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The Book Industry and Orthodox Judaism Social Values and Torah Values a Modern Fable a Battle Over the Mechitza at the Kosel KISLEV 5729 ! NOVEMBER 1968 VOLUME 5. NUMBER 6 THE EWISH FIFTY CENTS BSERVE The Book Industry and Orthodox Judaism" Social Values and Torah Values A Modern Fable A Battle Over the Mechitza at The Kosel - Forty Years Ago Exporting "Treason" to Israel Israel's Doctors and Post-Mortem THE JEWISH QBSERVER In this issue ... THE BooK INDUSTRY & ORTHonox JUDAISM, Yaakov Jacobs 3 AN 0Rrnonox JEWISH SOCIAL WORKER ExAMINEs Hrs PROFESSION'S VALUES, Jacob Wiener ············· ······················ 9 THE JEWISH OBSERVER is published monthly, except July and August, A MonERN F•.RLE, Jack Klausner 12 by the Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, New York 10038. Second class postage paid at New York, N. Y. A BATTLE OvER THE MFCHITZA AT THE KosEL-FORTY Subscription: $5.00 per year: Canada and overseas: $6.00; single YEARS AGO ............................................................................................... 16 copy: 50¢. Printed in the U.S.A. Editorial Board SECOND LOOKS AT THE JEWISH SCENE: DR. ERNEST L. BODENHEI~fER Chairn1an EXPORTJNG "TREASON'" TO ISRAEL RABBI NATHAN BUJ,MAN 19 RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS ISRAEL'S DOCTORS ANH POST-MORTEM ................................. 22 JOSEPH FRIEDENSON RABBI MOSHE SHERER THE ABSURD QUESTION .................................................................... 24 Advertising Manager How ABOUT THAT? ............................................................................ RABBI SYSHE HESCHEL 25 RABBI YAAKOV JACOBS CULTURAL PLURALISM 26 Editor THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not assume responsibility for the LETTERS TO Tl IE EDITOR .......... " ... , ... ,.,,, ......................................... .,................ 27 Kashrus of any product or service advertised in its pages. Nov.• 1968 VoL. V, No. 6 STOCKS PRICE RANGE DIVIDENDS EARNINGS Name Octeber !968 Not % So Total $Per Interim Earnings ,, 1968 Bid·Ask Change Div. p.£ Latest Payment Ind. Paid Share Per Share Issue Hii:;h low High low last in Month Yield Ratio Period I Dale Div."· 1968'" Rate 1967 1%6 1967 Period 1967 1968 Academic Press .. 3331 16)1 28% 28%' -1% 33 Q 0.09 10-!:-68 8-29 0.51 0.36 0.56 0. 57 0.73 3 mo. Aug 0 .25 0 22 Addison-Wesley .. 26Yz 14 19~:( 20% +5% 0 5 69 s 0.05 12-14-68 11-25 0.10 0.10 0.10 0.92 0.43 9 mo. Aug 0.38 0.25 Allyn & Bacon .. 26% 21 22% 23% - Yz 17 28 s 0.20 10-31-68 9-24 0 .40 0 40 0.40 l 08 0.96 American Book-Stratford. 24% 8!4 21~·::( 19.1,,] 19).1 -1% 1.5 Q 0.07Yz 9-27-68 9-12 0.22}1; 0.30 0.28% 0. 73 0.45 6 mo. Jun 0.25 0 .17 American Heritage .... 16!~ 9)1 16% 18 +3 2 .2 20 Q 0.10 12-13-68 11-22 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.86 l.35 3 mo. Sep 0.47 0.05 American News .. 53Yz 25% 53!-1 47 53!1 +6% 1.9 26 Q 0.25 9-20-68 9-4 0. 75 1.00 l. 00 l. 80 2.0l 6 mo. Jun 0 .72 0 .75 Bartell Media ... 21 9 16~4 Book-of-the-Month .. 36% 20% 34)4' Bro-Dart ... 80 31 Cowles .. 17% 12~.j' 17% Crowell Collier Macmillan 44 22% Pfd ..... 63 55 "63 The Book Industry Economy Bookbinding ... 8%' 3){ Grolier .. 72% 43~1 55 Harcourt Brace & World .105}~ 75% 84 Harper & Row . 77 43Y;! and Orthodox Judai sm Houghton Miftlin ... 31~"8 21% 28!·'5 International Textbook . 40 26~'5 Richard D. Irwin .. 32Ji 18 Kingsport Press .. 30!-i 17.Vz Yaakov Jacobs McGraw-Hill ... .. 54% 37,!4 46% Pfd .. .. 87% 60% 73% Meredith .. .. 48)1 2331 48~ Plenum Publishing . 26 13 24)-1 26 - % 0 4 . 28 s 0.05 9-2-68 8-22 0.10 0. 10 0.08 0. 73 0. 81 6 mo. Jun 0.42 0.53 Prentice-Halt .... 46% 32 45}1 40% 43!1 -2 J.4 35 2% Stk 1-6··69 11-8 0.62 0.68 0.52!.--2 1.14 1.22 6 mo. Jun 0.24 0.27 G. P. Putnam's Sons 26Vz 14}1 -' 17){ 18. 1.6 17 0.07 B-27-£8 8-8 0 28 0 28 0.21 l.20 I.00 6 mo. Jul 0.81 0.84 Scott, Foresman . .. 41 304 37}/z 31% 37 +3% 1.6 34 Q 0. 15 12-10-68 11-13 0.60 0.60 0.60 l.22 I.SS 3 mo. Ju! 0.56 0.61 Simon & Schuster. 9% 4% 8%' 9!.{ +% 36 0.05 12-2-68 11-4 0. 10 0. JO 0.10 0.36 0. 16 9 mo. Sep 0.01 0.11 Time, Inc .. .. 109% 8631 109% 99% 108% +sVs 2.1" 25 Q 0.12}-2 9-25-68 9--4 0.37!.1 0.50 0.50 1. 71 1.60 6 mo. Jun 0. 73 0. 79 Times-Mirror .. ...... 50 36% 50 48 48% -% 1.0 28 Q 0.45 9-10-68 8-15 l.35 l.80 I. 80 4.56 3 .33 9 JnO. Sep 2.62 2' 42 Universal Publishing ..... I8X IOU 16)-1 17% +% 20 2% Stk 9-30-68 6% Stk Stk 8% Stk 0.66 0.89 0.86 Wadsworth Publishing .