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Friday April 19, 1946

HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN

Ily IRVING I. KATZ

Article XII

Biographical Sketches
of Detroit Jews

1850-1860

Henry A. Krolik

ENRY A. KROLIK, one of the prominent Jewish pioneers of
Detroit, was born in Kempen, Prussia, on September 30, 1836.
He attended the public schools of Kempen until the age of
eleven when, because of his father's death, he was compelled to leave
school in order to help support his family. He came to the United
States in 1852 and became a resident of Michigan in 1854. Soon after
his arrival here, Mr. Krolik and his cousin, Adolph Krolik, peddled
dry goods in the territory between Mt. Clemens and Whitmore Lake
(near Ann Arbor) with headquar-
ters in Rochester ,Michigan. In
1871 they and Herman Krolik,
Henry's brother, established a dry
goods store in Detroit and shortly
thereafter changed to the whole-
sale dry goods business. In 1883,
Henry a Krolik was married to
Ida G. Brown, daughter of Henry
and Babetta (Snow) Brown of
Flint, and they became the par-
ents of Babetta, who died in child-
hood, and Julian, vice president of
Krolik Corporation and recently
elected president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit.

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President of Pisgah Lodge

Mr. Krolik was active in Jew-
ish affairs having served as presi-
dent of Pisgah Lodge Bnai Brith,
vice president of Beth El Relief
Society, trustee of Temple Beth
El, and as an active member of
the Phoenix Club, Independent Or-
der of Free Sons of Israel, and
Kesher Shel Barzel Lodge. He was
a great believer in the democrati-
zation of the synagogue as advo-
HENRY A. KROLIK
cated by Dr. Leo M. Franklin and
was a staunch supported of Dr. Franklin when he introduced at Tem-
ple Beth El the unassigned pew system. He was a generous contribu-
tor to local and national Jewish organizations.

Mrs. Krolik was prominently identified with a number of organi-
zations and was a devoted and regular attendant at services at Tem-
ple Beth El. She served as secretary of the Detroit Ladies' Society for
the Support of Widows and Orphans in the State of Michigan. It is
interesting to note that this organization, which kept its minutes in
German, changed it to English in order to have Mrs. Krolik act 'I"
secretary. Mr. Krolik was also one of the founders and president of
the Jewish Women's Club (now the Council of Jewish Women), vic
president of the Detroit Federation of Women's Clubs, charter mem
ber of the Working Girls' Hotel (now Priscilla Inn), and a charter
member of the Girls' Protective League.

Several hundred local, out-state I
and Windsor members of the
Workmen's Circle will be host:,
during the week beginning May 7
to a convention of the Workmen's
Circle of America. Marking the
46th anniversary since the organ
ization was incorporated uncle)
New York State law, the 73,002
members in the United States and
Canada will be represented hely
in the second "Victory Conven-
tion." Like the previous assembly
in Detroit in 1919, this convention
will note the contribution its.
members and branches made to
the war effort on the battlefields
and on the home front.
The sessions will be held at the
Statler Hotel for 500 delegates
and guests. A capacity attendance
of 4,500 is anticipated when the
official opening ceremonies are
held at Masonic Temple Audito-
rium Sunday, May 5, at 2 p. in
Musical numbers by a chorus of
120 male and female voices, con-
sisting of the combinA strength
of the Detroit end Cleveland
Workmen's Circle choruses, under
the direction of Dan Frohman,
choral composer and conductor,
will augment the program. Rich
and Ticker, of the Metropolitan
Opera C impany, will sing. Greet-
ings will ,le brought to the meet-
ing by representative union lead-
ers.
The Workmen's Circle history
traced to the early 1890's when
Jewish immigrants from Eastern
Europe formed mutual aid socie-
ties as a mean: of helping each
other when illnesses or death ap
peared. Its members had fled the
despotism of the Russian czar
When democratic America, in the
welter of New York's East Sid(
loomed as a land of sweat shopi.
and cruel exploitation, these peo-
ple turned toward organization
The powerful needle trades union)
and the Workmen's Circle were
spawned during the same turbu-
lent period, inspired by a common
philosophy, and grew strong on
the same democratic principles
under the aegis of the same high
type of leadership.

