THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL VII. NO. 11.
MEN'S TEMPLE CLUB
SECOND BIG RALLY
FRIDAY, FEB. 20
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1920.
JEWISH YOUNG WOMEN
IN POLISH MONASTERIES
WARSAW—Polish Jewish communi-
ties are organizing a movement to res-
cue from Jesuitical influence thousands
of Young Jewish women who have been
forced into conversion. These girls, who
fled to Poland from the Ukraine, have
either Lien enticed or compelled by
"Cozzy" Gottsdanker, Mock violent means to take the steps prepara-
Trial, Group Singing on Pro- tory to baptism. All possible means will
used to remove these young women
gram of Father and Son Meet. be
from the power of the monasteries.
FIRST CONCERT POST-
PONED UNTIL MARCH 1
Vienna Jewish Orphans
To Be Reared in Holland
Illness of William Grafing King,
of Detroit Symphony Quar-
tette, Necessitates Delay of
First Recital in Series.
VI ENN A.—Fourteen hundred Jew-
ish children were taken from Vienna
to Holland to be placed in various
Jewish homes there where they will
be reared and educated. The chil-
dren were accompanied by Chief
Rabbi Chyus and also by Mine. Anita
Miller, who has been working inde-
fatigably in behalf of the children of
the Jewish refugees in Vienna both
during the war, and since its close.
NEW DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR J. D. C.
RELIEF LEAVES FOR EUROPE
Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents
J. D. C. DISTRIBUTES 5,000
BARRELS OF KOSHER MEAT
TO POOR JEWS IN POLAND
New York—More than 5,000 bar-
rels of Kosher meat have been re-
ceived and distributed to the poor
Jews and the Jewish institutions of
Poland during the month of January,
the Joint Distribution Committee for
American Funds for Jewish \Var Suf-
ferers announced today. The meat
was prepared in strict accordance
with Jewish ritualistic requirements
and was shipped from New York by
the Joint Distribution Committee in
December. It arrived at the Joint
Distribution Committee's Headquar-
ters in Warsaw in perfect condition,
according to the report of the Jew-
ish relief administrator there.
The meat was packed in 5,046 bar-
rel,. Prior to its distribution it was
tested by experts in NVarsaw and
found in excellent condition. The
territory of Volinia, Lithuania and
Galicia were found to be most needy
and 4,625 barrels' were sent to towns
in these sections. The city of \Var-
saw received 421 barrels.
No charge was made for the meat.
Ilalf of it went to public institutions
and the remainder to individuals—
who in many cases had not tasted
meat for five years. The supplies
were distributed to the following
towns:
Lemberg (Lwo•), 753 barrels;
Krakow, 490 barrels; \Vilno, 603;
Nlinsk, • 602; Pinsk, 359; Brest
Litovsk, 125; Kobryti, 45; Pruzany,
18; Kartuz Boroza, 12; Slonin, 64;
Nowogrod Wolynsk, 296; Ostrog,
147; Rowno, 271; Dubin), 147; Kro-
wieniec, 149; Koroc, 128; Kowel, 128;
Luck, 150; \Vladimir Wolynsk, 94;
and Warsaw, 421 barrels; Barano-
wiozo, 64.
DR. JULIUS GOLDMAN
DIRECTOR GENERAL
EUROPEAN RELIEF
Noted New York Communal
Worker, Pioneer of Federated
Charities, Takes Charge of J.
D. C. Relief.
PRESIDENT, BARON DE
HIRSCH FUND MANY YEARS
New Director General's Broad
Experience Makes Possible
Better Understanding of Needs
In War-Stricken Europe.
Plans for the second big ' get-
New York.—Announcement is made
toget her" rally of t he Men's Temple
by Felix M. Warburg, of New York,
Club of Temple Beth El, to take
Chairman of the Joint Distribution
place Friday evening, February 20,
Committee of the American funds for
at the Temple, are growing apace and
Jewish \Var Sufferers, that Dr. Julius
promises to rival in surprises and
Goldman of this city, active in Jew-
unique forms of entertainment the
ish Philanthropy for nearly half a
tirst big event given a month ago.
century, has been selected to head all
It is entirely fitting and in accoid
the American Jewish relief activities
with one of the fundamental objects
of the Joint Distribution Committee
of the organization t hat the second
in Europe with the title of Director
rally should take the form of a
General.
