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Docembor 27, 1940
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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CYRUS ADLER—WHO FATHERED
JEWISH BIOGRAPHY IN AMERICA
Sincere Holiday Greetings
Rosenbloom Elected Co-
Treasurer of United
Jewish Appeal
A Joyous Chanukah to All
Charles J. Rosenbloom, Pitts-
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
"Cyrus Adler — biographer." inevitable that the author of this burgh Jewish leader and national
ales-
Among the many descriptive biography should be Dr. Abra- treasurer
of has
the been
United
Appeal,
elec P
Pa d l
Made in Detroit
terms which may be applied to ham A. Neumann, Dr. Adler's tine
this extraordinary man is the disciple, the rabbi of the con- succeed the late Arthur M. Lam-
by Detroiters
one suggested in the opening gregation of which Dr. Adler
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sentence. For Dr. Adler was in was a life-long member and at
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(Corner Elmhurst)
a
real
sense
the
father
of
Amer-
one
time
its
president,
the
Mik-
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ican Jewish biography. He it veh Israel of Philadelphia, which
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was who conceived the idea of recently celebrated the two hun-
an American Jewish Year Book, dredth anniversary of its found-
a source book of biography as ing.
Chanukah Greetings!
It is not the purpose of this
well as an annual compilation of
varied Jewish statistical mate- article to review Dr. Neumann's
rial. He it was who organized short but eloquently written re-
the American Jewish Historical cital of the life of the man whom
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Society which concerns itself with he undoubtedly revered as his
unearthing and preserving his- master. Until the time when a
torical facts bearing upon the full length biography shall have
work and achievements of the been done, Dr. Neumann has per-
Jew in the American scene. formed a signal service to the
JOEL BLAU, Prop.
And now Cyrus Adler, who for cause of American Jewish history
a number of years edited the by writing this well-balanced
Year Book and penned some of story of the man whom the pres-
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the biographies appearing in it, ent writer regards as perhaps
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is the subject of the leading anti- the most gifted, the most con-
cle in the 1940-1941 issue. structive figure American Jewry
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To the present writer it seemed a" produced.
rus
Adler,
born
in
Arkansas
Cy
in 1863 and reared by his wid-
owed mother in Philadelphia in
a circle peopled by such men as
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Sabato Morais, Mayer Sulzberg-
CHARLES J. ROSEBLOOM
er and Solomon Solis-Cohen, he
became in turn the first Amer- port as national co-tr usurer of
icon to obtain his doctorate in the United Jewish A meal for
Sernitics in an American univers- Refugees and Overseas Needs in
r
ity (John Hopkins), curator in behalf of the Joint Dist ibution
the Smithsonian institution in Committee, the United Plc ;tine
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Government, one of the men who by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver and
—aluminum primed frames—
re-organized the Jewish Theolog- Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national
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chairmen.
ical Seminary, a founder of the
American Jewish Committee and
later its executive chairman, the 14 Jewish Women's Reading
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succeeding the great Solomon
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In this man there converged
nearly all the forces and activi- ing circles now function in De-
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fies which in their organic total- troit. In their tenth year, these
ity constitute the flowering of circles meet regularly to discuss
Jewish life—religion, education, latest important books as well as
We extend sincere good wishes for a
the spread of a knowledge of literary, economic and political
C h a n u k a h filled with happiness and
Jewish literature through the questions. Members also report
With or without frames, also any
medium of the Jewish Publica- on English and Hebrew books,
blessed with full measure of prosperity
size fireplace mirror made to order.
tion Society, the translation of and an outstanding: work is re-
Old mirrors resilvered like new.
and may these wishes continue to find
the Bible and the publishing of viewed weekly.
"Bas Zion" by Yehuda Burlo, Protect your furniture with glass
fulfillment into the many years beyond.
the Jewish Encyclopedia, the mag-
nificent work of the Joint Dis- the Sephardic Hebrew author, tops. Personal attention given by
tribution Committee in succoring were among the latest books to
MR. SPIEGELMAN.
stricken European Jewry since be reviewed.
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burned a fire of love for his ing Americanized, we note
peol de and its immortal tradition
•uly, the overshadowing pas-
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Each and Every One of You.
To
were God, Israel and the Torah.
A Joyous Holiday with an invitation to see
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We of Detroit have a special
interest in the life story of Dr.
the NEW AND BEAUTIFUL-
Adler. In 1927, he addressed a
banquet which honored Rabbi A.
M. Hershman, who had then con-
cluded twenty years of service
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as spiritual leader of Congrega-
tion Shaarey Zedek. That visit
was the first Dr. Adler had made
to Detroit and the address was
the only one he had ever deliv-
ered before a congregational aud-
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most
precious
events
in
the
con-
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gregation's history.
Dr. Neumann's excellent biog-
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raphy is, for the nonce, a fitting
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memorial to the man he loved
and revered. It is to be hoped
that full-length biogrphy of Dr.
Adler will be published without
loss of time, since the man who,
in this writer's opinion, is best
equipped for the task is avail-
able in the person of Dr. Neu-
mann. And a book on the life of
Cyrus Adler, making full use of
his correspondence with the men
who figured in his long career
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and utilizing the notes, diaries
and observations/ which he is
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known to have wfitten during the
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years of his busy, fruitful life,
would constitute a mine of in-
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on American Jewish history for
a full half century, a book of
surpassive interest and color.
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