Released Viennese Physician Reports Ruben Selitsky Named
`Missing' Author Held Soviet Prisoner Farband Camp Director

Ezekiel
VIENNA, (JTA)
Dobrushin, noted Yiddish author
and literary critic, who is 70
years old, and who "disappeared"
several years ago from Moscow
together with other prominent
Jewish writers and cultural lead-
ers, is being held in the Soviet
camp at Abes, in the Arctic
Circle, it was reported in a Vien-
na newspaper.
The report comes from Dr.
Raphael Spann, of Vienna, who
returned a few weeks ago from
Abes, where he discovered Do-
brushin in the camp hospital suf-
fering from a heart ailment and
from an advanced case of tu-
berculosis of the bone. Writing
in "Die Wochen-Presse" of Vien-
na, Dr. Spann relates:
"In the evening, after the phy-
sician and nurses left and move-
ment in the hospital barracks
slowed down, this 70-year-old
man had been telling us his
story. He spoke in Russian. He
never learned German. "I didn't
want to spoil my Yiddish," he
said. And then we heard, some-
times with amazement, some-
times with indignation, the de-
tailed reports of the scholarly
Dobrushin about the systematic
persecutions of Jews in the Soviet
Union.
"The first example is Dobrush-
in himself. For decades he was
an enthusiastic Communist. He
was, with Ilya Ehrenberg, among
the leaders of the Jewish anti-
fascists Communist, who sought to
win the Jews outside of the
USSR for the cause of Com-
munism.
In a vitrolic article he once
danined "the American hate-mon-
gering journalists" and their re-

ports about anti-Jewish persecu-
tions in Russia. A few days after
the article was published, he was
seized by agents of the NKVD
because he was a Jew. But he
was not the only one.
"The entire Jewish Anti-Fascist
Committee was arrested, with
one exception, Ilya Ehrenberg,
whose propaganda value was still
too important. The examining
judge, however, showed Dobrush-
in a briefcase full of papers. He
said: "This is the indictment. Ilya
Ehrenbgrg is also involved. We
shall not permit you to establish
`the Jewish State in the Cri-
mea.' "
This was the fantastic accusa-
tion, under which Dobrushin was
arrested and sentenced. While in
prison Dobrushin met Mrs. Molo-
tov, wife of the present Russian
Foreign Minister. (Mrs. Molotov
was permitted to return to Mos-
cow after Stalin's death.)

Mazer Heads UJA
Special Campaign
For $25,000,000

NEW YORK (JTA) — Joseph
Mazer, one of • New York's most
prominent Jewish leaders, will
head the United Jewish Appeal's
effort to raise .a special '$25,000,-
000 fund earmarked for ..emer-
gency financing of immigration
and settlement programs in Is-
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rael in addition to the sums UJA
will seek to raise in 1956 through,
its regular nation-wide campaign.
Announcement of Mr. Mazer's
appointment to organize and
head the special fund project was
made by Rabbi Herbert A. Fried-
man, UJA executive- vice-chair-
man. Plans to set up such .a fund
as a separate project from regu-
lar campaign efforts were .de-
termined by 370 community rep-
resentatives from all parts of the
country and members of the UJA
57-man National Campaign Cab-
inet, at an extraordinary national
leadership meeting at the Wal
dorf Astoria.
In addition, to the $25,000,000
special fund, other sums raised
by the UJA through its regular
campaign, the goal for which will
be adopted next month, will go
toward the agricultural and ,eco-
nomic development of Israel, and
other programs of rescue, relief
and rehabilitation carried out by
the UJA's three constituent agen-
cies—the United Israel Appeal,
Joint Distribution Committee,
and New York Association for
New Americans.

U. S. Congregations Asked
To 'Adopt' Israel Synagogues
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A plan
for the "adoption" of Israel syn-
agogues by congregations in the
United ,States and other coun-
tries outside Israel was an-
nounced here by the Ministry for
Religions, which has circularized
some 200 synagogues and religi-
ous institutions abroad asking
their cooperation.
Under the plan, the Israel syn-
agogue and its "adopter" congre-
gation will exchange information
about programs of worship,
prayer observances and religious
objects. The plan is intended also
to promote personal ties between
members of synagogues here and
abroad and to enable them to
make. personal contact when ob-
serving Jews from abroad who
visit Israel.

