Israelis Celebrate Maritime Day

THE JEWISH NEWS-7

Friday, June 3. 1949

Tickton, Kormendy
Guest Artists at
Hashofar Meeting

Jason Tickton, 'assistant pro
fessor of music at Wayne Uni-
versity and music director and
organist at Temple Beth El, will'
speak on "Music in Reform
Temples" at the annual meeting
of "Hashofar" Society for Ad-
vancement of
Jewish Musi c,
Thursday eve-
ning, June 9, at
the Jewish Cen-
ter.
Margit K o r-
mendy, Detroit
contralto, solo-.
ist at Temple
Beth El, will il-
lustrate the lec-
ture with songs.Miss` Kormendy
The annual meeting, at which
new board members will be
elected, will precede the lecture.
—International News Photo
Refreshments will be served at
As thousands of spectators line the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel, the conclusion of the program.
members of nautical organizations march in honor of Maritime There will be no admission
charge. The public is invited.
Day ceremonies. Army units from the coast of Elath partici-
pated. Officials reviewed paraders from Parliament building.

Hero's Story of Warsaw Ghetto Battle

`Stars Bear Witness' Tells
Of Man's Inhumanity to Man

WITNESS," by Bernard Goldstein, translated front
"THE STARS BEAR
Yiddish and edited by Leonard Shatzkin. Published by Viking Press, Inc.,

New York.

Reviewed by BORIS M. JOFFE, Executive Director
Detroit Jewish Community Council

Noted Jewish Choir Conductor
In Halevy Concert This Sunday

Leo Low, dean of Jewish choir Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and at pres-
conductors and composers, will ent cantor of the South Side
be the guest conductor at the Hebrew Cong., Chicago.
Excerpts from Haydn's "Crea-
annual Halevy Singing Society
concert at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, tion," as well as compositions by
Julius Chajes will be conducted
June 5, at the • by Julius Chajes. Aliza Stulman
Detroit Art In-
and Harold Fink will be at the
stitute.
piano and Melvin Zeidler will be
He will direct
the organist.
The program also includes an
the joint chor-
aria from "La Juive"; prologue
uses of Halevy
from "Pagliacci"; duets from
and the Cleve-
"Cavaleria Rusticana" and "Ma-
land Jewish
dame Butterfly"; a special ar-
Singing Society
rangement of "Kol Nidre" sung
in his own can-
by Tucker and the chorus and
tata "The New
Year of the Leo Low
Yiddish and Palestinian songs
Trees." More than 100 voices such as "Old Jerusalem" by
will comprise the chorus.
Chajes"; "Song of the Pal-
The program will include such mach"; "Song of the Pioneers";
famous soloists as Richard "Palestinian Nights"; "Song of
Tucker, leading tenor of the Galilee"; "Vieg Lied" and sev-
Metropolitan Opera; Marguerite eral Chazones selections by
Kozenn, soprano, formerly of Tucker, who is a noted cantor'
the Royal Opera in Bucharest, himself. Tickets can be obtained
and Pavel Slavensky, baritone, at Grinnell's and the Jewish
formerly of the royal opera in Center.

Rabbinical Council
Urges Recognition
Of Israel Rabbinate

ATLANTIC CITY '(JTA)—Rab -
binical Council of America, at
the closing session of its 13th
annual convention here, issued
a call to American Jewry to
recognize the Israeli Chief Rab-
binate as the central religious
authority for world Jewry. The
call was issued in the form of
a resolution adopted by the 150
delegates attending the conven-
tion.
11.bbi Israel Tabak,. of Balti-
more, was re-elected president.
Reviewing the relationship be-
tween the Council and American
Jews with the Israeli Rabbinate,'
Rabbi Charles B. Chavel; of
Edgemore, L. I., said, "it is un-
derstood the relationship is
purely voluntary and therefore
the Chief Rabbinate will act as
a guiding light to all Jewish
communities seeking religidus
instruction."

