Friday, January 17, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Six
HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By IRVING L KATZ
ARTICLE 40
Pisgah's Broader Field of
Lehman Pushes
Rebuilding Plan
Tells JDC Meeting
of Needs in Europe
Former Chaplain Turover Aid Society
to Mark Its 37th Year
to Speak at AJC
The Turover Aid Society will
mark its 37th anniversary with a
Rally Wednesday banquet Sunday afternoon at the
Rabbi Shepherd Z. Baum, na-
tional secretary of organization of
the American Jewish Congress,
will be guest speaker at a mem-
bership rally of the Detroit Sec-
tion, AJC, at 8:30 p. m. Wednes-
day in Workmen's Circle.
, A former chaplain in the Army,
Rabbi Baum is chief supervisor of
Kosher Law Enforcement for the
New York State Department of
Agriculture. He will speak on
"Anti-Semitism—How to Fight It."
The public is invited, Morris
Gleicher, membership chairman,
announced.
A membership luncheon will be
held by the Women's Division at
12:30 p. m. Wednesday in the so-
cial hall of Congregation Shaarey
Zedelc. Canned food for the SOS
drive will be the price of ad-
mission.
Mrs. Harry Frank, vice-presi-
dent of membership, is in charge
of fhe affair.
Proposed amendments to the na-
tional constitution of the division
will be submitted.
Moss Catering Hall, 5028 Joy road.
Organized in January, 1010, Tu-
rover has been devoted to sup-
porting local and national char-
itable and religious groups. Isidore
Sosnick, president, stated that the
society will honor the occasion
with the announcement of its do-
nations..
Julius Schwartz is head of the
committee arranging the celebra-
tion. He is assisted by Sol Lum-
berg, who is in charge of the year-
book and membership directory.
NEW YORK—Former Gov. Her-
bert H. Lehman called for a full-
scale program this week leading
Activity
to the physical and economic re-
construction of shattered Jewish
community life in Europe for more
(This is the third of a series)
than a million Jews who he fore-
PPEARING ON THE SCENE when Detroit had but one congrega- sees will remain on the continent
tion, Pisgah's early efforts were directed iqto communal and phil- in 1947.
Addressing the 32nd annual meet-
anthropic paths, which dater broadened Into humanitarian and educa-
Music Club Organizes
ing of the Joint Distribution Corn-
tional services.
In 1868 Pisgah assisted in the
Young Musicians' Unit
establishment of the Cleveland
Orphan Asylum (now Bellefaire).
Young musicians, ages 10 to 14,
The Constitution Grand Lodge of
are being organized into 'a junior
1895 pledged permanent support to
branch of the Music Study Club.
the National Jewish Hospital for
Sponsors of the new group are
Consumptives at Denver, Colo., and
agairr Pisgah joined in its support
Mrs. Samuel E. Abels and Mrs.
as it did early in the Twentieth
I. Mendelson. Information may be
Century when the Leo N. Levi
obtained from Mrs. Abels, TO.
Memorial Hospital was founded at
5-1636.
Hot Springs, Ark.
In 1877 a second Bnai Brith
elt:TOO -0-0-0-04 11-tlr
Lodge was organized in Detroit,
Peninsular Lodge No. 272, which
evidently offered quite a bit of
competition to Pisgah, for we find
and
that Pisgah found it necessary to
re-organize five years later. There
Beauty and Personality Contest
are no records available about the
Sponsored by the
Peninsular lodge, but in Decem-
ber, 1892, the lodge was still listed
in the Menorah Magazine, Bnal
JULIUS ROSENWALD
WORLD
Brith's first national publication,
POST NO. 218
as being active.
WAR II
A few years later, however, the
AMERICAN LEGION
lodge was merged with Pisgah,
MEMBERS
ADOLPH FREUND
MOSES A. LEAVITT
chiefly through the efforts of Adolph Freund, a leader of Pisgah, and
Bernard Ginsburg, a leader of the Peninsular Lodge. The American mittce, major American agency
Sunday Eve. Jan. 26, 1947
Jewish ear Book of 1899-1900, containing a list of Bnai Brith lodg es aiding distressed Jews overseas,
in District 6, lists only one lodge in Detroit, namely Pisgah Lodge.
Lehman urged the provision of in-
FORT WAYNE HOTEL
• • *
creased emigration opportunities,
IN THE' 1880's, PISGAH continued its philanthropic and commu- particularly to Palestine, for those
Part of Proceeds to March of Dimes
assistance to the
of the 1500,000 surviving Jews who
nal activities and embarked upon a program or
Impoverished Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who came to wish to leave the continent. But
Tickets
Dancing
$1.25
he warned that even if as many
Music by
these shores in great numbers.
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including tax
The beginning of the present. century found Pisgah on the decline. as 200,000 Jews are permitted to
Bill Gail
An editorial in the Jewish American, Detroit's first English-Jewish emigrate this year, "there will re-
441-000%1
weekly, of 19b2, calls upon Pisgah members to make a "last heroic main approximately 1,300,000 Jews
effort to revive the cause of Bnal Brith in Detroit"; and attributes who must have help to rebuild
the low state of affairs to the failure of Pisgah to encourage the their lives."
An audience of more than 3,500
younger men to joia. A "revival meeting" was called which was ad-
dressed by Sigmund Livingston and Maurice Houseman of District 6. delegates from the United States
and Canada, heard the former di-
The speakers succeeded In reviving interest in Pisgah.
