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36—Friday, October 26, 1973
Dr. Tursinai,
Philologist 86
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How Caravan of U.S. and Israeli
Leaders Covered 20 Communities
for UJA, Led by Paul Zuckerman
NEW YORK—Dr. Naphtali
Herz Tursinai, a leading
authority on Semitic lan-
By IRVING FRIEDMAN
guages who had been presi-
NEW YORK—Paul Zucker-
dent of the Hebrew Language man approached the micro-
phone to speak to Jewish
leaders in Los Angeles. The
day before it was Miami and
the day before that it was
New York.
All of the 150 men and wo-
men who had crowded into
the meeting room were the
top leaders—and contributors
—of the United Jewish Ap-
peal campaign in Los Ange-
les.
"Brothers and sisters,"
Zuckerman began. "I use
these words because only
they can describe the warmth
I have met here and the
warmth all our Jews have
given everywhere we have
been."
The UJA general chairman
was a leading member of a
team of Israeli and Ameri-
DR. NAPHTALI TURSINAI can leaders who traveled to
the major cities of the U. S.,
Photo Taken in 1950s
meeting with prominent
Academy and the first Bialik members of the Jewish com-
Professor of Hebrew Philol- munity singly and in groups.
ogy at Hebrew University,
died Oct. 17 at age 86.
Dr. Tursinai, upon viewing
some broken pottery un-
earthed in 1935 by the Well-
come archeological expedi-
tion, ascribed the Hebrew
inscriptions thereon to the
`.ime of Jeremiah. some 3,000
years ago. The discovery of
the pottery, found at Tel
ad-Duweir, the site of an-
cient Lahish, a fortress in
the southern area of the
Kingdom of Judah, added ir-
refutable testimony to the
accuracy of the Bible in its
account of the period of the
Kings.
Born in Lwow, Poland, Dr,
Tursinai studied at the uni-
versities of Vienna and
Berlin, and he served as
professor of Semitic lan-
guages at both universities.
He was expelled from Hit-
ler's Germany and was one
of the first group of Jewish
professors to join the faculty
of Hebrew University in 1933.
He also served as dean of
the faculty of humanities and
chairman of the Institute of
Jewish Studies.
Martin Goldberg,
Shoe Firm Manager
Martin Goldberg, manager
for 18 years of the A. F.
Beck Shoe Corp. at North-
land, died Tuesday at age 63.
Mr. Goldberg, 24350 West-
hampton, Oak Park, was a
member of Cong. Bnai Moshe
and the Radomer Mutual
Society. Born in Radom,
Poland, he survived the Holo-
caust and came to this
country in 1950. He worked
for Beck's for 23 years.
He leaves his wife, Ha-
dasa; a son, Abraham; a
daughter, Suzann e; two
brothers, Norbert and Oscar;
and a sister, Mrs. Sigmund
(Kala) Katz of Kiryat Matz-
kin, Israel.
Justice Morris Eder
NEW YORK—Morris Eder,
retired justice of the New
York Supreme Court, 1st
District, and father of col-
umnist Shirley Eder, died
Oct. 20 at age 86. He wrote
many opinions on real estate
law that Were highly re-
garded ill the legal. profes-
sion.
•
Setting a pace that would
exhaust anyone, Zuckerman
spoke at nearly 20 major
meetings in four days, and
met individually with dozens
of others in each city.
Israeli members of the
team were Pinhas Sapir, Is-
rael's finance minister; Leon
A. Dulzin, acting chairman
of the Jewish Agency and
Major General Haim Laskov.
In addition to Zuckerman,
the Americans included Ed-
ward Ginsberg, chairman of
the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee and UJA president;
Irving Bernstein, UJA execu-
tive vice-chairman; and UJA
National Chairman Albert
Adelman, Alexander Grass,
Louis Goldman and Leonard
Strelitz.
In his addresses, Sapir us-
ually told how "I first went
rabbi announced that he had
no investments or savings,
but would pledge one-third
his salary.
After a meeting in Miami
wfiere 100 people pledged ap-
proximately $8,000,000, Zuc-
kerman said in an emotion-
choked voice, "I begin to un-
derstand why we are called
a Chosen People, because I
have been privileged to be
with you and to see what you
are ready to do."
On the plane back home,
Zuckerman spent a half hour
before taking a brief nap re-
viewing plans with Sapir.
The U. S. Secret Service men
and the Israel security men
who accompanied the group
were sprawled out on the
seats, trying to sleep a bit
before the next day's hectic
schedule began.
In three and a half days,
the caravan crossed the
PAUL ZUCKERMAN
With PINHAS SAPIR
at Los Angeles Meeting
A
Keter Publishing House,
Jerusalem, which last year
published the monumental 16-
volume Encyclopedia Ju-
daica, announces the publica-
tion of a year book for dis-
tribution in the U.S. Dec. 1.
