major field
of interest is being formulated by
the University of Michigan with
the assistance of the Jewish Com-
munity Foundation of the United
Jewish Charities.
The foundation has made a grant
of $40,000 over a three-year period.
to enable the university to employ
an assistant professor of Jewish
history, rounding out the program
of Judaic studies sufficiently to
provide for a major in this field.
This development is announced
jointly by the university, Alan E.
Schwartz, president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, and Irwin
Green, president of the United
Jewish Charities.
The Jewish Community Founda-
tion. under the chairmanship of
Louis Tabashnik, has had the proj-
ect under con-
sideration for a
period of almost
a year. Its de-
tails and final
culmination were
developed by a
committee of the
foundation c o n-
sisting of Man-
dell L. Berman, Tabashnik
George M. Zeltzer and William
Avrunin, together with Dr. Wil-
liam Haber, adviser to university
executive officers; Dr. Sidney Fine,
former chairman of the history

department; Dr. Allan F. Smith,
vice president for academic af-
fairs; and Dr. Frank H. T. Rhodes,
dean of the College of Literature,
Science and the Arts, of the Uni-
versity of Michigan.
The university is at present
engaged in recruiting an assist-
ant - professor of Jewish history
for the department of history
so that the program can be in-
itiated in the academic year of
1972-73. The foundation grant
will cover the initial three-year
period.
The university sources report
that there is considerable interest
both in Jewish history and in the
Judaic study sequence by both
Jewish and non-Jewish students on
the campus. The program was first
proposed to Federation by Dr. Zvi
Gitelrnan, then the chairman of
the Campus Jewish Community
Organization, and by Dr. Herbert
Paper, U. of M. professor of lin-
guistics and Near Eastern lan-
guages. The proposal has the en-
dorsement of the board of the
Campus Jewish Community Or-
ganization.
The foundation is an arm of the
UJC and has a long history of pro-
moting Jewish scholarship at the
2raduste level through the Nation-
al Foundation for Jewish Culture
which participated, as well, in the
approval of the Jewish history
project.
The foundation encourages a '

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ProblemS of Teaching Holocaust
to Students Studied at 'VIVO Confab

NEW YORK — World War II the Holocaust that it was Jews
movies have conditioned young who were murdered."
At a subsequent session, Dr.
American Jews to accept only a
Paul Ritterband of Columbia
happy ending. "not an Auschwitz."
University, said that the number
Teachers of the generation now
of Judaic studies at universities
being raised on television find it
has been steadily rising since
hard to explain "how fat old Sgt.
1923 and that there is no need to
Schultz was responsible for the
pressure university administra-
death of 6,000,000 Jews and count-
tions to speed up the process.
less other innocents."
Jewish students are increasingly
He warned against linking Jew-
"obsessed" with the question of ish studies to the now-fashionable ,
why Jews allegedly "didn't fight "ethnic studies" departments.1
hack." American Jews. "whose There was a danger, he said, that
leadership abandoned these Jews, Jewish studies might become as
now demand that they furnish us superficial as sonic Black studies 1
with self-pride - by having fought. courses, in which students have
These were some of the thoughts already lost interest.
expressed in a session at the YIVO
Dr. Jacob Neusner of Brown
Institute for Jewish Research de-. University expressed the view- that
voted to a discussion by students the university was the best en-
and professors on teaching about vironment for Judaic research. In
the Holocaust.
marked contrast, he said, Jewish
Three panelists. Arthur Samuel- institutions, many of them rab-
son, project director of "Encounter binical schools, tend to be "inhred.
with the Holocaust." a course at parochial and sectarian," recruit
Hampshire College; David Huskies. ing their faculty from among "be-
PhD candidate at Brandeis Uni- lievers - in their particular reit
versity and author of "Nightwords: dons philosophy or ideology.
A :st ash en the liolocau , t ant
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Rabb, In-n_ Greenberg, a s-istant
Mrs.
Ryan Admits
.hr.
prof c.,or of hi -t.iry d Ye
,pske on the pse:)ilens
Hitting
Prisoners
The session was part of the
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Mrs. lier_
16th annual conference of the
in - no Itriitinstetner It:, an, the con-
VIVO Institute for Jewish Re•
victed concentration camp guard
search devoted to the theme of
v. bent the United States is trying
. Century of Higher Jewish
to
deport, testified that she had
Learning." The choice of this
not indicated hem 1949 Austrian
theme reflects VIVO's growing
conviction on her American citi-
involsemeit in making Jewish
zenship application because the
studies progra ins a reality on
Austrian judge had advised her
university campuses. according
she did not have to
to Shmuel Lapin, executive di-
She admitted that she "some-
rector of VIVO.
times"
slapped prisoners with her
Many students at the youth ses-
open
hand "when it was hard to get
.
sion severely criticized the way
the Holosaust is ignored in public the people together . . to line
schools and badly taught in Jewish them up." When the government
attorney asked "Did they hit you
schools.
"Public schools never teach the back"" she said "No." When he
implications of the Holocaust for asked "What if they refused to
humanity: it is seen as a purely stand up?* she replied "They
Jewish tragedy," said Samuelson. didn't."
Mrs. Ryan said she was unaware
"And Jewish schools never teach
its implication for Jews in Amer- of a mass killing of 18.000 Jews
one day at Majdanek during the
ica...
Rabbi Greenberg said that one half-year •.tune-Dec. 1943) she was
of the greatest humiliations for a guard there. She was out sick
Jews has been "the denial after ' most of the time, she explained.

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