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MONG THE personalities of the Jewish community in the Midwest
who raised his voice against slavery and spoke most earnestly
for the cause of the Union and liberty was Dr. Liebman Adler, rabbi
or Congregation Beth El in Detroit from 1854 to 1861.
In the spring of 1861, a call came to him from the Kehilath Anshe
Maarav (Congregation of the Men of the West) in Chicago where he
continued his public activity on behalf of the Union. His "Five Ad-
dresses to the K. A. M." are on patriotic themes, anti-slavery in senti-
ment, and express strong feeling with clear, swift utterance.
He was a true patriot and his
deeds affirmed the sincerity of his •
convictions. It was he who in-
duced his only son, Dankmar, the
famous architect, to enter the
service of the Union Army, where
he fought through the war and
was wounded.

THE ASSASSINATION of Presi-
dent Lincoln in 1865 was deeply
mourned by the Jews and special
memorial services were conducted
In many synagogues throughout
the country.
In Detroit such a memorial ser-
vice was held at 12 noon Wednes-
day, April 19, in the Rivard Street
Synagogue, and was conducted by
Dr. Isidor Kalisch, rabbi of Tem-
ple Beth El, in accordance with
the suggestion of a committee of
citizens to hold memorial services
at that hour in all churches of
the city.
The Detroit Free Press carried
the next day excerpts from the
memorial addresses by the min-
RABBI ISIDOR KALISCII
isters. The following is the excerpt
from Dr. Kalisch's address:
"A great national calamity has called us together to meet in this
place of worship at an unusual hour. Our bleeding hearts cry to God,
and our eyes shed bitter tears at the unexpected death of our late
President.
"In the fifty-fifth year of his age, in full manly vigor, after four
years of heroic labor, trouble and struggle to preserve our sacred con-
stitution, and to restore Union and Peace, and shortly after the wicked
rebellion received a decisive blow, he, the true champion of national
rights, the powerful and successful advocate of universal freedom, the
upright and true patriot, was suddenly snatched from our midst.
"It is true that he shared the same fate of Moses, the deliverer
of Israel from Egyptian bondage, who was not permitted to lead the
freed men to the promised land, and could only see it from the top
of the Mount of Nebo; so could he perceive only from the gigantic
mountain of glorious victories over the enemy the revived power and
the renewed glory of our blessed Union.
•

AJC Pushes
Drive to Ease
DPs' Entry

NEW YORK (JTA)—A drive to
liberalize American immigration
policies, in order to make possible
the admission of a substantial
number of displaced persons into
the United States, has been launch-
ed by the American Jewish Com-
mittee, it was announced here.
"The full membership. of the
committee throughout the country
has been called upon by Joseph
M. Proskauer, president, to con-
centrate all its efforts in the drive
to open the doors of America to
immigration of displaced Jews,"
the announcement said.
It revealed that In two letters
circulated to the membership,
Judge Proskauer called attention
to the delay in negotiations over
Palestine, the fact that Palestine
"cannot alone furnish the solution
of the problem of the postwar
Jewish rehabilitation" and the
rapidly deteriorating situation of
the estimated 200,000 Jews now
living in DP camps in Europe.
The letters point out the need
for the United States to lead the
world in the settlement of this
problem. "It is perfectly clear,"
Judge Proskauer stated, "that on-
ly if the United States takes the
initiative in making immigration
opportunities available will other
countries do the same. It is equal-
ly clear that in addition to mo-
tives of humanitarianism, consid-
erations of our own country's in-
terest should induce the United
States to do so."

