The Sites and ounds of Michigan Je
PLAYGROUND, Winthrop and building in 1877 was the first RAEL, 4th St. and Webster Ave
Petoskey — CONG. ENAI IS-
Margareta, honoring Pfc. Joseph structure erected for synagogue
RAEL,
Waukazoo and Michigan
purposes
in
the
state.
SINAI
tilled in t . in World !
•
I HOSPITAL, 6767 Outer Dr., the Sts.
W a r y II a n d posthumously I only Jewish Hospital in Detroit,
Pleasant Ridge — SUBURBAN
awarded the Distinguished Serv- was opened in 1953. TEMPLE '1EMPT,F, office now on N.
ice Cross. BRIGGS STADIUM, BETH EL, 8801 Woodward Ave., Woodward, to be erected on Ten
Trumbull and Michigan, where oldest congregation in Michigan, Mile Rd., in Oak Park.
By FRANK SIMONS
the hefty bat of Hank Green- founded in 1850. In the dome
Pontiac — CONG. ENAI IS-
As Detroiters and Michigan- presently live or• at one time or berg came within two home runs are Myron Barlow's noted Jew-
RAEL, 143 Oneida Rd. TEMPLE
another
left
their
imprints
on
tiers, you've probably often had
of breaking Babe Ruth's all-time ish history murals installed in
diffkulty thinking of spots to the state's history. According to record. FRED M. BUTZEL 1925, which represent the four BETH JACOB, 164 Orchard Lake
take an out of town guest. Par- towns, here are the highpoints MEMORIAL BLDG., 163 Madison, periods in Jewish history. TEM- Rd.
Port Huron — MT. SINAI
ticulialy difficult might be of Jewish interest as seen by central office building for the PLE ISRAEL, 17400 Manderson
CONG., 903 Court St.
locating places of particular Messrs. Postal and Koppman:
Jewish Welfare Federation; Rd.
Jewish interest.
Alpena — TEMPLE BETH EL, MAGNUS BUTZEL BRANCH LI-
Flint—CONG. BETH ISRAEL, 1 River Rouge — RIVER ROUGE
A 730 page volume published ' on White Street.
BRARY, E. Grand Blvd., named Hamilton d Oren Ayes. TEM - JEWISH CONG., 41 Oak St.
Ann Arbor — BNAI BRITH for Fred Butzel's father, a!
last month by the Jewish Publi-
Royal Oak—SHRINE OF LIT-
PLE BETH EL, 501 S. Ballenger
cation Society of America, en- HILLEL FOUNDATION at the . founder of the Chamber of Corn- Hwy.
TLE FLOWER, 12 Mile Rd. and
titled "A Jewish Tourist Guide University of Michigan, 1429 Hill merce. Another son, Henry M.
Grand Rapids—CONG. AHA- 1 Woodward, is the place from
to the United States," may solve St. LYDIA MENDELSSOHN ; Butzel, serves on the Michigan
which Fr. Charles E. Couglin
your problem. The book was THEATER where the U. of M. Supreme Court. DETROIT IN- VAS ISRAEL, 44 Lafayette Ave., made his anti-Semitic radio
compiled to record the indelible ; dramatic season functions an- ; STITUTE OF ARTS, 5200 Wood- N.E. HOUSMAN BLDG., one of broadcasts and magazine at-
stamp of U.S. Jewry in its 300 nually. Named after the mother I ward, - containing among other the largest business blocks in the tacks in the late 1930's and early
yeart of colonization in America. I of Gordon Mendelssohn, a 1904 items of Jewish interest a self- state, honors Julius Housman, 1940's.
