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VOL. 44, NO. 51

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Land for Freedom Conference of Jewish
National Fund at Book-Cadillac Dec. 26
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Speaker; Prominent Local and National Personalities on Program

The Land for Freedom Nation. worm is a leading figure in the
al Conference of the Jewish Na- social and civic life of his city
tional Fund will be held in De- and state.
Among the other speakers dur-
troit at the Book-Cadillac Hotel,
ing the sessions will be, Dr. Is-
rael Goldstein, Judge Morris
Rothenberg, Judge Louis E. ,Ros-
enthal, Dr. Nahum Goldman,
Louis Lipsky. Mrs. Archibald
Silverman, Mendel N. Fisher,
Fred M. Butzel, Isidore Sobeloff,
Rabbi Hillel Silver, Mrs. De Solo
Pool, David Wertheim, Leon Gell-
man, James I. Ellmann and
scores of others.
The dinner will be given in
honor of Dr. Israel Goldstein,
president of the Jewish National
Fund in recognition of ten years
devoted service to the cause as
its presiding officer. In these ten
years Dr. Goldstein has been in-
strumental in raising the income
of the Jewish National Fund
from $200,000 annually to more
than $2,000,000 in 1942. Thes,.
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beginning Saturday evening, Dee.
26 and ending with a dinner
Sunday evening, Dec. 27. Some
of the best known personalities
in American Jewish life will ad.
dress the sessions. Delegates and
visitors from all over the United
States will participate in the
:vithering.
The principal speaker at the
opening session Saturday eve-
. ring, Dec. 26 will be Sidney G.
Kusworm, world treasurer of the
Bnai Brith Supreme Lodge. He
is one of the most eloquent
speakers of the great fraternal
organization. An attorney of
note, he served as assistant At-
torney-General of Ohio. He is
chairman of the Americanization
Committee of the Bnai Brith.
Former president of the Dayton
Social Service Federation and of
the Reform Temple, Mr. Kus-

See LAND—Page 12

FRED M. BUTZEL

Arthur Szyk Exhibit Reception for
To Run Through Jan. Gen. Sikorski at
3 at the Jewish Center Masonic Temple

Rabbi A. M. Ashinsky, honor-
ary vice-president of the Miz-
rachi Organization of America
and outstanding orthodox leader
in this country will address a

Gen. Wladysaw Sikorski, pre-
The exhibit of the work of
Arthur Szyk, Polish-Jewish artist. mier of the Polish government
now current at the Jewish Com- with headquarters in London, is
munity Center will be continued spending several weeks in this
through Sunday, Jan. 3. The
exhibit includes original draw- r77-
ings, paintings, prints, books and
manuscripts.
Featured in the collection of
drawings and paintings is the
painting of Joseph Trumpeldor,
which Szyk created recently on
behalf of the campaign for a
Jewish Army.
The manuscript of the Haggad
oh which is on display is valued
at $50,000. The first printed copy
of the Haggadah was presented
to the King of England and the
work is known as the King's
Haggadah. 125 copies were
brought to this country for sale.
Each printed copy is sold for
$750. In addition to the original
manuscript, a printed copy is
also on display. Szyk is a very
ardent and devotee! Jew. On one
of the illuminated pages he says
that if he has achieved any Ionic,
he owes it to the eternal tradi-
tions and virtues of his people.
On the last page he inscribes the
BENJAMIN GRAUBART
entire work to his brother Jews
in Germany and Austria who are country as the guest of our
of their people and their faith, President. He will visit Detroit
and who are dying as martyrs for on Sunday, Dec. 20, and a large
being persecuted for the sake reception is being planned in his
honor at the Masonic Temple.
"Kiddush Hashem."
The Polish Central Citizens
Another outstanding feature
of the exhibit is the "Statute of Committee, a central body rep-
Kalisz." This statute goes back resenting over 160 organizations,
to Boleslasv of Poland who in is in charge of arrangements.
the year 1264 granted rights to Chester Kozdroy, president, has
Jews. On the pages of this manu- extended an invitation to the
script, Szyk shows the various Detroit District, American Fed-
activities and trades in which the eration for Polish Jews to par-

