More than 250 distinguished guests, including scholars of Israel and America, attended the opening here tonight, in the Jewish Museum, of the exhibition of Hebrew books published in Israel by the Bialik Institute, literary and cultural foundation of the Jewish Agency.
Presiding at the opening ceremonies, Dr. Moshe Davis, Provost of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, cited the presentation of the book exhibit as an example of the Jewish Museum’s role as a cultural link between Israel and American Jewry. Berl Locker, chairman of the Jewish Agency executive in Jerusalem, hailed the work of the Bialik Institute which makes available the world’s greatest classics in Hebrew, declaring that “in the pen and ploughshare lies the future of Israel.”
Other speakers included Moshe Gordon, director of the Bialik Institute, Dr. Sholom Speigel, and William Prager, professor of Medieval History at the Seminary Rabbinical School. The Institute was founded in 1935 to implement a program laid out by the great Hebrew poet, Chaim Nachman Bialik, who during the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine fought for the rebirth of Hebrew culture.
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