BnaiBrithWomenMergeEffortsforNov.14
Event; Program Features Eddie Cantor
On the Record
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
(Copyright, 1960, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
Cultural Note . • .
A decade of devotion to' the advancement of Hebrew and
Yiddish literature on the American continent has gone unno-
ticed. Ten years ago the dean of Jewish critics, S. Niger, disclosed
at the 15th convention of the Jewish National Workers Alliance
that a prominent Detroit citizen, Louis LaMed, had announced
formation of the Louis LaMed Foundation for the advancement
of the literature of both languages. He reported the foundation
would award annually two prizes each for the -best works in.
Hebrew and Yiddish in order to stimulate creativity in both
languages and arouse greater reader interest. In Later years,
the foundation made three awards for works inoEnglish of Jew-
ish substance. Since that announcement an historic and tragic
decade has passed in Jewish life. Yiddish, the language of most
of the six million Jews who perished under Hitler, is struggling
for survival. Hebrew, tongue of worship and prayer since - the
dispersion, has found redemption again as a living language in
Israel. What the future holds for those languages in our midst
is within the realm of conjecture. But none will gainsay the fact
that Mr. LaMed's project has been a most significant contribu-
tion to the literary history and cultural values of our Jewish
community in this country.
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Israel Laughs
Chapter chairmen for Bnai Brith donor
event to be held Tuesday at the Masonic
Temple: Left to right: seated: Mesdames
JULIUS DROZ, Bloch Chapter; DAVID
GANTZ, Louis Marshall Chapter; WILLIAM
VALENSKY, Brandeis Chapter; SAMUEL B.
GUTTERMAN, chairman, Greater Detroit
Bnai Brith Women's Council; JACK KLEIN,
Zager Chapter; WILLIAM ISAACS, Fox Chap-
A review of his 40 years in
show business will be pre-
rented by Eddie Cantor next
Tuesday evening, at the Ma-
sonic Temple, at the annual
fund-raising affair of Greater
Detroit Bnai Brith Women's
Council, of which Mrs. Lewis
Manning is chairman.
The noted comedian will pre-
ter; MISS MARION BASSEY, B. & P.; stand-
ing: Mesdames MORRIS DIRENFELD, Keidan
Chapter; JOSEPH DVORIN, Tikvah Chapter;
JOSEPH BERSHAS, East Side Chapter; MISS
LENORA NOLER, Gershwin Chapter; Mes-
dames GORDON FRUITM.AN, Handler Chap-
ter; SIDNEY EIDELMAN, Israel Chapter;
BERNARD GOODMAN, Pisgah Chapter; AL-
LAN NATHAN, Morgenthau Chapter.
sent a two-hour program in
which he will tell of his associa-
tion with the theater's great
characters.
Two pianists, Dave Kenner
and Ernie Stewart, will accom-
pany Mr. Cantor in rendering
some of his popular songs, in-
cluding "Ida," "No Business Like
Show Business," "If You Knew
-Suzie," "Margie," and others.
`South Afrikanders Miss No Bets
On White Supremacy'—Bourke-White
By AVRUM SCRULZINGER
She described the rigid South
African caste system which
divides the country of 11 mil-
lion people into Blacks (about 8
million), colored (Indian, Ma-
layan, some 500,000) , Asiatics
(another half - million), a n d
Whites, at the top of the pile,
numbering some two millions.
"No bets have been missed,"
she said, "in organizing the
system of White Supremacy to
the white South Africans ad-
vantage. And the whole system
is given sanctity, by them,
through Biblical interpretations
placing the white man above
the black."
Following the luncheon, Miss
Bourke -White addressed the
NCJW at the Woodward branch
of the Jewish Center on "South
African Odyssey."
A number of Orthodox Jews were in a heated discussion about
Tel Aviv. Finally one of them burst out in indignation that "every
Jew you meet in Tel Aviv is a goy." Whereupon another replied:
"Tel Aviv is a wonderful city, every goy you meet there is a Jew." -
A Jerusalem resident had become despondent over the business
of constantly waiting in line for food tickets and other commodi-
ties. Finally he decided he was going to assassinate Ben Gurion
as an act of protest. His neighbors warned him against such
recklessness but he wouldn't listen to them. And off he went to
kill the Premier in defiance of his neighbor's pleas. Several days
Eddie Cantor is coming to De- later the man returned and he was immediately surrounded by his
troit in "40 Years on Broad- curious neighbors. When they asked whether Ben Gurion was
way" at the invitation of the already dead the man replied he lost patience waiting in line to
reach Ben Gurion.
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council which is composed of
A number of young chalutzim wanted to see how chassidini
17 chapters with a membership rejoice and make merry on Simhat Torah. When they reached
of 7,000. Proceeds from next the chassidic synagogue they were somewhat overawed by the
Tuesday's event will be used to spectacle and paused at the threshold. An elderly chassid who
took in the situation turned to the group with a smile, saying:
finance the following:
"You are welcome young men, we too are Jews."
National Jewish Hospital at
Denver; Leo N. Levi Memorial
Hospital in Hot Springs, Ark.;
Bnai Brith services at Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; Bnai
Brith Anti-Defamation League;
a Bnai Brith sponsored home
for maladjusted children in
Israel; services at Dearborn
Veterans Hospital; National ref-
ugee service for students; Bnai
Brith Youth Organizations.
"I start every assignment un-
der the illusion that everything
I'm shooting is going to be a
blank," Margaret Bourke White
explained at a press luncheon
at the Standard Club, Book-
In addition, the local Bnai
Cadillac Hotel, Nov. 6, sponsored
Brith women's chapters spon-
by the National Council of Jew-
sor community services, such as
ish Women.
