THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Sepfember IS, 1944
Dr. Israel Moses, Surgeon
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with the Provost Marshall Gen-
men and officers killed and eral until October, 1864. For the
wounded. Up to the first of No- remaining period of the Civil War
vember , Moses alone diligently he is less arduously employed in
recorded and catalogued 1,904 examining recruits in New York
case s of variously seriously City. On July 24, 1865, he is mus-
wounded individuals, all of whom tered out after having received
were housed and cared for, and the brevet of Lieutenant Colonel
many of whom were actually and for faithful and meritorious serv-
personally operated upon by him- ices during the war.
self.
The remaining years of his life
are few and are spent in Phila-
His Surgical Material
Notwithstanding all the tumult delphia. His health was not good;
of battle and its associated con- it is not known whether he prac-
fusion, Moses has still found ticed medicine and surgery dur-
time to tabulate, and scientific- ing this period. He died in 1870
ally to analyze his surgical ma- at the relatively early age of 47.
Of his character and private
terial and report his results. For
already in October, 1864, the sec- life we read, between the lines
ond article appears • from his pen, of the letters to his family, sen-
again published in the very ex- timents of devotion, a high sense
clusive American Journal of the of fidelity and of love of those
Medical Sciences, entitled "Sur- whom he had rarely the privilege
gical Notes -on Gunshot Injuries." of seeing. The opportunity of en-
All of his cases are catalogued joying with them the luxury and
and classified; he studies them warmth of close familial contact
with critical analysis and rare was never realized. He remained
surgical discrimination. F our a bachelor, yet like most men
cases of tetanus (lockjaw) con- deprived of contact with his be-
stitute the basis for a dissertation loved ones, he breathed for them
on that subject, a thesis which hearty affection and at all "times
even before the discovery of bac- solicitude for their welfare.
A Natural-Born Leader
teriology and the bacterial na-
As a soldier he is a natural
ture of the disease, is scholarly
and discreet. He discusses with born leader, hard working, effi-
great intelligence gunshot wounds cient and reliable. Most of his ac-
of the lungs, the incidence of tive life is spent in hospitals and
hemorrhage on the battlefield camps. As an offspring of the
and in the subsequent course, the illustrious family of Moses, he
technique of the ligation of ar- represents the best type of lit-
teries. He seems familiar with erary and cultural Jew, one who
the experiences of European sur- served his country without stint,
geons and quotes freely from who gave to -'the national wel-
fare his greatest. effort.
their opinions.
He had the unique distinction
Named Lieutenant Colonel
Moses serves with the active of having been the first surgeon
forces of the Army in the field to the relatively recently estab
until April, 1864. Probably on ac- lished Jews' Hospital in New
count of ill health he was re- York. Had he retained and uti-
lieved, but continued on duty lized this opportunity he might
have grown prospor-ous and re-
nowned in the rap-idly growing
community of that metropolitan
city. His greatest effort, the most
concentrated strivings of his ma-
ture years, he devoted to the
se.ice of this nation's welfare
in times of warfare and crisis.
His family, his nation, and the
Victory, Liberation Must Be Mount Sinai Hospital may well
point, in times of national crisis
Followed by Chance to
such as exist at present, to the
Assist Victims
career of Israel Moses as one of
outstanding accomplishment, as
NEW YORK — Victory of the one of altruistic devotion to the
United Nations and liberation of cause of civilization aild democ-
the long subjugated people of racy, a man Of Maccabean forti-
the European lands would be- tude.
come a "hollow promise only"
for the surviving remnants of
European Jewry if their libera-
tion from the Nazi slaughter
houses were not to be followed
by their rescue, rehabilitation
and the creation of opportuni-
ties for them to rebuild their
lives, declares the Rosh Hash-
anah message issued by Abraham
Herman, president of the Hebrew
Sheltering and Immigrant Aid
Society, on, the advent of the
year 5705.
Urging widespread support of
American Jewry for the current
"Rescue Now" ..program of the
society, he said, that in coopera-
tion with government and other
welfare agencies HIAS has pre-
pared "an extensive prdgram of
rescue activities for the present
and post war period."
