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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

July 23, 1943

MISSION

wrote that day about an indivi d-
and Rabbis—Morris Lachover.
MUSSOLINI
WORKERS
ual hero of the previous day 's
Dentists and dental supplies—
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fighting. These broadcasts wer
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Dr. Max Winslow.
Robert J. Newman, Her man conducted under fire. Once, a
Optometrists—Dr. Saul Cole,
nunzio in conducting the Fiume Division B—Services
Osnos, Mrs. Willard Pope, C. Pat bomb splinter hit the wall of th
Dr.
Albert N. Prussia.
broadcasting station and kille d campaign advocated by Mussolini.
Special assignments — Harry
Quin*, Rev. William H. P eck, the
Social workers and nurses--
chauffeur who was standin Finzi was appointed assistant min- Rosman.
Judge Frank A. Picard, Geo rge nearby. That did not stop the
Clarice Freud.
ister of the interior when Musso- Division F—Professional
Pirinsky, Herman M. Pekar s k y , broadcast.
Doctors—Dr. Harry C. Saltz-
Special
assignments--Peter
P.
lini
came
to
power.
Thus
Musso-
Myrtle Powell, Mildred Ras kin, Drills Chorus
stein.
lini entrusted a Jew with one of Gilbert.
Mrs. Sadie Raskin, Sol Rechtm an,
Feffer also organized and drill
Louis Robinson, Mrs. Louis Ja
Accountants—Nathan Kaletsky,
Attorneys—Morris Garvett, Da-
ed a singing chorus of Red Arm y the important posts in his gov-
Rosenberg, Jacob Rosenblatt, mes
ernment. Finzi was the real lead- vid J. Cohen, Max II. Field, Har- Joseph L. Staub.
Jay
men.
They
rehearsed
in
the
wood
Rosenshine, Mrs. Lillian Ru bin, under falling bombs. Although no
Pharmacists—Samuel M. Bez,
er of the ministry of the interior. ry H. Platt, Norman Rom, Adrian Ben M. Bavly.
Charles Rubiner, Dr. A. W. S
I).
Rosen,
Abraham
Satovsky.
one member of the chorus wa 3
ders, Mrs. S. Sborrow, Ilya Schk an-
Chiropodists—Dr. Joseph J. Ja-
m- a professional singer, under Fef His office was charged with the
Hebrew and Yiddish teachers
direction of the police and the
cobs.
nik, Alex Schreiber, Rev.
fer's
tutelage
they
reached
sue
h
maintenance
of
the
Fascist
Schulsinger, Morris Shatzen, Is sac a stage of high proficiency tha
re-
Osteopaths—Dr. Sydney F. El-
lies.
Shetzer, Nathan Siegel liar old they are now touring the arm t gime, which was not yet establis h_ tus and Virgil lived at Rome."
y
I
d
ed definitely, while Mussolini he In 1936, however, Mussolini
Silver, Charles C. Simons, Phi
UP camps and have been highly the ministry nominally, at t he surrendered to Hitler, at the same Division C—Mechanical Trades
Slomovitz, Lillian C. Smerli ng,
praised
by
Shostakovich
and
othe
r
Ben Kramer is in the process
same time holding the presiden cy time that German-Italian collab-
Cantor Jacob II. Sonenklar, R
of the cabinet and the ministry nf oration grew closer. He repeated- of organizing this group and has
bi Joshua S. Sperka, Abrah ab- prominent Soviet composers.
Feffer is a member of the ex - foreign affairs.
" ly denied the existence of prepon- called a meeting of the leaders
Srere, Isadore Starr, George am
M.
ecutive
board of. the Jewish anti-
Margherita Sarfatti, a Jewe SS derant German influence, and took of the trades within this division
Stutz, Sam Sweet.
Fascist Committee of the U. S. of Milan, for many years Muss 0 _ pains to declare that his policy for Tuesday evening, July 20, at
Daniel Temchin, R. J. Thom as, S.
R.
with Professor lini's intimate friend, edited t he concerning the Jews would not which time a procedure will be
Donald M. D. Thurber, Sam e e l Solomon Together
president of official paper of the Fascist Par ty change. But he was forced to tol- adopted for, carrying out the col-
Weisman, Dr. Samson R. Wei ss, the Soviet Michoels,
Jewish Anti-Fascist and wrote Mussolini's official b l _ crate anti-Semitic agitation in lections in this group. David A.
