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HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

Former Governor Harold E. Stas-
sen of Minesota joined Henry
Monsky, president of Bnai Brith,
and Joseph M. Proskauer, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, in opening the 1946 cam-
paign of the Joint Defense Ap-
peal for $5,000,000 at a dinner
which was held Thursday, April
4, at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria
in New York City.
More than 1,500 Jewish business
and community leaders attended
the event and pledged their sup-
port to the cause of fighting anti-
Semitism. Samuel D. Leidesdorf
was chairman of the event.

By IRVING I. RAIZ

Biographical Sketches

of Detroit Jews

Article X
1850-1860

THE IlEAl'ENRICII BROTHERS
SIIION I I EA 1'EN RICI I

MONG THE EARLY Jewish settlers of Detroit, who became
prominently identified in Jewish and communal affairs, were
the Heavenrich Brothers, Simon and Samuel. They were both
horn in Frensdorf, Bavaria (Simon on June 18, 1833, and Samuel on
June 15, 1839), the sons of Abraham and Sarah (Brill) Heavenrich. At
the age of 14, Simon left for the United States and after a difficult
voyage of 52 days arrived in the New World and took up his residence
in Louisville, Ky., where he worked in a clothing store of one of his
father's friends. He moved later to Leavenworth, Kans., where he
engaged in the clothing business. In 1862 he came to Detroit to join his
brother, Samuel, as a partner in the wholesale and retail clothing
trade. That same year he went to Germany to visit his parents and
met and fell in love with Sarah Benda, a beautiful girl of 18, Vfh
was born in London„ Englarnd,
and who was at the time visiting
Germany (her parents later moved
to Nuremberg). They were mar-
ried in 1863 and the young couple
came to Detroit and took up resi-
dence at the beautiful home. of
Samuel Sykes which Simon rented
when the former moved to New
York. They became the parents
of seven children: (William who
died in childhood), Sidney F. (a
resident of Detroit), Hortense
(Mrs. Benjamin Lambert of De-
troit), Edgar E. (now deceased 1,
Abraham H. (a resident of De-
troit), Dr. Theodore F. (now de-
ceased), and Osmond D. (now
deceased.
Simon Heavenrich devoted It
SIMON HEAVENRICII
great deal of his time To commun-
al work. He served as a Commissioner and President. of the Poor
Commission and together with Henry A. Krolik visited the poor every
Sunday morning. He was one of the first trustees of the Cleveland
Jewish Orphan Home (now the Bellaire), founded in 1868 by Bnai
Brith and long regarded as a model of its kind, serving in that capac-
ity for 35 years and visiting Cleveland at least twice a year. He served
twice as president of Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith and Os president of
the Beth El Relief Society. He was president of Temple Beth El wher
Dr. Kaufmann Kohler, the noted leader of Reform Judaism, came to
Beth El. Dr. Kohler was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. Heavenrich
until he secured a residence. They became intimate friends and Dr
and Mrs. Kohler usually stopped at the Heavenrich home during their
visits to Detroit in later years. As president of Beth El, Simon Heaven-
rich attended in 1874 the first convention of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations where plans were made for the establishment
of the Hebrew Union College which is now in its Seventieth Anni-
versary Year.
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The Heavenrich home was a meeting place for artists and cul-
tured people and it was the custom of Mr. and Mrs. Heavenrich to
hold musicales every other Sunday. Dr. Max Lillienthal, the noted
rabbi of Congregation Bene Israel in Cincinnati, was a frequent vis-
itor at their home.
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When Mr. Heavenrich passed away on June 24, 1906, his close
friend, Dr .Samuel Wolfenstein, Superintendent of the Bnai Brith
Jewish Orphan Home in Cleveland and an ordained rabbi, came to
Detroit and together with Dr. Leo M. Franklin paid tribute to the
exemplary life of Simon Heavenrich.
(Next week's article will deal with Samuel Ileavearich)

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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

1847

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DR. CHARLES GITLIN

Despite the fact that Dr. Charles
Gitlin served in the first World
War, and was past the age limit
for draftees, when the call came
for medics, he was one of the first
physicians to enlist in Detroit. No
time was wasted in finding some-
one to keep his clinic and offices
open during his absence. After it
brief conference with Esther,
Mrs. Gitlin, it was decided that
the offices would close for the du-
ration and that she, too, would
enlist, with the Navy. She devot-
ed all her time to the Navy Can-
teen, the adjusting of the lives of
the wives, mothers, sisters and
sweethearts of the enlisted men.
Dr. Gitlin enlisted in 1942. At
Fort Knox Regional Hospital he
was chief of surgical services for
14 months. He was released Jan.
7, 1946, and has just reopened his
offices and clinic at Glendale and
Woodrow Wilson.
He was active in philanthropic
enterprises and an ardent sup-
porter of the Mt. Sinai Hospital
Group.

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