THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
22 Friday, August 28, 1981
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-JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Within a matter of weeks,
journalist-economist Yit-
zhak Taub, 54, altered
courses. He gave up his Tel
Aviv office as editor of the
popular economic monthly
"Ksafim" (Money) and re-
turned to his hometown
Jerusalem to head the
money losing publishing
house of the World Zionist
Organization (WZO), the
Bialik Institute.
The previous director
general of the Bialik Insti-
tute, Haim Milkov, retired
at the end of last year after
many years at the head of
the organization.
Taub would no longer ad-
vise other people how to
-make money, but would
work on publishing quality
books, and not necessarily
losing money. "My philos-
ophy is that you don't have
to be ashamed to make
money," Taub said in a re-
cent interview in his modest
office, located within a few
minutes walk from the
WZO headquarters in the
Rehavia district in
Jerusalem.
The Bialik Institute
was founded 45 years,
ago, to an extent as an
implementation of what
was considered the will
of "the national poet,"
Haim Nahman Bialik.
Shortly before his death,
Bialik urged the Zionist
movement to compile
quality publications,
especially in the field of
Judaica.
Once founded, the insti-
tute began publishing qual-
ity books, original and
translated, both in the fields
of Judaica and general lit-
erature. Its catalogue in-
cludes a variety of publica-
tions, such as the monu-
mental Biblical
Encyclopedia,. which is now
in the process of completion,
the writings of Martin
Buber, and even the trans-,
lation of Charles Darwin's
writings.
"The idea was to have
serious publications which
are worthwhile for the
people of Israel to preserve,"
Taub explained. But due to
financial difficulties, the
output of the publishing
house gradually decreased
from a record of 20 books a
year to fewer than six books
a year. "I have the feeling
that the previous director
felt he was under siege for
not having sufficient funds
to promote the project,"
Taub said.
"Thus, I was not brought
here to deal with the ques-
tions of spirit, but rather be-
cause there was an under-
standing that the institute
was in trouble."
The previous budget of
the Bialik Institute was
one million Shekels (ab-
out $90,000), of which
two-thirds went for
salarieS to the staff of 11
workers. Taub now
spoke in terms of four
million Shekels. "We
have dozens of manu-
scripts waiting to be pub-
lished," he said. He noted
that with a proper setup
of sales, the publishing
house could once again
blossom.
"The main problem is to
inject money into the circu-
lation, so that we can go
ahead and publish books
and avoid the embarrassing
situation in which there is
demand for a certain book
and we just don't have the
necessary funds to complete
the publication."
Taub is one of the veteran
economic journalists in
Jerusalem. He began work-
ing as an economic reporter
during his student days at
Hebrew University 30 years
ago on Mapam's Al
Hamishmar and later on
Zmanim, the daily of the
then Progressive Party.
Later he joined the Bank
of Israel, first in the bank's
research department, later
as a bank spokesman and
eventually as the secretary
general of the bank.
He spent a sabbatical
year in London trying to
write a book about the
economies of newly estab-
lished developing countries,
arguing that political inde-
pendence has set these
countries back to colonial
times as far as their
economies are concerned.
But he did not have suffi-
cient time to complete the
book. Back in Israel he be-
came the director general of
the Securities Authority,
which he left after six
to edit the econ
monthly.
"I regard work at the
Bialik Institute as a chat=
lenge," he said shortly after
taking office earlier this
year. He has no doubts,
about the quality of mate-
rial published by the insti-
tute. The institute's board
of governors includes-some
of the leading figures in Is-
rael's economic world such
as Ephraim Uhrbach,
Natan Rotenstreich,
Yeshaya Tishbi, Gershom
Sholem, Binyamin Mazar
and poet Haim Gury.
KC Med School to Protect
Jews Against Saudi Bias
KANSAS CITY, Mo. 'ences of King Abdulaziz
(JTA) — Kansas City University.
Six of the 26 full-time fa-
Jewish community rela-
tions officials have been , as- culty members of the
sured by the University of UMKC medical school are
Missouri-Kansas City believed to be Jews and
School of Medicine (UMKC) about 12 percent of the med-
chancellor that any contract ical students are Jewish.
to formalize a planned ex-
change of medical faculty Jews of Poland
and students between the
university and Saudi Renew JDC Ties
NEW YORK (JTA) — A
Arabia will contain
safeguards to protect recent visit to Poland by the
Jewish faculty members leaders of the Joint Distri-
and students from any bution Committee (JDC)
Saudi discriminatory pres- brought another Eastern
sures, according to a report European country to the list
by the Kansas City Jewish of those in which the JDC
Chronicle in its Aug. 21 is- has been invited to reestab-
lish direct contact with the
sue.
Jewish community in re-
Associate
Chronicle
Editor Anne Schirn re- cent years.
Participating in the visit
ported that the university's
to
Poland, which included
school of medicine had been
in negotiations for several stops in Warsaw, Auschwitz
months with the College of and Lodz were JDC
Medicine and Allied Sci- president Henry Taub and
his wife Marilyn, Ralph
Goldman, executive vice
Sweden Says No preSident
of the JDC, and
Akiva Kohane, JDC repre-
to New Effort
sentative for Eastern
for Wallenberg
Europe.
STOCKHOLM — Tes-
The JDC visit was made
timony linking Soviet in response to an invitation
President Leonid Breshnev from the Union of Religiousl
to the disappearance of Jews of Poland. It is esti-
Raoul Wallenberg does not mated that only 6,000 Jews
form the basis for a fresh remain in Poland out of a
diplomatic approach to pre-Holocaust population
Moscow, according to the that exceeded three million.
Swedish Foreign Ministry.
Leontevich
Y'acov
Menaker, a former Soviet
army officer, was quoted in
a newspaper interview re-
cently as saying that
Breshnev was-responsible
for the kidnapping of Wal-
lenberg in Budapest in
1945. Wallenberg is cre-
dited with saving Hunga-
rian Jews from Nazi in-
ternment by giving them il-
legal passports while he was
first secretary of the
Swedish Embassy in
Budapest.
ZOA Parley
in Jerusalem
NEW YORK — The
Zionist Organization of
America will hold its Na-
tional Leadership Confer-
ence in Jerusalem begin-1
ning Wednesday and con-
tinuing through Sept. 13.
The group is scheduled to
meet „ with Premier
Menahem Begin and hear
addresses by President Yit-
zhak Navon, and Foreign
Minister Yitzhak Shamir.