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Friday, August 9, 1946
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Rabbi Wohlgelernter Takes Issue With
Chronicle Columnist on Jewish Education
President of Yeshivoth Beth Yehuda Replies to Views of Columnist Goldberg In Last Week's
Chronicle Which Discussed "How Much Time Shall a Child Spend in Parochial School "
Editor's note: Last week, Dr.
Goldberg, In discussing the amount
of time a child could profitably
devote to going to parochial
school, felt that the majority of
children would find a limited
amount of parochial school suf-
ficient. Ile felt that there were
so many demands on a child's
time, with compulsory school
training, that the average child
could not assimilate such special.
(zed education.
hours on Sunday mornings) still the more enterprising, even a
find ample time for outdoor and paper route.
athletic activities, musical educa-
Almost from the very beginning
tion, public school homework, and, of organized Jewish life in the
Editor,
Jewish Chronicle,
525 Woodward Avenue,,
Detroit 26, Michigan.
Dear Sir:
Dr. W. A. Goldberg, in your
issue of August 2, replied to an
inquiry by a parent with reference
to the Jewish education of his
child. The father is represented
to be concerned over the fact
that his son receives four hours
daily instruction, after public
school attendance, in a so-called
"parochial school." The entire
article is very confusing, and I
should appreciate your publishing
this letter in order that the raid-
ers of the "Personal Problems"
column may be clarified on the
matter.
There is no weekday Jewish
school in Detroit, or for that mat-
ter anywhere else in the United
States, to my knowledge, which
would answer the description con-
tained in Dr. Goldberg's article.
There are afternoon schools of
the Yeshivah, Talmud Torah, and
Yiddish type, with classes meeting
every day of the week for an
RABBI M. J. WOHLGELERNTER
hour, an hour-and-a-half, or at
most two hours duration. On the
other hand, the "parochial" or
day school, which combines and
seeks to integrate Hebrew and
secular education, provides a full-
time program from the morning
until 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. These
latter institutions operate in the
manner of private schools, and
there has been an increasing in.
terest in that type of education
in various circles.
While attendance at a daily
afternoon school does cut in on
the normal leisure-time activities
of the average boy or girl, this
form of Jewish instruction has
attracted by far the largest num-
ber of those who pursue a corn-
plete Jewish training. For many
years the Hebrew school of this
kind has been the mainstay of
Jewish life in America, and out
of its portals have come the edu-
cated laity who constitute the
backbone of the American Jewish
community. Conscientious parents,
a:
the leaders of our communal
• structure, have recognized that
Jewish tradition cannot be ade-
quately imparted to the young
through Sunday morning classes
in history, or the mere prepara-
tion for the Bar Mitzvah cere-
mony. The Yeshivah-type after.
noon school has made its own
contribution to this form of Jew-
ish education by intensifying the
program in a, 2 hour daily class,
with emphasis'on the introduction
of the student to the basic know-
ledge of Torah and preparation
for normal living in accordance
with its: commandments in the
American Jewish environment.
Children who attend from 4:00 to
6 :00 ,on weekday afternoons, or
fro
8:00 to 8:00 ?arid for two
-
United States there have existed The Spanish-Portugese Congrega-
full-time Yeshivas, providing a tion, Shearith Israel, maintained
rounded and complete education a Yeshivah of this kind as far
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in both religious and general field.
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HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By IRVING I. KATZ
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ARTICLE 24
Biographical Sketches
of Detroit Jews
Adolph Sloman
One of the early Detroit Jews who became very prominent in
the legal profession was Adolph Sloman. He was the son of Mark
and Amelia Sloiaan, early pioneers of Detroit, and was born in this
city on September 12, 1859. After attending the public schools he
entered the employ of T. A. Parker, wholesale grocer, where he
remained for three years. He began the study
of law in the offices of Robert P. Toms, De-
Witt C. Holbrook, City Counsellor, and the
firm of Brennan and Donnelly. He then entered
the College of Law of the University of Michi.
gan, graduating in June, 1879. After graduation
he was admitted to the bar although he was not
yet twenty years of age. The statutes required
that the applicant be twenty-one, but Thomas C.
