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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Apnl 25, 1947
JNF Labor Dept.
Seeks McDonald.-
For Windup Affair
Palestine of Today and of the Ages
Ellen Thorbe e's,Alook
Has Great Social Value
Of the scores of books published on Palestine in recent
years, none has been as impiessive, as Ellen Thorbecke's
"Promised Land," which Harpei's produced this week.
Its fascinating presentation lies in its facts and figures,
in its pictures and sympathetic viewpoint, in its confidence in
the justice of the Jewish cause.
The publishers state on the
j acket of this unusually fine Ancient Palestine, New Palestine,
volume that "In words and plc- Laboratory of the Future and
tares this book reveals the Pales- Rebirth — describe in great
tine of today and of the ages." measure her approach to her sub-
It is a simple statement which so ject. In the first section she deals
truthfully describes this work not only with ancient Jewish his-
that every person who reads and tory but also with the history of
studies its contents and illustra- Christianity and Mohamme-
tions will feel grateful to the pub- danism and with the life of Jesus.
lishers for having produced it.
Then follow the analyses of the
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creative efforts which have made
The author's own descriptions the Jewish Return one of the most
and photographs, the introduction significant episodes in the world's
by her husband, Dr. W. J. R. entire history.
Thorbecke, former Netherlands
Cities and colonies are described
Minister Plenipotentiary to China, and there is a very thorough ex-
the designs of the cover, diagrams p lanation of the Zionist move-
and sketches by I. David, corn- ment and its recognition by the
bine to give this admirable work world powers and Great Britain,
the status of authoritativeness.
through the Balfour Declaration
Dr. Thorbecke's introduction is and the Mandate.
in itself a masterful endorsement
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of Jewish aspirations arid accom-
Mrs. Thorbecke is as fearless in
plishments in Palestine. His ex-
planation. of the manner in which
her approaches
to the and
various
issues
as she is thorough
his-
Jewish pioneers have made a .torically factual. For instance, in
combination of collectivism and! a brief chapter, "Oil Enigma," she
capitalism workable - in - Eretz , has this to say:
Israel is in itself one of the finest' "Oil may drive machinery, fight
win fortunes, and decide the fate
evaluations of Jewish achieve- wars,
of empires—but it has also made and
-
ments. He writes.
destroyed the destinies of countries and
The labor department of the
Jewish National Fund is com-
pleting plans for the wind-up of
its 1947 drive for the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.
Detail.% for the current fund-
raising effort were outlined here
at a meeting addressed by H.
Ehrenreich of New York, national
secretary of the JNF labor de-
partment.
Plans are being made for a pub-
lic affair with Dr. James G. Mc-
Donald, member of the Anglo-
American Committee of Inquiry,
as guest speaker.
Alex Nichamin, chairman of
the local JNF labor department,
reports considerable progress has
been made in the local drive, and
expresses confidence that last
year's income will be - exceeded.
The income of this year's drive
will be used to establish the
Harry Schumer Forest in Pales-
tine, in honor of Mr. Schumer's
50th birthday.
Hordes Praises Resnick
For JNF Collections
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David &pens Plant
3 Gardens in Forest
William Hordes, president of
the Jewish National Fund Coun-
cil of Detroit, this week praised
the activities of Zelik Resnick,
Dexter haberdasher, in behalf of
the JNF box collections.
"Mr. Resnick is our leading box
worker," Mr. Hordes said. "The
total income from boxes in his
store this year will exceed $300.
This may be a record not only
for Detroit but also for the entire
country, and I wish to congrat-
ulate him and to thank him for his
effort in behalf of all JNF work-
ers in Detroit."
Announcement was made this
week by the , Jewish National
Fund Council that Mr. and Mrs.
David Rosen of 5260 W. Outer
Drive have planted three gardens
in the Harry Schumer Forest in
Palestine in memory of the fol-
lowing:
Their parents, Note and Zlata
Rosen; their brother-in-law and
sister, Benem and Pearl Easter-
sohn, and their brother and sister-
id-law Herschel and Fayga Rosen.
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sistance which made the Jewish
community overcome the hardest
blows of a cruel destiny," ele-
gantly introduces the book itself.
