rAGE THREE

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

Convention of Menorah Societies in New

York This Month.

Jewish Collegiate Organization Now Represented by Chap-
ters in Fifty-eight Colleges—Cultural Program Mapped
Out—Distinguished Jews to Speak.

The plans for the coming New York
Convention of the Menorah Societies
of America, comprising university stu-
dents and graduates, include three
events of more than ordinary interest
to the public: the Evening of Jewish
Music at Carnegie Hall, December
30th, with Ernest Bloch, Leopold
Godowsky, Elizabeth Gutman, Cantor
Rosenblatt, and the New York Sym-
phony Orchestra on the program: the
American premiere of Pinski's The
Treasure" at the Neighborhood Play-
muse, and a "Maccabaean Dinner"
with over a thousand guests and a
most notable list of speakers, to be

Vasvary's
Bargains

I. Two family flat with gar-

age on Piper boulevard.
Rented for $65.00.
Small payment down.

2. Four room cottage on
Hamilton Ave. A cou-
ple hundred dollars
takes it.

3. Seven room house on
John R and Eight-mile
road. Make your own
proposition.

4. Two family flat on Six.

mile road. Two hun-
dred feet to new street

car line. All built up.
Could be used for busi-
ness.

5. Two family flat on dan-
dy corner lot. Six and

one-half minutes' walk

to Ford factory. Down
payment little more than
nothing.

6. Brick veneer two family
flat on Blaine Ave. $80
rent. Investigate and
you will find the biggest
bargain.

7. 45 1-2 foot corner lot.
Herman & Ford. Below
value if you could pay
cash.

8. 60 foot on Oakman
boulevard between Le-
belle and Kandall. Must
be paid cash.

Don't bother me if you
are an agent. I am the
owner and want to deal di-
rect with the buyer.

G. W. Vasvary

408-411 Free Press Bldg.
MAIN 1267.
Detroit, Mich.

held at Columbia Cniversity on Sat-
urday evening, December 29th.

In addition to these outstanding
events there will lie an Opening As-
sembly Meeting in the Horace Mann
Auditorium, Columbia University,
open to the public, with several
eminent speakers: two Symposium
Luncheons, one on the "J, wish Student
in American Universities.' the other
on "Jewish Reconstruction .After the
\Var." a number of business sessions
at which the Menorah activities and
plans will be discussed, and a gather-
ing of university graduates front all
Over the country to consider the for-
mation of a Federation of Menorah
Alumni or Graduate Societies.

Among the guests at the "Macca-
baean Dinner" will be Ambassador
Elkus, lion. Bernard M. Baruch, NI.
Stephanie Lanzanne of the French
Mission, Captain David Albala of the
Serbian Military Mission, Dr. John H.
Finley, President of the 1:niversity of
the State of New York, Jacob II.
Schiff, Justice Irving Lehman, Julius
Rosenwald, Eugene Meyer, Jr., and
others. The presentation of the dis-
tinguished Jewish members of the
Council of National Defense who are
giving their service to the country in
the industrial management of the war,
will he a striking feature of the din-
ner, as will also the presence in a
body, on a platform back of the speak-
ers' table, of Menorah members now
in the national service at the neigh-
boring army camps, who will be the
guests of the Menorah Association.

NOTED JEWISH AUTHOR DIES
DETROIT JEWISH BOYS
WITH THE COLORS Sholem Jacob Abramowitsch Expires

Julius Lefton. brother of J. Lefkof
sky, the well-known delicatessen dealer,
has joined the ordnance corps in the
National Army. Owing to his experi-
ence as manager of the optical repair
department of Traub Itrotners, he has
been placed in the optical instrument de-
partment of the lInInance division.

Henry S. Love.

Hems S Love, of 431) l'ingree Ave.
has enlisted in the ordnance corps of
the National Army as inspector of
leather. Mr. Love was for a number of
years purchasing ;igent of the Pingree
Company, shoe manufacturers, of this
city.

Julius Rubiner.

