_Friday;. November= 20, 1942

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Ten

Jewish B k Week Tr-Lingual Celebration
To Honor it etroit Author of Social Studies

Will Be Climaxed by City-Wide Program at Center Dec. 1;
Book Display to Be Feature; Reception to Be
Held for Samuel D. Weinberg

Council's Institute
Reflects Democracy's Position

Community

More Than 125 Orgariiiations* Represented at 'Sunday's
Sessions by 350 Delegates and Observers;
Dr. Franklin Strikes Keynote
his collaboration. with Herzl and
,
Weizmann and his attitude on

Over 350 delegates and observers from constituent
organizations gathered' at the Comniunity Council Institute
last Sunday to , discusS Jewish communty problems with
SHAAREY ZEDEK LIBRARY
reference to organized Detroit Jewry and its relations
STAGES BOOK. EXHIBIT ...,
national Jewish agencies and the non-Jewish. community.
During' .Jewish. Book Week, the More than 125 of the Community Council's 190 -organiza-
Shaarey Zedek Library will have- tions were represented, and the gathering constituted a

partition as well as other issues
that affected Palestine.

The Jewish community of Detroit will participate in
the national observance of Jewish Book Week, Nov. 22 to
29, and special exhibits are planned by the Jewish Com-
munity Center and Congregation Shaarey Zedek's Library.
Announcement was made this week by Herman special exhibits and .prograins
true cross-section of various seg-
Jacobs, executive director of the Jewish Community built around the theine, "On the ments
and groupings in the city.

Center, that a city-wide celebra-
tion of the event will be held in
the Center's main auditorium
Tuesday evening, Dec. 1. In ad-
dition to a display of the most
important Jewish books published
in this country, there will be a
brief program in which authori-
ties on literature will speak.
There also will be a musical pro-
gram.
All Groups Co-operating
Observance of Jewish Book
Week this year is being con-
ducted tri-lingually, by the Eng-
lish - speaking, Yiddishist and
Hebraist groUps.
In view of the fact that Samuel
D. Weinberg's "Jewish Social
Studies of Detroit," published by
the Jewish Welfare Federation, is
the first Yiddish book to be pub-
liShed in Detroit, and because of
the historic significance of the
volume, the local celebration will
honor Mr. Weinberg. His book
will be displayed prominently
during the Center exhibit and
uTill be available at reduced
prices for those desiring to pur-
chase it during the celebration.
A reception in honor of Mr. Wein-
berg will be held at the Center
after the Book Week program.
The complete program for Jew-
ish Book Week observance will
be announced next week.

people become an inspiration for
20th century moderns.

Wihgs of Books to Jewish Know-
ledge."
First featured in Boston, in
1925, and inaugurated on a large
scale in 1927, by Rabbi S. .Felix
Meridelssohn Of 'Chicago, Jewish
Book Week has - been gaining
wide recognition in .the United
States. It has become an import-
ant national. celebration.

