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[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2329 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2329

                  For the relief of Inna Hecker Grade.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 27, 1993

  Mr. Engel introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL

 
                  For the relief of Inna Hecker Grade.

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

SECTION 1. GRANTING OF COPYRIGHT.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, copyright is hereby 
granted to Inna Hecker Grade and her successors and assigns in the 
works set forth in section 2 by Chaim Grade, including all editions in 
English and translations heretofore published or hereafter published by 
Inna Hecker Grade or her successors or assigns, for a term of 50 years 
from June 26, 1982 (the date of death of Chaim Grade). The copyright 
owner shall be entitled to all rights and remedies provided to 
copyright owners generally by law, except that no liability shall 
attach under this Act for lawful uses made or acts done before the date 
of enactment of this Act in connection with such works, or in respect 
to the continuance for one year subsequent to such date of any business 
undertaking or enterprise lawfully undertaken before such date 
involving expenditure or contractual obligation in connection with the 
exploitation, production, reproduction, or circulation of such works.

SEC. 2. WORK SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT.

    The following works of Chaim Grade (including lectures and essays) 
are covered by section 1:
            (1) ``Yo'' (``Yes'');
            (2) ``Musarnikes'' (``Mussarists'');
            (3) ``Dojrois'' (``Generations'');
            (4) ``Oyf di Hurves'' (``On the Ruins'');
            (5) ``Pleitim'' (``Refugees'');
            (6) ``Farvoksene Vegn'' (``Overgrown Paths'');
            (7) ``Der Mames Tzavoe'' (``The Mother's Will'');
            (8) ``Shayn fun Farloshene Shtern'' (``Shine of the 
        Extinguished Stars'');
            (9) ``Mayn Krig Mit Hersh Rassayner'' (``My Quarrel with 
        Hersh Rassayner'');
            (10) ``Yerushalaim shel Maylah, Yerushalaim shel Matah'' 
        (``The Heavenly Jerusalem and the Earthly Jerusalem'');
            (11) ``Hurbin'';
            (12) ``Vilna'', with 5 major parts entitled:
                    (A) ``Vilna'';
                    (B) ``Di Shank'' (``The Tavern'');
                    (C) ``Der Ger-Tzadik'' (``The Convert'');
                    (D) ``Di Hiter fun der Shtot'' (``The Guardians of 
                the City'');
                    (E) ``Unter di Gevelbte Toyern'' (``Beneath the 
                Vaulted Gates'');
            (13) ``Talmidei-Hahomin in der Lite'' (``Talmudic Scholars 
        in Lithuania'');
            (14) ``Oyf Mayn Veg Tzu Dir''; (On My Way to You);
            (15) ``Dos Alte Hoyz'' (``The Old House''), alternate 
        titles are:
                    (A) ``Zin un Tahter'' (``Sons and Daughters'');
                    (B) ``Der Beth-Horav'' (``The Rabbi's House'');
            (16) ``Fun Unter der Erd'' (``From Beneath the Ground''), 
        the title of the first version is ``Froyen fun Ghetto'' 
        (``Women of the Ghetto'');
            (17) ``Yury Goresha'', a part of the novel ``From Beneath 
        the Ground'';
            (18) ``Alte Boherim'' (``The Bachelors'');
            (19) ``In Gerangl mitn Malah'' (``Wrestling with the 
        Angel''), subtitle is ``Lieder un Elegyes'' (``Poems and 
        Elegies''); Collected Poems, 1932-82;
            (20) ``Chaim Nachman Bialik'';
            (21) ``H. Leivik, der Poet fun Laydn un Goyrl'' (``H. 
        Leivik, The Poet of Suffering and Fate'');
            (22) ``H. Leivik in Mayn Lehn and Shafn'' (``H. Leivik in 
        my Life and my Works)'';
            (23) ``Itzik Manger, der Poet fun Shaynkayt un Shpil'' 
        (``Itzik Manger, the Poet of Beauty and Play);
            (24) ``Dray Yiddishe Classiker, Mendele, I.L. Peretz, 
        Sholem-Alaychem'' (Three Yiddish Classics, Mendele, I.L. 
        Peretz, Sholem-Alaychem);
            (25) ``Anski, der Maskl, Revolutioner un Baal Tshuvah'' 
        (``Anski, the Champion of Enlightenment, the Revolutionary and 
