Friday, January 19, 1919 • 1 TH1 • IBM Selectric, Funds Sought for Taylov-Schechter Geniza Collection \- 3 (Continued, from Page 1) The funds will help support the work of the Taylor-Schechter Geniza Research Unit directed by Dr. Stefan C. Reif, formerly of Dropsie University, Philadelphia. The research unit is engaged in a broad program which includes the preservation and classifica- tion of a vast number of previously unprocessed fragments, the preparation and publication of sorely- needed catalogues of some of the collections's major sections, and the e ncouragement of new in- / -vestigations into the collec- tion's holdings. Some of the collection's most famous pieces in- clude previously un- known texts and letters composed by such great Jewish figures as Saadia (882-842), Maimonidies (1135-1204) and Yehuda Halevi (1075-1141), often. in their own handwriting. The collection's frag- ments have provided scholars with, among other things, an eye- witness account of the Crusader conquest of Jerusalem, a text con- firming the Eighth Cen- tury conversion of the Khazars to Judaism, and Israel Has Sabraman (Continued from Pagel) for hours about the his- tory of comic books," re- ported Good Times pub- lisher David Herman. Uri said the comic books attract him because the . characters "face unusual problems. I like the non- stop action and the special powers of the heroes and their enemies. Comics come between books and films. They \ have their own reality, like science fiction." Unusual powers, non- stop action and heroes and villians possession of spe- cial powers is what Sabra- man is all about. "Some- where in the Judean, Desert there's a secret passage that leads to the base of the Super Agency of Israel!" Thus the saga of Sabraman begins. The super agency is staffed by super heroes who possess "astonishing pow- ers" due to an atomic rod. Sabraman is Dan Bar-On, an ex-Israeli army captain and policeman from the Afeka suburb of .Tel, Aviv. On account of this atomic rod he can shoot radioactive rays out of his eyes and transport himself from one place to another without moving. His enemy — the chief villian of the series — is a mysterious figure who wants to conquer the world by controlling the human mind. Who is this mysterious - figure? "You'll find out in the coming issues," Herman said. The action takes place in Israel and the U.S. Other villians in the serieq-include Hyperman, Naziman, and Powerman. The series is in black-and-white because it is cheaper to produce, apart from allowing the comic strip to serve as a coloring book. At present, it is ap- pearing only in English though there is a possibility of French translation. Uri draws the pictures and writes the dialogue. In addi- tion to writing, Uri said he hopes to make a satirical film about life in Israel and to be "a funny actor like Mel Brooks." At present he be- longs to his school drama group. Meanwhile, the Sabra- man craze is growing. Sab- raman T-shirts will soon be printed up and Uri is busy cooking up new plots and sub-plots so the series can continue indefinitely. . Americans Swing.to Egypt in Peace Negotiations Poll NEW YORK (JTA) Pollster Louis Harris re- ported last week that "For the first time im the long , history of the dispute be- tween Israel and Egypt, American public opinion is • swinging towards the Egyp- tian position." According to the latest Harris Poll "a 37 percent plurality now feels that Egypt is right in demanding that Israel give some guarantees about Palesti- nian self-rule as part of the separate peace treaty be- tween the two countries. "A smaller 30 percent agree with Israel that such changes violate the basic agreements that were reached last year at the Camp David summit," Har- ris reported. "Another four percent feel that neither side is right, two percent see merit on both sides and 27 percent of Americans are not sure. who is right." Breaking down the poll responses by religious and ethnic groups, Har- ris reported that Catholics support Egypt by a majority of 39-28 percent and white Pro- testants by 35-30 percent "Jews feel that Israel is right by an overwhelm- ing 77-10 percent," Harris reported: He observed; "There is no doubt that part of the cur- rent surge of sympathy for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stems from a sense that Egypt is taking a high risk in continuing to advo- cate peace without any visi- ble backing from other Arab elements." Sparkling Export TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is- rael's diarrfond exports in- creased last year by 31.5 percent over 1977 to $1.317 billion from $1.002 billion: the oldest known piece of Yiddish literature, dated 1382. Two of the collection's best known pieces are di- rectly associated. with Dr. Schechter. The first is a page which Schechter realized was a copy of part of a lost Hebrew work of the Second Century, BCE, the "Book of Ben Sira." The work had been preserved in Greek by the early Church, but it had not been seen in Hebrew for approximately 1,000 years. The second. piece has taken on a new importance since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Schechter published it in 1910, with a translation and a commen- tary, under the title "Frag- ments of a Zadokite Work." With this publication, Schechter became the first modern scholar — 37 years before the discovery of the Scrolls — to tell the story of a strange, unknown Jewish sect of Second Temple times, given to a fierce piety and a belief in a messiah. Typewriters Today scholars know the sect he described as the Dead Sea Scrolls Sect. YOU'RE BETTER OFF IN A MORRIS BUICK. BIG DISPLAY •OF NEW BUICKS 342-7800 FAST DELIVERY GOOD SERVICE 862-1300 PHONE 342- 7100 FOR PROOF MORRIS BUICK 14500 West 7 Mile . . . 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