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joint Melaveh Malka sponsored
by the Mizrachi organization of
Detroit and the Ladies of the
Yeshivoth Beth Yehudah, Satur-
day, Dec. 19, 1942„ at 8:30
I). in. at the Yeshivah Beth Ye-
hudah building, Dexter at Cort-
land. The joint gathering has
been called in order to give hon-
or to that beloved, esteemed
and noted religious leader, Rabbi
A : M. Ashinsky, who has con-
tributed much to the Mizrachi

See ASHINSKY—Page 10

See EXHIBIT—Page 9

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Diplomats Of Three Countries Have Drawn

National Finnd to acquire several
Statements Bitterly Condemning Atrocities
hundred thousand dunams of land
in Palestine on which newcomers
LONDON (WNS)—Joint ac- exiled governments in London to
are earning a livelihood, by till- tion by the United States, Great consider ways of stopping the un-
Britain and Soviet Russia to stop precedented mass slaughter of
the planned Nazi massacre of the helpless men, women and chil-
millions of Jews still alive in dren.
Nazi-occupied Europe was ex-
The exiled Polish Government
pected momentarily following a this Nveck sent a formal note to
series of prolonged conferences the governments of all the United
here in which high-ranking dip- Nations. After describing in de-
lomats of the three Allies pa•tici- tail the Nazi astrocitics against
pated.
the Jews, the Polish note said:
"The Polish Government, us
American, British and Russian
diplomats have already drawn up representative and legitimate au-
it statement bitterly condemning thority of the territories in which
the Nazi slaughter of 2,000,000 the Germans are carrying out
in occupied Europe and threaten- systematic extermination of Pol-
ing to exact severe retribution ish citizens and citizens of Jew-
unless the mass killings are im- ish origin from many other Euro-
mediately stopped. Authoritative pean countries, considers it its
sources here said that the Amer- duty to address itself to the gov-
ican and British Governments ernments of the United Nations
have already approved the state- in the confident belief that they
ment, which will be made public will share its opinion regarding
as soon as the Soviet Govern- the necessity of not only con-
demning the crime committed by
ment adds its endorsement.
While the contents of the joint the Germans and punishing the
statement remained a secret, it criminals, but also of finding
was held likely, in line with re- means which would offer hope
cent statements by President that Germany might effectively
DR. ISRAEL GOLDSTEIN
Roosevelt and other Allied lead- be restrained from continuing to
apply her methods of extermina-
ing the soil and raising food for ers, that it will include a strong- tion."
ly-phrased warning to the Axis
the population as well as for the countries that all persons found
Leaders Report Nazi Plans
American and Allied troops sta- guilty of atrocities against the
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, presi-
tioned in Palestine.
Jews would be severely punish- dent of the Board of Deputies
Every effort is being made to ed—perhaps put to death.
of British Jews, and Dr. Ignacy
accommodate Detroiters who wish
While Foreign Secretary An- Schwartzbart, one of the two
to attend the dinner but reserva- thony Eden, U. S. Ambassador Jewish members of the Polish
tions for out of the city dele- John G. Winant and Soviet Am- National Council this week re-
gates and visitors must be pro- bassador Ivan Maisky were meet- ported to a meeting of members
vided for first. The committee ing for the big three powers, the of the British Parliament details
has set Dec. 21 as the dead line Polish Government-in-exile took of Ilitler's program to wipe out
for reservations. The dinner will the initiative in calling a meeting
be Kosher catered and will cost of the foreign ministers of all
See MASSACRES—Page 12
$3.00 per plate. Reservations ac-
companied by check can be made
by sending same to Mrs. Samuel
Heyman, chairman dinner com-
mittee, 4031 Glendale Ave., Ho-
garth 2057. Reservations will be
made, in fairness to all, in the
order in which they are re-
ceived.

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U. Britaiii, Russia, to Take Action
To Halt Nazi Massacres of Jews

Rabbi Ashinsky
To Be Mizrachi
Speaker Dec. 19

RABBI A. M. ASHINSKY

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