New Hobby Shop Donated by Kogans
Is Latest Jewish Center Activity

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Honor Henry Ford and Rosenstiel

Friday, January 4, 1952

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Panel of Experts
Featured at SW/F
Annual Institute

A new experience in metal and wood work will be provided
members of the Jewish Center, with the opening of its new hobby
shop at the Davison Branch. To be known as the Max ,J. Kogan
Hobby Shop, it was named after the man who contributed funds
to the organization. Mr. Kogan is pictured with Mrs. Kogan at
the right as they watch Alex Nemoff, an industrial arts student,
teaching young Center members handicraft. The shop is open to
men, women and teen=agers, and is equipped with all necessary
tools. The shop is open nightly, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Kogan, a De-
troit builder, is treasurer of the Jewish Home for Aged, a member
of the Federation board and a member of the building committee
of Sinai Hospital.

Committee Report Indicates Trouble.
For Jews Left in Satellite Countries

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The situation for Jews in all
Communist satelite countries is
black and despairing, it is re-
ported in the 53rd annual edition
of the American Jewish Year
Book published jointly by the
American Jewish Committee and
the Jewish Publication Society.
The following is a summary of
the condition of Jews behind the
Iron Curtain in satellite coun-
tries:
Bulgaria: Only a small min-
ority of the 49,000 Jewish sur-
vivors of war and Nazism re-
main after the great exodus of
1948-49. The number of Jews in
Bulgaria was officially stated to
be almost 10,000, while unofficial.
Jewish sources estimated t h e
Jewish population as 6,000 to
8,000. Between five-sixths a n d
seven-eighths of the post-war
Bulgarian Jewish community
have emigrated to Israel.
Emigrants from Bulgaria
stated that anti-semitism, long
absent from the country, is on
the increase. The Zionist move-
ment is liquidated, Jewish
schools are closed and Jewish
Welfare institutions "national-
ized."
CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Jew-
ish population in this country is
about 15,000, about 4,000 of
whom live in Prague. Like other
religious organizations in Czech-
oslovakia, Jewish r eligious
groups-have been reduced to a
few isolated congregations. Of
the 35 synagogues in Prague,
only three were open. The policy
this country is veering sharp-
ly toward outright anti-Semit-
ism.
POLAND: Stringent measures
were taken by the government to
force the liquidation of the or-
ganized Jewish community. The
total Jewish population in Po-
land is now approximately 45,000,
after a total of about 30,000 had
Left for Israel. The economic
plight of , the Jews was more
acute here than any other of the
Von Curtain satellites. Econom-
ically, the Jews are suffering
from increased anti-Semitism.
Jewish religious life was at a
Minimum and except for Lodz
and Warsaw, the few remaining
congregations were without rab-
bis.
ROMANIA: Of an estimated
"."150,000 Jews living in Romania
in July 1949, about 250,000 still
remain. About 80,000 were per-
mitted to leave for Israel. Anti-
Semitism, always a problem, con-

Jews Threatened by-
Syrian Legislation

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News

LONDON — The Arab News
Agency reported Tuesday that
the Syrian Ministry of Justice
is preparing new legislation af-
fecting the Jews remaining in
Syria. According to reports from
Other sources, the new legisla•
tion is aimed at confiscation of
Jewish capital and property.

tinues unabated although in-
cidents are never reported in the
press.
•YUGOSLAVIA: Of the pre-war
Jewish population of more than
80,000, only 14,000 survived the
war and Nazi occupation. It is
estimated that half this number
have left the country for Israel.
Economically, the Jews are bet-
ter off in Yugoslavia than the
other Iron Curtain countries. Be-
cause of the Yugoslay. break with
the Soviet Union, the Yugoslays
escaped persecution suffered by
their co-religionists in other
satellite countries.
However, the religious life
among the Jews has been sharp-
ly curtailed and there is only
one rabbi remaining in Belgrade.

