THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July no 1951
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
VOL. XXVI, No. 5
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
Page Four
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
October 8, 1954
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath. the twelfth day of Tishri, 5715, the following Scriptural selections will be read
in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Dent. 32. Prophetical portion, Joel 2: 15-27.
Sukkot Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions, Tuesday and Wednesday, Lev. 22: 26-33: 44, Num. 29: 12-16. Prophet-
ical portions, Tuesday, Zech. 14: Wednesday, I Kings 8:12-21.
Hol Hamoed Sukkot Scriptural Selections
Thursday, Num. 29:17-25; Friday, Num. 29:20-28.
Peace Possibilities: Israel's Concrete Offers
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, there were
important developments aimed at inviting
Arab-Israel peace negotiations.
While these gestures were marred by the
Egyptian ship-seizure and other unfortunate
occurrences, most regrettable of all being the
anti-Israel addresses heard in the United
Nations General Assembly, they must be
recognized as the most important moves
made in the direction of peace.
The three planks in the program broad-
cast by Israel to the Arabs, in quest for
peace, are, that Israel is prepared "to start
a practical scheme of paying compensation
to the refugees," to provide inter-regional
communications across the Negev and to
grant Jordan facilities in the Haifa harbor
and transit rights through Israeli territory.
Israel is reported as regarding publica-
tion of reports of the peace appeal in the
Arab press as having been fair. The points
covered in the peace broadcast by Gideon
Rafael, head of the Israel Foreign Ministry's
Middle Eastern desk, are analyzed by Harry
Gilroy, New York Times correspondent, as
follows:
Premier Moshe Sharett recently reiterated
that Israel was resolved to honor her promise
and to start a practical plan of paying com-
pensation to the refugees. This could have
been started long ago had the refugees who
will be the principal beneficiaries put pressure
on the Arab leaders. These leaders were op-
A German Admission
A World Jewish Affairs report from
Bonn reveals the first authoritative admis-
sion by Germans that six million Jews were
murdered by the Nazis. The WJA report
states:
In an article in "Das Parlament," a semi-
official Bonn publication, Dr. Helmut Kraus-
nick, of the Munich "Institut fuer Zeitges-
chichte" (Institute for Contemporary History),
estimates the number of Jewish Nazi victims
between 5 and 6 millions. Dr. Krausnick bases
his calculations upon the evidence of SS lead-
er Dr. Hoettl at the Nuremberg war crimes
trials. According to Hoettl, he was told by
SS "Obersturmbannfuehrer" Eichmann — the
official responsible for "Jewish matters" in the
"Reichssicherheitsamt" (a branch of the Ges-
tapo) — that approximately four million Jews
had been killed in the extermination camps
and a further two million by other means.
Hoettl added that Himmler had not been satis-
led with these figures as, in his (Himmler's)
opinion, even more Jews had been killed.
Other sources cited by Dr. Krausnick in-
clude a study of the World Jewish Congress .
Institue of Jewish Affairs in New York, which
arrives at a total of 5.8 million Jews killed,
and Gerhard Reitlinger's book "The Final
Solution" which gives a very conservative es-
timate of 4.5 million for the final phase of
liquidation only. "It can be assumed with a
high degree of probability that 5 to 6 million
Jews perished,". Dr. Krausnick says in conclu-
sion.
The significance of the article lies in the
fact that this is the first authoritative Ger-
man admission of a figure of 5 to 6 million
Jewish Nazi victims. German as well as some
Swiss papers have in the past attempted to
minimize the extent of Nazi mass murder by
quoting 1.5 or 2 million Jewish victims.
posed to any solution of the refugee problem,
which they themselves had created. Refusal to
accept this offer will not further the solution
of the problem.
Egypt should be aware of the geographical
position of Israel in connection with Middle
Eastern defense plans. She should understand
that there can be no efficient defense of Egypt
so long as the front gateway is excluded from
the plans.
There is no absolute necessity that Israel
should be a barrier between Egypt and the rest
of the Arab countries. It is not difficult to pre-
pare a practical plan that would safeguard re-
gional communication without infringement on
Israel's sovereignty.
The important thing is to try this solution
to the problem so that those who had fears will
see that there is no reason for their fears.
The Arab countries are in need of indus-
trial goods of which Israel has an excess and
Israel needs agricultural produce of which the
Arab countries have a surplus.
Jordan's economy suffers because of the
difficulty and cost of importing through Beirut
as compared with Haifa. Israel is ready to
grant Jordan facilities in Haifa harbor and
transit rights for goods through Israel territory.
It • is encouraging to know that firm steps
are being taken by Israel to secure a ready
ear for peace talks from the Arab nations.
The amity gestures were fortified by several
important moves in the past week, including
the freeing by Israel of Arab refugee fund;
on deposit in Israel banks, amounting to
$8,500,000, and the release of contents of
Arab refugees' safe deposit boxes.
It remains to be seen whether the Arab
nations will embrace the Israeli offer and
whether the Western Powers will encourage
peace negotiations among contending forces
in the Middle ,East. These are perhaps the
most significant peace aims in the world to-
day. By solving the war-threatening situa-
tion in that area, the West will be able to
act with greater ease and with more freedom
in enforcing its democratic and anti-Com-
munist position in the West.
- The first steps towards peace have been
made. Now they must be pursued by all who
possess the vision to recognize that without
peace in the Middle East we may never have
peace anywhere else in the world.
The AJC Chairman
No greater honor can be given to any
man in an American community than the
assignment of the chairmanship of the major
relief drive which includes the United Jewish
Appeal.
In Detroit, such an assignment—to head
the Allied Jewish Campaign—has tradition-
ally involved a recognition of generosity and
leadership ability.
