May 9, 1 0 4I
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Congress Women's
Division to Hear
Rabbi Adler May 14
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The Women's Division of the
American Jewish Congress will
meet at the Detroit Leland Hotel,
Wednesday, May 14, at 2 p. m.
Rabbi Morris Adler, who was
a. delegate at the American Jew-
ish Congress conference held at
Hotel Astor in New York May
4, will discuss the American Jew-
ish Congress and the General
Jewish Council.
Greetings extended by Mrs.
Stephen S. Wise to the annual
donor luncheon of the Women's
Division of the American Jewish
Congress and excerpts of the
address given by Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt will be presented via
sound recording.
A resume of the work being
done under the jurisdiction of
the educational department of
the women's division will be pre-
sented.
Mrs. A. A. Davidson, member-
ship chairman, invites members
to bring prospective members
and friends to this meeting. Mrs.
Morris Weingarten, financial sec-
retary, announces that member-
ship cards will be distributed to
members who pay dues. Mrs.
Nathan Spevakow, president, will
preside at this meetincr.
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"Goldele Dem Beker's" finally
left its quarters at the Second
Avenue Theater in New York,
where it had apparently taken
up permanent residence follow-
ing the great hit it made when
first produced there, and opens
at the Cass Theater for only
two performances—Sunday, May
11, matinee and evening.
Proving itself to be all its
prolonged and sustained success
in the big city indicated it to
be, the musical sweeps along in
fast and funny style and shows
that the Yiddish stage too can
benefit from modern methods of
staging, direction, mounting and
stagecraft.
"Goldele Dem Beker's" prob-
ably gains all these qualities be-
cause it is pretty much a one-
man production. Herman Yablo-
koff, a ranking star of the stage
and radio, has been devoting him-
self the last few years to "creat-
TEL AVIV.—(Palcor Agency)
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ben Zion
Uziel and the Rev. Isaiah Raffalo-
vitch, formerly rabbi of Hope
Place Synagogue at Liverpool
and chief rabbi in the Argentine,
were the chief officiants at a cere-
mony of consecrating a Scroll of
the Law (Sefer Torah) in the
synagogue at the largest military
training camp in this country.
Be the first to
take advan-
tage of this
special com-
bination offer.
DID YOU KNOW that De-
troit has fewer hospital beds per
1000 population than any large
city in the country? Detroit has
only 3.2 general hospital beds
per 1000 population; Boston has
8.8; Pittsburgh 7.4; Philadelphia
6.6; Cleveland 5.1. The average
for the entire United States is
5 per 1000 population.
DID YOU KNOW that De-
troit is the only one of the large
cities in the country without a
Jewish hospital?
DID YOU KNOW that among
even the smaller cities, many
have Jewish hospitals? Cincin-
nati, with 23,500 Jews as com-
pared with Detroit's 71,268, has
a Jewish hospital with 225 beds.
Denver, with 17,000 Jews, has
a 55-bed Jewish general hos-
pital. Hartford, Connecticut has
a 65-bed Jewish hospietl; Kan-
sas City, Missouri, 120 beds;
Louisville, with only 10,000 Jews,
has an 86-bed Jewish hospital.
and Herman Yablokkof
New Orleans' 9000 Jews main-
tain a 322-bed hospital.
ing" outstanding productions for
DID YOU KNOW that today
his own Yiddish stage and "Gold- many patients cannot be hos-
ele Dem Beker's" reflects fully pitalized when necessary because
the modern ideas of this young all our hospitals are filled to
man. In addition to playing the capacity?
leading role, Yablokoff has
DID YOU KNOW that many
staged and produced the piece.
patients of the North End Clinic
He shares top billing with one cannot be ohspitalized when they
of the funniest comedians on need more care than can be
the stage, Menashe Skulnick, who given them at the Clinic because
was enthusiastically welcomed by there are no available beds in
every audience, Bella Mysell is Detroit?
a charming and capable leading
DID YOU KNOW that a ser-
lady and others outstanding in ious epidemic in Detroit might
the large cast are Jacob Sussan- prove disastrous because there
off, Goldie Eisman, Gertrude would be no hospital facilities to
Bulman, Isidor Freidman, Liza handle the patients?
Silbert, Anna Thomashefsky and
DID YOU KNOW that eco-
Max Rosenblatt. The musical is
in two acts and 16 scenes, with nomic conditions are better to-
a good score by Ilia Trilling and day than at any time in the
lyrics by Chain Tauber. There past 12 years?
Your Allied Jewish Campaign
are many fast dancing numbers,
put over by an energetic and solicitor will be calling on you
youthful chorus, and several good soon. Add to your pledge a sub-
stantial amount for the proposed
song solos.
Jewish hospital.
