City's First Jewish Citizens
Here are some of the first Jewish citizens in Detroit,
who were listed in Irving Katz's recent article:
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iGazos i Competitor
Israelis to Grid
And Beer It
NEW YORK (AJP)—Israel's
traditional favorite beverage,
the cool refreshing. "gazos,"
faced the prospect of competi-
tion from a popular American
brew, the lamented 10 cent beer.
A company comprised of
Israeli and American business-
men disclosed that construction
was underway in Tel Aviv for a
'new, completely modern brew-
ery. The new brewery, Louis
Hertzberg, president of the Met-
ropolis Brewery of New York,
disclosed, will have an adjoining
cold storage and ice plants and
will be equipped with modern
American machinery.
The Aiew Israeli premium beer
will be produced for Palestinian
distribution and for export.
Louis randeis and the Labor
Pains of 20th Century Capital
employer and employee a r e
necessarily hostile—that what is
good for one is necessarily bad
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The situation in the New York
first Jew on the United States
Supreme Court Bench, was a garment industry in 1910 was
SIGNATURE OF CHAPMAN ABRAHAM, THE FIRST JEW IN
strangely contradictory figure. that of an immovable body and
MICHIGAN
His liberalism was heavily an irresistible force finding
scented" with conservatism; his themselves partners at bridge.
attitude of non-participation Manufacturers were plentiful,
smacked strongly of partisan- competition was acute, and eco-
ship. In fact, Brandeis defied n o m i c unrest menaced em-
classification just as he defied ployees and employers alike. The
the New York, New Haven, and workers had not yet developed
Hartford Railway in 1906 and an effective and unified organ-
Chaim Weizmann in 1920. The ization. Such flimsy organiza-
reasons for his enigmatic incon- tion as they did have frightened
sistencies c a ri be understood and antagonized the manufac-
from a study of his varied turers, who were already watch-
Propaganda Leaflets
career as an advocate, jurist, ing the weather for signs of the
red plague of Marxism.
and American Zionist.
Lead to New Expose
Brandeis in his young man-
Since conditions were so, and
The propaganda leaflets aimed hood was something of a Boston the manufacturers safely held
at disruption of national unity Brahmin. He had attended Law the upper hand, the garment
with which the vicinity of the School, and came to be quite in- workers found themselves on the
Detroit Tank Arsenal was bom- timate with the "better" fam- wrong end of a half-Nelson neck
barded from a mysterious plane ilies in and around Boston. Not lock, and they determined to
are identical with leaflets carry- too long after his entry into the break the uncomfortable hold
ing the imprint of the so-called legal world, however, he began as soon as possible. And so, July
Patriotic Tract Society, a litera- to be interested in certain so- 7, 1910, found the garment
ture distributing branch of cial causes which his wealthy, workers squaring off for a gen-
Smith's hate-mongering organ- conservative friends found little eral strike, and the employers
EDWARD KANTER, first Jew- SIMON FREEDMAN, one of ization which he labels the to their liking. The rights of on guard with a Cloak, Suit &
Temple
ish banker in Detroit and first the . early presidents of
labor, problems of the working, Skirt Manufacturers' Protective
Christian Nationalist Crusade.
Detroit Jew to become a member Beth El, who is listed in the
classes, and similar considera- Association. Brandeis, the chair-
Smith's
last
financial
report,
City Directory of 1845.
of the State Legislature.
as filed with the Clerk of the tions were hardly fashionable in man of the arbitration commit-
House of Representatives in the society in which Brandeis tee, found as the chief bone of
Eddie Cantor Children's
Washington, listed the following was accustomed to mingle. They contention t h e issue of the
Home Opened in Israel
were particularly inappropriate closed shop. Nothing seemingly
JERUSALEM (JTA)—An "Ed- Detroiters as contributors dur- for an up-and-coming corpora- could so inflame faction against
ing
1950
to
his
Crusade:
die Cantor Children's Home"
tion lawyer, but he did not let
Ted LoGrone, $145; M. Herri- that stop hiM. As Brandeis's faction as the question of who
was opened in the collective set-
- . J. Fackler, $110; corporation practice grew, so did was to be employed in garment
tlement Maale Hamisha, near man, $127; 2
factories.
