Frankfurter—
"Big 'Little _ledge"'
and the Anti-Semites
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
Editorials, Page 4
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German Anti-Semitism Seen
Spreading to a Wider Front
Book Fair, Hanukah Fetes at Historical
Museum, Yiddish Public Meeting Dec. 19,
Scheduled in Observance of Tercentenary
•
American Jewish Tercentenary events in Detroit gathered new momentum this week
with the formulation of plans for a number of public meetings.
Four major events will feature the Tercentenary program during December:
1. Annual Book Fair, in observance of Jewish Book Month, at the Dexter-Davison
Jewish Center.
2. The Yiddish public meeting at the Woodward Jewish Center on Dec. 19.
3. A series of Hanukah programs at the Detroit Historical Museum, Woodward and
' Kirby, where the exhibition, "Jewish Life and Culture in Detroit" will continue for
another six weeks.
4. The children's and youth programs at Mumford High School on Dec. 26.
Several prominent authors will appear at the Book Fair programs at the Davison
Jewish Center, this week-end. At the opening program, Saturday evening, the speakers
will be Louis Golding, eminent Anglo-Jewish author; Charles Angloff and Dorothy
Kripke, American Jewish authors.
Shmuel Niger and Dr. Ephraim Shmueli will address the Yiddish-Hebrew night Sun-
day. The children's program will be conducted Sunday afternoon and a women's program
Monday afternoon.
Detailed Book Fair Story, Page 2; Editorial, Page 4
A major activity this month will be the Yiddish public meeting, at the Woodward
Jewish Center, Sunday, Dec. 19, 8:30 p.m., first night of Hanukah.
With major addresses scheduled by Dr. Jacob Shatzky, eminent author and lecturer,
and Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, Mizrachi leader, this program will include the following:
Yiddish readings by Vivien Goldstein of Chicago, the lighting of the Hanukah candles
and the singing of appropriate hymns by Cantor Hyman J. Adler, accompanied by Bella
Goldberg; greetings by Philip Slomovitz, representing the Detroit Committee for the Ter-
. centenary, and Louis LaMed, who will represent the Jewish Community Council. Joseph
Bernstein, who will preside, is in charge of arrangements for this event, to which the
public is invited without charge. •
The established principle of no-admission fees and no solicitations at Tercentenary
events here will be adhered to at the Yiddish public meeting of Dec. 19.
Through the efforts of Abraham Kastenbaum, of the staff of the Jewish Commun-
ity Center, a series of special programs have been arranged for Hanukah week at the
Detroit Historical Museum.
On Sunday, Dec. 19, the first night of Hanukah, the Jewish Center will conduct the
program.
Temple Beth El and Temple Israel have taken over t h e program for the third
Hanukah night, Dec. 21.
On Dec. 22, the Adas Shalom Sisterhood will have charge of the celebration.
The Bnai David Synagogue will take charge on Dec. 23.
The programs during Hanukah at the Historical Museum will be conducted from 7 to
8 p.m. They will include the lighting of Hanukah candles, choral group singing with au-
dience participation, playlets and dramatic readings.
Elaborate plans are being made by the schools' committee, headed by Drs. Leon Fram
and Norman Drachler, for the children's events, to be held at Mumford High School on
Dec. 26.
From 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon that morning, children 8 to 12 will be entertained at a
program that will include the lighting of the Hanukah candles by the United Hebrew
' - Schools' choir, group singing and a play by the Temple Israel High School Group.
The same day, 2:30 to 4 p.m., children 13 through high school age will have their
-- celebration. Their program will include the lighting of the Hanukah candles by the Bnai
Moshe children, singing by the Temple Beth El choir, songs by the Yiddish groups, a
cantata by the Adas Shalom High School group.
That evening, also at Mumford High School, the young adults will have a specially
arranged program.
A proclamation is being prepared by the schools' committee, a n d its printing on
parchment is planned by Leon Wayburn, chairman of the Tercentenary public relations
committee. This proclamation, which is expected to be suitable for framing, will be given
to every Detroit boy and girl attending a Jewish school here.
The League of Jewish Women's Organizations is planning a pageant at Temple Is-
rael, on Feb. 14.
