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Books
Continued from preceding page
based on a dream journey of
the ages.
The 3,000-year-old history
from the Passover to the pre-
sent is introduced by ani-
mated clay-figures. It relates
to the film on the festival
animated by Uri Shim'ar and
Rony Oren, with the objects
in clay providing the anima-
tion production of a half-hour
film that makes the holiday a
great and eventfully active
celebration.
What Jonathan David did
was the introduction of a new
Haggadah supplement by
film video. There is much to
look forward to on the
Passover theme.
Halachist
Biographical
Sketches
Mesorah Publications has
gained status for Emphasis
on Mishnaic interpretations,
commentaries on the Talmud,
translations of and comments
on prayerbooks, daily and
Holy Day. Additionally, this
publishing house has pr-
oduced interpretative works
for young readers. The
newest of the Mesorah books
are biographies.
Unusual interest attaches
to The Story of Maram Bet
Yosef (The Story of Maram
R'Yosef), subtitled "R'Yosef
Caro — Author of the Shul-
chan Aruch."
The story of the life of this
historically perpetuated
leader among the famous
halchists is most intriguing.
Yosef Caro was a refugee
from the Spanish Inquisition.
As a youngster his family es-
caped to Portugal. The In-
quisition pursued them there
and they went to Constan-
tinople, the present Istanbul.
There the young scholar at-
tained fame as rabbi and
halachist. He began compil-
ing the Laws that have since
regulated Jewish life. His
Shulchan Aruch became a
basic guide book for Jewish
observance and living.
There were more travels, to
Bulgaria and Greece before
the great scholar settled in
Sefat in Eretz Israel after his
family had perished in a pl-
ague.
Wherever R'Yosef went, he
was surrounded by the emi-
nent halachists of his time.
The Mesorah biography,
gathered from data of the
texts of Habayit shel Re-
bbinat Yoseph by M. Pe'er,
traces the eminent tradi-
tionalists who studied with
him and followed him wher-
ever he went.
At one point it is briefly
mentioned that Shlomo Mal-
cho, one of the false mes-
siashs of the 16th Century,
visited him in Constan-
tinople.
Actually, this volume is for
elders, although intended for
youth. There are so many in-
volvements regarding
R'Yosef, fellow kabbalists and
halachists and of the tradi-
tions inculcated in early
Jewry at that time that this
volume, which also has illus-
trated figures of the notables
and Sefat areas by Yof Ber-
showitz, is a source for
studies by well-informed el-
ders.
Steipler Gaon
Another biography of a
rabbinic leader published by
Mesorah is The Story of the
Steipler Gaon - The Life and
Times of Rabbi Yaakou Yis-
rael Kanievsky by Hanoch
Teller, illustrated by Yosef
Bershowitz.
This is a biography of the
Orthodox personality who
was popularly referred to as
"The Steipler." The life and
works of Rabbi Kanievsky
are delineated in this biog-
raphy with devotion and with
explanations of his commen-
taries which have gained
wide respect in Orthodox
scholarly ranks.
Indicted Israeli
Arms Dealers
May Leave U.S.
New York (JTA) — The U.S.
District Court in Manhattan
last week allowed the four
Israelis indicted here for con-
spiracy to sell American
weapons to Iran to return to
Israel until their trial,
scheduled to begin May 18.
The permission of the court
hinged on an assurance from
the Israeli government that it
would not prevent the defen-
dants from returning to
America for the trial.
Although Israel refused in-
itially, the court received a let-
ter recently containing the
necessary assurances.
Guri and Israel Eisenberg,
Brig. Gen. Avraham Bar-Am
and William Northrop were
indicted in April along with
13 other defendants on
charges of conspiracy to resell
about US 2 billion of Ameri-
can weapons stored in arse-
nals of other countries to
Iran.
The defendants have close
ties to several key players in
the U.S. government-sanc-
tioned arms sales, including
the Iranian intermediaries
Adnan Khashoggi and Manu-
cher Ghorbanifar. Same
Evans, the alleged middle-
man in the conspiracy, was
Khashoggi's lawyer for many
years. The relationship of the
defendants to those involved
in the U.S. approved deal will
likely be a central issue in the
trial.