24—THE JEWISH NEWS

Detr it Technion Society
Honors Israel Professor

Richard Ellmann's, Book

Friday, January 14, 1949

Detroiter Gains Recognition as
Israeli Emissary Outstanding Authority on Yeats
Asks Morgenthau A young, native Detroiter, has ing that Yeats did- not declare
as' a leading authority himself against the Hitler terror.
To Stay with UJA emerged
on William Butler Yeats, Nobel Ellmann writes: "In 1935 Yeats

Detroit Chapter of the American Technion Society will
_hold its third annual Technion dinner at 6:30 p.m. Saturday,
Jan. 15 at the Engineering society of Detroit in the Rackham
Bldg.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Dr.
Guest of honor, and featured speaker, will be Prof. Alfred Bernard
•
Joseph, Israeli military
civil
engineering
at
the
Haifa
of
M. Freudenthal professor
governor for Jerusalem, left for
the United States as a special
Institute of Technology and

world-famed authority on struc-
tura] engineering.
Prof; Freudenthal is now visit-
ing professor at Columbia Uni-
s been
versi ty. His work ha
with many international
ored
awards, most recent of which was
the 1947 Normal - Medal of the
American Society of Civil Engi-
neers, for the best paper of the
year, "Safety of Structures."
Leon Kay is chairman of the
Detroit Technion Society, whose
annual contribution to the Haifa
Institute • is provided by this
dinner.
Other officers include Benja:
thin - Wilk, vice chairman; Louis
Milgrom, secretary, and Milton
Dorier, treasurer.
Members of the dinner com-
mittee are: A. M. Babitch, Louis
Berry, Samuel Brody, Sol Dann,
Sol Edelman, Dora Ehrlich, Wal-
ter Field, Arthur Fleischman,
• Judge William Friedman, Louis
Gelfarki, Mrs. Louis Glasier, Louis
• Harrison, William Hordes, Morris
Jacobs, Mrs. .Harry, Jones, Ben
Laikin, Mrs. Maurice Landau,
- Nathan Linden, Louis Milgrom,
Phillip Nusholtz, Hy Safran, Mor-
ris Schaver, Irving Schlussel,
Harry Schtimer, Saul Sloan, Phil-
ip Slomovitz and Joseph Yolles.

Salvages Torahs .