In a dOzen compact and facinat- Michigan alumnus who gave the ! portrait of Frederick E. Cohen, Grand Rapid's first Jewish
Saginaw — CONG. BNAI IS-
ing pages, which include points $50,000 necessary to complete the ! first artist in Detroit (1837). DE- sett ler, a founder f the city' s RAEL, 216 S. 2nd St. JEWISH
of Jewish in- building. GOMBERG HOUSE, the TROIT JEWISH NEWS BLDG., furniture industry and mayor CENTER, Holland and S. Wash-
terest in all of new men's dormitory in the 17100 W. Seven Mile Rd., is said from 1872 to 1874. TEMPLE ington Ayes. TEMPLE BETH EL,
*chigan's com- South Quadrangle, named for to be the only building ever li EMANUEL, 1715 E. Fulton St. 12 . Benton Henchett St.
munities and a Dr. Moses Gomberg, a Russian erected for and by an English- WEST SIDE YOUTH CENTER,
South Haven — ARKINS
brief historY of immigrant and a leading chem- Jewish weekly paper in t h e 252 Indiana St., first permanent
Michigan Jewry, ist who was a faculty member. United States. GENERAL MO- home of the city's Youth Com- FIELDHOUSE, at Rateliff Field
a tourist h a s The U. of M. campus has six TORS BLDG., W. Grand Blvd. monwealth, stands on the site Athletic Center, is a gift of Mr.
enough infor- building designed by Albert and Second, one of the many of the first property owned by and Mrs. Harry Arkins in mem-
mation to keep Kahn. They include ANGELL j buildings designed in Detroit by Isaac Hecht, an immigrant Jew
him busy for HALL, CLEMENTS LIBRARY OF Albert Kahn, who designed the who settled there in 1900. Neith- ory of their son, Richard, who
many vacations. AMERICAN HISTORY, GENER- j Fisher and New Center Bldgs., er he nor his heirs would sell died in World War II. FIRST
The other 47 AL LIBRARY BLDG., BURTON along with the GM Bldg., as the the site out of sentiment, but in HEBREW CONG., Broadway and
states are treat- MEMORIAL TOWER, HILL New Center Group. JEWISH 1953 his heirs donated it to the Church St., was the first syna-
ed in as much AUDITORIUM AND THE MU- ;COMMUNITY CENTER, 8 9 0 4 Youth Commonwealth. A plaque gogue established by farmers in
detail by t h e SEUM BUILDING.
I Woodward, housed in the Aaron inside tells the story of the
B. Postal
Michigan. Its first house of wor-
book's authors,
Bad Axe — THE PALESTINE DeRoy Memorial Bldg. JEWISH building.
ship was erected in 1921 with
Bernard Postal a n d Lionel COLONY, one of many attempts HOME FOR AGED, 11501 Petos-
Grosse Pointe — EDSEL.FORD
Koppman, who spent many to form a Jewish agricultural ! key. JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE
aid from Julius Rosenwald and
years compiling and condensing colony, was established in 1891 BUREAU, 13327 Linwood. JEW- ; MANSION, Lake Shore Dr., de- Christian neighbors.
the data and photographs in the by 12 peddlers from Russia. Un- I ISH WAR VETERANS MEMOR- ! signed by Albert Kahn.
Traverse City — CONG. BETH
Hancock — FIRST CONG. OF
guide. .
trained and inexperienced they IAL HOME, 4095 W. Davison,1
EL, 230 Park St.
Michigan's earliest Jewish set- encountered difficulty and debt contains the Lt. Raymond Zuss- ISRAEL, Front Street.
'West Olive—UNITED ISRAEL
tler arrived in 1761, 60 years and would have starved without - man Library, memorializing one ! Iron Mountain—ANSHAli
after the founding of Detroit. aid from Martin Butzel of De- of the two Jewish recipients of KNESSETH CONG., West Kim- WORLD CENTER, Hiawatha Dr.,
We learn that this man, Ezekiel troit. By 1900, however, the ex- the Congressional Medal of berly atA St.
contains a library, recreation.