Jerusalem, in the presence .of W. Anders, $512; T. & F. Kramer, his sympathies for the laboring
After a number of skirmishes
$120;
L.
E.
Zink,
2525
Fifth
St.,
U.S. Ambassador Monnett Davis,
classes.
and considerable front line ac-
leaders of the Jewish Agency $225.
In time, Brandeis came to
This report listed the follow- be known as a stalwart cham- tion, Brandeis attempted to pro-
and of the Hadassah.
The institution was named for ing as having received funds pion of individual rights, a vide the basis for an armistice
the American Jewish actor in from the Crusade for services righteously indignant prophet with his "pieferential union
recognition of his efforts in the performed: George Sadowski;, exhorting the people against shop." Truce talks bogged down,
United States on behalf of the 'attorney, $25; Graphic Arts stifling controls of any kind but after a clarification of Bran-
Hadassah and the United Jewish Service, 1345 Broadway, $5,703, ("bigness," as he called it), deis's basic plan, and a renam-
ing of it, as "protocol." by Louis
for printing and paper.
Appeal.
particukrly the lurking dan- Marshall, it appeared that the
ger of no much money tied up war was over. Under this plan
ill too few hands. But, thanks
standards were to prevail,
to a prosperous legal career union
and
preference
in hiring was to
and judicious investments, be given to union
workers where
Brandeis was worth well over
three million dollars at the their qualifications were equal to
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
those of non-union workers.
(Copyright, 1951, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
time of his death in 1941.
The plan which Brandeis was
SOLOMON BENDIT, the first
Despite an excellent upbring-
vice president of Temple Beth Clipping From Israel
ing and a most enlightened instrumental in formulating was
. a time, for
but event
A Tel Aviv court recently handed down a decision which awareness of what Was going on effective
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El, who is listed in the City
brought wide criticism from religious elements. The case involved in the world about him, Bran- rally schoIem (peace) began to
Directory of 1845.
a "kohen" and a divorcee. Under Jewish law a "kohen" is not per- deis was totally indifferent to go out of style, like the seasonal
mitted to marry a divorcee. The couple, refugees, met in Italy. Be- Jewish traditions and institu- a'arments of the innumerable
cause their identification papers were not in order they were un- tions. Slowly, however, the sig- manufacturers. Largely at fault
able to marry legally. Instead they resorted to an ancient and nificance of being Jewish in a was the machinery of the plan
permissible Jewish practice. The man placed a ring on the woman's complex non-Jewish world of for adjusting grievances be-
finger and, in the presence of a minyan, declared her to be his commerce and group needs tween employers and employees.
lawful spouse. Later the couple settled in Israel, where they sought began to dawn on him. In 1912 The preferential union shop,
to legitimize the marriage in full compliance with Jewish law he met a former associate of however, was effective as a pro
and tradition. But no rabbi in Israel would marry them in viola- Theodor Herzl, Jacob- De Haas, tern expedient for maintaining
tion of the Biblical edict. Finally they took the matter to court, and somehow became suddenly amity between capital and
since, under Israeli law, courts have jurisdiction to determine' and strongly imbued with the labor, and for curbing excesses
marital questions. The court was in a quandry. To rule the mar- meaning a n d aspirations of of "bigness" on the part of
riage legal would • have meant antagonizing religious elements. Zionism. Brandeis's rise in the either side. Brandeis, here as
Besides, it was reluctant to set a precedent. In the end the court sphere of Zionism was as mete- elsewhere, successfully attempt-
ruled that the couple wis entitled to documents establishing their oric as his rise in the legal ed to advance the cause of the
marriage relationship. As to the question whether they complied world. There is little doubt that individual and the welfare of
with Jewish' law in getting married, the court held that the issue he would have become one of human initiative.
was not germane. Instead the court ruled that this particular the very highest luminaries in
question must remain unsolved until laws are formulated meeting Zionist endeavor had he not had
KKK Attacks Baruch
such contingencies.