coast. Host to these delegates

gan to grow rapidly. Integrated
on a secure financial basis, the
Workmen's Circle's assets have in-
creased until today they are near-
ing the $10,000,000 mark.
The convention will be pr2
ceded by the organization's first
national English speaking confer-
ence, which will be attended by
delegates representing approxi-

will be the members of the Emile
Zola Branch (460-El of Detroit.
The sessions will be held May 3
and 4 at the Workmen's Circle
Educational Center, 11529 Lin-
wood Ave.

Joseph Bernstein, community
leader and local manager of the
Jewish Daily Forward, is the
chairman of the Convention Com-
mittee.

Special Seder at Zack's Catering

More than 225 guests gathered at Zack's Kosher Catering Company
to celebrate the Passover Seder. Cantor Silverman conducted the cere-
monies. Max Baron, Zack's general manager, handled arrangements.

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NEW YORK--- Reports flooding
the national headquarters of the
Zionist Organization of America
indicate an extraordinary volume
of activity in the sale of shekolim
by ZOA districts throughout the
country, it was reported today by
Jacques Torszyner, chairman of
The Junior Division of the Al- man Naimark and Sylvia Collins, the ZOA Shekel Campaign.
The Declaration issued by Dr.
lied Jewish Campaign officially announced that Bernard Zack,
opened its drive at a workers' Harold Weisman, Anne Lewis and Abba Hillel Silver, president, and
unanimously ratified by the Na-
rally held in the social hall of Gwen Adelson volunteered to
tional Administrative C o u n c i I,
Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Twc serve as captains in the division,
calling for the mobilization of
movies, one narrated by Orson thus bringing the total up to the American Jews under the General
Welles and pictorial zing t h c required sixteen.
banner in the forthcoming elec-
plight of the Jews of Europe, and
Nitz Zeff joined the list of Ca li- tions to the World Zionist Con-
an animated short on how to so- tains who volunteered to help in gress, has met with enthusiastic!
licit funds for the campaign, were Division JE.
response, Torszyner said.
shown.

Junior Division. Opens Campaign
Officially at Shaarey Zedek Rally

The various se',-groups consti-
tuting the Junicr Division held
separate meetings during the
week, and recruited additional
workers for the drive.
Division,
Gifts
Special
The
?"'"') headed by Henry N. Ehrlich and
Alex J. Etkin, announced that
additional volunteers have been
recruited to work on the cam- •
paign. Included among them are
Richard Kahn, Bud Rosenthal,
Robert Enggass, James Neder-
hinder, Harold Frank, William
Wetsman, Herbert Aronsson, Mel-1
yin Wallace, Gordon S. Prussian,
Shirley Victor, Stanford Wal
lace, Richard Cooper, Julian Sina-
berg. Ken S. Loeb, Ray Block,
Leslie Colburn and Morton D.
Lieberman.
Division JR, headed by Wil-
liam Shapiro and Diana Rosen
blatt, announced that Ben Gal-
lob, Sam Bankler, Max Roth-
child mid Ann Escoff volunteered
to serve as captains during the
campaign, completing the list of
sixteen in this division.
Division JC, headed by Nor-

"youth" branches from coast to

In 1900 the small, onattached
groups were incorporated under
New York insurance laws and Lie-

(Next week's article will be a biographical sketch of Mark Sloman.)

A social program, including
(lancing, followed the educational
part of the evening.

mately 100 English speaking of

Workmen's Circle Convention Finds
Detroit Host to Influx of Delegates

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Sol J. Schwartz, campaign
chairman, described the functions
of the various groupings in the
campaign organization and stress-
ed the fact that contributors
should be made to realize that
they are requested to make a
one-time pledge for the whole
year it pledge which may be
paid in installments.

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