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Oettroit Jewry to the Rescue

Friday, August 5, 1949

Resettlement Service Carries on
rradition of Help to Refugees

Elath Brings Weizma-nn's
Greetings to Truman

Dr. Aronstam's Pamphlet, in 1904
Brought Personal Note from Nordau

A personal note from Max
The letter reads:
Nordau, pioneer Zionist, to Dr. Dr. N. E. Aronstam
164 High St. E. (now Mernor
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Israeli Noah E. Aronstam of Detroit,

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Ambassador Eliahu Elath called
on President Truman at the
White House and later said that
he delivered to the chief execu-
tive a perscinal message of
greetings from Israeli . President
Chaim Weizmann. Elath re,
turned from Israel a few days
ago.

least one young child and often
two.
The economic plight of the

postwar immigrants and the
effect of their harrowing ex-
periences in Europe have re-
quired the formation of addi-
tional services to help them in
their adjustment. Assisting in
the work of the Resettlement
Service are the Case Commit-
tee headed by Mrs. Julian H.
Krolik, and the Immigration
Committee, with David I. Rosin
as chairman. -

A NEW DAY A-COMING. That's what this little girl's
ather is saying as they wait to clear immigration authorities
ollowing arrival in the United States. If this family should
•ome to. Detroit, they will find housing, recreation and job
ounseling through the efforts of. Resettlement. Service, in co-
peration with other local social service agencies. Funds for
his kind of help for new AtheriCans are supplied by Detroit's
ewish community through the Allied Jewish Campaign.

Board of Governors of the Jewish Welfare
ederation: voted to accept and provide for 200 refugee
'amilies in 1949, they were continuing a tradition established
y the Jewish. Community of DettOit when European Jews
irst began to seek.haven in this country in the flight from
azism.

When the

Under the leadership -.of the
to Fred M. Butzel, who was
mong the-first to recognize that
e new arrivals would require
lanned assistance; the Jews - of
troit established the Resettle-
ent Service in 1938, with Har-
Id Silver as executive. director.
tn—Butzel became the agency's
rst preSident and served in
at capacity Until his death
st -year, when the office was
umed by another of the Re-
ttlettient S e r vide founders,
dge- Theodore Levin.
"The Resettlement Service was.
natural outgrowth of early
ividual efforts in behalf of . 'ref-
gees and the first organized as
stance, given In the . fOrm of.
lief payments by the Jewish
ocial Service Bureau," Silver
ointed out, in discussing the
fugee picture this .week."These
rly payments, like all aid given
new Americans in Detroit,
ere Made possible by contribu-
ons to the Allied Jewish Cam-
ign."' •

adjustment of a family to a new
home. North End Clinic gives
medical and dental care and
hospitalization, when necessary,
by means of a special fund allo-
cated by the Jewish Welfare-
Federation. Job and educational

Anyone interested in pro-

viding a home for a European

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Jewish child is invited to call
TRinity 2-4080 and ask for
Foster Homes. Resettlement
Se,r1rice., will pay the expense
involved -in feeding, clothing
and housing each child.

counseling .has been the respon-
sibility of the Jewish Vocational
Service, so that the new arrivals
can become self-Supporting as
'quickly as pOssible. Recreation
programs, \\There -neW friends are
made, are planned by the. .,Jev,--
ish Community ,Center.
"Housing is a 'primary con-
cern for new AmeriCans, just as
it is for the rest of_ us,:" Silver
For several yearS, • Detroit's pointed out. A special cornmit-
mish community accepted a
quota of 10 fainilieS :a : month, tee, headed by Milton Saffir,
in cooperation with the na- with outstanding cooperation
tional United _Service for New .from• committee member David
Americans, one of . the . three 'Wilkus, hag the 'single big as-
tnajor partners of the; United signment of finding hotsing.
'Jewish Appeal. The lump 'allot
rue n t of 20 f whines: for ' ,this Another community agency, the
House of Shelter, has been help-
year represents the-est
Mate of ,Detroit's share in the ful in this regard, inaking
final group of DP immigrants, able its entire second floor. for
as this year will see the close . emergericy houSing.

