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WE EXTEND OUR SINCEREST ROSH
HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL
BORDER CITIES JEWRY

German Jewish Children In The Saddle

BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO ALL
PONTIAC JEWRY

The Picture of Jewish Education in America Today

GREETINGS FROM

By BERNARD SEMEL

MAYOR FRANK B. RUF

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There are over a million Jewish i shin and take out 100 at random

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children — little ones, bigger ones l you will find that approximately 78
and big ones — who should be of them are being, in the Jewish
spending some part of their pre- cultural sense, disinherited.
A Record Demanding Remedy
cious lives in acquiring knowledge
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The figures just cited are basic
of the faith, the traditions and the
37 W. PIKE ST.
culture of their people. Over a mil- I and, to a mind gifted with imagina-
PONTIAC, MICH.
Liberal Candidate for Essex West
tion,
spiritual
as
well
as
visual,
lion of them is the estimate. They
tell the story almost com-
are to be found in the public ele-
mentary schools of the land, in the pletely. It is not a story calculated
Let me extend to all my Jewish Friends
to
make
us happier. It is a story
high schools and in the higher in-
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stitutions of learning. We may that should fill us with anxiety for
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
the
future.
It is a record that
visualize them as a vast host or a
great procession moving forward should set our best energies into
ecently snatched
ungsters were only r
towards the future — our future, I motion in search of a remedy.
These happy, carefree yo
its Pal-
Let us, for the time being, shift from the terrors of the Hitler regime in Germany. Arrived r ights
the future of the Jewish people in
America. And not only of the Jews our attention from the 78 per cent estine with their r efugee parents they have recovered their
of America, but of our people of the distinherited and confine it to a free and wholesome life. For them as for thousands of other
everywhere; for doesn't the record to those of our children in America refugee children, Palestine opens the door to a bright and rich future.
PONTIAC. MICHIGAN
who are receiving instruction in
/imply prove that American Jewry
The Source of Yiddish
is an important factor in the for- i the Jewish heritage. What sort of
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that
alongside
of
the
vast
spiritual
Conscious of their participation
tuner of our people throughout the; schools do these children attend heritage of our people, alongside
world? I and what sort of instruction are
with the Germans in a common in-
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Bank Run Gravel
even of a reasonable minimum of heritance the Jews of Germany orig-
llow is this vast procession I they receiving? We have, to begin
this heritage that may be. agreed inally called their Jewish vernacu-
equipped
to
perform
the
charge
1
with,
the
week-day
school,
the
All
Grades
Washed Sand and Gravel
Extends Greetings to the Jewish People
upon, the Sunday school lacks the lar merely "Teutsch." Then there
that history has laid upon it? Are afternoon school that supplements
possibility of giving our children was a time when Yiddish was
they armed for this great and the public secular school. In schools
an adequate Jewish education. The
Pit at Clarkston Station
peaceful battle? May we, the par- of this type there are approximate- 80,000 children attending our Sun- popularly called lwre-teutsch or
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ents and elders, go our way with ly 120,000 children throughout the day schools are entitle d to more. Juedisch-teutsch (Judea-German).
country.
In
many
of
these
schools
It is frequently spoken of as Ma-
the
secure
feeling
that
our
burden
there
has
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Within recent years
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has been taken up by shoulders the children meet five times a week, developed in the American Jewish meloshen (mother tongue), or I
able to carry it? This is a question in others only three times a week. educational scene a type of school Prost-Juedisch (Simple Yiddish).
The sessions also vary in length
In the days of the Ilaskalah, the
to which there may be various
which has stirred great hopes in designation jargon has been forced
ty answers, but it is well that all who from a little over an hour to two
the hearts of those to whom Jewish upon it and the appellation occurs
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give the matter thought — and all and even three hours. Most of the
CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS
Jews should give this matter schools are of the congregational education is a paramount consider- often in Jewish literature, but the
ation. It is a combination secular people who employ it as their ver-
thought — should be in possession type. that is, they are attached to
ARTHUR S. FITZGERALD, Chartered Accountant, also
and Jewish school. that is some- nacular have always spoken of it
of the basic facts involved in the definite synagogues or temples.
Fellow, Michigan Assn. of Certified Public Accountants;
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times called a Jewish parochial as Juedisch. This has given rise in
question. They should, in other Others are of a communal charac-
Member American Soc. of Certified Public Accountants
ter, that is to say, they are inde- school and is also known as Ye- England and America to the word
PAINTERS' SUPPLIES
HAMISH R. MACDONALD, Chartered Accountant, also Cer-
words, have some picture of the
is
pendent institutions controlled by shivah. Here the Jewish child
Yiddish for both the spoken and
status of Jewish education in
tified Public Accountant, State of Michig•n.
their own directors and executives. taught the public school curriculum written form. According to the late
America.
Still others, the Yiddish schools,
Professor Gotthard Deutsch (Jew
Trustees in Bankruptcy
The Salient Facts
are part of the system aided and
and Gentile, Boston, 1920, p. 96)
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It may be argued, and argued
it was Izrael Zang‘vill who aptly
Ouellette Ave
impressively, that figures, statis- controlled
by
central
bodies.
Whatever substantial achieve-
coined the term Yiddish. "It is the
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t ics, quantity are not important.
best name for a dialect which in its
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previous form of Judeo-German is
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f the credited to Jewish education in
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a golden thread the idea o
America, it is the week-day school
awkward, and, under the name of
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overshadowing importance of the which is entitled to the largest
jargon, unjust."
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individual human soul. A Jewish share of this credit. These schools
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soul, says a popular Yiddish pro- possess the facilities and the time
Candle. on Friday Night
verb, cannot be measured. If you to impart some fair measure of
The Talmud makes the lighting
have saved the life of a single man, knowledge to their pupils. There
of the lights obligatory on both --
says the Talmud, you have saved they learn the elements of the Heb-
male and female as a way of wel-
a universe. Any Jewish mother,
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says the popular belief, may be- row language. They
learn
es-
coming the Sabbath. However, it
ficance
of the
Jewish
sense and significance
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has generally fallen to the Jewish
come
the
mother
of
the
Messiah.
Any child of ours in whose heart traditions, customs and ceremonies;
woman to observe this custom. A
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soul our great and immemorial they learn something of the inspir-
minimum of two lights is required,
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and
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may ing history of their race; they are
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one representing the command to
he ritage has been implanted,
imbued with an understanding, an
