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TEXAS JEWISH POST THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1976 FORT WORTH PAGE 2
Between You and Me
American professors,
writers and students
Jewish and non-Jewish - are
spending more and more
time in the YIVO library and
archives in New York which
are widely recognized as the
greatest collection of hold-,
ings pertaining to Jewish
history and culture of
Eastern Europe, mass set-
tlement of Jewish immi-
grants in this country, the
Holocaust, the Jewish labor
movement in the U.S., and
Yiddish language, literature
and folklore. Some scholars
spend several months a year
in YIVO doing research
relevant to their work. The
information media, institu-
tions of higher learning and
communal leaders are sim-
ilarly utilizing the YIVO
library and archives.
Irving Howe, author of
“World of Our Fathers,”
Lucy S. Dawidowicz, author
of “The War Against the
Jews 1933-1945,” and at
least a half-dozen other
authors of best sellers have
this year expressed thanks
to YIVO for the important
role its library and archives
played by providing them
with research material
which gave depth and
authenticity to their works.
One can find many foreign
non-Jewish scholars doing
research in YIVO on sub-
jects concerning Jews in
which they are interested.
BY BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
YIVO ACHIEVEMENTS:.
The YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research - which is
holding its annual confer-
ence this week (May 9-12) in
New York - is gaining more
and more prestige in this
country among academi-
cians, authors and Ameri-
can-born Jewish youth of
student age. It is also
gaining increased recogni-
tion on the part of the U.S.
government as a major
cultural institution.
grants are given through the
National Endowment for the
Humanities where YIVO
enjoys a high reputation.
• A half of the NEH grant
this year has been desig-
nated for the YIVO archives.
These funds will be devoted
to registering all collections
that are in the YIVO
archives and to establish a
meaningful registration
system enabling complete
control over all materials.
The government grant will
thus enable YIVO archivists
to ultimately provide the
scholarly community with
the most detailed picture of
the contents of YIVO’s
holdings.
The YTVO library does not
lend out books; everything
must be read in the reading
room. One can therefore find
in the library young and old
researchers, men and wo-
men of university faculties,
copying or marking pages
and passages in books for
Xerox copies which YIVO
gladly prepares. There is
also the general public which
finds special interest in
“looking up” material in
YIVO which hardly can be
found in other libraries.
Some 100 colleges and
universities throughout the
country are making use of
YIVO’s inter-university loan
system and are borrowing
books, periodicals and other
printed matter for their
students and faculty mem-
bers.
One of the most inspiring
examples of YTVO’s work
based on material from its
archives is an exhibition
giving photographic presen-
tation of Jewish life in
Poland from 1864-1939. This
photographic exhibition
opened in the Jewish Mu-
seum of New York about
two months ago. It has
attracted tremendous atten-
tion. It will run in New York
through September and will
be shown later in other
cities. The material for this
exhibition has been gleaned
from YIVO’s special collec-
tion of about 10,000 photo-
graphs of Jewish life in
Poland from the end of the
19th century to the eve of
World War II.
NEW PRESIDENT: YIVO,
which celebrated . its 50th
anniversary last year, is
constantly seeking to attract
new active forces into its
ranks. It has just elected
Morris Laub, the well-
known organization execu-
tive, as its executive pres-
ident.
U.S. RECOGNITION:
Recognizing the importance
of YIVO, the U.S. govern-
ment, during the last few
years, has awarded sub-
stantial grants to YIVO on a
matching basis in order to
enable the institution to
preserve valuable books and
manuscripts as well as to
expand its program. The
Message of Freedom
mined to prevent
landing in Palestine.
their
From Israel's Capital
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BY YITZHAK RABIN
This year the NEH award-
ed the YIVO a grant for its
library to catalogue uncata-
logued Yiddish books in
YIVO’s possession; also to
recatalogue the Yiddish
books previously processed
in the library. The YIVO
library has the largest
Yiddish book collection in
the world. The new project
will make it possible for the
Library of Congress in
Washington to publish a
National Union Catalogue of
Yiddish Publications. There ,
are thousands of Yiddish
books not owned by the
Library of Congress, but by
the YIVO library.
It was “Moish” Laub - as he
is affectionately called -
whom the JDC, in coopera-
tion with the United Nations
Refugee Relief Administra-*
tion, sent to Cyprus to direct
aid to the Jews in the camps.