"Father and Son" evening. Senti•
Dr. Goldman sailed this week on
meat, real, true sentiment that
the Mauretania and will be absent
touches the deepest and purest springs Pisgah Lodge, Detroit, Degree
more than a year. Dr. Goldman ac-
Team and Glee Club in Charge
of feeling within the heart of a man,
cepted the responsibility upon the
will bring together the members of
of Ceremonies — Rabbi Lupo
solicitation of the members of the
the Men's Temple Club and their sons
Tells of Jewish Communal Cen-
Joint Distribution Committee, who
on Friday evening at Temple Beth El.
ter.
comprise
the leathers of Jewry
The program is one which will ap-
throughout the United States, and
peal alike to the fellow who stood on
The record-breaking initiation of
has given up all of his personal affairs
the threshold of life 25 years ago and
to devote his entire time to the tasks
to the youth of today who is jus t some 38 new members into Flint
Lodge
No.
656,
1.
0.
B.
B.
took
place
of immediate relief and future re-
shaping himself to the world's de-
last
Sunday,
February
8,
1920,
at
the
habilitation of the Jews in every
moods upon hint. There are universal
lodge rooms, Dryden Ilall. The in-
country abroad affected by the war.
appeals which touch every man and itiatory ceremonies were in charge of
The selection of Dr. Goldman and
these cotnnion divisors of human feel- the degree team of Pisgah Lodge No.
his departure marks the extension of
ing have been adhered to in the ar- 34 of Detroit and the wonderful l'is-
the plans of the Committee for afford-
rangement of the entertainnint.
gall Glee Club, which added to the
ing permanent aid on behalf of Amer-
Fred M. Butzel will give a brief solemnity and effectiveness of the
ican Jewry to the Jews of Europe
address on the 'Father and Son' Rim!. Milton M. Alexander, Rabbi
and the distribution of the funds and
week, tracing the origin of the na- Samuel S. Meyerberg, Morris Gar-
supplies secured in the United States.
Palestine Sextette Touring World
tional movement that has become vett, Leon Goldsmith, Simon D. Ro•
In his statement accompanying the
DR. JULIUS GOLDMAN
one of the most pleasurable phases senzweig and Charles Rosenthal, the
In Interest of Temple of Art in announcement, Mr. Warburg has the
of the communal life of every city Pisgah Degree team, performed their
Holy Land; Music Distinctly following to say of Dr. Goldman and
and hamlet in the country. A senior work so ably that they were several-
his mission;
Jewish.
member of the club will discuss the Iv and individually congratulated at
"Dr. Julius Goldman of this city,
______.
movement from the angle of the the close of the ceremonies.
The
whose services to Jewish philan-
father to which response will he made Glee Club, tinder the direction of I.
"Zimro," the Palestine Ensemble, thropy covering a period of many
by a junior member of the club.
composed of six Jewish musicians years have given him the respect and
Leonard Braun, came in for more
. A mirth-provoking feature of an un- than the ordinary share of praise, and
who have traveled throughout the confidence of the Jews of the United
usually interesting program will be a showed their appreciation by some
world in the interest of a Temple of States, has consented to undertake
(Something of the History of the Jews of Vienna)
mock-trial which will have its Merit- remarkable work.