Argentine Press Hits
Dr. Tartakower Plea
Page Ninefeen
Labor Zionists Will Honor Memory
Of z Katznelson, Here on Sept. 24
Detroit Jews will honor the
memory of Berl Katznelson, late
Zionist leader who died in Pal-
estine on Aug. 11, at a memorial
meeting at Bnai Moshe hall,
Dexter and Lawrence, on Sun-
day evening, Sept. 24.
Michael Michlin ; secretary of
the Poale Zion in Detroit, has
announced that the local labor
Zionists will sponsor the meeting
with the cooperation of all Zion-
ist organizations in Detroit.
The Zionist Council of Detroit,
at its last meeting, voted to give
full cooperation to this meeting.
Katznelson was born in Bob-
ruisk, Russia, in 1887. He joined
the Socialist movement and
DR. ARIEH TARTAKOWER
'helped develop the labor section
, BUENOS AIRES, (JTA)—An of the Zionist movement. He
appeal for the rescue of Jews
from Europe made here by Dr.
Arieh Tartakower, secretary of Rep. Voorhis Praises
the World Jewish Congress, pro- Jewish Sanatorium
voked severe anti-Jewish articles
in the nationalist press which
LOS ANGELES — The Jewish
demands that Argentini remain Consumptive Relief Association
closed to Jewish immigration is making an important contribu-
even after the war. . _-
tion in the fight against tubercu-
The newspaper La Fonda, losis through its operation of the
commenting on Mr. Tartakower's national . non-sectarian Los An-
appeal, writes: "Fortunately we geles Sanatorium at Duarte, Rep.
are not represented on the In- Jerry Voorhis (D) of Calif. said
tergovernmental Committee for this week.
Refugees - and are not obliged to
"Far and wide throughout the
accept its decisions. The com- country, the work of this City of
mittee's aim is the placing of Hope is being hailed as one of
refugees in countries considered most constructive programs for
suitable for immigration. These the campaign against tubercu-
refugees are nothing less than losis that we have anywhere in
1,000,000 Jews."
this nation," Voorhis said.
.
helped found the Galilee Jewish
Workers Committee, which is
today a ramified agricultural
u.rorkers federation with a large
membership.
Katznelson, one of the found .-
ers of the Poale Zion in Russia,
was one of the leading Hebrew
publicists and essayists and an
authority on the Jewish labor
movement in Palestine. In 1925
he joined the staff of Davar, and
in 193.5 he became editor.
He was one of the directors of
the Jewish National Fund, an
executive member of the Poale
Zion and a non-academic mem -
ber of the council of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem.
In 1921 he visited the U. S. as
a member of a Palestine labor
delegation.
Dewey's Mother Denies
Anti-Semitism Charge
CHICAGO, (J P S) — Anti-
Semitic and anti-Negro bias was
attributed to Mrs. M. George
Dewey, mother of Gov. Dewey,
Republican presidential nominee,
in a dispatch from Owosso,
Mich., appearing in the Chicago
Defender, a Negro weekly here.
Mrs. Dewey claimed that the
Chicago Defender interview with
her was inaccurate in its im-
plications.
On the Jewish question, the
Defender quoted Mrs. Dewey on
her concern over a "Jewish lust-
for power."
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HIAS Head Urges
All to Support
Rescue Program
I
Best Wishes
DOBBS
Hebrew U. Naas
2 Million Project
In. Postwar Era
for
A Happy and Prosperous
New Year
A SMART COMFORTABLE
LIGHTWEIGHT
JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor) —
The postwar program of t h
Hebrew University, which will
require an additional investment
of two million dollars and' an
increase in the University's an-.
nual budget to $3,000,000 in-
cludes the establishthent of fae-.
ulties for medicine and social
economics, it was announced by .
Prof. Leo Ary Mayer, rector of
the university, and Dr. Werner
Senator, its administrator.
Dr. Senator outlined plans for
the construction of a- "university
city" with housing facilities for
the faculty, administrative staffs
and, students, and with a large
sports center. The Hadassah
Women's Zionist Organization
will co-operate in the establish
ment of the faculty of medicine,
and Jewries of Britain and South
Aft-; 1.a are expected to assist in
ti:: creation 'of 'the faculty of
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