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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
SECTION Ol'E
VOL. 42, NO. 45
90,000 Jews in
Detroit, Year
Books States
and The Legal Chronicle
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1940
Observe 90th Anniversary of
Te mple Beth El Next Friday
Arrange Special Service: Rabbi Mann of Chicago
to Address Aniversary Banquet on
Sunday, Nov. 17
The Champ
Ninety years ago a little group
of pioneers met at the home of
the late Isaac and Rebecca Co-
zens on West Congress St. to
organize the first Jewish congre-
gation in Michigan. The house in
which that first minyan was held
is still standing. Tradition has it
that there were not enough men
to form the traditional minyan
of 10 so that a boy, Moses Cohen,
then about 11 years old, was
given a prayer book, which he
Lists Total Jewish Pop-
ulation of Michigan
at 105,200
Detroit has a Jewish popula-
tion of 90,000, and there are
105,201 Jews in the entire state
of Michigan, according to the
42nd annual volume of the Amer-
ican Jewish Year Book just is-
sued by the Jewish Publication
Society of America, with head-
quarters at 225 S. 15th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Year Book, edited by
Harry Schneiderman, assistant
secretary of the American Jew-
ish Committee and director of
the Committee's Library of Jew-
ish Information, carries the most
comprehensive survey of Jewish
communities in the United States,
consisting of data collected from
4,694 cities, villages and rural
areas.
Rate of Growth Declines
Entitled "Jewish Communities
of the United States: Number
and Distribution of Jews in Ur-
ban Places and in Rural Terri-
tory," the article was written
by Dr. H. S. Linfield, special
agent of the United States Cen-
sus Bureau, and well known au-
thority on American Jewish vi-
tal statistics. This work was
financed by the American Jew-
ish Committee. It shows that the
rate of growth of the Jewish
population in this country de-
clined during the ten year pe-
riod covered by this census. The
total number of Jews in the
United States was 4,771,000, or
3.69 per cent of the population
of the country. This represents
an increase of 543,000 in 10
years, including a net increase of
100,000 due to immigration. Dur-
ing the previous decade, 1918-
1927, there was an increase of
839,000, including net immigra-
tion of 320,000.
The effect on the European
Jewish population of the political
and territorial changes since 1933
is described with precision in a
documented study by Moses Mos-
kowitz, staff member of the Li-
brary of Jewish Information.
The article deals with migration,
natural decrease, and transfer of
territory. Of the 15,757,000 Jews
in the world, 7,428,000 reside in
Central Europe, where they con-
stitute 51/2 per cent of the total
See POPULATION—Page 3
Center Opens
1940 Program.
Palestinian Dancer and
Violinist Appear on
Tuesday
Native Palestinian dances in
colorful, authentic costumes, and
music for the violin by Palestin-
ian and other composers, will be
featured at the first concert in
the series of six Jewish lectures
and concerts which opens Tues-
day, Nov. 12.
The dancer, Miss Noami Aleh-
Leaf, is a native Palestinian, who
studied under leading ballet mas-
ters in Europe and America, and
who. has recently returned from
an extensive tour through Europe.
Her performances have met with
enthusiastic receptions both here
and abroad.
Miss Leaf's program will in-
clude the Persian "Dance of the
Cup-Bearer," a dance composition
constructed around the Biblical
dance of Miriam the Prophetess.
after the crossing of the Red
Sea; the dance of the "Yemenite
Betrothal Feast"; "A Yemenite
Sabbath Dance"; "The Bedouin
Dance to the Rising Sun"; "The
Dance of the Jewish Pioneer
Woman"; "The Arab Flower Ven-
See CENTER--Page 8
ORT Advocate
Speaks Nov. 13
Lady Marley to Ad-
dress Federation
Meeting
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
His opponent, Wendell L. Will-
kie, had the distinction of giving
President Roosevelt the title
THE CHAMP!
Members of the Jewish Welfare
We greet THE CHAMP—the Federation and the Detroit Serv-
President of the United States of ice Group have been invited to
America, Franklin Delano Roose- meet Lady Marley, on Wednesday
velt.
evening, Nov. 13, when she will
address an open meeting of the
two organizations to be held at
—
Iladassah Gives
Aid to Britain
Mrs. David deSola Pool
Re-Elected President
at 26th Convention
CINCINNATI. (WNS)—A res-
olution urging the British Gov-
ernment "to welcome the de
mands of the Jewish community
in Palestine which hopes to
achieve its natural right to fight
side by side with Great Britain
against a common enemy," was
adopted at the final session of
the 26th annual convention of
Hadassah, women's Zionist organ-
ization of America.