Local and national profession-
als and technicians will be the
"experts" when the Women's Di-
vision of the Jewish Welfare
Federation holds its sixth annual
January institute, "What's Your
Line?" beginning at 9:30 a.m.,
Jan. 30, at Temple Beth El.
Following a convocation fea-
turing Detroit's own "John
Daly," (Mrs. Leonard H. Weiner),
division members will attend
four seminar groups on medical
services, resettlement, the child
and the aged.
Featured speaker at the medi-
cal session, "Holding the Line,"
will be Dr. Julien Priver, execu-
tive director of Sinai Hospital,
now being constructed on Outer
Drive.
Ann Petluck, assistant director
of the national United Service
for New Americans, will be the
expert at the Resettlement ses-
sion, "Tying the Line." USNA is
the Jewish Appeal agency res-
ponsible for resettling new
Americans in communities
throughout the United States.
Four local leaders who will
comprise the panel at "Begin-
ning of the Line," on care of
the child, are: Dr. E. Bryce Al-
pern, pediatrician, Earl C. Kel-
ley, prof e s s or of education,
Wayne University, Dr. M. L.
Falick, psychiatrist, and Irwin
Shaw, executive director of Fresh
Air Society and the Jewish Com-
munity Center.
The panel at the session on
the aged, - "The Long Line," will
include Dr. Roland Athay, medi-
cal director of Wayne County
General Hospital, Mrs. Mary K.
Guiney, assistant director of the
Wayne County Bureau of Social
Aid, Dr. Wilma Donahue, direct-
or of the Institute for Human
Adjustment of the University of
Michigan, and Dr. Herald Shep-
herd, professor of sociology,
Wayne University.

Israelis Hosts to Wounded GIs

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—American Jewish Press Photos from I.S.1,

JACOB BLAUSTEIN (left) and JUDGE MEIER STEINBRINK
(right) co-chairmen of the Joint Defense Appeal of the American
Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith,
cited LOUIS S.' ROSENSTIEL (second from left), president of
Schenley Industries, and HENRY FORD II. president of Ford
Motor Co., for their services in the fight to extend human rights.

