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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and De Legal Chronicle
December 24, 1943
A PIONEER JEWISH JOURNAL
chapter and verse. Then there is ment that three gentlemen—a pro- may have doubted our ability or
a review of the two-volume Sat- fessor of the Jefferson Medical willingness to undertake the work,
urday Mornings ("a book of moral College, the provost of the Uni- and that
who
withheld
their support
(Relminted from Liberal Judaism)
account
to come
forward
ac Lesser's "Occident", founded 100 years ago, and religious education for the versity of Pennsy yam an
us
their
encourage-
give
Editor's
Note:
Isaac role in journalism; Isaam M. Wise fought in its use of young Israelites") by G. principal of Philadelphia's Classy- now and
played
a vital
Ben Levy, which had lately been reel School—are respectively to lee- meld. Public favour is the health.
our
published in Paris. This is fol- tune before the Mercantile Library ful breeze which is to waft
pages for 'Reform Judaism.
dwellings, an to lowed by a short translation of Company (of Philadelphia) on little vessel along on its tempestu•
aid from
The year
not a be commends_
al- York, at their
lowed
of 1943
pass should
without
an extract from the book describ- Jerusalem, Palestine, and the Civil ous above
voyage;
the upon which
is the and
anchor
distant subscribers at the Post
Office in New York, or to any ing Frankfort's (on the Main) Government
of the Hebrews.
The American
Society for Meli- we rely to keep it from being
tory salute to The Occident, other conveyance ordered, for one
wrecked upon a rocky shore."
appears
on
the
"Three
Moseses"
orating
the
Condition
of the Jews a In spite of getting off to such
founded one hundred years ago dollar and fifty cents per annum Jew Street. A short dissertation
Maimon
who
commented
on
it,
is
headlined
in
the
next
article.
(April, 1843) as the first success-
dull, inauspicious beginning, The
called The Jew and _
" It was
"Defense
of Judaism and Mendelsohn who translated The Society is being revived and Occident for
twenty-six years
ful attempt of American Jewish " •
ef
and Par- it. A letter from Julius Stern ad- there is also proposed "a revival
a
journalism. True, it was not the was
against ll adversari es attacks of vocates that the Israelites of Ger- of its organ, Israel's Advocate,
See PIONEER—Page 10
first Jewish periodical to appear ticularlya the Insidious
vo-
many
emigrate
to
the
United
under
the
humbler
title
of
Jewish
Idarch,
In
in the United States.
Is'
ony in some Chronicle." The editor deplores the
York sr's Aocate"
-- ublicaton
--------------------------
1824, S. H. Jackson of Nev---------------
ch began
ce,
4 I
argues that past record of the Society and
had published a monthly to be previous year, was the, house of western state. I
Sincere Chanukah Greetings!
people not having learn- warns "our Christian friends, the
delivered to subscribers in New gun, so to speak, of the American these poor
trade,
few
understanding
ag-
managers
of
the
American
Society
Society of for
Con- riculture,
ed a
Nurses Bureau £
dition
the Meliorating
Jews. This the
society
commerce was the only for Meliorating the Condition of
under the leadership of Joseph S. resource left. Most of them, how- the Jews, that we shall keep a
Registry
Sincere Chanukah Greetings!
C. F. Frey, a converted Jew, was ever, "being without the necessary watchful eye on its movements."
very actively engaged in Christian means to be merchants in the A short Juvenile Department
Registered Graduates and
missionary work amongst Jews proper sense of the word well?. Presents "Gratitude Towards God,"
Practical Nurses
DR. W. G. ZIEVE
with far-flung branches through- obliged to become itinerant traders a dull dialogue translated from the
Dentist
out the villages, towns and cities or pedlars, a business most troub- German. The magazine closes with
Also Male and Hourly Nurses
of the United States even where, lesome, and, in the present scare- news items, which are continued
Prompt Service Day and Night
as yet, never a Jew had appeared. ity of money, most unproductive throughout the life of the publi-
cation. In them is much source
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Farmer
St.
1039
Jackson's publication survived and Stern
onerous."
proposes that a number material for American Jewish his-
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but
two
years
and
was,
by
and
large, a controversial journal cam- of Israelites purchase a large tory. The selection for this
first
andest indicated
was waypical
t
MRS. N. B. CHRISTIN,
paigning against a particular ene- tract of land where Congress is nu beside-a ke inter
Manager
my rather than a magazine of disposing of it at $1.25 per acre, the
Jewish interest. erect dwellings and start an agri- Leeser ever manifested in what
Established 1904
The Occident and American Jew- cultural colony. From this would was going on amongst Jews the
3708 TRUMBULL
ish Advocate, edited by Rabbi flow cattle, flour, salted provisions, world over. The news columnns
SEASON'S GREETINGS!
Isaac Leeser of the Congregation butter and wool and different chronicle the death of Chief Rabbi
Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, one kinds of manufactured goods from Solomon Hirschell (also Herschell)
of the then outstanding figures factories springing up in the of England, the conferring of a
CARL'S CHOP - in the American rabbinate, was to neighborhood. He can even look degree by Protestant University
Holiday Greetings
be a month:y devoted to the diffu- forward of the time when these of Giessen upon Rabbi gham
Morris Ja-
HOUSE
sion of knowledge of Jewish liter- Israelites might transform the col- cob Raphall of the Birmin
ature and religion. ony into a state of the Union— (England) synagogue, a p-
BOB WADE'S
In the "Introductory Remarks" " an ornament to Israel, and an tion of the consecration of New
honor
to
makind."
The
editor
finds
York's
sixth
synagogue
(in
At-
STEAKS—:—CHOPS
to the first issue, the editor pro- it necessary to disagree with torney Street) for recently arrived GOOD GULF SERVICE
and
posed
to dedicate
its pages
to Stern, as he doubts the success of emigrants from Germany, a plea
"whatever
can advance
the cause
SEA FOOD
farming for those who have no for an Israelite hospital at Jeru-
GOOD GULF
of our religion, and of promoting practical experience, nor does he salem, and a summary of items
FREE PARKING
the true interests of that people approve of the idea of a Jewish of Jewish European news from
Gasoline - Oil - Service
which has made this religion its state within our republic.
the Leipzig Gazette.
3024 Grand River Ave.
profession" promising "to give
Thus was launched this under- ['arising for 200 cars-2-i hour
In the next article, "The Life of
circulation to everything which a Pious Israelite," always the taking with a final appeal:
TErrace 2-8600
watchman service
can be interesting to the Jewish word Jew is avoided for that more
"We have fairly commenced,
inhabitants in the western hemis- polite circumlocution Israelite. our frail bark is launched upon
CASS AT TEMPLE
h phere." He goes on: "We would Next is an article borrowed from the waves; we have ardour and
certainly prefer filling our pages Les Archives Israelites, setting bouyancy of disposition; little dif-
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wtih articles especially written for forth the principles of a pious life ficulties do not startle us; we
A Joyous Chanukah to All!
us; but if these should not be at as laid down by Dr. Creitznach request, therefore, all those who
hand in ufficient
quantities, or not of Frankfort. Fifteen rules are
•
s
come up to standard of excellence given and it is "continued in our
which we desire, we shall not hesi- next" until the whole of 70 have
K. SHAPIRO,
tate resorting topublications been presented. A short translation
which are not generally accessible, from the French of a description
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