Axerkaif Apish periodical Carter
Friday, Sept. 13, 1946
CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
`Avoid Differences
in Picking a Mate'
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By WINO L KATZ
ARTICLE 30
Detroit As Seen by Dr. Wise
in the 1850's
1
IN PREVtOUS ARTICLES, we gave an account of the history of
the Jews In Michigan from 1763, the year . in which the first Jewish
trader, Ezekiel Solomon, is reported to have come to Mackinac, un.
til the year 1850. We then traced the history of the Jews in Detroit
from 1850, the year in which Michigan's first Jewish congregation,
Beth El of Detroit, was organized,
until 1860.
t
In the next series of articles we
will continue to set forth the
gradual development and growth
of the Jewish community of De-
' troit.
In 1856, Dr. Isaac M. Wise,
Rabbi of Congregation Bne Yeshu-
run in Cincinnati and founder of
Reform Judaism tin the United
States, visited Detroit for the first
time and reported the following in
his "Reminiscences":
•
"From Milwaukee I went to De-
troit, where I found the beginning
of quite a congregation. They met
in the second or third story of
some building. Mr. Adler, whom 1
had sent there some time pre-
viously, was preacher, chazan, and
teacher. (Author's note: This re-
fers to Dr. Liebman Adler, who
DR. ISAAC M. WISE
became Rabbi of Beth El in 1854).
Things were apparently moving along well, although conditions were
quite primitive and poor. I journeyed homeward from Detroit.
(Continued from page 3)
criminal all exhibit marked de-
viations from normal conduct.
Despite promises and oaths, these
are not dependable persons.
a a
UNABLE TO ADJUST
111 HE DIVORCED—especially if
I divorced more than once —
show some inability to adjust, re-
gardless of the reason for the
divorce. Divorce means mental
laziness—hasty marriage, unwil-
lingness to face life, set habit pat-
terns, or basic fear of sex. All
these make re-marriage a great
handicap.
, • •
Mr. Anonymous drops in on a
community. Nothing is known
about him. No girl should suc-
cumb to fast talk without cor-
roborated information. No man
should object if he has nothing
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to hide. Anonymity may mean
an undivorced wife and family.
A mate should be in good men-
tal and physical health; an ob-
server of the law; stable as to
work and habits (demonstrated
instead of talked about); a mod-
erate drinker or an abstainer;
with sufficient intelligence to earn
a living or manage a household;
easy to get along with.
The life of the mate show these
qualities clearly, as positive proof.
The dating process, intelligently
applied, will help find these peo-
ple. That is why we stress so
often a complete knowledge of
the mate and his or her family
(Your questions on personal
problems will be answered as
far as possible by mail or in
these columns. Send your ques-
tion and a stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelope to Dr. IV. A.
Goldberg, 1314 Broderick Tower,
Detroit 26, or to the edtior of
the Jewish Chronicle.)
Evening Program
to Start at Central
C. W. Kammerer, principal of
Central High Evening School, an-
nounces that registration is on
for all evening school classes.
Classes begin Monday, and in-
clude health education, commer-
cial classes, academic subjects and
homemaking and technical courses.
Classes in citizenship and In
elementary grades 1-8 are also a
part of the curriculum.
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Join dramatics club. Get theatre
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Tryouts 7 p.m., Mon., Sept; 16th
7320 Hamilton at W. Grand Blvd.
I
•
"OUTSIDE OF DETROIT, I had not, in the whole course of my
journeyings, found one teacher, chazan, reader or congregational of-
ficial who had enjoyed even a common-school education. I had come
across not a single congregation that thought of reform, and had
noticed not even any beginnings suggestive of higher strivings in
Jewish circles. The whole section of country through which I had
traveled during these five or six weeks appeared to me, as far as
Judaism was concerned, like a dead sea. There was no life, no effort,
no becoming, no formation; and yet I was wrong.
"Every word that I spoke during that trip was a fruitful seed
that took root and sought the light. New congregations were formed
in rapid succession In the places where I had stopped, and questions
of reform were agitated so strongly that they never ceased being
debated.
"I returned to Cincinnati dissatisfied, because I had expected to
find harvests where, in fact, seed had still to be sown, and because
my enthusiasm had not found what my imagination had pictured.
It was only later that I became convinced that not a word had been
lost, and that I had sown on fertile and productive soil."
•
•
DR. WISE WAS AGAIN in Detroit in 1859 and observed in his
writings that "Detroit had about 60 Jewish families of the middle
class, mostly young and industrious. Some of them were active in
politics and very popular, but there was no synagogue or speedy
prospect of getting one, and they did not show much enterprise in
religion."
Dr. WO° made friends wherever he went, particularly in the
west. His religious views, advocating a moderate reformation of the
services In the direction of decorum, brevity and modernity of thought,
appealed to the ?lounger generation of Jews.
He no doubt acquired friends in Detroit, for in 1861 he was in-
vited here to dedicate the Rivard Street Synagogue of Temple Beth El.
(Next week—The foun-ding of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
first of an illustrated series on that synagogue's first 50 years).
Ban on Passports
Lifted in Prague
NEW YORK—Polish Jews who
fled anti-Semitic uprisings and ul-
timately were stranded in Czecho-
slovakia because . they were re-
fused passports by the Polish con-
sulate in Prague are to receive
passports so that they can emi-
grate to other lands, a cable re-
ceived by Isaac L. Asofsky, exe-
cutive director of Hebrew Shelter.
jag and Immigrant Aid Society,
indicated.
Officials pointed out to the
Warsaw regime that the several
hundred Jews who fled for their
lives when pogroms broke out ap
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