Mrs. A. S. Welt, D. Wien us , Committee,
he is a member of ography.
Italy, and in the fall of 1938 the Goldman, president of the Junior
Rabbi M. Wohlgelernter, M. H. the Official Delegation
from the
When Mussolini set up a co m- Fascist Grand Council, dominat ed Service Group, reports progress
Zackheim, Philip Zamek, Jose Pn, U. S. S. R. now in America
mission of leading Italian juris by Mussolini, inaugurated racist in the collection campaign, under-
Zuckerman, R. Zuieback, Dr. a
to help cement cultural relations to amend the constitution of Ita ly leg .islation concerning the Jews, taken by their collection commit-
Mrs. Jack Agains, Henry M.
in. between the two countries.
according to the principles o which copied the Nuremberg laws. tee. Reports were made at a
Abramovitz, Bertha Belkin, Cou n
Fascism, three Jews, Gino Aria ,, The slogans of Nazism were aped meeting scheduled for Thursday
cilman George Edwards, Claren c e Professor Michoels
Professor Solomon Michoels, Barone, and Levi, were among i is by official statements of the Fas- evening, July 22 at the Jewish
H. Enggass, Hannah G. Ferma n
Harry Frank, Nathaniel Goldstic k, director and star of the Moscow selected members, and Levi wa s cist government and parroted by Community Center. Beulah Smer-
Michael Novikoff, Judge Patri e ic Jewish State Theater, member of entrusted with a particularly del the Italian press in order to jus- ling has been added to the list of
H. O'Brien, William Sandie r, the City Council of Moscow and cate part of the important task. tify the legislation before the pub- workers in this group.
The reports thus far received
Thus Mussolini not only toler- lic, which was as much surprised
Lawrence H. Seltzer, A. F. Tu 11 , leader of the Jewish people, was
born in Dvinsk in 1890. He went ated the participation of Jews in by the change as were the Jews from those participating in the
Max J. Zivian.
Mrs. Aaron DeRoy, Dan Frol 1 _ to school in Riga and subse- Italy's public life for many years, of Italy who had given credence collection work has been most
man, Arnold A. Kosarin, Mrs. R a _ quently studied at the Faculty but also exploited their assistance to the previous statement of their gratifying.
The Jewish Welfare Federation
for the establishment of his re- government.
chel Kosarin, Senator Stank y of Law in Petrograd.
In answer to a reproach from appeals to those who still owe
In 1919, Michoels decided to gime. Subsequently he appointed
Novak, Mrs. Albert Kahn, Julia n
S. Krolik Theodore Levin, Pro f . abandon a promising career as a the Jew Guido Jung minister of Pope Pius XI on Italy's behav- n their Allied Jewish Campaign
Edward W. McFarland, Celi a lawyer for the theater. Beginning finance. For reasons of collabor- ior, Mussolini now announced that a ccounts to mail payments imme-
Paransky, Congressman George G , as a character actor, he was soon ation with Britain Mussolini was "also in racial questions, Fascism liately to 51 West Warren Ave.,
Sadowski, James I. Ellmann, Mr S. starring in and directing the even sympathetic with Zionism. will go ahead." After the out- Room 306.
works of the great Jewish au- He received Dr. Chaim Weizmann break of war in September, 1939,
Gruzit.
thors. He was one of the founders and encouraged Zionist organiza- Mussolini further denounced the B
Itzik Feffer
of the Moscow Jewish State The- tions in Italy in the hope that Jews as friends of foreign lands. "
._
Itzik Feffer, outstanding Jew ater,
the foremost institution of Italian Jews would promote Ital-
ish poet of the Soviet Union, wa s its kind
in the Soviet Union. His ian expansion in the Mediterran-
born in Spole, near Kiev, in 1900 . productions
were not confined to ean basin and in North Africa.
