THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
32 Friday, May 2, 1975
Camera Club Plans
Exhibit at Center
YIVO Marks 50th Anniversary
By BORIS SMOLAR
The Jewish Community
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
Center Camera Club will
Fifty years is a very im-
present its annual exhibi-
tion of award-winning pho- portant milestone in the ex-
tographs May 18 in the istence of a Jewish institu-
lobby of the main Jewish tion. Especially when the
institution was uprooted in
Center.
the country of its founding
More belongs to dancing and transplanted into a new
than a pair of dancing atmosphere in a new coun-
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YIVO, the Institute for
Jewish Research, is such an
institution. It now cele-
brates the 50th anniversary
of its founding in Vilna, Po-
land and the 35th anniver-
sary of its "immigration" to
the United States.
It was very fortunate for
YIVO that it succeeded in
rescuing its valuable library
and collections of rare man-
uscripts from Nazi hands.
But it was also fortunate for
the world of Jewish learning
that the much treasured
YIVO library and archives
reached the United States
through a combination of
dedicated effort and bizarre
circumstances.
Reconstituted in the
U.S., YIVO expanded its
archives to include mate-
rial on Jewish immigrant
life in this country and the
development of the Jewish
labor movement. Its li-
brary 'now contains over
300,000 volumes and in its
archieves there are mil-
lions of items.
Today it is impossible for
any author to write a book
.on Jewish history of East-
ern European countries, on
the Holocaust and ,oni, Jew-
ish life in this country dur-
ing the mass-immigration
years without spending a
good deal of time on re-
search in the YIVO archives,
near the Metropolitan Mu:
seum in New York.
The high reputation
which YIVO succeeded in
acquiring in a short time
among Jews and non-Jews
in the scholarly world in
this country — gaining also
recognition of the U.S. gov-
ernment as a prestigious
institution of Jewish re-
search — is due to a-great.
extent to zealous devotion of
the late Prof. Max Wein-
reich, one of its founders in
Vilna who became a mem-
ber of the faculty of Colum-
bia University soon after his
arrival in this country.
He succeeded in centering
around YIVO-many noted
scholars and literary per-
sonalities.
In no time, Columbia
University entered into an
arrangement with YIVO
for teaching Yiddish lan-
guage and literature. This
arrangement preceded the
establishment by YIVO in
1970 of a Center for Ad-
John Laffrey
Mother's Day
Sunday, May 11th
1 P M.to9PM
MSU Hillel Will
Hear Canada Prof
vanced Jewish Studies at
Columbia carrying Dr.
Weinreich's name.
The Weinreich Center
does not award degrees, but
its credits are transferable
to other universities. A
number of its graduates are
already filling positions as
teachers in Yiddish and Yid-
dish literature in leading ac-
ademic institutions. -
At its inter-university
graduate seminars the cen-
ter offers, in addition to
Yiddish language and litera-
ture, courses on Eastern
and East-Central European
Jewry, Jews in the Soviet
Union, the development of
Jewish economic life in the
United States, Jewish re-
sponse to Nazi persecutions,
and others.
Thus, YIVO not only
helps academicians, authors
and scholars in their re-
search work, but is also ac-
tive in training staffs for
teaching in Atherican col-
leges and universities where
courses of Jewish studies
and classes of Yiddish cul-
ture have been introduced.
The National Endow-
ment for Humanities, a
federal agency, has
granted YIVO the sum of
$675,000 in support of its
Weinreich Center. In addi-
tion, the Endowment con-
ditionally offered to in
crease this grant by
$200,000 on condition the
Endowment receives
matching donations for
half of the additional
amount.
If the Jewish community
takes up the present chal-
lenge by the National En-
dowment, the grant for the
Weinreich Center will
amount to $875,000 covering
a five-year period: Jewish
federations and individuals
are expected to be respon-
sive in helping YIVO with
matching funds to meet the
Washington requirement.
