THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Slide Archive Captures Jewish History
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Zvi Yekutiel, director of the
Zalman Sharer Center for
the Furtherance of the
Study of Jewish History, lo-
cated in Jerusalem, has an-
nounced the creation of a
new Archive of Slides on the
History of the Jewish
people.
It is hoped that the collec-
tion of close to 5,000 slides
will be utilized by high
school instructors, univer-
sity professors and public
lecturers as an audio-visual
tool for teaching Jewish his-
tory.
The Archive of Slides,
which Yekutiel said has
been assembled with the as-
sistance of a grant from the
Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture, is coordi-
nated by Yaakov Schiby,
librarian of the Center.
Schiby, who was born in
Salonika, Greece and
graduated from the Hebrew
University, is an expert in
Judeo-Greek of the Middle
Ages and recently received
a grant to publish a dictio-
nary of this language.
He has compiled 45 dif-
ferent series of slides,
which are described in
the Archive's catalogue,
to be issued in Sep-
tember. Dr. David Geffen,
educational director of
the Center, is preparing
an English version of the
catalogue.
Among the categories of
slides included in the collec-
tion are: economic life dur-
ing the biblical period;
Masada; the role of the
Yishuv during World War
II; Jewish homelife in
America; illuminated
ketubot; 19th Century
synagogues in America;
synagogues in Eastern
Europe during the 18th and
19th Centuries; Jerusalem
architecture; Jews of
Morocco; and Jews of
Tunisia.
The Zalman Shazar
Center was established in
1973 by the Historical Soci-
ety of Israel, with the assis-
tance of the Israeli govern-
ment, to perpetuate the
memory of Shneur Zalman
Shazar, the third president
of Israel and honorary pres-
ident of the Israeli Histori-
cal Society.
The Center seeks to foster
a Jewish historical con-
sciousness among Israelis
and to make the fruits of
Jewish scholarship availa-
ble to Jews in Israel and
throughout the world.
Among the services
provided by the Center,
in addition to the slide
archive, are public his-
torical lectures and con-
ferences, seminars for
high school history
teachers, the publication
of studies and texts in
Jewish history and a
central, 7000 volume lib-
rary, which includes the
library of the late Presi-
dent Shazar.
In addition to the slides,
the Center has also pub-
lished 26 books during the
first four years of its exis-
tence.
Soldiers Killed
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two
Austrian soldiers were kil-
led and several injured near
Safed Sunday in a road ac-
cident. The soldiers were
coming from the Syrian side
of the Golan Heights where
they served with the United
Nations Disengagement
Observer Force.
Historic Diggings
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A
total of 85 archeological
digs took place in Israel this
year, it was reported at a re-
cent meeting of the Israeli
and foreign archeological
delegations.
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TEL AVIV (JTA) —
Hanoch Howard Moher is
only 15 years old, but he
packed a lifetime into an
odyssey that took him from
his parents' home in Man-
chester, England, to Israel.
His odyssey is the stuff of
novels and motion pictures,
a tale of a Jewish youth who
decided that his place is in
Israel and once having
made that decision, took the
300 pounds sterling he had
received for his Bar Mitzva
and started the long route to
the Jewish homeland.
His story emerged at a
Jewish Agency's new im-
migrants hostel near Haifa
where he was sent after
leaving the ship on which he
was a stowaway. He was
quite willing to tell his story
and he told it with zest.
When he left his family
of seven in Manchester,
he went to London, ob-
tained a special Europe-
valid document and cros-
sed the English Channel
to France. There he got
hold of a map of Europe
and ascertained that with
his special document he
could travel as far as
Turkey, the nearest
country to Israel, without
running into any prob-
lems. Arriving in Turkey
by plane, Hanoch de-
cided that the next, shor-
test step to Israel would
be through Syria.
Asked if he wasn't afraid
to travel through Syria, in
view of the hostile relations
between that country and
Israel, he replied that he
was not afraid of the Sy-
rians. "After all," he ob-
served, "I am a British sub-
ject."
Fortunately for him,
however, he never got to
Syria, having failed for
three days to hitch a car ride
that would take him across
the Turkish-Syrian border-.
He had to find an alternate
route to Israel. The only
other route available to him
was by sea.
Hanoch's next move was
to go to a Turkish port
where he found a freighter
that was bound for Haifa.
He tried to be open and
above-board about it and
asked the ship's captain to
allow him to board the ves-
sel. The captain refused.
Time was beginning to run
out, for two reasons: he
couldn't find kosher food,
the only kind he eats, and he
was beginning to suffer
from hunger pangs since his
diet consisted only of some
bread now and then; in ad-
dition, it was almost Shabat
and he wanted to be in Is-
rael before Shabat began.
When night fell,
Hanoch went back to the
freighter. There were no
guards and captain in
sight. He boarded the
ship, lowered himself
into the hold and hid
away among crates and
barrels. When the ship
arrived in Haifa, he
emerged, disembarked
and presented himself to
Israeli authorities.
It took the authorities
several hours to arrange
things for him and he asked
them to hurry up as Shabat
was quickly approaching.
About an hour before the
beginning of Shabat, im-
migration officials arrived
at the scene and took him to
the Jewiph Agency's im-
migrant hostel at Bat
Galim. Hanoch had barely
enough time to change his
clothes and wash up for
what was to be his first
Shabat meal in Israel, and a
kosher meal at that.
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