Friday, Sopferabef 15, 1944
JEWISH NEWS
Jewish Women in the News
Eminent Figures Among Great
Heroines, Palestine Builders
By SHIRLEY HOROWITZ
As we review the achieve- that meager start, hospitals,
ments of the past year in a medical schools, and clinics have
search for Jewish women who been built—open to Jew and
have distinguished themselves, Arab.
we select from lists of musicians,
Today Henrietta Szold brings
scientists, humanitarians, a n d all her wisdom and compassion
writers,
for the suffering to help young
Henrietta Szold, that valiant refugees feel at home in Pales-
lady who founded Hadassah, is tine. She personally meets the
boats, and the trains that bring
. .7! children by the overland route,
pitiiiCc?k i .:
and talks to them and escorts
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them to their new homes, usually
co-operative agricultural settle-
ments.
Zivyah Lubetkin, Heroine
Another woman who rescues
children from German ruthless-
ness is Zivyah Lubetkin, a 28-
year-old Zionist from Poland.
She has become a legend, tak-
ing her place alongside the im-
mortal Jewish heroines of an-
cient days. She was a leader of
the Warsaw - Ghetto battle in
May, 1943. She smuggled pass-
ports — crossed dangerous bor-
ders. And then she had been
killed, it was believed. But ac-
MISS HENRIETTA SZOLD
cording to latest reports, Zivyah
still working for her people at Lubetkin is alive and active in
the age of 83. For a decade she the underground where h e r
has been associated with Youth courage and resourcefulness are
Aliyah (immigration), respon- put into use every day.
sible for saving more than ten
Lillian Hellman's Services
th9,usand Jewish children from
Lillian
Hellman, American
the Nazis,
dramatist, has again contributed
Jewry's Grand Old Lady
in her way to the fight against
Miss Szold has - been called Hitlerism by putting her trench-
the foremost American Jewess. ant pen into action to denounce
It was s h e who introduced hatred's universal ally—the ap-
American standards of health
peaser. Not long after her great
and hospitalization to Palestine.
In 1909, on her first visit to prizewinning anti-Nazi p 1 a y,
"Watch on the Rhine," Miss
Hellman has produced another
powerful drama, played to a full
theater ever y night — "The
Searching Wind." As a Jew she
has done a great service to her
people, and as an American
she has helped her country and
the world to clarify the issues
of this war and reveal the dan-
gers of apathy.
She Made the Met
The Metropolitan Opera Com-
pany has gained a new dramatic
soprano, and Miss Regina Resnik,
graduated from Hunter College
two years ago, achieved in that
short time a place for which
hundreds vainly strive for years.
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In the Ninth Annual Metropoli- Revionists Oppose
tan Opera Auditions of the Air,
Miss Resnik was chosen from Partition Proposal
over a thousand as the only girl
NEW YORK (JPS)—Warning
to receive a contract to sing with
against a partition of Palestine,
the Met.
Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn, presi-
Soviet Scientist
dent of the New Zionist Organi-
In the field of science high zation of America, called for the
place goes to Prof. Lena Stern scrapping of the Mandate and
of the Soviet Union, 1944 win- said that until all of Palestine
ner of the Order • of the Red is made "an autonomous home-
Banner of Labor for outstand- land for the Jews as contem-
ing service in physiology a n d plated by the Balfour Declara-
bio-chemistry. Born in Riga, Lat : tion," the Jewish problem will
via, she came to the U.S.S.R. not be solved.
when she completed her school-
welfare work in New York. She
goes to Washington to confer
with President Roosevelt twice
a week.
Mrs. Wise—"A Great Lady"
A woman well-known in and
out of Jewish circles is the presi-
dent of the Women's Division
of the American Jewish Con-
gress, Mrs. Stephen S. Wise. At
a recent luncheon Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt referred to Mrs. Wise
as "a great lady."
In this year of war Mrs.
Wise's efforts have been directed
toward helping the men a n d
women of the armed forces. Her
pet project is the American
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Jewish Congress "defense
MRS. STEPHEN S. WISE
houses," three brownstone houses
ing, and stayed to become the on West 68th Street in New York
director of the Institute of Phys- City, which are filled every
night with servicemen sent by
iology.
the Jewish Welfare Board.
Anna M. Rosenberg's Work
"Defense houses" have made
A Hungarian Jewess who es- an important contribution to in-
caped the fate of her countrymen terfaith, f o r boys leave there
by coming to America 28 years with nothing but praise and ap-
ago, has been keeping busy this preciation f o r their Jewish
year. She is Anna M. Rosenberg, brothers.
administrator and adviser. Only
Copyright, 1944, -by
5' tall and 115 pounds, she is a Independent Jewish Press Service, Inc.
constant source of amazement to
big, blustering officials who are
not prepared for her forceful
personality. As Regional head of
the U. S. War Manpower Com-
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mission, she has tackled t h e
weighty problems connected with
conversion of labor to wartime
production, the shortage of farm
1 k,
labor, arbitration of labor dis-
putes, and providing employment
for men discharged from t h e
army. Besides this, she is Re-
gional Director of the Social
Security Board, and co-ordinates
Wonderful,'Pons'
Palestine Report
NORWALK, Conn. (JPS)
"Wonderful" is Lily Pons' opin-
ion of Palestine, where the Met-
ropolitan Opera star spent four
days in the course of a 25.000-
mile USO tour of U. S. camps in
the Middle East and Italy. She
toured with her husband, Andre
Kostelanetz, CBS conductor.
Describing the country as "an
oasis in the Middle East," she re-
gretted "that we had only so
short a time there."
Mr. Kostelanetz said that the
Palestine Symphony Orchestra,
which they heard in Jerusalem,
"ranks with the finest." After -a
visit to the communal settleMent
Givath Brenner, Mr. Kostelanetz
said, he came away witri "a feel-
ing for the soil." Palestine's sani-
tary facilities and agriculture
surpassed, in their opinion, any
in the Middle East.
A Happy
New Year
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MISS REGINA RESNIK
Palestine, she was amazed and
saddened by the prevalence of
malaria, trachoma, and the high
infant death rate there. She
was determined to bring medical
aid to the country. For the next
few years she worked tirelessly
on behalf of Hadassah. The first
two nurses were sent to Pales-
tine by that organization. Since
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