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104TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 524

For the relief of Inna Hecker Grade.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JANUARY 13, 1995

Mr. ENGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee

on the Judiciary

A BILL

For the relief of Inna Hecker Grade.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. GRANTING OF COPYRIGHT.

4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, copy5 right is hereby granted to Inna Hecker Grade and her suc6 cessors and assigns in the works set forth in section 2

7 by Chaim Grade, including all editions in English and

8 translations heretofore published or hereafter published

9 by Inna Hecker Grade or her successors or assigns, for

10 a term of 50 years from June 26, 1982 (the date of death

11 of Chaim Grade). The copyright owner shall be entitled

12 to all rights and remedies provided to copyright owners
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1 generally by law, except that no liability shall attach under

2 this Act for lawful uses made or acts done before the date

3 of enactment of this Act in connection with such works,

4 or in respect to the continuance for one year subsequent

5 to such date of any business undertaking or enterprise

6 lawfully undertaken before such date involving expenditure

7 or contractual obligation in connection with the exploi8 tation, production, reproduction, or circulation of such

9 works.

10 SEC. 2. WORK SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT.

11 The following works of Chaim Grade (including lec12 tures and essays) are covered by section 1:

13 (1) ‘‘Yo’’ (‘‘Yes’’);

14 (2) ‘‘Musarnikes’’ (‘‘Mussarists’’);

15 (3) ‘‘Dojrois’’ (‘‘Generations’’);

16 (4) ‘‘Oyf di Hurves’’ (‘‘On the Ruins’’);

17 (5) ‘‘Pleitim’’ (‘‘Refugees’’);

18 (6) ‘‘Farvoksene Vegn’’ (‘‘Overgrown Paths’’);

19 (7) ‘‘Der Mames Tzavoe’’ (‘‘The Mother’s

20 Will’’);

21 (8) ‘‘Shayn fun Farloshene Shtern’’ (‘‘Shine of

22 the Extinguished Stars’’);

23 (9) ‘‘Mayn Krig Mit Hersh Rassayner’’ (‘‘My

24 Quarrel with Hersh Rassayner’’);
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1 (10) ‘‘Yerushalaim shel Maylah, Yerushalaim

2 shel Matah’’ (‘‘The Heavenly Jerusalem and the

3 Earthly Jerusalem’’);

4 (11) ‘‘Hurbin’’;

5 (12) ‘‘Vilna’’, with 5 major parts entitled:

6 (A) ‘‘Vilna’’;

7 (B) ‘‘Di Shank’’ (‘‘The Tavern’’);

8 (C) ‘‘Der Ger-Tzadik’’ (‘‘The Convert’’);

9 (D) ‘‘Di Hiter fun der Shtot’’ (‘‘The

10 Guardians of the City’’);

11 (E) ‘‘Unter di Gevelbte Toyern’’ (‘‘Beneath

12 the Vaulted Gates’’);

13 (13) ‘‘Talmidei-Hahomin in der Lite’’ (‘‘Tal14 mudic Scholars in Lithuania’’);

15 (14) ‘‘Oyf Mayn Veg Tzu Dir’’; (On My Way

16 to You);

17 (15) ‘‘Dos Alte Hoyz’’ (‘‘The Old House’’), al18 ternate titles are:

19 (A) ‘‘Zin un Tahter’’ (‘‘Sons and Daugh20 ters’’);

21 (B) ‘‘Der Beth-Horav’’ (‘‘The Rabbi’s

22 House’’);

23 (16) ‘‘Fun Unter der Erd’’ (‘‘From Beneath

24 the Ground’’), the title of the first version is

25 ‘‘Froyen fun Ghetto’’ (‘‘Women of the Ghetto’’);
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1 (17) ‘‘Yury Goresha’’, a part of the novel

2 ‘‘From Beneath the Ground’’;

3 (18) ‘‘Alte Boherim’’ (‘‘The Bachelors’’);

4 (19) ‘‘In Gerangl mitn Malah’’ (‘‘Wrestling with

5 the Angel’’), subtitle is ‘‘Lieder un Elegyes’’

6 (‘‘Poems and Elegies’’); Collected Poems, 1932–82;

7 (20) ‘‘Chaim Nachman Bialik’’;

8 (21) ‘‘H. Leivik, der Poet fun Laydn un Goyrl’’

9 (‘‘H. Leivik, The Poet of Suffering and Fate’’);

10 (22) ‘‘H. Leivik in Mayn Lehn and Shafn’’

11 (‘‘H. Leivik in my Life and my Works)’’;

12 (23) ‘‘Itzik Manger, der Poet fun Shaynkayt un

13 Shpil’’ (‘‘Itzik Manger, the Poet of Beauty and

14 Play);

15 (24) ‘‘Dray Yiddishe Classiker, Mendele, I.L.

