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THE JEWISH NEWS

April 1942

Soviet-Jewish General Who Broke
'Blitzkrieg' to be Subject of Play

J. D. C. Comes To Their Aid

By JACOB bHERNYAK

(Special JTA Correspondent)

TASHKENT, Soviet Uzbekistan, (JTA)—Lev Dovator, the Soviet-Jewish general
who led the Cossack attack on the Nazis in the Rostov district which broke the Ger-
man offensive and initiated the Nazi retreat along the entire Soviet front, will be im-
mortalized in a play which will be produce d by the Soviet Jewish State Theatre, it
was announced here this week. Gen. Dovaor was killed at the front while pursuing

the retreating Germans.
The announcement that Gen.
Dovator will be made the central
figure in a play depicting the hero-
ism of Soviet Jews in the fight
against the Nazi invading forces
was made by S. Michoels, interna-
tionally known Jewish artist, who
is director of the Soviet Jewish
State Theater.

TO ACCOMMODATE JEWS

The Theater, which was estab-
lished in Moscow by the Soviet Gov-
ernment about 25 years ago, has
now been moved to Tashkent, to
accommodate the cultural needs of
hundreds of thousands of Soviet
Jews evacuated from the war zones
as well as the huge number of Po-
lish Jews who are now permitted to
resi4e in Tashkent, Samarkand and
other cities in Soviet Uzbekistan.
The Soviet Jewish State Theater,
which will now remain in Tashkent

FEDERATION

where all central Jewish institutions

from Moscow are situated, will also
produce a play showing the joint
struggle against Hitler by Jews and
Poles in Nazi-occupied Poland.
With Tashkent now the largest Jew-
ish center in the USSR, the Soviet
Government will finance the Jew-
ish State Theater here in the same
way as it did in Moscow.

A NOBLE FIGURE

"I cherish the dream of produc-
ing very shortly the heroic epic of
Gen. Dovator," Michoels said. "A
son of the Jewish people, the Red
Army commander showed himself to
be a hero and a patriot. The Jews
in Soviet Russia, grateful to their
country, have brought forward many
such heroes in recent months. Our
theater will put all our skill and
heart into the production. We want
to make it a solemn hymn to all

Soviet patriots of all nation-
alities. In choosing Gen. Do-
vator as the subject of the play,
we could hardly find a figure more
noble and colorful than this Jewish
cavalryman and grave general who
commanded regiments of Cossacks
who in Czarist Russia were used
by reactionary forces for bloody

Pogroms against innocent Jews. I
personally will regard it a great

honor to portray V s great man on
the stage."
Pointing out that "there is no
life for the Jewish people, or for
any individual Jew as long as Hit-
ler is alive," Michoels appealed to
the Jews of America "to revive the
ancient military fame of the Jewish
Fred Butters Leadership
people" and to concentrate on the
fight against Hitler by taking as an Editor, The Jewish News:

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example the Soviet Jews "who are

courageously defending their coun-
try to the last breath."

FORWARD NOW UNDER FIGHTING LEADERSHIP!

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Service and others has the whole-
hearted approval and endorsement
of not only our Government but of
all high-minded American.
"Similarly, the work of more than
50 essential local, national and over-
seas services which depend on us,
is part of our total effort for demo-
cratic victory, and requires our con-
tinued and generous support_

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NEW HIGH IS SET

"Last year ,thanks to the Serv-
ice Group and to the contributing
public. we enrolled 21,118 contribu-
tors. a new high. The requests sub-
mitted to the various budget com-

mittees amounted to $1.260,000. The
budget- committees tentatively cut
that down to a little over $1.000,000,
which is more than $200.000 beyond

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HELP FOR RUSSIA

Each year. when Allied Jewish
campaign time comes around .it
serves to recall to my mind with
increasing force the remarkable con-
sistent, and the perseveringly sig-
nificant part that one man has
played in molding and fashioning
this Detroit Jewish community
which is carrying on this campaign. ,
Of course. I am referring to Fred
Butzel.
Need I point out that there is no
one individual in our Jewish com-
munity whose heart and mind has
been more thoroughly at the service '
of the Jewish people than that of
Fred Butzel?
If Jews—Detroit Jews—still can

Editor, The Jewish News:
At last! For the first time in my
life I am receiving a Jewish news-
paper which is a divine pleasure to
read—and I can read English!
Dorothy Thompson's column im-
pressed me mostly. Her UT itin gs
should be a weekly column. Next,
let us be more friendly with Rus-
sia. After all. it cannot be denied
that the USSR has done greatly to
relieve the suffrage of the Jews
of former years, where today stands
a great Jewish agricultural. as well
as industrial city. We must do
all we can to help her. for victory's
sake!
Through our organization. or

girt their loins in this year of 1942, ' place of employment, many great

if they can still muster their forces. deeds have been performed by
and go forth, as a united Jewish Christian and Jew alike. I. for one,
community, to do battle with pov- will donate mere than last year for
erty, to combat hunger, and to the Allied Jewish Campaign. I
bring aid and succor to the help- would like to be a subscriber to The
less of our brethren in many lands— Jewish News.
Let's make a Jew understand that
an this is due, in the greatest mea-
sure, to the eternally vigilant and the right to live is not to be a