Prize winner in poetry.
still urged in conversation the
Richard Ellmaran, son of former despotic rule of the educated
Judge and Mrs. James I. Ellmarin classes, but. as the terror :of fas-
of 55 Connecticut, Highland Park, cisin. and Nazism increased he
now an assistant professor of ceased to speak in favor of any
emissary of Premier David Ben. English at Harvard University, existing government. His friend,
Gurion to ask Henry Morgenthau has acquired this status as a re- Ethel Mannin, the novelist, and
Jr., general chairman of the sult of several years of study of Ernst Toiler, tried on one occa-
United Jewish Appeal, to retain this subject which is summed up sion to persuade him to take a
his post in 1949. Elections for a in a Magnificent book, "Yeats, the definite position against totali-
UJA general chairman will take Man and the Masks," which Was tarianism. They asked him to
place at the Appeal's national published by Macmillan and recommend Ossietsky, whom the
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jos- conference in Atlantic City.
which has won deserved acClaim Nazis had imprisoned,' for the
eph B. Keenan was sworn in as
A delegation of • top Israeli
from
the 'country's leading critics. Nobel Peace Prize. Yeats refused,
United States representative on leaders, including Chief Rabbi
The young author received his and in letters defending himself,
the United Nations Conciliation Isaac Herzog and Levy Skolnick-
indicated his dissatisfacton with
Commission for Palestine by Eshkol, a member of the Jewish doctorate from Yale in 1947. Dur- every known governmental sys-
Stanley Woodward, State Depart- Agency executive, left by plane ing the war, while attached to the
tem." -
ment Chief of Protocol.
for the United States to partici- Naval Office of Strategic Services
But Ellmann's conclusion is that
The ceremony, which took pate in the UJA conference. The in Ireland, he visited with Mrs. Yeats' "life shows remarkable
Yeats
and
was
given
permission
delegation
will
outline
to
the
con-
place in .Woodward's office, was
consistency and tenacity." "Every
attended by Joseph G. Satter- ference the major current prob- to examine 50,000 pages of manu- poem is a battleground and the
scripts
left
by
the
great
poet
at
thwaite, director of the Office of lems affecting Israel, with par-
sounds of gunfire are heard
Near Eastern and African Affairs; ticular emphasis on the question his death. This material, of which throughout." "Few poets have
Dean Rusk, director of the State of absorbing, housing, retaining he made admirable use, places found mastery of themselves and
Department Office of United Na- and otherwise integrating the Dr. Ellmann's work above any of their -craft so difficult or have
tions Affairs; Robert M. McClin- nearly 200,000 immigrants ex- other on Yeats published hereto- sought such mastery, through
tock, special assistant to Rusk; pected to arrive in the Jewish fore.
The scholarly character of Ell- conflict and struggle, so„unflinch-
Fraser 'Wilkins, acting assistant state during 1949.
niann's
"Yeats" is in evidence in ingly." Ellmann, in brilliant
The
present
plight
of
the
He-
chief of the Division of Near
the
22
pages
of notes which indi- style, outlines these ideas realidt-
brew
University
was
described
at
Eastern Affairs; Samuel Kopper,
cate
the
vast
amount of material ically in his splendid book.
adviser on United Nations affairs, a press conference by Prof.
he
studied
in
preparation for his
and Stuart Rockwell, Palestine Simcha Assaf, rector, and Dr.
book.
Music Council Releases
David
Senator,
administrator.
\desk officer.
Family Tradition
. The two officials reviewed the
Keenan said after the ceremony
Half-Hour Record Show
There is a. family tradition
that plans had not been completed war effort of the University's
for his leaving for his post and faculty and student body, partic- which may be accountable for the
NEW YORK.—A new half-hour
for selecting the place where he ularly the "heroic defense of the. literary success of Richard Ell- recorded program of Jewish music
University
premises
againSt
Arab
mann.
His
father
has
'Written
would meet the French and Turk-
in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English,
ish representatives of the Con- attack." Prof. Assaf said that a many articles. His mother is the' entitled "The New Road," has
University
medical
school
will
be
author of numerous exceptionally
ciliation Commission. Asked if he
been made available by the Na-
is hopeful about the possibility opened shortly, but will offer good poems. His brother, Erwin, tional Jewish Music Council to
of achieving a solution in the instruction only to advanced stu- to whom his "Yeats" is dedicated, participants in the coming Na-
has written important legal briefs.
Palestine proVem, he replied, dents.
Voicing disappointment in the Thus a family tradition is ad- tional Jewish. Music Festival, Feb.
"pm always optimistic."
lack' of funds available to the vanced by one of the younger 12 to MarCh 15, it has been an-
University, Dr. Senator said that Ellmanns. (This reviewer learns nounced by Mrs. Frank .
Turkey Appoints Its Member
Council chairman. ,The
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Hussein the' Jewish Agency' had allocated that the "Yeats" edition to be ijub- is sponsored by the Natidnal Jew-
only
$80,000
to
the
institution
will
be
dedi-
-England
lished
in
Jahid Yaltchin, well - known
ish Welfare Board.
Turkish newspaper Man and while the Israeli Government ap- cated by the author to his par-
The program, on three 12-inch
ents.) • ,-
member of the People's Party, propriated "barely $8,000."
A new settlement was estab-
which • controls the government,
Ellinann's "Yeats" is fascinat- records,' mirrorS in song fray.-
has been need Turkey's repre- lished in the Negev by a group ing reading. The poet's Irish na- rrients of -Jewish life aS revealed
sentative on the United Nations of Orthodox youths who survived tionalism, his interest in Theos.: through the lives of a group Hof.
Palestine. Conciliation Commis- the Buchenwald concentration ophy, his occult studies, his DPs on a boat headed for Pales-
camp during the war. The settlers friendship with AE (George-Rus- tine. 'It Was written and directed
sion.
Yaltchin, a member of the are all members of Poale Agudas sell), Parnell and scores of other by Robert:Adler and prodUced by
Turkish National Assembly, fav- Israel. .
prominent men, his love affair, Milton Krents, Producer of the
The 13th colony to be estab- are treated 'masterfully by 'the "Eter.nal Light" radio show. The
ored the admission of an Israeli
representative to the United Na- lished in Western Galilee, dedi- young writer whose work is a music'was arranged by Leah M.
Jaffa, JWB Music consultant- and
tions Educational, Scientific and cated by its Hashomer Hatzair flawless literary triurriph.
Jewish Music 'Council Secretary..
Cultural - Organization at the .settlers, located near Acre, is
We
learn
that
Yeats
had
a
meeting of the organization 'in composed of --youths from Britain "tendency to construct myths,"
Beirut, which he attended as Tur- and recent arrivals from Hun- that "on the basis of having once Epstein Takes First Step
key's representative. • This ap- gary.
'learned the Hebrew alphabet and With Diplomatic. Corps
pointment completes the mem-
a few Hebrew words he would
Ex-Gestapo
Official
bership of the Conciliation Corn-
say, 'I have forgotten my He-
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Eliahu
mission, since the United States Sentenced to Death
brew,' with an air of solemnity." Epstein, Israeli representative to
and France, the other two mem-
In descikibing, Yeats' occult in- the United States, took his place
WARS-AW (JTA) — Former
bers of the body, have already
named t h e i r representatives. Maj. Gen. Theobald Thier, Ges- terests, Ellmann describes the for the first time last week with
Claude de Boisanger will repre- tapo off,icial who was found guilty work of Victor Hugo's friend, the diplomatic Corps attending
of directing the execution of Abbe Constant, who wrote under the ` opening session of Congress
sent ,France.
,.
thousands of Jews in Cracow and the- name Eliphas Levi and in- which met to hear President Till
fluenced students of religion and man's State of the Union message.'
Lwow
during
the
war,
was
sen-
Stop Anti-Fascist Group
mythology with his works on Epstein was greeted by members
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Jew- tenced to death by the Polish Dis- Kabbalah, the Sephiroth and var- of the diplomatic corps and by a
ish Anti-Fascist Committee in the trkct Court here.
Kasimiesh Ankerstein, a Pole ious occult ideas based on a sort number of Congressmen and Sen-
Soviet Union was dissolved by
of complicated method of Biblical ators. This marked the first time
the Moscow authorities and its who, during the war was one of exegesis.
that Epstein has taken part in an
the
principal
liquidators
of
the
organ "Einigkeit" was closed
Silent on Hitlerism
official function of the United.
down, it was reported here in a Sarny ghetto, was sentenced to
Having witnessed the rise • of States Government, it was point-
broadcast over the Voice of death by the district court of
Nazism, it is rather disappoint- ed out.
Opele.
America.

