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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
Prof. Albright Speaks
Equally significant was the in-
spiring address of Prof. William
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F.Albright of Johns Hopkins
Palestine, not only by the dele- University, eminent authority on
gates but also by all spokesmen Semitics. He explained how he
at the conference, non-Jews and became a political Zionist. Pales-
Jews alike.
tine, he said, "is, in fact, the
The highlight of the conven- only possibility, the only land
tion was the masterful address where the Jewish people has a
of the national chairman of the historical right to be, and where
United Palestine Appeal, Dr. it has an internationally recog-
Abbe Hillel Silver. Recognized nized legal right to dwell." He
as one of the most brilliant stated, with reference to the
orators, Dr. Silver's address Arab-Jewish problem, that "there
last Saturday night was so is no solution for the problem
magnificent that it stirred the of the Near East which does not
1,000 delegates from all parts include a Jewish Palestine."
of the land and was declared
to be not only a great oratori-
cal achievement but equally as
significant as a document of
historic value in evaluating the
position of the Jews in the
world today. Rabbi Silver's ad-
dress of Jan. 17 is destined to
go down on record on a par
with the great addresses that
were delivered at World Zion-
ist Congresses by Dr. Max
Nordau, Nahum Sokolw, Chaim
We i z m a n n and other world
leaders who spoke for the pur-
pose of arousing the conscience
of the world to an appreciation
of the Jewish position.
It was an address that will
rank on the Jewish front with
Emile Zola's "J'Accuse".
Dr. Silver was effective in his
description of Palestine as be-
ingas much an American front
as it
i is a British front in this
war. He showed how Palestine
is helping to win the war and
howit is contributing toward
winning the peace "by draining
off in a relatively short time
from 2,000,000 to 4,000,000
Jews from the crowded and eco-
nomically tensioned centers of
Central and Eastern Europe."
But he was especially effective
in castigating those Allied states-
men who are "strangely silent
about Jewish prospects and Pal-
estine prospects after the war."
He was equally as effective in
repudiating the Jewish assimila-
tionists who, he declared, "will
be restricted to a small group
at the top where traditionally
the specific 'Galut' maladies make
their nest — timidity, escapism,
tlting with wind-mills. dodging
one's own shadow, protective dis-
association from other Jews —
that whole complex of racial af-
fections and disorders which may
best be defined in our day as
the Jerome Frank Complex."
Speaking of Palestine as the
"one promising solution for the
homelessness of the Jewish peo-
ple," Rabbi Silver described how
"Palestine and America today
are welded into one single front,"
and proposed as the slogan for
this year's fund-raising efforts:
Ben-Gurion's Address
David Ben Gurion of Palestine,
chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the Jewish Agency,
made the demand, in one of the
most important addresses heard
in this country on the Palestine
question, that an autonomous
Jewish Palestine be created.
He emphasized that there is
no need to apologize for our de-
mands for a Jewish army because
"we are entitled as every one
of the United Nations to fight
under our own flag especially
in our own country."
Spokesmen for all parties in
American Jewry spoke at the
conference and endorsed the de-
mands for Jewish rights in Pal-
estine.
The resolution adopted by
the conference called for the
establishment of a Jewish com-
monwealth and a Jewish army
in Palestine, and the American
government was urged to as-
sist in the realization of these
demands.
An important message from
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau declared that the
cause of Palestine is identified
with the "all-embracing cause of
democracy." Being his first state-
ment of its kind, it is considered
a distinct contribution towards
the battle for the realization of
Jewish aspirations.
Honor Dr. Silver
Lieberman Chosen
For Library Post
The state board for libraries
has appointed Irving Lieberman
of Detroit as temporary director
of state aid for public libraries,
the appointment to take effect
immediately, according to Mrs.
Leleta D. Fyan, Michigan state
librarian and secretary of the
board. The position is a new one
being established by the Civil
Service Commission.
The revised state aid law, gov-
erning distribution of $250,000
to Michigan public libraries dur-
ing each of the next two years,
went into effect Jan. 10 of this
year.
Mr. Lieberman brings to his
new post training and experience
in accounting and library, science,
a knowledge of Michigan library
laws, and experience in promoting
community discussion groups. A
graduate of New York University,
where he majored in accounting,
and a graduate student of Colum-
bia University School of Library
Service, Mr. Lieberman has served
as a librarian in the Newark and
Detroit Public Libraries.
