THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
46 Friday, January 1, 1982
Revson Grant Aids YIVO
NEW YORK — With a
grant of $74,000 from the
Charles H. Revson Founda-
tion, the YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research will exper-
iment with innovative vid-
eodisc technology to pre-
serve, catalogue and dis-
seminate its film and
photograph collections
documenting Jewish life in
pre-war Eastern Europe.
Josh Waletzky will direct
the six-month pilot project.
He said the project will
select from the many silent
"travel films" in YIVO's col-
ADL Praises
Postal Policy
NEW YORK — A new
U.S. Post Office policy pro-
hibiting religious discrimi-
nation and mandating ac-
commodation of religious
observance among postal
employees and applicants
has been praised by the
Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
ADL national director
Nathan Perlmutter called it
"a forward step toward the
elimination of discriminat-
ory practices" and added
that it "points the way to an
improved climate in the
agency that can lead to the
elimination of other
employment inequities."
The new directive fol-
lowed representations made
to the Postal Service by
ADL.
lection, most of them taken
by visitors from America
to Eastern Europe in the
pre-war period, transfer
that footage to videodisc,
and invite eyewitnesses
who were present at the
filming or lived in the place
filmed to be interviewed
and describe what is on the
screen. •
"The end result," ac-
cording to Waletzky,
"will no longer be raw
film with anonymous fi-
gures in strange contexts
doing things we don't
understand. The product
will instead be
documented scenes from
the lives of actual, identi-
fiable people whose daily
life can have meaning for
us today."
Samuel Norich, YIVO's
director, noted that the pro-
ject will also store and
catalogue some of YIVO's
collection of 120,000 photo-
graphs.
The Hebrew Emigrant
Aid Society was formed in
1880 by the Russian Emi-
grant Relief Committee, a
temporary body established
to help the first Jews escap-
ing Czarist Russia. The new
organization provided me-
als, transportation and em-
ployment counseling to new
arrivals at New York's Cas-
tle Garden, the chief
immigrant-processing cen-
ter of the time.
DID YOU
REMEMBER
Oil Money Triggers Disaster in Rollover'
By HERBERT LUFT
(Copyright 1982, JTA, Inc.)
HOLLYWOOD — "Rol-
lover," the Orion-Warner
Bros. release, deals with the
possibility of a world disas-
ter triggered by the sudden
withdrawal of petro dollar
funds by the Saudi Arabian
regime.
The picture culminates
with a montage of riots in
the streets of New York,
Career Guide for Emigres
Published for Accountants
NEW YORK — A new
career guide for immigrant
accountants and bookkeep-
ers has been published by
Israel's Ministry of Immig-
rant Absorption and the
Jewish Agency's immigra-
tion and absorption de-
partment.
The 20-page booklet ad-
vises accountants on taking
qualifying examinations,
obtaining an accountant's
license, and provides ad-
JERUSALEM — Ewa
Swiderska, a non-Jewish
doctoral student in Judaica
at the University of Warsaw
and a founding member of
"Solidarity," is spending the
fall tri-mester at the Heb-
rew University of
Jefusalem working on her
doctorate.
Aliya Movement
Summer Jobs
in Maalot Area
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dresses of existing organi-
zations which can assist
them in Israel.
The booklet also provides
a chapter for bookkeepers,
which gives information on
various courses as well as
retraining opportunities.
The publication is now
available by writing the Is-
rael Aliya Center, 515 Park
Ave., New York, N.Y.
10022.
Polish Student at Hebrew U.
Studies Slavic Tie to Hebrew
Her doctoral thesis is on
Slavic influences on the
Hebrew language and she
says that her stay in
Jerusalem is invaluable.
She can check out many
language nuances with
Hebrew University lin-
guists and has comprehen-
to send someone a
gift subscription to
London, Paris, Berlin and
Cairo; and a mass demonst-
ration at St. Peters in Rome
and at the White House in
Washington.
Following the screening
of "Rollover" for the Hol-
lywood foreign press, an in-
terview session was held
with Jane Fonda, her co-
star Kris Kristofferson, and
producer Bruce Gilbert with
whom Ms. Fonda has been
NEW YORK — The
North American Aliya
Movement has designed a
summer program for stu-
dents who want to do com-
munity work in Israel while
they consider making aliya.