Strictly Confidential

By PHINAS J. BIRON

General Rommel's Follow-up

The producers of the "Desert
Fox" have learned a lesson, that
Peter Bergson, at one time is, a lesson after a fashion .
Irgun Party leader No. 2, whose The adverse publicity on the
political activities during the film glorifying General Rommel
war are well remembered by watt not to their liking ... They
American Zionists, is now per- realized that they had under-
manently established in t h e estimated Jewish reaction
United States • . . Without Berg- against the film . . . Besides, the
son's fund-raising enterprises, f or e i g n rights, especially in
Mr. Beigin, who still leads the Europe, gave to the 20th Century
destiny of the Irgunists, as the big shots a big headache .
head man of the Herut Party in Western audiences in Europe
Israel, would be nowhere . . . knew too much to swallow Mr.
It was due to Bergson's genius Zanuck's version of the history
as an imaginative fund-raiser of the war . . . What made it
that Beigin owes his present worse was the undeniable fact
political existence in the Jewish that the same Mr. Zanuck (who
State . . . But that is only in- paradoxically enough was re-
cidental to our story on Berg- sponsible for the splendid movie
son's new activities in America "Gentleman's Agreement") had
. . . As you know Peter resigned another big investment in a film
his seat in the Knesset and that tells a story about Nazi
came here several months ago soldiers . . That super feature
with a plan for big fund-raising is called "Decision At Dawn" and
. . . His idea was to launch a deals with a young Nazi soldier
big campaign to get the Jews who betrays Hitler in order td
out of the Soviet Union and lead help the Allies . . The same
them into the promised land .. . people who yelled themselves
Everything was set . . . Publicity hoarse against the "Desert Fox"
men had been engaged and a hailed "Decision" as a great
committee of sponsors was in anti-Nazi move .. . That's how
formation . . . Suddenly Bergson smart the press department of
called a halt to his preparations 20th Century is . . They sold
. . . What had happened? . . . the reviewers a bill of goods in
Well it seems that Beigin is advance of the release of "De-
ready to resign or if you prefer cision" . . . And so the critics
to be thrown out as the leader came and applauded . . But
of the vanishing Herut group "Decision at Dawn" is more of a
. . Bergson dreams of himself pro-Nazi. picture than the Rom-
as the General De Gaulle of Is- mel story . . .. "Decision" glori-
rael . . . He is in the meanwhile fies Hitler's unknown soldier, a
trying to make some fast money much more dangerous approach
in the export and import game • • • "The Desert Fox" merely
and is keeping himself ready to immortalizes a General .. The
re-enter the political arena in blue-eyed blond, oh so gentle,
Israel . . . That is the inside Nazi in "Decision" is the kind of
story behind the strange silence a guy who "dies so that others
of Peter Bergson, the stormy may live" . . . In any case that's
the slogan used in the introduc-
petrel of Zionism . . .
tion of Oscar Werner, the Ger-
Flashes:
Rabbi Philip Bernstein of man actor who plays the gentle
Nazi boy . . . When we attended
Rochester, whose article on What the
preview of the picture, we
the Jews Believe in Life Maga- noticed
that a lot of hard-boiled
zine created a sensation, is pre- newspapermen
and women were
paring a new article for Life on crying . • ..The poor
guy with the
the urgent demand of the ed-
swastika was such a nice, heroic •
itors.
fellow who loved his people but
New York's Yeshiva University loved the Americans more .
just issued its 1951 edition of "Le Frankly it was nauseating •
Flambeau" (The 'Torch) which
It will be pointed out to us
reflects a high standard of its that
the film also .shows bad
French class.
Nazis and that the over-all in-
Dr. Nahum Goldman, chair- tention of the director, Mr. Lit-
man of the American Section, of yak (who we are told; is a lit-
the Jewish Agency, may be com- yak) was to show the demorali-
pelled to resign from his post zation of the Germans immedi-
as head of the World Jewish ately preceding Hitler's collapse.
Congress . . . Israeli and Ameri- . . . But the undeniable fact
can Jewish leaders do not fav- remains that "Decision at Dawn"
or his dual responsibilities.
arouses great sympathy for the-
"The Desert Fox", which glo- Germans and that we are given.
rifies General Rommel, will be the impression that the German
shown in Germany, after all . . people did not like Hitler and
The widow of Rommel is editing eagerly anticipated his defeat.
the German version.
People will say after "enjoy-
The Jewish Labor Committee ing" this exciting spy story that
does not approve of the Jewish Hitler was a bad fellow but the
organizational efforts in regard Germans, the young boys and
tc Nazi reparations. JLC agrees girls and the venerable mothers
with the 'left wing of Israel's are just as human as you and.
Federation of Labor that if Jews I and what could they do against
do make demands on Germany, Hitler's reign of terror'. . .
they should ask for the return They had to submit even if they
of all Jewish property, confis- hated what they were doing
cated and looted during Hitler's Oh yes, "Decision" confirms the
regime.
cry that no German was at
Dr. Chaiin Weizmann, when heart a Nazi—they were all just
fully recovered from his illness, victims of an evil system, con-
will go to Switzerland for a com- trolled by one man who is no
plete rest.
more
American Jewish Committee's
When -we left the screening
monthly "Commentary" has a room we reminded one of the
circulation of less than 22,000 gentle-men who raved about "De-
copies, although its deficit runs cision" that one could hardly
more than $125,000 per year believe that Litvak's Germans
. . Some contributors get very murdered six million Jews
fanc3 ter:4 f or short articles or The "Decision" enthusiast

Peter Bergson Is Back:

U. S. veterans of the Korean war were guests in Washington
of the Israel Embassy where the American heroes were treated to
an informal evening. Chatting with a wounded serviceman (top
photo) are ELIZABETH BRUFFEY and Mrs. ABBA EBAN, wife
of the Israel Ambassador to the U. S. Wounded Marine AUSTIN S.
PARKER (center) doesn't seem to mind it at all. Between talk
and music, the GIs, representing every branch,,of the service, help
themselves to • tasty dishes which put even the mess sergeant to
shame (center photo). Attractive hostesses, Mrs. NAN GARCICA,
of the Home Hospitality Committee, Mrs. Eban and Mrs. C. iliER-
ZOG (bottom photo) talk to their guests,.
stories..

looked startled and, walked away:.