Engelman Commission Begins Study German in Control of Tracing Service Prison Archives
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BONN (JTA) — For the first the North Hesse town of Arol- participating nation s, Dr.
Of Local Jewish Community Schools time,
a German has assumed sen, where a staff of more than Bruckner's successor as chair-
At the end of his first week's
work in -Detroit, Dr. Uriah Z.
Engelman commended the co-
operation Detroit's participat-
ing schools and their staffs have
accorded his Commission for the
Study of Jewish Education in
the United States.
The stock-taking and fact-
gathering phase of the Detroit
-Jewish Education. Study has
.been in full swing since the ar-
rival in Detroit of Dr. Engel-
man and his staff from New
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Shevat Tree-Planting
Urged in ,Call by JNF
Dr. Israel Wiener, chairman
of the special activities com-
mittee of the Jewish National
Fund Council, announced this
week that the month of Shevat
—Jan. 14 to Feb. 12—has been
proclaimed "Plant a Tree in
Israel Month."
Observance of Hamisha Asar
b'Shevat, on Jan. 28, is expect-
ed to stimulate the tree-plant-
ing efforts, Dr. Wiener stated.
He pointed out that tree-plant-
ing already has become an all-
year tradition in Detroit and
added that "because of the pres-
ent situation in Israel an in-
tensified effort to plant trees
during Shevat is especially im-
portant." He stated:
"Every synagogue, day, after-
noon and Sunday School, and
most every Jewish organization
has obligated itself to a vastly
increased activity in behalf of
trefs, by making appeals at
services, and promoting the
planting of trees in and out of
classes, and at organization
meetings."
Tree-planting orders can be
made by calling the Jewish Na-
tional- Fund, TO. 8-7384, Man-
days through Thursdays, 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m.; Fridays to 4 p.m.,
and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
York, Jan. 4. The local study
Remember
N.F.
The Month, of Shevat
(Jan. 14 to Feb. 12)
Is "Plant a Tree
in Israel Month"
During the month of
Shevat and in Observance
of the New Year
of the Trees
Hamisha Asar b'Shevat
Occurring on Jan. 28
We urge you to plant
one more tree in Israel
Add one more soldier to
Israel's silent army ..
To Guard the Soil . .
Defend the Crops . .
Subdue the Desert . .
Create Agricultural
Self-Sufficiency
YOUR TREE AND YOUR
FRIEND'S TREE WILL
MAKE A BIG FOREST
Plant More Trees
Through the
Jewish, National Fund
11345 Linwood Ave.
Detroit 6
TO. 8-7384
THE
J. N. F. is
YOUR FUND
committee co - chairmen are
David Safran and Mrs. Carl S.
Schiller.
Twenty Jewish schools are
participating in the study.
Dr. Engelman met with the
Detroit committee on Jan. 4,
and clarified the scope, aims
and procedures to be followed
in Detroit. He described his
series of 41 questionnaires to be
filled out by parents, teachers,
principals, school board mem-
bers, governing bodies of many
organizations, community lead-
ers and the general population.
Individual interviews will be
obtained in private discussion
with pupils of all the Jewish
high schools, aimed at discover-
ing from them their attitudes
about Jewish education and
their suggestions for improving
the presentation of Jewish sub-
jects.
The commission staff met
with 20 principals and a large
number of teachers to describe
the study and determine their
parts in its implementation.
On Jan. 6, 65 volunteer inter-
viewers met with Mrs. Schiller
to receive briefing and the
names of parents they are to in-
terview.
Twenty-five classes in five
Jewish schools completed ques-
tionnaires on Jan. 8.
control of the International
Tracing Service at Arolsen,
where 10,000,000 documents and
20,000,000 index cards pertain-
ing - to concentration camp pris-
oners are stored and catalogued
for reference purposes.
The archives are located in
Variety Sees Threat
To Existence of the
Yiddish Theater in U. S.
200 answers some 10,000 queries
a month concerned with the re-
union of families separated by
Nazi persecution, with questions
of personal status and with
indemnification matters.