He started to work as an appren - the Jewish classics
Meanwhile there was a radical
alone. Michoels
tice printer at the age of 12. H
Come and Meet the
known the world over for wing of the Fascist Party (rep-
was just emerging from his boy e - became
resented by Roberto Farinacci and
hood when he was caught in th his unique portrayal of the Achille Starace) which professed
Shakespearian roles, hailed by the
maelstrom of civil war whit h
n British critics as a milestone in anti-Semitism. Many Italian Jews
ravaged the country.
stage history. "Desire Under the began to fear that fascism, which
Young Feffer took his post a s Elms,"
God's Chillun Got was opposed to democracy and
an active fighter against the Deni - Wings," "All
the
works
of Shaw and humanitarian ideas, would finally
kin army which was movin g Sheridan, are included
swing to the anti-Semitic attitude
against Kiet When that city wa s ternational repertoire, in his in- of Farinacci and Starace. Musso-
taken, Feffer remained behind do
lini therefore, receiving Professor
ing dangerous underground work Founds School
Angelo Sacerdoti, chief rabbi of
in mobilizing the people of Kiev
Spurred on by the unprece- Italy, stated publicly (1924) :
against the invader. He was ar dented success of the Moscow "Anti-Semitism is a plant which
rested and sentenced to death , Jewish State Theater, Michoels cannot strike root in Italy where
Fortunately, in a counter-attack founded a State Theater School the Jews are citizens with full
by the Red Army, the city was now operating near Tashkent, the equality of rights with other citi-
retaken and held for a few hours. Jewish theater "Kaganovitch" in z ens." After the Concordat with
The last thing the Red Army did Biroibidjian and the Jewish Thea- t he Vatican in 1929, Mussolini
before retreating was to blow up ter of Crimea.
again said that the Jews "shall
the jail gates with hand gren-
Michoels was in Leningrad •emain undisturbed, as shall re-
ades to free the political pris- when the Germans attacked the main undisturbed those of other
oners. The young writer was Soviet Union. His brother was f aiths."
killed during the historic defense
among those who escaped.
In 1932, he declared to the
Feffer began his literary career of the city. Michoels tried to ewish author Emil Ludwig:
to welcome the
at the age of 18. His first poem enlist in the army but it was 'Nothing will ever make me be-
was published in 1920 and his decided that he could render ieve that biologically pure races
first book in 1922. While in pris- greater service to the war effort c an be shown to exist today," and
on at Kiev he edited a political on the cultural front. He organ- a fter having jeered at such apos-
review in Yiddish, Ukrainian and ized the first front line theater t les of Teutonic racism as Joseph
Russian. He translated into Yid- with a group of actors from vari- A rthur Gobineau and Houston
dish the works of the Ukrainian ous Moscow theaters. With the S tewart Chamberlain, he contin
* Prof. Solomon Michoels
poet Chuma, a fellow prisoner help of leading architects and u ed: "No, such doctrine will ever
People's Artist of the 1.'.S.8.11.
who was also sentenced to death. stage designers, the elaborate ma- fl nd wide acceptance here in
chairman, Jewish AntI4'nselst Committee
Chuma was caught and executed chinery of the stage was adapted I taly." Even after Hitler came to
after. the retreat of the Red to wartime needs. Ingenious de- P ower, Mussolini said to Theor-
* Itzik Feffer
Army from Kiev.
vices such as trucks opening into d or Wolff, former editor of the
nutstanding Jew ish Poet
Twelve books written by Itzik fully equipped stages were de- B erliner Tageblatt, who had ta-
Lieut. Colonel in Red Army
Feffer have made his name al- veloped.
k en refuge in Italy: "Italian Fas-
most a legend among Jews in
ism knows nothing of anti-Semi-
every country of the world.
ti sm which is the shibboleth and
Among them are "Splinters,"
CAMPAIGN
he chief sound and fury of the
"About Me and My People Like
erman organization."
Me," "Simple Steps," "A Stone
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Mussolini was interested in the
to Stone," "Posters on Bronze"
aintenance of the Nazi regime,
and "Long Live Life". He has year, June 1, 1943 through May b ut personally he detested Hitler.
also edited a number of important 31, 1944, to meet the growing W hile patronizing the Nazi Fuh-
For more than two years,
magazines. He has been decorate' needs of the Yeshivah which now re r, he intended to maintain a
the Soviet people and
Army by tilt*. sa
the courageous lied
by the government of the Soviet has a daily attendance of more b alance which would allow Mus-
•rillees and valor held the tort against Hitler's
hordes. The mighty battles of Leningrad and Moscow—the immortal
Union for his great contributions than 200 boys, distributed in 12 so lini himself to r emai
defense
of
litev,
()desert
and
Sevastopol—the
envirelenu
tit and annihila-
e
to literature.
tion of 330,000 of Hitler's
classes and taught by a faculty er with Hitler as his second.ea(
-
at stalIngrad — these en!, crack troops by the magnificent Red Army
of
seven.