Art in the proposed Jewish State in one of the greatest and most difficult
lion in the course of the evening. A
Palestine, and is now touring for the tasks that has fallen upon the shoul-
Rabbi Rudolph Lupo, a member of
By GOTTHARD DEUTSCH
judge and jury will pass judgment on the local lodge, lately come to Flint
same purpose in this country, will ders of any American and will sail
the offenders in true legal style. A from Temple Israel, Portland, Maine,
appear in Detroit on March 7, at the on Monday on the Mauretania as the
The name of Vienna carries with siege to Vienna and came near oak• Arena Gardens.
sleight-of-hand performance is also on made a very eloquent address on
Director General of all the work
the schedule. "Cozzy" tiottstlanker, Flint's Communal Center, now under it the impression of opulence and ing of it a second Constantinople. As
S. Bellison, clarionet; J. Cherniav- abroad of the Joint Distribution Com-
former Free Press staff artist, will way. and intended to house all the levity. We think when we mention army contractor he not only furnished sky, cellist; G. Mistechkin, first vio- mittee of the American Funds for
make lightning sketches of members Jewish activities, religious, social, it of veal cutlets (Wiener Schnittel) provisions, horses, ammunition, but linist; K. Moldavan, viola; G. Des- Jewish War Sufferers in the disburse-
Schiller also ready cash to the always de- rodny, second violinist, and L. Ber- ment of funds collected by the Amer-
of the Club, in characteristic poses. educational and philanthropic, tinder and Strauss' waltz music.
Walter Fuchs is chairman of arrange- one roof. His remarks were met compared it with the mythical island pleted treasury. The court needed dicheysky, pianist, left Petrograd, ican, the Central and the People's
with
great
applause.
of
the
l'haeacians
of
whose
abun-
him always at hand, and so he came Russia, on March 11, 1918, for a Rus- Relief Committees.
tnents.
The entertaining will begin at 8 Following the initiation, a banquet dance and joy Homer sings: "Mich to Vienna as a "court-Jew" which sian tour tinder the auspices of the
"Dr. Goldman's departure follows
o'clock so as to permit . members to was tendered the new members and umwohnt mit galenzendem Aug' das means a member of the imperial Zionist Organization, with Palestine close upon that of the first American
have dinner with their families. .1 the visiting brothers at the Dresden Volk der Phaiaken—linmer fist's household which, as is still the case as their destination, and have tray- Jewish Relief Unit, consisting of
buffet luncheon will be served at 10 Hotel. Pisgah Lodge Club made the Sonntag, es dreht immer am Herd in England, is not subject to the local Bled through the Ural Provinces, Si- twenty-six American Relief organi-
o'clock to the guests. Those mein- dinner a notable success. Solos by sich der Spiess," and Grillparzer, the laws. A Jew always has a family, beria, China, Japan, Singapore. Ba- zations, headed by Dr. Boris D. Bo-
hers of Congregation Beth El who Sam Mandell and Wilfred Goldman Vienna poet, called it "Capua deer as already the Talmud (Kiddushin, tarns and the Strait Settlements.
gen, which is on its way to Poland
have not as yet a afflicted themselves were decided "hits." A more pleas- Geister" because like the old Italian 21a) states, and no one could demand
and which is to be followed by other
Aims to Advance Art.
Oppenheimer
inter should be
with the Men's Temple Club stay do ing dinner party has seldom been city it lived too well to 'have any in- that
units of American Jewish relief work-
"Zintro," which derives its name
clination
for
things
spiritual.
a
p
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separated
a
a
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i7d
t
hef
enjoyed.
The
exuberant
spirits
of
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so Friday evening.
ers who are to be assigned to other
Matters have changed, and a Schil- mess needed
the visitors in conjunction with the
l'ih flo y ini
rcei, , i l i a ienrd
s h eu n s h io; from the Hebrew word "to sing," de- countries abroad.
First Concert Postponed.
votes the entire proceeds of the con-
n s could
'' e
use of a secret and mystic word, pro- ler or a Grillparzer of our days o one
"It will be the task of Dr. Goldman
Owing to the serious illness of Wil- nounced "Nu," caused such hilarity might take his cue from Jeremiah, should take it. He, therefore, could certs to Zionist purposes in Palestine, to receive the reports from the dif-
ham Grating King, member of the that any stiffness that may have singing: "Is this the city that men employ Jewish clerks, and the latter the proposed art temple being ferent countries where relief for the
Detroit Symphony String Quartette, wandered into the spacious dining called the perfection of beauty, the also were entitled to have their fair planned to serve for the advance- Jewish populations is so urgently
joy of the whole earth?" Vienna is flies with them. Finally a Jewish menu of Hebrew art in all forms in needed, to negotiate with the officials
thefirst concert to be presented by room hastened to escape.
