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Historic Justice!

German Colony of Sarona
Bought by JNF, Tel Aviv

Torczyner to Speak
At ZOD Rally Jan. 12

Dr. Avram Menes

To Speak Jan. 11
In Yiddish Series

The T.-text event in the Yiddish
Culture Series for the current
season will be a lecture by Dr.
Avram Menes, Jewish scholar
and author, entitled "What :3
Juda!sin?" Sunday, Jan. 11, at
3:15 p. m. at the Jewish Commun-
ity Center. Admission will be by
season ticket or a charge at the
door. .
Dr. Menes will be in Detroit
for a week and will appear before
several groups during that time
speaking on the general theme
'The Jewish Way of Life." The
Jan. 11 lecture will be the first.
in the series, and is under the
sponsozship of the Joint Yiddish
Culture Committee of the Jewish
Community Council and the Jew-
ish Community Center, I. Zemel
and Jay Rosenshine, co-chairmen.
Dr. Menes is on the Board of
Editors of the Encyclopedia Hand-
book "The Jewish People Past
and Present," of which Vol. I has
already appeared. He has con-
1...- ibutul articles on "Origin and
History of the Jewish Religion"
and "B istory of the Jews in An-
cient Times."

Mexican Magnate Gives
$200,000 for Palestine

MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—Oscar
Kohn, Jewish industrialist who
arrived here from Poland five
years ago, has donated 1,000,000
pesos, approximately $200,000, to
the Jewish National Fund as an
expression of his readiness to
help in the establishment of the
Jewish state.

CARD OF THANKS
Mrs. Bertha Whiteman and Mrs.
Fae Skolnik, mother and sister
of the late Mary Whiteman, wish
to thank friends and relatives
for the many kindnesses shown
them in their • recent bereave-
ment.

Arnold Zweig's 'Axe of Wandsbek'
Is Found Weak in Many Points

turned to it in the hope of finding

Arnold Zweig, one of the out-
Preceding Day to Be Utilized
standing novelists of our time, an a worthy successor to his trilogy
by Detroit Zionists for
exile from Nazi Germany who that grew out of "Grischa." We
has lived in Palestine since 1933, began with fascination and with
Shekel Drive

$9,000,000 Purchase Price Earmarked for Reparations:
Jacques Torczyner, national
Colony Was Established in 1870, Preceding Any
shekel chairman, will address a
Modern Jewish Settlement in Palestine
public meeting of the Zionist

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Large-
scale expansion of Tel Aviv was
\ foreseen here after the joint ac-
quisition by the Jewish National
Fund and the Tel Aviv munici-
pality of 4,600 dunams (1,150
acres) of land in the Sarona
colony which was founded by
Germans in 1870 and which serv-
ed as a Nazi stronghold in Pales-
tine prior to the outbreak of the
war. During the war Sarona be-
came the site of a detention camp
for German nationals residing in
Palestine.
The purchase will increase Tel
Aviv's municipal area by nearly
one-third. The Sarona settlers,
all Germans, have either return-
ed to Germany or are preparing
to emigrate to Australia. Nego-
tiations for the transaction were
carried on for over a year with
the Colonial Office in London and
with the Palestine Government
which, since the outbreak of the
war, acted as legal trustee for
the Sarona land as well as of oth-
er German property in Palestine.
Price: $9,000,000
The price of the land, set by
the Palestine government, was
$9,000,000. The money will be
transferred by the government to
a reparations fund under the au-
thority of the Allied War Repara-
tions Commission. The Jewish
National Fund supplied $5,000,000
toward the purchase price, the
largest amount ever invested by
JNF in promotion of urban
development.
The purchase agreement, sign-
ed by Dr. Abraham Granovsky
on behalf of the JNF, and by
Mayor Israel Rokach on behalf of
the Tel Aviv municipality, opens
the possibilities for the city's ex-
pansion which was previously
hindered • by Sarona which lies
to the east and northeast of Tel

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THE JE.WI SH NEWS

Friday, January 2,1948

Aviv, both of which are natural
directions for the growth of the
tion necessitated detours in ex-
pansion of the city, caused num-
erous difficulties in planning for
a greater Tel Aviv, and resulted
in soaring prices of land in the
neighboring area.

