Book Month to Highlight
Literary and Poster Contests
In keeping with the observance of Jewish Book Month, Nov.
4 to Dec. 4, the Jewish Community Center's fourth annual Book
Fair, Dec. 3 to 6, will again be instrumental in stimulating interest
in Jewish books.
The Book Fair will make Jewish Book Month meaningful to
children through its poster and essay contests.
Contests are open to Center members and pupils of all Jewish
schools. Intermediate students, ages 10-14, and high school students
are eligible for the literary contest, which offers awards, provided
by the Milford Stern Memorial Prize fund, in both classes.
The literary contest entry may be a poem, essay, composition,
or book review. Suggested subjects include "My Favorite Character
in Jewish Literature," or "My Favorite Character in Jewish His-
tory," "What Bar Mitzvah (Confirmation or Consecration) Means
to Me."
The literary contest closes Nov. 14. All entries should be mailed
to Literary Contest, Jewish Book Fair, 9999 Broadstreet, Detroit 4.
Material should be written or typed on one side of the paper and
the registration blank attached.
The poster:Contest,. open to elementary students, 5 through 9;
intermediates, 10-13; and high school students, 14-18 years; offers
prizes made possible by the Delia Immerman Meyers Memorial
fund, in all three classes.
Posters, no larger than 14"x22", may deal with any subject
consistent with the purposes of the Book Fair. Posters with regis-
tration blank should be brought to the Davison building before
Nov. 12.
A booklet containing contest rules and a family book list is
being distributed by the Center. The booklet provides suggestions
for educational classroom activities.
Co-chairmen for the Book Fair Schools' committee are Alex
Roberg and _Allan Warsen.
. CONTEST REGISTRATION BLANK
AGE
NAME
PHONE
ADDRESS
Jewish School
Public School Grade
Please have your parents read and sign the following:
I -grant- permission to the Jewish Community Center to
use my. child's poster for display at the Book Fair and for
promotibn of the Fair
Signed
Parent's Signature
Mrs. Robert L. Aronson to Address
Book Fair's Annual Ladies' Day;
List Two More Seminar Programs
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Mrs. R o b e r t L. Aronson,
author, traveler, and leader in
a wide range of constructive
causes, will address the Jewish
Community Center's Fourth An-
nual Book Fair Ladies' Day,
Monday afternoon, Dec. 5, at
the Davison Branch, 4059 W.
Davison.
Mrs. Aronson's years of serv-
ice in the cause of Israel and
her many civic and communal
activities have given her a keen
understanding of current affairs.
She was a member of the first
women's economic mission to
Israel in 1953. In Chicago Mrs.
Aronson, a graduate of John
Marshall Law School and the
College of Jewish Studies, has
served as past president, Chi-
cago Women's Division, Ameri-
can Jewish Congress; past presi-
dent, Conference Of Jewish
Women's Organizations; past
chairman, Women's Division of
Cook County National Founda-
tion for Infantile Paralysis; past
chairman Chic ago Women's
Division, Bonds of Israel Gov-
ernment, and many other out-
standing posts.
She is a member of the Chi-
cago Commission on Human Re-
lations, the 25-member board
of the Citizens School Commit-
tee, the board of Women of
the Jewish Education Boar d,
the executive committee of the
Association of Founders and
Friends of Roosevelt College.
She is the . author of many ar-
ticles as well as of a forthcom-
ing book "Above All Rubies."
Next Seminar Programs
Mrs. Reuven Bar-Levav and
Mrs. Ralph Miller, program co-
ordinators for the Book Review
Seminar of the Jewish Com-
munity Center, announce the
next two programs in the Sem-
inar series. On Nov. 3, Mrs.
Henry Berris will review Her-
man Wouk's novel, "Marjory
Morningstar." The group also
will discuss Mr: Wouk's early
novel, "City Boy," and his best-
seller, "The Caine Mutiny."
On November 10, Mrs. Nathan
Spevakow will review the re-
cently published autobiographi-
cal collection by Sholom Alei-
chem, "The Great Fair." In ad-
dition, readings from the book
will be presented.
Mrs. Carl Schiller, Seminar
chairman, announces that en-
DSG Food Council
Elects Tom Borman;
Fills Board Positions
Tom Borman was elected chair-
man of the board of directors of
the Detroit Service,Group's Food
Services Council at the biennial
meeting this month, in the Esther
Berman Branch of the United
Hebrew Schools.
The Detroit Service Group is
the year-round organization of
trade and professional volunteers
in the annual Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, major fund-raising effort
of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Merwin K. Grosberg was elect-
ed associate chairman while
Charles Litt, Andor •Feldheim,
Herman Levine, Paul ZuCkerman,
Peter Copeland, Ben. Gruskin,
Max Shaye, Al Borman, Hugo
Slotkin, Harry Becker, Charles
Milan, Ben Klein, Louis J. Cohen,
and Jules Mehler were elected
vice-chairmen.