Edited by Louis I. Rabino-
witz, and with a foreward by
the publisher, Yitzhak Ris-
chin, the supplementary vol-
ume covers the events of
1972. It updates existing
material in Encyclopedia
Judaica, with feature articles
by distinguished Israeli and
American contributors.
Sidra Ezrahi contributes a
study of "Holocaust Litera-
ture." Prof. Menahem Stern
writes of the "Zealots" and
the revelations recently un-
covered about their battle
with the Roman empire and
the fall of Masada. There is
a study of "David Ben Gur-
ion's Political Philosophy"
by Avraham Avihai. Photo
journalist Nachum Tim Gidal
contributes in text and 50
pages of photographs a spe-
cial feature, "Israel — 25
Years in Pictures."
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United States, met in four
cities, spoke to representa-
tives of 230 communities at
almost 20 major meetings.
They strengthened the re-
solve of American Jewry
with their strength, shared
their warmth with all they
met and moved their fellow
Jews with their understand-
ing and resolve.
Two Protest 1973 Nobel Award
OSLO — Two members of
the Norwegian Nobel Peace
Prize Committee have re-
signed because they said
they felt that awarding the
prize to U. S. Secretary of
State Henry Kissinger and
North Vietnamese Politburo
member Le Duc Tho was a
serious mistake.
Protesting against the
award was Helge Rognliden,
chairman of the Liberal
Party, and Helge Hovdhagen,
a former Center Party rep-
resentative.
The protest marked the
first time any member of
the Nobel committee so open-
ly disagreed with the selec-
tion. The five-member com-
mittee is elected by the
Storting (parliament) for six-
year terms.
Meanwhile, a t Harvard
to the people of Israel asking University in Boston, among
them to meet their share of 12 professors who allowed
the financial costs of the war. themselves to be interviewed
Only when they had under-
taken to do this did I feel
free to come to the American
Jews and other world Jewish
communities and to ask them
to help more than ever before
WASHINGTON — Wilbur
with our humanitarian
Mills (D., Ark.), chairman of
needs."
Again and again, young the House Ways and Means
men with their wives sitting Committee proposed Satur-
along side them, stood to say, day "a high-level conference
"I can't match the big between the principal oil-
amounts just discussed, but using powers and the power
somehow I will borrow the behind the Arab aggression
money from a bank. I pledge . . as long as the Russian
airlift is tolerated."
$10,000 . . . $20,000 . . .
take a mortgage on my house
In the proposal Rep. Mills
and give whatever it comes said, "I suggest that the
to . . ."
President call Premier Ta-
In New York, a prominent naka, Chancellor Brand t,
President Pompidou and
Prime Minister Heath to join
Mildred Direnfeld, him
in inviting Chairman
Brezhnev to one (confer-
Bnai Brith Leader
Mildred L. Direnfeld, a ence). Washington is the
founder and past president place for it.
"It would be appropriate
of Harry B. Keidan Chapter
of Bnai Brith, died Oct. 20 to include President Tito of
Yugoslavia, Prime Minister
at age 64.
Born in Cleveland, Mrs. Gandhi of India and Presi-
Direnfeld, 25071 Rue Ver- dent Houphouet-Boigny of the
sailles E., Oak Park, was a Ivory Coast. in order that
fund raiser for District 6 of less favorably situated na-
Bnai Brith. She was a mem- tions may be represented
ber of Cong. Bnai Moshe too."
He said the issue of ex-
Sisterhood, Hadassah and
Women's American ORT; tending most-favored-nation
and co-chairman of the Bnai treatment to Russia was
Brith Youth Services Appeal. "out of order pending sus-
She leaves her husband, pension of her arms airlift,
Morris; a son, James; a and that the issue could be
sister; Mrs. Isadore (Moline) continued once the confer-
Sorkin of Jacksonville, Fla.; ence "had done its urgent
peace-guaranteeing job."
and three grandchildren.
Mills Proposes
Oil Conference
on the Nobel committee's de-
cision, six felt that Dr. Kis-
singer should not have won
the award at all.
"Mr. Kissinger is a very
appropriate choice for the
Nobel Prize in terms of his
general effort to find a great-
er balance in world politics,"
said Prof. Edwin 0. Reischa-
uer, former ambassador to
Japan. "But to put him to-
gether with Le Due Tho
shows either that the people
of Norway have a very poor
understanding of what hap-
pened out there or a good
sense of humor."
Supporters included econo-
mist John Kenneth Galbraith
who said, "I think the Nobel
committee showed a good
amount of imagination in
coupling his award with Le
Duc Tho."
(Le Due Tho later refused
to accept the prize, on the
ground that peace had not yet
been attained in Vietnam.)
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