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KABAKOFF / INTRODUCTION
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volume with an article on the Central Zionist Archives located
in Jerusalem, his place of residence since his retirement. More
power to him.
IV
A special feature of our anniversary volume is the Cumulative
Index to Volumes 1-50 which has now been provided. Our pre
vious indexes covered Vols. 1-25 and Vols. 26-40 respectively.
Thanks to computer technology we were able to scan these in
dexes and to add to them the entries for vols. 41-50. What has
emerged from this process is an integrated author and title in
dex which enables the reader and researcher to make efficient
use of the varied material contained in the Annual.
The fifty-year span of our index is a period which offers con
siderable insight into the development and progress of our lit
erature. Even the names of the authors and the subjects dis
cussed provide useful information on the course of our literary
activity. In various cases also the index serves as a record of
the contributions and scholarly interests of the writers. Refer
ences to various field-spanning surveys of our literary creativity
are indicative of the remarkable growth that we have witnessed
in many areas.
During the half century under review there were many oc
casions for summing up and evaluating Jewish literary advances.
It will not be amiss to refer the reader to a number of volumes
that have made special contributions in this regard. Vol. 9
(1950-51) offered surveys of fifty years of trilingual literary ef
fort. In Vol. 12 (1953-55) an entire section of articles and bib
liographies summed up American Jewish literary accomplish
ments on the occasion of the Tercentenary celebration. The
10th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish State re
ceived special treatment in a series of articles published in Vol.
16 (1958-59).
The 25th anniversary of the Annual was marked by the pub
lication of an enlarged jubilee Vol. 25 (1967-68), which con
tained an augmented section of survey and evaluation articles.
In addition, it commemorated the awarding of the Nobel Prize
to S.Y. Agnon and Nelly Sachs. The Bicentennial celebration
called forth a special section of survey articles and bibliographies
concerning the Jewish book in America in Vol. 33 (1975-76).