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PANORAMA by David Schwartz
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Hyman Morris
Eugene Oberderfer
Gustav Oppenheimer
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Dave Stern
Harry Spiteer
Kalman Sunshine
Arthur Wale*
Sam Weinberg
»oul Welkin
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btny Harrison
BLOOM IN EUROPE, HOPE IN ISRAEL
* In his appearance before an Atlanta audience last week.
Za chari ah Shuster, head of the American Jewish Committee’s
European Office, found little ray for optimism in the outlook for
European Jewry.
In passing, he quipped that the A. J. C. attempts to steer a
middle ground with relationship to I.Aael have won censure alike
from Zionists on the one hand and from the Council of Judaism
An the other.
W Regardless, our readers will be greatly interested and en
couraged by a report made public bv the A. J. C. by way of an
evaluation of the Jewish State at the close of 1953.
The report finds “In spite of all the setbacks, we find definite
and important progress in economics, industry, agriculture, ex
portation, production and construction. Politically in spite of sen
sational events which point to setbacks, we find consolidation.
Spiritually, in spite of terrible mental depression, we find heart
searching criticism which leads and has lead to important im
provements in the outlook of the country. Culturally, in spite of
high-flowering language and sweeping pronouncements and so
cial legislation, we find a recession in education, higher and ele
mentary.
The outstanding aspect of the year must no doubt he the “re
vival of the spirit" in Israel, or a return from the reaction which
Set in after 1948.
JP One of the less successful parts of the young State is its edu-
Jfction, the report indicates. Starting out from high promises of
free education for all from six to fourteen, the government over
reached itself and then found no money to pay for the social ad
vances. Schools were nonetheless removed from the political
jparties,
1 In economics during 1953, inflation has been stopped and the
food situation has been well nigh normalized . . . hut austerity has
resulted in simple needs.
The statement presenting these views from an Israeli-ob
server cautions that the opinions do not necessarily represent
those of the A, J. C. If thev nevertheless represent anything ap
proaching a middle-of-the-road viewpoint, then there is indeed
cause for hope among Americans vitally concerned with the wel
fare of Israel. For this evaluation contains an indication of a sub
stantial foundation on which the young nation, with the help of
American Jewry, can continue to consolidate the gains made in the
past and to push forward materially and substantially.
QUIZ BOX by Rabbi S. J. Fox
Bo be Maase
QUESTION: What Is a ‘ Bohr
Maase?”
ANSWER: A “Bobe Maase” is a
general term usually given to any
tale of fantasy. The expression is
a Jewish one and is made up of
what is believed to be words
“Bobe” meaning a grandmother
and "Maase” meaning a “tale.”
The combination would be an ex
pression for a tale told to children
by a grandmother.
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QUESTION: What is the deri
vation of this term?
ANSWER: It is commonly "held
thaj this term originated in the
domestic custom where the grand
mother of the family used to tell
the children fantastic tales that
would captivate their imagination.
Thus any tale of fantasy came
to be called “a Bobe Maase."
Historians and literary critics
•onsider this derivation an er
roneous one. Their explaination
of the term has a more definite
historical connotation. It seems
that an Italian romance was trans
lated into Judaeo-German in the
J6th century by the Jewish gram
marian Elijah Bahur.
, This book was called the Bova
Israel had a white Hanukah.
While most of America had warm
weather and was hankering for a
bit of snow for the holidays, a
heavy snow, according to the Is
raeli press, blanketed the streets
of Jerusalefn in Safed.
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The same upside-downess is
visible in other ways. During the
last depression in America and the
rest of the world, Israel boomed.
I was in Palestine at the time and
singer, was introduced at a recent
Israel Bond function as a relative
of David Samoff, the radio tycoon.
When asked why she did not deny
the relationship—since she was
not his kin—she replied, “I never
repudiate any asset”
Now that there has been a Jol-
son and a Cantor story, it ought to
be followed by a Sarnoff story.
Sarnoff climbed up from the East
Side too, starting as an office boy
saw a Jew who had lost every- in the Jewish Forward; later, he
thing in Pittsburgh come to Pale- was the radio operator who
stine to claim his lots. The lots he brought the news of the sinking of
had bought in Palestine as a gen- the Titanic, the first great news
erous gesture were the only valu- event reported by wireless,
able thing left to him.