a difference of opinion with
JACOB SILBERMAN, first
Weizmann in 1920. After this As _a 'Zionist Jew'
president of Temple Beth El and They Can Have Him
schism Brandeis resigned from
first president of Pisgah Lodge,
GEORGETOWN, S. C. (JTA)--
Last Easter, Martin Bormann Jr., and his sisters, Erika and active leadership, but remained
who is listed in the City Direc- Irma, had an audit ce with the Pope. Martin Bormann Jr., Hit- an ardent Zionist throughout Bernard Baruch was attacked as
tory of 1846.
ler's godson, lived in South Germany. He has adopted the 'Catho- the remainder of his life.
"a Zionist Jew" by Thomas L.
lic faith and is a student for the priesthood in the seminary of
Brandeis's deep interest in Hamilton, Grand Dragon of the
Zionism did not affect his at-
the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart near Ingoistadt. He is 21.
During the war he was enrolled in the best special schools for titude toward Jewish tradi- Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina..
tions. He held himself entirely He spoke before a crowd of
Nazi party "elite" youngsters. His sisters too became converts to
aloof from custom and ritual, about 1,000 persons gathered 20
Catholicism, but one of them returned to the Protestant fold. A
from anthing that would set miles from Mr. Baruch's planta-
publishing house in Tangier will shortly publish a series of ex-
a group apart, except some- tion home. None of them wore
change letters between Bormann and his wife. This information
thing like "blood," which was klan robes.
is culled from the July issue of the Catholic Digest.
The meeting marked renewed
already there. At his funeral
services in 1941, Dean Acheson Klan activity in South Carolina.
Missing Jewels
delivered the eulogy, following The Ku Klux Klan leader said
S. Wiesenthal has been carrying in "Aufbau" interesting re-
which Brandeis's body was that Mr. Baruch is attempting
ports about secret Nazi treasures. Only a small part of the gold,
jewels and other valuables looted from Jews have been turned cremated. Yet in 1919, if to "regiment" the American peo-
over by the allied governments to the Jewish Agency and the Israel Zangwill and others had ple with federal control. He also
had their way, Brandeis would spoke against Negroes, stating
JDC. Wiesenthal indicates that in some mysterious manner some
have been the first President that they are conducting effec-
of the treasures which had been assigned to Jewish organiza-
tiyA propaganda toward ending
of Palestine.
tions had disappeared. This is a matter that deserves thorough
One of Brandeis's most out- segregation in schools.
investigation.
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standing efforts on behalf of so-
cial progress and the improve- British Reported Asking for
A Busy Man
The other day I asked Louis Segal, the well-known Mapai ment of the position of labor Negev Oil Concessions
leader, "How come you are still here? Aren't you joining the gen- occurred in 1910, when he was
LONDON (JTA) — British oil
made chairman of the arbitra-
ADAM HERSCH, a charter eral exodus to the Zionist Congress?" Segal replied: "I am too tion board in the New York gar- companies have approached the
member of Temple Beth El, who busy to go to the Congress." This is typical of 'the man. He is the ment 'workers' strike. His con- Israel Government in the hopes
is listed in the City Directory of most hard working Zionist leader I know. Recently he celebrated ciliatory attitude toward both of securing concessions for ex-
his 25th anniversary of Zionist activities. He more than deserved
1846.
all the compliments that were paid him. Though devoted to party labor and capital hq.d been ploration and exploitation of oil
discipline, he has preserved his common sense, and what is more, clearly indicated five years be- resources in the Negev and in
36 THE JEWISH NEWS
his fairmindedness. He is, indeed exceptional._ He prefers to stick fore, when he told the Boston other parts of Israel. The names
to his desk, instead of participating in the Jerusalem Congress Central Labor Union: "Don't of the companies were not stated
Friday, August 10, 1951
assume that the interests of in the report,
debates.
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On the Record
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By SAMUEL I. BELLMAN, M.A.
Wayne University School of Law
Without counsel purposes are
disappointed, but in the multi-
tude of counsellors they are es-
tablished. — Proverbs, 15., 22.