Mrs. Thorbecke may well claim
to have attained deep knowledge
in history and geography, child
welfare and health problems, edu-
cation and research, pioneering
and nation-building.
All of these aspects of Jewish
Youth Groups Map
JNF Flower Days
Zahav, Hebrew poet and novelist,
has arrived here from Palestine
to collaborate with Maurice Sch-
wartz in dramatizing his historical
novel "Shylock, Jew of Venice,"
which has been translated into
English.
THURSDAY, MAY 15
SATURDAY NIGHT, MAY I T
SUNDAY, MAY 18
For the
ANNUAL FLAG DAYS
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of the
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
Volunteer workers, representing all Zionist organiza-
tions, are asked to offer their services at once by Oil-
ing the office of the
JEWISH NATIONAL
FUND COUNCIL
11608 DEXTER
TO.8-7384
Give a hearty welcome to Jewish National
Fund Box Co/lectors!
Semi-Annual INF Box Clearance is Now in Progress
Welcome the volunteers courteously and help them
finish the job at once! All our volunteers must be re-
leased next week for activities in behalf of the Al!ied
Jewish Campaign.
Ellen Thorbecke's 'Promised
MALL TO-OUR WORKERS: FINISH THE JOB
P. S.
Romanian Jewish Student
Assaulted by Anti-Semites
BUCHAREST (JTA)—A Jew-
achieveMents in Palestine are ish student at the University of
covered with unusual understand- Cluj was severely injured when
ing and knowledge in "PromiSed assaulted., by . seven anti-Semitic
Land." -
studenb. 'Police are reported to
The four parts of the book— have identified the usailants.
the special session of the UN, the
Executive Committee of the
American Jewish Conference vot-
ed to grant a six-months leave of
absence to I. L. Kenen, executive
secretary, who will act as the
Agency's Information Officer.
Reserve
Land" is a truly great book, pos-
sessing important social values,
for readers of all ages and all
faiths. Don't fail to read it—and
to possess it!
Conference Secretary Kenen
Gets Leave for UN Session
Cooperating with the Jewish
Hebrew Poet, Schwartz
Agency for Palestine in the pre-
To Dramatize `Shylock'
NEW YORK, (JPS)—Ari Ibn sentation of the Jewish case to
All Zionist youth groups will
participate in the annual Jewish
National Fund Flower Days, to
be held this year Thursday eve-
ning, May 15, Saturday evening,
"In one of the oldest traits of their their peoples, because its sources have
civilisation. in their Messianic urge attracted the greed of others, and be- May 17, and Sunday, May 18.
towards social equality, the Jews cause its easy wealth draws agricul-
Organization chairmen for the
found the inspiration for a solution of tnral people awa=y from the fields into
our most pressing contemporary prob- unhealthy urban conditions. This ten- collection include Aaron Schreier,
lems. In Palestine, on the fringe of dency is the exact contrary of Jewish
Habonim• Eli Segall, Hashomer
the Western world, they inaugurated regeneration policy in Palestine.
a system combining collectivism with
"One cannot turn the clock back, Hatzair; Joe Yanich, Wayne
freedom; a system, moreover, in which and the triumphal procession of am IZFA; John Hofman, Ann Arbor
they demonstrated that the abolition as the driving power of our time has
of exploitation can well be combined not yet reached its zenith. But in the IZFA; Essie Kaplan, Junior Ha-
with a certain margin of capitalist case of awakening Palestine one is in- dassah; Bernard Altshuler, LZOA
dined to do some wishful thinking.
111.11kre.
"Because the Jews are essentially and wonder whether the oilfields may, No. Five.
practical and not dogmatic in their after all. prove not so rich as they
Others are Joseph Heit, Masa-
experiments, they created a multifar- might possibly be?"
