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Great Novel About Israel

'Quiet Street' Is Moving
Tale of Jerusalem, Negev

Campaign Needs

The Allied Jewish Campaign continues to
lag behind its projected goal, and is consid-
erably short of the amount raised last year.
It is obvious that a lack of workers is
responsible for the drive's shortcomings.
With nearly 18,000 prospects yet to be
reached, it is clear that the campaign can be
made a success if all the former contributors
are contacted.
Without volunteer workers, the drive will
fail.
Recruitment of new workers still can
rescue the drive from failure.
Those who have campaign slips must so-
licit their pledgors at once. Many more must
volunteer their services, in order that the
UJA, the local and national causes, should
not suffer for lack of means with which to
cover their budgets.

Street Named Kanter

In his series on ''Streets of Detroit," in a
recent issue of the Detroit News, George W.
Stark, the eminent historian, tells this story
of Kanter Street:

This street was named for Edward Kanter,
who was born in Breslau, Germany in 1824.
He was a graduate of the Breslau Gymnasium,
emerging therefrom, with a knowledge of five
languages.
Early in life he became a stowaway on a
ship bound for New Orleans. He was used as an
interpreter on_ the ship. He arrived penniless
and contracted yellow fever. He was nursed
back to health by the Jewish Relief -Society.
A variety of small, jobs followed; clerk in
a drug store, a cigar peddler, waiter on a Missi-
ssippi River steamboat, which blew up and
forced him to swim to shore.
He came to Detroit in 1844, when he was
20. A year later he went to Mackinac in the
employ of the American Fur Co. as clerk and
interpreter. He soon mastered several Indian
languages and became a great friend of the
Indians.
In 1852, he was back in Detroit, where he
tried ship chandlery and, since he was on
the main wharf, he added banking for the
sailors. He became vice-president and treas-
urer of Detroit's Temple Beth El.
The first Detroit Jew to become active in
politics, he was elected a member of the state
legislature. He founded the German-Ameri-
can Bank, becoming the first Jewish banker in
Detroit.

Zelda Popkin 'has chosen an ideal day fir
release of her new novel—"Quiet Street." Her
publishers, J. B. Lippincott Co. (East Washing-
ton Square, Philadelphia), will issue the volume
on May 14, the anniversary of Israel's inde-

pendence.

0F,IA MEASURES
MUST BE USED
to PREVENT
THE RESURGENCE
OF GERMAN
FASCISM AND
MILITARISM-

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Detroit Salutes Israel

On Sunday morning, at the State Fair Grounds Coliseum,
the Jewish Community of Detroit again will salute Israel on
the third anniversary of the proclamation of independence
by the Jewish state.
A great tradition has been established here. It is expect-
ed that nearly 15,000 people will join in Sunday's celebration
of Israel Independence Day, this year's observance to be
marked by the presence of Israel Minister of Labor and Re-
construction Golda Myerson.
The event on Sunday will have the added significance of.
the official opening of the city-wide Israel bond drive. Every
man, woman and child is asked, in addition to contributing
to the United Jewish Appeal—through Detroit's Allied JewisFi.
Campaign—to buy at least one bond and to continue to buy
bonds during the three-year period set aside for the sale of
$500,000,000 worth of Jewish state securities in this country.

"Quiet Street" is Mrs. Popkin's best work. It
is a most powerful novel, dealing with the battle
of Jerusalem, with Israel's -struggle for existence,
with the courage of a people in time of crisis.
She has packed into this work all elements
associated with the effort to win freedom for
the harrassed Jewish population of the Holy.
Land. Most of the action is on the Street in Je..,
rusalem. And because one of -the
heroines in the story labored and
struggled and died in Gan Dar-
om in the Negev, the -tale ex-
tends beyond the borders of the
City of Peace—Jerusalem. The
"Quiet" in the title intermingles
with the "Peace" of the historic
City. There was neither, but
both were aspired for by the
residents who had undergone so
much to attain Freedom.
Mrs. Popkin

