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Israel here at the UN. That the
Israi Government was moved to
mal as its gift the pink hue
Jei ilem stone is in itself signif-
ic; and only testifies to the fact
th the modern Hebrew leaders
h not deviated from the tra-
i n of ancient Biblical Israel.
1 ory recounts that nearly every
,or turning-point in Israel’s
rnal existence was commemor-
d in stone. When Noah left the
rk. the very first think he did
as to build an altar of stone in
hankfulness to the God of Israel.
Moses, immediately after defeat
ing the Hitlers of his time, the
Amalekites, built a stone altar.
Later, his succesor, Joshua, before
entering Canaan, set up twelve
huge stones, one for each tribe,
in the Jordan River. Archaeologists
may yet discover them as also an
other rock-hewn wall on which
this great leader had engraved
the Decalogue Laws.
Certainly, Israel’s return to
sovereignty and recognition as such
by the world constitutes one of
the most important events in Jew
ish history since Bible times. The
stone patio here at the UN, there
fore, containing a built-up area
resembling an altar, appears in
absolute keeping with the eternal
tradition of the people of the Book
whose blue and white flag waves
proudly along with those of the
other member nations not far from
this modern 20th century Hebraic
altar testifying to the eternity of
Israel.
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Schiff Fund Grant establishes American Jewish
Periodical Center to microfilm more than a century
of Jewish publications. Project will make available to
scholars and researchers for the first time periodicals
in English, German, Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino;
microfilms to be obtainable on inter-library loan.
Establishment of the American
Jewish Periodical Center, a project
which will microfilm more than a
century of Jewish periodicals in
America for use by scholars and
researchers, has been announced
by Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, Adolph S.
Ochs Professor of History at He
brew Union College-Jewish Insti
tute of Religion in Cincinnati.
Establishment of the center was
made possible by a grant from the
Jacob R. Schiff Fund, Dr. Marcus
said. The professor, who is also di
rector of the American Jewish
Archives on the Cincinnati campus
of the College-Institute, will be di
rector of the Periodical Center.
The center will aim to microfilm
every Jewish periodical published
in the United States from 1823 to
1925. A selected group of journals
published after 1925 also will be
filmed. All five languages in which
Jewish material appears—English,
German, Hebrew, Yiddish and La
dino—will be included.
All microfilms produced by the
American Jewish Periodical Cen
ter will be available to recognized
institutions, libraries and scholars
on an inter-library loan basis. The
new project thus makes easily
available to research important
materials never before accessable.
The periodicals to be filmed are
scattered throughout America in
institutions, newspaper offices, and
private homes. To help locate them
and make them available for Cen
ter purposes, a group of disting
uished librarians and scholars met
with Dr. Marcus and formed a
Center Advisory Council April 9.
The meeting was held at the New
York school of the College-Insti
tute, 40 West 68th St.
‘'This project will have great
value for scholars,” Dr. Marcus
The Southern Israelite
said. "With the increasing interest
in the history of immigration and
the varied ethnic groups which
make up American life these peri
odicals take on added importance
for the general historian. The Jew
ish periodicals are a mine of in
formation for social and economic
historians, particularly since this
large body of material has barely
been touched until now by social
scientists.
“The Jewish press reflects the
geographic expansion of the United
States. Only six journals were
published in the Mid-Atlantic
states prior to the Civil War and
one west of the Alleghenies. Short
ly after the Gold Rush, two more
were established in California.
Within two or three decades, doz
ens of additional journals flour
ished in the Middle and Far West.
In many instances, complete sets of
these periodicals are not known
to exist. It is hoped that copies in
private hands as. well as institu
tional will be discovered. Com
munications about these will be
welcomed by the Periodical Center
which will be located on the Cin
cinnati campus of Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Re
ligion.”
The project may be the means
of preserving the Yiddish press for
future readers, Dr. Marcus added.
“This press, which began in the
1870’s if not copied soon may be
totally lost because of the poor
paper on which it was printed,
he said.
“Its material, indispensable to
any study of the unions in the
garment industry and vital to any
inquiry into the processes of ac
culturation of the East European
Jew, may prove of great signifi
cance to the general historian.”
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