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Friday, March 29, 1946

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Campaign Rally Hears Noted Speakers, Harry Cohen to
New Store
Votes $200,000 in Treasury Gifts to AJC Open
Harry Cohen, Detroit business

HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

By IRVING 1. KATZ

Biographical Sketches

of Detroit Jews

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Article IX

Emil S. He)t
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After hearing Rabbi Joseph his review of the situation in pioneer, one of the founders of
Lookstein of New York and Europe.
the Robinson Furniture Company
Louis Sobel of the Joint Distribu-
"That is an illustration of what and for 33 years vice-president of
tion Committee graphically de-
has happened to Jewish families that firm, will open his own fur-
scribe the tremendous problems of
in Europe after twelve years of niture store, the David Furniture
Europe's Jewish survivors as the
war anti Hitlerism. Only 150,000 Company, at West McNichols Road
greatest crisis in Jewish history,
Jewish children are still alive and and Monica about June 1.
more than 400 representatives of
they constitute only 10 per cent
Cohen is president of the new-
congregational, f rate r n a I and
of the remaining Jewish popula- ly-formed firm, and his son, Jul-
Lansmanshaften groups voted un-
tion instead of the 30 per cent that ian Cartier, is secretary and tree
animously to increase their con- would be normal," he explained.
surer.
tributions of previous years and to
raise $200,000 in treasury gifts foe
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the 1946 Emergency Allied Jew-
ish Campaign at a meeting on
Sunday, March 24, in Central High
School.
Declaring that "the homeless,
— of the —
hungry Jews who survived war
and Nazi extermination in Eur- 6
ope are precariously balanced be-
tween life and death and can he
rescued only by a vast program of
There's only one week left to the annual banquet of the Merkaz
relief, rehabilitation and resettle-
given in honor of the Vaad Harabonim, Sunday, April 7, 6:30 in
ment," the meeting voted to sus-
the Con9unity Center, Woodward and Holbrook Ave.
pend all fund-raising anti cam-
paign activities of their organi-
Congregations, organizations and the Jewish Community at
zations until the successful com-
large please send in your reservations at once. This will be an out-
pletion of the campaign.
standing event of the year. Your participation means strengthening
With David J. Cohan, chairman
organized religious Jewish life in our city.
of the Praesidium of the Organi-
zations Division of the Allied Jew-
For reservations call the office of the Merkaz, 9105 Linwood,
ish Campaign, acting as chairman
TY 6.8906 or Rabbi Gliksman, TO 8-4731, chairman ticket committee.
of the meeting, the delegates from
Detroit's Jewish groups heard Isi-
With Passover Greetings,
dore Sobeloff, Executive Director
of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
DAVID J. COHEN,
Appeal for a "new understanding,
Chairman of Banquet.
a new perspective on giving in this
most critical of all years in Jew- A
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1850-1860

