_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 K r',--1,-1,1,---/71CXPC71.Si'lk; NCI eXC/1,1STECC. - ' 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 FRENCH PROVENCIAL SECTIONAL PIECES—We by a delegation from the Loyalty invite you to inspect these unusual pieces . • . they're Committee of Victims of Nazi gorgeous . . . super sagless construction. Also many and Fascist Oppression. other original creations by Kaufman, Detroit's finest Representing 16,000 individual furniture. 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.. 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