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September 25, 1981 - Image 87

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1981-09-25

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WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY

NEW YEAR

TOM aid EYA ADELSON

WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY

NEW YEAR
THE FIDLERS
Bernie & Betty

WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY HEALTHY

NEW YEAR
MR. ad MRS. '
PAUL FILUIK & FAMILY

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to all my -
family and friends

SWAMIS (SHULA) COLDOFTAS

Tulane U. Begins Jewish Unit 2
Archive of Southern Jewish Life

By BEN GALLOB
(Copyright, 1981 JTA, Inc.)

The director of Tulane
University's first formal
Jewish studies program be-
lieves a significant number
of non-Jewish students will
be interested in the new
major in Jewish studies and
its courses.

WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY

NEW YEAR

LUBA aid
SAMUEL KUMAR

WE WISH OUR FRIENDS
AND RELATIVES A
HAPPY. HEALTHY

NEW YEAR

PAULINE & HELEN
SZTARKMAN

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and p-rosperous
New Year

RENA and JOHN ANSTANDIG

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MR. and MRS. SIMON LEFKOWITZ & HARVEY

wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

ARNIE and SANDY OLEINICK
MARCIE, JEFF & DEBBIE

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MR. and MRS. MAYER
SILBERBERG & FAMILY
wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous '
New Year

THE ZIMMERMANS
David, Judy, Steven & Amy

EMMA LAZAROFF SCHAVER

wishes all her family and
friends a year filled with
health, happiness, joy
and peace

A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year

to all our family and dear friends

DR. HERBERT
APPLEBAUM & FAMILY

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The program, which is
starting this fall, includes
what program director
Joseph Cohen calls the first
Southern Jewish Archive in
the South.
Cohen, a professor of
English in the university's
Newcomb College, said
there are more than 300
Jewish studies programs
throughout the United
States "but Tulane is far
behind because it never had
a school of religion to nuture
'such a program."
He said several differ-
ent types of students
would be attracted to the
new Jewish studies
major sequence, which
includes studies of the
Holocaust; the history
and philosophy of East-
ern religions; Jewish
music; Jewish literature;
the history of Russian
Jews; the history of
Spanish Jewry; ancient
Israel; early and modern
Judaism; and Hebrew
language.
Cohen said students from
the metropolitan east com-
ing to the New Orleans uni-
versity "with a strong edu-
cational background will
use the program to delve
into an important part of
their lives in a more formal
way. They will be interested
in enrichment and self-
identity."
A larger group of majors,
he said, will come from "a
southern Jewish Reform
background. Their heritage
and identity will not be
nearly so well defined." He
added, "Many young Jews
who know they are Jewish
but want more than that
will use the major to find out
what they can."
Discussing the antici-
pated interest of non-
Jewish students, Cohen
said "in my course on mod-
ern American Jewish liter-
ature, students take the
course because they want to
enlarge their own knowl-
edge of the general culture,
because they have close
Jewish friends or for mar-
riage."
Cohen said speakers,
Liberty Forum

art exhibits and related
programming "are the
kinds of things we expect
to do a lot of. It will add to
the cultural scene for all
concerned, in the local
community as well as on
the campus."
Discussing plans for the
South's first Southern
Jewish Archive, Cohen said
that "for the past century-
and-a-half, there has been a
flourishing Jewish culture
in small towns and rural
communities throughout
the South—a culture which
differs remarkably from
that of •the Jewish com-
munities established along
the Eastern Seaboard."

He predicted that, within
one or two decades, "few
traces of this peculiarly
Southern Jewish tradition
will remain" because "the

overwhelming majority of
the present generation is
going to universities, enter-
ing the professions, and not
returning to the small

towns. Because much of the
memorabilia generated by
people's lives is already lost;
we want to preserve as
much as we can of the re-
maining culture" of South-
ern Jewry.

Cohen, who himself
comes from a small town in
Tennessee, said other goals
of the programs include a
substantial increase in the
university's holdings in
Judaica and developing
funding for a chair of Jewish
studies to make it possible
for an eminent Jewish
scholar to be in residence at
the university.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 25, 1S1 81

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperOus
New Year

MR. and MRS. MAX DREW & FAMILY

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MR. and MRS. JOSEPH FRANK

wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year

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DR. and MRS. LOUIS LEONARD KAZDAN

wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

MEL and INEZ KEPES

11.3rizn

mzue rov5

ROSE and MORRIE MACKEY

wish all their friends and relatives
a happy and healthy New Year

We wish our family and friends a
very healthy, happy and prosperous
New Year

MR. and MRS. LEO WEBER & FAMILY

rmIte rutr5

HARRY and ESTHER
LANE & FAMILY

would like to wish all our family
and friends a healthy and happy
New Year

Happi New gear!

1981*5742 Iciz:x41

To All Our Dear Friends

NEW YORK — Rabbi
Marc H. Tanenbaum, na-
tional interreligious affairs
director of the American
Jewish Committee, is
among a group of
authorities on religious lib-
erty who will speak and lead
discussions Oct. 5-6 at the
Religious Liberty Confer-
ence sponsored in Washing-
ton, D.C., by the Baptist
Joint Committee on Public
Affairs.

UOJCA Director

NEW YORK — Philip
Chernofsky, an educator
and longtime adviser for the
National Conference of
Synagogue Youth, has been
appointed director of the
Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America
in Israel and director of de-
velopment of the UOJCA-
NCSY Israel Center in
• Jerusalem.

May this New Year bring you and your

loved ones a wealth of happiness,

health, peace, and prosperity.

Shalom,
Sarah & Harry Laker

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