One Sunday, April 19, 1943, black-clad Nazi death battalions
marched into the Warsaw Ghetto in full battle array, intent upon
their fiendish work of rounding up Jews for the ovens and gas-
chambers. For months they had run riot in the ghetto, perpe-
trating acts of violence and • rising, involving both Poles and
cruelty of which the outside Jews, began with the promise of
world knew nothing.
Russian aid. For 63 days and
On this sunny spring cl a . .y nights they fought against the
their confident, goose - stepping Germans, until the last cartridge
columns were met—not by the was gone. The Russians had be-
usual cringing victims, but—by trayed them.
grenades and incendiary bot-
Tears at the Heart
tles. Tanks burned, many Ger-
Goldstein
himself was arrested
mans fell and the columns with-
by the NKVD, and miraculously
drew in haste and confusion.
escaped from Russian-dominat -
Suicidal Battle
ed territory after his release.
- So began the Warsaw Ghetto
"The Stars Bears Witness" is
Uprising. The events that led a remarkable for its success in
handful of Jews to commit transmitting to the reader the
themselves to suicidal battle combined and individual prob-
against the mightiest military lems and agonies of the Jews of
force then known to man have Warsaw. It is a book that tears
been told for the first time in at the heart, but it is essential
the English language with 'the reading for Jew and Gentile
publication of "The Stars Bear alike. It is a damning docu-
Witness," by Bernard Goldstein, mentation of man's inhumanity
NEW YORK—Dr. Samuel Bel-
one of the leaders of the upris- to man. If the words had been kin, president, Yeshiva Univer-
ing and a legendary hero to the written in blood they could not sity, announced that the first'
Jews of Warsaw even before the have moved the reader more.
phases of Yeshiva's expansion
program had been completed
war.
Man
Debt to Fellow
The book covers the five years
and will be dedicated during a
Goldstein's
own
words
surn.
from the invasion of Poland by
week of celebration to be held
the Germans to the "liberation" marize his reasons for writing it. June 12 through June 19.
by the Russians. It tells, factu- In the concluding paragraPh he
Program participants will be
ally, step by step, of the forma- says:
Secretary of Defense Louis John-
"If
there
is
any
purpose
in
tion of the Warsaw Ghetto and
son, Vice-President Alben Bark-
the slow ruthless extermination our survival, perhaps it is to ley, Dr. James B. Conant, presi-
give
testimony.
It
is
a
debt
we
of the inhabitants.
dent of Harvard University, Dr.
Nike than any other litera- owe, not alone to the millions J. Hillis Miller, president of the
dragged
to
death
in
Were
who
ture on the subject, this book
University of Florida, Dr. Joseph
makes the reader understand crematoria and gas chambers, Schwartz, European director of
what it felt like to be a Jew but to all our fellow human be- the JDC, Dr. Harold Taylor,
trapped behind German lines, ing who want to live in brother- president of Sarah Lawrence,
awaiting death,. yet fighting the hood—and who must find a Dr. Algo Henderson, associate
thought and the actuality to the way."
Our memories cannot be so commissioner of education, New
end.
short that we would fail to see York St-ate, Dr. Bryn Hovde,
Names Places. People
what lessons "The Stars Bear president of the New School for
• Goldstein is naming names Witness" holds for us today, and Social Research, and others.
and places, giving us perhaps
too little of his own fabulous tomorrow.
Goldstein's book is a refresher
personal experiences, yet writ- course in the need for preserv-
ing with dignity and without ing democracy, and fighting all
exaggeration. It is with a dis- those who stand in the way of
tinct sense of shock that we that brotherhood — while there
Mildred Grosberg
read of the Jewish Gestapo. It
is
still
a
chance.
`Benin's
is with revulsion that we read
of documented incidents of Ger-
JEWISH
man barbarism directed against Cincinnati Archbishop
the_ helpless Jews.
COOK BOOK
Nor.is the Warsaw Ghetto Up- Donates •$ l ,000 to JWF
rising the finale of this incred-
CINCINNATI, (JTA)—A $1,000
By Securing Two
ible document. ' Of the 60 10,000
contribution
to the Jewish Wel-
when entered the Ghetto, only
NEW
Subscribers
fare Fund was received.from 4,he
a few, escaped. They secreted most Rev,. John T. McNiebolas
Jewish News
to
themselves as best they could in
Archbishop of
underground bunkers or in the Roman Catholic .
CALL
apartments of Gentiles, to es- Cincinnati, who wrote: "This is
' cape the Germans, and the Pol- only a token of my great con-
The Jewish News
ish blackmailers who preyed cern and devotion to the Jewish
people. The sad story of their
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upon them.
After months of tortuous persecution and ruthless de-
waiting the Russians reached struction during the, war years
the Vistula •and the Warsaw up- can never be told."

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