DetroitJewish Chronicle

and The Legal Chronicle

DETROIT. MICHIGAN, FRIDAY. JANUARY

VOL. 44. NO. 4

1111

Jewish Bodies Are
round by Russians

21, 1942

10c Single Copy; $3.00 Per Year

Communities Gear to Action
Allied Campaign
In Efforts for Relief Work
Mrs. Hyman C. Broder
Chosen Chairman
And Palestine's Redemption
of Division

Womenes:G roup
Jesse F. Hirschman
Dies at Age of 62 Forming for 1942

Jesse F. Hirschman, for many
years one of the most active
leaders in local community af-
fairs, who acquired fame as an
enginneering consultant, died
Monday at harper hospital,
after a heart attack. Funeral
services were held Tuesday at
Temple Beth El. He was 62
years old. Ii is home was at

Hyman C. Broder has Cleveland Conference Calls for Redoubled Ef-
been chosen as chairman of the
forts for Eretz Israel; Jewish Army De-
1.115 Glynn Court.
1912 Women's Division of the
manded; J.D.C. Plans Relief in Russia
Mr. Hirschman, who was horn
in Republic, Mich., in 1880, Allied Jewish Campaign, accord-
came to Detroit as a boy. Upon ing to an announcement this week
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
LONDON (JPS) — The tra- graduation from the Univer- following the organization meet-
America's Jewish communities are being geared to
gic impact of the Nazi-Soviet sity of Michigan College of ing of officers and committee
war on Jews was brought home Engineering he entered the em- chairmen of the forthcoming action to assure continuation of relief efforts in behalf
spring fund-raising effort. Mrs. of millions of Jews suffering as a result of the war,
with effect as the Moscow radio
See H1RSCHMAN—Page 7
Broder, who has taken a promi-
reported that hundreds of bodies
nent part in Women's Division ac- and to redouble activities for the redemption and re-
of Jews who have frozen to death
tivities in every campaign since settlement of Palestine.
are being found daily by Russian
the Division was organized, also
guerrilla fighters and by advanc-
The current year's first organized move to in-
is a member of the North End augurate American Jewry's program of relief and
ing Red Army forces in the Smo-
Clinic and Resettlement Service
lensk area.
reconstruction for 1942 took place
Boards.
The Jews had been forced by
at the inspiring National Confer-
In
accepting
the
appointment
the Germans to work on roads Shroder Sounds Key-
ence for Palestine, called by the
Mrs. Broder declared that the
and railways for the Nazi war
United Palestine Appeal and held
war effort will demand
note for Assembly American
machine. The Germans, however,
in Cleveland last week-end
great
sacrifices
had stripped the Jews of their
S i m u l taneously, announce-
of
every
segment
of
Federation
clothing and underwear, so that
Story
of
Rear
Admiral
ment was made by the Joint
of
the
popula-
most of them were stark naked.
Distribution Committee of the
Taussig, the Jew Who
Calling upon American Jew- tion. "New needs
the U. S. S. R. radio asserted.
organization of assistance to
will arise and
Missed Commanding
The broadcaster stated that bod- ish leaders to set aside all dif- will have to be
500,000 needy Polish Jews who
the
Fleet
ies of frozen Jews were found all ferences and to "plan and act met," said Mrs.
are now refugees in Russia.
along the roads and fields of the together" for the winning of the Broder. "The
The J.D.C. program, according
JACK
WEINBERG
By
Ukraine and White Russia. lie
leadership of
to Joseph C. Hyman, executive
war
and
of
the
peace,
William
stressed that the grimmest har-
Federation a n d
Editor's Note: The author of vice-chairman, is being under-
vest was to be found west of J. Shroder, chairman of the board our army of
this article is a w ell-known Min- taken in collaboration with the
Smolensk.
of the Council of Jewish Federa- workers will be
neapolis newspaperman who re- Polish Government-in-Exile.
Forty pages of the "Black tions and Welfare Funds, sounded burdened with
Another important move in
minds the world that Pearl Har-
Book" just issued by the Polish the keynote this week for the additional duties!
bor might never have been an the direction of organizing re-
government-in-exile arc devoted first wartime general assembly of and responsibil-
American naval disaster if Rear lief efforts was the potentially
to a listing of atrocities perpe- federation and welfare fund ities. Some of Mrs. Broder
significant diplomatic discussion
Admiral Taussig had not been
trated by the Germans against
o u r time and
shunted aside as Commander of which took place in Washing-
leaders.
The
1942
General
Assembly
will
energy
will
be
diverted
to
emer-
the Jews.
to n between Maxim Litvinoff,
the United States Fleet.
ppeal and . activities by
gency appeals
Soviet Ambassador to the
be held at the Drake Hotel in Federation and its functional
