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Former Detroit Agency Ward Wins
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 21, 1949
Volunteers Seek
Immediate Cash
On AM Pledges
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Israel's Cultured Independence
Shown In Hebrew Encyclopedia
While. Israel's fighting men and women were struggling
for political independence behind the Haganah lines in Jeru-
salem, an equally courageous group of Israelis was fighting
Volunteer collectors in trade for cultural independence. The result of their efforts is now
and professional- sections of the in print—the first volume of the projected 16-volume Ency-
Detroit Service Group are mak- clopedia Hebraic a.
0
ing every effort to raise all pos-
sible immediate funds to provide
housing, food and other neces-
sities for new immigrants to
Israel, Irving W. Blumberg, DSG
president said this week. Section
committees are reviewing Allied
Jewish Campaign accounts
which show outstanding ball
antes.
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In the Services Division, •w-
Louthid. Blumberg is cha' an
of colledions, the followin sec-
tion representatives are working
on the committee:
`PROPHETIC HEAD' by LEONARD SCHWARTZ
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, Most stories about social service agencies deal with the work
they are currently doing and their plans for :the future, but the
story of Leonard Schwartz—rapidly gaining fame as "Leonard,"
talented young sculptor—has a present, past and future that make
a social worker proud of • the help: he can give other people.
• Twenty-six-year-old Leonard, in his early boyhood, was a
special charge of the Jewish•O
Child Placement Bureau, Fresh Plishment Leonard achieves —
Air Camp and the Jewish Cora- because his work has an extra
munity Center. This year, he was significance to them; it is sym-
awarded a Gug--
bolic of what can be done by an
genheim Fel-
understanding community for
lowship of $2,
even the most forlorn of its
500 for "creative
children, if the child is treated
work in the
as an individual, given the best
field of sculp-
care that community services
ture." He left
and funds will permit, and en-
for France in
couraged to develop his- own
July, following
greatest strengths as a human
a successful
being.-
one - man show
which critics
hailed as con-
taining "abun-
dant evidence of
technical sensi-
- bility and imag-
ination."
Placed in a
Leonard
Members of the Speaker's-Bu-
private foster
home at the age of four, Leon- reau of the Women's Division,
and became a ward of the Jew- Jewish Welfare Federation, have
ish • Child Placement Bureau, accepted assignments in t h e
• now the Children's Department drive to find housing for refugee
of the Jewish Social Service families arriving in Detroit. The
speakers are working with Re-
Bureau, when he was nine.
settlement ' Service, Federation
`Discovered' at FAC
- It was at Fresh Air Camp, member agency responsible for
which Leonard now looks back the adjustment of new arrivals,
on as his only "permanent in an effort to inform organized
home," because he came back groups within the community of
there year after year as'a camp- the needs for rooms, apartments
er and counselor, where the boy and fiats.
first worked with clay. Arts and
Serving on this special speak-
crafts counselors Irving Rosen
and Beatrice Halter disCovered ers' team are Mesdames Samuel
his talents and suggested that S. Aaron, Paul P. Broder, Lewis
he continue art training at the B. Daniels, Walter L. Field, Roy
Fisher, Jr., William B. Glazer,
Jewish Community Center.
When he was 17, Leonard Arthur I. Gould, Samuel F.
planned to enter Wayne Uni- GrAndon, Theodore Kasle, David
versity, with the prospect of Kliger, Joseph Kursman, Alex-
majoring in art education. In ander W. Sanders, Julian H.
1940, the boy's promise came to Scott, Albert J. Silber, Leonard
the attention of Samuel Cash- H. Weiner and Milton Winston.
wan, well-known Detroit sculp-
In the coming year, Detroit
tor, who adopted Leonard as a will be accepting 20 to 30 re-
protege. He studid under Cash- fugee families each month and
wan after his graduation from the cooperation of every mem-
high school and 'until his en- ber of the Jewish community is
trance into the Navy in 1942.
needed to find housing for the
Upon discharge from service, 200 families who represent this
Leonard attended - Oberlin Col- city's share of the final DP
lege and then Black Mountain group to come here under ex-
College, where he majored in isting immigration regulations.
philosophy. In 1946 he went to
Paris to study sculpture under
Anyone who can offer housing
the G.I. Bill and had his first or knoWs of existing vacancies
show in the Paris Galleries of is urged to call Esther Adler,
Billet Caprito, in December, TR. 2-4080, week days, 8:30 a.m.
