' 20—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 4. 1949

Weizmann's Autobiography

(Continued from Page 1)

mentary aspects of a single purpose. ,
Those, for me, were full, exciting years of growth,. ex-
. pansion and development. Geneva may be said to have corn-'
pleted the pattern of the future because I established there
the most important relationship of my life. It was in Geneva,
: in 190 0 that I first met my wife. Like so many Others of her
generation she' had come to study Medicine because the
-schools of Russia were closed to her.

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Federation Forums End Today

French President
Greets Delegation
Of UJA. Leaders

PARIS (JTA)—A delegation
of more than 40 members of the
United Jewish Appeal, compris-
ing Jewish leaders from major
cities in the United States, was'
received by : President Vincent
Auriol of France, to whom they
Presented a scroll expressing the-
gratitude of American Jewry for
the assistance 'given Jewish ref-
ugees- . by the people of Frande.
The text of the scroll readS:
"The Jews of :America, through
the United Jewish Appeal Over-
seas Delegation, heiebY express
their eternal gratitude to the
French people for the heroiC as-
sistance andprofection they gave
the Jews 'of many countries who
found refuge in France during
the years of Nazi oppressiOn, and
for the warm hospitality and
sympathy the government and
people of France have extended
since the war's end to those who -
have sought temporary haven
within its 'borders and to the
many homeless Jews now in
transit to 'a permanent home in
Israel. In the generous treat-
ment which it has accorded to
Jews and other victims of op,
pression, France has nobly sym-
bolized its highest traditions of
liberty, equality and brother-
hood."
(Detroiters among the UJA
delegates are Hyman Safran,
and Mrs. Jacob Berin, Max Osnos
and Herman L. Lewis, Jr.)