Prior to adoption of the resolu-
See HADASSAH—Page 16
Late Friday Eve
Services to Begin
At Shaarey Zedek
LADY MARLEY
the Jewish Community Center,
Woodward and Holbrook Ayes.
Daughter of the late Sir Hugh
Gilzean-Read, well-known news-
pape• proprietor and Member of
Parliament, Lady Marley was
married, in 1910, to Lord Marley,
Deputy Speaker of the British
House of Lords.
During the first World War,
Lady Marley joined her sister,
Lady Tangye, in presenting a
complete hospital to the French
Nation, and she served with this
hospital, as a member of the
French Red Cross, for nearly
three years of the war. In recog-
nition of her work she was
awarded both French and British
The first of the Friday evening
services for the current year
will be held Friday, Nov. 15, at
8:30 p. m., in the main audi-
torium. Rabbis A. M. Hershman
and Morris Adler will participate
in the service, and Cantor Jacob
H. Sonenklar, assisted by a choir
of male voices, will officiate.
The opening sermon, entitled
"A Jew Looks at the World,"
will be preached by Rabbi Adler.
In the course of the year's
services many and significant
problems pertaining to society at
large and to Jewish life in par-
ticular will be discussed from the
pulpit.
See LADY MARLEY—Page 16
This Paper Printed in . 1...o Su,tiorm
10 Cents Single Copy; $3.00 per Year
Nazis Drive
Alsace Jews
Into France
put under his arm, and the boy
and the book took the place of a
man.
Britain Urged to Accept
From these meager beginnings,
Offer of a Jew-
the great congregation now known
as Congregation Beth El has
ish Army
grown. In numbers it is said to
be the fourth largest Jewish con-
GENEVA. (WNS) — Moving
gregation in America, and in in-
fluence it certainly has won for unexpectedly, Nazi Gestapo
itself an outstanding place not agents arrested and ordered the
only in the community of De- immediate deportation of thou-
sands of Jews from Alsace and
troit but throughout the land.
Lorraine to the Southern prov-
Democratized Synagogue
Temple Beth El in the course inces of unoccupied France, it
of its nine decades of existence was reported here.
The deportation of Jews from
has pioneered many a forward
movement. It was the first con- the former French provinces fol-
gregation anywhere to democra- lowed by a few days the enforced
tize the synagogue by the intro- evacuation of Jews from the
duction of the unassigned pew, German provinces of Baden, the
according to which the rich man's Palatinate and the Saar. Approxi-
corner and the poor man's corner mately 7,000 Jews were deported
in the synagogue was definitely from these provinces.
It was understood that the
abolished. Through its spiritual
head, the first student congrega- Jews deported from German prov-
tion in the world was organized inces would come under the jur-
at the University of Michigan. isdiction of the Petain govern-
This congregation became the in- ment at Vichy. The German
spiration for the foundation of Jews were given special identifi-
the Hillel work among students cation cards in Metz to replace
in the universities. Temple Beth their German papers.
The German Jews were given
El has parented practically every
Reform congregation in Michigan, anywhere from 20 minutes' to 48
including the synagogues at hours' notice to prepare to leave,
Lansing, Saginaw, Bay City, depending on the whims of the
Flint, Pontiac, and Port Huron. local Gestapo headquarters. They
It has maintained a place of were permitted to take with them
leadership in the spiritual life a limited amount of money and
of Jewry for almost a century personal clothing.
and its educational program has
been copied in many congregations Justice Promised in New Poland
in every section of the land.
LONDON. (WNS) — Polish
The 90th anniversary will be
in post-war, liberated Po-
celebrated during the week-end Jews
land
will
enjoy full political, cul-
of Nov. 15. On that evening a tural
and
social rights on an
special anniversary religious serv- equal footing
the rest of
ice will be held in the Temple the population, with
Labor Minister
at 8 o'clock, on which occasion Jan Stanczyk, speaking in behalf
Dr. Leo M. Franklin and Rabbi of the Polish Government-in-
Leon Fram will deliver the prin- exile, declared at a meeting of
cipal addresses.
Polish Jews here.