; 1948, an event that was hailed to 5 p.m..
as an outstanding success by the
Paris staff of the New York Labor Discrimination
Herald Tribune.
Philosophy of Art ,
Ban in Canada Asked
-That's the story of Leonard—
the unhappy little boy who
OTTAWA (JTA)—The conven-
achieved his full eipression in tion of the Canadian Congress
one of the most profound fine of Labor has adopted a resolu-
arts. Leonard has worked out a tion asking the government to
philosophy of his art—"to syn- legislate the banning of discrim-
thesize the varied abstract per- ination in industry on the basis
sonal attitudes into a form more of race or religion.
symboli^ of human' values to
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The convention also heard a
give a gramatical syntax to the
Plea
for
better
relations betWeen
alphabetical experiences of mod-
Canadian groups regardless of
em art."
Artists,- critics and art fans their race or religion. The plea
will be watching for his work. was made by Michael Rubin-
And a group of Detroit social stein, national chairman of the
workers will have a special Jewish Labor Committee in
pleasure in each new accom- Canada.
Federation Women's
Speakers' Teams
Seeks DP Housing
Michael Dashkin, Arnold H. Rosman
and Morris Spitzer, clearing Plants and
employees; Milton Eisler, tailors and
cleaners; John Isaacs, Morris L. Schaver
and Harrly Schumer, linen Suppliers and
diaper service; Samuel A. Cascade and
Isaac Litwak, linen suppliers employees;
Samuel P. Baker, Leo Polk, Joseph Sand-
ler and Philip Sukrow, power laundries;
Maurice Axelrod, Fred A. Ginsburg,
Samuel J. Greenberg, Henry Grossman,
Rudolf Leitman and David M. Welling,
general insurance; Ira Kaufman, morti-
cians, and Edward C. Levy, cartage.
The encyclopedia, the first his command, whom he released
extensive reference treatise on from duty at intervals so that
Jewish and general knowledge she might continue with her
printed in Hebrew in modern work on the encyclopedia.
times, will contain, when com-
The appearance of the initial
pleted, 40,000 articles by 610 volume was greeted enthusiasti-
contributors, 100,000 indexed cally by Ra,bbi Morris Adler of
items and 3,000 maps and fine Cong. Shaarey Zedek; who de-
art illustrations.
clared: "It is to me a matter of
Endorsed heartily by all Israel infinite amazement and admira-
leadm and 'Hebraists through- tion that the Yishuv, despite the
out the world, the encyclopedia ordeals and agonies of 'the past.
is sponsored by a social com- several years has been. able to
continue on this master-Project
. • . The scholars represented in
the encyclopedia are men out-
standing in the fields of Jewish:
learning, science, social sciences
and other disciplines. I am sure
that it will be a source of inspir
ation to Detroit Jewry to be in- _
formed of this undertaking."
Forming Committee
Rabbi Adler and Bernard
Isaacs, superinterident of the
United Hebrew Schools, - 'are
forming a committee in behalf
of the -encyclopedia. Anyone
wishing further inforination may
contact Weitzman at 3215 Blaine,
TY. 6-5695. He will remain in
Detroit as long as necessary to
fully acquaint the community
with the project.
Lew Wisper is chairman of the
collection committee for the
Arts and Crafts Division, with
Leonard N. Simons as counselor.
Committee members include:
Paul P. Broder, JoSeph Lee, Adolph
and Irving Goldberg, and Arthur Robin-
son.
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Collection chairman in the
Mercantile Division is Louis
Robinson; Gus D. Newman is
counselor, and committee mem-
bers are:
• Harry Kay, Samuel Gerson, Emil Rose
and =Louis Robinson, jewelers section;
Herman Mathias, Ray Redlich, Alex Sklar,
Louis Tabashnik, Louis Robinson and
Larry Weingarden, furniture section.
Abe Kasle is in charge of col-
lections for the Mechanical
Trades Division and Harvey H.
Goldman . is counselor. Section
representatives include:
Fred A. Ettinger and Jack Geller,
mechanical trades; Mitchell Feldman,
garages and parking lots; S. Joseph
Walach and Morris L. Fruman, auto parts
and accessories; Nathan P. Epstein, Nath-
an Kolb and Jack 0. Lefton, gas and
oil; Jerry Bielfield and Sam Herman,
tire dealers; Louis W. Zack, Morris W.
