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■ Jewish roots
Children have questions,
but parents lack answers
by Boris Smolar
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Academic youths are becoming
more and more aware of the fact
that the Jewish people have a rich
4,000-year-old heritage, but they
know nothing of its dimensions
and values that have illuminated
the past and have profound
meaning for the present. They
want to learn about it. They want
to know their “Jewish roots.”
So are thousands of intellectual
American-born Jewish parents
who received no Jewish education
in their early youth. Many of them
are embarrassed when their
grown-up children ask them
questions on the Jewish inventory
of the past. They are not equipped
with the knowledge necessary to
give them the proper answers.
They are perplexed.
“I feel very often confused,” a
friend confided to me. “Busy as I
am, I'm now registered for programs
of Jewish studies at Columbia
University. 1 am trying to make up
for my neglected Jewish education.
I do this for my own sake as well as
for the sake of keeping closer ties
with my inquisitive children. 1
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eyes. Here I encourage them to
strengthen their Jewish identity,
but'when it comes to answering
their basic questions, I find myself
very often inadequate.”
Columbia University programs
in Jewish studies offer a wide
variety in all fields of our time,
including the Holocaust and the
faculty the two greatest Yiddish
scholars, Dr. Max Weinreich,
author of the four-volume
“History of the Yiddish
Language,” and his son, Prof.
Uriel Weinreich, the noted
philologist who established at
Columbia University the only
graduate program in Yiddish
‘Intellectual achievement is part of an
extraordinary Jewish cultural heritage, a
heritage that is precious to everyone
who cherishes learning.:
V —Dr. W.J. McGill
establishment of the State ot
Israel. Also American Jewish
history. They also offer an
excellent opportunity to study—
under distinguished scholars —
Jewish thinking and philosophy of
all times; the Biblical Age, the
Hellenistic Age, the Talmudic Age,
the Judeo-lslamic Age, the
European Age, the Modern Age.
Its studies also encompass Jewish
religion, literature in Yiddish and
Hebrew and sociology of the Jews
throughout the world.
Because Judaica ranges over
many academic disciplines, the
Jewish studies at Columbia are not
isolated in one department. They
are intergrated among a variety of
disciplines. Thus, students are
trained in one academic field with
valuable cross-fertilization
throughout contact with other
disciplines.
Columbia is very proud of its
record in studies relating to Jews.
Throughout the years it had quite a
number of eminent Jewish
scholars on its faculty. Among
them was Prof. Richard Gottheil,
the great and inspiring Jewish
educator who was Professor of
Rabbinic Literature and Semitic
Languages at Columbia from 1887
to his death in 1936. Prof. Salo W.
Baron, the leading Jewish
historian of our time—the author
of the monumental 17-volume
“Social and Religious History of
Jews” which is majestic in its sweep
of time and place spanning a three-
and-a-half millenium—has been
teaching at Columbia for decades.
In 1930, he was appointed
Professor in Jewish History,
Religion and Institutions, a post he
held untiOhis retirement in 1963.
Columbia University is also
proud of the fact that it had on its
studies in the United States. One of
the latter’s great contributions was
his “Modern English-Yiddish and
Yiddish-English Dictionary”
which brought new directions into
the Yiddish language. He also was
the author of “College Yiddish,” a
text book for students which has
seen many editions. Both, the
father and the son, were pillars of
the YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research with which Columbia
University works hand-in-hand.
The death of these two giants in
Jewish scholarship was a great loss
to those interested in Yiddish
culture.
To preserve and strengthen its
program of Jewish studies so that
the role of the Jews in our society
be better understood—and the
great riches of Jewish contribu
tions to humanity given the
deserved attention and apprecia
tion—Columbia University is now
seeking to meet a goal of
$7,500,000 by 1980. The reaching
of this goal will enable the
university to slistain its pre
eminence as an international
center for Judaica.
The tradition of encouraging
Jewish learning in Columbia, more
than two centuries old, finds its
expression in the warn tribute to
Jewish scholarship paid by Dr.
William J. McGill, the present
president of the university.
“Intellectual achievement," Dr.
McGill says, “is part of an
extraordinary Jewish cultural
heritage, a heritage that is precious
to everyone who cherishes
learning It is, therefore,
incumbent upon an institution
devoted to the advancement of
learning to study.the history of a
people who have so magnificently
contributed to civilization and to
society."
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