Friday, May 22, .1942
THE JEWISH NEWS
ewish Congress Develops
-point War, Peace Program
Books Acquired
By the Library of
Shaarey Zedek
utlines Duty of Community, Condemns Isolationism;
The Shaarey Zedek Library
Roosevelt Commends "Lofty Aims"
recently has acquired a wide as-
as Aid to Victory
HICAGO (JPS)—In a special
session of the American
ish Congress, held here, 500
egates from 83 communities
23 states heard Jewish leaders
elop a four-point program
*ning the duty of the Amer--
Jewish community in war-
and the role of the Jewish
unity in the postwar pe-
Covenant of Versailles be recog-
nized by the United Nations and
that in the discussion prelimi-
nary to peace, the Jewish people
be given an opportunity to par-
ticipate through their accredited
representatives in all matters af-
fecting Jewish interests."
e sessions were highlighted
messages from outstanding
rld statesmen, including Pres-
nt Franklin D. Roosevelt,
adyslaw Sikorski, prime Min-
r of the Polish Government-
Exile and representatives of
Czecho-Slovakian and the
erlands Governments-in-Ex-
In another resolution presented
by Dr. Wise, a pledge was given
of the solidarity of American
Jews with "the despoiled and
homeless among the Jewish peo-
ple" throughout the world. The
Wise statement also condemned
"the development of movements
within Jewish life to isolate
American Jews from the implica-
tions of Jewish unity."
OLATIONISNI FATAL"
r. Stephen S. Wise, president
the Congress, called upon
erican Jews to give up any
erence to isolationism, which
t prevent them from giving
United Nations their utmost
port.
e Jews," he said, "must
their understanding of the
ish problem upon the proof
the truth that isolationism is
merely harmful to those from
om one seeks to isolate them-
es, but is fatal to oneself in
sense.
he American Jewish Con-
at this war-emergency ses-
will make it clear that we
d with our unhappy and
ply wronged brother Jews in
ler-ruled lands and that we
not forsake- them."
PLEDGE SOLIDARITY
The Congress approved a
budget of $1,000,000, half of
which is to be used for an em-
ergency fund to defend the
rights of Jews and to promote
postwar reconstruction, and the
other half for the normal Con-
gress program. An eight-point
program for Jewish aid to the
war effort was also adopted.
This promised full mobiliza-
tion of Jewish manpower for
war and civilian labor, maxi-
mum Jewish contributions to
war relief and war bonds and
S ATLANTIC CHARTER
his message to the confer-
,
„sn it v i ci
motit
,
art: "I MI!
lofty aims of this meeting
ch are to help the United
tes win the war and win the
ce and to develop a program
igned to contribute toward the
tion of a free world, in line
h the principles of the At-
ic Charter."
dealing specifically with the
role of the Congress, Carl
man, former attorney-gener-
f New York, reiterated a plea
anding the creation of a
eral bureau for the investiga-
and exposure of subversive
nts and seditious propaganda
on anti-Semitism.
part of "I Am An American
," Dr. Malcolm S. MacLean.
irman of President Roose-
's Committee on Fair Em-
ent Practice, bitterly con-
ned anti-Jewish discrimina-
in war plants. He asserted
ever, that since the President
ered a halt on race bias, there
been more tolerance in war
ts.
t a Sunday night dinner ses-
, Sir Norman Angell said
the Jews are suffering not
-from Hitlerism, but from
rs who refuse to abide by
' ian principles.
onathan Daniels, Louis Lip-
and Dr. Nahum Goldmann
:ussed the form of the new
'Id to come.
ish people established in the
Dr. Wise was re-elected presi-
dent of the Congress. Ca-1-. 1 Sher-
man, Judge Nathan D. Perlman
and Leo Lowitz were chosen vice
presidents. Louis Lipsky, chair-
man of the governing council, M.
Maldwin Fertig, chairman of the
Administrative committee, and
Jacob Leichtman, treasurer, are
the other officers.
BI N
OTHER BOOKS
In connection with the 900th
aniversary of the birth of Rashi,
the American Academy of Jew-
ish Research recently has pub-
lished a volume of essays on the
famous commentator by such
outstanding scholars as Prof.