The job he did was lauded by
UNRRA. The sensitive
attention he gave to the
various needs of the intern-
ed Jews evoked warm and
lasting feelings for him
among them. With the
establishment of Israel since
the camps were dissolved,
the British administration
ceased to have control over
emigration.
From Jerusalem, the eternal capital of
Israel, I extend my greetings on the
occasion of Yom Ha'atzmaut, the twenty -
eighth Day of Independence of Israel.
With each passing year, the significance of
this day assumes in the Jewish world a
greater clarity and a more profound depth.
It beckons attention both as an anniversary
of freedom and as a new spiritual threshold
in the life of the Jewish nation. Each new
assault upon the integrity, unity and
interdependence of the Jewish peoplehood
serves to strengthen the unique quality of
Yom Ha’Atzmaut as a symbol of
impregnability is history.
economic infrastructure: An essential
component of Israel’s strength is its
economic development which must continue
to expand. This requires of us to work even
harder, export more and consume less. It
requires of the free Jewish world to invest
in Israel in an unprecedented fashion an
share, thereby, in its upbuilding.
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Laub was later director of
the Department of Immigra-
tion to Israel at the
European headquarters of
the JDC in Paris. He was
subsequently brought to
New York to become assis-
tant to Moses A. Leavit,
the iate executive vice-chair-
man of the JDC. A graduate
of the Teachers Institute of
the Yeshiva University and
holder of degrees from City
College of New York and
New York University, Laub
served as a teacher in the
New York high school
system prior to his joining
the JDC staff.
The Independence Day of Israel marks the
end of one chapter in Jewish history and the
beginning of a new. It draws a line between
past survival by chance and future
existence by self-will; of being helplessly
controlled by events and of controlling
events by our own choice, means and
purpose. This is what we celebrate when we
commemorate the rebirth of the Jewish
State 28 years ago. It is a celebration of the
victory of the Jewish spirit over every
suppressor and despot, past and present. It
is a Jewish festival of freedom as lasting
and as indestructable as the values, the
faith and the heritage which inspired it.
Four, the closing of the social gap:
Twenty-eight years after our independence
we are still engaged in the great human
effort to give all our citizens equality of
opportunity through better education,
better skills, better housing and a bette
quality of life. Here, too, Israel continues
look to the generosity of the free Jewi^
world to give of its best in helping to crs
with us the instruments to meet the hui
needs of our society.
Since 1958 he has been
holding the position of
director of the World Coun-
cil of Synagogues. He has
been taking an active in-
terest in YIVO as a member
of its administrative com-
mittee and its executive. His
profound knowledge of
Yiddish and Hebrew, in
addition to English, as well
as his erudition in Jewish
history of all times in all
lands, make him the most
ideal executive president of
YIVO.
As we enter into our 29th year of liberty,
Israel remembers its sons and daughters
who sacrificed all so that we might
celebrate this day - those who fell in the
struggle for our freedom and in the
subsequent battles to protect it. Their
legacy is precious and it imposes upon us
the common obligation to build a better, a
more beautiful and a stronger Israel. To do
so we must address ourselves to five major
challenges, each of which is formidable in
itself and together hold the key to our
collective welfare. They are:
And five, the further strengthening of t|
bond between the Jewish State and
Jewish people: Herein lies the real streng
of Israel and of our people everywhei
Israel is the child of us all. Our future,
our past, is one. It must be forged ever
stronger and ever deeper through a new
priority for Jewish education. It has to
express itself through a new commitment to
Aliy ah. And it must be reflected in closer
ties of intimacy through volunteer efforts in
Israel, visits to Israel in unprecedent
numbers, the sharing of material mea
public solidarity and an ever meaning
dialogue of thinking.
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These, I believe, to be the Jew|
.priorities of our times. They relate to
welfare of us all and not least to our
brethren in countries where freedom is
denied them - the remnants of communities
in Arab countries where they are held
hostage, and the great Jewish community
of the Soviet Union. Israel, together with
Jews in the free world everywhere, will
rest until they are granted their elementl
right to live a full Jewish life and to join"
without intimidation and harassment.
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One, the search for peace: This as, always,
represents the supreme priority of our
policies. As a Jewish State, it is the essence
of our heritage.