He has been a member of the
Detroit District Council program,
an organization of professional
and lay people set up on a neigh-
borhood basis, under the Metro-
politan Council of Social Agencies.
tional Conference for Palestine
which brought its sessions to a
close at the Statler Hotel in
Cleveland early Monday morning,
Senator Alben W. Barkley, Ma-
jority Leader of the U.S. Senate,
stated at the banquet that Presi-
dent Roosevelt considers the fight
of the United States and the
fight of Palestine as the common
struggle for democracy.
Endorsing the request of the
conference, sponsored by the
United Palestine Appeal, for the
creation of a Jewish army to
fight under its own standard,
Senator Barkley said that while
the Jews were eager to fight for
democracy, "they prefer to fight
under their own flag because it
has been a symbol of human lib-
erty and justice for 4,000 years."
(Detroit was represented at
the Cleveland U.P.A. conference
by the following 31 delegates:
Rabbi and Mrs. Morris Adler,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence • W.
Crohn, Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Schaver, Isidore Sobeloff, Her-
man Pekarsky, Isaac and Simon
Shetzer, Charles Rubiner, Abra-
ham Cooper, Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Kay, Miss Belle Shier, Mrs. Mau-
rice Landau, Nathan Linden, Mr.
and Mrs. P. Slomovitz, Mrs. Da-
vid Sheraga, Mrs. D. Sislin,
Meyer Beckman, Sol Edelman,
Abe Kasle, Mrs. Albert Feldstein,
William Hordes, Mrs. Philip
Broudo, Rabbi Leon Frain, Miss
Rose Greenwald, Walter L. Field,
Joseph Jackier. The Adlers were
accompanied by their daughter,
Shulamith. Rabbi Adler gave the
opening prayer at the banquet
Sunday night. Other Detroiters
participated in conference dis-
cussions.)
January 23, 1942
Jews now in Russia, Mr. Ilyman
reported early this week that
the Joint Distribution Committee
has made available an initial al-
location of $50,000 out of a first
appropriation of $100,000.
Prince Jan Ciechanowsky, the
Polish Ambassador in Washing-
ton, D. C., has written to Ed-
ward M. M. Warburg, chairman
of the J.D.C., confirming the ar-
rangement and stating that a
first shipment of 600 tons of
clothing is about to be sent to
Russia on a Soviet ship. Further
purchases of concentrated food-
stuffs and medical supplies are
now being negotiated, Ambassa-
dor Ciechanowski added.
A new organization, to be
known as American Friends of
Polish Jews, was officially launch-
ed on Jan. 6 in New York, with
George M. Feigin, Commander
of the Metropolitan Post of the
Jewish War Veterans of the
United States, as president; Prof.
Jacob 1. Hartstein as vice-presi-
dent; and Isidore Teitelbaum,
cil of the American Jewish Con-
gress and president of its Bronx
Section, as treasurer. Dr. Joseph
Tenenbaum, former chairman of
the Joint Boycott Council, was
elected chairman of the execu-
tive committee.
The purpose of the new organ-
ization is to aid Polish refugees
in this country, to strive for the
restoration of a free and demo-
cratic Poland, and to support the
national defense effort.
- —
Shaarey Zedek Young Peo-
ple's Society Meeting Sun-
day to Feature Puppet
Show
A puppet show, presented by
Mr. and Mrs. Middleton of the
Workers' Program Service of the
W. P. A., will be the main event
o nthe program of the Young
People's Society of Shaarey Ze-
dek at its meeting this Sunday,
at 3 p. m., in Room 302.
Plans have been made for a
hay-ride to be held on Jan. 31.
A Red Cross Knitting Unit has
been formed by the girls in the
organization. The group meets
every Tuesday evening in the
Kate Frank Memorial Building
under the direction of Mrs. Her-
man Schmier of the Sisterhood.
For further information, call
Maurice Brewer, Ty. 5-9293.
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Dr. Silver was honored with
re-election as chairman of the
United Palestine Appeal for a
fifth term and his name was in-
scribed in the Golden Book of
the Jewish National Fund as a
mark of honor for his great con-
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tributions as a Zionist leader.