Its six members are
Succeeding the dinner at the Dres- begging. ‘ The rabbinate of the city household needs a shohet, children Palestine.
the Chamber Music Society tinder the
of the various governments, to co-
auspices of the Men's Temple Club, den those present returned to Dry- sends an appeal to all rabbis of the need a teacher, and as the police is graduates of the musical conserva- operate with the American Relief Ad-
announced for next Monday evening, den Hall for the Social Session given United States for help in rebuilding willing to give a broad interpretation tories of Moscow and St. Petersburg. ministration
European
Children's
will be postponed until March 1. T110 by Flint Lodge and at which Presi- the beautiful temple that was de- to the term "Bedienter" wh en it i s They hold a distinguished place in Fund, headed by Mr. Hoover, the
recital of the Detroit Symphony dent Wiener presided. Milton M. stroyed by fire. August 17, 1917. Who paid for it, there were also "watch- the Russian musical world, their ac- Red Cross and other organizations,
String Quartette, whose personnel in- Alexander, of Detroit, who presided would have believed it six years ago ' ers" for the dead, janitors for the tivities being unique in that they are and to transmit to the Joint Distrilm-
only Jewish artists who have
eludes, beside \t r. King, Ilya Schkol- at the initiatory exercises in the aft• that the congregation with so many Nlikwalt, salters of the meat, super- the
banded together for the purpose of tion Committee the information which
nik, Clarence Evans and Phillip Ali- ernoon, delivered an address on "The ennobled bank presidents, with Roths- visors of the Mezuzah and other re-
is only to be obtained at first hand,
bas, was the first of a series of three Jew and Service." Morris Garrett Childs, Guttmanns, Koenigswarters, ligions workers needed. Some of advancing distinctly Jewish art.
so that the Committee in its appro-
Quintette is Feature,
special concerts arranged by the so- made an interesting talk on "The etc., would hold out a hand for char- these people had successfully en-
priations and in its shipments of
Rabbi ity? This suggests a bird's-eye view gaged in business on their own ac-
eiety with the purpose in x iew of New American Judaism."
The activities of "Zimro," however, clothing and foodstuffs may be guid-
fostering a taste for Chamber N111 , 11. Samuel S. Mayerberg was keenly en- of the history of this Jewish emigre- count, and gained enough influence are not limited to folk music, their ed he is knowledge of the situation as
which the Men's Chili intends to fur- joyed in the recital of several humor- gation, numbering over 200,000—per- to obtain the privilege of residence programs being balanced with classi- it affects all of the countries of
ous stories. Brothers Charles Rosen- haps .100,000 souls.
(called Schutz or Toleranz) person- cal selections. Their Special feature Europe rather than any one locality.
tiler by its so-operation.
Vienna as a Jewish center is both ally, and sonic not always the best is the quintette, consisting of a string
that, Leon Goldsmith, acting Presi-
(Continued On Page 4.)
of Pisgah Lodge, and Simon D. old and new. It may have haul Jews class, e. g., those who served as de- quartette and a clarinet. The latter
ORPHANAGES DENOUNCED dent
Rosenzweig, District Grand Lodge in the days when it was a Roman tectives to watch the Jews coming to is introduced because it has been his-
RECONSTRUCTIVE
AID
BY MRS. STEPHEN S. WISE Representative, all spoke and were fort, and it certainly had a Jewish town temporarily on business which torically a favorite instrument among
FOR ROUMANIAN JEWS
loudly applauded by a very appreci- congregation in the twelfth century. was never prohibited, made a living the Jewish masses of Eastern Europe.