Ruth Alden drive, the making
of cancer pads for the Ameri-
Miss Bourke-White told re-
can Cancer Society, donation
porters of her recent assignment
of blood to the Red Cross, as-
to the Union of South Africa,
sistance to March of Dimes,
and a little of her early years as
Torch Drive and Allied Jewish
a photographer.
Campaign.
Her sideline-turned-profession
has carried her more miles than
The Greater Detroit Bnai
she's been able to count and to
Women's Council 1950 fund-
more than 30 countries across
raising committee consists of
the globe. Between assignments
Mesdames Samuel Gutterman,
for Life she lectures and writes
general chairman; Ellis Fisher,
books dealing with events she's
Alfred Lakin, Louis Barden,
covered. Her current lecture
Leonard R. Farber, Sam Gold,
series, which brought her to De-
Louis Benson, Ellen Goldberg,
According to estimates, alco- Bernard Bliefield, B. Goodman,
troit to address the NCJW on
South Africa last Monday, ends holism costs the American pub- Samuel Bak, Sidney Eidelman
Dec. 13, when she will settle lic $1,000,000,000 yearly.
and Miss Gertrude Landorf.
down to write a new book.
South Africa she said, was
spotted by Life editors as a pos-
sible trouble spot with its grow-
ing signs of racial tension. In
five months there, she said, she
discovered that "White Suprem-
acy is the rigidly enforced con-
ception and made great politic
of."
Negroes have no vote, she
stated, and from the age of 18
must carry identity cards and
tax receipts to avoid arrest."
Negro workers are recruited for
the gold and diamond mines;
they have no voice in the gov-
SYNOPSIS: JOSEF STEiNMERZ wAS
JUST A BOY WHEN THE NAZIS FIRST
HE MANAGED TO ESCAPE TO FRANCE --
ernment, but pay equal taxes;
CAME TO POWER IN GERMANY. HIS
THEN ENGLAND. THEN AT 17 HE JOINED
PARENTS
SUFFERED DEATH IN A CON-
THE FAMED JEWISH BRIGADE TO AID THE
and the present government of
CENTRATION CAMP. THOUGH YET A
ALLIES DRIVE BACK THE NAZI LEGIONS
Prime Minister Malan is striv-
THRU NORTH AFRICA ITALY, AND FRANCE
BOY HE LEARNED FEAR.
ing for even harsher White Su-
GOODBYE, CAPTAIN ToV, THE HAGANAH
premacy legislation.
AND I ARE PROUD OF
THANK YOU COL.
YOU. I HOPE THAT WE
AVRAHAM , OUR
"Four fifths of the male Negro
W LL MEET
WORK HAS JUST BEGUN.
AGAIN.
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population is employed in South
I SHALL RETURN TO MY
VILLAGE.
Africa's gold mines; and gold is
;7 .
the backbone of the national
economy. The country needs
factories, mines; and gold is the
backbone of the national econ-
omy. The country needs fac-
tories, farmers, irrigation proj-
ects, but everything is trained
on gold and its quick profits."
, A veteran Zionist promenading through the streets of Jeru-
salem was heard speaking German with a zest akin to love. When
a young man reprimanded him for not speaking Hebrew he re-
plied: "Young man, after all I am using the language of the Zion-
ist classicists Herzl and Nordau."
A number of Jews from Germany were sitting in a cafe dis-
cussing their past and future. One of them complained that in
the years he had been in Israel he had nothing but aggravation
and tsores. A man sitting at an adjacent table turned with ad-
vice. "Try to master Hebrew grammar," he admonished the corn7.
plainant, "and you will forget the rest of your tsores." .
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In a King's Shoes
Kings these days have enough trouble without having to be
told they might be of Jewish origin. But according to at least one
historian the first Bernadotte to become Sweden's king is said to
have been a French general of Jewish descent who served in Napo-
leon's army. In 1929 the late Swedish King Gustaf left for an
extended vacation to Switzerland while the Crown Prince was on
a mission to the United States. Under, Swedish law the president
of the senate assumes all rights and prerogatives in the absence
of king and crown prince. But Counte. Bonde, the senate presi-
dent, had been very ill and the royal power automatically passed
to the senate vice-president, the Jewish professor Lam. When
the monarch returned after an. absence of several months he
called on the Jewish acting-king for a report. In the course of
the audience King Gustaf turned to the Jewish professor asking:
"Well colleague, how did you feel filling the role of king, wasn't it
a rather difficult task?" The professor's quick reply was said to
have been: "Yes, Your Highness, quite difficult but not half as
4i ;
difficult as being a Jew."
The Adventures of Captain Toy
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 10, 1950
JOSEF HAS WON RAC D PROMOTION
AND THE HIGH RESPECT OF HIS COM-
RADES AS THE WAR ENDS. NOW, HOW-
EVER, THE RUMBLE OF GUNS ARE HEARD
IN PALESTINE AND HE
DEPARTS IN THE
DEAD OF NIGHT FOR HIS ADOPTED ..
HOMELAND.
YES, MAZEL, IT WILL BE GOOD TO SEE
AVIvA AND A LL THE OTHERS AGAIN
AND TO RETURN TO THE
WAYS OF PEAC
Exclusive Jewish
News Feature in the
State of Michigan
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HE JOINS THE HAGANAH AND RISES
TO THE RANK OF CAPTAIN. IN SPITE OF'
OVERWHELMING CODS, THE )-4AG4NAH
PERFORMS BRAVELYND SUCCESS—.
FULLY. BECAUSE OF HIS DARING,
COURAGE, AND
RESOURCEFULNESS HE
IS NICKNAMED CAPTAIN TOV 0Y THE
MEN HE LED.
WE WILL ATTACK AVODA
VILLAGE AT SUNRISE-
YALLA_..