Maximum military strength,
sacrifices, whatever the costs,
consecration to the completion
of the program for the defeat of
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the Axis was urged by Henry
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Monsky, president of Bnai Brith,
8210 TWELFTH ST., near Seward Ave.
who declared: "The program of
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Palestine symbolizes the everlast-
The Greatest Musical Sensation
ing and eternal philosophy of
Friday Night, Jan. 23, Sunday Matinee and Night, Jan. 25
hope on the part of the Jew."
Judge Morris Rothenberg
The Famous Romantic Yiddish Star
pointed to Palestine as an arsenal
of the Near East, while Nahum
Goldmann showed how the Jew-
"EVERY DOLLAR GIVEN ish people is serving in the front
In His First Appearance in Detroit This Season in a Romantic
TO PALESTINE IS THUS A line in the present war. Charles
Musical Production
DEFENSE BOND FOR DE- J. Rosenbloom, national treas-
MOCRACY I"
urer, said that the Palestine pro-
He demanded that Great Brit- gram will need $8,0 1 )0,000 in
ain should arm the Jews of Pal- 1942. Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner
estine and organize them into declared that the building of the
Supported by Our Star Cast—LILY LILLIANA, LEON LIEBGOLD
a fighting force, and declared: Jewish National home is a mat-
ABRAHAM
LAX, ETHEL DORF, MISHA FISHZON and Entire Company
"If Great Britain cannot arm ter of enlightened self-interest
Palestine, presumably for lack for the American Jew and stated
Tuesday Night. Feb. 3—Bib Testimonial Performance for MISHA
of equipment, America should." that "Jewish homelessness will The J.D.C. Program for Aid to
Jews in Russia
FISHZON in Honor of His 35th Anniversary on the Yiddish Stage—
He demanded that the Jews of make for anti-Semitism." The de-
In his outline of the program
"STRANGE WORLDS"
Palestine be enabled to fight un- velopment of the Keren Ilayesod
der THEIR flag, under the Star was outlined by the chairman, for aid to the 500,000 Polish
of David. "The Jews of Pales- Charles Ress. Unity in American
tine," he said, "belong to no Israel was urged by George Z.
other nationality but the Jewish. Medalie, president of the New
and their land is the Jewish York Federation of Jewish Phil-
Homeland.
anthropic Societies. Emanuel
His condemnation of the Neumann described the work of
"strange silence" of Allied states- the American Palestine Commit-
men on the Jewish position was tee and the aid given the Jewish
emphatic, and his description of cause by Christians.
the tragic position of world
Dr. Stephen S. Wise spoke of
Jewry brought tears to the eyes the importance of Palestine in
of hundreds in the audience. He winning both the war and the
declared that "Zionism is not peace and declared that thq Jew-
sell-pity for ancient legendary ish Homeland must be included
wrongs. It is the pressing urgen- in the goals of the United Na-
cy of instant and current suffer- tions.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president
ing and besetting dangers and
disabilities." Speaking of the of the Jewish National Fund,
persecutions to which Jews are delivered one of the important
subjected he exclaimed: "Enough! messages to the conference, out-
There must be an end to all lining the need for increased
land purchases and declaring that
this! A sure and certain end!"
the Jewish colonies in Palestine
Admiral Stirling's Speech
Significant, from a military have increased food production
F you'd rather take a trip to the sun it's time
TF you like to ski and skate and toboggan, the
point of view, was the address for the Allies. Judge Louis E.
4 . snow country of Northern Michigan's the place
you were off to Florida and a healthy tan!
of Admiral Yates Stirling, Jr., Levinthal, president of the Zion-
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former Chief of Staff of the ist Organization of America,
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in greater comfort for less money. For full infor-
United States Fleet. showed in his address how Jews
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Admiral Stirling said: "In this have demonstrated their ability
great fabric of many fighting to reconstruct waste places and
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"a factor of great importance in
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4.000 Years
technical scientists and skilled
Declaring that President Roose-
labor in sufficient quantity to volt postponed his regular Mon-
make a real contribution to the day morning White House con-
naval as well ' as to the land ference in order to give him an
forces." opportunity to address the Na-
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