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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
Pioneer Women Sponsor
Book Shower March 23
The eight chapters of the
Pioneer Women's Organization
are sponsoring a book shower
for the benefit of the U. S. 0.
to be held Monday evening,
March 23, at the Jewish Center,
Woodward and Holbrook.
Cards, games and refresh-
ments are on order for the eve-
ning.
Members and guests are urged
to attend and to please bring a
book.
Club 2 had a Palestine rally
for the Gewerkshaften cam-
paign on March 9, at the home
of Mrs. Sherage. Mrs. M. Plas-
kin presided. Mrs. M. Goldoftas,
one of the teachers of the Far-
band Folk School, was the guest
speaker. Her topic was "Pal-
estine in the Light of the Pres-
ent War". The musical program
was rendered by Mrs. Schakne
who sang Hebrew and Yiddish
Palestinian songs. There were
also speeches by Mrs. Goldoftas
Hebrew Ladies' Aid
$100 to Mo'os Chitim
Give
The proceeds, amounting to
$100, realized from an affair
sponsored by the Hebrew La-
dies' Aid Society was turned
over to the Mo'os Chitim fund.
At the last meeting a motion was
'made to donate $150 to the Rus-
sian War Relief campaign. The
president, Mrs. Paul R. Freeman,
urges all members to attend the
next meeting, scheduled for
Wednesday, March 25, as there
are a number of important mat-
ters to be discussed. A dessert
luncheon will be served the
members immediately preceding
the opening of the meeting.
The annual dinner of the or-
ganization is scheduled for April
26, with Mrs. Louis Kepes as
general chairman.
A Jew Wins Good
Will of Priests .
Carving Crucifix
Cantor I. Katz to Conduct
Seders at Olympia Hotel
In Mt. Clemens, Mich.
The world renowned Cantor
Albert Edward !dell's Fascinat- I. Katz will conduct the Seders
in full ceremony and tradition
ing Story "Croat in Carrib.
at Kraemer's Olympia Hotel, Mt.
bean" Based on Fact
Clemens, Mich. Cantor Katz is
A personal experience of a Jew-
ish artist inspired what will be
rated as one of the most inter-
e , ting and most fascinating nov-
els dealing with Jewish-Christian
relations.
Albert Edward Idell's "Cross
in the Caribbean", published by
Henry Holt & Co., 257 Fourth
Ave., New York, is the story,
and the author's friend, the artist
Harry Rosin, is the person whose
actual experience inspired the
work.
"Cross in the Caribbean" is an
unusual narrative about a young
and Mr. Schakne. Ten dollars Jewish artist who was commis-
was raised in addition to the sioned to carve in stone a large
fix with the image of Jesus.
individual solicitation by the cruc
He takes as his model a young
members.
Negro boy in one of the French
Indies islands where a church
was wrecked by a hurricane and
on whose reconstructed structure
the Jew's work was to be pro-
duced.
CANTOR I. KATZ
There is romance and adventure
intermingled in the story, and
there is a conflict of emotions acclaimed by critics for possess-
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is a Jew. The first person the years at Congregation Bnai Yu-
artist, the Je vish-American Ben dah, New York City, and five
Gerson who lived in Paris and years at Congregation Beth
was rent from there to the Carib- Hamedrash Hagadal, Chicago.
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bean, meets, is Antoinette Duval,
the pretty daughter of a business gone much redecorating and re-
man in the Caribbean. She, too, furnishing, and the homelike at-
resents his ideas for the crucifix, mosphere at the hotel makes
but she is fascinated by his ap- one's stay there perfect.
pearance and his idealism. One
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kraemer
of the priests, Father Euchariste, are noted for their congenial
approves of Gerson's plans. But management in satisfying all
another, Father Paul, plots to guests by offering the finest in
destroy him.
food and service.
There is a young dancer among
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with Gerson. He carves her statue
and later she helps save his life,
when the natives are instigated Dr. Glazer to Sneak on
against him. But his art comes "Japanese Conquests in
above sex for Gerson.
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The Impersonal Stone
The story ends on a peaceful
note—with the central theme be-
ing that the spirit of the Christ
stands above hatreds. The ac-
ceptance of the artist's interpre-
taion of the sculptural ideal he
devised is a triumph for inter-
religious brotherhood.
When Father Euchariste hears
that Ben Gerson is a Jew he ex-
claims, "It isn't pcssible," and
Ben replies: "Why? The artist is
impersonal . . . Your modern
sculptor is afraid to search in
the stone for what he would ex-
press, but I am not, for I spent
a ch Idhood mastering stone. Here
on the hilltop I'll master it, and
the stone knows neither Gentile
nor Jew." "Perhaps", says Esther
Euchariste, and thereafter he as-
sists fully in completing the
task.
