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PAGE EIGHT
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and THE LEGAL CHRQNICLE
April 15, 1938
Happier Picture of Life in men, now, do the whole job; re- Joint Board Meeting of
Kadimah Club Addressed
member how we sweated, 25 of
Jewish Farm Commune
Prenzlauer Maternity Aid
by Alvin B. Levin
us!" (And the Arab still plows
and Infant Service Group
oiN('LI'llE1/ FROM l'AGE SEVEN/
with a team consisting of a donkey
Alvin
B. Levin, a member of
and a camel.) In the kitchen, a row
Tuesday
GREETINGS .. .
the large collective takes on the
character of a village, with diversi-
fied occupations, with less enforced
intimacy among the comrades, and
with greater opportunity for cul-
tural activity.
I made a tour of the farm. What,'
now, of I. ishkin s rhapsodic pro-,
phecy? No longer mules, but four
tractors for plowing the fields; no,
longer our rackety thresher, but a
huge harvesting combine. "Eight
IN THE SPIRIT OF THE
OCCASION I EXTEND TO
YOU ALL THE BEST
WISHES FOR A JOYOUS
PESACH.
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of automatic electric kettles, with
red signal lights; laundry and
bakery operated on power; run-
ning water everywhere; showers
in the basements of the new houses.
But the bananas have not pros-
pered, after live years of loss the
trees were yanked out; grapefruit
is better suited to this soil The
vineyard has grown, six-fold; and
there is a whole row of chicken-
houses; and there is still another
new cow-barn. The swamps of the
hishon have been drained; and the
bridge of paper is gone; the com-
mune's buses, serving the whole
complex of settlements, bang over
the new bridge every half hour,
going toward the chassidic village.
And how that village has grown,
a few hundred houses instead of a
handful.
If a commune is mentioned, the
world takes it that only communal
forms exist in Palestine, and that
all Jews there are Communists.
This needs to be clarified. It is
undoubtedly true that a high per-
centage of Jewish workers in Pal-
estine, as in America or Europe,
believe in some form of socialist
economy. But the first communes
in Palestine were established be-
fore the war, and took form as
much out of necessity as out of
ideology. They were something like
the group-settlements of the Amer-
ican pioneers,
The various agewies occupied
with settling Jews on land in Pal-
estine have fostered all types of
settlements, The earliest colonies,
subsidized by Rothschild funds,
were farmers with individual hold-
ings. Most of these were econom-
ically unsuccessful, The Zionist or-
ganization has developed individu-
alist settlements and villages with
some degree of co-operative activi-
ty, and straight communes. Be-
sides, of course, villages and towns
have sprung up entirely inde-
pendent of organizational aid,
Among Zionist fostered settle-
ments, however, there has been a
15-year debate as to the com-
parative advantages of commune
or co-operative village. Now, it
seems, the communes have prac-
tically won out. Recently the sons
of the farmers of a co-operative
village, Nalialal, went out to make
a new settlement. They were given
a tract of land, laid out in indi-
vidual holdings. But after six
months they threw all in together,
and became a commune.
Now there is a chain of farm
communes, formed into a larger
collective organization. In this,
too, are several groups of city
workers, who pool their earnings
and live together, But even this
large collective, called the Kibutz
Miuchad, is not politically social-
ist, as evidenced by the existence
the arbitration committee of the
Jewish Community Council, spoke
to the members of the,. Kadimah
Social Club at a special meeting
held last Wednesday evening in
Bnai Moshe Center, on the topic,
"What Is the Significance of the
Jewish Community Council?" In
the course of his talk, Mr. Levin
sketched the background of his-
torical events which have brought
community councils into existence
in over 20 Jewish communities.
Ile described the discrimination,
arbitration, public relations, and
other activities of the Detroit
Council and asked for their sup-
port. At the conclusion of his
talk, it was announced the Kadi-
mah Social Club is applying for
membership in the Council.
SINCERE GOOD WISHES
FOR A HAPPY PASSOVER
The Eva Prenzlauer Maternity
Aid will hold a joint board meet-
ing with the Infant Service
Group on Tuesday, April 19, at
2 in. in., at Mrs. N. Blatnikoff's
home, 12690 Monte Vista. This
annual meeting is held to discuss
yearly reports.
The next affair will be a
strawberry festival and bridge,
on Wednesday, May 18, in Kern's
—I N THE—
Auditorium, at 2 p. In. Mrs. J.
Greenstone and her committee,
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Mesdames J. Rose, II. A. }islet
and Esther Koffman, are sparing
no efforts to make this affair
unique.
Mrs. E. E. Ellenstein thanks
Mrs. J. Greene for her splendid
performance at the last meeting
held at the Stigler Hotel.
PASSOVER GREETINGS!
Nominations for officers will meats. Meantime, the unemployed
take place at the board meeting. work on construction of the com-
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mune's buildings: the mess-hall,
of another, smaller chain of com- schools, and dormitories.
YOU ALL FOR A HAPPY
munes, called the Shomer Ilazair,
A small factory has been estab-
whose chief difference from the lished at Yagur, too: it is the only
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Kibutz Miuchad is in its distinct modern, machine-run pottery in
socialist ideology.
Palestine. About 50,000 flower
. . . . from the . . .
On the whole, of course, Pales- pots, for use in Jewish plant nor-
tine is like any other capitalist series, are turned out every
country—built on employer-worker month. Formerly, these had to be
relationships. There is, however, a purchased from Arab hand-potters.
