THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 23, 1977 23
Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. . . and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)
JEWISH CULTURAL APPEAL: Very few Jews in this
country are aware of the Joint_ Cultural Appeal; it is the
centralized fund-raising arm of nine Jewish agencies which
conduct important cultural work in English, Yiddish and
Hebrew.
The Jewish Cultural Appeal represents the nine agencies
vis-a-vis the Jewish federations and welfare funds in
applying to the latter for allocations. Prior to the formation
of the JCA in 1972, these agencies—some of them existing
for decades—sought their financial assistance from the
federations mostly by mail. They simply had no money to
cover the cost of sending representatives. They depended
primarily on the good will of the members in the allocation
committee in each community. Such good will depended on
how much local community leaders knew of the activities of
each agency and how much understanding they displayed
toward these activities.
Most of the federation leaders knew little of the programs
of such agencies as the National Foundation for Jewish
Culture, the VIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the
American Jewish Historical Society, the American Acad-
emy for Jewish Research, the Congress of Yiddish Culture,
the Histadrut Ivrit of America, the Leo Baeck Institute—to
mention only some of the institutions now partners in the
Joint Cultural Appeal.
As the central body of the organized Jewish communities,
the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
decided that a centralized fund-raising instrument for all
the nine agencies would greatly contribute to massive
interpretation of their functions and would bring them
closer to the federations with -the result that they would
obtain more funds from them.
The CJFWF idea was approved by lay leaders and
professional executives of 75 large Jewish communities.
The Joint Cultural Appeal came into being.
SERVING U.S. JEWRY: The concerns of the nine
agencies has for years been the same as they are now very
much on the minds - of American Jewish leadership to
increase Jewish knowledge among the rising generations
about their heritage.
Outstanding amongthe nine is the YIVO Institute with its
library of more than 310,000 volumes in Yiddish and other
languages—the largest library on Jewish life in the last 100
years in East European countries; also on the early mass-
immigration of Jews to the United States. YIVO archives
comprise over 2,000,000 individual documents, communal
records, manuscripts, diaries, microfilms and more than
100,000 photographs of Jewish life throughout the world
over the past century.
YIVO maintains close working relationships with the
more than 100 colleges and universities conducting pro-
grams of Jewish studies. It provides many of them with
materials. It also provides cultural services—including
exhibitions—for Jewish communities, Jewish centers, Jew-
ish libraries. It maintains the Max Weinreich Center of
Advanced Jewish Studies which is chartered by the Univer-
sity of the State of New York. It'cooperates in a program of
Yiddish language, literature and culture conducted at
Columbia University.
In the center of the nine agencies now affiliated with the
Joint Cultural Appeal stands the National Foundation for
Jewish Culture. It serves as the fund-raising administrator
for all partners in the JCA. It conducts an extensive
program of its own of cultural work in many fields. It
initiated in 1961 a program of scholarships and fellowships.
It awards pre-doctoral grants-in-aid to graduate students
eager to pursue intensive study in various branches of
Judaica and to prepare themselves for careers in Jewish
scholarship. It helps in the publication of basic works of
Jewish knowledge. It developed a working arrangement
\ with American publishing houses to issue works of impor-
tance in the Jewish field as well as to distribute therm Its
pre-doctorate fellows are now teaching in more than 30
colleges and universities.
The other seven agencies which participate in the Joint
Cultural Appeal are similarly serving in the vangard of
preserving and expanding Jewish culture, each of them
being autonomous in their own fields of work.
IMPRESSIVE EVALUATION: The contributions of the
federations to the nine agencies are comparatively small
even now, despite the fact that the Joint Cultural Appeal
does its best to popularize the work and the needs of these
agencies. Total expenses of all the nine agencies for this
year amounted to $3,500,000 while the allocations from the
Federations reached only about $550,000.
, The difference must be covered from membership dues
and other sources of income which each of the agencies is
trying to develop. Each agency has its own members and
followers.
Shaare Zedek Hospital Site of New Medical Museum
NEW YORK—A new mu-
seum will soon open in Je-
rusalem to commemorate
the pioneering medical role
of Shaare Zedek Hospital
and its founder, Dr. Moshe
Wallach.
The hospital adminis-
tration announced that the
new Shaare Zedek Medical
Center, whose opening is
scheduled for November
1978, will contain a museum
of medical instruments and
equipment, historical docu-
ments and photographs dat-
ing back to Shaare Zedek's
beginnings more than 100
years ago.
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One exhibit will describe
Dr. Wallach's application of
medical wisdom from the
Rambam (Rabbi Moshe ben
Maimon), written in the
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Among the items the mu-
seum will contain: Letters
and documents referring to
Jerusalem at the turn of the
century, including photo-
graphs of Zadol Bassan; the
original architectural plans
from Germany for Shaare
Zedek Hospital; the first
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Shaare Zedek Hospital and
' synagogue. -
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