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- ONIM. 'Or TOPS *IN AND TASTE AND for more profits STOCK,. THESE BR A NDS . 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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. . ..... • • • - r 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. Friedman * * * 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. . _ DO YOU NEED TELEPHONE ANSWERING SERVICE RUBEN SELITSKY 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." • * * * In The Northwest Section? 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- Di 1-0900 can Zionist Council, according to 18055 James Couzens Detroit 35 an announcement by Rabbi Irv- ing Miller, Council chairman. A. AL-MAR HOROWITZ•MARGARETEN GEFILTE FISH! hiscious, fluffy `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. fishbolls..., the taste ':of the town! 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