.;. Friday, January 7, 1944 THE JEWISH NEWS - Gewerkshaften Leaders Launch Drive on Sunday Page Seven Zwerdling Heads THEATER Ann Arbor's USO Menachem Rubin to Star in Sholem Ann Arbor's leading Jewish Aleichem's "Tevye der Milchiger" citizen, Osias Zwerdling, has been Baruch Zuckerman and Philip Adler to Address Workers A new version of Sholem Alei- Abraham Littman, manager of re-elected president of the USO and Representatives of Local Groups at Shaarey chem's "Tevye der Milchiger" Council of that community. Littman's People's Theater, stat- Zedek; Plan Campaign for $75,000 will be presented Sunday ma- Mr. Zwerdling, who is one of The annual drive for the National Labor Committee f or the outstanding Jewish leaders in Palestine — known as Gewerkshaften — for the support of projects of the Histadruth, the Palestine Jewish Federati on of Labor, will commence here Sunday, at 1:30 p. m., at a conference of workers and representatives of local organiz a- Lions in the social hall of Shaarey Zedek. - tinee and evening and Tuesday evening by the eminent Jewish actor and singer, Menachem Ru- bin, assisted by a large cast, at Littman's Yiddish People's The- ater, 12th and Seward. Mr. Rubin has been widely ac- claimed throughout the land and has wan the hearts of Detroit Yiddish theater-lovers with his presentations of Pappus in "Bar Kochba," Refoel Friedlander in "Kreutzer Sonata," a star role in "God, Man and Devil" a n d other important roles. Music for "Tevye der Milch- iger" was composed by the fa- mous Sholem Secunda. ed this week that Mr. Rubin's presentation of the star role of "Tev-y- e der Milchiger" is entire- ly different from Maurice Schwartz's version. "It is certain to win the hearts of the Detroit Yiddish theater audiences," Mr. Littman declared. Morris L. Schaver, chairman of the local drive, who has directed Included in the cast assisting Gewerkshaften campaigns here Sislin, M. Abrams, M. Eisenberg, Mr. Rubin are Leon Whiteman, for the past 14 years, expressed Samuel Kane, Nathan Korn, Leah Levitt, Evelyn Dusolt and confidence that the sum of $75,- Louis Lipnick, N. Cattier, Wil- Harry Jordan. Others in the cast liam Hordes, Louis Levine, I. A. 000 will be reached. are Peisachke Boorstein, Lillian It was announced this week by Liebson, Nathan Linden, H. Mon- Lux, Rachel Rosenfeld, Morris Mr. Schaver that the two guest dry, Ben Rosenthal, Morris L. Novikoff, Misha Fishzon, Sarah speakers at Sunday's conference Schaver, M. Schubiner, J. M. Gingold, Bertha Guttentag, An- will be Baruch Zuckerman, one Singer, Max Bachman, S. P. nie Erber, Felix Fogalnest, Isi- of the outstanding world labor Baker, Aaron J. Blumenau, Leo dore Elgard. Zionist, leaders, and Philip Adler, Gold, John Isaacs, Max Lieber- eminent correspondent and De- man, Alex Nichamin, S. R. Rez- troit News foreign affairs com- nick, Harry Schumer, Henry Jewish Encyclopedia Strub, Julius Zemmol, A. Goroff, mentator. Given City Library A. Katz, P. Ulanoff, M. Shmuk- Submit Reports Reports will be submitted at ler, Morris Lieberman, Lou Red- Sunday's conference on the re- stone, Jack Schreier, Lillian United Jewish Charities has OSIAS ZWERDLING sults of last year's drive and the Papernick, Mrs. A. W. Sanders, donated to the Detroit Public Li- J. Wolok, Kurt Kulka, Alex Bel- the state and who has served the plans that have been made for brary three sets of the Universal kin, N. Cottler, Mrs. Sarah Le- interests of Jewish students for Supplies Needed At Onc e Jewish Encyclopedia, Judge Wil- this year's campaign. A. H. Kushinsky, director of vine, Mrs. R. Linsky, Mrs. Rose more than a quarter of a century, in Order to Reach Pacific liam Friedman, president of the agency, announces. the drive, will give a resume of Naimark, B. L. Braver, Max has served as president of the Area Before Purim Chafets, Mrs. Elke Freedman, Ann Arbor USO Council since its activities thus far and plans for The Jewish Community Center the setting up of the machinery David Ginsburg, A. Kutnick, formation in 1941. Mrs. Henry J. Meyers, chair has also been given a set of the Morris Lachover, A. J. Lachover, for further effort. The new Ann Arbor USO Club man of the Serv-A-Camp projec t encyclopedia. These volumes M. Ginsburg, A. Kaminker, Ben- was recently opened and is serv- Sunday's Con- jamin M. Laikin, H. Lichtman ing many hundreds of servicemen of the Women's Division of the were purchased by the United ference will be Jewish Welfare