NEW YORK—Conditions in some or- ative audience. The great success of In the first half of the thirteenth cell- on their "Schutz." One of them
"Zimro" made its first appearance
phanages were denounced by Mrs. Ste- the evening was the beautifully ren- tury its rabbi, Isaac Ben Moses, or whose name was Engel was humor- in America at the convention of the
Ne• York.—At the Conventiob of
S. \Vise in a report of the work dered work of the Glee Club, and the Zarua, was one of the recognized au- misty called the "Schutzengel" (Guar- Zionist Organization of America held the Roumanian Jews. which will he
of
the
Children's
Adoption
Committee
members
of
the
organization
were
thorities
of
his
day,
but
in
1670
the
dian
Angel).
held
February 1st, in the Hotel Penn-
in Chicago in September, 1919.
of
at the annual meeting of the Social Ser- cheered individually and as a group. Jews were expelled "for ever" from
sylvania here, addresses will 14 de-
So at the time when the boy Fran-
"The hearty, sincere and splendid the city and the province of Lower cis Joseph gladdened the hearts of the PASSOVER MATZOS
livered by the President of Columbia
vice Bureau of the Free Synagogue, 136
West Sixty-Eighth street. In many co-operation of Pisgah Lodge of De- Austria of which Vienna is the cap- Vienna Jews by calling them a con-
Unitersity, Dr. Nicholas Murray But-
ASSURED TO POLAND
cases, Mrs. Wise said, children were troit towards making this day a sue- ital, and joy reigned supreme when gregation, they numbered already
ler, former Supreme Court Justice
BY
FLOUR
SHIPMENT
Charles Evans Hughes, Mr. Louis
found under-nourished, subnormal, and cess for Flint Lodge No. 656 will the young emperor, Francis Joseph, 4,156 souls, but lacking corporate
m
--
ever
be
a
bright
and
inspiring
memory
on
April
3,
1849,
spoke
to
a
commit-
rights
for
nearly
two
centuries,
they
Marshall, President of the American
covered with vermin. In some instances
they were deprived of toys and amuse- to us," said President Wiener in con- t ee o f Vienna J ews o f the Jewish were merely Vienna Jews who could
New York—A cargo of flour valued Jewish Committee and many other
mint, on the ground that more trouble eluding the evening's entertainment. "Gemeinele."
elect "Vertreter" but could form no at $259,070 has been shipped to Po- persons prominent in American pub-
This fact in itself shows that the congregation and have no "Vorste- land by the Joint Distribution Corn- lic life.
would be caused for the nurses, she said.
"for ever"
ever" of
of the
the Bible
expulsion
like
the
This Convention is being called
"for
(Ex.
12:6)
in
her.
It is easily imagined that such mittee of American Funds for Jewish
During the last year 114 bables were
AN APPRECIATION
a large number of Jews could not he War Sufferers, according to an an- with the object of formulating and
adopted through the activitie sof Mrs.
putting
into effect plans for recon-
the
rabbinic
interpretation
(Kiddu-
without
a
synagogue
and
a
rabbi.
The
nouncement
made
public
today
by
Wise's committee.
Flint, Mich., Feb. 11, 1920.
shin, IS/a) was of limited duration. latter could easily be supplied in a Mr. Felix M. Warburg, chairman of structive work for the Jews in Rou-
Judge Harry F. \Vise of the Morals
It lasted indeed not more than 15 roundabout way. My own ancestor, the committee. The cargo is being mania and also to help the Rou-
T . Cummins,
Court, Chicago, attacked the women's Jos yditor
.i
years and probably less. In 1685 we great-grandfather's great grandfather, sent for use in the baking of Matzos manian Jews in their battle for com-
Jewish Chronicle •
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clubs of the country for advocating cad -
1334 Book Bldg., Detroit, Mich.
Dr. P. A. Siegelstein, Leo Wolfson
find already the famous financier, Jacob Eliezer 13runschwig, who died for the Passover Holidays. It was
ical legislation in regard to illegitimacy.
