V
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 320
For the relief of Inna Hecker Grade.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 6, 1999
Mr. ENGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
For the relief of Inna Hecker Grade.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GRANTING OF COPYRIGHT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, copy-
right is hereby granted to Inna Hecker Grade and her suc-
cessors 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
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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 exploi-
tation, production, reproduction, or circulation of such
works.
SEC. 2. WORK SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT.
The following works of Chaim Grade (including lec-
tures 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’’);
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(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’’ (‘‘Tal-
mudic Scholars in Lithuania’’);
(14) ‘‘Oyf Mayn Veg Tzu Dir’’; (On My Way
to You);
(15) ‘‘Dos Alte Hoyz’’ (‘‘The Old House’’), al-
ternate titles are:
(A) ‘‘Zin un Tahter’’ (‘‘Sons and Daugh-
ters’’);
(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’’);
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(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 So-
viet Yiddish Writers’’);
(30) ‘‘Dray Dramatishe Poemen—‘Di Goldene
Kayt’ ‘Der Goylem’, Der Dybbuk’, (‘‘Three Dra-
matic 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 Yid-
dish 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 East-
ern Europe and Rabbi Israel Baal‘Shem’Tov’’);
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(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 Lit-
erature’’);
(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 Jew-
ish 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
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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 Tra-
dition in Lithuania’’);
(51) ‘‘Di Naye Hebreishe Literatur un der
Yunger Dor in Isroel’’ (‘‘The New Hebrew Lit-
erature and the Young Generation in Israel’’);
(52) ‘‘Di Ibergeblibene’’ (‘‘The Survivors’’);
(53) (‘‘To the Survivors of the German Con-
centration Camps, World Federation of Bergen-Bel-
sen, Associations’’);
(54) ‘‘Drayssik Yor Shpeter’’ (‘‘Thirty Years
Later’’);
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(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 pubished or unpublished.
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