Enlists As Private
and have paved
deeds have turned the tide for
Three months after Hitler's as-
humanity
Included in the expenditures su mption of power in 1933, Mus-
FIXiM by the United
the way for the comp[„ to destruction of the fascist
On the first (lay of Germany's
Nations.
for
the
year
in
round
figures:
so
invasion of the Soviet Union, Teachers' salaries, $19,000; build- pe lini receved from Sacerdoti a
Feffer enlisted as a private in the ing maintenance, $3,500; admini- Je tition adopted by the Union of
Red Army. lie won rapid promo-
wish Communities of Italy, de-
tions until he reached his present strative costs, $2,500; school sup- m anding the restoration of moral
plies,
$1,500;
transportation
of
re
Albert Einstein
rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He
from distant neighbor- G lationships between the Jews of
Honorary Chairman
saw action on many fronts and pupils
PROGRAM Chan man
ermany
and
the
rest
of
the
hoods, $2,000; and payments on
National Rec ept Ion
111. lit'T7,111,
played a prominent role in the the
country. It was said that Musso-
Ntleltoels and
land
contract,
$1,500.
vitEt,
Conlin'? tee
fighting at Tarnapol. lie is now
intervention with Hitler, at
• Speeches by
During the vacation month of lini's
demobilized because of the deci-
Fetter
this
point,
reduced
to
one
day
the
y Chorus Conductor
• lintel Fr011111lID,
sion on the part of the Soviet August, when no regular classes planned three-day boycott of the
Verein
Dan
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Government that writers, actors are held at the Yeshivah, provis- Jews throughout Germany (April,
Freiheit liesang
erg, Conda c tor
• Henri Goldberg,
and artists can do far more valu- ion has been made for the indi- 1933).
outstanding
vidual
instruction
of
as
many
Greetings Gain
able work in their own specialized
The scheme of independence
II onorar)
a
Detroit leaders
'o - Chuirtnen
fields than in the fighting forces. students as remain in the city. was beyond Mussolini's ability.
A
large
number
of
Yeshivah
alum-
Among his war jobs was the
His last attempt to restrain Hit-
(Partial List)
evacuation of the Jewish popula- ni, now studying in various rab- ler and publicly to deprecate Teu-
Shol•m Ascii
binical
seminaries
in
New
Yore
tion from Ukraine. This was one
tonism was his speech at Bari
Eddie cantor
of the biggest mass movements and Chicago and spending their (Sept., 1934). After exalting the
GENL. ADMISSION, 50c
Nahum Goldman!:
vacation
in
Detroit,
also
gather
of whole populations ever per-
$1.00
Mediterranean coasts as the na-
Rebekah liohut
at
Beth
Yehudah
for
several
formed. Now, all those evacuated
RESERVED SEATS,
tive countries of the great re-
Pierre Van Priassen
hours
of
studying
during
each
(lay
Ai
Jews are at work in the war
44% id I,e sola Pool
lcitets Early
under the guidance of members ligions, philosophers and poets,
effort.
Get Your
and of the Roman Empire, he
of
the
staff.
Paul Muni
During the fighting at Proskurov
603 BARLUM TOWER
Paul Itobeson
Enrollments for all departments added: "Thirty centuries enable
on the Kiev front, Feffer was in
us to face with sovereign pity
Phone CAcrillec 500
of
Yeshivath
Beth
Yehudah,
Rabbi Abba Ilillel Silver
charge of a group of artists who
some of these theories professed
which
will
be
reopened
at
the
be-
Dr. Stephen H. Wise
conducted nightly radio broad-
beyond the Alps and supported
casts from the front lines for ginning of September, are now by men whose ancestors ignored
the fighting men on the entire taken at the office of Yeshivath the art of writing which would
Sponsored by
front. At the end of each broad- Beth Yehudah, Dexter and Cort- have enabled them to give infor-
cast, he read a poem which he land. The telephone number is
mation about their very existence
Detroit Reception Committee for Soviet-Jewish Delegation
Hogarth 7990.
}1{1j) M. 1111"17.E.1. Chairmnn
at the time when Caesar, Angus-

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