1,000 Due at Parley
of Jr. Hadassah

NEW YORK — An accelerated
program for participation in Zion-
ist political activity and the
strengthening of democracy in
America will dominate the deliber-
ations of the twenty-third annual
convention of Junior Hadassah,
the Young Women's Zionist Or-
ganization of America, to be held
from Nov. 27 to 30 at the Hotel
Breakers, Atlantic City.
Over 1,000 delegates from 40
states are expected to attend the
annual meeting.
A mass meeting on Thursday
evening, Nov. 28, will be dedicated
to the spirit of "Fighting Pales-
tine," demonstrating the solidarity
of Junior Hadassah, the largest
youth Zionist organization in
"BUT IT IS NOT ONLY his early demise which fills our breasts America, with the Jewish youth
with sadness, but also the manner in which he found his death espe- of Palestine.
cially grieves us to the core of our hearts. It is this that makes mil-
lions of men inconsolate. The faithful and righteous, sitting at the
SONGS OF PALESTINE
side of his amiable lady, was killed by a base villain.
TEL AVIV—The songs of the
"Why, they moan with heartbreaking anguish, should such a hor- Jewish communal settlements in
rible end be the reward of innumerable noble needs?
Palestine will soon be heard on
"But as a servant of our holy religion, I must remind you of the radio programs in English-speak-
principle of our sages, that the reward of the good is not always ng countries.
given in this life. The real reward begins when the man ceases to
be a member of this world. And the memory that he leaves in the
hearts of men, the affliction and deep emotions which follow him are
the reflected splendor of the heavenly reward that flashes upon earth.
"So will the name of our late President be perpetuated in the
hearts of the great glorious nation of the Union, and will shine for-
ever among the most distinguished names in the records of all civil-
ized nations. All this, however, is only a shadow of his great reward
in the realms of eternity.
"Let us, therefore, submit to the Divine Providence, whose ways,
although a great mystery to us, yet are just, and let us pray that
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the soul of our late President shall be bound up in the bundle of
life In the blissful regions of light for ever and ever. Amen."
PLAZA 3818
• • •
ISAAC MARKEN, IN HIS "Abraham Lincoln and the Jews," men-
tions memorial service in Detroit and states that Dr. Kalisch "delivered
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an eloquent address dwelling especially on Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation and likening him to Moses.' He also referred to the
on Gas, Oil and Coal
President's tolerant views, citing as an instance his action in refer-
ence to the appointment of Jewish chaplains for the Army.
Burning Equipment.
The appointment of Jewish chaplains by President Lincoln grew
out of the refusal of Secretary of War Simon Cameron, in the fall
of 1861, to grant the application of the Rev. Dr. Arnold Fischell for
LEONARD L. RADNER
appointment as chaplain of the Cameron Dragoons, a New York
Manager
regiment largely composed of Jews.
Dr. Fischel was informed that favorable consideration of his
application was impossible because Congress had provided that "chap
lains must be regularly ordained ministers of some Christian denomi-
nation."
Dr. Kalisch, who was then rabbi in Indianapolis, was one of a
group of leaders who urged the appointment of Jewish chaplains.
On March 12, 1862, the act was amended by Congress at the urg-
ing of President Lincoln so as to authorize the employment of brigade
chaplains, "one or more of which shall be of Catholic, Protestant
,Fir Jewish religion." Subsequently President Lincoln appointed Jewish
hospital chaplains. This was the first appointment of Jewish chaplains
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in American history.
MADE TO ORDER
Dr. Kalisch, in the third year of the war, himself aspired to a
Cleaned and Repaired
chaplaincy but did not succeed in getting it. In 1864 he Was called to
Detroit to occupy the pulpit of Congregation Beth El where he re-
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mained until 1868.
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Page Thirteen

World News in Brief

500 Jewish Refugees,
French Guards Clash

5 Wounded When Police Question
Legality of Bolivian Passports

VIENNA (WNS)—Approximately 500 Jewish Polish
refugees en route to Marseilles via the U. S.-French zone
in Austria clashed with French military police in the
border town of Bagrenz last week when the French
guards questioned the validity of the Bolivian passports
they presented.

Five of the refugees received
bayonet wounds and three of the
wounded Jews were taken to a
hospital in Salzburg.
The Jews, who also carried
French transit visas, were de-
tained in Bagrenz for a week.
During this time they were forced
to live in dilapidated drafty coach-
es and received a limited food ra-
tion sent by the Joint Distribution
Committee.
At the same time, informed Jew-
ish circles here disclosed that
three Jews were seriously wound-
ed and three American soldiers in-
jured in a clash between displaced
Jews in the Hold DP camp near
Linz and American military police
last week.
The trouble started shortly after
Rabbi Philip S. Bernstein, ad-
viser on Jewish Affairs to Ameri-
can Forces in Europe, inspected
the camp. Rabbi Bernstein found
the Jews tearing down empty bar-
racks to obtain firewood with
which to heat the barracks in
which they were living.
The commander of the camp in-
formed Rabbi Bernstein that there
was sufficient coal available for
heating purposes but after Rabbi
Bernstein's departure he ordered
the MP's to arrest the Jews who
had destroyed the barracks. The
Jews resisted and in the struggle
that ensued the troops fired and
seriously injured three Jews.

vel to similar centers in the
American zone in Germany and
Austria.

• • •

3,000 Carpathia Jews
Win Czech Citizenship

PRAGUE (JTA) — After many
months of delay and conflicting
decisions, the ministry of the in-
terior announced that 3,000 Sub-
Carpathian Jews now in Czecho-
slovakia will be granted Czecho-
slovak citizenship.
In a communication to the Coun-
cil of Jewish Communities the
ministry said that the Russian
repatriation authorities have agreed
that all persons who registered as
"Jewish nationals" in the census
of 1930 will be granted Czech
citizenship under the Russian-
Czech agreement.

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5,000 Fleeing Poland
Monthly, Reports Say

WARSAW (WNS) — Approxi-
mately 5,000 Jews, 2,000 legally
and 3,000 illegally, are leaving
Poland monthly, informed Jewish
circles here declared this week.
Legal immigration is meeting
with difficulties because of the red
tape introduced by the foreign
ministry. It now takes more than
two months for an applicant to
get a passport although a few
months ago passports could be ob-
tained almost immediately.
The majority of "illegal" emi-
grants consist of members of the
Zionist training centers who tra-

WOMAN TO IIANG
LODZ (WNS)—Kamilia Podocka,
a Polish woman who was con-
victed on charges of having be-
trayed Jews and anti-Nazis in
Poland to the Gestapo during the
German occupation, was sentenced
here this week by a special mili-
tary court to death by hanging.

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