Solomons, settled not in Detroit, periment had to be abandoned. ' Honor in World War II (the
Jackson—Site of the FOUND- center and guest house, and was
but at Michilemackinac — now
Battle Creek—TEMPLE BETH other is S/Sgt. Isadore S. Jach- ING OF THE REPUBLICAN opened in 1953 by 250 former
the city of Mackinac—to be a EL, 306 Capital Ave., N. E.
man, of Baltimore). Another PARTY, W. Franklin and 2nd Christians now embracing Ju-
fur trader.
Bay City — ANSHE CHESED side of the building houses the Sts., marked by a pile of rough diasm, or what they consider it
His four Jewish partners soon CONG., 419 Adams St.; TEMPLE Davison Jewish Center': KANTER stones and a bronze tablet re- to have been in Bible times.
followed him there. They were OF ABRAHAM, 254 N. Jackson STREET named for Edward cording that the GOP was or-
Willow Run — AIRPORT AND
Chapman Abraham, Levy Solo- St.; SHAAREY ZEDEK, 200 N. Kanter, early Jewish politian ganized there July 6, 1854 - under AERONAUTICAL RESE A R. C H
mons, Gershon Levy and Ben- Van Buren St.
1who died in 1896. He was a the oaks." Edward Kanter came CENTER, originally designed by
jamin Lyon. Abraham, consid-
• AHAVATH member of the State Legisla- from Detroit. A Democrat, he Albert Kahn for World War II
Benton Harbor —
ered the first Jew to settle in SHOLOM CONG., Highland and ture and a Democratic National switched his allegiance on the bomber plant of Ford Motor Co.
Detroit, left Mackinac to conduct Seeley Sts.; CHILDREN OF IS- Committeeman from Michigan slavery issue, later returned to Built in 94 working days, it was
his fur trade in the south, while RAEL CONG., 112 Lake Ave. for eight years. LAFAYETTE the Democratic fold. Others re- the largest single manufacturing
the others .headed for Sandusky, HOUSE OF DAVID, Britain Ave., STREET CEMETERY, 3387 E. corded as there that day , were operation housed under one
Presque Isle and the Menominee headquarters of the Christian Lafayette St., established in Louis Mizner and Moses Solo- roof.
River outpost of Niagara.
religious sect whose founder be- 1851, is the oldest existing Jew- mons, of Detroit, and Meyer
Wyandotte—CONG. BETH EL,
Some day a book will be lieved he was to lead the "in- ish burial ground in Michigan, Ostrander, of Calhoun County.
356
VINEWOOD.
written on the complete exploits gathering of Israel." ISRAELITE owned and maintained by Tem- TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL, 720
In the section on Iowa, the
of the Jewish settlers and the CITY OF DAVID, just East of ple Beth El. LIVINGSTONE Griswold.
authors refer to the "Time Cap-
Indians. By far the most color- House of David, an offshoot of MEMORIAL LIGHTHOUSE, on
Kalamazoo — CONG. BNAI sule" buried in the cornerstone
ful tale was that of Abraham, the latter sect. TEMPLE BETH Belle Isle, designed by Albert
who, captured by a band of EL, 214 Britain Ave. All three Kahn. MACOMB MONUMENT, Israel, 216 S. 2nd St. SONS OF of the new Communications
Chippewas on the Detroit River, congregations number many Washington Blvd. and Michigan MOSES CONG., 621 S. Park St. Center of the State University
Lansing — CONG. SHAAREY of Iowa, at Iowa City.
was rescued by the French, only successful farmers who have es- Ave., is the work of Adolph A.
ZEDEK 525 N. Pennsylvania St.
The "Time Capsule" contains
to be betrayed again to the In- tablished flourishing orchards.
Weinman. Another of his works OLDS MOTOR CO. plant, Town-
dians.