A music festival, at Mumford High School, Feb. 20, is planned by the music com-
mittee headed by Morris Schaver and Dan Frohman.
There are plans, being formulated by Mr. Wayburn, for three television programs,
with Conservative, Orthodox and Reform spokesmen as participants.
Henny Littman, chairman of the Tercentenary military participation committee, an-
nounces that plans are proceeding for the presentation of the pageant, "Heritage of Free-
dom," by the Jewish War Veterans, in cooperation with the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith
Council, in celebration of the Tercentenary. The event will be held at Mumford High
School Auditorium on Sunday evening, Dec. 12. The drama will show the part played by
Jews in the building of this country, tracing their share in all wars, through the Korean
conflict. Daniel Kahn of the Jewish War Veterans and Joseph Edelman of the Jewish
Community Council prepared the, script,. -
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
BERLIN—The effects of last week's anti-Semitic de-
velopments at the German party rally here, when a number
of persons were beaten and called "Jewish Swine" for
fusing to sing an untra-nationalist song, spread Tuesday re-
to
a wider front, as the Bonn Minister of Transport, Chrisoph
Seebohm, and Berlin's Mayor Walter Schreiber, exchanged
attacks over the affair. -
Herr Seebohm, who was the major speaker at the rally,
threatened to bring a libel suit against Heinz Galinski,
president of the Berlin Jewish community, who had ex-
pressed surprise that the Minister would address a meeting
at which anti-Semitic acts and statements were made, while
Herr Seebohm challenged the veracity of Herr Galinski's
statement. Mayor Schreiber came to the Jewish leaders'
defense, asserting that the Jewish leader had truthfully re-
lated the incidents which took place while the Minister was
at the German party rally.
Herr Seebohm, who minimized the anti-Jewish inci-
dents which occured at the rally and charged that they had
"undoubtedly been provoked by our political foes," defended
fully the Berlin section of his party which all observers here
describe as neo-Nazi in character.
He also protested against the Berlin City Council's
plastering the streets of Berlin with posters expressing the
Council's "indignation" at what had occured at the German
party rally and describing these developments as reminis-
cent of Nazi activities prior to 1933.
Shorten' Calls on UN Powers
To Speed Release of 'Bat Galin,'
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—Israel Premier Moshe Sharett summoned the
envoys of the Soviet Union, United States, Britain and France
to his office here Tuesday morning to confer with them on the
Egyptian refusal to release the Israel vessel "Bat Galim" and on
Israel's request to the United Nations Security Council to re-
sume consideration of Israel's complaint against the Egyptian
blockade of the Suez Canal.
Mr. Sharett pointed out to the envoys of the Big Four that
the Israel-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission resolution that
the Bat Galim's entry into the Suez Canal did not violate the
Israel-Egyptian armistice agreement was a confirmation of Is-
rael's position, and opened the way for a clear-cut decision by
the Security Council declaring the ship's seizure illegal and order-
ing the ship and crew released.
The Premier stressed the common interest of all maritime
nations in guaranteeing freedom of navigation of the Suez Canal.
He said that Israel would not acquiesce indefinitely to a state of
affairs where the vessels of all nations except hers were guaran-
teed the right of passage through the Canal.
It has been three years since the Security Council resolution
of 1951 upholding Israel's right to passage through the water-.
way, and Israel refuses to tolerate its victimization any longer,
Mr. Sharett stressed.
Finally, Mr. Sharett drew the attention of the envoys to the
illegality of Egypt's insistence that it has belligerency rights to
halt Israel shipping in the Canal. He also hit as "empty" the
Egyptian assertion that the Constantinople convention of 1888
under which the Suez Canal is administered gives Egypt the
right to interfere with Israel-bound traffic.
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Ilanukah Torch
!
Rabbi S. 7. Cahana
(fourth from right) , director general of the Ministry of Re-
ligious Affairs and Custodian of Mt. Zion, is shown on Mt.
Zion as he dedicates a special torch which will be sent to the
United States for use at an Israel Bond Hanukah Festival in
New York's Madison Square Garden on Dec. 23, and at
Hanukah celebrations in other major cities throughout the
country.