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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

September I I. I

PERSONALITIES

near it was to his heart. He w as PRICE CONTROLLER
among its first contributors.
No APPOINTED
I:Sh000 Toro Tikosevu!
one who was present can forg et
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the first Synagogue donatio ns JERUSALEM (Palcor) — The
the globe where Jews reside.
made at the calling up to the La W appointment of Maurice Joseph
The Early Days of the Keren at the Basle Synagogue even b e- Flanagan, M.A., auditor to the
fore the Fund was establishe d. Palestine Government, as price
Kayemeth
SOCONY VACUUM
Those who had the good for- David Wolffsohn, whose love o f, controller was gazetted in July.
PRODUCTS
tune to witness the birth and devotion to and pride in t he Mr. Flanagan, who is 55, was
growth
of our unique People's Keren Kayemeth are well know n , appointed auditor in Palestine in
Specializing in Mobiloil. Mobil
wanted no fewer than 30 men
Fund
must
feel somewhat sad
tO August, 1938. He had previously
Lubrication, Tire and Battery
be called up to the Law so th
that
so
few
are
still
alive
of
at been attached to the Colon'al
Sales and Service
they
might
make
a
contributio
those who gave it their active
,
on
Audit Department in London and
devotion in its early p:oneer days to the Keren Kayemeth. T he has served in Nigeria, Windward
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head
of
the
Basle
communit
—the first 13 years between its
v. Islands, Nyasaland and Uganda.
Car Wash
establishment and the outbreak however, refused to allow it. S , e The price controller has been Hp-
that
they
were
four
men
only
w
Chalmers at Corbett
of the first World War.
" pointed by the high commissioner
This is not the place for a inaugurated one of the most in 5- as a controlling authority under
We Call For and Deliver
detailed description of the dra- portant sources of income for th
e the Defense (Prevention of
matic circumstances in which the Keren Kayemeth at that mo st Profiteering) Regulations.
Fund was created at the Fifth sacred function—the calling u p
Zionist Congress at Basle in 1901 to the Law—Herzl, Wolffsohn, S it
Herzl's unshakable determination Francis Montefiore and Jaco b Kayemeth was registered as a
that it be set up immediately and Moser (the last-named was th e company, in England. Volumes
Happy New Year to All
definitely, and not merely prov's- endower of the llerzlia Gym could be written on the opinions,
sionally, as the faint-hearted nasium, the first High School it a suggestions and drafts presented
wished it, sprang not only from Palestine).
by large numbers of distinguished
practical considerations. The idea
For nearly six years Johann lawyers in those six years, and
so magnificently embodied in the Kremenezky, a member of th on the battles over them fought
e
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Keren Kayemeth, of national re- Zionist Executive, directed th at innumerable meetings in
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generation and social justice, at Keren Kayemeth in Vienna. His e Vienna, Basle, London and Col-
once found an echo in Herzl.
pride in his task, h's energy, his ogne. Many dear and unforget-
The three-and-a-half years in readiness to make any sacrifice table names can be recalled in
which he devoted himself to the communicated themselves to us ' this connection. In the end, two
Keren Kayemeth, in addition to all. His first plans were ready champions remained in the arena
his epoch-making work for the long before the Fifth Congress —Herbert Bentwich and Dr. M.
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
Jewish people, demonstrated how and he was busy working out the ' J. Bodenheimer. Dr. Bodenheim-
earliest methods of fund collec- el.'s draft which made the Keren
tion. Most people have probably Kayemeth an indivisible part of
forgotten the small, blue and the Zionist Organization, formed
HOTELS
white Zionist stamp with the the basis of the Statutes which
Mogen David on it. Thirty mil- eventually emerged. No one now
lion of these were issued and remains of the subscribing mem-
2250 14TH ST.
they were designed to be bought bers named in the Statutes, and
Opposite Mich. Central Depot
for the smallest coin—one cent of the first. Board of Directors
1533 BENITEAU AVE.
in America—so that every Jew only Dr. Arthur Hantke is living.
Dr. Bodenheimer will be re-
throughout the world might be-
RALPH W. SMITH
4020 W. LAFAYETTE
come a contributor. They also membered not only in connection
Near Ambassador Bridge
served as a kind of receipt, the with the Statutes but also with
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contributor receiving stamps to the second, the "Cologne" period
the value of the contribution of the Keren Kayemeth's pioneer-
made.
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ing days. He was the first chair -
Downtown Detroit
A well-known Jewish artist of man of the Board of Directors,
the time, Ransenhofer, designed a position he occupied till 1920.
the Golden Book as well as the He was in charge of the Head-