Dearborn—GREENFIELD VIL- is MAYBURY STATUE, on the ' send and Olds Ayes., the city's a brief history of Jewish journa-
lism, written by Philip Slomo-
He was to be burned at the LAGE bearing the original cot- East Side of Grand Circus Park.
stake when he asked his captors tage where Charles P. Stein- NAVAL ARMORY, 7600 E. Jeff- oldest industrial enterprise, was vitz, editor and publisher of the
designed
by
Albert
Kahn
and
Detroit Jewish News and for
for a last drink. The red hot metz, the electrical wizard, per- erson, contains David Freden-
concoction scalded his tongue, formed his experiments; a rep- thal s notable mural in fresco, prompted Gus Edward. Jewish ten years president of the Amer-
and out of anger he threw it at lica of Philadelphia's Indepen- called "Sailors," on the wall of song writer, to pen his "In My ican Association of English-
Jewish newspapers.
his captors. Concluding that he dence Hall, including the Liber- the officers' lounge. NORTH Merry Oldsmobile."
Mackinac — THE MACKINAC
he was mad, the Indians set him! ty Bell with its passage from the ! END CLINIC, Leopold Wineman
The authors, in compiling the
free—at least so goes the story. Bible. THE DEARBORN INDE- Memorial Bldg., 936 Holbrook BRIDGE, to be the sec- data in the book, corresponded
'
and
longest
suspension
bridge
in
which is an incident related by PENDENT, newspaper acquired ST J 0 H N "S EVANGELICAL
with more than 11,000 people
.
Stephen Vincent Benet in his by Henry Ford in 1920 which CHURCH,
Russell and Gratiot, the world when completed in in nearly 1,000 communities, and
1956, crosses the Straits of read or consulted better than
"Jacob and the Indians."
launched. Ford's anti - Jewish 1:ias a memorial stained glass
These first settlers were both campaign, a n d later which 1 window depicting the relation- Mackinac. It is the work of 600 books, directories, city and
loyalists a n d revolutionaries carried Ford's public apology to ' ship of Judaism and Christian- architect David B. Steinman.
state guides, histories, diaries,
during the American Revolution, the Jews.
Mt. Clemens — BETH TEPHI- memoirs, biographies and al-
; ity. CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK,
but no matter which side they
Detroit — ADAS SHALOM 2900 Chicago Blvd., Detroit's LATH MOSES CONG., 53 South Manacs, and sifted through a
served, they performed well as
vast collection of newspaper and
SYNAGOGUE,
7045 Curtis. JO- second oldest synagogue and the Ave.
both suppliers of equipment and ,
Muskeg on -- CONG. BNAI IS- Magazine articles.
SEPH • L. BALE MEMORIAL fourth in Michigan. Its first
as fighters.
Although there were known to
be a number of Jews in Detroit
at the time, none was listed in
the first Detroit directory of
Copyright, 1984, by American Jewish Press
Text by DANIEL ELAZAR
Illustrations by MAURICE del BOURGO
1837, but in the second in 1845
appeared the names Solomon
Bendit and Moses Rindskopf.
Actually Michigan Jewry's first
settlement was in the neigh-
boring towns of Ypsilanti and
Ann Arbor where Jews had im-
migrated from Germany, Bohe-
mia and Hungary.
Many interesting tales, some
new and some old, are told in
the tourist guide, which relates
pertinent historical background
on Michigan's colonization by
the Jews through the turn of
the last century.
Appearing next in the book
1
are a list of towns where Jews
AND IT WAS 711E• EARLY ../EWIsli TRAIL
By /163, THE JEWISH IMMIGRANT TRADERS
FROM /770 ON, THE ENTERPRISING GRArZ
`Tourist Guide' Indicates
State's Points of Interest
THE TERCENTENARY STORY
HAO SEGVAI YO MOVE WESTWARD AND
6—D ETRO I T JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 17, 1954
THE GREEN BAY AN.0 .DETRo/r AREAS
TNERE ARoSE A FLOUR/SWING 'TRADE'.
15. The Jews Move Westward
BROTHERS PUSHED INE/R TRAP/NG ACTIVITY
DEEP/NT° WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ANO
KEA/TUCK
BLAZERS, /iv .1785; WHO IGNORED HARD-
SHIP AND DANGER AND FOUNDED
MONTGOMERY, ALAI3AA4A •