Board, reports Jewish Charities from funds of and A. Nussbaum. utilized to pro- weekly. acknowledgment received from the Joshua S. Cohen Estate, as a --- test against t h e The Jewish Welfare Board is Maurice Schneirov, Hawaii Area library memorial to the late Nurses Visit Kibbutz White P ap er one of the agencies included in Director of Hanuka gifts sent by Joshua S. Cohen. A large party of U. S. Arm y the USO Council. an d to formu- Detroit organization and individ- nurses recently visited one of th e Among the many community uals. late the gather- 83 Jewish Refugees Jewish communal settlements in positions held by Mr. Zwerdling ing's demands Serv-A-Camp supplies service the Emek, according to a repor t is that of president of the Michi- men in distant communities with End Odyssey in Boston for the estab- of the Labor Palestine Informa - gan Synagogue Conference. lishment of - a small necessities and comforts, BOSTON (JPS)—Eighty-three tion Bureau. This was the firs free Jewish which are not available in their Jewish refugees from Nazism, time that the settlers had re- Commonwealth immediate vicinity. Pocket combs, who had managed to escape to a ceived Americans. in Palestine. tooth brushes, shaving lotion, and neutral country, completed their Questions asked by the nurses Cantor Irving other small necessities are pro- odyssey on their arrival in this vided. during a lecture at which a mem- Ringel of Con- ADLER harbor, where they were re- Lester Velie, business editor Through Serv-A-Camp, each leased in care of the representa- gregation Bnai David will be ber of the kibbutz explained the featured as soloist. He will be whys and wherefores of commu- and authority on v,rar economics, home community adopts a com- tives of the Hebrew Sheltering accompanied by Dan Frohman. nal living, were a far cry from will address the Detroit Town munity where supplies are not and Immigrant Aid Society. the old stock question of tour- Hall in the Cass Theater next available and supplies this need. The session also will be fea- ists: Friday morning on the subject Detroit has been assigned to the tured by a musical program pre- "Do the children recognize "What Next in Rationing, War community in Hawaii. senting Arthur Grossman, violin- their parents?" Controls, Taxes?" LITTMAN'S PEOPLE'S THEATRE Additional contributions are ist, and a popular vocalist. * * * The questions this time re- necessary immediately to make . In anticipation of a highly suc- flected an entirely different atti- TWELFTH AND SEWARD Rabbi Isaac Stollman and another shipment in time to reach cessful drive, an advance gifts tude and approach: "Would such Morris Fisher were among the the men before Purim. Organ- TRinity 2-0100 committee has volunteered to a system work on a larger delegates from Detroit at the izations which already have con- raise half of the campaign quota. scale?" "Can people be happy Vaad Hahatzala conference held tributed include: WELCOME TO DETROIT! it is expected that this committee with a minimum of personal pos- in New York. Rabbi M. J. Wohl- Aesculapian Ladies' Auxiliary. Coun- will report an initial sum of $25,- sessions?" Comparisons were gelernter reported on Detroit's cil of Pioneer Women's Organization, Detroit Chapter Hadassah, Detroit 000 at Sunday's conference. made with similar experiments activities in behalf of this fund. Women's Division American Jewish Congress. Eva Prenzlauer Maternity * * * Famous Jewish Actor and Singer in America, such as the Quaker Advance Gifts Committee Aid, Home Relief Society. Hebrew William McGaffin, chief of the Ladies Aid Society, Infants Service Servina on this committee are: colonies. Guest Star in His Own New Group, Jewish National Fund, Ladies Version of Associated Press Bureau, in the Auxiliary, Jewish Women's European Mrs. A. b Mendelson, Sol Kanat, Join Jewish Soldiers Middle East, will address the Welfare, Kadimah, Netwarten Medical Nathan Rose, M. Ross, M. Taich, SHOLEM ALEICHEM'S Aid, National Home for Jewish Chil- J. M. Wolock, Mrs. Bluma Mal- Hebrew , speaking servicemen Detroit Town Hall in the Fisher dren, Odessa Independent Ladies Club. cow, J. Mohr, A. Agree, M. Glass, and servicewomen are becoming Theater next Wednesday morn- Primrose Benevolent Club, National Council of Jewish Women, Sisterhood Max Gussin, Mrs. R. Linsky, Mr. a familiar phenomenon in Cairo. ing. Mme Wellington Koo, who Temple Beth El, Sisterhood Shaarey Musk by Sholem Seennda Temple Israel Sisterhood, Young and Mrs. David Sheraga, David To the already familiar scene of was to have spoken that morn- Zedek, Women's Bicur Cholem, Young Wo- AR Enlarged Supporting Cast Will Jewish soldiers and PATS in ing, was compelled to postpone men's Mizrachi, Youth Education Assist Mr. Rubin Women's Michigan Bnai Brith Egypt there has been added that her American tour. Mr. McGaf- League, Council, Women's Auxiliary United Sunday Matinee and Evening, Jan. of Jewish sailors and WAAFs. fin arrived this week from the Hebrew Schools. 