A merica ,eirish Periodical Carter
Apr il 14, 1942
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
tions, possible and actual, that L
Lag b'Omer Festival
War I prototype of the current
anti-Zionists raised against it, and
conflict's Donald Nelson, may
refute them to myself. I became To Be Celebrated at
yet become a member of the
converted to Zionism the very ,-,
By FANNY R. ADLERSTEIN
War Production Board.
moment I realized that it sup- Lommunity Center
Henrietta Szold had won eminence as a scholar and educator before plied my bruised, torn and bloody
Lag B'omer, the scholar's fes-
s h e embarked on the greatest adventure of her life.—A review nation, my distracted nation, with
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of Marvin Lowenthal's "Henrietta Szold—Life and Letters". an ideal—an ideal is balm to the tival, which falls this year on
self-inflicted wounds and to the Tuesday, May 5, w II be cele-
MANDELL ES DAVID
Just as, in the minds of most she taught at the Misses Adams' wounds inflicted by others an prated in the Jewish Community
people, the name of Freud is school, a private institution.
ideal that can be embraced by Center on the afternoon of Sun-
synonymous with psychoanalysis,
Another substantial portion of i∎ 11, no matter what their attitude day, May 3.
and the name of Edison with the her teaching career lay in the may be to other Jewish questions."
A mammoth athletic rally and
electric light, so the name of
And yet, as her biographer show is being planned to take
Henrietta Szold signifies Ha-
points out, "'Henrietta Szold's place in the Center gymnasium,
dassah. Yet, how many know
onist writings as a whole are at 2:30 p. m. There will be dem-
RADIO NEWS
that Henrietta Szold was in
evidence that she never was ex- onstrations of high jumping,
COMMENTATORS
her 60th year when she began
clusively a nationalist or a reli- weight lifting, fencing, basketball
the groat adventure of her life
gionist in her Jewish philosophy. free throw, first aid techniques
—the task of formulating and
Even before she knew his point and Palestinian dances. A basket-
directing American medical aid
of view, she was close to Ahad ball game and a potato race are
in Palestine? And how many know
Ha'am in proclaiming herself a scheduled. Center Boy Scouts will
that, had she followed the advice
Z onist primarily for cultural rea- present colors. The pledge of
EVERY SUNDAY
of her doctor and retired to some
sons in their broadest sense."
allegiance to the flag and the
11:45 A.M. to 12 Noon
rural retreat at the age of 60,
Strangely enough, although Miss Maccabean oath will be taken.
she would yet have been known
Szold's attraction to Zionism was
Lag B'omer goes back in Jew-
as one of the most eminent wo-
heartfelt and sincere, 17 years ish history to the revolt of Bar
STATION
men of her time—an educator, a
were to elapse before she set her- Kochba against the Romans in the
scholar, a social worker?
self to hard work on behalf of year 135. Bar Kochba's soldiers
Few women of our or any other
Zion.
were mighty men, and today Lag
In 1893 she became the secre- B'omer celebrations take the form
generation have lived as full a
tary of the editorial board of the of outings and Maccabiads.
life as Henrietta Szold, and even
Jewish Publication Society of
fewer have reached the age of
There will be no admission
America, which had been founded charge to the Lag B'omer Macca-
82 in so vigorous and mentally
five years earlier. She held the biad at the Jewish Community
youthful a state. In "Henrietta
post for 23 years.
Szold—Life and Letters," (Viking
Center, Woodward at Holbrook.
Press-83.00) Marvin Lowenthal
In the summer of 1909—she was Tickets are available at the desk
has carefully followed the pro-
nearly 50—her life was changed. in the lobby.
fessional and personal career of
Together with her mother she
a purposeful, warmhearted and
embarked on a European tour,
H ENRIETTA SZOLD
capable woman. He has succeeded,
and a gift from the directors of estine, theoretically the self-gov-
,
by means of skillfully selected ex- Jewish field. At her father's sync- the Jewish Publication Society en- ernment of Palestine Jewry. Here MANY TIMIS PA ial 0 - WEV ER DM 'CAM)
including. GOBS
cerpts from her humorous letters gogue, she taught in the religious abled her to extend it to Pales- her first task was to organize the
to family and friends, and by school early Sabbath mornings tine. This was the journey, in Keneset Israel—union of Jewish
a SHOESTRING
clean-cut, unsentimental narra- and again on Sundays. On Sab- Mr. Lowenthal's words, "to a communit'es of Palestine. The pro-
POTATOES, JUG
tive, in giving us a full-length bath afternoons she conducted a world where all the paths of her COOS was a difficult one, but she
a HONEY, an
portrait.
two-hour Bible class for adults. life joined into one road, a steep, made much progress.