May Be Seat of Jewish State
Since the purchase now permits
systematic development of Tel
Aviv and will act as a check on
inflated land prices by ensuring
national ownership of the area
vital to the city's expansion, plans
were being mapped for immediate
use of the land. More than 2,200
dunams were earmarked for
housing projects, about 800 dun-
ams were set aside for an indus-
trial center and the remainder
will be used as a site for public
buildings, apparently in anticipa-
tion of the concentration of Jew-
ish state government offices there.
Of the 4,600 dunams, the JNF's
share comes to about 2,700 dun-
ams. In all, the former German
colony's land totals 6,200 dunams.
The .portion which was not ac-
quired by the Jews, consisting
mostly of rural land, remains un-
der the custodianship of the Pal-
estine Government.

Sarona was founded before any
modern Jewish settlement in Pal-
estine. Until the time of Hitler's
rise to power in Germany, rela-
tions between the German settlers
in Sarona and Jewish colonists
in the neighborhood were friend-
ly. With the growth of Nazi in-
fluence in the world, Sarona be-
came a nest of Nazism and serv-
ed as an organizing center for
Arab pre-war disturbances. The
chief of Hitler's experts on the
extermination of the Jews in Eu-
rope was the Sarona-born Adolf
Eichmann.

Mrs. Nettie Swartz to Speak
At Haifa Meeting on Jan. 5

Mrs. Nettie Swartz will speak
on the topic "The Role of the
British Government under Au-
thority of the Mandate," in the
"Inside Palestine Series," at the
meeting of Haifa Chapter of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
on Jan. 5. Mrs. Seymour Kraus
will Icad in community singing.
Refreshments will be served.
Hostesses will be Mesdames B
:Davidson, I. Silver and A. Ze-
lenko.
It is announced that all Haifa
members have placed JNF boxes
in their homes.
A New Year's Eve party was
given by the group at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. Weiss.

Round Table to Cite
Bnai Brith's Work
At Skinner Luncheon

The Detroit Round Table, of
Catholics, Jews and Protestants
Will present an award of merit
to Bnai Brith on the occasion of
the Cornelia Otis Skinner lunch-
eon to be held Friday, Jan. 9, at
Masonic Temple.
The award of merit will be pre-
sented to MrS. Samuel S. Aaron,.
representating Bnai Brith. Mrs.
Aaron has assisted for several
years in the youth work of the
Detroit Round Table. Bnai Brith
has furnished youth speakers for
church groups, school assemblies,
radio broadcasts and other activ-
ities in conjunction with the De-
troit Christian Youth Council
and the Catholic Youth organiza-
tions.
Miss Skinner will be the guest
of honor at the luncheon and a
citation will be awarded to her
for her leaderShip in progressive
social movements. She is in De-
troit for two weeks as star of the
play "Lady Windemere's Fan" at
the Cass Theatre. Tickets for the
luncheon are still available at the
Round Table office, CA. 7504.