ions pattern of social forms giving the s • •
da; Estelle Bakst, Little Women I-
individual the choice between several
She debunks untruths and mis- of Hadassah; Shulamith Michlin,
economic alternatives, according to his
leanings. If he did not choose to live representation of facts with a Sharona Group. PWO; Bill Fitzer-
in • city, he could join a collective
settlement, where everyform of pri- courage that is worthy of the man, Chapter One, ZOA; United
vote property, with the exception of pioneers themselves. For instance, Hebrew Schools, and Mr. Lawton
a few personal belongings, has been - of the Carmel Hebrew School
abolished; or he could go to small- describing "the complete and un
holders' village, where families own limited equality of the sexes" in
their houses and where only produc-
lion and snorkeling are conducted Jewish Palestine. she refers to the Rosenberg to Appear
jointly in the common account; or else libels that have been uttered re-
Before Haifa Chapter
he could settle in a village and exist
on purely private enterprise. In Indus- garding the sex freedom of the
try he could join one of the coopers- pioneers. She writes:
Haifa chapter of the Zionist
the., or hire out his work or services
It has often been said that free love
in the old capitalistic fashion_
is practiced in the settlements, that Organization of America will
"In Palestine, collectivism and cap- children are born and taken away
Italism not only live next to each into communal nurseries, with the par- have a social meeting Monday,
other, but their functions have be- eats hardly knowing their children. April 28, featuring humorist
come integrated. The Jews may not and the children not recognizing their
have solved the social problems of parents. Nothing could be further from Aaron Rosenberg and group sing-
the West, but they have shown us the the truth. These misinterpretations ing of popular Hebrew songs.
sway. They are the first to have ever- probably came about through several
come the stage of blue-prints and vague facts. Firstly, there is a certain dis-
Dr. Louis L. Kazdan and Dr.
theories, and to have confronted the inclination in many settlements I. Walter Silver have been ap-
world with a deed. against empty forms and conventions
"For their own sake as well as for as well as some opposition towards pointed representatives of. Haifa
that of the world, they should be al- the iron rules of orthodox Jewry Chapter to the Zionist Emergen-
lowed to continue their unique effort. which cannot be brought into step
Under favorable economic conditions with the new special conceptions. Con- cy Council and the Detroit Zion-
this will be easy. In times of economic sequently, in some settlements people ist Executive CounciL
crisis the Jews must be enabled to have done away with the ritual cere-
take those progressive measures that mony of marrying before the Rabbi,
are generally nowadays recognized as but perform their marriage by an-
being the only possible means of corn- flouncing it to the eldest of the settle-
bating a crisis; namely. to revert to anent who duly records the event.
public spending at the time when pri- which is then acknowledged by all
vale spending and investment have members of the settlement In other.
come to a' standstill. Such public more religions, settlements, however,
spending, however, demands adequate people still stick to the religious wed-
means at the disposal of the Jewish ding before the Rabbi. though there
community. In order to raise these is rarely time for elaborate celebra-
means the Jews must either be grant- lions."
ed the necessary automatic powers or
The sections in the book deal-
-at least—be given sufficientlylarge
International loans. This the world owes ing with the life and develop-
to the Jews and to itself.
ment of the Jewish children in the
"For the first time in history a
col 1 onies
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are exceptionally
t-
11 y • t er-
elosed community has voluntarily put CO
tato practice the modern thought that esting. They should inspire Jews
ownership, whether of land, hciuses
or other property, involves the social everywhere to greater action in
responsibility of making it serve the support of Eretz Israel's redemp-
common interests of the community.
This has given the Jews an inalien- ti on.
able title to their rights, based not on
Hadassah women will be
historic sentiment but on social thrilled with the analysis of the
achievement.
"They have solved their own prob- health agencies in Eretz, and sta-
lems, and set a shining example for
future social and economic develop- tisticians will love the book for
its factual data.
ment everywhere.
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"The world depends on creative
thoughts and courageous deeds. Where
Readers of this review un-
they have anoeared in such strength
as in Palestine, they must be main- doubtedly also will be interested
tained. The survival of the Jewish
social achievements, of a prosperous in the following announcement
Middle East. nay of our very West- by the publishers, Harper &
ern civilization, may depend upon it."
Brothers:
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"The spiral plastic binding for 'Prom-
This glowing tribute to the ised Land' was selected by the author
one means of keeping the volume
Jews who, Dr. Thorbecke writes. as
in the medium price range without
"owe their survival to their strong sacrificing any of the originality and
Interest. Regular binding would
religious and moral ethics; and to artistic
have raised the cost over $5. instead
their social system of mutual as- of the present $3.55."
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AT ONCE AND EXERT ALL YOUR EFFORTS
FOR THE AWED JEWISH CAMPAIGN!