HADASSAH LAUNCHES BOOK
ON "THE AMERICAN JEW"
NEW YORK.—National promo-
tion. of an intensified program of
Jewish education for its 108,000
members will be launched by Ha-
dassah, the Women's Zionist Or-
The Shaarey Zedek. Library's
ganization of America, Tuesday,
at the Waldorf Astoria, during a observance of Jewish Book -Week
reception marking the publica- this year will be marked by hav-
tion of a new book, "The Ameri- ing open. house and staging sev-
can Jew: A Composite Portrait." 'eral interesting and timely ex-
The volume seeks to give "an hibits of books, pamphlets, per-
objective evaluation of the pre- iodicals, paintings and ceremon-
sent position and previous history ial objects. The displays will in-
of the American Jewish commun- clude rare - volumes, representa-
tive publications in' Hebrew,
ity in this country."
It was prepared under the aegis English and Yiddish, periodicals
and children's books. There also
of the national education com-
will be a table dealing exclusive-
mittee of Hadassah, of which Mrs.
ly with books, products and art
Sundel Doniger is chairman, pub- Objects of Palestine. In keeping
lished by Harper and Brothers, with the times, a special section
and edited by Dr. Oscar I. Jan- will be devoted to literature on
owsky, associate professor of his- post-war reconstruction, dealing
tory at the College of the City of with the Jewish aspect of the
New York. Contributors are Jew- problem. The anniversaries of the
ish and non-Jewish specialists in following Jewish literary person-
the fields of economics, litera- alities, occuring during 1942-43,
ture, sociology, histtory, Zionism, also will -be stressed. Abraham
religion and education.
Ibn Ezra, Judah Leib Gordon,
"The American 'Jew," is dedi- Abraham Mapu, Mendele Mocher
cated to the late Supreme Court Sforim and Yehoash. The exhibit
Justice, Louis D. BrandeiS, as one will include bookbinding and
"THE SMALL SANCTUARY"
whose
life is "a synthesis of bookmaking and the various
BY DR. SOLOMON B. FREEHOF
phases of library work.
Americanism
and Zionism."
The Union of American Hebrew
The Shaarey Zedek Library
Congregations this week issued a
invites
the community to visit
PROF.
KLAUSNER
WRITES
new book, "The Small ,Sanct-
the library during Jewish Book
uary," by Dr. Solomon B. Free- USSISHKIN BIOGRAPHY
Biographical literature is en- Week. The library hours are:.
hof, Pittsburgh rabbi,
This very interesting book de- riched by the life story of Men- Mon., Tues., Wed., Thurs., 10
scribes the ideals of worship in ahem Ussishkin, world president A. M. to 12 P. M., 2 to 5:30 and 7
the Jewish prayerbook. Analyz- of the Jewish National Fund, to 9 P. M.; Sundays, 9 A. M. to
ing the prayers, Dr. Freehof whose death occurred last year. 1 P. M.; Fridays, 9:30 A. M. to
shows the part Judaism plays in
The fact that the life and work 12:30 P. M.
the life of man, and how Jews of Ussishkin was compiled by
were the first to develop the dem- Prof. Joseph Klausner of the He- THANKSGIVING DANCE AT
ocratic spiritual worship of God. brew University in Jerusalem, SHAAREY ZEDEK SATURDAY
Young People's Society of
It is interesting to find that author of the biography of Jesus,
Shaarey Zedek is sponsiring a
Rabbi Freehof has turned what adds weight to this work.
might appear to be a dull matter,
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president Thanksgiving dance this Satur-
into a most fascinating book sub- of the Jewish National. Fund of day evening at the synagogue
.ject. He shows -how Israel has America, is the author of a fore- social hall. - There will be enter-
grown in spiritual power, and word to this volume, in which he tainment and refreshments. A
what Jews believe. The prayers states that Ussishkin's "Jewish- nominal admission fee will be
emerge with new clarity and the ness was whole."
turned over to the War Chest.
ancient prayers of the Jewish
Dr. Klausner's biography traces The chairman and co-chairman
the life of Ussishkin to his child- are Charlotte Miller and Sarabel
hood and - youth in Russia, his Drootman.
.
studies, his honeymoon in Pales-
tine and his entrance upon the
"It was impossible, remember-
Zionist scene as one of the most ing the assurance that in the
powerful leaders in the move-
seed. of Abraham should be the
The Chevrath Grniluth Chaso- ment for . Palestine's redemption. universal blessing, for a faith-
This
biography,
which
was
pub-
dim, a self-help organization of
refugees, together with two oth- lished by Scopus Publishing Co.. ful Jew to forget that all the
er groups of refugees from
om 111 Fifth Ave., 'New York, is in history of his race was .the evo-
effect a history of Jewish and lution of some grand hope, a
Central Europe, the American-
Zionist
activities during the past
Austrian Social Club and the
pilgrimage towards some goal
New Detroiter Soccer Club, have 50 years. It throws light on Us- unseen."—Chadwick.
sishkin's triumps and struggles,
organized a driVe among mem-
bers and other newcomers to • this
country to solicit contributions
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for the purchase of the fighter
plane, "Loyalty".
e r e
The refugees, . who
reached by the campaign corn-
mittee, gave freely and enthus-
iastically to the country which
had given. fhem refuge, contri-
buting $750 to the central "Loyal-
ty Committee" in New York.
The •local committee was head-
ed by Dr. -Hugo Handelbaum,
teacher at Yeshivath Beth Ye-
hudah, and Alex Roberg, teacher
to United Hebrew Schools,.
A check for $48,500 for the
purchase of the fighter plane was
presented to the War Department
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by a delegation from the Loyalty
invite you to inspect these unusual pieces . • . they're
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Representing 16,000 individual
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contributions from all parts of
Complete Home Outfitters—Interior Decorators—Reupholstering
the United States, the check was
Open Evenings Except Tuesday. and Wednesday
presented to Assistant Secretary
of War Robert M. Lovett by Ar-
thur Cohn, chairman of the
Loyalty Committee; Wilfried C.
Hulse, yice-chairman, and Arthur
Low engart, treasurer,

