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Palestine Travelogue Is Released
“A Trip Through the Valley of Jezreel
“A Trip Through the Emek,” is* the
name of a new educational film that
has just been released by the Pales
tine Educational Committee, 71 West
47th Street, New York City. The film
depicts over fifty scenes and views
taken in the Valley of Jezreel, Pales
tine. It is accompanied by a very at
tractively printed lecture explaining
the pictures.
This film and lecture illustrate the
almost miraculous transformation of
a vast swamp area in Palestine into
a fruitful and healthy colonization
center. Thanks to the sacrifices of
the chalutzim and the projects under
taken by the World Zionist Organi
zation and the Jewish National Fund,
the Valley of Jezreel (Emek) now
feeds thousands of Jewish families in
more than twenty prosperous villages.
Beginning at historical Mr. Carmel,
the travelogue takes us through the
entire length of the Emek, stopping
at the most important points en route
such as the Kishon River, the villages
of the Chasidim, an old Arab village,
the workers’ village of Nahalal, the
Girls’ Agricultural College, the Bal
four Forest, the Nazareth Highlands,
the Children’s Village established by
South African Jews, the American
colony of Balfouria and many of the
workers Kevutzoth including Ain Ha-
rod. It also shows Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann laying the corner stone for a
new village in the Emek on the oc
casion of his visit to Palestine. There
are also a number of views showing
the Emek “before and after” its “con
quest” by the Jews.
The Emek film is part of an educa
tional project designed to meet the
needs of the Jewish school, club and
home. It can be shown with the aid
of a small electric projector which is
recommended by the Palestine Edu
cational Committee and which is pro
curable for as low as $17.25. The film
itself is procurable at $1.50, including
the lecture.
The Palestine Educational Commit
tee consists of a group of individuals
prominent in Jewish educational and
cultural affairs. The committee is
headed by Judah Lapson, Chairman,
and includes Israel S. Chipkin, Chas.
A. Cowen, Samuel Dinin, Oscar Di-
vinsky, Joshua Friedman, Philip
Gingold, Herman Jacobs, David Ru-
davsky, Dr. Mordecai Soltes, Kalman
Whiteman. Joseph Shaffer is secre
tary.
THAT MAN SOKOLOW
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the subsequent personal contact of
Sokolow with these statesmen.
When the French and Italian gov
ernments had to be communicated
with and their backing for the im
pending Balfour Declaration had to
be secured it was Sokolow, as much
at home at Paris and Rome as at
Ixmdon, who carried on the negotia
tions. The editor of Hatzefirah pene
trated even the Vatican in order to
obtain the Pope’s approval for the
Zionist negotiations with the British
Government. Later, at the Paris
Peace Conference, he negotiated tact
fully and confidently with the repre
sentatives of the various old and new
nations—the personification of Dias
pora Jewry, a one-man Jewish League
of Nations, speaking the languages
and familiar with the political and
cultural history of all nations, a per
sonality of amazing resourcefulness,
unshakable patience, imperturbable
calm and supreme confidence in the
ultimate triumph of Jewish national
aspirations.
It is but a few months since I saw
him at his London home, called
Hatzefirah, after the first Hebrew
publication which he edited and with
which his Hebrew journalistic activ
ity has been bound up so long and so
intimately. His three-story house
gives one the impression of a modern
ocean liner. A winding staircase leads
to the study on the top floor, an aus
tere room lined with books. There he
spends the rare moments of leisure
which his extensive political and prop
aganda work for the Zionist Organ
ization leaves him; there he devote#
himself to his Hebrew lexicon. A
dozen steel card-filing cabinets, chairs
and a large, simple table are the only
furniture. The cards which he uses
for his lexicon, and which he needs
constantly, are contained in especially
constructed steel cases that occom-
pany him on all his travels. No soon
er does he reach a hotel in New York,
Johannesburg or Paris than his faith-
ful daughater Celina—an eminent
physician, who accompanies her illus
trious father wherever he goes un
packs the books and cards necessary
for his lexicographic work. Originally,
I believe, Sokolow planned a medical
dictionary; but it has gradually devel
oped into an all-embracing lexicon.
And this was inevitable. So many-
sided a scholar could not limit him
self to a single branch of science.
We discussed possible developments
in Eretz Israel. The Zionist leader
who had gone through all the birth-
pangs of political Zionism in the days
of Herzl, reviewed the situation calm
ly and logically. He told me of the
conversations he had had with several
British statesmen and of the steps
which he and Dr. Weizmann contem
plated. He emanated a quiet optimism.
Then he dismissed the topic of Pales
tine and we returned to his lexicon,
the gigantic opus on which he has
labored for many decades. That ten
human lifetimes would not suffice for
its completion does not worry him.
His daughter told me that her father
had frequently devoted weeks to a
single word.
As I watched the septuagenarian
lo\ ingly finger his index cards the real
Sokolow revealed himself to me. No
more the fluent journalist finding his
pleasure in the juggling of scintillat
ing comments on the contemporary
world scene—no longer the brilliant
causeur and stylist for style’s sake
alone. When political emergencies
tear him away from his desk he goes
quite willingly, like the old soldier
that he is; but his heart remains in
his study, where he is "building a tre
mendous structure for the organic de
velopment of modern Hebrew and the
enrichment of our culture.
Some one has said: When looking at
life the emotional man suffers—but
the thinker smiles. Nahum Sokolow
is a thinker, first and last.
Copyright 1931 by S. A. F. S.
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