July 11, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Loans Advanced to Nearly a
Thousand Refugees
Nearly a thousand refugees
have received loans from the
National Refugee Service for
various enterprises, reports Ar-
thur D. Greenleigh, acting ex-
ecutive director of the agency,
whose income in Detroit comes
from the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
Through the Capital Loan
Committee of NRS, established
two years ago to help in the
economic adjustment of these
New Americans, a number of
small manufacturers, storekeep-
ers, craftsmen, physicians, farm-
ers, musicians and others were
able to make a new start. Some
of the loans were used to finish
studies or to establish practices
or professions; some for retrain-
ing in related or new fields. Re-
payments are made on the loans
as the success of the enterprise
permits. In 1940 the Capital
Loan Committee made loans to-
talling $172,660, while repay-
ments on previous loans amount-
ed to $23,100. As part of its
service, the committee also in-
vestigated numerous business
propositions submitted by clients
who had their own funds but
needed competent business ad-
vice.
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National Defense Leaders to Address Convention
0/ Aleph Zadik Aleph, B'nai B'rith Youth Unit
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(LEFT
TO RIGHT) Major Stanton Smith, commandant of Brooks
Field, a major U. S. Air Corrs station, in Texas, and Daniel W. lIoan,
former mayor of Milwaukee and now an associate of Mayor Fiorello
H. LaGuardia in the newly-created Office of Civilian Defense, wilt,
be the principal speakers at the 18th annual national convention,
of Aleph Zadik Aleph, B'nai B'rith's youth organization, which will
meet at Schreiner 1- 44itute, Kerrville, Texas, July 12th to 18th.
Youth's role in national defense will be the keynote of the convention.
Threatened With Exclusion Be- Married, became a successful
cause of "Melancholy," Refugee lawyer and was the father of
two children. In 1937 he was
Tells His Story
compelled to leave Germany pen-
NEW YORK—Otto Scheinman, niless. He sought a foreign ref-
in France. After the col-
age 56, was among a group of uge
refugees who arrived, via South lapse of France, Scheinman, his
wife and two children fled to
America, within a stone's throw
from the Statute of Liberty in England from where he began to
New York Harbor but his long establish contact with his friends
cherished hope for liberty was in New York. They issued affi-
davits of support in his behalf
about to be dashed to the ground.
U.S. immigration officials thought and secured for him a U. S. im-
he was suffering from "melan- migration visa which he could
choly" and marked him for de- not, however, utilize immediately
tention at Ellis Island and likely because of the shortage of ship-
ping facilities. In the beginning
exclusion.
Expressions of gloom intensi- of 1941, the house where he re-
fied into despair spread over his sided in London was hit by a
deep-lined face and his worried bomb during one of the Blitz-Air
eyes narrowed under a pale of raids. His two children, Heinrich
darkness. Gesticulating despair- 21, and Elena, 19, were killed
not
ingly, the refugee-immigrant im- by the bomb. His wife could
survive the disaster. She lost her
plored the examining physician mind, and ultimately died. This
to listen to his story. Fortunate-
much for Mr.
ly, a representative of the HIAS was a little too
he
Pier Service which meets all in- Scheinman. On a freighter
sailed
for
Montevideo
from
where
coming ships and minissters to
the needs of Jewish refugees and he embarked on an American
immigrants, was there to act as liner.
The immigration authorities un-
interpreter. Through the HIAS
representative the refugee un- derstood the reasons for his
folded the story of his suffering . "melancholy". He was released in
He was born in Poland, came care of the Hebrew Sheltering
to Germany at the age of 12 . and Immigrant Aid Society.
It takes a great deal of grace to
ing, represent major contributions be able t) bear praise. Censure
to Jewish literature in our time. seldom does us much hurt.
What Mr. Sherman does, in the
—Spurgeon.
words of Almi, is to calve people
the
persons
about
understand
to
whom he is writing.
Almi is right—and this review-
er desires to emphasize that Mr.
Sherman succeeds in his task.
The reader understands Achad
Ha-Am and Gordon after he has
Creative Works of Two Outstanding Jewish Thinkers read excerpts from their writings,
episodes from their lives, refer-
Analyzed by Yiddish Author
ences to the experiences in their
Several years ago, a review great Jewish thinker and writer, youth which lead them to posi-
and A. D. Gordon, the eminent tions of leadership among their
appeared in the Detroit Jewish philosopher of the labor Zionist people.
Chronicle of Eleazar Sherman's movement and the founder of the
Mr. Sherman tells of his meet-
ings with the two men whose
"Der Mensch Bialik". It is a Yid- Hapoel-Hatzair in Palestine.
Showboat MOONLIGHT
dish work of a most sympathetic
Mr. Sherman's work assumes works he now describes in his
Every Saturday, $1.00
"Shaffer
un
Bauer".
He
transfers
it
helps
more
than
nature, and
particular significance in view of
any other biography to under- his acquaintance with the two his intimate knowledge of the
stand the genius of Bialik.
Every Saturday and Sunday
thinkers dealt with in this book. men into his sketches and he suc-
This author, writing again in He does not limit himself to de- ceeds admirably in arousing new
to
Yiddish, has just issued another scribing the lives of Achad Ha- interest in them and in recreat-
N-BAY
PUT-I
book, "Shaffer un Bauer", in Am and A. D. Gordon. He re- ing the respect that is due them
and
which he presents biographical prints from their works, quotes in Jewish history.
Works like Eleazar Sherman's
CEDAR POINT
studies of Achad Ha-Am, the wise sayings and aphorisms of
Sat. Lv. 9 A. M., Home 8 P. M.
both men, throws light on their have a definite place on the Jew-
ish bookshelf. They deserve trans- Sun. Lv. 10 A. M., Home 10:45 P. M.
views on political subjects.
lation into English, in order to
The well known Yiddish poet, bring them before a larger audi-
Wednesday and Thursday
A. Almi, has written the pre- ence.
Lv. 9 A. M. Home 8 P. M.
Mr. Sherman is also the author
face to Mr. Sherman's book, and
Friday, 9 A. M., Home 10:45
he points out that the character- of "Herschele Ostropoler" which
izations of this author, his per- appeared in Hebrew.
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1941