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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Judge Charles C. Simons
To Speak On American
Constitution, Nov. 24
November 20, 1942
MODERN HEBREW LITERATURE
come to that country with mor o epics. In their eagerness to din-
or less established reputations a s play the influence of America on
By JOSHUA BLOCH
Hebrew writers. The large num their verse they have turned to
- Indian mythology and drawn
Editor's Note:—The beginnings of modern Hebrew literature in this ber of Hebrew periodical publica - from it abundantly for their pee-
Lions
which
have
appeared
inter
country are traceable to the efforts of a few pioneers. Mr.
- try. It was Saul Tchernichovsk•,
Judge Charles C. Simons of
Bloch points out the importance of this development which mittently in the United State s who, by rendering into Hebrew
the United States Circuit Court
records the deepest life of the Jewish people in the tongue of since 1871 testify to the tena - Longfellow's Hiawatha, first in-
cious efforts to give the Hebrew troduced Indian life and legend
of Appeals will address the De-
their ancestors. The following article is published here through
language and literature a foot - into modern Hebrew literature. s
troit Philosophical Society on
special arrangements with the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia.
Tuesday, Nov. 34, at 8:15 p. m.,
hold on American soil. Menahen I This inspired Benjamin Nahum
ballroom floor, Hotel Statler. His
The first World War era pro- Jawitn endeavored to represent Mendel Dolicki, Naphtali Herz Silkiner, perhaps the outstandin
subject will be: "The Philosophy duced a group of Hebrew writ- the position of a nationalized Imber and Isaac Rabinowitz are American Hebrew poet, to write g
of the American Constitutional ers who endeavored to portray orthodoxy. On the other hand, in among the early poets. Gershon his Mul Ohel Timurah (opposite
System." A discussion will follow the upheaval brought about in the philosophical writings of Rosenzweig, satirist, George Sel
- the Tent of Timura), an epic in
by the members.
Jewish life in the aftermath of Jacob Klatzkin one meets with a ikowitz, essayist, Alexander Ko - which the struggle
an Indian
Judge Simons has been a life that war. Representative of that view of Jewish life based upon hut, lexicographer, Abraham Hay- tribe to maintain its existence
long student of our constitution group are: Meir Smelansky, two single values: Land and lan- im Rosenberg, author of a great depicted. The example thus set Is
and its history. He is regarded whose writings largely deal with guage.
id Einstein, anthologist and edit- was soon followed by Ephraim
as an authority on the subject. the horrors of the pogroms in
or of the Otzar Yisrael, Henr ' Lisitzki with a like epic, Medu-
The stormy tides of activity
Biblical encyclopedia, Judah Day- roth Deachoth (Low Burning
Members of the Bar and others the Ukraine in 1919 to 1921;
interested in the subject will be Hayim Ilazaz and A. Steinman, engulfing Palestine in the years Gersoni, Ephraim Deinard, Moses Fires). It deals with Indian life
admitted.
whose characters are as a rule intervening between the two Shinedling, Perez Wiernik, M. L. before the arrival of the Whites
Jews who, though forcibly re- world wars found repercussion in Rodkinson, Arnold B. Ehrlich, and of the struggle that ensued.
moved from Judaism, still retain the dashing verse, often free, of Abraham Baer Dobsewitch (Dob- Israel Efros, scholar and port,
enough of it not to become com- many young poets. They are sevage), Z. Wolf Schur, M. likewise drew upon Indian lor e
Mlaver Verein Sells
pletely
dejudaized; Asher Barash, numerous and their verse is vig- Reicherson, A. S. Waldstein, Is- for his Wigwamim Shothekini
$7800.00 of War Bonds
who depicts Hasidic life with a orous. Abraham Schlonsky sings rael Davidson and the brothers (Silent Wigwams). Without neg-
of love for the soil, while Isaac Max and Jacob S. Raison are lecting distinctly Jewish themes,
On Sunday evening, Nov. 15 wealth of detail; Avigodor Meiri
Latndan, in his dramatic poem among the pioneers of Hebrew these and other Hebrew poets in
(Feuerstein),
who
both
as
novel-
the Mlaver Umgegend Verein at
its open and social meeting sold ist and poet is wont to dwell on Masadah, reechoes the religious literature in the United States. the United States have drawn
The fact is that little progress upon native themes for their
$7800.00 in United States War the horrors of war as he himself fervor that animates the builders
experienced them, and, like Uri of Palestine. The joy in suffer- was made in the field of creative verse and given that country a
Bonds in 10 minutes.
The inspiring appeal made by Zebi Gruenberg, to lament and ing. for Palestine is expressed in Hebrew literature until the early durable place in modern Hebrew
its president, Benjamin S. Gold- denounce the shortcomings of the poetry of Judah Karni and years of the 20th century. With literature.
en and Jacob Rosenblatt, one of his people. J. Burla is the first in the lyrics of Mordecai Temkin the wave of immigrants from
American Hebrew literature
its active members, were respons- of the Hebrew novelists to deal and M. Z. Wolfovsky. The cross- Russia there came then to the produced a host of essayists and
currents
of
Palestinian
Jewish
United
States
a
goodly
number
ible for this most wholehearted with the life of those native Pal-
response on the part of the hand- estinian Jews whose ancestors life are likewise reflected in the of enthusiastic Hebraists. Soon journalists. In addition to the
men of letters who had come to
ful of people present.
were among the exiles from Spain prose of contemporary Hebrew they became the leaders in every
Organizations and Landsman- when they settled in the Holy writers. Such authors as Dob movement for the advancement the United States with established
Kimhi, A. Reubeni and Judah of Hebrew culture in America. reputations and some whose
shaften, take note, and do your Land.
Dart.
Yaari have endeavored to deal With the help of those who pre- names have already been men-
Hebrew literature also has a with the intruding effect of Occi- ceded them, and encouraged by tioned, Menahem Ribalow, an able
number of authors who have dental life upon the hallowed tra- the frequent visits of eminent editor and stimulating critic,
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Refugees assisted to secure Ivar production
jobs by the National Refugee Service, a bene.
ficiary of the United Jewish Appeal, helped
their firm, the Abort Fluorescent Lamp Co., win
the coveted Army-Navy "E" pennant for excel-
lence in war production. Two of them shown in
this picturejoseple Schirmer and Leopold Prinz,
had suffered indignities in a Hitler concentra-
tion camp before escaping to the United States.
The picture shows (front row) left to right:
Leopold Prinz, former Berlin manufacturer; D.
Schoen, Plant Manager; Herman Heyman, for-
mer Berlin merchant; Oswald Grief, former
Cerium] student; Joseph Schirmer, former Ben
lin lawyer. (Back row, left to right) Major
Rattly, U. S. Army Air Corps, who made the
award; harry Rosenthal, president of the com-
pany; and Lt. Lodge, U. S. Navy representative.
Since Pearl harbor the National Refugee Serv-
ice has retrained over 500 ref ugees to fill vitally
needed posts in war industries. The National
Refugee Service is represented, together with the
Joint Distribution Committee and the United
Palestine! Appeal, in the national campaign of
the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Over-
seas Needs and Palestine.