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: Museum To Honor Kirkland
THE IRTHDAY OYS:
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ood old Woody —
Woodrow Wilson, that
is — would turn 137
this Dec. 26, were he
still alive. The 28th president
shares his birthday month
with the eighth president, Mar-
tin Van Buren (born Dec. 5,
1782), and 17th president,
Andrew Johnson (born Dec.
29, 1808).
Woodrow Wilson in 1916
became the first president to
appoint a Jew, Louis D. Bran-
deis, to the U.S. Supreme
Court. He also appointed Hen-
ry Morgenthau ambassador to
Turkey. Much to the chagrin
of the U.S. State Depart-
ment, Wilson approved
of the Zionist cause and
gave his support to the
Balfour Declaration. He
saw to it that the 1919 treaties
ending World War I contained
guarantees for the rights of mi-
norities, including Jews, in Eu-
rope. In January 1921, Wilson
headed a list of 119 prominent
gentiles protesting Henry Ford
I's anti-Semitic propaganda.
Martin Van Buren was the
first American president to in-
tervene on behalf of Jews in
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foreign lands. In 1840, he
protested the false murder
charges against several Jews
in Damascus. As a result, the
judgments were rescinded.
While serving in the U.S.
Mazel Toy,
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Style
Senate, Andrew Johnson of
Tennessee used anti-Semitic
language to belittle two Jew-
ish senators. Yet back in
Nashville, Johnson had many
Jewish friends, and even de- •
livered the keynote speech at •
the 1874 dedication of the Vuie •
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he U.S. Holocaust Memo-
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rial Museum is set to hon-
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or AFL-CIO President
• Lane Kirkland next
month in Washington.
Mr. Kirkland is being
awarded the muse-
um's Medal of Re-
membrance
"in
recognition of the la-
bor organization's tire-
less
efforts
to
remember the victims
of the Holocaust and
promote the lessons
and values embodied Lane Kirkland
by the museum."
Labor leaders and longtime
museum supporters have been
invited to the Jan. 13 reception.
The event also will
mark the more than
$2 million raised —
much of it with the
help of union leader-
ship — for a muse-
um library.
Trade unionists
were among the
Nazis' first targets,
and labor through-
out the world was
quick to condemn
the rise of Hitler.
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ongratulations go to a cou-
ple of nice Jewish kids who
just got married out there
in Hollywoodland.
Darkman director Sam Rai-
mi, of Franklin, Mich., has tied
the knot with Gillian Greene.
The former Miss Greene is the
daughter of actor Lome "Bo-
nanza" Greene, world renowned
for his "Ken L Ration" com-
mercials.
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he Samuel Bronfman
Foundation is offering 25
scholarships for students
entering the 12th grade to
spend five weeks in Israel this
summer.
Winners will
be selected
based on charac-
ter, intellectual
interests, special
talents and
leadership
qualities. Merit,
not financial
need, is the
standard for se-
lection.
While living
in Jenisalem,
Bronfman fel-
lows participate
in seminars and
dialogues with a
diverse rabbinic
faculty, representing a wide
range of Jewish perspectives.
They explore Jewish text and
meet with some of Israel's
prominent political and liter-
ary figures.
The program begins July 5,
1994; students
will return Aug.
11. All expenses
are covered by
the program,
including trans-
portation, room
and board and
incidentals.
For an app-
lication form,
write the Bronf-
man Youth
Fellowships in
Israel, 17
Wilbur St., Al-
bany,
N.Y.
12202, or call
(518) 465-6575.
Completed
applications must be post-
marked by Feb. 1.
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nstead of sticking with the
usual stuff, sticker fans
should check out Hallmark
Cards' "Hello! From Around the
World" stickers that feature 12
friendly faces
saying "hel-
lo" in their
native
tongues:
Guten
Tag! Bon
Jour! Hallo!
Ciao! and —
best of all —
Shalom!
That figure,
garbed in a tal-
lit and a black
hat, of course
represents Is-
rael and was
drawn by SojtAxei,
artist Joan
Walsh Anglund.
Also featured are Japan,
Egypt, England and Spain.
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A Sotheby's employee displays a copy of the first Jewish prayer book printed in North America
Hebrew Books Fetch $1.64 Million
ew York (JTA) — A col-
lection of rare Hebrew
books from the Schock-
en collection has fetched $1.64
million at a London auction
house.
The books included 162 items
from a private collection of
Hebrew works belonging to pub-
lisher Salman Schocken, a
German Jew who died in 1959.
Some of the centuries-old
works contained the notes of
Christian censors; others held
the family records of their Jew-
ish owners.
Included in the collection were
works of philosophy, religion,
science and poetry.
Fetching one of the highest
prices was the Rabbinic Code of
Jewish Laws and Customs, an
early compilation of authorita-
tive interpretations of Jewish
law written by Rabbi Jacob ben
Asher, a 14th century writer also
known as the Ba'al HaTurim.
The work went to a private
British collector for $120,600.
A copy of the first Jewish
prayer book published in the
United States brought in $7,216,
according to Sotheby's, which
had expected the book, printed
in 1766, to bring in close to
$4,200.
Salman Schocken was born
in 1877 in Posen, which is now
Poland. In 1901, he and his
brother Simon founded I.
Schocken Sons, a store in Zwick-
au, Germany. The business
grew into a chain of 19 depart-
ment stores and created a for-
tune that enabled Salman
Schocken to buy rare Jewish
books and found a large pub-
lishing business.
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