•• 35 22)1 35 36 35 ---none paid--- ---nil--- 0 92 I.02 Western Publishing .. .. 32~4 20% 27){ 28X, -1~.I 2 .5 23 Q 0. 18 9-15-68 8-26 0. 54 0.72 0, 72 J.64 ].O{] 9 mo. Sep 0.45 0.73 Wiley .. .. 43 23!.4 42~2 44 +5% 0.7 32 s 0. 15 6-24-68 5-27 0.15 0 .30 0.30 1. 3! 1.11 12 mo._ Sep 1.15 1.36 -from Publishers Weekly MARSHALL McLUHAN, the prophet of electronic com­ publishers lists of new productions released periodically, munication, insists that the book as a means of com­ shows a growing number of Jewish titles. The Cult of munication is obsolete, and will soon disappear. He .Tei·vishness, which we examined in these pages in June constantly presses his argument ... in book after book of 1965, has proven to be of sturdier stock than the after book. But there is more substantial evidence of many fads and fancies which grip the American public the vitality of the book industry: publishing is today a for a while, and then slowly fade away. The book billion-dollar-business. The new corporate combines industry has adopted the most sophisticated practices that have been gobbling up smaller corporations, feel of marketing to create, maintain and develop new that their portfolio is not well-rounded, not sufficiently markets for their wares. Apparently the industry is diversified, unless it contains at ]east one pubJishing convinced that the Jewish reader is a good market, operation. The independent publishing house may soon and that Jewish books can be effectively marketed to become only a fond memory in the world of book the non-Jewish reader as well. production. For example: the industry was shocked­ These books flow from the press in various sizes and but not surprised-when Funk & Wagnalls recently arc offered to the public at varying prices: from the dropped a book severely critical of the advertising in­ 9 5-cent paperback, to the monstrous coffee-table-non­ dustry days before it was to be published, since Read­ book with its department-store price tag: "$25 / $19.59 ers Digest, its parent company, felt it would not be until January 1, 1969." (The lack of literary quality to their best interests. often increases as the books grow in size and price.) And what is the Jewish angle-why should this in­ It's an old habit-we've been doing it since picking terest readers of THE JEWISH OBSERVER? A look at the up our first book involving Jews at the Public Library 'Thi? Jewish Observer / Noven1her, 1968 3 -scanning the table of contents and the index to see be entirely inconsistent with our what the author has to say about our people: it is mechanical age . * usually an unhappy experience. Prof. Rudavsky here gives us: a hackneyed, biased What follows is an examination of a representative blast at Orthodoxy; an absurdity which would be illog­ sampling of some of the newest Jewish titles released ical even if it were true ("because Orthodoxy is un­ by some of the leading publishing houses in the United compromising, Jews wear shatnes and shave with ra­ States. There is no pretense of reviewing each book; zors"); and a sophmoric raising of the co1ors of "our no effort to engage in critical analysis: simply an at­ mechanical age." After this amazing display of ob­ tempt to demonstrate a pattern of distortion, shabby jectivity and scholarship, Rudavsky then relieves himself scholarship, vulgarity and mediocrity in v a r y i n g of the following: amounts and combinations. The Orthodox rabbinate, of EMANCIPATION AND ADJUSTMENT, by David Rudavs­ course, finds itself powerless to in­ ky, (Diplomatic Press: Published for the New York stitute modifications even of rab­ University Institute of Hebrew Studies, New York) binic regulations, not to speak of purports to be a scholarly study of "contemporary Biblical laws. Jewish religious movements." The dust-jacket describes Rudavsky as "an authority in his field,'' apparently the Rudavsky's editor-if the book was edited the editor field of religious thought; but the biographical sketch was careful to leave no tracks-was evidently power­ on the back cover li~ts several c:;.ecular academic degrees less to do anything with the text. followed by the note that, "he also studied at the Jewish The professor-he shares this with other academics Theological Seminary," and he is now Associate Pro­ -il' enamored with the Greek root "neo," which p1aced fessor of Hebrew Culture and Education at New York before any commonly used descriptive noun, creates a University.
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