* » * The new Hebrew Encyclopedia
What has become of the old j being published in Israel has ar-
Messiah hallucination? Years ago. tides by 29 Nobel prize winners,
the Zionist Organization had fre- each writing on his specialty. The
quent visits from people who pro- article on cartooning is done by
claimed themselves the Messiah. I Walt Disney,
was there once when the Messiah * * *
came, accompanied by Elijah, the American western films are
Prophet. Since the establishment very popular in Israel. Maybe the
of the state, they seem to have fact that Israeli life in the Negeb
gone with the wind. and on the border parallels the old
• * * frontier days of America explains
Patrick Henry’s immortal, “Give the liking.
me liberty or death," comes from * * *
the Old Testament. Sometimes I think Ben Gurion
• • • who wants to see a lot of Ameri-
Jews who talk Yiddish are apt can Jews immigrate to Israel,
to be self-conscious and in the would get further if he stressed
presence of non-Jews often switch ; Zionism less and merely appealed,
to English, but those who talk He- ! "Come to Israel and be a cowboy."
brew never try to hide it.
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A large number of the immi
grant Jews from Russia and Po
land who settled In the small A-
merican towns caried on a little
domestic farming too. I remember
we always had a cow and chick
ens. The invariable name for our
cow—we had a number in sue
cesion—was Jennie. Later, I loved i from the oriental countries. The
a girl. Her name was Jennie too. I word “cotton” for the fibre is de-
don’t know if there was any con- rived from Arabic. The name,
nection. j “Cotton” however, is as in Cotton
* * • Mather, the famous Puritan Di-
I heard the delegate from Paki- vine, is supposed to be derived
stan at the United Nations attack from Hebrew. It means small or
Israel during the debate. Later at junior. Thus, Cotton Mather, the
the same session, I saw him son of Increase Mather, was sim-
chuckling with the Israeli delegate ply Mather Junior.
Abba Eban. Israel is fortunate in * * *
having Eban to represent her. His O n * °f the interesting things a-
English “geht vie a vasser” and bout Israel is the high regard they
makes a tremendous impression, have there for archaeologists. The
A California cotton grower is
responsible for experiments in
cotton growing which have been
successful in Israel. The new tex
tile factory set up with the aid of
Israel Bonds may help develop
Israel as a garment center.
Cotton growing stems originally
Dorothy
Bueh and the story is the story’ of
Bova or “Bova-Maase" as it might
be called in Yiddish. The name
Bova was originally Beauvais, the
French name of the hero of the
story. Since Bahur translated it
from the Italian it was translated
as Bova. The story itself describes
the adventures of this Beauvais
and the beautiful princess Drus-
ina. This story became so popular
that any fantastic tale came to
be known as a “Bova Maase,”
later corrupted into the form of
“Bobe Maase.”
QUESTION: What is meant by
the term “Maase?”
ANSWER: The simple term
"Maase’’ means either a “deed"
or a “tale.” It seems that the ori
ginal term came from the Hebrew
root "to do.” Later on, particularly
in Yiddish usage, the term took
on the meaning of a ‘tale’ or
j ‘story.’ There are, however, vari
ous stories in the form of Midra-
shim called “Massiyot,” the plural
of the Hebrew term “Maase.”
Since a tale usually relates some
thing that has been “done,” it is
j “deed” came to be used for denot-
easy to see how the term for a
i ing a “story."
♦PURIM
March 19, Friday
♦PASSOVER
April 18. Sunday
(First Day)
April 25, Sunday
(Eighth Day)
June 7, Monday
♦SHAVUOT
(First Day)
September 28, Monday
♦Rosh Hashonah
(First Day)
♦HOLIDAYS BEGIN
PREVIOUS EVENING
former Chief of the Army, Yadin,
is an archaeologist, the Vice Gov
ernor of Jerusalem is an archaeol
ogist and the recently chosen new
President of the Hebrew Univer
sity is an archaeologist. And yet
Jews think it a curse to say “Geh
in drerd.”
Guards at Nazi
Camp Sentenced
For Killing Jews
BREMEN, (JTA) — A local
German court has sentenced a
former concentration camp guard
to life improvement for murder
and gave two other guards six-
year terms for “manslaughter” of
Jewish prisoners. The sentences
followed an eight-week trial in
which 37 German and 18 Jewish
witnesses told of a regime of blood
and torture sparked by the in
human actions of the three defen
dants at the Gollechau satellite
camp of Oswiecim.
Joseph Kierspel, a criminal whd
became senior trustee, received
the life term after being convicted
of one murder and two cases of
“manslaughter.” The other tw#
defendants, Helmerlch Hailmann
and Johann Mirbeth, were each
given six-year terms, with two
years deducted for time spent in
pre-trial custody. Mirbeth, the
S. S. officer in charge of the camp,
was described by the prosecutor
as “contrite” because he had apo
logized to some of the Jewish wit
nesses against him for having
beaten them. Some of the Jewish
witnesses came from as far away
as Brazil, United States and Israel
in order to testify.
Watch for the Bishop
NEW YORK (JTA)—A gold
achievement award for his nation
al television program 1 Life It
Worth Living” was presented to
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen in absentia
by the Federation of Jewish Phi-
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