First National- Zionist Assembly
Lower East Side A State of Mind Lavick to Speak Convenes in New York Dec. 5-7
lation of the city numbered only On Wednesday
fty MORRIS D. WALDMAN
Five hundred Zionist leaders, Kirshblum, president of Miz-
60,000. In the first year of the I

Chapter from 'Nor by Might'

rachi, and Dr. James G. Heller,
present century the lower East
The noted • poet, dramatist representing a combined nation-I president of Labor Zionist Or-
In 1924, several years after I Side alone contained a popula-
wide
membership
of
750,000,
will
and lecturer, H. Lavick, will be
ganization.
had resigned from the United
attend the first American Zion-
Monday morning's Assembly
Hebrew Charities of New York tion of 300,000. And the density the guest of Detroit Jewry ist Assembly, De 5-7 at _Hotel
Inow known as the Jewish Fam- of that population was so great,'
Roosevelt, New York. The As- meetings will be devoted to six
ily Service) a 110 page review that had it obtained all over the I
sembly has been convened by workshops on education, com-
of its activities was published to metropolis the entire population
the American Zionist Council.
munity problems, youth, public
mark the fiftieth anniversary of of New York City would have
Louis.. Lipsky, chairman of relations, problems of organiza-
its existence. A well known social approximated 150 million. The
the Council, announced that : tion and general resolutions.
service writer, Winthrop Lane, overcrowding of the East Side
at the opening meeting, Sat-
Rabbi Irving Miller, president
not of the Jewish fold, is the re- was an outstanding problem of
urday evening, Dr. Nahum
viewer. In no way identified the day. Social reformers saw it
j of the Zionist Organization of
Goldmann,
chairman
of
the
as fertile soil for producing dis-
with these ac-
I America, will preside at the final
Jewish Agency, and Dr. Abba
ease, crime and immorality. Poli-
luncheon meeting Monday aft-
tivities and in no
Hillel
Silver,
honorary
chair-
ticians regarded it as a promis-
manner con-
,
man of the Council, will speak &oar".
ing neighborhood for susceptible
cerned with the
on current relations between
votes and easy political prefer-'
group interests
the United States and Israel.
ment; manufacturers, as a rich
of the Jewish
Mr. Lipsky will preside..
field for labor exploitation; real
people, he
' Ambassador Abba Eban of Is-
estate operators, as profitable
brought to this
rael will deliver an address to
territory for speculation; phil-
study a detach-
Is The Guy
the Assembly at the concluding
anthropists, as an impelling ob-
ed, disinterest-
session on Monday afternoon.
ject of their benevolence; mis-
ed point of view.
Also representing the govern-
sionaries, as sacred ground for
For a Terrific
"Fifty Years of
ment of Israel, Avraham Har-
Jesus' salvation; restauranteurs
Social Service"
in Jewish education; Dr. David
with their European wine cellars
'Waldman
as it was titled
W. Petegorsky, executive director
is actually more than the story as a_ lucrative place to which to
of the American Jewish Con-
of a charitable institution. It is attract those whose jaded appe-
H. LAVICK
gress, who will speak on Zionist
an accurate though brief history tites found savor in the foreign
of the philanthropies of the Jew- and bizarre diet and atmosphere Wednesday, Dec. 9, 8:30 p.m., in interest in community organiza-
tion and problems; and Rabbi
ish community of New York of the "Ghetto," artists as a
City and of the influence of that picturesque background f o r the Auditorium of Workman's Arthur J. Lelyveld, national di-
Co
rector of Bnai Brith Hillel Foun-
development upon Jewish and painting and etching and college Circle, 11529 Linwood.
general social service through- students as a fascinating field
Lavick has just now completed dations, who will discuss the Zi-
14500 W. 7 MILE RD.
for study and exploration.
out the United States.
his work on the book of Job and onist interest in youth.
.1 Block W. of Jos. Coux,,ns
General discussions will be
The East Side was all this, yet his lecture will deal with "The
I was associated with the
conducted
by
Mrs.
Samuel
W.
more.
It
was
the
spiritual
pow-
United Hebrew Charities for ten
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years or more. First for over a er house of the immigrant Jew- Days of Job." He will also give Halprin, vice-chairman of the
former
president
some
readings
from
his
book.
a
Council
and
year in 1901-2 as a "special ish life of the City. Though there
agent" to make a study of the were so many Yiddish speaking
Movsas Goldoftas, director of of Hadassah; Rabbi Mordecai
causes of family desertion. Then souls in the other parts of the United Jewish Folk School—Far-
again between April 1908 and newly consolidated greater New band, will be chairman of the
March of 1919 as Managing Di- York—including Harlem, Bronx, evening. Morris Nobel, president
rector. This period is reviewed Eastern District of Brooklyn and of Kvutzah Ivrith, will extend
in Lane's book in the chapter Brownsville, they were as dis- greetings. Aaron Tobak will read
captioned "A Period of Progress," tinctly East Side as those whom Lavick's latest poem "In The
the penultimate period, so to they left dwelling there. The Desert" which Tobak has trans-
speak. The nine year period pre- East Side had become a state of lated into Hebrew and dedicated
ceding this, covering the first mind—a mind that embraced
MAIN OFFICE
poet.