Keenan Sworn in
As U. S. Palestine
Counciliation Man

,

Charred remnants of Sifre
Torah are being salvaged by
JACOB KARP of Congregation
Sfath .Emeth after. fire gutted the
New York synagogue.

Speculate Over Age
Of Fossilized Skull
Found in W. Galilee

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Israeli

archaelogists are speculating over

the exact age of a fossilized hu-
man skull discovered recently in
the village of Sameriya, near
Nahariya, in western Galilee,.
The skull—which has a • very
low forehead, prominent brow
and very heavy bones—is • be-
• lieved to date back to, the early
iron age because potsherds and -
coins discovered in the same area
prove conclusiVely that the re-
gion was inhabited ardtind 100
B. C. On the other hand, some
archaeologists hope to prove that
- the skull is that of a Neanderthal
man, basing their contention on
• the fact that an elephant tusk
and several stone implements dis-
. covered nearby Fare believed to
date back 50,000 years.
Prof. L. Steklis, of the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, has
been appointed to supervise ex-
cavations authorized by the arch-
aeological department of the
Ministry of Public Works in the
area around Kibbutz Evron, near
Nahariya. Members of the coldny
have reported that the coastal
hills in the vicinity contain num-
erous caves which were inhab-
ited in pre-historic times and
which have only been partially

excavated.

LIVES OF OUR TIMES

CHIEF RABBI ISAAC

AND BY JEWS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE
WORLD. RABBI HERZOG WAS BORN IN
POLAND 60 YEARS AGO AND RECEIVED HIS
EDUCATION AT LEADING BRITISH &FRENCH
UNIVERSITIES,AS WELL A5 IN YESHIVOTH.

CHIEF RABBI OF THE STATE
OF. ISRAEL,SCHOLAR& CRE7
ATIVE PHILOSOPHER IN JU-
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IN 1436 OE ACCEPTED A CALL FROM'
PALESTINE &WAS NAMED. CHIEF
RABBI OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
THERE,S EEDING THE LATE RAUH KKK

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AS CHIEF SPIRITUAL LEADER OF THE
JEWISH STATE,1115 COUNSEL AND GUID-
ANCE IN RELIGIOUS &THEOLOGICAL
MATTERS ARE SOUGHT BOTH 8Y ISRAELIS

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AT THE AGE OF 37 HE WAS APPOINTED
CHIEF RABBI OF THE IRISH FREE STATE
AND WAS INVITED TO RETAIN THE SAME
POST IN GREECE,OUT DECLINED.

THROUGHOUT THE BATTLE FOR JERUSALEM,
RABBI HERZOG DID NOT LEAVE THE HOLY CITY.
DURING THE HEAVY FIGHTING,HE ISSUED
PROCLAMATION TO THE CITY'S JEWS: oft

IN 1941 HE VISITED THE UNITED
STATES IN THE INTERESTS OF THE
RELIGIOUS SEMINARIES OF
LITHUANIA DISRUPTED BY THE WAR.

BEACON OF SPIRITUAL
STRENGTH TO JEWS EVERY-

WHERE

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N 194-8 NE WAS AWARDED YESHIVA
NIVERSITY'S ANNUAL AWARD FOR
AKING THE MOST IMPORTANT CON-
BUNN TO JEWISH LIFE IN THAT YEAR.

"FAITH TELLS ME WE STAND ON THE EVE
OF THE FULFILLMENT OF ISIAH'S PROPHECY.
OUR BATTLE 15 NOT FOR CONQUEST, NT FOR
THE DEFENSE OF THE LORD &THE SHRINE OF ISRAEL

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