Anniversary Banquet
The meeting, attended by sev-
Sunday morning there will be eral members of the exiled Polish
a special children's celebration Cabinet, was held to commemo-
and on Sunday evening, Nov. 17, rate "the first anniversary of the
at 7 o'clock, there will be an an- common fight to demonstrate the
niversary banquet held in the so- solidarity of efforts and hopes of
cial hall of the Temple. The prin- victory of Poles and Jews."
M. Stanczyk emphasized that
cipal speaker on this occasion will
be Dr. Louis L. Mann, Rabbi of the government was opposed to
anti-Semitism and that racial
Temple Sinai, Chicago.
The anniversary banquet will hatred and totalitarian methods
be preceded by the 90th annual were foreign to the Polish people.
meeting of the Temple, which will
be held on Sunday, Nov. 17, at Petain Regime Bars Jews from
5:30 o'clock, in the Brown Me-
French Army
morial Chapel.
VICHY. (WNS) — The anti-
In connection with the anniver- Jewish statute, introduced in un-
sary celebration, there will be occupied France by the Petain
published a souvenir history of regime, which prevented Jews
the Temple. The book will be
handsomely illustrated and will
See NAZIS—Page 2
contain a running account of the
outstanding events in the history
of the Congregation.
Reservations for the banquet
as well as for copies of the an-
niversary volume should be made
through the secretary of the "Golden Book" Trib-
Temple, Irving I. Katz, Madison
8530.
ute to Be Paid to
J. N. F. Parley
In St. Louis
The Jewish Community of Uruguay
Chairman,
shift children attend the gov-
ernment schools in the afternoon,
and vice versa. This arrangement
meets with government favor on
account of the shortage of school
buildings.
It must be noted that Jewish
leaders reported to me that, in
the main, the German Jews re-
fuse to mix with either the
Sephardic or Ashkenazic (East
European) community. They have
established their own synagogue,
etc., including cemetery, despite
the efforts of the East European
Jews to create a single commu-
nity. When the refugees first ar-
rived, the community assisted
them with money for purchasing
goods to be peddled, sewing ma-
chines for craftsmen, etc. It also
operated an employment office
to help the refugees find work.
But community cooperation be-
NEW YORK, N. Y.—Plans for
buttressing the Jewish National
Home in Palestine as an outpost
of democracy in its struggle for
the survival of freedom in the
world will be considered and
acted upon at a National Confer-
ence on Palestine, convoked un-
der the auspices of the Jewish
National Fund, which will take
place during the Armistice Day
week-end in the Hotel Statler,
St. Louis, Mo.
Under the slogan "Eretz Is-
rael Forever—In War as in
Peace," more than 800 delegate'
of Jewish National Fund Coun•
cils and Zionist groups in all
parts of the nation will deliber
ate in a three-day session begin
ning Saturday evening, Nov. 9
and ending Monday, Nov. 11
The many phases of the Palestine
problem resulting from th ,1
spread of the hostilities to the
Near East, will be analyzed and
discussed in addresses by out-
standing leaders of the Zionist
S ee URUGUAY—Page IS
See J. N. F.—Page 8
By RABBI J. X. COHEN
Commission on Economic Problems, American Jewish Congress
The author of the attached ar-
ticle just returned from a three
months' survey of conditions
which obtain among Jews in
Central and South American
lands. Rabbi Cohen went to
South America as a member
of the Committee for the Pro.
motion of Cultural Relations
in behalf of the American and
the World Jewish Congress.
Uruguay is a small South
American country, with a popu-
lation of 2,135,000. It has an
area of 72,153 square miles, or
about the size of the New Eng-
land states. A large section of
the population dwells in Monte-
video, the capital of the nation,
which has a population of 520,-
000. The Jewish community in
Montevideo now numbers about
30,000, including about 5,000
refugees. About 20,000 Jews live
in the "camp", i. e., the rest of
the country outside Montevideo.
The early Jewish settlers corn-
ing in large numbers began to
arrive after 1910, and found
very few Jews in Montevideo. By
1917, their number had reached
a point where they could organize
a Kehillah, and as time went on
they established several com-
munal societies and institutions.
These include a home for aged
and two orphan asylums also
serving as day nurseries. The
second orphan asylum was re-
cently established by German
refugees, with the assistance of
funds from the U. S. A. There
are several synagogues. The prin-
cipal Ashkenazic and Sephardic
synagogues are housed in excel-
lent buildings; each is served by
a rabbi.
There are five Jewish schools,
where instruction is in Yiddish.
The schools operate in morning
and afternoon shifts; the morning
Roosevelt
movement. The Palestine war-