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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Protest Spurs Change
in Oxford Dictionary 'Insults'
LONDON — Marcus
Shloimovitz has won a
victory of sorts in his bat-
tle to have changed offen-
sive definitions of words
relating to Je-ws in the
Oxford English Dictio-
nary.
Shloimovitz failed in
the High Court to stop the
Oxford dictionaries' pub-
lishers from continuing to
use definitions of the
word Jew" which he de-
scribed as "scurrilous."
The publishers have since
...ted "A Supplement to
Oxford English Dic-
tionary." The supplement
still includes the derogat-
ory definitions, but in-
cludes with them qualify-
ing notices as opposed to
the normal practice of de-
scribing words without
editorial remarks.
For example, the refer-
ence "Jewboy, girl, man"
is followed, by the com-
ment: "Such expressions
now mainly in offensive
use but not originally op-
probrious."
R.W. Burchfield, editor
of the OED, explains in
the preface to the sup-
plement:
"Offensiveness to a
particular group, minor-
ity or otherwise, is unac-
ceptable as the sole
ground for the exclusion
of any word or class of
words from the OED. It is
therefore desirable to
enter new racial and reli-
gious terms however op-
probrious they may seem
to those to whom they are
applied.
"It is also desirable that
the somewhat antiquated
historical record of words
like Jesuit, Jew, Negro,
Chabad Seminar
Aimed at Students
NEW YORK — Jewish
university and college
students, and Jewish
youth of college-age, have
been extended an invita-
tion by the Lubavitch
Youth Organization to
attend a weekend of
seminars on matters of
Jewish concern which will
be held at Lubavitch
world headquarters in
New York.
The theme of this year's
seminar is "Ahavas Yis-
roel — Love of Fellow Jew
— the Invisible Bond."
The program is known
as "An Encounter With
Chabad," and it will in-
clude discussions and
dialogues on various as-
pects of Judaism and con-
cepts of Chabad-
Lubavitch philosophy.
'he first seminar series
. be for women stu-
dents and will take place
Dec. 23-26. From Dec. 31
to Jan. 2 the seminars for
men students will be held.
Participants will be
housed with Hasidic
families living in the vic-
inity of the Lubavitch
Center.
Two Virginia Jews,
Jacob I. Cohen and Isaiah
Isaacs, engaged Daniel
Boone to survey western
lands. Still in existence
are records of their
transactions with Boone,
which are interspersed
with Yiddish phrases.
nigger should be brought
.up to date. These things we
have done."
Burchfield also said
that he and his colleagues
do not Personally approve
of all the words and
phrases included.
"Nevertheless, in our
function as `marshallers
of words,' we have set
them all down as objec-
tively as possible to form
a permanent record of the
language of our time.
Clark Clifford Breaks Silence
on U.S. Recognition of Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA)
— The American His-
torical Association an-
nounced that Clark M.
Clifford, special. advisor
to President Truman dur-
ing the time U.S. recogni-
tion of Israel was at
stake, will break a 20-year
silence on that issue.
The Association said
Clifford, whose views dur-
ing t I1 at period have been
eported i
detail in
hith e rto unpublished
memora nd a issued re-
cently by the State De-
partment in its record of
1948 which was recently
revealed here, will ad-
dress the Association's
annual meeting Tuesday
in the Shoreham Hotel.
MICHAEL KAPLIT
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