Americo Awish Petiodia
Friday, January 3,' 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Twelve
Wohlgelernter
Tells of Zion Trip
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
Pythian Dinner
Fetes H.P. Cohens
since I last spoke to you, and
what a parting that was . . . both
of your eyes shot out, pitifully
wounded . . . I spoke to you and,
as ever, you smiled. God, that
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Cohen will
smile went through me like a
knife. There you stood, both eyes be honored by Detroit Pythians
on the occasion of their golden
gone, and still you could smile."
wedding anniversary. The celebra-
tion will be at a dinner-dance at
• • •
8 p.m. Thursday at Congregation
(The book: "Broken Lights" by
pages, Shaarey Zedek.
Michael Aranson, 337
For reservations contact Barney
$2,75. Published by cne Johnson &
Hardin Co., Cincinnati.)
Kasofsky, HO. 4995.
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be absorbed in the community.
By IRVING L KATZ
"The Yishuv strongly deprecates
independent action by the extrem-
ARTICLE 47
ists and their acts of violence and
reprisal. The prevailing belief is
that no good will come of a show
Pisgah's Charter Members
of arms and that continued at-
tacks upon the British will result
and Presidents,
in a destruction of the Palestine
economy and the stoppage of even
pISGAII LODGE received its charter from District Grand Lodge the trickle of immigration."
No. 2 in Cincinnati on Nov. 24, 1857. It was founded by Detroit's
German-Jewish pioneers who seven years earlier established Congre- DRAW FROM JOBLESS
gation Beth El.
Rabbi Wohlgelernter pointed out
The charter lists the following as petitioners and charter mem-
bers: Jacob Silberman, Marcus Cohen, Louis Benfy, Herman Freed- that the extremists draw their re-
man, Samuel Sykes, Simon Heavenrich, Emanuel Schloss, Seligman cruits mainly from the jobless and
Schloss, L. Bressler, S. Schwab, A. Hart, Morris Hirschman and Mor- impoverished city youth who have
few opportunities for training.
ris C. Fechheimer.
The charter is signed by Dr. Raped Hamizrachi, he declared, is
Isaac M. Wise, founder of Reforin helping to rectify the situation by
Judaism in America, as head of expanding its educational faeili-
District Grand Lodge No. 2, and ties through a new school for the
countersigned by Julius Bien, one Yeshivath Torah Umelocho where
of the greatest names in Bnai 200 youths can be eventually
Brith annals, for the Constitution trained to take their place in the
Grand Lodge. Among the founders community.
of Pisgah Lodge, not listed in the
charter, was Dr. Liebman Adler,
rabbi of Temple Beth El from
1854 to 1861.
The first president of Pisgah was
Jacob Silberman who also served
as the first president of Temple
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Beth El from 1850 to 1857. In the
early years presidents of Pisgah that tree," Major Dube shouted.
were elected for a six months' Mike Aranson sent several bullets
term and in subsequent years the from his pistol up into the tree...
"He was terrified. He thought that
term was extended to one year.
Successors to Silberman were the possibly he had shot and killed."
following leaders of Detroit's Jew-
Some time later he learned the
ish community, in chronological truth. It was given to him in the
order: Marcus Cohen (1858 and letter of a comrade, Pvt. George
1862), Louis Benfy (1859, 1864 and 0. Gougeen, which was gently
JACOB. SILBERMAN 1867), Herman Freedman, Seligman read to him: "It seems ages ago
Schloss (1860 and 1865), Morris Hirschman, Simon Freedman, Adolph
Lehman, Moses Marx (1862 and 1904), Simon Heavenrich (1863 and
1875), Israel Van Baalen. • • •
ENTERTAINMENT
• WEDDINGS
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DANCES
PARTIES
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Segal Tells Story
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DAVID S. EINSTEIN, Isaac Rosenfield, Jacob Lowenstein, Mag-
nus Butzel, Simon Cohen (1868, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1873, 1874), Louis Sel-
ling, Samuel Weiss (1881 and 1889), Philip Weiss, E. H. Van Baalen,
Herman Weiss, Bernhard Prell, Moses Cohen, Adolph Freund (1876,
1877, 1891, 1906, 1907, 1909), Sol Cohen, S. W. Simpson, Herman Krolik,
Isaac Mendelson, Henry Binswanger, Louis Kuttnauer, Joseph Werth-
eimer, Sigmund Fechheimer, Louis Blitz (1881 and 1888).
Moses Schott, Hugo Hill, Simon Blitz, Adolph Sloman, B. G. Mor-
ris, Martin Jones, Herman Freund, Adolph Krolik, Louis L. Loeb,
Zachariah Selling, Henry A. Krolik, Simon A. Ascher, David E. Heine-
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Meyer S. Fink, Henry Van Baalcn, Max Cohen, Louis Welt, Sidney
S. Weinman, Isador Frank, Sidney Silberman, Adolph Steiner.
Marx Simian, Harry R. Solomon, Dr. Hugo A. Freund, Maurice
Dreifuss, Zella Himelhoch, Max H. Finkelston, S. S. Rosenzweig, Jacob
Miller (1916, 1918), Louis I. Frank, Morris Garvett, Adolph Finster-
wald, Leon Goldsmith, Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg, Charles Rosenthal,
L. J. Leopold, Joseph S. Garvett, Joseph Cummins, Theodore Levine,
Samuel J. Rhodes, Aaron Droock, Alfred Ross, Julius Deutelbaum
(1926, 1927, 1929). • • •
SAMUEL STERNBERG, Henry M. Abramovitz, Morris Shatzen,
Mandell Bernstein, Dr. Victor Droock, Ben F. Goldman, Aaron Kur-
land, Elias Goldberg, Nathan D. Metzger, Nathan D. Rosin, Aaron
Rosenberg, Harry Yudkoff, Joseph L. Staub, Herman Osnos, Benjamin
Marcus, Samuel W. Leib, Joseph Sanders, Louis Rosenzweig, Louis
H. Schostak, Sam Maza, Rudolph Meyersohn, Isadore Starr, Milton
Weinstein, Jack Lawson and Max Goldhoff.
Dr. Leo M. Franklin is an honorary past president.
When Pisgah was founded in 1857 Detroit had less than 200 Jews,
all recent immigrants, and Temple Beth El, the only congregation
in the city and the state, was the center of all their activities. It is
therefore not surprising to find that Beh El's leadership and Pisgah's
leadership were the same in the early years, and for many years af-
terwards. In fact, the synagogue and the lodge were so closely
allied that the sole difference lay in their immediate aims and pur-
poses. Both were reverently religious and intensely devoted to every-
thing concerning Judaism.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS work overtime when the nights are
long and the days are dark. They don't do their best work,
Announcing
New Studio
Specializing in
CANDID SHOTS OF
YOUR WEDDING OR PARTY
either, unless the lamp bulbs are kept free from dust and dirt
. unless they're the proper size—neither too large nor too
small . . . and unless they have shades that provide
maximum glareless light.
Be sure you have plenty of spare light bulbs on hand,
too. Your dealer has them or you'll find them at any Edison
under the Direction of
Mel Shuman
office—in all sizes—all modestly priced. Remember, a call
to RAndolph 6800 will bring you a fresh supply in exchange
for your burned out bulbs. Or you can exchange them at
your nearest Edison office. There's no charge for this service.
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Call
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TO. 8-8628
for appointment
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