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"remember" the Sabbath as con-
become his people's savior. 'ft
interest, and a concern for the
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tained in the ten commandments in
Quantity. true enough, is not the ideals and aspirations of their
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Exodus, and the other to "guard"
tuartisrAnnomniunallmENMINoisnonnimum mutcEimumNINEW1imem m 0 5 t important consideration. people.
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the Sabbath as given in Deutero-
Nevertheless anyone who desires a
Secular•Parochial School
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nomy. In ancient times olive oil
picture of the status of Jewish edu-
The type of school which takes
was used in a lamp which had a Ellli111111M11111M1311111111111.
cation in America cannot Ignore
BERNARD SEMEL
in the next largest number of the
double wick, analogous to the two
the salient facts and figures.
Honorary Secretary
children
226,000
Over a million keen, bright-eyed, approximately
candles. Candles came into use dur-
Wishing All My Jewish Friends a Happy and Prosperous
Jewish Education Association
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eager Jewish children, over a mil- who are receiving some sort o
ing the middle ages.
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lion souls for whom we of the older Jewish education is the Sunday as well as the curriculum of his
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generation, parents and communal school. Some 80,000 of the total Hebrew and religious training.
are
attending
school
of
this
type.
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Here the child spends the greater
B
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other responsibilities Jewish lead- They are, as the name indicates, part of his waking hours. Here he
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ership may have, this one is surely one-day-a-week schools attached to lives in an atmosphere where the
synagogue
or
a
temple.
Unlike
a
iamong the most serious. How many
secular and the Jewish are in-
of this vast number dibreceive some the week-day schools, the Sunday tegrated and harmonized.
sort of Jewish education? Probably schools have been copied by Jews
la New York these small Yeshi-
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no more than about 225,000. A lit- from their Protestant neighbors. voth have become an integral part
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tle over 20 per cent of the total. Within the limits of their possibili- of Jewish education. Many parents
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That is the number of Jewish chil- ties these schools are no doubt do- to whom the Jewish education of
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dren who at any given moment are ing excellent work. If they cannot their children is a matter of tre-
impart
a
considerable
amount
of
Specializing
in
being instructed in the Jewish
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mendous import, prefer to send
heritage of mind and spirit; , information, they have it in their
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their children to these schools.
though it should be added that in ' power to impart a considerable There are today some 5,000 chil-
vating, Bedding ofAll Kinds.
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the course of their lives the num- amount of inspiration. They can
dren who are being taught in them.
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her of our children who receive develop in the heart and mind of
There remains to be added a
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the
child
Jewish
pride
and
Jewish
Jewish instruction, much or little,
total of probably 20,000 to 25,000
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represents a higher proportion of loyalty, the pride that is always children who are receiving instruc-
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the total approximately 50 per touched with humility and the loy- tion privately or in the American
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equivalent of the old time Cheder,
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proach the million-headed proces- I well as their faith. , ,With all due
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recognition, however, of the excel- to complete the picture in its sali-
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Phase
lent service rendered by the Jewish ent features.
The schools vary, of course,
Sunday school, it cannot be denied
greatly in size. The average regis-
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week-day schools is about 120, that
of the 800 Sunday schools about
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is approximately $6,000,000, of
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chichihe major portion, 65-70 per
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cent, derived from tuition fees
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paid
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parents,
the
remainder
Member%
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coming from neighborhood charity
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enterprises and central agencies,
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like philanthropic federations, and,
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in the City of New York, the Jew-
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ish Education Association.
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Of course, the Jewish education-
formation,
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and Corporal lon
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enterprise
in
America
is
living
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on a depression regime, and the
worst sufferers under it have been
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Iuttuirien
Mgr.
FRANK McCASEY,
the teachers. Few people are aware
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Reasonable
Rates
of
the
tragic
plight
of
the
Hebrew
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teacher in
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wages have been disproportionately
Detroit
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reduced; his position has been ren-
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dered galling and humiliating. In
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held
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the face of all this he has
his post with patience and heroism.
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Jewish public policy, to the extent
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and distressed, cannot effective-
sed
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Agents for Semet-Solvay Coke
teacher has been the
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The Jewish
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ompletely
forgotten
of
all
most c
our forgotten men. At the same
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gratitude cannot
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time, credit and
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be denied to the many members of
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the local boards of Jewish schools
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throughout the country, who have
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borne their responsibilities
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of great help to them in tiding
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over the emergency.
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make the problem of Jewish educa-
tion an object of special study and
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make the problem of Jewish educa-
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ing you a happy and pros-
tion an object of special study and
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solicitude. They most see in it the !
perous New Year.
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e key to the spiritual in-
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Ottawa Electric Co.

OXFORD
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Campbell Auto Finance
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