Now retired, Rear Admiral Jo- United States, and Dr. Stephen
Clergymen to Get New Tires Chicago from Jan. 31 to Feb. 2
services here, and by its benefic.
WASHINGTON (JPS) — To with more than 400 delegates, ary agencies outside of Detroit. seph K. Taussig, must be think- S. Wise, president of the
assure clergymen that they may representing the Council's 219 i We must begin immediate plan- ing these days, as he reads the American Jewish Congress, and
continue to perform their reli- agencies in 183 cities, in attend- ning for the future campaign. Ex- newspapers, how different the Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair-
man of the administrative com-
gious duties, particularly in sec-
perience in other countries has situation in the Pacific might mittee o f the World Jewish
tions where the population is
indicated that continued atten- have been had the Senate Naval Congress. It was stated that
scattered and automobile traveling
tion to the welfare job in hand
the Russian diplomat and the
is necessary, Jewish and non-
is the best contribution that most Affairs Committee listened to his Jewish leaders talked about the
be
eligible
will
Jewish clergymen
of us can make. The emergency recommendations early in 1940 refugee situation within the
to purchase new tires despite the
conditions that arise locally will instead of rebuking him as an
the Soviet Union and other sig-
tire-rationing measure now in
have to be met, in large measure, alarmist.
nificant matters pertaining to
force throughout the land.
As
it
is,
the
Jewish
navy
man
by the established agencies. The
Leon Henderson, administrator of
effect of the war on overseas ac- can take credit for the fact that the Jewish community in the
the Office of Price Administration,
tivities is being studied carefully, the defenses at Pearl Harbor are U.S.S.R.
The United Palestine Appeal
announced here that provisions
and early reports indicate that stronger than they would have
are being made in the tire-ration-
our entry into the war has in- been had he not testified at the conference in Cleveland was an
historic event from many points
ing order so that clergymen may
See TAUSSIG—Page 6
of view. It witnessed the mobil-
purchase new tires.
See WOMEN—Page 6
ization of Jewish efforts in be-
half of Eretz Israel and the es-
All Enemy Aliens in U. S. Must
tablishment of a Jewish common-
Register Next Month, NRS In-
wealth in Zion. The delegates
forms Emigre Grous
heard declarations by spokesmen
NEW YORK. — All enemy
for the United States government
aliens over the age of 14 must
Work of Groups in Local Schools Attracts Wide Atten• and governments-in-exile in sup-
register at local postoffices from
port of the Jewish National
tion; Youngsters Draw One Another to
Feb. 2 to 7, inclusive, in Cali-
Home. There was unanimous ap-
Attend Inspiring Classes
fornia, Oregon, Washington, Ne-
ifroval of the demand for the
vada, Arizona, Idaho, Montana
and women watching the group formation of a Jewish Army in
Laughter
and
song
are
playing
and Utah, and between Feb. 9
a vital role in building the mor- from the outside.
and 28 in all other states, the
See RECONSTRUCTION —
Mrs. Schackney and her hus-
ale of our children through the
National Refugee Service this
Page 12
WILLIAM J. SHRODER
United Hebrew Schools, and the hand, who also teaches a class
in the United Hebrew Schools,
youngest
of
these
attending
the
an•e. The assembly has been on
See WAR—Page 11
experienced the horrors visited
annual event since 1934 when classes are today the inspiration upon tens of thousands of tido. 4
of
fellow-pupils,
teachers
and
par-
representatives of the 17 agen-
gees before coming to this coun-
cies then affiliated with the Coun- ents.
try five months ago. They escaped
Any
Week-day
from
4
to
5:30
cil met in Chicago to lay the
from Poland shortly after the
p.
nit,
or
on
Sunday
mornings
foundation of the Council's pres-
from 11 o'clock on, groups of Ilitlerite hordes invaded the land. Jewish Committee's In-
ent program.
For months they traveled from
The Detroit delegation at the youngsters, ranging in ages from one country to another, seeking
stitute Publishes Re-
Seek Closing of Gro- assembly
to
5,
assemble
for
play
which
Of the Council of Jew- 3 1/2
entrance somewhere. They were
ish Federations will include the leads to study, m three byane es in half a dozen South American
search Work
cery Stores on
following: of the United Hebrew Schools—
countries
before
they
were
fin-
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wineman, the Rose Sittig Cohen Bldg., on
Saturdays
Publication of the first of a
ally admitted to Colombia. There,
Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Srere, Lawton and Waverly, the Phila. their child was horn.
series of studies on "Jews and
Enggass,
Mr.
and
