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. - One exhibit will describe Dr. Wallach's application of medical wisdom from the Rambam (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon), written in the If you don't teach the ox to plow when he's young, it will be difficult to teach him when he is grown. —Midrash 6800 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD just south of Maple 12th Century_ CE. Anteced- ing today's high regard for "natural ingredients," the Rambam advised physi- cians to use natural re- medies first and only if these fail, to then prescribe medicines. 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 guest book with messages and signatures_of many fa- mous visitors from 1901 to 1952; annual reports of the hospital for the first 10 years; and the original, carved doors from the Shaare Zedek Hospital and ' synagogue. - In addition, the museum will memorialize the origi- nal European founding com- mittee of Shaare Zedek, Dr. Wallach and his successor, Dr. Falk Schlesinger and all those who have endowed plaques and facilities in the old hospital. 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