Let, then, this Yom Ha’Atzmaut serve as a
day of recommitment to the ideal and the
vision expressed in the Declaration of
Independence proclaimed 28 years ago -_of
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peace, ingathering, equality, justice and fla
Two, the strengthening of our defensive Jewish peoplehood worthy of its prophSc
capacity: So long as the basic attitude of our destiny,
neighbors remains one of hostility and
rejection, we have no choice but to continue So very much depends, not upon oth
to invest heavily in our self-defense. The but upon ourselves. If all of us will do W
cost is heavy and the sacrifice is great, but we can do, there is no obstacle that
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it is crucial as a deterrent to war, as the
means to successfully protect ourselves if
again attacked, and as an instrument to
encourage the peace process itself.
cannot overcome together. With this as our
commitment we shall, with God’s held,
accomplish the tasks we began together 28
years ago.
Three, the further consolidation of our Chag Sameach.
National Jewish Book Awards to Be Give
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Mr. Laub had gained a high
reputation during the im-
mediate post-war years
when he worked in execu-
tive positions for the Joint
Distribution Committee
overseas and at the New
York headquarters. Thou-
sands of Jews in Israel
remember him now grate-
fully as JDC director of the
camps in Cyprus in which
the British administration in
Palestine interned them
after intercepting them on
the high seas following their
liberation from Nazi camps.
The British administration
classified them as “illegal
immigrants” and was deter-
NEW YORK - Winners of
the 1976 National Jewish
Book Awards, presented
annually by the Jewish book
Council of JWB, have been
announced by Mrs. Charles
Schwartz, Presient of JWB’s
Jewish Book Council. The
National Jewish Book
Awards will be presented
Sunday, May 23, at 2 p.m. at
the Park Avenue Syna-
gogue, 50 East 87th Street,
New York City.
$500 and a citation.
the winners of the 1976
National Jewish Book
Awards are:
The awards are presented
to authors of outstanding
works in the fields of Jewish
history, Jewish fiction, the
Holocust, poetry, juvenile
literature, Israel, Jewish
thought, and translations of
Jewish classics. The awards *
represent the highest re-
cognition in American
Jewish literature. Each
award carries a cash prize of
Dr. Raphael Patai and
Jennifer Patai Wing,
winners of the Bernard H.
Marks Award for a book of
Jewish history, for their
work, “The Myth of the
Jewish Race.” (Charles
Scribner’s Sons, N.Y.)
Johanna Kaplan, winner of
the William and Janice
Epstein Award for Jewish
fiction, for her collection of
short stories, “Other
People’s Lives” (Alfred A.
Knopf, N.Y.).
Leyzer Ran,
“Yerushalayim
(“Jerusalem of
(Vilvno in Pictures, Inc.,
New York) was awarded the
Leon Jolson Award for a
book on the Holocaust.
author of
de Lite”
Lithuania”)
M. Husid, author of “A
Shotn Trogt Main Kroin”
(“A Shadow Bears My
Crown”) (Montreal Book
Committee) will receive the
Harry and Florence Kovner
Memorial Award for Poetry.
The Charles and Bertie G.
Schwartz Award for juven-
ile literature will go to
Shirley Milgrim, author of
“Haym Salomon: Liberty’s
Son” (Jewish Publication
Society of America, Phila-
delphia).
Dr. Melvin I. Urofsky,
author of “American
Zionism from Herzl to the
Holocaust” (Doubleday,
N.Y.), will receive the
Morris J. Kaplun Memorial
Award for a book on Israel.
The Frank and Ethel S.
Cohen Award for a book on
Jewish thought will be
presented to Dr. Solomon B.
Freehof, author of “Contem-
porary Reform Responsa”
(Hebrew Union College
Press, Cincinnati).
Rabbi William G. Bipde
and Professor Israe® J.
Kapstein are the winn JB of
the Rabbi Jacob Freedman
Award for an English
translation of a Jewish
classic for their translation
of “Pesikta de-Rab Kahana:
R. Kahana’s Compilation of
Discourses for Sabbath®nd
Festal Days” (Jewish Indi-
cation Society of AmOTca,
Philadelphia).
The eight panels of judges
for the National Jewish
Book Awards were drawn
from a cross-section of
American cultural life. Skey
are identified with uni\®si-
ties, research instit®es,
libraries, archives, and
synagogues throughout the
U.S. and Canada.
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