MONG THE PNE R Jews of De roil, ho became a success-
ful clothing n anufac rer and a romin nt citizen of the city,
was Emil S.
alma a He wa born D
1824, at
Neuhaus on the Os , near burg.
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the
Solomon
J. .J Heine-
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man, was born
age of Burg Ellern, where
his ancestors re ided in peace
11 many years until compelled to seek
another habitat n because of the religious intolerance which was
then directed against Jews. Solomon moved to the more northerly
part of Germany, near the port of Hamburg, where cosmopolitan
ideas had prevented the spread of intolerance, and established himself
at Neuhaus. In time he became the foremost merchant of the place
and a man of wealth. He held for many years an honorable civil ap-
pointment from the government.
He married Sarah, the daughter
of Leeser Franc and Regina Jo-
sef, and became the father of ten
children, Emil being the forth
of five sons.
Sent to Learn Business
In those days, it was the cus-
tom to send a boy, upon the ex-
piration of his school days, to
some tradesman in another city,
either to be taught a handicraft
or to be given a business educe
tion. Accordingly, in 1840, when
he was sixteen years old, Emil
was sent to the City of Oldenburg
to learn the practical duties of
business. The Revolution of 1818
raised hopes in the hearts of
young men that Germany would
become a united and great na-
tion, but the reaction in 1E50
disspelled these hopes, and Emil
determined to seek his fortune in
EMIL S. HEINEMAN the New World. Obtaining a re-
luctant consent from his father, he took passage on the Washington,
the pioneer trans-Atlantic steamer, and after a two-weeks voyage, land-
ed in New York in the spring of 1851. He went from there to Cincinnati
and after a short stay in the latter city he came to Detroit, where he
secured employment in David Amberg's clothing store. His fellow
clerk was Edward Breitung, afterwards a prominent resident of the
Northern Peninsula and its representative in Congress.
Opens Own Store
The commercial training and the instruction in the English lan-
guage which Mr. Heineman had received at home, enabled him in
1853 to open his own business. In 1854 a fire destroyed the block in
which Mr. Heineman's business was located and for many years af-
terwards he occupied one or more of the stores under the old Nation-
al Hotel, which is now the site of the National Bank Building. At the
outbreak. of the Civil War, he furnished military clothing to the
State, and later to the General Government, and after that was en-
gaged exclusively in the wholesale trade, manufacturing ready-made
clothing and men's furnishings. His two brothers-in-law, Magnus and
Martin Butzel, were admitted to partnership in 1862, and the firm
went under the name of Heineman, Butzel and Company. Mr. Heine-
man was engaged for 35 years in mercantile life in Detroit, and dur-
ing this period witnessed the tremendous growth of the city's indus-
tries.
Active in Business
Mr. Heineman was connected with many of the representative
corporations of the city, and was among the first subscribers to the
Detroit Fire and Marine Insurance Company, and one of its early
directors. He was also an original subscriber to and director of the
Michigan Life Insurance Company, and of the Fort Wayne and El-
niond Street Railway Company, of which he was later treasurer. In
1885 he erected a fine building on Cadillac Square,. and always had
faith in the growing prosperity of the city, was known as a public-
spirited citizen and as an exemplary Jew. He was a lover of books
and had a very interesting and valuable collection of coins. He was a
man of culture and broad sympathies. He was prominently identified
with Temple Beth El, serving as trustee of the Temple, and as presi-
dent of the Beth El Relief Society.
He was married in 1861 to Fanny Butzel of Peekskill, N. Y., and
they were the parents of David E., Solomon E., Flora (Mrs. Charles
Thurnauer) and Emelia (Mrs. Benjamin Peritz).
Their home on Woodward and Adelaide eras one of the finest in
the city and had a most attractive garden. C,n the top floor, Mr.
Heineman installed the first billiard table in Michigan, which was
used by such notables as Governor Lewis Cass, U. S. Senator Zecha-
riah Chandler, Governor John J. Bagley and many others.
Mrs. Heineman was a woman of great artistic attainments. It was
her custom to conduct frequent soirees at her home for poets, writ-
ers and artists. She was the first president of the Detroit Ladies' So-
ciety for the support of Hebrew widows and orphans in the State of
Michigan, popularly known as "The Frauen Verein."
(The next biographical sketch will deal with the Ileavenrich
Brothers.)

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Presenting his first report on a
survey of conditions in Germany
and Central Europe since his re-
turn to this country, Rabbi Look-
stein, distinguished Orthodox lead-
er of the Congregation Kehilath
Jeshurun of New York, told the
meeting of the vast upheaval, the
almost complete obliteration of
Jewish life and institutions in
Europe. He told of whole Jewish
communities taken from Polish
and Russian towns and set to con-
centration and labor camps in Ger-
many, where only a handful sur-
vived.
Less than 100 Jewish families
are left in all of Poland with a
mother, father and child living to-
gether, Louis Sobel, Asistant Sec-
retary of the Joint Distribution
Committee, told the meeting in

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