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Friday, January 24, 1964
IHI SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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Dr. Blumenfeld Urges (Creation
ol New Tools for Hebrew Studies
By DAVID HOROWITZ
NEW YORK (WUP)-Dr. Sam
uel "Blumenfeld, director of the
Department of Mutation and
Culture of the Jewish Agency,
has strongly criticized the Jew
ish schools of America, the ma
jority of which, he maintains,
have failed to institute a system
v,hereby "a modern, living He
brew” may be taught the stu
dents.
Speaking at a press luncheon
in the American Jewish Congress
building here recently—at which
time the AJC and the Jewish
Agency introduced their jointly-
sponsored language course, ‘‘He
brew Through Conversation,” for
mulated on two long-playing rec
ords—Dr. Blumenfeld termed it a
tragedy that rabbis, "despite their
modernity,” do not teach living
Hebrew.
The two recordings, contained
in an attractive album to which
is included a 55-page illustrated
manual and dictionary, cover
fourteen basic conversational les
sons carefully designed to impart
a WORKING KNOWLEDGE of
elementary Hebrew.
A portion of the recording was
played at the luncheon, and this
writer was deeply impressed with
the whole method and system
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used. It goes without saying that
any youngster or, adult, by this
method, could easily acquire a
working knowledge of modern
spoken Hebrew in record time.
As the sponsors state, ‘‘this is
the first Hebrew language record
to be issued in the U. S. in -which
the emphasis is not on learning
isolated phrases by rote. The les
sons presented are designed to
enable the student to learn ele
mentary conversational Hebrew.
The vocabulary has been care
fully selected (based ort word-
lists compiled by the Ministry
of Education of the Israel Gov
ernment and by the Departments
of Education of the Jewish Agen
cy) to meet the needs of students
in English-speaking countries
news bits
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—Police
detained four members of the ex
tremist anti-Semitic Tacuara
youth group in a spectacular raid
on a workshop where they found
a substantial quantity of gelinite,
a material used for making ex
plosives. The police also found
firearms and a stolen car. Init
ially, the raid had been aimed
only at recovering the auto but
subsequently the Tacuara mem
bers confessed to possession of the
explosive material.
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—A
total of 103 Brazilian Jews sail
ed from this port aboard the Zim
Lner, SS Theodor Herzl, all of
them intending to settle perman
ently in Israel, according to ^n
announcement by the immigra
tion department of the United
Zionist Organization of Brazil.
SAO PAUIX) (JTA) Dr Jose
Sersen, a well-known Jewish at
torney here, was elevated to a
judgeship. He was selected among
100 candidates. He is 1 lie first Jew
to serve on the bench here. There
are several Jews who are judges
in Rio de Janeiro.
AMSTERDAM (JTA) Former
SS Col. Karl Barbor, who served
as a doctor in a Nazi liquidation
camp near Wroclaw, Poland, dur
ing the war, is serving as a phy
sician in the court oi Emperior
Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, an
Amsterdam newspaper, Vrije
Volk, reported.
Metropolitan Minneapolis
Jewish Population Grows
MINNEAPOLIS (JTA)—'There
are an estimated 22,000 Jews now
living in Minneapolis, compared
with 16,260 Jewish persons of all
ages in 4,136 families here in
1936. according to figures com
piled by the Minneapolis Federa
tion for Jewish Services.
The Federation is now engaged
m a study designed to show how
many Jews there are in the met
ropolitan Minneapolis area, the
sections where they live, their
mobility from one section to
another, and the rate at which
their addresses are changing. The
survey will provide estimates of
file average size of the Jewish
lamilics; ages among the Jewish
popplation; the extent of Jew
ish and general education among
t:.c Jewish population; and syn
agogue affiliations. ,
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In 1936, the Federation count,
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household count, conducted by
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Jewish population had grown al
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New ft it tel Units
On Th ree Campuses
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
B'nai B’rith Hillel Foundation
programs have Decn establish
ed in three more campuses
bringing to 250 the number of
Hillel installations at colleges
and universities in the United
States and abroad, B'nai B’rith
announced here over the week
end.
The new programs of Hillel’s
religious and cultural activities
and personal counseling to Jew
ish students were inaugurated
at Vanderbilt University and
George College, both in Nash
ville, and at Plattsburgh Col
lege, a unit of the New York
State University.
r This is not a collection of tour
ist phrases; it is a language
course.”
The clear, resonant voices
heard in the recording are those
of such well-known personalities
as IXila Ben-Yehudah, daughter
of Eliezer Ben Yehudah; Shmuel
Almag, Reuven Adiv; Laya Brod
sky; Rina Elisha; Oded Teomi;
Herzliya Zameret and Yoav Zoh-
ar.
Author of the two-record course
and the manual is Yehezkiel
Cohen, a veteran Hebrew teach
er Consultants included Dr.
Benjamin Benari; Ben-Zion
I schler; Dr. Samuel Grand; Dr.
Shlomo Kodesh; Judah Lapson
and Aharon Rosen. Julius Katz,
director of the Commission on
Jewish Affairs of the American
Jewish Congress, played a vital
p lo in the production of the
unique album which was directed
and produced by Himan Brown.
Consul General of Israel in New
York, Katriel Katz, was the hon
ored guest at the luncheon.
This writer, who is aware of
the great desire on the pert of so
many in America to learn “con
versational Hebrew,” highly rec
ommends this easily-to-grasp two-
record album and manual which
sells for $7.95.
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