regret had to admit to ourselves
that the volume is far from living
up to an earlier reputation.
The new volume deals with
Albert Teetjen, Master Butcher,
who, in order to earn money he
needed to keep the wolf from the
door, accepted an assignment to
behead four Communists con-
victed by the' Nazis. It is the
Ask $1,000 Stake for Every
story of Wansbek and the Fuhls-
Jew Who Is Rehabilitated
buettel Prison of Hamburg. There
BAD REICHENHALL, (JTA) — are many interesting incidents,
A plan for a $200,000,000 loan to innumerable comments on Jews,
200,000 Jewish emigrants from references to emigres in Pales-
Germany to facilitate their re- tine. The book hints of disap-
settlement in a new country was proval of Hitlerism and it con-
proposed by Dr.- Philip Auerbach, tains a plot to kill the Fuehrer-
Bavarian Commissioner for Per- a plot that does not materialize.
secutees. He proposed that a It is a plot that stems from Teet-
group of Jewish bankers under- jen's axe which was to have been
take to stake each , emigrating spread with poison, with the in-
refugee to $1,000 to set up a home tention of having it fall on the
when he arrives in a new coun- Fuehrer's foot.
try. As security for the loan and
The Teetjens—Albert and his
interest, he proposed pledging wife Stine — are ostracized by
Jewish property in Germany.
their neighbors who stop buying
in his shop when they learn of
British Scholar to Lecture
the use to which he put his
At University of Chicago
butcher's axe. The natural resent-
LONDON, (JTA) — Dr. Simon ment reveals hidden anti-Nazi
Rawidowicz, professor of Hebrew
sentiments. The Teetjens commit
at Leeds University, left for the
suicide as the only way out of
United States, where he will lec-
their dilemna—proving that "who
ture at the University of Chicago,
so sheddeth man's blood, by man
for six months, on Jewish medie-
shall his blood be shed."
val and modern philosophy.
Zweig's shortcomings lie in the -
fact that he is "easy" with the
Pakistan Official Denies
Nazis, that he describes them as
Massacre in Peshawar
LONDON (JTA)--The World matter - of - fact human beings
Jewish Congress was informed by rather than expose them as brutes
the Pakistan High Commissioner and supporters of a regime of
that since the UN partition de- terror. His book falls short of
cision, special protection has been the mark by virtue of its lacking
arranged for the Jews in Pesha- outspokenness. He could have and
war and "every facility has been should have done better in deal-
given to those wishing to leave ing with the world's worst
the city."
criminals. That is why the "Axe"
The Pakistan official, replying can not be accepted with the
to a WJC memorandum regarding same enthusiasm which greeted
the reported massacre of Jews in "Grischa."
Peshawar, said the report was
erroneous and that the only in-
cident which occurred was the
robbery of a- Jewish home by
four thieves in which one womali
Now Serving and Selling
was killed and two men and a
girl were injured.
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acquired international fame with
his "Case of Sergeant Grischa"
which was translated into many
languages and which, even now,
Organization of Detroit at 8:30 is much in demand.
Mr. Zweig is the author of a
new, Viking - published, novel,
"The Axe of Wandsbek." We

JACQUES TORCZYNER

p. m. Monday, Jan. 12, at the
Northwest Hebrew Congregation.
Torczyner, a member of one of
the most distinguished families
in pre-war Europe, has earned a
prOminent place in the leadership
of American Zionism since his
arrival in this country in 1940.
The public is invited to hear him
Jan. 12. There will be no admis-
sion charge and no solicitation of
funds.
Harold B. Weisman, chairman
of the ZOD Shekel Campaign,
announces that Sunday, Jan. 11,
the day preceding the Torczyner
meeting, there will be a mass
door to door campaign for the
sale of General Zionist Shekolim.
Young Judeans and Young Zion-
ist groups, as well as old-line
Zionists, will meet for breakfast
at the Rose Sittig Cohn auditor-
ium, at 10 a. m., and will then
proceed to visit appointed neigh-
borhoods in the interest of the
sale of Shekolim. Anyone wish-
ing to volunteer is asked to call
the Zionist office, CH. 6559.

LEINOFF'S

Cattle Brisket

SOCIAL, INC. plans for 1948
begin with January Frolic . . .
Come in and Partake of
Jah. 4 .. . at River Rouge Rec-
reational Center (former Charles
These Delicious Meats
E. Sorenson home). 'Twill be
Social's entry into the new year
LEINOFF'S DELICATESSEN
with gala festivities . . . Folks
Temple Beth El Men's Club will will meet at home of Lyn Trager,
13300 DEXTER
offer another in its "Institute on 17582 Greenlawn, at 7:30 p. m.
Judaism" lectures Monday eve-
ning, Jan. 12, when Dr. Solomon
B. Freehof of Rodef Shalom Tem-
ple, Pittsburgh, will speak on
"Reform Jewish Practice."
Dr. Freehof, past president of
the Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis and former faculty
member at Hebrew Union Col-
lege, is the author of many books
on Judaism, including a volume
on the same subject as his talk.
The Institute is under the di-
rection of the New Activities
Committee of the Men's Club.
Walter Schmier is chairman, as-
sisted by Oscar Zemon, Maurice
Klein and Stanley Fleischaker.
A question and answer period
will follow Dr. Freehof's lecture.
The Sunday Morning Breakfast
Club, sponsored by the Men's
Club for parents whose children
attend the Beth El Religious
School, will resume its weekly
Now Only $150
sessions following the vacation
period. The club accompanies a
breakfast with discussion on cur-
This wonderful package of beauty contains two of
rent events and Reform Judaism.
Dr. Irving Edgar, chairman, and
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Eminent Reform
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Jan. 12 at Beth El

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