16 Peretz, Sholem-Alaychem’’ (Three Yiddish Classics,

17 Mendele, I.L. Peretz, Sholem-Alaychem);

18 (25) ‘‘Anski, der Maskl, Revolutioner un Baal

19 Tshuvah’’ (‘‘Anski, the Champion of Enlightenment,

20 the Revolutionary and the Penitent’’);

21 (26) ‘‘Probelmen fun a Yiddishen Shrayber un

22 Problemen fun der Yiddisher Literatur’’ (‘‘Problems

23 of a Yiddish Writer and Problems of the Yiddish

24 Literature’’);
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1 (27) ‘‘Mayn Veg in der Yiddisher Literature’’

2 (‘‘My Path in the Yiddish Literature’’);

3 (28) ‘‘I.L. Peretz’’;

4 (29) ‘‘Mayn Bagegenish mit Sovetishe

5 Yiddisher Shrayber’’ (‘‘My Encounter with the So6 viet Yiddish Writers’’);

7 (30) ‘‘Dray Dramatishe Poemen—‘Di Goldene

8 Kayt’, ‘Der Goylem’, ‘Der Dybbuk’, (‘‘Three Dra9 matic Poems—‘The Golden Chain’, ‘The Goylem’,

10 ‘The Dybbuk’ ’’);

11 (31) ‘‘Dray Hoybt Motiven in Mayn Shaffung’’

12 (‘‘Three Mayn Motives in My Works’’);

13 (32) ‘‘Yung Vilna un ir Svivah’’ (‘‘Young Vilna

14 and its Milieu’’);

15 (33) ‘‘Shevet Tzion’’ (‘‘The Return to Zion’’);

16 (34) ‘‘Shabes un Voh in der Yiddisher

17 Literatur’’ (‘‘The Sabbath and the Weekdays in Yid18 dish Literature’’);

19 (35) ‘‘Mussarnikes un Litvishe Yeshives’’ (‘‘The

20 Mussarists and the Lithuanian Yeshivas’’);

21 (36) ‘‘Sholem Alaychem’’;

22 (37) ‘‘Nusah Mizrah Evrope un Reb Isroel

23 Baal‘Shem’Tov’’ (‘‘The Jewish Way of Life in East24 ern Europe and Rabbi Israel Baal‘Shem’Tov’’);
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1 (38) ‘‘Reb Isroel Salanter un Reb Isroel

2 Baal‘Shem’Tov’’ (‘‘Rabbi Israel Salanter and Rabbi

3 Israel Baal‘Shem’Tov’’);

4 (39) ‘‘Der Talmudhokem in der Yiddisher

5 Literatur’’ (‘‘The Talmudic Scholar in Yiddish Lit6 erature’’);

7 (40) ‘‘Di Haskore in Vilner Shtot Shul nohn

8 Ger-Tzadik, Graf Potocki’’ (‘‘The Memorial Service

9 at the Grand Synagogue of Vilna for the Convert,

10 Count Potocki’’);

11 (41) ‘‘Dr. Shmuel Ravidovitch un zayn

12 Philasophia fun Yiddishen Kium Umetum’’ (‘‘Dr.

13 Samuel Ravidovitch and his Philosophy of the Jew14 ish Life Worldwide’’);

15 (42) ‘‘Dr. Shmuel Ravidovich un zayn Kamf

16 farn Yiddishen Kium Umetum’’ (‘‘Dr. Samuel

17 Ravidovich and his Struggle for the Jewish Life

18 Worldwide’’);

19 (43) ‘‘Zaynen di Yiddishe Shrayber in Sovet

20 Russland Geven Marranen?’’ (‘‘Were the Yiddish

21 Writers in Soviet Russia Marranos?’’);

22 (44) ‘‘Reb Yehudah Ibn Shmuel Dr. Kaufman’’

23 (‘‘Rabbi Jehudah Ibn Samuel Dr. Kaufman’’);

24 (45) ‘‘Shir-HaShirim—a Liebe-Lied, a

25 Natzional Gezang un Mistishe Poeme’’ (‘‘The Song
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1 of Songs—A Love Song, a National Hymn and a

2 Mystical Poem’’) lecture and essay;

3 (46) ‘‘Tzfas un der Barg Miron’’ (‘‘Saffed and

4 Mount Miron’’) lecture and essay;

5 (47) ‘‘Mentshen, Shtayner un Flantzen in

6 Eretz-Isroel’’ (‘‘The People, the Stones and the

7 Greening of Israel’’) lecture and essay;

8 (48) ‘‘Mit Vos Vilna Iz Geven Andersh?’’

9 (‘‘What Made Vilna Unique?’’);

10 (49) ‘‘Histadruth’’;

11 (50) ‘‘Yiddish Lebn in Vilna far der Zvayter

12 Velt Melhome’’ (‘‘Jewish Life in Vilna Before World

13 War II’’) alternate title is ‘‘Yiddish Folk lebn un

14 Traditzie in der Lite’’ (‘‘Jewish Folk-Life and

15 Tradition in Lithuania’’);

16 (51) ‘‘Di Naye Hebreishe Literatur un der

17 Yunger Dor in Isroel’’ (‘‘The New Hebrew Lit18 erature and the Young Generation in Israel’’);

19 (52) ‘‘Di Ibergeblibene’’ (‘‘The Survivors’’);

20 (53) (‘‘To the Survivors of the German Con21 centration Camps, World Federation of Bergen-Bel22 sen, Associations’’);

23 (54) ‘‘Drayssik Yor Shpeter’’ (‘‘Thirty Years

24 Later’’);
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1 (55) ‘‘Der Bodn un di Legende fun Eretz2 Isroel,’’ (‘‘The Soil and the Legend of the Land of

3 Israel’’);

4 (56) ‘‘Di Letzte Mahlaykes tzvishn Rabonim in

5 Vilna’’ (‘‘The Last Controversies Among the Rabbis

6 of Vilna’’);

7 (57) ‘‘Amerikaner Yiddishe Poetn, Morris

8 Rosenfeld, Avrohom Reisen, Walt-Lessin un Mani

9 Leib’’, (‘‘American Yiddish Poets, Morris Rosenfeld,

10 Avrohom Reisen, Walt-Lessin un Mani Leib’’);

11 (58) Any other works of Chaim Grade, however

12 created, whether published or unpublished.

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