delphia-Byron
School
and
the
The movement begun a year Clarence IL
In Bogota, the Colombian capi- the Post-War World" by the Re-
ago to encourage the closing of Mrs. Isidore Sobeloff, Mrs. Joseph David W. Simons branch on Tux- tal, Mrs. Schakney established a search Institute on Peace and
II.
Ehrlich,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Julian
edo
and
Holmur.
stores which sell food articles to
The model class, at the Rose kindergarten, and new life was Post-War Problems of the Amer-
Jews on the Sabbath, which suc- H. Krolik. Irving \V. Blumberg,
injected in the community of that
Gus
1).
Newman,
Rabbi
Leon
Sittig
Cohen Bldg., is a typical land. When the Schackneys finally ican Jewish Committee was an-
ceeded in effecting closing of most
nounced by Dr. Morris R. Cohen,
of Detroit Jewish bakeries on Frans, Isaac Franck, Bernard sample of the work done by these left Colombia, a little more than Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Saturdays, is being extended to Isaacs, Mrs. Ben Jacob, Max J. classes. The teacher is a refugee five months ago, the inhabitants of the College of the City of
include 125 Jewish grocery stores. Kogan, A. J. Lachover, Mrs. —Mrs. David Schackney—and the bewailed the inspirational loss to New York and chairman of the
Bayre Levin, Theodore Levin, Na- language she uses is only He.
Rabbi Max Wohlgelernter, chair- than Milstein, Harold Silver, Miss brew. Nevertheless, the results their community.
Institute.
Mrs. Schackney's genius lies in
man of the religious and educa- Esther R. Prussian, Herman M. are miraculous. After a very short
The first study in this series,
tional committee of the Michigan Pekarsky, M. William Weinberg, time with the class, the chil- the spirit she injects in the class "Jewish Emancipation; A Selec-
Synagogue Conference, reported Aaron Droock, James I. Ellmann, drn respond in Hebrew, sing He- work. She sings with the children, tion of Documents", has been
this week that discussions carried Ralph Bergel, Harry Ileller, brew songs, recognize objects by dances with them, acts as one prepared by Dr. Raphael Mahler,
on with Jewish owners of gro- Isaac Shetzer, Diana Rosenblatt, the Hebrew names taught them by of them.
historian and formerly editor of
The result is that children at- important Jewish publications in
cery stores, as well as with the
Helen
Goodman,
Jacob
L.
Keidan.
the
able
kindergartner.
tract
their
friends
to
the
class.
employees, point to successful
instances, children came Warsaw. It traces the evolution
The National Council for Jew- Proof of the effectiveness of
realization of the effort to effect ish Education, representing all the interest that is attracted by In s ome
itors
and after several days of the emancipation of Jews in •
s vis
a six-day week for Jewish gro-
foun d in a brought
their parents to the various countries of the world
systems
of
Jewish
education
in
the
class'
work
is
to
be
ceries.
in higher
America, will hold a special mid- the school. Children
school to register them for class from the Declaration of the Es-
Rabbi Wohlgelernter first began west educational conference during grades invariably stop to "peep
tates General of the United
l• in" when they pass this class- wont.
negotiations with the United
from Mrs. Netherlands recognizing Jews as
the
week-end
of
Jan.
30.
In
children
A
group
of
Grocers Association on Nov. 25. tion to the meeting of the excu- room and to watch the children
sub ects, in 1657, down to the
A number of growers were visited tiv committee, the National Coun- at play-work. Teachers never fail Schackney's kindergarten class P resent
ent time. The study also con-
subsequently and many pledged cil for Jewish Education, in co- to take a glance at the smiling will appear in a demonstration
operation with the Mid-West Fed- and laughing children who are lesson on the program of the an- pilation
tains the
systematic
com-
l edicts
and
to cooperate in the movement.
of first
the offigciathe
of the WI).
emanci-
On Dec. 2, Rabbi Wohlgelern-
m astering a language and hay- nual donor luncheon
s ecrees concernin
chers
has
United
decree
brew
Tea
of
the
w
conference ing fun at the same time. Parents men's Auxiliary
ter, in the company of Rabbi erati on of a Hehole-day
Jewish make it a point to visit the class, Hebrew Schools, at the Shaarey
ran
Leizer Levine, Dr. Samson R. arranged
of
See EMANCIPATION—Page 10
28.
devoted- to problems
often—is-a_line of men Zedek, on Wednesday, Jan.
areal—often—
education.
See SABBATH—Page 7

War's Horrors Told in
Moscow's Radio
Report

M rs.

Calls Upon Jews
To Act Together

lie Predicted
"Pearl Harbor"

Laughter of Children Echoes in
Model Hebrew School Kindergarten

Extend Sabbath
Observance Here

Emancipation'

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