The eight-week program
provides students with
room and board in Maalot in
exchange for a 35-hour
work week which includes
five hours of Hebrew les-
sons.
The cost of the program,
including air-fare, is under
$900. Students will live in
absorption center apart-
ments provided by the town
plus receive a stipend for
living expenses from T'nuat
Aliya in Israel. Three day
tours of the Galilee, a semi-
nar in Jerusalem and per-
sonal career counseling are
included in the program.
Jobs are available in the
Nahariya Hospital Blood
Bank, teen-age social clubs,
teaching English, sports,
social work with the elderly
and landscaping. For in-
formation about the "Sum-
mer Maalot Living Experi-
ence," write Lisa Preiss,
ck NAAM, 515 'Park Ave.,
New York 10022 .
sive libraries at her dis-
posal.
"Katanchick," "choop-
chick," "balagan" and "pog-
rom" are some of the Slavic
words or forms which have
crept into contemporary
Hebrew, she says.
According to
Swiderska, close to 20
students, practically all
of them non-Jewish, have
taken up Jewish studies
at the University of War-
saw. Half of them are
first-year students.
Two of the advanced stu-
dents want to become jour-
nalists specializing in the
Middle East, and for them
Hebrew and Jewish studies
are essential. Another stu-
dent in the program wants
to teach in the department.
As far as she knows, only
one student is definitely
Jewish — the director of a
Jewish cemetery in the
Polish capital.
She holds the rank of lec-
turer at Warsaw University
and upon her return from
Israel will give a dozen les-
sons per week in Hebrew
grammar and literature to
some 10 first-year students.
associated through five mo-
tion pictures. Their film,
"The China Syndrome,"
foresaw a near-tragic nuc-
lear accident. The latest col-
laborative effort mirrors a
future catastrophe of much
vaster consequences.
Gilbert, who produced
"Rollover" from a story by
David Shaber, Howard
Kohn and David Weir, with
a screenplay by David
Shaber, and Alan J. Pakula
as director, told the press
that Ms. Fonda and he con-
ceived the picture whose
subject matter has become a
central issue of survival in
the world of today. To him,
"Rollover" has a basis in
fact which did not exist a
few short years ago.
Gilbert and Shaber went
about scientifically when
devising the scenario. They
met with State Department
experts on Middle Eastern
affairs, staff members of the
House Banking Committee
and members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Commit-
tee.
ALICE KRIGE, the
South African Jewish
beauty, portrays the central
role in Universal's "Ghost
Story," written by Lawr- .
ence D. Cohen from a novel
by Peter Straub.
The story revolves around
her dual role, in time and
space some 50 years apart,
with her character ranging
from an exciting young girl
full of life and sexuality to a
foreboding figure who is the
embodiment of a ghostly
spirit returning to seek re-
tribution for the great
wrong done in her past life
by four men, now quite old,
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Philip Handler,
Led Academy
NEW YORK — Dr. Philip
Handler, retired president
of the National Academy of
Sciences, died Dec. 29 at age
64.
Prior to his election as
president of the academy,
Dr. Handler spent most of
his academic career at Duke
University in Durham,
N.C., where he made a key
discovery regarding pel-
lagra, a disease that
afflicted people in the
Southeast living on a corn-
rich diet.
Norman Mintz
Norman Mintz, a well-
known pioneer barber in the
Oakland Avenue area, died
Dec. 23 at age 89.
Born in Poland, Mr.
Mintz was retired. He was a
member of Perfection Lodge
of the Masons.
He leaves three sons, Dr.
Morris J 2 John A. of Man-
sfield, Ohio, and Samuel A.;
a brother, Abie of Toronto;
nine grandchildren and
nine great-grandchildren.
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stamps just issued by the
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graceful thing not to be able
to reply, with some degree of
certainty, to the simple
questions, "What will you
be? What will you do?"
—John
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BARBRA STREISAND
is seeking Harry Hamlin (of
"Clash of the Titans") to co-
star with her, under her di-
rection, in the filmic version
of I. B. Singer's "Yentl," to
go before the cameras in
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