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Gordis Directs Book Council Award Winners Listed
NEW YORK — Dr.
Robert Gordis, biblical
scholar, professor at 'the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America, author and
editor, has been elected
president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Board Jewish Book
Council.
It is the national sponsor
of Jewish Book Month. An-
nually, it presents eight Na-
tional Jewish Book Awards
and publishes the tri-
lingual "Jewish Book An-
nual," the only American
book of Jewish literary
tivity, published in
lish, Yiddish and He-
brew.
The National Jewish
Book Awards will be pre-
sented in a special cere-
mony May 18 at the Central
Synagogue, 123 E. 55th St.,
New York City.
The eight categories in
which the National
Jewish Book Awards will
be made are Jewish fic-
tion, history, the
Holocaust, Israel, chil-
dren's books, Jewish
thought, poetry and Yid-
dish literature.
Among the winners are:
"The Apathetic Bookie
Joint" (Methuen, Inc.) by
Daniel Fuchs, Hollywood
screenwriter, won the
William and Janice Epstein
National Jewish Book
Award for Jewish Fiction.
"Less Than Slaves:
Jewish Forced Labor and
the Quest for Compensa-
tion" by Benjamin B.
Ferencz, with a foreword by
Telford Taylor, (Harvard
University Press), won the
Leon Jolson Award for a
Book on the Nazi Holocaust.
"Dita Saxova" (Harper
and Row), a novel about
teenagers who survived the
Holocaust by Arnost Lustig,
film producer and faculty
member, American Univer-
sity, Washington, D.C., won
the Charles and Bertie G.
Schwartz Jewish Juvenile
National Jewish Book
Award.
The Frank and Ethel S.
Cohen National Jewish
Book Award for Jewish
Thought will go to David
Biale, professor of Judaic
studies at SUNY at Bin-
ghamton, N.Y., for his
"Gershom Scholem:
Kabala and Counter His-
tory" (Harvard Univer-
sity Press).
A book on "The Habima
— Israel's National Theater
1917-1977: A Study of Cul-
Nationalism"
tural
University
(Columbia
Press) by Emanuel Levy,
DR. ROBERT GORDIS
assistant professor of sociol-
ogy at Hunter College of the
City University, won the
Morris J. Kaplun Memorial
Award for a Book on Israel.
The Gerrard and Ella Be-
rman Award for a Book on
Jewish History will go to
Todd M. Endelman, assis-
tant professor of history and
Jewish studies at Indiana
University, Bloomington,
for his "The Jews of Geor-
gian England" (Jewish Pub-
lication Society).
The Workmen's Circle
Award for Yiddish Litera-
ture will go to Peretz
Miransky for his "Tzvishn
Shmeichl un Trern" (Be-
tween Smiles and Tears).
The JWB Jewish Book
Council Award for Poetry
will be presented post-
humously to Charles Re-
znikoff for the "totality of
his poetic literary achieve-
ment"
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Missions Provide First-Hand
Look at Campaign Needs
By JOAN MENDELSON
(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)
The National Study Mis-
sion to Israel is a program
that started 15 years ago as
a fund-raising tool for the
United Jewish Appeal. Mis-
sions leave for Israel in Sep-
tember, October and No-
vember — at the start of the
new campaign — and con-
tinue throughout the entire
year, giving impetus to the
campaign by educating the
participants to the social
and financial needs of the
country.
Participants are person-
ally solicited for pledges by
the lay leader of the mis-
sion. It is hoped that upon
returning to their indi-
vidual committees they are
fortified with information
about the campaign needs
and a greater emotional and
intellectual involvement
with Israel. Their responsi-
bility is then to educate and
solicit funds in their own
communities.
The giving level on the
mission program goes up on
average of 65 percent due
the effectiveness of the
itinerary, coupled with the
interaction of the group and
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li people.
In an average year 100
missions leave from 180
communities, bringing
4,700 people to Israel.
There are a variety of
special interest groups
that participate yearly in
the program — doctors,
faculty advisers, college
students, country clubs,
women's groups, young
leadership and commu-
nity missions. All the
final arrangements are
made through the UJA
National Mission De-,
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partment based in New
York City.
The program differs from
the tours available to the
general public in two main
aspects. Participants are
expected to make a finan-
cial commitment to the
campaign. It is a "study
mission" rather than a "va-
cation."
As a study mission, par-
ticipants are involved in the
process of learning -- learn-
ing of the work UJA does in
its social services (i.e., ab-
sorption centers), learning
about the political situa-
tion, the financial crisis, the
security problems, with the
greatest emphasis placed on
studying the social gap and
the new Project Renewal.
Havura Plans
Summer Parley
NEW YORK — The first
National Havura Summer
Institute will take place
Aug. 3-10, as a program of
the National Havura Coor-
dinating Committee which
was founded last fall, and
whose activities are co-
sponsored by the American
Jewish Committee and the
National Jewish Resource
Center.
The institute will bring
together members of Hav-
urot (synagogue-based
communities of Jewish
learning, fellowship, and
prayer) from across the
United States.
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CAIRO (ZINS) — The
Maariv correspondent in
Cairo reports that Egyptian
television uses Middle East
maps that do not show Is-
rael. Only Jordan, the West
Bank and Gaza are iden-
tified.
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