HOT
BUT TERE °-
For
the
upper
set
of
Baltimore
rocky
and
tortuous
road,
but
this
Henrietta Szold's earliest mem-
The prosent chapter of Hen-
rietta Szold's life began with the
POLLS..
ory is that of being raised on her Jewesses she led a "select class" time a road without end."
father's shoulders so that she in Jewish history.
Writing to a friend from Jeru- advent of Hitler in 1933. How she
...CARRY OUT t RESERVATION.—
might peer through the window
Never one to be content with salem she spoke of its beauty, organized and directed the Youth
of the family home on Eutaw less than 16 hours of work a day, interest and problems. With what Aliyah movement, which resulted
Street in Baltimore to see the fun- she engaged in several extraneous we may now regard as pleasing in the bringing of tens of thou-
eral process'on of Abraham Lin- activities, among them serving as irony, she added: "If I were 20 sands of refugee children to Pal-
coln. She was four at the time.
the Baltimore correspondent of years younger, I would feel that estine, is too well known and to'
Growing up in the post-Civil the New York Jewish Messenger, my field is here." It was not until fresh in the minds of many to re-
War days in Baltimore, Henrietta one of the earliest Anglo-Jewish she was 11 years older that she quire repetition. It is a chapter
went first to "nursery school" and papers in America. actually went forth to claim and which is not vet closed.
Henrietta Szold is in Palestine
then to "German School," where
Her practical bent, as it later till her "field."
she, together with other first-gen- applied to Palestine, was early When, in 1920, she finally reach- today—revered, consulted and still
STEWART'S FAMOUS GRILLE
eration offspring of the German- demonstrated in one of her week- ed Palestine, she found "a poor, active in many phases of social
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...WM'S? SIDS...
Jewish immigrants who had come ly articles for the Messenger. In hard land rendered poorer and and educational work. More than
to America during the m'ddle of 1879 a convention of synagogue harder by the World War. A siz- anyone else, she scoffs at the trib-
'S
ST
EWART
the 19th century, were taught congregations was held at Haiti- able Jewish immigration had utes which are paid her, but car-
FAMOUS GI ILL!
more.
Among
the
subjects
dis-
barely
got
under
way,
and
the
lies
on
in
the
"way
of
life"
German, English, "Secular stu-
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cussed was a colonization scheme ring of pick and crow-bar was which is, to her, true Judaism.
dies" and Judaism.
Her Jewish education, received to settle Jews on the soil. Report- beginning to be heard on the
at the hands of her rabbinical fa- ing on the scheme, Henrietta re- stony hillsides and the scrunch
ther, was intensive. Discussion of marked that "the land of that of shovels in the swamps." She
the precepts of Judaism were not Jewish colony will most likely be had been sent to act as the rep-
reserved for the synagogue or the situated in Utopia so long as there resentative of the Zionist Organ-
study in the Szold family. Mr. are no funds to locate it in less ization of America on the execu-
visionary regions." tive committee of the American
Lowenthal tells us:
Medical Unit to Palestine.