448 HENRY
Certificate presented on inscrip- quarters for seven years, until the
5703 - HAPPY NEW YEAR - 1942
Between Cass and Second
tion therein. It is curious that outbreak of the first World War
Conveniently
while the succeeding five volumes necessitated its removal to The
Reasonable
Located
of this chronicle of the Jewish Hague. With the help of Nathan
Rates
people all differ from one an- Gross, who was principal secre-
other in design, the Certificate tary of the Keren Kayemeth Head
has retained its original form Office for 14 years, it became pos-
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throughout these 40 years.
sible before, during and imme-
The Sixth Zionist Congress, in diately after the war to direct
JOHN E. RAPP
1903, saw the first appearance development along the lines laid
Service Station
of the Golden Book, which excited down by Kremenezky. Much was
HI-SPEED
much attention and admiration. done for the Keren Kayemeth in
Gasoline—Oils
Many names were inscribed at Cologne, where David Wolffsohn
10317 NORTHLAWN
Expert Lubrication
the Congress itself. I can still spent six years as president of the
Tire and Battery Service
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see David Wolffson striding World Zionist Organization, much
through the hall, flourishing a that survived the war and is of
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l ist of inscriptions representing a importance to this day. A certain
AT LAWTON
handsome sum of money. Herzl's romantic charm, too, attaches to
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mother, whose name was among the earliest large donations to
those inscribed, was present for the Keren Kayemeth. Wolffsohn
himself was first in the field,
the first time at this Congress.
Kremenezky always believed establishing the "David and
that the majority of Jewry Fanny Wolffsohn Fund" to mark
should support the Keren Kaye- his silver wedding. On one occa-
meth by means of regular con- sion Dr. Yehiel Tshlenov, who
tributions, and he was the first was in charge of collections in
of this circle in Vienna to carry Russia for many years, forwarded
out the idea of self-taxation. The a donation of 30,000 marks from
writer is proud to have belonged Rebecca Isakova Klur with the
to this early and modest circle. remarkable instruction that the
Kremenezky for two years op- money he invested at interest for
posed the introduction of collect. 500 years. The donor had then
ing Boxes, thinking the question to be persuaded to revise the pro-
of controlling and checking too viso. A Roumanian Zionist, Bar-
difficult, but in 1904 he had the uch Cabana, donated 100,000 gold
first 10,000 boxes made.
francs, thus continuing the fine
Had the constitutionalists at tradition of the Roumanian Jews
the Fifth Congress had their way of the early Hibath Zion days.
There are far too many names
and had the Keren Kayemeth,
therefore, begun collecting funds and events bound up with the
only after legal formalities had pioneering period of the Keren
been completed, six precious years Kayemeth to be all mentioned
would have been lost. When the here, even if we restrict ourselves
Fund was established a Commit- to the most important. The Keren
tee was appointed to draw up Kayemeth has become an indis-
the Statutes and present them soluable part of the Jewish peo-
within a year to the annual Zion- ple. This can he seen in the
ist Conference, but it was not various popular mass methods of
until April, 1907, that the Keren collection developed as time went
on. Tens of thousands of name-
less collectors carried on its work
and its most popular collecting
methods were introduced by work-
Rosh Hashonah Greetings!
ers whose names it is now almost
BURG'S KOSHER MEAT impossible to determine.
What we call the "spirit" of
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the Keren Kayemeth, the best and
brightest in the Zionist spirit
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too, was generated in those early
days. To Adolf Boehm, the his
torian of the Keren Kayemeth,
in his writings which are now
looked upon as source books, goes
full recognition for the noble
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ideas underlying the Keren Kaye-
meth. Nehemia de Lieme's part
in developing the theory of our
WOODWARD AT GRATIOT
land policy will be remembered
no less than his seven years' ex-
ecutive work at the Keren Kaye-
meth.
On this 40th anniversary of
the Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael,
when so few of those early pio-
neers are still living, we call on
OFFICE OUTFITTERS
ROSH HASHONAII GREETINGS
the present generation not only
to remember those who forged
this national instrument for Ian
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redemption, but also to bring to
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fruition all that was best and
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finest and most beautiful in the
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young days of the Zionist move-
ment.

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