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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Lnronicie
November ?0
1942
Jewish Book Week to Be Celebrated This Coming Week .
Shaarey Zedek Library To Observe Jewish
Book Week from November 22 to 29
During the week of Nov. 22-29
the Shaarey Zedek Library will
join hundreds of other organiza-
tions throughout the country in
celebrating Jewish Book Week.
The special exhibits and programs
to be featured this year will he
built around the theme: "On
the Wings of Books to Jewish
Knowledge".
First featured in Boston in
1925 and inaugurated on a
larger scale in 1927 by Rabbi
S. Felix Mendelssohn of Chicago,
Jewish Book Week has been
gaining wide recognition in the
United States. It has become an
important national celebration.
To rabbis, educators, librarians,
publishers and teachers this pe-
riod is the occasion for the arous-
ing and revitalizing the tradi-
tional Jewish love for books,--
"a love and devotion which have
been and still are the most po-
tent props of Jewish survival.''
The Shaarey Zedek Library
will observe Jewish Book Week
this year by having open house
and staging several interesting
and timely exhibits of books,
pamphlets, periodicals, paintings
and ceremonial objects. The dis-
plays will include rare volumes,
representative
publications in
Hebrew, English and Yiddish, pe-
riodicals and children's books.
There will be also a table set
aside dealing exclusively with
books, products and art objects
of Palestine. In keeping with the
times, a special section will be
devoted to post-war reconstruc-
tion. The literature and pictorial
material to be exhibited for this
purpose will of course deal
mainly with the Jewish aspect of
the problem. The anniversaries
of the following Jewish literary
personalities, occurring in 1942-
1943 will also be stressed in an
interesting fashion: Abraham Ibn
Ezra, Judah Leib Gordon, Abra-
ham Mapu, Mendel Mocher Sfo-
•im and Yehoash. Bookbinding
and bookmaking and the various
phases of library work will also
be graphically depicted.
The Shaarey Zedek Library
cordially invites members of the
community to visit the library
during Jewish Book Week. The
hours are: Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, 10 a. in.
to 12 m.. 2 to 5:30 p. rn. and 7
to 9 p. m.; Sundays, 9 a. m. to
1 p. m. ; Fridays, 9 :30 a. in. to
12:30 p. m.
Jewish Book Week
Features Weinberg's
Jewish Social Service
Junior Hadassah
Harvest Hop Nov. 22
During Jewish Book Week
which will be observed in De-
troit from Nov. 22 to 29 the
volume of Samuel D. Weinberg
"Jewish Social Services in De-
troit" will be offered at half
price in order to encourage its
sale and distribution.
Published by the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation of Detroit, the
volume is a history of Jewish
social service agencies in our
community, and is the first vol-
ume in Yiddish ever to be pub-
lished by a Federation in this
country. For this reason it has
been hailed as an outstanding
community achievement
Veteran Journalist
Sunday afternoon, Nov. 22,
from 2 to 6, the Detroit Unit of
Junior Hadassah will play host-
ess to all paid-up members at
a.tea dance in the Sky Room of
the Park Avenue Hotel. This
paid-up membership event cul-
minates an energetic member-
ship drive under the chairman-
ship of Miss Ruth Drazin.
Membership in Junior Hadas-
sah, which is $2, opens new
vistas for the Jewish girl. Her
energies are diverted to newer
and greater endeavors: educa-
tion, social service, settlement
projects for youth in Palestine,
training of young people for the
war effort, civilian defense both
local and national, and with all
this the feeling that by becom-
ing a member of the Zionist
movement, she adds her bit to
the strength that comes in the
greater numbers.
Dues will be accepted at the
door on the afternoon of the
Harvest Hop. An enjoyable after-
noon awaits those who attend.
Mr. Weinberg, who is • editor
of the Detroit section of the
Jewish Daily Forward, is a vet-
eran journalist who has made a
thorough study of the Jewish
community agencies. His work Is
authoritative and has been
praised for its vision and com-
plete coverage. The foreword to
the volume was written by Isi-
dore Sobeloff, executive director
of the Jewish Welfare Federa- —BUY WAR BONDS—
tion.
Among those who have favor- Jewish Education; Morris Lewis,
ably reviewed the work are Dr. Social Work Today; Philip Slom-
Jacob Leshchinsky, in the For- ovitz, Jewish Social Studies and
ward and Survey Mid-Monthly; Abraham . Duker, Contemporary
Dr. A. Mukduni, Morning Jour- Jewish Record.
nal; S. Niger, Der Tog; N. Gold- Special Rates Offered
berg, Freie Arbeiter Stimme;
The book will be placed on
Prof. A. Galatsky, Canadian sale through local organizations.
News. Eliezer Sherman, Yid- It is procurable also either from
dishe Shriften; M. Boraisha, Con- the author or at the office of
gress Weekly; Mordecia Soltes,t he Jewish Welfare Federation.
HILLEL NEWS
From the Campus
Tuesday afternoon, at the new
home of the Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation at 7:30 Haven in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, the first Red
Cross unit of the Hillel USO
Service Committee began its
work. Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 2-6
was devoted to the preparation
of surgical dressings which pro-
cedure will be taught at Hillel.
The war service committe plans
to make this only one of its varied
war activities that Hillel and its
faculties will participate in.