Henrietta Szold's first signifi-
"Battles that now make a schol-
On her arrival, she found things
cant
contribution
to
the
social
arly page in the annals of Ameri-
can Jewry echoed with living force structure of Baltimore began in in a bad mess. There was friction
around the dining room table. 1889 when, following the influx and competition among the 45
Should public prayers be read in into Baltimore of large numbers American doctors who had come
Hebrew, German, or English—in of Russian immigrants of 1882, to Palestine to install a measure
what proportions and which pray- she founded a night school for of sanitary and health control. Dr.
ers? Was the Talmud an author- them. The first term, 30 pupils I. M. Rubinow, the director of
ity on a par with the Bible? Was registered. And, Mr. Lowenthal the Unit, had his hands full try-
God a person or a philosophical tells us, "as superintendent, teach- ing to make both ends of a per-
idea? What was the Messiah—a ing staff and janitor, Henrietta ennially inadequate budget meet.
man, a symbolic aspiration or Is- Szold was part of what was prob- In innumerable ways, Miss Szold
rael itself? And so on, delving among the pioneers of its kind in assisted him and later took full
into every practical and esoteric America." charge.
Henrietta Szold's career, from
As a member of the Hebras
phase of Judaism as it was af-
PAY ONLY THE COST OF VITALIZE
fected by the life of the times Zion of Baltimore, Henrietta her arrival in Palestine to the
DRY CLEANING NEXT FALL
From her father's teachings, and Szold opened the night school— present, is contemporary history.
through the conclusions reached ably the first Zionist society ere- She lived through the Arab riots
by her own nimble brain, Hen- ated in the United States. Indeed, in 1921, in 1929 and again in
Fur Coat Cleaning and
rietta learned that Judaism was three years were to pass (the 1935-6. Always she was among the
Hebras
Zion
was
founded
in
1893)
first
on
the
scene
of
the
trouble,
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a way of life. It was a philosophy
which guided her throughout her before Herzl published The Jewish supervising, directing and often
Your fur coat de-mothed in our U. B.
Government approved vaults—cleaned
life, which shaped her every de- State, a call that summoned no- with her own hands tending the
by Master Furrier Meth-
cision and illumined her every litical Zionism into organized be- wounded.
After she passed her 60th birth-
ods — Vita glazed — in-
ing.
problem.
sured up to $100 valua-
"When Zionism converted me to day, she began to take pride in
tion. Additional insur-
Following her graduation from
ance if desired at a
the Western Female High School, itself," said Miss Szold in one of her spryness. "What do you
minimum cost.
her early propaganda talks, "1 think," she wrote a member of
Henrietta returned to the school frankly confeFs I did not go her family from Jerusalem, of
as a teacher. Within a brief per-
going on a donkey ride of two
iod, and for 15 years thereafter, through the whole list of objec- my
hours one way and nearly three
hours back? .. . The next morn-
ing I was at my desk at seven,
while my 'young' companions hob-
bled to the hospital at nine for
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their day's work." She spent a
good deal of time in the company
of young people, particularly the
students at the Nurses' Training
School, in which she took a great
interest.
LITTMAN'S PEOPLE'S:THEATER
When, in 1923, Henrietta Szold
Phone Trinity 7-0100
8210
TWELFTH ST., near Seward Ave.
returned to America for family
reasons, the Zionist Medical Unit
was transformed and enlarged
The Great Stir of the Yiddish Stage for a Limited Engagement Only
into the Hadassah Medical Or-
ganization. In its behalf she made
SUNDAY MAT. and EVE., also TUESDAY EVE., APRIL 26-28
repeated trips to Palestine. In
The Laugh Riot of the Jewish Stage
1927, she was elected one of three
members of the Palestine Execu-
tive Committee of the World Zion-
ist Organization—the first woman
ever to serve in this capacity. "'I
fought like a tigress," she said
of her efforts to avoid the office.
in a New Musical Comedy
"The most disconcerting feature,"
she felt, "is that at this critical
move-
the great Zionist move-
Accepting the commission of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Fiscal juncture
ent had no one else to turn to
w
Division of the United States Army, Morris C. Troper (left), has bu a tired, worn-out old woman
resigned as Chairman of the European Executive Council of the oft 67."
Joint Distribution Committee. Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz (right),
In 1931, she returned to Pales-
Cf..--tared w:tls LILY LILIANA, MISHA FISHZON, ETHEL DORF,
LEON LIEBGOLD and Entire Company
who has been serving as European Vice-Chairman, succeeds him. tine for good, having been offered
a seat on the executive committee
Dr. Schwartz is now stationed in Lisbon.
of the National Assembly of Pal- 4•1111111•11 ■
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