the constantly forward - looking hoarder, but one of self-sacrifice,

ertheless, be quite realistic and will
set the final goal down to a figure

that can and should be raised."
Mr. Srere endorsed the work of
the Detroit Community Fund and
announced that the fund will hold
a joint campaign with the USO in
the fall. He analyzed the work ac-
complished by the seven agencies
affiliated with the Community Fund.
spoke of the efforts for education
in our community and announced
the establishment of new quarters
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for the Jewish Vocational Service
and Jewish Social Service Bureau forthcoming appeals
for
relief
at 5737 Second Blvd.. with funds funds.
of the Joshua Cohen Estate.
Fear will put us in a state of de-
spair. Remember the Stefan Zweigs
DR. SHUSTER'S ADDRESS
In his inspiring address. Dr. and spread the word that it be-
Shuster. spoke ce the "Jude-Chris- comes necessary to abandon fears
tian character of God and man," and to carry on the battle for life
and declared that "we are pledged and the better things in life.
Fear will make neurotics of our
to the preservation of the Judea-
Christian tradition. He declared that children. If we are concerned about
in this war we are faced with four our boys and girls, we must bear
opportunities: 1. Victory in the the present struggle with courage
field. 2. Victory in the hearts of and with dignity.
The fellows who spread fear are
the youth. 3. Victory for a better
international organization. 4. Vic- those who would have us ration
tory for the liberation of all peoples the words of cheer and confidence.
President Roosevelt's modern ap-
in the world.
Referring to the humanitarian plication of the major principles
work of the late Pope Pius XI, Dr. first enunciated by the great teach-
Sinister recalled that he made the er Moses rejects such a program.
If ever there was need for an
statement "spiritually we are all
Semites" when he set out to do extra portion of courage and con-
what he could to relieve the suf- fidence and dignity, it is now.
There must be no rationing of
ferings of Jews and to join in an
the spiritual things of life.
effort to check the Nazi menace.
There must be an abandonment
Dr. Shuster said that at the out-
set anti-Semitism was looked upon of fear and an embracing of faith-
as merely a political weapon re- ful and joyors courage.
Let the clarion call for this Pass-
sorted to by Hitler, but later the
world realized that hatred of the Over be:
Passover your fears!
Jews was something more serious.

PASSOVER

The care of human life and hap-
piness, and not destruction, Is the
first and only legitimate object of
good government.
—Thomas Jefferson

in welding together this Jewish
community of Detroit, so that it
shall remain molded in his spirit,
and strengthened by his inspiration.
AARON KURLAND.

worthy among all mankind!
leadership of Fred Butzel.
Who of the youngsters raised 25
ABRAHAM JACK SORIN,
years ago on Detroit's Fast Side ,
2689 Tuxedo Ave.
has not some vivid and pleasant
memories of the beneficient super-
GERALD SMITH STARTS
vision that Fred exercised over the
ISOLATIONIST DRIVE
play and work of all who entered

the amount raised last year, or 30
per cent beyond last year's total.
The budget steering committee.
while realizing the need for the
entire amount requested, will, nev-

that it was a war measure against
all the principles of democracy.

'WHEN FAMINE THREATENED to snuff out the lives of thousands of
Jewish children in the Bessarabian district of Rumania, the Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, transported them from the famine area. The J. D. C. fed,
clothed, and maintained them until their parents were again able to tak•
over this responsibility.

EAST END
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2557 Hillger Ave.
LE. 2241

the Jewish center of that period-
theHannah Schloss Building?
Since those early days there must
have passed through Fred's office
almost every Jew in Detroit. The
Shtreimel. wearing Mshuloch from ,
Slobodker Yeshivo is as welcome to
his office as the frock-coated am-
bassador of some Reform Rabbini-
cal Assembly. No one has ever been
ABOUT PEOPLE
turned away from his door without
Washington is beginning to ap- receiving some aid, advice or sup-
preciate the need for a George port.
Creel in this war, and among the
If all the people, all of the Jews
people who are being given a serious who know Fred Butzel, who have
consideration for the job is news been helped by his generosity, stim-
columnist Walter Lippmann.
ulated by his inspiration, and
Henri Torres, the French Jewish warmed by his personality, would
lawyer who had to get out of his give a little of their money and
country in a hurry when the Nazis time, the campaign would be a
came, because of the brilliant de- success.
Annually, through the Allied Jew-
fense he had put up in the famous
Herschel Grynszpan trial, is writ- ish Campaign, we prove to Fred
ing a new book, with Hitler's Dar- Butzel that Detroit Jews are in-
terested in co-operating with him
lan as the villyan.

The one-time blustering right-
hand man of would-be dictator

Huey Long, Gerald Smith. former
ardent Silver Shirter and anti-

Semite, has launched a new iso-

lationist campaign. In the pages
of his new periodical, The Cross
and the Flag, published here.
Smith advocates what all good
former America Firsters support.

He wants President Roosevelt to
fire his cabinet and to replace it
with such Americans as Charles
A. Lindbergh, Senator Gerald P.
Nye and other avowed anti-aid

spokesmen.

Obedience is what makes govern-
ment, and not the names by which

it is called. —Burke.
The best of all governments is
that which teaches us to govern
ourselves. —Goethe,.

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