Vera Chatzman and I found our way to each other only slowly,
partly because of the seven-year difference in our ages, but chiefly
because of • the difference in our background and our approach to
life, both of which meant, to me, Zionism and, the. Jewish problem.
But' there was a strong mutual attraction from the start, and often
as we, met I would try to arouse her interest in the problems which
The fifth and final program in Tecleration Forum — '49"—
occupied me so deeply. It seemed to me, at firSt, that she took
is being conducted Friday, March 4, at the Jewish Community
things much more calmly than I; and in a sense she did; but I
discovered in time that this was only on the surface. Much depth
Center. Discussion' center around the subject "Our Stake in Our
of feeling, character and understanding lay hidden befieath the calm
Rights," and, like all meetings in the series, begins with dessert
surface. These were qualities whiCh not only attracted me in them-
lunch and is concluded with a tour of the agency in which the
selves, but gave me the assurance that I found in her not only my
meeting took place.
. future wife, but a helpmate, comrade and SUPport.
As the years passed, she accompanied me more and more
Participating are (left to right, above) WILLIAM AVRUNIN,-
frequently on the far-flung journeys which my Zionist affairs. im-
associate director of the Federation; MESDAMES MAURICE
posed on me. Often she guarded me from pitfalls -which her calm
KLEIN, JOHN FRAZER, ADOLPH EHRLICH, JULIAN H. KRO-
judgment detected before mine did. I was much more' venturous,
LIK (chairman), LOUIS GLASIER, SAMUEL YURA and HARRY
in a sense, 'much more superficial, more happy-go-lucky than she,
so that I think we came to form a strong combination.
FRANK.
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Over 300 women have attended the series.
Manchester
My flight to England, in 1004, at large, issues clamored for at-
was a deliberate and desperate tention. Before: long 'I had re-
step. In Geneva, I was in danger sumed my Zionist activities in
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of being eaten up by Zionism, England. .
First Trip to Palestine
with no benefit either 'to my
scientific career or to Zionism. To
A dolorouS country was Pales-
Another triumph was scored penings in Israel, said these boys
become effective in any sense, tine, when I first saw it, one of
last Sunday for the United He- and girls who attended the He-
I had to continue my education the most neglected corners of the
breW Schools when '71 of its stu- brew . Schools .and are exposed to
in chemistry and wait for a more miserably neglected' Turkish Em-
dents received their diplomas be- Jewish thoughts, ideas and ex-
propitious time in the Zionist pire. lig total population was
fore a capacity audience at 'Cen- pressions, are the builders of the
movement. •
something above six hundred
Two factors entered into my thousand, of which abou.r'eighty
tral High School auditorium. homeland. Many boys and girls
choice of Manchester. It was a thousand were Jews. The dead
Eighteen graduates were awarded who. were graduated from the
big center of the chemical indus- hand 'of the Chanukah lay on
medals for allLaround distinction UHS are among the builders of
try, and it possessed a great uni- more than half the Jewish popu-
during their scholastic careers. • Medinath Yisroel.
The class president - was Sharon
versity, the chemical school of lation. For many generations
Medals were awarded jointly
which had a particularly high pious European Jews had made it
by Feigenson Brothers through Superstine; the valedictorian's,
reputation, and I had, among my a practice to migrate to Palestine
Mrs. Ben Feipngori; by Ladies' Ursula Sitzman and Fred Brainin,
letters of introduction, one to in their old age, so that they
Auxiliary of Kvutzah Ivrith.
Present Wire Recorder
Professor William Henry Perkins, Might die on holy soil.' Historically
through Mrs. Julius Ring, Presi-
The school 'gift which consisted
of Manchester University.
dent, and the schOols' Hebrew of a wire recording system was
speaking, they had been the ex-
The beginning was not en- pression of the undying Jewish show that more could be done. Teachers Association through presented by Vivian Somberg and
I
made
.
up
my
mind
that
I
eouraging. The laboratory in Jewish attachment to Palestine,
Solonion Kasdan; president.
Harold Barron. The candle cere-
which Professor Perkins had me but in an age which' was to wit- would go back to Europe to press
mony was carried out by Florence
Award
Diplomas
with
redoubled
energy
for
im-
make myself at h6the was a dingy - ness the reconstruction of the
Gutman and Faith Greenbaum of
Recipients of awards were:
--basement room which had evi- Jewish homeland, they were a mediate' practical work in Pal-
David Appel, Fred Branin, Esther the class of 1949 and Robert Berg
dently not been used for many useless and even retarding estine, and it was then, I think Eisenstat,
Dorothy Feinberg, Natalie and 'Rosalyn Mayer of the 1950
that I laid out the program of Goldberg, Faith
: Greenbaum, Edward
months. The first thing. I did was element
Kroll,
Vicki
Lebow, Frances NovetSky, class.
my
Zionist
work
for
the
next
to set to work to scrub the tables, The colonies were, with very
Elissa
Panush,
Paul
Richman, Judith
A feature of the program was
clean the taps and wash up the few exceptions, in not much bet- eight years: HOw, it will be asked, Sanders, Sheldon Schwartzberg, Ursula the play Medinath Yisroel, orig-
did
we
actually
-get
past
the
L. Stizman, Gail Smolinsky; Vivian
dirty apparatus which stood about ter case. They too had fallen into
Somberg, Sharon Superstine and inally written as a radio script. It
in picturesque disorder. It was the , grip of a- kind-, Challukan dead-point? The answer is: simply Lawrence Wenokur.
described the historic day when
not exactly a scientific occupa- institution. The fundS for them by getting past it! By 1914, we
Diplorrias were awarded by the United Nations at Flushing
had
increased
the
Jewish
popula-
tion, but it_kept my thoughts busy came not from public collections,
'Maurice H. Zackheim, chairman Meadows, N.Y., reached the de-
till evening when, very tired, and but from the never - ending gener- tion. from 30,00 to 100,000, our of the board of education, assisted cision on the resolutions to parti-
suffering from housemaid's knees, osity of Baron Edmond de Roths- agriCUltural workers from 500 to by Morris Lachover, Joseph H.
Palestine.. ,
I stumbled back to my lodgings. child. They had not envisaged a 2,000: .We had founded the' Jewish Haggai; Solomon Kasdan, Max tion
'The play and music were di-
