Plan to Attend
American Jewish
Tercentenary
Exhibition at
Historical Museum
Formal Opening
• Of Exhibit:
2 P.M., Sept. 12
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Formal , Opening. of Tercentenary Set'
For Sept. 12; Exhibition at Detroit
Historical Museum First Local Event
Simultaneous with the launching of the national celebrations of the American
Jewish Tercentenary, marking the 300th anniversary of the settleme,nt of the Jews in
the United States, the Detroit Jewish community also will formally begin the series
of locally planned events on Sunday, Sept. 12.
The opening of the exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum, at a brief cere-
mony in which Jewish leaders and heads of the City government will participate, will
take place at 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept: 12. The exhibition will be open to the public from
that time on until the end of December and all are urged to see the panoramic views
of Jewish history at the Museum, Woodward and Kirby.
Charles E. Feinberg. associate chairman of the Detroit Tercentenary Committee,
heads the exhibits committee which also is planning displays and exhibitions at the
Detroit Public Library and the Art Institute.
Henry Brown, director of the Detroit Historical Museum, has cooperated with
Mr. Feinberg's committee in setting up the exhibit. His associate, Robert E. Lee, has
worked with the committee in the selection and preparation of material.
Sept. 20 to Oct. 20 has been proclaimed Jewish Tercentenary Month in De-
troit and Michigan by Mayor Cob ► and Governor Williams and Tercentenary Resolu-
tions haveAceelt- -fid-opted by the Michigan State Legislature and the Detroit Common
Council. The Tercentenary Month will be climaxed by the dinner, Oct. 17, at Hotel/
Stotler, at which Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, American Jewry's most distin-
guished orator, will be guest speaker. Reservations for the dinner acre being accepted
by the chairman of the dinner committee, Mrs. Hy Burnstein, 1'7380 Monica, UN. 3-4363.
A chronological history of Michigan Jewry is being prepared by Irving ,Katz
and is expected to be ready for distribution in October.
Plans are being completed for scores of community events planned by the local
committees — for youth, organizations, the synagogues.
Scores of Tercentenary events are being planned by Detroit's organizations and
congregations.
The Men's Club of Shaarey Zedek has arranged for the opening of its lecture
series to be devoted to the Tercentenary, with a program in which three rabbis will
discuss "What Is the Future of. Our Past — the Next 100 Years of Jewish Life in
America." With Rabbi Morris Adler as moderator, the speakers will be Rabbi Nor-
man E. Frimer (Orthodox), Rabbi Jacob J. Weinstein (Reform) and Rabbi Henry
Fisher (Conservative).
Irwin Shaw, executive secretary of the Detroit Tercentenary Committee, reports
that sub-committees are being provided with assistance from the staffs of professional
organizations. Assigned to such tasks to-date,. according to Mr. Shaw, are: ,
Abraham Kastenbaum of the Jewish Community Council staff, to assist the exhi-
bits committee:
Joseph Edelman, of the Jewish Community Council staff, is working with the
radio, publicity, public relations, television and religious committtees.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress and chairman
of the Western Hemisphere Executive of the World Jewish Congress, left for South and
Central America, on a 10-day mission to some of the oldest Jewish settlements in the
New World. Dr. Goldstein will convey the greetings of the Jewish Community of the
United States to the Jewish communities of Recife, Brazil, Paramaribo, Surinam, and
Curacao, the first to be founded in the western hemisphere.
The first stop of Dr. Goldstein's mission will be Recife, Brazil, the oldest Jewish
community in the New World. Jews began to settle in Brazil in the 16th century,
at first as Marranos (secret Jews) under Portuguese rule, and then openly as Jews
under Dutch rule. From 1631 to 1654, Jewish life flourished in that nation, and Recife
became the largest Jewish center • in the New World. The first Jewish congregation in
the western hemisphere was founded in 1642 in that city. When Portugal reconquered
Brazil in 1654, the majority of Jewish settlers fled, fearing religious persecution. Ves-
sels were placed at their disposal to take them where they chose to go. Many returned
to Holland. Some left for Surinam, Curacao, and other Dutch possessions in the Carib-
bean. A group of 23 Jews arrived in New Amsterdam, now New York City, in Septem-
ber, 1654, and established the first Jewish settlement in the United States.
Three hundred years of American Jewry's literary achievements in English,
Yiddish and Hebrew are highlighted in a series of surveys and articles in volume 12
of the Jewish Book Annual published by the National Jewish Welfare Board-sponsored
Jewish Book Council, Rabbi Ely E. Pilchik, Newark, Council president, announced.