Zedakah Election
Meeting on Monday
German Jew Executed for Viola-
tion of Nazi Racial Law
The next meeting of the Zed-
akah Club will be held Wednes-
day evening, May 14, at 8:30,
at the home of Mrs. Louis Ger-
mansky, 18659 Pennington. All
members are asked to be pres-
ent as nomination and election
of officers will be held.
STOCKHOLM (WNS) — Jos-
eph Cohn, a German Jew, has
been executed for violation of
the Nazi racial laws, according to
the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt."
Cohn was found guilt by a high
Nazi court of conducting a love
affair with an "Aryan" woman,
the Nazi paper said.
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Above: Menashe Skulnik
Below: Bella Mysell
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The Hospital
Herman Yablokoff, Menashe Skulnik
Situation Here
and Bella Mysell Featured at Cass
Theater Sunday Matinee and Evening DID YOU KNOW?
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is deeply moving and it impresses the reader as
it must the audience with the seriousness of its
approach to the issue of Negro-white conflicts.
The unpremeditated murder, the passions of
hatred aroused by the tragedy, the subsequent
trial, reach their highest stage of social reason-
ing in the plea in behalf of the young Negro,
who was driven to murder by the economic and
social conditions which drove him to crime, in
the plea of the Jewish lawyer.
In his appeal to the judge the Jewish lawyer
says of Bigger Thomas, that he was frustrated
"in practice by every method of our social sys-
tem;" that "out of this confusion, fear was born.
And fear breeds hate, and hate breeds guilt,
and guilt in turn breeds the urge to destroy —
to kill."
The address of Attorney Max is a vast docu-
ment in the novel; it is a mere abbreviation in
the play. But in both it carries an important
lesson to mankind against the dragging down
of human beings on account of their color, or
their creed.
The Jewish reader of "Native Son," drawing
a parallel, will marvel at the miracle of Jewish
resistance to crime, because of our people's
powerful defense mechanism contained in our
spiritual values, in spite of Jews being similarly
threatened with frustration that must lead from
confusion to fear and to hate. What a miracle,
wrought by the power of Jewish morality, that
the Nazi terror brought forth only two Jewish
assassins — David Frankfurter and llerschel
Gryaszpan.
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A Lesson for Teachers in Herzl's
Biography
The most important chapters in modern Jewish
history are unfolded in the brilliant biography of
Theodore Herzl by Alex Bein, just issued by the
Jewish Publication Society of America in splendid
translation by Maurice Samuel. The reality of
the Jewish tragedy emerges in the struggle that
took place in Herzl's mind as depicted by Biog-
rapher Bein.
How are Jews who are to this day far removed
from an understanding of their problem, to be led
to recognize the need for selif-liberation, for
the establishment of a Jewish commonwealth
where our people may "live as free men on our
own soil?"
A study of Herzl's life and his life's work,
"Der Judenstaat," will help. But the teachers of
Zionist ideology, the interpreters of the Jewish
national theme, must be imbued with enthusiasm,
with great devotion, they must possess the ability
to interpret Jewish historical values.
Bein's "Theodore Herzl" has an interesting
reference to pedagogy which Jewish teachers
should take to heart. An early childhood memory
of Herzl's is blended from his own autobiograph-
ical sketch written in 1898 and from an oral
narration of the incident as told by Ilerzl to the
late Reuben Brainin, the distinguished Hebrew
writer, into the following in Bein's work:
The story of the Exodus, as he read it
in the Bible, had mad e upon the boy a pro-
found, almost shattering impression. But
when the teacher recited -the thrilling epic
of the liberation from Egypt, his words were
cold and dry, his features betrayed not a
spark of emotion; it was as if the whole
incident were of the most commonplace char-
acter. Thereupon Theodore concluded that it
was nothing but a fairy tale, made up for
the sole purpose of torturing little boys. The
first profound impression was replaced by
dislike, and by a spirit of opposition. When,
some time later, the teacher examined Theo-
dore on the details of the Exodus from Egypt,
the boy was unable to answer and received,
in keeping with the pedagogic technique of
the time and place, the prescribed thrashing.
Thirty years later, when Herzl was writing
his autobiography, the memory of the thrash-
ing was still strong in him. "Today," he
added with bitter irony, "there are scores of
teachers who would like to thrash me be-
cause I remember the Exodus from Egypt
only too well."
This lesson in pedogagic treatment is so devas-
tatingly true today, in many classrooms, in public
assemblies, in Zionist sessions. Often—too often
—the enthusiasm necessary for Zionist inspira-
tion is lacking. Perhaps the spirit of coldness, of
commonplace aloofness is responsible for our
failure to attract more of our young people to
Zionism. Perhaps the pedagogic mediocrity of
the Zionist elders is the cause of what we believe
to be a temporary decline in passionate Zionist
pleadings. In any case, the Herzlian incident as
recorded by Alex Bein is suggestive of a cause
and of a cure in Jewish pedagogic weakness.