14—Friday, March 29, 1974
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Family Life Urged to Be Focus of Youth
1st Volume on History of JDC
by Yehuda Bauer Due in May
NEW YORK — The first
book of a three-volume his-
tory of the American Jewish
Joint Distribution Committee,
by Israeli historian Dr. Ye-
huda Bauer, will be pub-
lished in May by the Jewish
Publication Society.
Edward Ginsberg, JDC
chairman, said the book,
"My Brother's Keeper," will
cover the period from the
origin of the JDC in 1914 to
the outbreak of World War
II. The second volume will
. deal with JDC activities dur_
ing the war years, 1939 to
1945. The third will cover
1945 to the present.
Dr. Bauer, associate pro-
fessor at the Hebrew Uni-
versity, is acting director of
the Institute of Contemporary
Jewry. He spent two years
at JDC headquarters in New
York researching its archives
and interviewing survivors
of the Holocaust and JDC
personnel involved in events
prior to, during, and after
the war years.
Dr. Bauer wrote "Flight
YEHUDA BAUER
and Rescue" (Random
House), a history of the
"Bricha" movement which AZF Presses Arms
brought almost 300,000 Jew- Aid to Israel During
ish survivors into Israel. He
also wrote "From Diplomacy Current Syria Threat
to Resit :ante," the unfolding
NEW YORK (JTA)—A re-
history of Palestine, publish- quest that the United States
ed by the Jewish Publication make "all conventional wea-
Society.
pons in the American arsenal
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available to Israel so that it
Hebrew Seal-Stamps can maintain its defense ca-
We Can Help
Donated to Museum pabilities" was called for in
Able Tutors
a resolution adopted by the
all subjects, all tutors certified
JERUSALEM— Two price- national board of the Ameri-
less collections of ancient can Zionist Federation, which
557-6014
Hebrew seals, the donation met here this week.
of Dr. Norman P. Schenker
While expressing gratitude
Afraid of the High Cost
of Geneva, form a new sec- to the U. S. government for
Of TV Repairs??
tion of the Israel Museum. aid given to Israel during the
Dr. Schenker, publisher of a Yom Kippur War and since,
Call
medical journal, has devoted the resolution stated that with
his life to collecting Judaica "Syria threatening Israel's
that relates to the earliest northern flank and with open
origins of Jewish culture.
warfare a possibility, it is es-
For
experienced
relable
To his own collection of sential that these weapons be
service at reasonable prices.
First Temple Hebrew seals made available to Israel
No charge for in home esti-
donated to the museum, he now."
has added the collection of
mates.
Other resolutions presented
a Jerusalem dealer who for by Moshe Kagan that were
years offered first call to adopted by the 700,000 mem-
the Israel Museum — the ber Zionist coordinating
museum simply lacked the group of 13 national Zionist
means to take up the option. organizations called for a re-
The seal-stamp served as a affirmation of support for the
Or An
mark of ownership or as a Jackson/Mills-Vanik legisla-
guarantee of authenticity of tion, criticism of Syria for
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Of special importance are tional support for Israel.
seals bearing names of kings
or of officials. Besides the Hebrew U. Honors
names, in some cases, there
are ornamental motifs, some Philosopher on 90th
JERUSALEM — Prof.
of which are derived from
ancient Near Eastern myth- Hugo Shmuel Bergman, dean
of Israeli pholosophy, was
ology.
The seals were made of honored by friends and col-
semi-precious or other hard leagues in the department of
stones, though sometimes philosophy of Hebrew Uni-
also of bone, ivory, faience, versity on the occasion of
glass, silver or gold. Most of his 90th birthday.
Czechoslovakian-born and
the Hebrew seals are oval in
form, some threaded, others educated in Prague and Ber-
set in rings. The inscriptions lin, Prof. Bergman served as
are engraved in reverse, in secretary of the cultural de-
mirror script from left to partment of the Zionist Exe-
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cutive in London prior to his
right.
immigration to this country
in 1920. He was the first rec-
tor of the Hebrew University
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and the first director of the
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Jewish National and univer-
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sity libraries.
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NEW YORK — A New ATID director.
Georgetown University, was
Jersey rabbi who claims that
Lenny Austin of Farming- elected international presi-
Judaism is 90 per cent home dale, N.Y., a senior at dent.
centered and 10 per cent
synagogue centered, charged
the American Jewish commu-
nity with "training our young
people to prepare for organ-
izational life in synagogues
rather than emphasizing the
importance of home based
Jewish family life."
Rabbi Simon Glustrom,
spiritual leader of the Fair
Lawn Jewish Center in New
Jersey, made the charge at
a meeting of the national
youth comission of the United
Synagogue of America.
The commission is chaired
by rabbi Irwin Groner of
Cong. Shaarey Zedek, South-
field, Mich., and Seymour
Goldberg of Linden, N. J.
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tic City in 1960, is director
of the department of youth
activities of the United. Syna-
gogue of America. Rabbi.
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