Book Fair to Host Diverse Authors for Sisterhood, Hadassah Day Events

Gerald S. Strober, author,
social critic and former con-
sultant on religious curricula
to the American Jewish Com-
mittee, will speak 10 a.m.
Nov. 11 at the Jewish Center
in honor of Sisterhood Day
for the Jewish Center's an-
nual book fair.
Strober, who will speak on
"If I Am Not for Myself: the
Crisis of the American
Jews," recently published,
"American Jews: Commun-
ity in Crisis" which discusses

will speak on "Give and
Take."
Ms. Loeser has aided in
the relocation of displaced
persons after World War II,
and since then participated
in social, and community vol-
unteer activities. She is co-
director of the Civic Center
and Clearing House, Inc. of
Boston,

the threat of anti-Semitism
in the U.S.
Luncheon will follow at
noon. Reservations are re-
quired.
Author and businessman
Nathan Shapell will address
Sisterhood Day participants
1 p.m. Nov. 11 in the Aaron
DeRoy Auditorium.
A former Auschwitz inmate
and author of "Witness to the
Trues," Shapell will speak
on "30 Years Later," recall-
ing his experiences during

Newspaper Guild and a re-
cipient of the guild's Hey-
wood Broun Memorial
Award.
A noon luncheon, for which
there is a charge, will pre-
cede Kenen's lecture.

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GERALD S. STROBER

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temple sisterhoods of metro- Author of 'The Dybbuk.' "
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Chaim Grade, poet, writer,
and lecturer, will speak at
the book fair in Yiddish 8
p.m. Nov. 11, in Room 384
of the Jewish Center, spon-
sored by the Center Yiddish

The Women Lawyer's Asso-
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posed of more than 400
women lawyers who have
an immense interest in law
— not politics— interviewed
both Mrs. Holtz and her
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public without charge.
Hadassah Education Day
will feature author Herta
Loeser 10 a.m. Nov. 12 at the
In 1969 there were 35-
Center. The author of "Worn-
en, Work and Volunteering," 40,000 Jews in Turkey, nearly
all Sephardim, of whom 30,-
000 lived in Istanbul. Ashken-
azim, called "Poles" by the
Turks because of 17th and
18th Century, immigration
from Poland, accounted for
only a small percentage.
German-speaking Ashkena-
zim who arrived later from
Austria formed the elite of the
community, and the Great
Synagogue built by them be-
came known as the "Austrian
Temple." After the death of
the last officiating rabbi
(1944), the congregation went
into a decline and was in dan-
ger of complete disintegra-
tion.
According to the Encyclo-
paedia Judaica the older gen-
eration of Sephardic Jews
continue to speak Ladino, but
knowledge of Ladino is de-
creasing. There are about 200
Karaite families (1,000 per-
sons) living in a suburb of
Istanbul whose forefathers
settled in the city in Byzan-
tine times.
They established their own
synagogue and cemetery and
a r e completely separated
from the rest of the commun-
ity.
Turkey was made a secular
state in 1923, and all traces
of religious influence in The
government were removed.
Nevertheless, Jews remain-
ed second-class citizens in
Turkey, like Greeks and the
Armenians. During World
War II, to meet wartime
needs in neutral Turkey, a
capital tax was approved in
1942, and it soon became ap-
parent that the taxpayer's as=
sessment was based on re-
ligion and nationality.
In fact, the poorest among
the non-Muslims, especially
Jews, were- -taxed -at rates

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"American Policy in the
Arab-Israel Conflict" wilf be
discussed by Near East Re-
port editor, I. L. Kenen, for
Hadassah Education Day 1
p.m. Nov. 12 at the Center.
American Israel Public Af-
fairs Coinmittee, a national
organization which conducts
public action to strengthen
U.S.-Israel relations. He is a
founder of the American

Stephen D. Isaacs, journal-
ist, author and chief of the
Washington Post's New York
Bureau, will speak on "The
Role of Jews in the Political
Arena" 8 p.m. Nov. 12 under
the co-sponsorship of Ameri-
can Jewish Committee,
American Jewish Congress
and Anti-Defamation League
of Bnai Brith.
The lecture is open to the
public without charge. For
information on book fair ac-
tivities or reservations, call
the Center, 341-4200, .ext. 235.

Life of Turkish Jews Uneasy

wildly beyond their ability to
pay. Through the spring and
summer of 1943 continuing
arrests,. seizures, and deporta-
tions were
almost all non-
w
Muslims, the majority of
whom were Jews.
With the decline of German
power, a law was passed in
1944 releasing all defaulters
still detained and cancelling
all amounts still unpaid.
After the war, the situation
in Turkey improved. In 1968
the economic situation of Tur-
kish Jewry was good. There
were f e w underprivileged
since most of the needy had
settled in Israel soon after its
establishment.
Minor persecutions of Jews
in Istanbul occurred, - how-
ever, through tension between
Turkey and Cyprus. during
the anti-Greek riots in 1955
and 1964, and during the
Six-Day -War.
Anti-Semitism though . pro-
hibited by law, has not been
erased and is 'disguised as
anti-communism, the encyclo-
pedia states..

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