        the Penitent'');
            (26) ``Probelmen fun a Yiddishen Shrayber un Problemen fun 
        der Yiddisher Literatur'' (``Problems of a Yiddish Writer and 
        Problems of the Yiddish Literature'');
            (27) ``Mayn Veg in der Yiddisher Literature'' (``My Path in 
        the Yiddish Literature'');
            (28) ``I.L. Peretz'';
            (29) ``Mayn Bagegenish mit Sovetishe Yiddisher Shrayber'' 
        (``My Encounter with the Soviet Yiddish Writers'');
            (30) ``Dray Dramatishe Poemen--`Di Goldene Kayt', `Der 
        Goylem', `Der Dybbuk', (``Three Dramatic Poems--`The Golden 
        Chain', `The Goylem', `The Dybbuk' '');
            (31) ``Dray Hoybt Motiven in Mayn Shaffung'' (``Three Mayn 
        Motives in My Works'');
            (32) ``Yung Vilna un ir Svivah'' (``Young Vilna and its 
        Milieu'');
            (33) ``Shevet Tzion'' (``The Return to Zion'');
            (34) ``Shabes un Voh in der Yiddisher Literatur'' (``The 
        Sabbath and the Weekdays in Yiddish Literature'');
            (35) ``Mussarnikes un Litvishe Yeshives'' (``The Mussarists 
        and the Lithuanian Yeshivas'');
            (36) ``Sholem Alaychem'';
            (37) ``Nusah Mizrah Evrope un Reb Isroel Baal`Shem'Tov'' 
        (``The Jewish Way of Life in Eastern Europe and Rabbi Israel 
        Baal`Shem'Tov'');
            (38) ``Reb Isroel Salanter un Reb Isroel Baal`Shem'Tov'' 
        (``Rabbi Israel Salanter and Rabbi Israel Baal`Shem'Tov'');
            (39) ``Der Talmudhokem in der Yiddisher Literatur'' (``The 
        Talmudic Scholar in Yiddish Literature'');
            (40) ``Di Haskore in Vilner Shtot Shul nohn Ger-Tzadik, 
        Graf Potocki'' (``The Memorial Service at the Grand Synagogue 
        of Vilna for the Convert, Count Potocki'');
            (41) ``Dr. Shmuel Ravidovitch un zayn Philasophia fun 
        Yiddishen Kium Umetum'' (``Dr. Samuel Ravidovitch and his 
        Philosophy of the Jewish Life Worldwide'');
            (42) ``Dr. Shmuel Ravidovich un zayn Kamf farn Yiddishen 
        Kium Umetum'' (``Dr. Samuel Ravidovich and his Struggle for the 
        Jewish Life Worldwide'');
            (43) ``Zaynen di Yiddishe Shrayber in Sovet Russland Geven 
        Marranen?'' (``Were the Yiddish Writers in Soviet Russia 
        Marranos?'');
            (44) ``Reb Yehudah Ibn Shmuel Dr. Kaufman'' (``Rabbi 
        Jehudah Ibn Samuel Dr. Kaufman'');
            (45) ``Shir-HaShirim--a Liebe-Lied, a Natzional Gezang un 
        Mistishe Poeme'' (``The Song of Songs--A Love Song, a National 
        Hymn and a Mystical Poem'') lecture and essay;
            (46) ``Tzfas un der Barg Miron'' (``Saffed and Mount 
        Miron'') lecture and essay;
            (47) ``Mentshen, Shtayner un Flantzen in Eretz-Isroel'' 
        (``The People, the Stones and the Greening of Israel'') lecture 
        and essay;
            (48) ``Mit Vos Vilna Iz Geven Andersh?'' (``What Made Vilna 
        Unique?'');
            (49) ``Histadruth'';
            (50) ``Yiddish Lebn in Vilna far der Zvayter Velt Melhome'' 
        (``Jewish Life in Vilna Before World War II'') alternate title 
        is ``Yiddish Folk lebn un Traditzie in der Lite'' (``Jewish 
        Folk-Life and Tradition in Lithuania'');
            (51) ``Di Naye Hebreishe Literatur un der Yunger Dor in 
        Isroel'' (``The New Hebrew Literature and the Young Generation 
        in Israel'');
            (52) ``Di Ibergeblibene'' (``The Survivors'');
            (53) (``To the Survivors of the German Concentration Camps, 
        World Federation of Bergen-Belsen, Associations'');
            (54) ``Drayssik Yor Shpeter'' (``Thirty Years Later'');
            (55) ``Der Bodn un di Legende fun Eretz-Isroel,'' (``The 
        Soil and the Legend of the Land of Israel'');
            (56) ``Di Letzte Mahlaykes tzvishn Rabonim in Vilna'' 
        (``The Last Controversies Among the Rabbis of Vilna'');
            (57) ``Amerikaner Yiddishe Poetn, Morris Rosenfeld, Avrohom 
        Reisen, Walt-Lessin un Mani Leib'', (``American Yiddish Poets, 
        Morris Rosenfeld, Avrohom Reisen, Walt-Lessin un Mani Leib'');
            (58) Any other works of Chaim Grade, however created, 
        whether published or unpublished.

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