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chairman of the department
of Judaic studies at the Uni-
versity of Manitoba, will be
Shabaton guest today and
Saturday at the Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundation at Michi-
gan State University.
Rabbi Schachter attended
the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in
Brooklyn, and earned an
MA from Boston University,
and a DHL from Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati.
He is an authority on Hasid-
ism.
He will lead prayers and
speak on "Hasidism and the
Age of Aquarius" while at
Hillel. His visit is being
made pog'sible by a grant
from the United Jewish
Charities of Detroit.
$ • • A 4 P g r
Mile
559-2730.
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"TOWERING INFERNO" (PG)
"TOMMY" (G)
"CHINATOWN" (R)
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1975, JTA, Inc.)
The present recession has
made a mess of restaurants.
The cafes where one could
sit down and have a meal
have for the most part dis-
appeared. Instead we have
the fast food...shops.
There is one cheery side
— the emergence of the ba-
gel. The last few months
have seen an outcropping of
bagel eating places. Every
day in New York there
seems to be a new one.
The bagel has become
stylish. We can recall the
time when the so-called
smart set would not be
caught in the neighborhood
of a bagel. The bagel was
maligned, laughed at. Jokes
were made especially about
its hardness.
Not a word was heard in
its defense. Actually, the
hardness of the bagel is
one of its virtues. The ba-
gel is very healthy. What
makes the bagel so hard, is
its lack of fat. Millions of
people are worried about
cholesterol. The Jews of
Eastern Europe who ate
bagels were not bothered
much by the cholesterol
problem.
The hardness of the bagel
is also good for the teeth.
Ask your dentist and he will
tell you that the jaw also
needs exercise. About the-
only exercise our jaws get
today is when we talk and
nowadays with everybody
watching TV, who talks?
In a press interview, Ellin
Mackay Berlin was telling
about her married life with
the song writer, Irving Ber-
lin. Their marriage was a
sensation in its day. Irving
Berlin was a famous song
writer when he married, but
the Mackays were strongly
opposed to it. They were of
the wealthy aristocracy and
did not condescend to have
their daughter wed a prod-
uct of New York's East Side.
Mrs. Berlin told the re-
porter that her father later
changed his mind corn-
pletely about it and the
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Gallery to Host
One-Man Show
Recent paintings by Ed-
ward Levine will be on exhi-
bition Sunday through May
17 at Garelick's Gallery, 280
N. Woodward, Birmingham.
A preview and reception
will be held 2-6 p.m. Sunday
at the gallery. Levine has
participated in several re-
gional and national invita-
tionals and juried exhibi-
tions.
The gallery hours are 9:30
a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Sat-
urday.
Your
Washington
Theatre
has brought back the
good old days!
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James Caen
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They helped organize la-
bor. A Sidney Hillman was
an adviser to Franklin De-
lano Roosevelt. They pro-
duced comedians to make
the people laugh and song
writers like Berlin and
Gershwin and so on.
We do not know who was
the genius who invented the
bagel. The inventors of
many great things are un-
known to us. Who invented
the wheel?
The bagel itself is a kind
of wheel. It is round. The in-
ventor of the bagel- must
have been an artist. The cir-
cle, Emerson said, is the pri
inary art form. The shape of
the bagel is no doubt part of
its attraction.
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HARRY & TONTO (R)
Russian Jews were ma-
ligned like bagels, too.
They came with nothing
but "bedd gevand." They
peddled, they worked in
sweat shops. They built up
the garment indus
They helped develop
moving pictures. They be-
came doctors. A Salk and
a Sabin discovered the
cure for infantile para-
lysis.
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marriage has been a very
happy one. Mrs. Berlin went
on to tell about her hus-
band, and how is family had
arrived from Russia with
only their "bedd gevand."
Somehow it all reminded
me of bagels. Bagel, "bedd
gevand" and Russian Jews
— all belong to the same
category. ,
Remember when you and
family could see hit movies '
and not destroy your budget? r
"JANIS" (R)
Rabbi Zalman Schachter,
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