9 and Tuesday Evening, Jan. 11 Any organization or individual . The first members of the Middle East where he covered Price's: Sunday evening: 55e, 85c, Women's Auxiliary Air Force to the historic conferences between desiring to participate in the $1.10. $1.65, $2.20. Matinee and be recruited in the Middle East Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Serv-A-Camp project is urged to week-day evenings: 55c 85e, $1.10, $1.65. are now on active service in Chiang Kai-Shek. He will speak all Mrs. Meyers, TO. 8-1339, for f urther information. Egypt. The majority of these here on the conferences in Cairo Simon Shetzer will celebrate come from Palestine, and, after a and Teheran. his birthday on Jan. 16. * * * three-weeks' course at the WAAF Louis S. Cohane's birthday oc- depot' there, were stationed in Disabled war veterans hos- curs on Jan. 18, Philip A. Adler's Cairo to work with the RAF as pitalized at U. S. Veterans Fa- on Jan. 27, Dr. Robert Rosen's clerks and special duty clerks. cility, Dearborn Unit, were en- on Jan. 21, .Rabbi Moses Fischer's Others come from all parts of the tertained by the Olsen & John- on Jan. 26, Julius Berman's on world. son cast on Dec. 30, through the Jan. 14, Abraham J. Levin's and Jewish sailors who completed Milton M. Maddin's on Jan. 10, their training at the Haifa Naval efforts of the Department of Jewish Parents Owe Their Children a Jewish Education Mettie Baron Golub's on Jan. 31 Camp now are performing shore Michigan Ladies' Auxiliary of Jewish War Veterans. Three and Harry Golden's on Jan. 12. service in Alexandria and in a Red Cross station-wagons Avoid the Tragic Mistake of Benjamin M. Laikin celebrated number of shore establishments brought the actors who enter- his birthday on Jan. 1. Julian along the North African coast. tained the 500 servicemen. L. Zen-ion's birthday occurred on Jan. 5. Jewish children should attend a Jewish school from the JWB Serv-A-Camp Gifts to Hawaii Are Acknowledged Local Brevities Menachem Rubin Tevye Der Milchiger Birthdays Of the Month Council of Jewish Schools TOO LITTLE TOO LATE Youth League Rally To Hear 3 Speakers "After Two Years"—a review of outstanding events since Pearl Harbor—will be discussed by Donald Thurber, former execu- tive secretary of Metropolitan Detroit Youth Council; Louis Rosen, treasurer of League of Detroit Jewish Youth, and Leon- ard Raskin, of Migdal, at the rally of Youth Speaks Commit- tee of League of Detroit Jewish Youth, Saturday evening, Jan. 15, at the Jewish Community Center. Dancing and group singing under the direction of Henrietta FIassol will conclude the pro- gram. 19th Annual Concert day they start public school-until the day they graduate. Detroit Halevy Singing Society Jewish children who receive a Jewish education are not only better Jews, but . . They are in general more intelligent, more learned, and more culturd than their Jewish friends who have not been given a Jewish education, and . . . They are better prepared for life in a complex world. Dan Frolnan, Musical Dirctor William Gayman, Associate Conductor Shirley Subar and Rebecca Frohman Accompanists Featuring the Oratorio---"DI TZVEI BRIDER" Music by J. Schaefer — Words by I. L. Peretz EMMA SCHEVER, Soprano Soloist CANTOR SAMUEL MOGILL, Baritone WALLACE SCHONSCHACK, Bass-Baritone SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Sunday, January 16, 1944 at 8:30 p. m. Sharp SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL, MASONIC TEMPLE Second Boulevard at Temple Tickets $1.10 and $1.65, Tax Included All Seats Reserved—Phone TO. - 6-3374 ARBEITER RING SCHOOLS FARBAND FOLK SCHOOLS School 1 Arbeiter Ring Center 11529 Linwood School 1 1912 Taylor Avenue cor. 12th Street School 2 School 2 Thirkell Public School 7724 14th Ave. Custer Public School 15531 Linwood Ave. Room 303 School 3 1`..),2-14 Dexter Blvd. cor. 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