That the Jewish community of
Detroit has done a fine job with
its new citizens is shown by the
record . of the past few years. "No
Jewish refugee has had to apply
for public assistance of any
kind," Silver pointed out, "and
the average time that the new
arrivals stay on Resettlement
Service relief is only seven mon-
ths, including the long-term
help for the aged and sick."
This aid to refugees is one
local expression of the worldwide
social service program support-
ed by the JewS of Detroit in ful-
fillment of their responsibility
for other Jews everywhere. By
contributing to the Allied Jewish
Campaign, Detroit Jews give re-
lief and rehabilitation to Europ-
ean Jews through the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, immigra-
tion to Israel and the United
States through the Joint Distri-
bution Committee, United Serv-
ice for New Americans and He-
brew Immigrant Aid Society;
and shelter and care in Israel
through the United Palestine
Appeal.

Highway)
was brought .to light last week
Detroit, Mich.
at the time of observance of Etats-Unis.
Paris, April 22, 1904
Nordau's birth centennial.
The letter was written, in Dear Sir :
I read. with great interest your
longhand, in 1904, and pertained
valuable pamphlet. Whilst not
to a brochure written by Dr. believing that the dietary laws
Aronstam on "The Jewish Diet--; have been instituted consciously
ary Laws froin a Scientific for hygienic reasons, their origin
Standpoint.
being probably traceable to to- .
temistio and other superstitious-
conceptions, yet there may be
Ginsberg and Rogovin some
sound instinct at the bot-
tom of them, which later insight
By HASKELL -COHEN
recognizes as scientifically jus- ,
(Copyright, 1949, JTA, Inc.)
Your paper is certainly
Although. the: parent Detroit tified.
very powerful plea in favor of
Tigers sent Myron Ginsberg to a
dietary. laws.
the Toledo Hens with the ex- our
I
beg
'to remain,
pectation he would .become the
Yours very sincerely.
club's first string catcher, the
M. Nordau,
Jewish .athlete has been having
trouble dislodging Eddie Mor-
darski from the top receiving
berth.
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Saul ROgovin, star Buffalo
tosser, former Tiger, is having
FASTEST
himself a great time at the ex-
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MOST DIRECT
Over a period of two years the
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SERVICE TO
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times. His latest effort was in
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The community's service to
refugees has not been a, static
ake it improbable that. other thing, but has been -adapted to
ropean Jewish families will be meet the changing character-
ble . to come to this • country,". istics of each new group, Silver
lver said, "once the DP prob- said. With changing conditions
m is solved: The work of the Overseas, there has of course
esettlement Service will be con- been a difference between
ntrated on helping those al- each succeeding group of new
ady in this country and other arrivals. The earliest refugees
ewish new . arrivals who come were Central Europeans,
mostly froM Germany and
this country."
At the present time, Resettle- Austria. They came here with
ent Service has a• case load of sufficient possessions a n d
32, including t hose receiving money so that the principal
unseling service and thOse re- assistance they required was
lying relief, in addition to a in social adjustment. From '
coup of 50 children whose full 1945 to 194'7 the new arrivals
are is the responsibility of the were mainly German and Po-
lish Jews who had taken re-
ency.
"In order to give these chil- fuge in Shanghai. They, like
ren as normal. surroundings as the immediate post-war im-
ossible," Silver said, "we make migrants from Europe, were
very effort to find sympathetic usually unattached indifriduals,
ster homes for them. We have the sole survivors of families.

"ESEisting quota restrictions

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continuing need for foster
omes and would be happy to
lk to any couple who have
in
I m- in their home — and
eir heart—for a refugee child."
It is in the field of service to
ew Americans that overall sot-
1 planning has perhaps paid
e greatest dividends, as exist-
g social service facilities have
een used to meet the various

roblems .that . come

For the past year and a half,
the people arriving from the DP
camps haye been in family _units
—the survivors having married
one another to form new fam-
ilies. These new Detroiters are
mostly Polish. Jews who have
been through -the worst Of The
concentration camp ordeals, but
their hope for the future is
reflected in the fact that nearly

. in the every .couple who arrives b•a.s at

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