The Institute reflected . the
strength of demoeracy as well
as its • weaknesses • which are
among ,. democracy's by-products,
many points of view being
brought to beat 40*. the sub-
jects:of the day's, ci*ussions.
Franklin's- E Xildress
The InstittitetWa s'opened by
Dr. Leo M. Franklin who pre-
sented the keY#0:: ddresS on
the subject "DigriTtrrDemocracy, -
Discipline in Jewish Communal
Life." He was introduCed by
Aaron Droock. .. . •
In his stimulating comments,
Dr. Franklin reviewed various
types of attitude to the Jewish
ComMunity Council's function as
a d e m o c r a tically-constituted
agency, representative of the to-
tal organized community. It was
Dr. Franklin's view that, in spite
of these differences of opinion,
the Community Council's func-
tion cannot be fulfilled by any
other single agency in the com-
munity.
Dr. Franklin's keynote address
was followed by a round table
discussion on "Community Rela-
tions." The discussion was led
by Rabbi Leon Fram, and cen-
tered around problems and tech-
niques in the fight against anti-
Semitism and the subversive
movements with which organized
anti-Semitism is generally tied
up. The following were discus-'
sants in this round table: Mrs.
Douglas I. Brown, Aaron Droock,
James I. Ellman, Dr. Leo M.
Franklin, Morris Garvett, Ben
jamin M. Laikin, Mrs. Saul
Rosenman, Mrs. Nathan Speva-
kow and Harry Yudkoff.
Resort to Self-Criticism
The second Round Table dis-
cussion was devoted to the sub-.
ject "Internal Jewish Relations."
Rabbi MorriS- Adler was modera-
tor, and the following discussants
shared the platform with him:
Joseph Bernstein, Lawrence Cro-
hn, William Hordes, Mrs. Harry
Jackson,. Dr. S. Kleinman, Julian
Krolik, Louis Levine, Charles

Rubiner, and. Rabbi M. T. Wohl-
gelernter. At this discussion
problems •of internal- Jewish dis-
cipline were given consideration:
At both round tables there was
wide participation from the large
audience. It was continued at
the session on self-criticism,
which was' conducted under the
chairmanship of James I. Ell-
mann, president of the Jewish
Community Council. A good deal ,
of the criticism turned into
praise of the Community Coun-
cil's present program,
Discuss National Agencies
The dinner session, devoted to
the subject "The National Pro-
tective Agencies and the Detroit
Jewish Community • Council," was
presided over by Mr. Ellmann.
Joseph Bernstein, chairman of
the Detroit branch of the Jewish
Labor Committee, presented a
picture of the civic-plotective
work carried on by this commit-
tee.
Fred M. Butzel presented an
historical account of the develop-
ment of the American Jewish
Committee. He was. critical of
the national • civic-protective
agencies, and of their failure to
unify , and coordinate their pro-
grams.
Samuel W. Leib, president of .
the Michigan Bnai Brith Council,
described the work of the Bnai
Brith Anti-Defamation. League.
Rabbi Joshua S. Sperka, chair-
man of the Detroit chapter of the
American Jewish Congress, des-
cribed the national and inter-
national work of the American
and World Jewish Congress, both
in the fields of research and of
building a better understanding
of Jewish problems.
A brief survey of the field of
community relations and the
problems with which the Jewish
Community Council has to deal
in this area was presented by
Isaac Franck, the Council's ex-
ecutive director.
Mrs.. LeonarcFH. Weiner deliv-
ered a stimulating and challeng-
ing summary of the proceedings.

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