April 5, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Leg& Chronicle
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Gifts to Mo'os Chitim Honor Jozsef Veszi Died on Same
Day When His Sister Passed
Mrs. Weisman's Re-
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In honor of the recovery from
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and to the Mo'os Chitim fund,
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Mrs.
Mrs. Herman Aggins,
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Selected and Arranged b) Irving
I. Katz, Executive Secr, tart',
Word was received in Detroit
Temple Beth El
this week to the effect that the
Hon. Jozsef Veczi, former editor
GENESIS
of the Pester Lloyd of Budapest,
The Hebrew name fi. , r the
died on the same day on which
his sister, Rose V. Hartman, First Book of Moses was original-
passed away in Detroit, on Jan. ly Sefer M a a s e h
24. The following is a transla- "Book of Creation." TI
was
tion from the Hungarian ortho- rendered into Greek as (lenesis,
rox newspaper Zsido Ujsag of "Origin," because it gives an
Feb. 1, paying tribute to Veszi: account of the creation
the
The long and busy career of world and the beginning s if life
Jozsef Veszi, the excellent Jew- and society. Its current Jewish
ish journalist, one of the "grand name is Bereshith (In 'lie be-
old men" of the European Jewish ginning) which is th first
Congress, and confidante of the Hebrew word in its opening
great Hungarian liberal states- sentence. Bereshith is also the
men of the past, ended suddenly, name of Chap. I-VI, 8 the first
JEWISH CANCER SPECIAL- after one day's illness, at the of the fifty-four weekly Torah
IST EXILED BY NAZIS BE-
Readings (Sedrahs) on Sabbath
age of 82.
COMES FRENCH CITIZEN
Jozsef Veszi was born in Arad mornings.
PARIS (WNS) — Dr. Eduard in 1858. In the '90s he edited the $f the Pentateuch (which is
Jacobs, German Jewish cancer Budapest Tagblatt and later di- a Greek word meaning the FIVE
specialist, who is collaborating rected the Pesti Naplo and Buda- BOOKS of Moses) were merely
in a treatment for concer which pesti Naplo. As editor-in-chief a code of civil and religious laws,
French physicians are watching of the Pester Lloyd for over a it would have opened with the
with great interest, was granted quarter of a century since 1915, twelfth chapter of Exodus, which
citizenship by the French Gov- he has won unusual outstanding contains the earliest specific com.
ernment, it was announced here. honors in the service of his mandment given to Israel. But
Dr. Jacobs, who has devoted country and willingly placed his it is far more than a cod e of
his life to cancer research, was invaluable personality at the dis- law; it is the Torah, i. i. the
compelled to flee Germany when posal of his race. He supported Divine Teaching given to Israel,
the just aims of Hungarian Jewry and the Message of Israel to man-
the Nazis came into control.
with the respect he enjoyed for kind. Therefore, it describes the
ANNUAL MEETING OF JEWISH decades among government cir- origins of the Jewish people;
traces its kinship to the other
cles.
WELFARE BOARD TO BE
From the time of the Tiszaesz- portions of the human family—
HELD IN APRIL
lar ritual murder case in the all being of one blood and off-
Judge Irving Lehman, presi- '80s, Jozsef Veszi always stood spring of one common stock;
dent of the Jewish Welfare Board, ready to assist anywhere his co- and goes back to the creation of
announced that the twenty-third religionists were involved. As the world, which it declares to
annual meeting of the National a delegate from Hungary he par- be the work of One Almighty
Council of the Jewish Welfare ticipated in the sessions of the and Beneficent God. All this i s
Board, parent organization for League of Nations in Geneva in told in the first eleven chapters
over 300 Y. M. H. A.'s and Jew- 1929, where at his request Albert of Genesis. The remaining thirty-
ish Community Centers in the Apponyi raised his voice against nine chapters give the story of
United States and Canada, will the pogroms then occurring in the Fathers of the Jewish people
be held Saturday evening, April the Holy Land. Since them as —Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and his
13, and all day Sunday, April well he was constantly in the children.
—J. II. Hertz.
New vanguard in the interests of his
14, 1940, at the Hotel
Yorker, 34th St. and Eighth country and Jewry. The banners
of orthodox Jewry are lowered J. N. F. Planted 285,000 Trees
Ave., New York City.
in memory of his outstanding
in 1939
Judge Perlman to Discuss personality.
JERUSALEM. (Palcor Agen-
At the direction of Regent
Part of Aliens in a
Nicholas Horthy the head of the cy)—With the planting of 285,-
Democracy
cabinet dispatched the following 132 trees by the Jewish National
telegram of condolence to the Fund for the year ending Sep-
The part of aliens in a demo- widow of Jozsef Veszi: "It was tember 30, 1939, the total wood-
cracy will be discussed by Judge with gerat sorrow that His High- lands under its control corn-
Nathan D. Perlman, vice-presi- ness the Regent learned of the prised 2,839,156 trees on an area
dent of the American Jewish passing of His Excellency Jozsef of 11,734 dunams in 28 centers.
Congress, on April 6, at a con- Veszi and, mindful of the de- Eight of these forests comprise
ference called by the New York ceased's invaluable achievements over 100,000 trees each: Kfar
School for Democracy, to be in the field of Magyar journal- Hahoresh, 600,000 trees; Celli-
held at Union Theological Sem- ism during a period as long as gar, 400,000 trees; Kiriath Ana-
inary.
two lifetimes, expresses to the vim, 268,000 trees; Mishmar
bereaved family his sincere sym- Haemek, 247,000 trees; Shaar
SEEK WHEREABOUTS OF
pathy." Uray, chief of cabinet. Ha'Amakim, 240,000 trees; Ra-
EDWARD RAYMOND KIMBALL
At the last rites on Friday, math Jochanan, 160,000; Nahalal,
Information is wanted of Ed- Jan. 26, 1940, which were con- 132,000, and Ben Shemen, 111,-
ward Raymond Kimball, who left ducted with great ceremony, the 000.
High Commissioner Sir Harold
his home in Kearney, Mo., in following were represented:
October, 1938, leaving his wife, Count Istvan Csaky, minister of MacMichael visited the Hebrew
Lilly, unprovided for and since foreign affairs; Mayor Karoly University on Jan. 16 and was
then has failed to communicate Szendy, also the Commissioner of received by Dr. J. L. Magnes,
with her or contribute to her Police of Budapest. Personally the president. Dr. D. Baneth
support, as a result of which she present were Ferenc Ripka, for- showed the High Commissioner
now finds herself in great need. mer mayor; Dr. Emil Nagy, for- over the library, and in the
Mr. Kimball, who is believed to mer minister of justice; Colonel School of Oriental Studies he
be in Michigan, is 39 years of Romanelli, Baron Jozsef Szter- was erceived by Dr. L. A. Mayer,
age, 5 ft. 11 in. tall, weighs 144 enyi. Jozsef Veszi, who had been the director, who showed him the
pounds, has black hair, brown elected an honorary member of work being done by Jewish ori-
eyes, a slight limp, is a bridge the Jewish congregation and entalists on the Arabic History
constructor by profession. Any- Chevra Kadisha of Budapest, was of Baladhuri and the Concord-
one aware of his location is re- considered as its own dead and ance of Classical Arab Poetry.
quested to communicate with the was placed at eternal rest in His Excellency was presented
National Desertion Bureau, 67 W. a grave of honor presented by with the first two volumes issued
the Chevra Kadisha.
of this history.
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