Elected to the board of direc-
tors were: Sam Markowitz, Phil
Olender, Sidney Robins, Harold
Podolsky, Meyer Berman, Al
Dubin, Samuel H. Greenberg, Ben
Rubens, Dan Carpenter, James
Marks, Morris Tulupman, Norman
Cottler, Joe Klein, Al Loewen-
stein, Jr., Jack Gooze, Robert
Rosenthal, Avery Shapiro, Morris
Music, Morris Elkin, Abe Gurwin,
Joseph Roth, William Boesky,
Herbert Epstein, Mardy Polaner,
Morris Samuels, Norman
Schwartz, Nathan Sosin, Morris
Mendelson, Alfred Weiss, Ben
Mossman, Irving Simon, Herman
Miller, Herbert Mitnick and Na-
than Metz.
The division elected Louis Co-
hen, Pete Copeland, Herman
Levine, Charles Litt, Al Borman,
Jules Mehler, Charles Milan,
Andor Feldheim, Morris Music
and Max Shaye to the DSG board.
John E. Lurie and George D.
Keil were elected to the Board
of Governors of Federation.
The names of the nominees
were presented by the nominat-
ing committee, chaired by Mer-
win K. Grosberg.
The evening's-program also in-
cluded a report on 1955 Allied
Jewish Campaign results by
Julius Mehler and comments by
Borman on his recent trip to
Israel.
rollments are still open for this
series which continues on Thurs-
day afternoons, 1-3 p.m., through
Dec. 1, at the Davison Center.
For further information call Sol
Drachler, WE. 3-7380.
Actively at work with Matilda
Rubin, Book Fair Coordinator,
are the co-chairmen for the
Fourth Annual Jewish Book
Fair, Mrs. Nathan Spevakow
and Philip Slomovitz.
Mrs. Spevakow has been ac-
tively associated with previous
Book Fairs as chairman of the
Ladies' Day Committee. Par-
tiCipating in a wide range of
community activities for many
years, she- has been past presi-
dent of the Shaarey Zedek Sis-
terhood; vice-president of the
League of Jewish Women; and
chairman of the program and
education committee of Hadas-
sah. She is currently a mem-
ber of the Appeal Board of the
City of Detroit Welfare Board.
. Mrs. Rubin is supervisor of
the Center's department of adult
services.
This year's Book Fair, spon-
sored by the Jewish Community
Center, will be held Dec. 3-6,
at the Davison Center.
Dr. Norman Drachler, Book
Fair chairman, announces t h e
appointment of the following as
heads of key committees for the
fair:
Mrs. Sidney Karbel, chairman
of volunteers; Mrs. Hy Burnstein,
chairman of purchasing; Mrs. Ir-
ving Small, chairman of Ladies'
Day; Mrs. David Newman, chair-
man of display; Louis LaMed,
chairman of Yiddish - Hebrew
night; M r s. Philip Edelheit,
chairman of gift shop; Alex Ro-
berg and Allan Warsen, co-chair-
men of the schools committee.
JWF Women's Division
Extends Communi-Teas
The Women's Division of the
Jewish Welfare Federation held
the first of its series of Communi-
Teas yesterday at the home of
Mrs. Maurice Schiller, in Hunt-
ington Woods.
Other afternoon get-togethers
to discuss social services orovided
by Federation agencies will be
carried out on Nov. 2, 15, and 17,
Mrs. Sidney J. Karbel, chairman
of the extension phase of the edu-
cation committee, announced.
Mrs. John C. Hopp, past presi-
dent of the Women's Division,
served as discussion leader at
Mrs. Schiller's meeting.
Mrs. Benjamin Jones has ar-
ranged a Communi-Tea at the
home of Mrs. John Grekin, 18024
Muirland, for next Wednesday.
Mrs. Harry L. Jones, another Di-
vision past president, is slated
as discussion leader.
Israel Minister
Guest Here Nov. 7
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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 28, 1955
—
David A. Brown: 80 on Nov. 1
David Abraham Brown is a
name that will remain indelibly
recorded in Jewish history. An
industrialist, whose organiza-
tional abilities for two decades,
starting in 1896, raised him to a
DAVID A. BROWN
position of unquestioned leader-
ship in the business world, he also
distinguished himself in our com-
munity's civic affairs and congre-
gational life.
Then came World War I—and
its tragedies awakened him to
deep compassion for his suffer-
ing fellow-Jews in Europe. As an
associate of the late Louis Mar-
shall, Felix Warburg, Julius
Rosenwald, David Bressler and
many other distinguished Jewish
leaders of the first decades of this
century, he became active as the
Joint Distribution Committee's
most dynamic fund-raiser.
The high standards of giving
by American Jews are directly
traceable to the fund-raising
genius of David A. Brown.
When he first assumed respon-
sibility for a relief drive, JDC
and other charitable move-
ments were contented with
sums that approximated ten
millions of dollars. But Dave
Brown was not satisfied. He be-
gan by asking for fourteen mil-
lions and wound up with close
to thirty million. Out of that
courageous step forward in
campaigning has developed the
present immense Jewish phil-
anthropic machinery.