Ile favored the passage of what he' Flint Lodge, No. 656, Independent Samuel Oppenheimer (1630-1703), es- as rabbi of Vienna in 1729, was offi- also announced by the Joint Distribu- and Solomon Sufrin, leader of the
termed "involuntary adoption laws,.: Order ltnai Brith, is duly grateful to tablished in Vienna. Religious fanati- cially registered as family chaplain tion Committee that a shipment of Roumanian Jews in America, will
Degree Team Glee Club and cism had expelled the Jews and re- to the court Jew, Samson \Ver- flour will leave for Courland and bring before the Convention plans
the mother Pisgah
whereby on application by th
.
fanaticism brought
bunch of ligious
,e rest o of the enthusiastic
the
g ht thcm theimer
thei (1658-1724), a relative of Op- Lithuania and the Baltic Provinces for the work which must be done,
to the court the father, in addition to n
us last back.
ack. The main cause of the expul- penheimer's,, first employed by him within the next few weeks.
and it is expected that these plans
adopting hiS child, should support the ' Sunday
Pisgah members
who
honored
with their company and con- sion was the bigotry which had been and afterwards becoming inde en-
will be adopted. The outlook that
tributed so largely to the great sue- nurtured by the war of thirty years . dent. The last rabbi of the old EIGHT JEWS SUCCESSFUL
the organization of all Roumanian
. . cess of our big initiation and enter- and to which the wife of Emperor school,
DEMAND EXPULSION
,
Jews in the United States and Canada
Lazar Horvitz (1804-1868) a
''
. famous Phineas
IN ODESSA ELECTIONS will accomplish much good and use-
W e cannot begin to jell Leopold I ., a Spanish pri ncess. had . great grandson of the
m
OF JEWISH STUDENTS , tainent.
you how warmly we regard them and contributed. There was, of course, Horwitz of Frankfurt A. M. (11a-
ful work for their brothers in Rou-
ODESSA.—In spite of the coali- mania is most hopeful.
Giessen, Germany.—Expulsion of appreciate the splendid work which the usual business jealousy of the flash), , was elected as a "Ritualien-
all Jewish students in the local Uni• they have done in our behalf. Vie burghers which about fifty years pre- aufscher" (supervisor of kashurt), tion of the Christians here in order plete emancipation.
'
obligation and his colleague.
Isaac Noah Nfann- to obstruct the election of Jewish can-
versity is being demanded by a unani- will always feel a debt of
ghetto had
outside
of the
city
gates,
mous agreement among the medical to your magnificent organization and viously
banished
the
Jews
into but
a primer (1793-1865) who was the didates, nevertheless a number of Jews REFUGEES AT VIENNA CET
faithful
active
workers
who
have
the
main
reason
was
religious
fanati-
preacher
of
the congregation was of- were successful. Among the Jews
students lucre. This demand is the its
RELIEF FROM AMERICA
result of anti-Semitic propaganda endeared themselves unto us. Your cistn which, having succeeded in sup- tidally a "Religionslehrer" who gave elected were six Zionists and two
New York—The committee at Vi-
which has been going on for several own absence was a source of deep pressing the Protestants, turned occasional addresses -in the syna- Bundists.
enna
which
cares for thousands of
Jews.
the
Odessa anti-Semites recently organ-
months. Only recently, one of 'tie regret, as you were on the program, against
gogue.
refugee men, women and children
Samuel Oppenheimer was a most
distributors of the anti-Semitic 1 Ind- but the boys made up for it and we
With the building of a synagogue ized themselves, and went so far as from all parts of Europe, has been
remarkable character. Ile was wr
the . ' the matter was more 'difficult. The to begin agitation toward a pogrom, granted $200,000
bills among the student body was ap-'all haul a great time.
13 its appropriation
main support of the empi re in the
BENJAMIN F. WIENER,
but in this attempt also they were
prehended. He has been placed on
f , oariti o .ne
month, in accordance with its
(Continued on page 4.)
Pr esident.
ag ainst th
ks who, in 1683 , laid
a
frustrated.•
trial.
FLINT LODGE, No. 656,
I. 0. B. B., INITIATES
BIG CLASS, SUNDAY
"ZIMRO" ENSEMBLE WILL
MAKE APPEARANCE HERE
ON MARCH 7, AT ARENA
The Phaeacians Are
Starving and Begging