Zack and Samuel Zeldes, metals; Harry T.
Madison and Ben Kramer, scrap iron;
Benjamin Maltzman and Louis Vineberg,
factory scrap dealers; Nathan Fishman,
Joseph Gendelman and Abe Kasle, steel;
Harvey L. Goldman, Benjamin Weiss,
Morry L. Jacobs and Emil T. Stern,
machinery and manufactoring; Morris
Lewis, industrial employees; Jack E.
Lawson, industrial engineers; Morey L.
Abrahams, textiles; Larry A. Bader and
Alfred Berkowitz, bags, bottles and bar-
rels; Peter Trunsky and Sam Berger,
waste materials, paper and bags; Cyril
A. Crane, wiping clothes.
2 SHARE USSISHKIN PRIZE
TEL AVIV, (JTA) —Moshe
Smilanski and Isai Ben Yosef
were awarded the annual Ussish-
kin literary prize.
MOSHE WEITZMAN -
mittee of which Israel's presi-
dent Dr. Chaim Weizmann is
president. • At ceremonies at-
tending the publication of the
first volume, Phime Minister
Ben Gurion declared: "The wall
between Jewish needs and hu-
man needs has been broken .. .
We cannot limit Jewish wisdom
in a spiritual ghetto. The en-
cyclopedia cannot satisfy ail
needs, but without it, it is im-
possible for our people to con-
tinue culturally."
Representative in City
Detroit Hebraists will welcome
the information that Moshe
Weitzman is in Detroit as repre-
sentative of the Encyclopedia
Publishing Co. of Tel Aviv. He
has complete information an the
reference work, whose publica-
tion he terms "an event of cul-.
tural heroism."
- A Haganah officer during the
war of independence, Weitzman
was commander of a sector of
Jerusalem. He relates the story
of a girl wireleSs operator under
Menorah Symbol Notes Progress
Of Bnai Brith Drive for Members
Simons 'Family
Continues Custom-
Of UHS Support
Harry Cohen, chairman of the
UHS Scholarship Fund Commit-
tee, has announced that the
families of the late Nathan Sim-
ons and Seymour Simons have
pledged a liberal contribution to
the United Hebrew schools to
perpetuate the names of their
beloved ones.
A resolution extending thanks
and appreciation to the families
for their gift was adopted by
the UHS board.
This contribution will be ut-
ilized to create a special Nathan
and Seymour Simons Scholarship
Fund, to be set aside to en-
courage s tud en ts to advance
in their Hebrew studies.
A special committee was ap-
pointed to administer this fund,
including : Harry Cohen, chair-
man, Maurice Zackheim, Louis
Stoll, Philip Gilbert, Mrs. Nathan
Simons, Mrs. Seymour Simons.
The Simons Family has iden-
tified itself with the United He-
brew Schools since the inception
of the Schools. The late David
W. Simons, father of Nathan
and 8eymour, was a staunch
supporter of the schools: His
name was perpetuated by nam-
ing one of the school buildings,
at 4000 Tuxedo, the David W.
Simons School.
JWV Memorial
Nears Completion
The Jewish War Veterans Me-
morial Home, To perpetuate the
memory of-the 300 Jewish war
dead of Detroit, is expected to
be completed by the end of this
year, JWV leaders report.
Co-chairman Hy Safran, who
is leading the special gifts 'divi-
sion of the Memorial H o m e
Campaign, announces that sub-
stantial contributions' have been
received by the division. -
The Memorial Home is "being
built jointly with the Dexter
Branch of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, on. Davison be-
tween Petoskey and Holmur. Be-
sides housing a memorial room
with pictures and biographical
sketches of the war dead, an ap-
propriate outside memorial has
been planned, with the assist-
ance of the Gold Star Fathers'
organization.
Information for people wish-
ing to make special contribu-
tions may be-obtained by calling
WO. 1-3090.
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Each of the candlesticks in this ,Menorah represents 300
new members of Detroit Bnia Brith. Thus for, the current
membership drive has lit the first candle. Left• to right, DR.
LAWRENCE I. YAFFA, preside,nt, Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council; SAMUEL W. LEIB, president, District Grand Lodge
No. Six; MAXWELL M. LOWE, president and membership
chairman, Detroit Council, and JULIUS DEUTELBAUM, as-
sistant district executive secretary.