And next to the pottery is a
very strong central labor unich
body; and there is a widespread trade-school, with machine shops,
and healthy tendency toward co- carpentry shops, and agricultural
operative societies. Almost all bus training for German youth, aged
and trucking companies, for in- around 15, getting ready to settle
stance, are co-operatively ownhd in Palestine.
All these activities are housed
by their drivers.
As to communism—a nice con- in new buildings of simple and
effective
design; the big mess-hall,
tradiction exists. For the Russian
Communist party line is opposed especially, seemed a noteworthy
to the Jewish settlement of Pales- piece of architecture, to me. One
tine, as the Jews are considered to of the comrades of eight years ago
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MT. CLEMENS
be. aiding British imperialism, was showing me around; I asked
Zionists were outlawed, many were him who had designed the build-
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sent to Siberia by the Bolsheviks. ing. "Why, do you like it?" I said
Hence, a large group of people who I thought it top-notch. "Well, I
believe in socialism, who estab- guess it must have been the year
lished collectives in Palestine be- after you left, they sent me to the
fore collectives were established in Technicum in Haifa. I studied
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Russia, and who are ideologically there, five years." So Yagur had
in sympathy with the Russian gov- produced its own architect, too, in
EVERY
ernment, find themselves actually young Edelman. His design for
regarded as enemies by that gov- the mess-hall, which I admired so
NIGHT
ernment, And naturally they are much, had been submitted in com-
now opposed to party Communists. petition with leading outside ar-
chitects,
and
had
won
simply
on
In the present political circum-
stances, especially, they can't help merit.
As with the architect, so with
feeling that the Communist party
line on Jews in Palestine is quite the musician. I should have under-
mistaken, as the Jews are the only stood a little more fully what
progressive force toward an even- would become of my character,
Yehuda. I constructed a closed
tual socialist economy.
problem for him: a problem of
So much for the communism of choice:
either life as a worker in
the commune. There is the possi- the commune,
or as an artist out-
bility of another misunderstand-
side
the
commune.
ing, in what I have said about
I found him settled in one of the
Yagur. I should point out that
rooms in the first concrete
Yagur's growth from 60 to 600 is larger
house. Ile had married, in these
not really typical, but extraordi- years,
and
fathered three kids. The
nary; the Jewish population of kids were up
there in the children's
Palestine has not multiplied ten- house, among
the 125 other off-
fold in these eight years, but has
spring
of
Yagur—in
place of the
increased from around 250,000 to 15 of my time.
400,000.
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And he was the same, eruptive
Being close to Haifa, Togor took Yehuda, talking in a rush of ideas,
in a great many workers who were whimsical, nonsensical, and dead-
employed in the construction of the earnest all jumbled together, and
port, and in building activities all the time flying around the
during the subsequent boom. A room doing something in terrific
number of Yagur comrades also haste and seeming confusion.
work in the nearby cement factory Sheets were scattered, a boy was
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—the nucleus of this movement mimeographing something, Yehuda
had already been formed when
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was lettering notes on a stencil ,
IN THE
was there. Wages are turned into interrupting himself every few
OF THE SEASON, WE
the commune. During 1934 an minutes to run down to the road
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103.5, with comparative prosperity to see whether a certain car had
these wages were largely respons come, or to run across to the office
JEWISH PEOPLE FOR A JOYOUS
ible for the surge forward of Ya- and phone Haifa, kidding someone
PASSOVER!
HAPPY PESACII TO ALL!
gur. Now, while all Palestin there into running an errand for
stands still awaiting Great Brit him—and all the time I knew his
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aim's decision on partition, employ- scattered tasks would come to-
ment is falling off, Yagur repay gether quite neatly, for that seas
these
comrades
by
carrying
them
the way he worked. It turned out
ROY HATHAWAY, Prop.
over the period of unemployment he was preparing a batch of
This will probably last anoth
mimeographed songs that had to
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year, as England is sending out
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businessmen refuse to make inves bration, that evening, for their
group of German youth who were
finishing two years of training,
and going off to start their own
commune.
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Some of the songs were of Ye-
Extending Best Wishes to the Entire Jewish
huda's own composition. And when
he
hummed one of them I recog-
Community
nized the melody. I had heard that
melody on the boat, crossing the
Mediterranean, Two or three I'al-
estinians had been on the boat,
and they hummed, whistled, sang
Pesach Greetings to All
the haunting tune all through the Rest Wishes for a Happy Pesach
voyage, Yehuda's song.
So now Yehuda is the music-
master of the Kibutz Miuchad, the
collective of communes. He spends
his time composing, arranging mu-
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This music is founded in Biblical
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hibitionist and a creative artist,
rooted among his own people, con-
During the past three years, its assets and busi-
tributing to the culture of his folk,
ness have enjoyed remarkable growth.
and of the world. I should have
understood that the communes
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Now
the
story
of
Yehuda
is
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whole, and I can't help thinking
it is one that should be known to
We extend sincere wishes to Michigan Jewry
more of the world; there is a great
for a happy and joyous Passover.
picture, too, it seems to me, in such
A HAPPY PESACH TO ALL!
a theme of pioneering, of growth,
of coqlict in the artist's self, and
in the pure result: the pageantry
and singing on Mount Carmel.
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