Friday night, Nov. 20, at 7:45
p. m. conservative services will
be conducted at the Foundation by
David Crohn '43 and Samuel
Krohn '44. The services will be
followed by the usual Friday night
discussion group. The topic will
be "Independence of India." Mrs.
Francesca Thisig, graduate stu-
dent from India, will consider the
positive viewpoint, and Professor
Wohfgang Kraus of the political
Science Department, will take the
negative side of the question. A
social hour and serving of re-
freshments will follow.
Hillel Foundation will summar-
ize its weekly activities with a
social hour on Saturday after-
noon during the football game
from 2:30-5:30 for all of its mem-
bers and friends.
,
Rabbi Weiss Guest
Speaker at Emanuel
Forum Friday, Nov. 27
Sigma Theta Delta
Inducts New Pledges
Congregation Beth Tefilo Em-
anuel announces that Rabbi Dr.
S. R. Weiss of the Yeshivoth
Beth Yehudah will be the guest
of its Friday Evening Forum,
Nov. 27, at 8:30. He will speak
the
Fort Shelby Hotel in the Lafay-
ette Room. The luncheon W as
in honor of the new pledges—
Shirley Shubiner, Shirley Mann-
on "Jewish Exile".
The weekly forums, which are
conducted by Rabbi M. J. Wohl-
gelernter and Cantor Hyman
Schulsinger, were devoted to the
Young Israel anniversary and
National A. Z. A. Sabbath, on
Nov. 6 and 13 respectively. On
Nov. 20, Rabbi Dr. Israel Elfen-
bein of Brooklyn, N. Y., lec-
tured on "The World Common-
wealth and the Jew".
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Wayne
Chapter, gave a luncheon at
heim, Libby Schwartzberg, athi
Doris Lepchensky.
"Big sisters" were chosen for
the pledges. They are Elaine
Nagler, Reva Romer, Shirley
Hersh, and Ruth Preyansk: .
The officers for this year are:
Nettie Seligson, president; Syl
via Rossen, vice-president ; Dorn.
thyMen en berg, treasurer; ion
Yoscovitz, recording secretary,
Gertrude Weinstein, correspond-
ing secretary, and Sarah Perl-
mutter, intersorority representa-
tive.
The group is very active in
university affairs and communal
activities.
Pisgah Auxiliary Tea
On Tuesday, Nov. 24
Bnai Brith Pisgah Auxiliary
No. 122 will hold a membership
tea on Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 1 p.
m. "This is the first membership
tea of the season," announced
Mrs. Wm. J. Phillips, chairman
of the membership committee,
"and will be held at 2903 Webb
Ave., Detroit, the home of Mrs,
Louis Schostak." Prospective
members attending the tea will
be pleasingly entertained, and
Mrs. Joshua Sperka will greatly
enliven the gathering with a
book review she has especially
selected for the occasion.
Mrs. Morris Adler To
Review "Children
Of Israel" by Asch
The Woman's Auxiliary of
the United Hebrew Schools
cordially invites members to at-
tend the Paid-Up membership
luncheonette to be held Tuesday,
Nov. 24 at 1 p. m. at the Rose
Sittig Cohen Memorial Bldg.,
13226 Lawton. Program chair-
man, Mrs. John Horwitz, Chair-
men in charge of arrangements
for the luncheonette: Mesdames,
Albert Carnick and Harry Mad-
ison. President, Mrs. Jack To-
bin.
On Sunday, Nov. 1, the Sigm a
Theta Delta Sorority,
DR. ISRAEL ELFENBEIN
Graduated from the Jewish
Theological Seminary, Rabbi El-
fenbein has served in several im-
portant New York pulpits. He is
the author of the following
books: "Maimonides the Man,"
"The Letters and Responses of
Bashi," "The Life of Isaac
Dueren," "Palestine in 16th and
17th Centuries," "Sefer Minha-
gim of 12th Century".
Dr. Elfenbein and Rabbi Isaac
J. Schwartz, who accompanied
him to Detroit to solicit con-
tributions for Mesivta Rabb
Chain Berlin of Brooklyn, will
also speak in Emanuel Syna-
gogue on Saturday afternoon at
4 :30 o'clock.
Noted Educators Named to National Advisory Committee of
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations and Aleph Zadik Aleph
Pisgah Lodge No. 34, Bnai Brith is pleased
to have this opportunity to extend to the
Jewish Community of Detroit its appre-
ciation for their generous response to
those activities incidental to its 85th An-
niversary celebration.
Nine of the outstanding Jewish educators in the United States have accepted
membership on a national advisory committee on education to assist in shaping
the national policies of the Bnai Brith Mel Foundations and the Aleph Zadik Aleph,
Bnai Brith youth organization. The members of the committee are:
Top (left to right) : Ben M. Edidin, Jewish Education Committee of New
York; Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, educational director, Union of American Hebrew
Congregations; Dr. Alexander M. Dushkin, executive director, Jewish Education
Committee of New York. Center (left to right) : Rabbi Samuel L. Blumenfield,
director, College of Jewish Studies, Chicago; Dr. Leo L. Honor, executive director,
Board of Jewish Education of Chicago; Dr. Philip L. Seman, director, Jewish
People's Institute of Chicago. Bottom (left to right) : Israel S. Chipkin, associate
director, Jewish Education Committee of New York; Ben Rosen, director, Associ-
ated Talmud Torahs of Philadelphia, and Dr. Louis L. Kaplan, director, Board
of Jewish Education of Baltimore.