Cooley, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Michigan and Dean of the Law faculty, ruled
that Sloman's brilliance as a student warranted
Adolph Sloman
his being admitted to practice.
TAUGHT AT UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Although Mr. Sloman devoted himself chiefly to commercial law,
lie was the attorney in several criminal cases that won him much
attention. For seven years he taught Wills and Estates at the Uni-
versity of Detroit, a Catholic insttiution, and for several years lie
also taught a class in Criminal Law. The degree of Doctor of Laws
was conferred upon him in 1917 by the University of Detroit.
Alex J. Groesbeck, former Governor of Michigan, began his prac-
tice in Mr. Sloman's office. For a time they were partners under
the firm name of Sloman and Groesbeck. Mr. Sloman retired from
practice in 1918.
HELD MANY OFFICES
Mr. Sloman served as President of the Michigan State Bar As-
sociation, as Vice-President of the Detroit Bar Association, and for
two terms as a member of the local Council of the American Bar
Association. He was a member of the Citizen's Committee which pre-
pared and won enactment of legislation that maintained the St.
Clair Flats as a public fishing and shooting preserve.
He was active in Jewish affairs and served as President of Pis-
gah Lodge, Bnai Brith, and for many years as Chairman of the Re-
ligious School Board of Temple Beth El. He was known as an intl.
mate friend of children.
He was married to Lotttie Teichner and they were the parents
of Herbert T. (now deceased), Waldo (now deceased), Edmund M.
(Detroit attorney), Katherine (Mrs. Arthur W. Heintzelman of Mar-
blehead, Massachusetts), Irma (Mrs. Irving L. Hirschman of De-
troit), and Marjorie (Mrs. Nathan S. Sloss of Cleveland, Ohio). The
grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Sloman are: Mrs. William
Elliott (Lisbeth J. Sloman), Mrs. Mike Miller (Kathleen M. Sloman),
Mrs. Max Loewenstein (Eleanor Sloman), Norman S. Sloman, J.
Cranston and Malcolm R. Heintzelman, Mrs. Sam Gross (Marjorie
Hirschman), Frederick L. Hirschman, Mrs. David Kling (Marianne
Sloss), Richard N. Sloss, Robert and William Sloman of Detroit,
Mrs. Lippman Lumberg (Elaine Sloman), Mrs. Morris Berman (Janet
Sloman) and Mrs. Benjamin Frank (Peggy Sloman). Mr. Sloman
died in 1933.
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Lottie Teichner Sloman
Mrs. Adolph Sloman (Lottie Teichner) was born in Detroit on
November 29, 1857, the daughter of Emanuel and Katherine Teichner.
(Emanuel Teichner came to Detroit from Hungary in the middle
fifties of the last century and engaged in the hides and pelts busi-
ness). She received her education in the local public schools and
graduated f r o m the old
Detroit High School. From
1876 to 1880 she was Assis-
tant Librarian to Profes-
sor Henry Cheney in the
Detroit Public Library.
Mrs. Sloman was promi.
nently identified with many
Jewish and non-Jewish or-
ganizations. In 1882 she
was Secretary of the La-
dies Society for the Sup-
port of Hebrew Widows
and Orphans, and was ac.
tive for many years in that
ben e v olent organization.
When the Woman's Aux-
iliary of Temple Beth El
(now the Sisterhood) was
formed in 1901, Mrs. Slo.
man became its first pros.
Ident. She also served as
the first President and as
the Honorary President of
the Michigan State Fede.
ration of Temple Sister-
hoods. Lottie Teichner Sloman
She was a charter member and Director of the Girls Protective
League and the Priscilla Inn, a charter member of the Women's
City Club, Chairman of the Committee on Immigrant Aid, where she
taught English, and many other organizations.
Mrs. Sloman died in 1041.
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