Friday, April 11, 1947
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Thirteen
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HISTORY OF JEWS
IN MICHIGAN
By IRVING L KATZ
ARTICLE GO
Jewish Fraternal Orders
Workmen's Circle
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THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE is a Jewish labor organization formed
primarily for the purpose of mutual aid. It has close to 800
branches in the United States and Canada and a national member-
ship of 75,000. It is the largest organization of its kind in the world.
The Workmen's Circle was founded ,ln 1892, became a ,fraternal
order in 1900 and was officially chartered in 190,5. Its founders were
immigrants from Eastern Europe
who could not fit into the existing
fraternal orders consisting at that
time of wealthy German Jews.
These immigrant workers were
prompted to band together for
fellowship in a kind of social
home. In addition they were held
together by the need to overcome,
through cooperative effort, some
of the hazards of a worker's life
In the America of the 1900's. It is
characteristic that the official ap-
pellation decided upon—and still
used' in the Workmen's Circle—
was the word "friend."
The Initial fraternal benefits ex-
tended by the Workmen's Circle
were sick benefit and cemetery-
funeral provisions. Sickness bene-
fit was especially important since
these immigrants worked In
sweatshops under unfavorable con-
ditions, received inadequate wages
and hence, in case of Illness, were
Flatow to Address
Real Estate Units
speaker at the 20th anniversary
party of Greater Detroit Temple
No. 152 April 23, in Eastern Star
Internationally-known as Euro- Temple, Cass and Alexandrine
pean "troubleshooter" for UNRRA, avenues.
Sidney Flatow will return to De-
troit to address a dinner meeting
of the builders and real estate
DETROIT ADULT CLUB
sections of the 1947 Allied Jewish
A get-together social and spring
Campaign at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, dance will be highlights of the
April 17 in the Detroit Leland Detroit Adult Club's meeting at
Hotel.
8:30 p.m. Sunday in the Jewish
Flatow, who served as director Community Center. For informa-
of the Zeilsheim displaced persons tion call MA. 8400.
camp, was responsible for clean-
ing It up.
Arrangements for the dinner
arc being made by Barney Smith,
chairman, and Louis Berry, Joseph
Rev. Cantor
Holtzman, Edward Rose, James
DAVID
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Rossin and David Willcus.
Members of the men's apparel
Detroit's Favorite MOHEL
section will hear Flatow at a
dinner meeting at the Hotel Stat.
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ler April 22.
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YOUNG MIZRACIII
The annual Passover board
meeting of the Young Women's
Mizrachl was held Wednesday at
the home of Mrs. Philip P. Feta,
president. Mrs. Lew Friedman and
Mrs. Harry Shuman are In charge
of the group's affair to raise
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Wedding Ceremonies
Performed at Home and by
Appointment
THE FRATERNAL STRUCTURE of the Workmen's Circle be
came fuller in the course of the years. In 1910 it opened its own
sanatarium at Liberty, N. Y., for tuberculars among its members.
Many chapters conduct medical departments for their members.
There is a special aid fund for members over 65 years of age. New
York City conducts a social service department offering guidance and
advice to Workmen's Circle members on matters of vocation, edu-
cation and domestic problems.
The Workmen's Circle conducts numerous social and educational
activities for its membership, such as camps, lyceums, choruses,
orchestras, dramatic groups. In the field of Jewish education its most
noteworthy achievement is its network of schools, established in 1916.
It supports over 160 afternoon schools attended by 10,000 chil-
dren. They attend five times a week and receive instruction in the
Yiddish language, in Jewish history and literature, in the Jewish labor
movement and in the biographies of fighters for freedom.
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FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS in 1907, Detroit's Branch No. 156
gradually enlarged its ranks until in 1916-1917 It was considered as
the largest in the United States and Canada. In 1919 this branch, aided
by three smaller local branches, built its own home on Livingston
street—The Labor Lyceum, where it remained until 1923. In 1927 the
Workmen's Circle acquired a center on Holbrook street.
In 1940 the present modern building at 11529 Linwood avenue was
erected, known as The Workmen's Circle Educational Center. It houses
all the activities of the Workmen's Circle, including the Workmen's
Circle Kindergarten and library.
The circle has a women's division, mothers' club and youth groups.
It sponsors the Workmen's Circle Singing Society which for the last
15 years has been under the direction of Dan Frohman.
The circle includes endowment insurance in its membership bene-
fits. It owns a cemetery at Gratlot and 14-Mile road. Joseph Bern-
stein, manager of the Detroit Jewish Daily Forward, is president of
the center.
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IDEOLOGICALLY, the Workmen's Circle is directed toward the
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Workmen's Circle, was organized in Detroit Oct. 18, 1907, with a
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membership of 16. Today there are eight branches in Detroit, five
Yiddish-speaking and three English-speaking, and one branch in
Grand Rapids.
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Evenings, Sat. Afternoons, Sun-
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textbooks. It has 100 women's chapters and 100 youth chapters.
The Workmen's Circle occupies an important and unique place in
Jewish Me. It is acknowledged to be the representative of the progres- i"
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HAPPY IS THE BRIDE
Rev. Cantor
Passover Greetings
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