A number of important books will be published to mark the Tercentenary cele-
bration. The first two, which will come off the press on Sept. 12, are:
"Blessed Is the Land" by Louis Zara, a novel dealing with the story of the
first 23 Jews who settled in New Amsterdam, to be published by Crown; and "Ad-
venture in Freedom: Three Hundred Years of Jewish Life in America," by Oscar
Handlin, to be issued by McGraw Hill Book Co.
I Ilustrated American Jewish History Starts
In The Jewis, \Jews With Next Week's Issue
Details on Page 20
Stories Based on Direct JTA Teletype
Wires to The Jewish News
Serious threats to Israel's security are seen in the lift-
ing by Great Britain of the three-year-old embargo on the
shipment of arms to Egypt.
Informed by the British Foreign Office of its decision,
Israel's authorities expressed their sense of shock and For-
eign Minister Moshe Sharett warned the Western Powers
that their efforts to consolidate a democratic defense sys-
tem based on regional blocs confronted Israel with "an un-
precedented act of territorial ostracism."
The JTA reported Tuesday, from _Jerusalem, that Pre-
mier Sharrett, in a 40-minute review of the situation which
opened the debate on foreign policy in the Knesset, bitterly
assailed completion of the Suez Canal Zone evacuation
agreement "without any vestige of concern for the security
of Israel," and denounced the provision bf arms to Egypt.
Mr. Sharett divided his survey of Israel's international
position into two sections—the situation resulting -from the
Anglo-Egyptian agreement on the Suez Canal Zone, and
the current trend of United States policy, "the inevitable
result of which is the widening of the military gap between
Egypt and Israel."
He told the Knesset that Israel, first and foremost,
must rely on the people of Israel and on the support of "mil-
lions of our fellow Jews who will stand by us in our strug-
gle and will continue to support us with brotherly hands."
The American policy of arming Egypt and thus in-
creasing the odds against Israel, Mr. Sharett warned, is
making Israel resentful. "Israel itself," he declared, "en-
joys American economic assistance which was of tremen-
dous value to our development and I take this opportunity
to thank the United States, its people and its government;
for it. But we denounced and we will continue to denounce
the granting of arms to the Arab states as long as there
is no peace in the region."
In Washington, however, State • Department sources,
which were emphatic on the need to arm Arab League
states, hailed the British decision to lift the arms embargo
to Egypt and indicated that the State Department felt that
it was enough to obtain "assurances" from the Arabs that
they would not use such arms aggressively.
A spokesman for the Egyptian Embassy in Washing-
ton predicted that negotiations in Cairo for the granting
of American military aid to Egypt would be completed in
about a week and that with new American weapons Egypt
might expand its army to 500,000 men within a year.
In an interview published in the current issue of U.S.
News and World Report, Premier Gamal, Abdel Nasser of
Egypt demanded that the United States supply Egypt with
arms, but insisted that "no pressure will be put on us, espe-
cially as regards a prior settlement of the Israel question.
We will settle that problem ourselves."
State Department officials took issue with Israel com-
plaints regarding the Suez blockade. They defended Egypt
to a considerable degree, insisting that Egypt does nothing
more than exercise its legal right to visit and search foreign
shipping in Egyptian territorial waters.
It is expected that the first order the Egyptians will
place is for the 16 centurian heavy tanks they had on order
when the ban went into effect in October 1951. Jet planes,
motor vehicles, artillery and ammuntion are also known to
be on the Egyptian priority lists. The Defense Ministry
spokesman said in London that most of the weapons the
Egyptians might want are in stock and that centurian
tanks would be available "quite quickly."
Commentators in the London press were quick to
underline the fact that Egypt has 30,000,000 pounds ster-
ling in its current balance in Britain and has more than
100,000,000 pounds in frozen sterling accounts which Bri-
tain is releasing in annual installments.
Ram/eh Histadrut House Honors
Morris Schaver's 60th Birthday
A Jewish Telegraphic Aency cable to The Jewish News, Tues-
day noon, from Tel Aviv, revealed that the cornerstone was laid
ern Ramleh for the Histadrut House, in honor of the 60th birth-
day of Morris Schaver, leader in the Labor Zionist movement h
Detroit. The Detroit Histadrut Campaign provided the funds for
the expense of the building in Mr. Schaver's honor, according to
the cable.
Mr. and Mrs. Schaver, their son Itzhak, and Mrs. Schaver's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. 'Jacob Lazaroff of Los Angeles, formerly of
Detroit, are now visiting Israel and were present at the laying oil
the cornerstone in Ramleh.