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DEWEY D. STONE, chairman
of the board of governors of the
Weizmann Institute of Science,
announced the following elec-
tions to the board: Fredric R.
Mann, of Philadelphia, Charles
Gutwirth and George Sagan, both
of New York City.

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Farband Camp and Kinderwelt
announces the appointment of
Ruben Selitsky as the new direc-
tor for the 1956 camp season.
Mr. Selitsky takes his new
position with a background of
years experience with boys and
girls in the public and Jewish
religious schools. At the present
he is the assistant principal of
Hutchins Junior High School
and supervisor of the confirma-
tion department of -Temple Beth
El's Religious School.
_ He is making plans for the
1956 season that call. for in-
creased and varied camping ac-
tivities. It will be Farband
Camp's 28th season.
Mr. Selitsky is a parent of
three children and resides at
18'601 Greenlawn.

U.S. Congregations Asked
To 'Adopt' Israeli Shu.ls

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A plan
for the "adoption" of Israel syna-
gogues by congregations in the
United States and other countries
outside Israel was announced
here by the Ministry for Re-
ligions, which has circularized
some. 200 synagogues , and religi-
ous institutions abroad, asking
their cooperation.
Under the plan, the Israel syna-
gogue and its "adopted" congre-
gation will exchange information
about programs of worship, pray-
er observances and religious ob-
jects.
The plan is intended also to
promote personal ties between
members of synagogues here and
abroad and to enable them to
make personal contact when ob-
serving Jews from abroad visit
Israel.

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NEW YORK (JTA)—Terming
it the most important United
Jewish Appeal yearly assembly
since the State of Israel won its
independence in 1948, UJA gen-
eral chairmn Willim Rosenwald
announced that The Appeal would
hold its annual national confer-
ence at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in New York, Dec. 16
and 17.
More than 1,200 delegates are
expected" at the two-day meet-
ing. They will sum up the ac-
complishments of the 1955 na-
tionwide campaign and set the
over-all goal for the 1956 drive
to meet welfare, rehabilitation
and settlement needs of Jews in
Israel, Europe, North Africa and
other overses areas.
Representatives of the Israel
government and leaders of over-
seas Jewish aid programs will be
heard on both days. The aims
and objectives of the campaign
for 1956 will be presented by
Rosenwald and Rabbi Herbert A.
Friedman, executive vice-chair-
man of the UJA.
Theodore R. Racoasin of New
York, a Zionist leader active in
philanthropic and investment ef-
forts in behalf of Israel, has been
named national chairman of the
newly formed National Zionist
Committee for the United Jewish
Appeal's • $25,000,000 Emergency
Campaign, it was announced here
by Mortimer May, president of
the Zionist Orgnization of
America.
The committee, established by
the ZOA, will mobilize Zionists
in communities throughout the
country to spearhead- the emer-
gency campaign which will sup-
plement the regular UJA drives.

Make yourself an honest man,
and then you may be sure that
there is one rascal' less in the
world.—Carlyle. .

Dr. NATHAN M. PUSEY,
president of Harvard University, DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-21
Friday, December 2, 1955
has been awarded an honorary
Doctor of Laws degree by the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America for "his insistent recog-
nition of the indispensable role
of ethics 'and religion in higher
education."
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ARMAND LAUFFER of Chi-
cago and ARTHUR KAUFMAN
CALL
of New York have been ap-
pointed field workers for the
youth department of the Ameri-
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18055 James Couzens Detroit 35
an announcement by Rabbi Irv-
ing Miller, Council chairman.
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`Vital' UJA Parley
To Open in New York;
Racoosin Heads Drive

. JOSEPH MAZER

People Make News

Appointment of.
Israel Friedmani
as executiv
director of the
Jewish National
Home for Asth-
matic Children
at Denver was
announced by
Mrs. Fannie E.
Lorbe r, presi,
dent of JNHAC.

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