To John E. Lurie has been assigned the
task of leading the thousands of volunteers
in the sacred task of securing funds in sup-
port of new settlers in Israel, for the relief
of oppressed and downtrodden in Europe
and in North Africa, and in behalf of the
score or more of local causes. To the man
who heads our most important venture is
assigned the serious responsibility of guid-
ing the community towards an understand-
This is a most important analysis of ing of our needs for an expanded Jewish
the tragedy that had befallen our genera- educational program, for an effective Jewish
tion. In the past few years, the Nazi pro- Center movement, for proper child care
paganda machine, operating through var- activities.
The tradition of offering to the new chair-
ious anti-Semitic media throughout the
world, has been spreading the lie that the man the community's wholehearted support
reports of the murder of six million Jews will, undoubtedly, again be pursued in the
were "Jewish propaganda." The dissemina- coming year. The Allied Jewish Campaign
tors of this lie not only showed a lack of is the responsibility of the entire Jewish com-
compassion for people who were exterminat- munity and we feel confident that Detroit
ed but went so far as to ridicule the reports. Jewry, always in the forefront in philan-
The World Jewish Congress' WJA report thropic, pro-Israel and pro-educational ef-
therefore is of the utmost importance in forts, will live up to its traditional generosity
the interest of truth about the worst tragedy in 1955 as it did in past years.
We congratulate Mr. Lurie on the honor
in world history. The only way of averting
the recurrence of such tragedies is by pre- extended to him, we pledge him our own
senting the truth—and the truth is that the support and feel free in assuring him that
Nazis were murderers who must stand con- the community will back him up in his seer
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The Most Remarkable Man of Our Time
Einstein's Genius Revealed in
Published Ideas and Opinions
Albert Einstein—the most remarkable man of our time—
emerges in all his greatness in the book "Ideas and Opinions by
Albert Einstein," based on "Mein Weltbild" by the great physicist,
edited by Carl Seelig, and other sources. In new translation and
revisions by Sonja Bargmann, this splendid volume was published
by Crown (419 4th, NY16).
For the scientist, this book will
prove a veritable textbook, for some
a professional bible. The final section
in the book, dealing with contribu-
tions to science—with an introduc-
tion by Valentine Bargmann—con-,
tains a wealth of information, as of-
fered by Prof. Einstein, on the Theory
of Relativity, Principles of Theoretical
Physics, physics, geometry. The en-
tire section is a veritable treasure on
science and scientists.
This fine book however, is not
limited in interest to scientists. Dr.
Einstein's views on the Jews, Ger-
many, education, freedom, politics,
Dr. Einstein
pacificism, government and other subjects are offered here and
reveal his brilliant mind and his human approach to vital issues.
One of the very significant statements quoted in this book is
the speech he delivered in 1945 at the Nobel Prite Dinner. "The war
is won, but the peace is not," was hiS thesis. It will be recalled
that he spoke bluntly at that time to the British whom he ex-
coriated for the White Paper on Palestine, their inhumanity to-
wards victims of Nazism who sought refuge in the Holy Land, the
dastardly Bevin charge that Jews were pushing at the head of the
queue. And he stated at that time : "Well, I am afraid they cannot
help it: with their six million dead they have been pushed at the
head of the queue, of the queue of Nazi victims, much against
their will."
There are masterful comments on Zionism. To the charge
of Nationalism, leveled against Zionism, he stated, in answer to
charges by Prof. Hellpach, in 1929, that "a communal purpose
without which we can neither live nor die in this hostile world
can always be called by that ugly word," and he added: "In any
case it is a nationalism whose aim is not power but dignity and
health."
Jewish ideals, Christian-Jewish relations, Palestine and the
Keren Hayesod are among the Jewish subjects covered in the
quotations from his points of view. He is powerful in his corn-
ments on Zionism and on anti-Semitism. His expression of "Our
Debt to Zionism"—his address at the Histadrut Third Seder in
1938—is a deeply moving statement.
Especially profound is his article„ taken from the Nov. 26,
1938, Collier's Magazine, on "Why Do They Hate the Jews?"
In this essay he gave his views on what is a Jew, the stimulns
of oppression and the power of the American principles. He
pays tribute in this article to the American "people's sound poli-
tical instinct" and, interestingly enough, he concludes with the
assertion: "Beware of flatterers, especially when they conie
preaching hatred."
The historian will value his exchange of letters with Germans
who took him to task for criticizing their country, which he left
when Hitlerism 'rose to power. He was firm in his denunciation
of bigotry, in his demands for justice, in his championing of free-
dom and the democratic ideals.
The views of Dr. Einstein will cause every American who artp
preciates his heritage, every Jew who is interested in the protec-
tion of the oppressed, to honor and respect this great champion of
justice. His "Ideas and Opinions" prove him to be the great
American—even if that came about by adoption, the great Jew, the
great humanitarian. And his book is a great literary document.
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A Son's Tribute to His Father
Yossele Rosenblatt Biography
Dr. Samuel Rosenblatt. eminent Baltimore rabbi, who has
gained fame in his own right as a scholar and an author of sev-
eral commendable books, has written the biography of a great
cantor, his father, the late Yossele Rosenblatt. The book has been
published by Farrar, Straus and Young (101 5th Ave., NY3).
This biography offers in review the great cantor's rise to fame.
As a child of 5 he already drew la.rge audiences when he sang
with cantorial choirs and later, as a boy, he was the sensation of
Europe as a full-fledged cantor.
He had his struggles. His economic difficulties sapped 3i4
energies. But he was faithful to his Jewish traditions, refused to
take high fees to sing in opera and thereby gained his people?*
admiration and love.
His son's biography is a fitting tribute to a cantor whose famp
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