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BORIS SMOLAR:
Embattled Professors
I am no expert in archaeology . . . But I am watching with great
interest the fight now developing around the discovery of ancient
Hebrew manuscripts, reportedly including the Book of Isaiah
Some Jewish historians in America, including Prof. Zeitlin of
Dropsie College, doubt the authenticity of these manuscripts . . .
But Israelit scholars and archaeologists are certain that the manu
scripts are genuine.
The manuscripts are now being studied in America and may
become the property of Yale University ... A sum of $1,000,000
is being asked for them by the head of the Syrian Convent in
Palestine who is in possession of the most important part of these
recent discoveries.
Should the manuscripts turn out to be genuine, they will add
something new to the Bible, and this is the most important factor
in the quarrel between the Israeli and American Jewish scholars
. . . For in addition to the original text of the Book of Isaiah, the
discoveries include an epic work called “The Book of Wars” and
another scroll entitled “The Book of Thanksgiving” . . . Experts
consider them as important as the Book of Job and other sections
of the Bible . . . There are also three manuscripts of Hymns and
Psalms, considered by experts of no less importance than the
Psalms we now know . . . There is also among the discoveries an
important commentary on the Prophet Habakuk as well as a
manual of Jewish rights and discipline.
The Hebrew University in Jerusalem would love to acquire
these manuscripts, but has no funds . . . Yale University is bar
gaining for them and will, in all likelihood, get them ... A
British scholar, who examined the Isaiah manuscript on its way
through London to the United States, told me that he believes
the scrolls to be genuine ... He is of the opinion that the dis
coveries are “revolutionary” and can have an incalculable effect
upon future teaching in schools and universities all over the world
. . . Furthermore, he also visualizes considerable consequences
in politics, “because there can be no doubt that 19th century
Biblical criticism was followed by far-reaching political and
social consequences.”
Pioneer Psychoanalist
by EDCAR BERNSTEIN
(South African Correspondent of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
With the death in Johannesburg
of Dr. Wulf Sachs, South Africa
has lost its foremost psychoanalyst
and a writer of considerable repute,
and the Jewish community has lost
one of its leading communal
workers. He was only 56 years of
age, in the very midst of an active
and crowded life, full of work and
plans for the future.
He was taken ill suddenly in his
consulting room and died within
two days. I had lunch with him
only a few days before, and we dis
cussed the book he was even then
completing and for which his
American publishers were waiting.
It was a pioneer study of “The
Psychology of Suffering” and it was
directed towards analyzing the
motivating forces of unnecessary
suffering, and towards combating
the idealization of suffering that is
so characteristic of many religious
creeds. “This idealization of suffer
ing is terribly wrong,” Dr. Sachs
told me once. “The religious
martyr, whether Jewish or Chris
tian — what a wrong ideal for hu
manity to follow! The great task of
our age should surely to be liberate
humanity from suffering. We have
found ways to do so medically and
psychologically; we must now work
to achieve this socially as well.”
This fight against suffering epito
mized Dr. Wulf Sachs' life and
teaching. Born in Russia in 1893,
he received his education at the
Universities of Leningrad, Cologne
and London. He came to South
Africa in 1922 and settled in Johan
nesburg, where he first set up prac
tice as a general practitioner, subse
quently specializing in psycho
analysis. He was a close friend of
Sigmund Freud, who gave his pre
fatory commendation to the au
thoritative book which Dr. Sachs
wrote on psychoanalysis.
In those days, psychoanalysis was
largely unknown in South Africa,
and Dr. Sachs undertook the task
of “cutting the road” for its estab
lishment. He popularized the sub
ject in lectures at the Witwaters-
rand University and elsewhere, and
in articles in the press, and eventu-
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