7 1111.114F Former Detroit Agency Ward Wins Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture 20 — THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 21, 1949 Volunteers Seek Immediate Cash On AM Pledges •l am- 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. F „ 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 * * * , 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 • - 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. ' 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. . 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.