An American Jewish flyer from the Bronx,
Al Brody, figures prominently in the story.
Mrs. Popkin brought him into action quite
properly, to indicate the part played by many
Americans in the Israel struggle. Al fell in.
love with Dinah Hirsch, who left her Jerusalem
home to fight against the Egyptians in the
Negev. Al saw her as a builder of a new set-
tlement as well as a fighter in the wide desert
spaces. He saw her give up her life. He wit-
nessed the reactions of her parents, Dr. Ja.
cob Hirsch and his Boston-born wife Edith.
Out of the fabric woven in Israel, in the Hirsch.
home,- in -the parents and the heroic daughter
and the young boy Teddy, Al Brody learned
to know the caliber of manpower that has
developed ISrael into a great democracy.

Every aspect of state-building, all elements
that make up a nation, even an innocently exe-
cuted man who was accused of treason, the
British who fled the land — all are - portrayed
with such realism that Mrs. Popkin's novel may
well be classed as history.
Few of the many books published about Is.,
rael and Israelis emerge as real as "Quiet Street.*
Every character is vibrant. All the martyrs for
the cause of justice are described as human
beings working together to protect a precarious
position in life. .

In its entirety, "Quiet Street" serves to re-
mind the reader of a struggle which too many
have forgotten or are forgetting. It is a story
to remind our generation, perhaps the genera-
tion, to come (the novel is good enough to
circulate for a long time) about an embattled
folk that refused to give up its liberties, that
fought without weapons, without food, with..
Out adequate shelter, against great odds.

Once again, Detroit welcomes Golda Myerson, the bril-
liant member of the Israel Cabinet, whose pioneering work
has set an example for self-sacrifice and devotion to the
builders of the Jewish state.
This represents another interesting
The many thousands who will gather for the Indepen-
chapter in the history of the Jewish com-
Mrs. Popkin has written some good mysteries
munity of Detroit. In this instance, a lesser dence Day celebration owe .a duty to themselves—as partici-
known name is recorded in the story of the pants in the struggle for freedom—to assist Israel in a prac- and a very fine novel, ."Walk Through the Val.
builders of this great community which cur- tical way: by buying bonds. It is thrilling to be able to salute ley. " Her "Quiet Street" overshadows all her
the small state that is winning the battle for liberty and jus- previous works.
rently is celebrating its 250th anniversary.
Mr. Stark, with his description of our tice. It should be considered an even greater privilege to be Spolansky Blames Communists .
pioneers and other important events which partners in the great venture through the Israel bond drive.
are blended into Detroit's history, is _ rend-
In saluting Israel on her third anniversary of freedom For Fomenting Anti-Semitism
ering this community an important service. and in
to Detroit the Jewish state's Minister of
Jacob Spolansky, Russian writer who became
Thanks to him, many unknown incidents in Labor,. welcoming
the
Hon.
Golda
Myerson,
we
wish
to
express
the
hope
a confidential:agent and investigator, and who
our history are being permanently incorpor- thatthe practical result of Sunday's meeting will be an im- has exposed Communist activities in this court-
ated into the offical record.
try; gives new accounts of the penetration o
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foreign agents into our labor movements, into
racial struggles, into government, in efforts to

Hospital Builders

Detroit's first Jewish hospital society—
the Detroit Hebrew Hospital Association—
this week ended its career by _blending its
resources and manpower with the Jewish
Hospital Association.
A month earlier, the women's Mount
Sinai Hospital Association led the way for a
unified hospital movement by joining forces
with the organization that has begun the
building of a Jewish hospital.
These are moves deserving of wide ac-
claim. In welcoming the unifying efforts in
behalf of the Jewish hospital, the community
will recall with gratitude the activities of
the pioneers who led the way in support of
a hospital and who were instrumental in pop-
ularizing the need for it.
Those who are abandoning the former
organizations have reason to feel proud of
their ground-laying work. They pioneered for
an important movement—and succeeded.