Julius Ruliiner, formerly chief dis-
count teller at the First State Bank of
Detroit, has been appointed first ser-
geant in the aviation construction corns.
and has left to assume his duties at
Morrison, Virginia. Sergeant Rubiner
is 23 ■ ears old,

ISAAC GOLDBERG RETURNS
FROM U. OF A.H.C. MEETING

Nits Isaac Goldberg returned from
Cincinnati last week, where he attended
a meeting of the Executive Board of
the Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations, of which he is a member.,
lie spoke enthusiastically of the splen-
did work that is tieing done by the
Board on behalf of the Union amt,
through it for American Judaism in'
general. It is to be regretted that an
account of lack of funds the activities
of the Board are not to be enlarged to
the extent planned. There is much to
be done and efforts will soon be made to
raise the necessary funds so that the
Union may amplify the results of its
In a few short years, from an hum- endeavors.
ble beginning with a dozen members
at Harvard, the Menorah movement
has grown so rapidly and substan- Icy of Yale, Judge Mayer Sulzberger,
tially as to fairly defy explanation. Jacob H. SchilT, Adolph Lewisohn,,
Vs'ith no propaganda to stimulate Louis Marshall, Julius Rosenwald,
membership, and with a purely cul- Bernard NI. Baruch, Dr. J. L. Nlagnes,
tural appeal, the Menorah now num- Professor Richard Gottheil, Professor
bers fifty-eight student societies in the Israel Friedlaender, Dr. Stephen S.
leading universities of the United Wise, S. C. Lamport, Joseph II.
States and Canada, and six Graduate Cohen, Jacob H. Cohen, Jacob Wer-
or Community Societies in scattered theim, S. It. Travis, L. E. Kirstein,
cities—New York, New Haven, Chi- Eugene Meyer, Jr., Joseph M. Pros-
cago, Cincinnati, Montgomery and hatter, David A. Brown, Jacob Billi-
New Orleans.
kopf, and many others.
The unique Evening of Jewish Mu-
'Elie hold of the Menorah idea on
the college Mall is too strong to be sic at Carnegie Hall and the Nfacca-
shaken off after graduation, and so an tiara') Dinner will both be open to the
insistent demand has arisen for the public, and those who would like to
formation of Graduate or Community attend are urged to make early appli-
Menorah Societies to gather together cation to the Menorah Headquarters
both those who have been members at 600 Madison Avenue, New York

of college Menorahs in their student
days and others to whom the Menorah
idea has made a strong appeal.
Neither the democracy nor the broad-
mindedness of Menorah men would
stand for the exclusion of those who
base not had a college education, and
so the Menorah movement in the most
inevitable way has expanded beyond
the college walls and bids fair to
work the same cultural revolution in
the community that it has already
worked in the universities.
The extraordinary excellence of
The Menorah Journal and its con-
stantly widening influence on the gen-
eral Jewish public has been to a large
degree accountable for the spread of
the Menorah idea into the community.
Among the inen who have taken an
active interest in the work of the
Menorah societies and have helped to
establish the Nienorah College of Lec-
turers, "Menorah Professorships,"
Menorah Essay Prizes, Menorah Li-
braries, The Menorah Journal, The
Menorah Bull, tin, and other features
of the Menorah work are: Justice
Brandeis. Judge Julian \V, Mack, ins-
!ise Irving Lehman. .\ inbassador lil-

hus, Dr. Charles \V. Eliot, President
Schurman of Cornell, President I lad-

Sholem Jacob Abramowitsch, known
to Jews all over the world as the
"grandfather" of modern Jewish lit-
. erature, a title given him by the late
Sholem Aleichem, the Yiddish poet
and author, died on Friday in Odessa.
Russia, according to a cablegram re-
ceived by t h e Jewish Daily Forward
from its Petrograd correspondent. He
was 83 years old and known to Rus-
sian and German Jews under the pen
name of hlendele Sloikher Scforim.
Ile was horn in Kopil, Lithuania, in
1836, and at an early age became a
student of the Talmud.
After the
death of his father in 1849 he became
a wanderer, visiting Slutsk and Vilna,
where he studied Hebrew in rabinical
colleges.
lie also studied modern
Russian and German literature, Ibis
travels about his native country gave
him a keen insight into conditions
among the Jew; in Russia, and his,
novels dealt largely with Jewish life
He was one of the most prolific of
Jewish authors, and wrote much on
politics and history. He also contrib-
uted to German Jewish periodicals and
magazines, and was the author of
many translations into Yiddish and
Hebrew from the German and Rus-
sian.

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