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judge Moynihan Receives Medal for Aid
To Interracial Harmony in Detroit
Judge Joseph A. Moynihan, presiding judge of the Michigan
Circuit Court; recently was presented with a medal by Daniel G.
Cullen, chairman of the Probus Club of Detroit, as the Detroiter
who had made the greatest contribution to inter-racial harmony
during the last year. Judge Moynihan is active in the work of
the Detroit Round Table of Catholics, Jews and Protestants and
has spoken in many parts of the country on behalf of its parent
organization, the National Conference of Christians and. Jews.
Left to right: Judge Jacob Asher of Worcester, Mass.,
Daniel G. Cullen; T. E. Braniff of Dallas, Tex., newly _elected
national Catholic co-chairman of the National Conference of
Christians and Jews; Dr. Edgar DeWitt Jones, Central Wood-
ward Christian Church; Judge Moynihan; and Carl Breer,
Chrysler' Corp.
'SON OF THE LOST SON'
Refugee's Volume Describes
Followers of True Tradition
THE SON OF -THE LOST SON,"
by Soma Morgenstern. Translated by
Joseph Leftwich and Peter Cross.
Rinehart and Co., Inc., N. Y., 1946,
269 pp., $2.50.
Friday, June 14, 1946
THE JEWISH NEWS
Page Twenty-two
tred and still cling to the faith of
their 'fathers with all the strength
in their heart and fervor of their
soul.
Published in Berlin
Soma Morgenstern was born in
1896 in a village in East Galicia,
what used to be Austrian Poland
before World Wai I. This vol-
ume he had published in Berlin
in 1934 as the first book in a tril-
ogy about the Jews in Central
Europe. He lost all his manu-
scripts in France, where he had
been in one prison camp after an-
other, after the Nazis overran the
country; he finally managed to
escape and come to New York,
where he started his literary ac-
tivity all over again.
A Review by
LOUIS PANUSH
This is the story of a big Jew-
ish landowner, Wolf Mohilevski,
known in his community as Vel-
vel Dobropolier, who went to
:Vienna in August, 1928, as a dele-
gate to the Congress of the Sons
of the True Tradition (Agudat
;Yisrael, we presume—L.P.), and
there found and came to love
young Alfred, the son of his anps-
tate brother—the one whose name
was blotted out from the rolls of
the living and the dead—and
brought him back home to be-
come heir to his estate and to his
Jews Form One-Third
name,. traditions and faith.
Into this story the author has Of Zion's Population
woven a number of beautiful pic-
tures and incidents: the child-
JERUSALEM (JPS - Palcor)
hood of Velvel and his brother The Jewish population in Pales-
Yossele in the house of their strict tine numbered 592,000 at the end
father; how Yossele, Alfred's of 1945, or one-third of the total
father, became a "gymnazyst,"
settled population of the country,
student in a Russiaii secondary it is estimated by the Jewish
school, and his straying from the Agency's Statistics Department.
Jewish faith until it ended in his The ratio of Jews to the general
marrying a gentile woman and population rose from 11 and one-
"Sch ma d"—baptism.
tenth per cent in 1922 to . 32 per
cent in 1945. The ratio is 33 and
Galician Countryside
There is the detailed descrip- two-tenths per cent if the nomadic
tion of the Galician countryside, Bedouin tribes are excluded.
Velvel's manor and the old fam-
ily retainers therein: Worrisome
Pessa, the housekeeper who ap-
pended every statement and an-
nouncement—happy or otherwise
—with "God help us;" Yankel
Christiampoler, known to the
peasants as Mr. Yankel the Bail-
-iff and to the Jews as Reb Yankel
on holidays but Yankel der Goy
behind his back, an old .an who
talked Velvel into the search for
the son of his renegade brother;
Panko, the loyal coachman, and
others.
But greater than all the other
descriptions are the ones that deal
with Velvel's observance of the
Jewish ritual according to the
strictest orthodoxy and with the
Congress. These are on a very
dignified and respectful level,
showing understanding of and
beauty in the life of the rootless
Europeans Jews.
RE-ELECT
Dramatic Spectacle
The Congress of the Sons of the
Congressman
---- True Tradition is a dramatic
spectcle. The Congress opened
with a YIZKOR service :(com-
On His Competent
memoration of the dead) which
was impressive and heartrending.
and • Faithful Record
The cantor's voice in-chanting the
El Mole Rachamim poured out
"drop by drop all the ancient
A Majority Member of the
wailing of a lamentation for the
Ways and Means Committee
dead" in a "fanatically blazing
melody that drew all its ringing
fire from the eternal heart of
Progressive - Aggressive
Jewish tears" and sufferings.