THE JEWISH NEWS

Member: American Association of English-Jewish News-
papers, Michigan Press Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing
Co. 708-10 David Stott Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich., W0.5-1155.
Subscription $4 a year; foreign $5.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office,
Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Editor
SIDNEY SHMARAK, Advertising Manager

, Vol. XIX—No. 9

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May 11, 1951

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the sixth day of Iyar, 5711, the
following Scriptural selections will be read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 19:1-20:27.
Prophetical portion—Amos 9:7-15.

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Israel Anniversary Sabbath

Israel's third anniversary will be marked by special
services in all Detroit synagogues this Sabbath.

One of. the rare occasions when all groups act to-
gether, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform synagogues have
joined forces to plan prayers of thanksgiving on the occasion
of Israel's third anniversary.

Requesting all Detroit Jews to mark the occasion by at-
tending the Sabbath services with their families, in their re-
spective synagogues, the Detroit Association of Rabbis has
declared: "This newest of holidays merits religious Commem
oration. By the reading of the Hallel and other Scriptural
passages emphasis will be placed on the historic and spiritual
significance of the day."

It is sincerely to be hoped that this call will be heeded
and that, in addition to participating in the Sunday morning
demonstration at the State Fair Grounds, the Jews of Detroit
will fill the synagogues on Saturday morning in observance
of Israel's Independence Day.
Of special interest is the sermon to be delivered at the
Shaarey Zedek by Dr. A. M. Hershman. As dean of Detroit's
Zionist movement, as one of the Zionist pioneers in America,
Rabbi Hershman has gained recognition as an outstanding
authority on Israel and the movement for the redemption of
the Holy Land. His message therefore is being looked forward
to most eagerly.

Israel's rebirth and reconstruction has been a part of our
prayers for twenty centuries. Three times a day Jews have
prayed: "May our eyes behold a return unto Zion with mercy
. . ." The return is a reality. Therefore the synagogue must
play a great role in the celebration of Zionism's triumph.
Therefore this Sabbath should be converted into a great day
of thanksgiving and should be marked by an inpouring of
Jews into our houses of worship.

Undermine confidence and to foment conspira-
cies, in a new book, "The Communist Trail in
America" (Macmillan).
Mr. Spolansky says of "The Communist Trail
in America": "The book covers every type and
Phase of CoMmunist penetration in the United
States . . . it is addressed to the proverbial man-
in-the-street, the man who, while he cannot
grasp the intricacies of Communist theory, can
visualize the • nature of the virus when he reads
about the people who have .been leading the
struggle- against him in his own. backyard. This
is no idle philosophizing on the merits or de.
merits • of Communism: I can say with vigoz,
was there!'."
He names names and places, tells of the at.
tivities of well known and less known Com-
munist leaders, exposes among others Joseph
Kowalski as "The Little Stalin of Michigan."
Mr. Spolansky charges that Communists were
responsible for the race riots in Detroit in 1943
and accuses them of fomenting trouble in Peek-.
skill, N. Y., in 1949. About the occurences in the
latter, in which Paul Robeson plays a role, he
writes:
"Two professional agitators, Raymond Burke
of the Bronx and James H. Modole of Beacon,
N. Y., both prolific writers and distributors of
hate literature, were found in the area, distrib-
uting their characteristic stickers and pamph-
lets. They had come, we learned, to explode the
tensions and give the disturbance an anti
Semitic and anti-Negro complexion. They, too,
had wanted to ride on the crowded bandwagon.
In their suitcases, .they carried their scurrilous
stock in trade, the usual slogans 'Behind Com-
munism Stands the Jew,' and Tor My Country
Against the Jew.' "
He adds: "If it were not for the Communists.
Gerald L. K. Smith could not survive, SO
much does he need them to carry on."

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