Word: yehoshua
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...Yehoshua Arieli, chairman of the Departments of History and American Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, will speak tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Cabot Hall on "The Historical Point of View...
...Yehoshua Arieli, chairman of the departments of History and American Studies, Hebrew University, will speak on "The Israeli Version of Socialism" at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Cabot Hall...
Scripture forbids the creation of graven images.* but the compelling affirmation of the Talmud is "This is my God and I shall adorn Him." The solution for one of Israel's leading artists. Yehoshua Kovarsky, 49, was to move into his own kind of abstract symbolism, while holding to the philosophy that "an abstraction must have meaning for the viewer...
...Palestine at 17. His first direct contact with the traditions of his forefathers came while he was working in a kibbutz (collective settlement). There he found a fellow laborer, a Yemenite Jew named Zachariah. who could describe such legendary objects as the ancient Tabernacle so vividly that young Yehoshua was able to draw them. After finishing his art education in Paris, Kovarsky went back to Israel, isolated himself to paint in the ancient city of Safad, cradle of Jewish mysticism and cabalism...
...American Scientist, Dr. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel, lately of M.I.T., now of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, explores the difficulties of true mechanical translation and finds them enormous. He gives up all hope that any machine will be able to make an acceptable translation of a real work of literature. The job would call for cultural and artistic abilities that cannot be built into a machine...