decade of the present century, every section of the great city to the
A
student
of
the
United
PENOBSCOT BUILDING—GRISWOLD AND FORT STS.
under the management of Lee and even radiated to the out-
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K. Frankel was the pioneer numbered cities and towns Jewish High School will recite
stage. During those years trails throughout the country where one of Lavick's poems. -
Greetings will be extended to
were blazed, woods were cleared, Jewish immigrants were rapid-
BRANCHES
stumps were removed and fields ly spreading.
the guests by Isaac Finkelstein
began to be tilled. But the land-
Ten years later I startled my in the name of the Sholem
20300 WEST SEVEN- MILE ROAD
n7I1 STEPHENSON HIGHWAY
scape was still wild and pictur- incredulous colleagues when I Aleichem Institute, and Samuel
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HAZEL PARK
esque. Those who strayed into pointed out that the number of Sigel in the name of Workman's
(at Evergreen)
(Near Nine Mile and John R)
it were often bewildered and families dependent on the Circle. Shoshana Freedman will
sing
several
of
the
poet's
songs.
sometimes lost.
"Charities" was only one half of
4900.EAST MeN1CHOLS ROAD
24865 GRAND RIVER AVENUE
Primarily, the United Hebrew the number registered in 1900
The Committee which i s
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Charities was interested in , j even though the Jewish popula- organizing this lecture includes
(Corner Davieon)
(Corner Seven Mile and Five Pointe)
what might be termed the ne- tion in the city at large had in Wolf Snyder, Bernard Isaacs,
gative aspects of life—dependen- the meantime doubled; the gen- Movsas Goldoftas, Samuel Sigel,
13701 WEST NINE MILE ROAD
cy, delinquency and -disease. Yet eral population of the city had J. Comay, Mrs. S. Freedman, M.
OAK PARK
to believe that its interests were quadrupled. The number of de- J. Mathis, Morris Nobel, and
(at Coolidge)
circumscribed by, these negative pendent families was one third Michael Michlin.
elements would be an egregious or even one fourth.
error. Jewish life in New York
CARD OF THANKS
I found the following notes
Member Federal Reserve System
touched it at many points. The among my papers written in
The family of the late Mrs.
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
history of the United Hebrew 1925:
Rose Berman wishes to thank
Charities reflects the develop-
the
its
relatives
and
friend&
for
"The population of the East
ment of that life in many, if not Side has diminished from 300,- many kindnesses extended dur-
all, directions.
000 to 200,000. The expected ca- ing its recent bereavement.
Dealing w i t h complicated lamity has not occurred. The
problems in countless numbers immigrants have not degener-
of families it was involved with ated into a slum population. On
every aspect of life, the relig- the contrary, the great mass are
ion and morals of the Jewish independent and self-respecting
in the Scholnick manner ,
immigrants, their occupations, —many of them prosperous and
their education, their housing, though the Jewish people num-
their recreation and indeed, all bers two million or one third of
their material and cultural in- the entire population, America
now
terests. Those of us who bore has not yet become Judaized-
the responsibilities for the not even New York. The Mayors
management of this large or- are still Irish Catholic, as are
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ganization were privileged to most of the judges and other
view closely all the manifesta- office holders and the police
tions. We touched the Yiddish and fire force. Wall Street is still
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press, the Yiddish theatres, the predominantly Protestant as are
Jewish labor organizations as the public utilities, the railroads,
earitay
well as employers. We dealt the shipping industry and trac-
tion
interests.
True,
the
Jews
with the synagogues, mutual
Ours alone, the regal
benefit societies and lands- are building the big apartment
Lady Madison in exquisite
manshaften„ wit h Hebrew houses (but not the skyscra-
Navy challis flannel
Schools and chedarim (private pers), manufacturing the wear-
tenement schools) with Yid- ing apparel and furnishing the
enhanced with brilliant-
dish cafes and restaurants. We restaurant food. To a limited
woven red stripe. Man-
learned to know how disease extent they are teaching the
tailored yet in soft
school
children
and
healing
the
afflicted the Yiddish speaking
f e mini ne charm. Also in
elements, how Jewish family sick. To a greater extent they
rich brown with off white
life was attempting, in con- are mending the teeth and liti-
stripe. Washable.
fused bewildering fashion, to gating business and in still
measure they are provid-
An ideal gift.
adjust itself to new surround- greater
ings, how Jewish youth was ing the indoor amusements of
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theaters and movies. Never-
trying to adapt itself to the the
theless,
the
Puritan
God
of
the
external life around it; how Mayflower reigns supreme in the
the immigrants and their chil- White House, in the Congress
dren were finding their way and
in the capitols and legisla-
into the economic structure tures of the States. And Tennes-
and carving careers for them- see's anti-evolution law is still
selves in every one of its nooks held constitutional. Jewish im-
and crannies. And, also, how migration has virtually ceased.
the forces for an integrated Those who are here constitute
community life were struggling but three per cent of the popu-
painfully in conflict with the lation. America has nAt become
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In 1900 Yiddish life was crys-
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