The following morning I re- process of national development National Library, and the Tech- Gordon, Morris Nobel, Miss Leah rected by Shirley' Subar Sklash,
turned very early to the lab- in which Jewish workers and nikurii of Haifa. Our gymnaSiurn Pike, Alexarider Roberg, Norman music director of the schools. She
oratory, and to my great joy Jewish land-owners would form Was attracting large numbers of Ruttenberg, and Michael Michlin.
was accompanied at the piano by
found it inhabited by another harmonious parts of a larger pro- Jewish students from abroad, who
Each graduate received A .-He-
living being. This was Edwards, gram. There was no pioneering were bringing thOusands of dol- brew Bible, the gift of the Wom- Lillian Robbins.
Abe Kasle is president of the
the chief steward of. the lab- spirit. Moreover, the few colonies lars annually into the country. en's Auxiliary, from Mrs. Louis
schools; Lawrence Crohn and
oratories. Unfortunately our con- were detached and scattered. These evidences 'of • growth were, Gelfand, president.
Maurice Zackheim, vice-presi-
versations in the early days were There was no real scientific study however, less important than
Greeiings to Graduates
dents; Maurice Landau, treasurer;
slow and disconnected, since my of soil conditions, of crops, of the the change of spirit which had
Gretings were brought' to the Joseph B. Colten, secretary, and
English was practically non-ex- care of cattle. There existed no come over the entire- community. giaduate,
their parents and Abraham J. La.chover, administra-
istent and he knew no other lan- syStem for training newcomers. The Challukah'spirit of Palestine frierids by Allan
Weston, . presi- tive assistant.
was at last being attacked,
guage. The first morning I spoke
The picture was not all dark. though it yielded very slowly.
dent
of
the
Alumni
Association,
With pencil and paper, drawing however. The young men and
Israeli Volunteers' Paper
One of the principal steps for- and Rabbi Moses Lehrman, a par-
for him most of the apparatus women who had come out of Rus-
TEL AVIV, (JTA)-- The Is-
wanted. Edwards placed at my sia in the last few years were es- ward to the Jewish national ent of one of • the graduates.
disposal a lab boy. Tom's lan- tablishing their first foothold in home was the Balfour Declara- GradUation addresses were deli -V- raeli Army has begun publication
_ , kuage, too, was entirely incom- the Jewish colonies, competing, by tion. Next week Chaim .Wei*- ered by Bernard Isaacs, superin- of a special English-language or-'
prehensible to me, but he pos- superior intelligence and organi- .marm tells how his war-time tendent of the, United Hebrew gan for immigrants from English
Schools, and Albert Elazar, asso- speaking countries who are fight-
sessed a pecular gift which I zation, with the. Cheaper Arab
never encountered before: he labor. There was a Jewish high service to England in cheMistry ciate superintendent.
ing in the Israeli forces.
Mr. Isaacs stressed the import-
The first issue of the fort-
never handed me anything in the school—the gymnasium—in Jaffa made this famous document pos-
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ance of the home, the encourage- nightly magazine, "Frontline,"
ordinary way, but was forever and the Bezalel Arts and Crafts sible.
This is a serialization of parts of ment given the children_ by contains 'reports of army affairs
- performing some sleight of hand, school had been' established in "Trial
and . Error," by Chaim Weii-
- either throwing the piece 'of ap-, Jerusalem the year before I came mann, published in book form by Ha.n- parents.
and an analysis of the military
per
&
Brothers.
Copyright, 1949, by. the
paratus up into the 4ir and catch- out. Enough had been started to
Mr. Elazar, referring to hap- situation in Palestine:
Weiirnann Fbithdation. • - '
ing, it, or slinging it at 'a nicely
calculated angle to fall on a
PP,OPI:JCEO SY NORMAN & SOL- Nooet..
TEXT' BY MARC RUTNER
definite spot on my desk.
JUDGE MORRIS ROTHENBERG
LIVES OF OUR TIMES
I have special reason to remem-
ber the first work I did in Eng-
KEENLY INTERESTED IN THE ZIONIST
LONG RECOGNIZED MINE OF
land, 'for in a curious way it came
MOVEMENT, HE HAS BEEN DELEGATE
_THE FOREMOST LEADERS OF JEW-
:UP again in stientific circles after
TO NUMEROUS ZIONIST CONGRESSES.HE
, ISO LIFE 'IN AMERICA,PRESIDENT
VISITED PALESTINE SEVERAL TIMES.
lapse of over three decades. We
OF THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUNOOF
: established a reaction between
(7,)
AMOUR
rnagnesiuin organic compounds
and: phthalic anhydrides, leading
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-to • a new class of Compounds
which in turn can be converted
— into deriVatiVes ,of anthricene,
the basis of certain' important
HE CAME TO THE UNITED. STATES FROM ESTONIA
_ dyestuffs. Nothing much was done
AT THE AGE OF EIGHT.IN 1905 HE RECEIVED
with our method until the '30s,
HE WAS AMONG THE ORGANIZERS OF THE FIRST JOINT
HIS LAW DEGREE FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
DRIVE IN THE UNITED STATES OF THE JOINT DISTRIBUTION
•
when research work on Cancer-
AND BEGAN PRACTICING THE SAME YEAR.
COMMITTEE AND UNITED PALESTINE APPEAL.
VP
producing substances set in,
prompted by the discovery that
coal tar owes its cancer-proddc-
HE IS FREQUENTLY CALLED UPON TO ARBITRATE
AT THE CLOSE OF WORLD WARII, HE RECEIVED THE
IN 19S7, HE - WAS APPOINTED TO THE BENCH
ing action on the skin to the pres-
Its0 H
UNITED STATES TREASURY SILVER MEDAL AWARD
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES BECAUSE OF HIS NATIONWIDE
OF THE MAGISTRATES COURT i N NEW
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ence of hydrocarbon Which is also
FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO AMERICA FOR LEADER -
REPUTATION IN THE FIELD OF LABOR LAW
YORK CITY FOR A TEN-YEAR TERM
SHIP IN A DRIVE TO SELL $20,000,000 IN VICTORY
an anthraCene derivative and can
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be made synthetically.
Pt!
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Parallel with the process of ad-
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justment to English university
life there was going on in me a
:deep struggle around the re-
-pression of my Zionist activities.
t,
The perpetual problem of "the
proper course of action" returned
A JEWISH SETTLEMENT IN
to haunt me. Here I was quietly.
PALESTINE WAS NAMED IN HIS HON -
ensconced in Manchester, pur-
OR IN 1941 BY THE JEWISH NATIONAL
suing an atademic career, while
FUND IN JERUSALEM,
cptvitt GOT 1P+il •AWISH wadRA0141c AGeNcYf
"over there" in the Zionist world,
in the Jewish world, in the world,

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