Dave Brown will be eighty on
Nov. 1. His friends can't believe
it when they are with him. He is
as dynamic as ever. His hearing
is a bit impaired, but not his
mind or body or his physical
drive. To this day, he thirsts for
knowledge about Jewish affairs.
He takes a deep interest in phil-
anthropic developments. His for-
mer associates continue to seek
his guidance. Referred to as "Dy-
namic Dave Brown," his name
became synonymous with the city
he made his home.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland,
Nov. 1, 1875, he was brought to
this country at the age of 5. He
made Detroit his home nearly all
of his life. He entered business
here in 1896, organized the Gen-
eral Necessities Corporation, out
of which their branched 20
subsidiaries, and he became one
of Detroit's leading induStrialists.
Later, he became a banker and
helped organize the Broadway
National Bank in New York. He
also was the publisher of The
American Hebrew for five years,
beginning in 1930.°
He was one of the organizers
of the Detroit Community
Fund—also in the war year of
1918. He was a director of the
Red Cross Roll in 1919, and in
1921 he became the national
chairman of the JDC war relief
drive for $14,000,000. He serv-
ed on national and worldwide
commissions to study Jewish
conditions. He visited Russia to
investigate possibilities of the
settlement of Jews on farms.
He also headed a campaign for
the Palestine Foundation Fund.
Zeta Beta Tau awarded hint
the Gottheil Medal in 1926. He
was associated with the late
Adolph Ochs in campaigns in
behalf of the Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations and
he gained world fame, from
1928 to 1933, as chairman of the
United States division of the
China Relief Fund.
He really began as a newsboy,
and when he is back in his home
town, on Detroit Newsboys'
Goodfellow Day, he is always at
his favorite downtown corner
selling papers, gathering d011ar-s
to make needy children happy on
Christmas.
He lost his fortune, but not his
devotion to the causes he loves
dearly. When he was in financial
troubles, he continued to give
primary consideration to • organ-
ize United Jewish Appeal confer-
ences, to travel throughout the
country to raise philanthropic
dollars, to planning humanitarian
proj ects.
David A. Brown Chapel at
Temple Beth El was named in
his. honor, when he gave a $50,000
gift to the present temple build-
ing. He has been called "Amer-
ica's foremost stimulator" — and
that dates back to 1917, when he
enlisted his wholehearted efforts
to the American Jewish Relief
Committee.
Mr. Brown, who in his later
years has spent a great deal of
time traveling, particularly in
California and Massachusetts, is
in Detroit to celebrate his birth-
day. He and Mrs. Brown are
staying with his brother, Harry
Z. Brown.
In his tribute to Dave Brown,
on his 70th birthday, published
in The Jewish News 10 years ago,
Morris D. Waldman, who was the
first executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, quot-
ed the following, Brawn's own
words:
"I don't want any credit for
giving anything of my time or
of myself in this effort. I have
always been just a little bit re-
sentful over the use of the word
"sacrifice." The assumption that
any man—and I am speaking
now also for those thousands
back of me—can sacrifice in
giving himself to humanitarian
efforts is most ridiculous. The
finest thing that can come to
one in life is service of this
kind. There are many men who
have made large sums of money
which never gave them a happy
thrill, and there are hundreds
of men who constantly get hap-
py thrills — not because they
are GETTING but because they
are GIVING. You can only get
the things that are worthwhile
by giving—whether it is in a
material sense, or by giving of
yourself."
Waldman concluded his tribute
by stating:
"David Brown -made thous-
ands of men appreciate these
truths. He, too, is blessed to be
able to look back over a long
life, nobly lived."
We heartily endorse this trib-
ute in Wishing David Abraham
Brown a happy 80th birthday.
$1_-Alillion. Action Committee-
Formed for Joseph Dinner.
Buenos Aires Jews Abolish
Post Formed Under Peron
BUENOS AIRES,(JTA) — The
Kehillah of Buenos Aires has
voted to abolish the office of "Av
Beth Din" — chairman of the
highest religious court — by a
vote of 15 to 6. The position, cre-
ated three years ago, had been
held by Rabbi Dr. Amram Blum,
who will remain a member of the
court.
From Newsboy to World Leader
DR. DOV JOSEPH, Israel
_Minister of Communica-
tions, who will be the guest
at an Israel bond dinner, at
the Veterans' Building,
Monday, Nov. 7.
As chairman of the Dov Joseph Dinner Com-
mittee, Irwin I. Cohn, announced this week that he is
organizing a "Million Dollar Action Committee" for
this special event. The Committee will be made up of
100 men from the community who will be charged with
the responsibility of selling $10,000 or more in State
of Israel Bonds in honor of the visit to Detroit of Israel
Minister of Development Dov Joseph.
The Trustees, Guardians and Sponsors of Israel
will welcome Mr. -Joseph at an invitational dinner on
Nov. 7, at 7 p.m., in the Veterans Memorial- Building.
Information regarding the dinner can be obtained by
telephoning the State of Israel Bond- Office, WO. 2-5091.
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