In 1008 Pisgah was host to the fortieth annual convention of Dis- rector-general of UNRRA declare
trict 6. At this meeting it was proposed that a new standing com- that the time has come "ta take
mittee be created to combat anti-Semitism in the United States. The the offensive in the battle for sur-
vival of Europe's Jews, through a
plan was accepeed and the publicity committee Created, out of which
Michigan Jewish Labor Council
in program of assistance in which
grew the present Anti-Defamation League which was established
Presents
the
major
emphasis
is
not
on
re-
1013.
lief—but on reconstruction." He
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3 Jewish Trade Unionists Just Returned
From a Tour of Europe
THE MOVEMENT TO ATTRACT the younger men into Pisgah urged that the JDC, which spent
gained momentum shortly before World War I but the outbreak of $58,000,000 for relief in 1946, be
provided
even
larger
funds,
so
it
MORRIS GAINER
the war interfered with this plan due to the enlistment of the younger
President, District Council 9
men in the armed forces. During World War I, Pisgah suffered much can greatly expand its reconstruc-
tive work this year, through full
Brotherhood of Painters, A.F.L.
in loss of membership and was forced to curtail its activities.
support of the $170,000,000 cam-
From the close of World War I to 1924, Pisgah passed through a paign of the United Jewish Appeal.
JOSEPII WINOGRADSKY
period of reconstruction and rehabilitation. The lodge was successful
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC secretary
Vice-President, Fur & Leather Workers, C.I.O.
in enlisting the Interest and participation of the younger men. The since 1940, was elected executive
Detroit Jewish Community Blue Book of 1920 states that in that year vice-chairman, succeeding Dr. Jos-
ABE FEINGLASS
Pisgah was considered the largest lodge in the world.
eph C. Hyman as the administra-
Midwest Region Director,
Pisgah soon joined the Wider Scope movement and embarked with tive head of the organization.
Fur & Leather Workers, C.I.O.
Brad Brith on a much broader field which included the establishment
of the Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor,
DRAMATIC CLASSES START
theorganizatioa of AZA, civic protective work through the Anti-De-
Eve Meister, teacher of dramatic
famation League, vocational guidance work and Americanization work.
8 P.M.
art, has announced the beginning
Week—Pisgah
Today)
(Next
of the second term in dramatics.
FORT WAYNE HOTEL
Sne is preparing pupils for pro-
CASS AT TEMPLE
gram work and has asked organi-
Career Group Guest
zations interested in Mothers Day
ADMISSION 60c
programs to put in bids early.
Mrs. Meister's studio is located
at 2111 Ewald Circle.
NEW YORK — Dr. Barnett R.
Brickner, of Cleveland, rabbi of
one of the largest congregations
in the United States, sailed on the
Queen Elizabeth as an official
emissary of the United Jewish
Appeal, for a two-month study of
the needs of Europe's 1,500,000
homeless Jews and of the Jewish
community of Palestine.
Rabbi Brickner will visit France,
GUEST ARTIST
Belgium, Holland, Germany, Aus-
tria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Ro-
mania, Hungary, Greece, Italy and
GUEST SPEAKER
Palestine in behalf of the United
Jewish Appeal which is seeking to
raise $170,000,000 this year for the DR. ROBERT S. DREWS, physi-
relief and rehabilitation of Jewish cian, lecturer and author, will
survivors overseas, for mass set- discuss "Man and Women His-
tlement and upbuilding of the Jew- torically and Hysterically" at the
ish homeland in Palestine and for co-ed affair of the Career Group,
aid to immigrants reaching Amer- National Council of Jewish Wo-
HONORARY PRESIDENT
ican shores.
men, at 8:30 p.m. Thursday in
This marked Rabbi Brickner's the Jewish Community Center.
first trip to Europe and Palestine Pearl Devenow and Eleanor Ne-
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
LEADING TENOR
since 1944 when, at the request of vin are chairmen. Mrs. Joseph
the late President Roosevelt, he Falk and Mrs. Harry L. Jones
METROPOLITAN OPERA
OF AMERICA
visited American troops in Africa, will he patronesses.
ASSOCIATION
Italy, Palestine, Egypt, India, Chi-
na and England.
AMERICAN HAVEN CLUB
of the American Ha-
Mrs. Cherney Injured, ven Proceeds
Club's donor luncheon March
Asks Friends to Write 18 will go to the Child Rescue
Friends of Mrs. Alice E. Cher- Fund, Minnie Grossman, chairman,
ney, 2711 Glendale avenue, have has announced. Assisting in the
been asked to write to her at the affair are Sarah Fleishman and
Piqua Memorial Hospital, Piqua, O. Ann Klein, ticket chairmen; Lillie
Mrs. Cherney is recovering after Roshberg, publicity chairman; and
a serious accident New Year's Belle Kaminsky and Ruth Katz,
bulletin chairmen.
Day en route to Miami.
A
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MID-WINTER BALL I
A FIRST HAND REPORT ON
JEWISH LIFE IN EUROPE!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd
Brickner to Study
European Needs
16th ANNUAL DONOR EVENT
Ladies Auxiliary of Jewish National Fund
Dr. Israel Goldstein
TUCKER
TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 8:30 P. M:
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