Founded by UNRRA shortly
after the war and then con-
tinued by the Allied High Com-
mission, the Tracing Service is
now under the custody of the
International Red Cross and ad-
ministered by an international
commission consisting of nine
countries, Israel and West Ger-
many among them.
The commission chairmanship
rotates quarterly and from Jan-
uary through March; the chair-
man is Dr. Hardo Brueckner, a
Gerinan. civil servant.
Since Israel follows Germany
in the alphabetical listing of
man will be Yeshayahu Anug,
chief of the Consular Section of
the Israel Purchasing Mission in
Cologne.
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Friday, January 13, 1956
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NEW YORK (JTA)—Unless
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conditions governing the Yiddish
Permitting your clients to keep in
touch with you during business
theater in the United States are
hours.
altered radically it will dis-
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appear within five to 10 years,
it was indicated in an article
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in Variety, show business trade
newspaper. In an article in the
Answering Service
newspaper's 50th anniversary
VE. 7-6701
issue outlining the 44-year his-
tory of Yiddish theater in the
United States, it was pointed
out that each succeeding session
has shown heavier losses "with
the current season the most
disastrous of all."
The article- passed the blame
for the situation on what it
CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS
called mismanagement, an un-
reasoning actors' union, ex-
cessive pay for players, and
Announce the Admittance of
the lure of Broadway attrac-
tions. The review also scored
the "star system" as it is prac-
ticed in the Yiddish theater,
charging nepotism, and adding
that with the exception of Molly
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Picon, such a system is im-
practical from every viewpoint.
It also noted that the Yiddish
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theatergoer "is fully . educated
in entertainment values," and is
unwilling, therefore, to accept
The annual fund-raising din- primitive production methods.
ner-dance of the Infants Service
Group will be held Jan. 22, at
Masonic Templ e, it is an-
nounced by Mrs. Jack Hencken,
president.
Dep a rting
somewhat
from previous
years, the
show will fea-
ture profes-
sional talent
as well as
members of
the group
itself, who will
Mrs. Hencken appear in the
opening and closing sequences.
Featured acts are the Four
Step Brothers, leading televi-
sion and film dance group; the
Four Wades, an instrumental,
song and dance team; and
Mickey Deems, brilliant, young
comedian of television fame.
The show is directed by Mrs.
David Riseman; choreography
is directed by Bill Richards;
and Russ Weaver's Orchestra
will play through supper 'and
for dancing afterward.
Chairmen of this year's event
are Mrs. Allan Saltz and Mrs.
Edwin Roth.
LIMITED GROUPS
A regular meeting has been
called a week earlier because
of the dinner-dance, and will
be held at 8:30 p.m., Monday,
in the Sholem Aleichem Insti-
tute, 18495 Wyoming.
All tickets and . pledges for
the donor must be turned in
mayor portion of
at the meeting, and members
unable to attend are urged to
in this sale you will find the
contact any of the following
our
current
regular stocks of imported and domestic
chairmen:
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Included
custom tailored suits, topcoats, sport coats, slacks,
Mesdames Benjamin Marcus,
Harry Baskin, Fr a n k Shook,
leisure blouses and jackets, dress and sport shirts,
Samuel Rosenberg or Sidne3r
robes, neckwear, pa\arnas and underwear • • •
Cohen. A social hour will fol-
all impressively reduced to create
exceptional
low the meeting.
reciate
thrift
SHAER, GULLICK & KELMAN
JACK W. NAKELL, C.P.A.
infants Service
Dinner-Dance
Set for Jan. 22
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$42,318,550 in Israel
Bond Sales in 1955
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice-
president of the Israel Bond
Organization, this week report-
ed in New York that the Israel
Bond sales in 1955 totalled
$42,318,550. He reported, at the
board of guiernors' meeting,
that this represented an in-
crease of 20 per cent over the
previous year's sales and that
the total bond sales thus was
brought to $216,595,450, since
the inception of the drive in
May, 1951.
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