Fearless - Fair
In this story, then, the author,
an excellent observer with a very
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sympathetic attitude, paints a
15th
District
portrait of Jews who had the
Wards 10, 12, 14, 16
elements of Judaism that enabled
them to live through thousands
Vote DEMOCRATIC
of years of persecution and ha-
JOHN D. DINGELL
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Givat Washington
Stones from Famed
U.S. Buildings Used
In Palestine Project
JERUSALEM (Palcor)—Chips
from the wall of George Wash-
ington's home at Mount Vernon,
Va., as well as wall fragments
from the White House and the
capitol building were imbedded
in the foundation stone of a
school village to be known as
Givat Washington.
The foundation stone of the
village, sponsored by the Miz-
rachi Organization of America,
which raised half the $120,000
for its construction, was set near
the Yavne collective farm by
Chief Rabbi Uziel and Rabbi
Berlin-.
The school village will com-
prise 15 buildings to accommo-
date 250 refugee children. Mes-
sages from the Bishop of Wash-
ington and American Consul
General Pinkerton, in Jerusalem,
were read at the ceremony. Let-
ters were read certifying that the
stones were from three historical
American buildings.
Two Detroiters Named
On Congress Executive
Poale Zion 2 to Honor
Son of Morris Labiners
Morris Lieberman, president of
the Detroit Chapter of the Amer-
ican Jewish Congress, and Mrs.
Perry P. Burnstine were named
members of the national execu-
tive committee of the American
Jewish Congress at the conven-
tion held in New York last week.
Next meeting of the LZ0A-
Poale Zion Branch 2, will be held
this Saturday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Labiner,
2910 Waverly, in honor of their
son, Eli's, recent Bar Mitzvah
and graduation from United He-
brew School. Mr. and Mrs.
Labiner have been active mem --
bers in the branch this year. Mr.
Labiner is treasurer.
China Denies Order
To Expel German
Jewish Refugees
SHANGHAI (JTA)—The
Shanghai section of the Chinese
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has
denied knowledge of a report
published by the semi-official
Central News Agency that 200
"pro-Nazi Jews" have been or-
dered by the German Affairs
Commission of the Shanghai mu-
nicipal government to leave the
city. The Commission also has
denied issuing such a statement.
The dispatch also said that
among the German Jews here
with American visas are 200 with
police records. bIt said that it
NZO and State Party
would be advisable to allow them
Merge World Committees
to leave as they have 'engaged in
NEW YORK (JTA)—The mer- illegal activities which were de-
ger of the world executives of trimental to China;
the New Zionist Organization and
the Jewish State Party into a Dr. Ernst Freund Dies
LONDON (JTA) — Prof. Ernst
provisional world executive of
the United Zionist-Revisionists Freund, one of the foremost Aus-
with headquarters in New York trian medical scientists and direc-
and Jerusalem was announced tor of the Pearson Foundation
here. Dr. Louis Altman and Meir. for cancer research, died here
Grossman are co-chairmen.
at the age of 82.
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ELECT
orris H. Goldberg
DEMOCRATIC
STATE SENATOR
Primary Election
June 18, 1946
5TH SENATORIAL
DISTRICT
WARDS 8-10-1244
0. 265 on Your Ballot
President of the Detroit Fruit Vendors Association, affiliated with the Teamsters
Union, Local 337, for the past 15 years.
Vice-president of Congregation Beth Moses.
Treasurer of the 13th Congressional District.
Member of Bnai Brith, Pisgah Lodge.
Member of the Fraternal Order of Police.
Member of the Nathan Straus Executives.
Officer in the United Romanian Jews of America.
Member of the United Progressive Democratic Club.
Member of the 15th Congressional District. Was previously indorsed by the Detroit
Citizens League as preferred.
Charter member with Frank Isbey's Stamp and Bond Staff. Organized the 12 St.
Merchants Association that sold over Two and One Half Million Dollars in
bonds and stamps and also one of the speakers for blood donors for the Red
Cross.
59 years old—born in this country—and an Orthodox Jew.
For references ask your food dealer, butcher, baker, grocer, fruit market dealer or
your peddler.
There is another Goldberg on the same ballot, so look for my designation, under my
name, and my number 265.
Endorsed by the entire produce industry in the Detroit Union Produce Terminal
and Eastern and Western Markets. My platform for the citizens of Michigan are
constructive. Will propose to legislature a bill to provide free school supplies to chil-
dren in Intermediate grades. Will propose a measure in legislature to eliminate
the 3 percent sales tax on food. Will advocate and support legislation which will
carry out the promises made to our servicemen in order that they may re-establish
themselves in society with a full sense of security and just compensation for their
sacrifices. I will represent the people of Michigan as they should be represented. I
have been a public servant for the past 9 years, serving in the Detroit Department
Board of Health, in the D.S.R. Intelligence Department and at the present, time in
the Wayne County Sheriff's Office—Civil Division. I have been in the food busi-
ness practically all of my life. I assure you that you are not making a mistake by
voting for me.
LOOK FOR
NO. 245
ON YOUR
BALLOT
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MORRIS H. GOLDBERG
DEPUTY SHERIFF