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There is an interesting story
back of Author Idell's experiences
and background.
"Looking back," says Mr. Idell,
"I find there's hardly a time in
my 1 fe when I wasn't doing two
jobs at one time." Even now he
not only owns and manages. a
chain of lending libraries, but
also is teaching a course in Res-
taurant Management for the Phil-
adelphia Restaurant Association.
in which all the students are res-
taurant proprietors. Until very
recently he was supervisor of the
cafeterias of the Philadelphia
schools. He resigned from this
position to devote more time to
writing. Earlier he held down an
amaz ng variety of jobs, which
fact is at least partly respon-
sible for Mr. Idell's encyclopaedic
mind—it is difficult to introduce
a subject that does not lie within
the scope of his well-informed ex-
perience.
He was born in Philadelphia in
1901 of mixed American pioneer
stock. His mother's family, which
arrived in this country in 1690,
was "Pennsylvania Dutch". His
father is of Irish and German
descent.
Jacket Drawing b y His Wife
After his marriage to Mar-
gueo.te Cadwalader, the artist
whose painting is reproduced on
the jacket of "Cross in the Carib-
bean", Mr. Idell stuck more
closely to an accounting career,
specializing eventually in the res-
taurant field. Thii work had the
advantage of slack seasons, dur-
ing which the author's continued
urge to travel could be tempo-
rarily satisfied, and he and Mrs.
Idell toured Europe, Mexico,
Venezuela, and the West Indies,
Asia" on March 27
On Friday evening, March 27,
at 8 p. m., at the Sabbath Eve
services of Temple Beth El, Dr.
B. Benedict Glazer will speak on
"The Japanese Conquests in
Asia—What Kind of Mind Con-
trols Their War Machine?"
The music of the service will
be rendered by the Temple Choir
with George Galvani as director
and cantrola soloist. Jason Tick-
ton will accompany him at the
organ. A social hour under the
auspices of the Temple Sister-
hood will be held in the Social
Hall following the services.
Sabbath morning services are
held in the main auditorium from
11 to 12 o'clock every Saturday
morning. Dr. Glazer will preach.
scene of "Cross in • the Carib-
bean". At times when their trav-
els were prolonged beyond the
accounting season, Mr. Idell
turned salesman. He has success-
fully scld accounting systems, real
estate, vacuum cleaners, and .. .
can openers. For a while he was
president of a manufacturing
company that employed several
hundred workers.
March 20, 1942
41 Jews Graduate From
National Farm School
NEW YORK. (JPS) — On
March 22 there will be added to
the roster of the nation's farm-
ers 41 Jewish young men who
will have completed a three-year
course of practical training in
farming at the National Farm
School, Bucks - County, Pa., it
was announced by the Farm
School office here.
The entire class numbers 5:i
young men, ranging in age from
20 to 23. Those who had been
called in the draft were deferred
on the basis of producing im-
portant agricultural products.
The school, founded 46 years
ago by Dr. Joseph Krauskopf.
has trained 1,200 boys on a non-
sectarian basis. Seventy-five per
cent of the students are Jewish.
INFORMATION WANTED
Information is being sought 'f
Louis Laufer, also known as
Pasner, who left his wife, Ida.
and three sons, Sam, Isidore and
Hyman, in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
about 13 years ago and since
then he has failed to contribute
to their support. His wife now
finds herself in destitute circum-
stances. Mr. Laufer is a native
of Dubrovna, Russia, is 50 years
of age, 5 ft. 10 in. tall, was
working in the silk trade and
also as a plasterer. He is pres-
ently believed to be in Detroit.
Anyone aware of his location is
requested to communicate with
the National Desertion Bureau,
67 W. 47th St., ew York City.
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Background of the Story
The idea for "Cross in the
Caribbean" was born during a
conversation between the author
and Harry Rosin, a former school-
mate at the School of Industrial
Art, and recognized as one of
the topnotch American sculptors
when he received from the Fair-
mont Park Art Commission in
Philadelphia, one of the $10,000
awards for sculpture of an
American historical subject under
the terms of the Samuels bequest,
left some years ago by a Phila-
delphia patroness for the encour-
agement of sculpture. Mr. Rosin
told of his experiences while carv-
.ng a crucifix on a new French
Catholic church in a small colo-
nial community in the West In-
dies. The backward natives and
priests alike were repelled by the
stark, modern style of the archi-
tecture and sculpture, and it re-
quired all the tact and patience
of the young American to win
them to an appreciation of the
project. This immediately struck
Mr. Idell as an interesting back-
ground for a study of racial,
religious, and social differences
and misunderstandings. After
mulling over the idea for about
a year, the author created his
own sculptor and a fictitious
island around which he wrote
"Cross in the Caribbean".
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