Salo Baron, Alexander Marx
and Ismar Elbogen. This import-
ant book has also been acquired
by the Shaarey Zedek Library.
Among books of lighter vein
added to the shelves of the
library are: "Bovel," by Peretz
Theodora Aronstam
Married to Doctor
Announcement was made this
week of the marriage of Miss
Theodora Aronstam, New York
advertising woman, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. Noah E. Aron-
stam of Eason Ave., Highland
Park, to Dr. Luis Perelman,
prominent young New York
neuro-psychiatrist, a native of
Chile where his parents still re-
side.
Mrs. Perelman was educated
in the Detroit schools and is a
graduate of the University of
Michigan. She was engaged in
advertising in Detroit and be-
fore assuming an advertising
post in New York she spent 15
months in European countries,
six of them in Spain. before the
Hirshbein, a trilogy in Yiddish
published in honor of the
author's 60th birthday; "Reneg-
ade," a stirring novel by Ludwig
Lewishon; "In the World," by
Louise Raymond; "Noah's Ark"
by Helen Myers; and "Simple Revolution.
Dr. Perelman is a Diplomat of
Shmerel" by Simon Segal.
LIBRARY HOURS
These books and many other
interesting and worthwhile pub-
lications of Jewish interest are
available for circulation and ref-
erence purposes.
Shaarey Zedek Library hours
are as follows:
Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday
and Thursday, 10 a. m. to 12 i
p. m., 2 p. m. to 5:30 p. m., and .
1 ,
7 p. rn. to 9 p. m.
Friday, 9:30 a. m. to 12:30 p. m. 1
Sunday, 9 a. in. to 1 p. m.
the American Board of Psychia-
try and Neurology and is a
staff member of several New
York hospitals. He came to this
country from Chile to study
brain surgery at the Pan-Ameri-
can Hospital. Later he studied in
Paris and London.
His play "Dr. Freud - was
written in collaboration with
Theodora Aronstam.
MAYNE TO SPEAK
The Rev. Joseph G. Mayne,
executive secretary of the De-
troit Round Table of Catholics,
HAY FEVER CLUB
Jews and Protestants, will speak
The charity card party of the at the Jewish Community Cen-
Detroit Hay Fever Club will be ter at 9 p. m. Wednesday, May
held Sunday afternoon and eve- 1 29, on "Interfaith Understand-
ning, June 7, at the Bialostoker ing," and will show the film "The
World We Want to Live In."
Hall, 8625 Linwood.
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POST-WAR ROLE
hat the United Nations recog-
! "the international status of
Jewish people" and give them
opportunity to take part in
postwar peace conference as
oncerns Jewish interests was
landed by the American Jew-
Congress at the closing ses-
of its special war emergency
erence.
he Congress also urged, in a
nimously adopted resolution,
; the Jews of Palestine be
nitted to raise a Jewish Army
lid the United Nations in the
in the Middle East and that
?stine be established as a Jew-
state after the war.
ouis Lipsky, chairman of the
renting Council of the Con-
3$, proposed the resolution
ch demanded that the Jewish
ple be allowed representa-
s at the postwar peace par-
:. The resolution asked that
international status of the
the
organization of Jewish
youth to work on farms.
great Hebrew writer, by Chaim
Grozensky.
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sortment of books in Hebrew,
English and Yiddish. It includes
works of biography, history, re-
ligion and fiction, as well as
literature of interest to children.
The collection contains many
outstanding and worthwhile
publications which should at-
tract the attention of all readers
of Jewish books.
Among the books acquired is
"Henrietta Szoid: Life and Let-
ters," by Marvin Lowenthal;
‘Yidden in Frankreich," a two
volume publication in Yiddish
on the history of the Jews in
France from the 15th century
until the present era, edited by
E. Tcherikower; "Ksovim Urn-
gelth," a book of essays on
ancient and modern Hebrew
Literature by Menachem Riba-
low; "Chaim Brener, Sein Leben
Un Shaffen," the biography of
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