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. (Continued from page 1) 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 (Continued from page 3) 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 • BANQUETS • • DANCES PARTIES "The best for all occasions" Segal Tells Story of a Blind Hero CALL MORT SULTAN CAdillac 3669 834 PENOBSCOT BLDG. Sligh & Pheasant Theatrical Agency 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- man, Bernard Ginsburg (1892, 1897, 1921), David W. Davis, Henry M. Butzel, Louis Strassberg, Geo. L. Friedman, Abraham Anspach, 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. 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