THE JEWISH NEWS
Fleeing for Fre
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National Editorial
Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich.,
VE. 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year, Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952, at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
SIDNEY SHMARAK
FRANK SIMONS
Editor and Publisher
Advertising Manager
City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty fifth day of Tebet, 5717, the following Scriptural selections will
-
be read. in our synagogues:
Pentate-uchal portion, Vera, Ex. 6:2-9:35. Prophetical portion, Ezekiel 28:25-29:21,
Rosh Hodesh Shvat Torah Selection, Thursday, Num, 28:1-15.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Dec. 28, 4:50 p.m.
VOL. XXX No. 17
Page Four
December 28, 1956
Save-a-Life: The Challenge of 1957
Grave responsibilities face our communities in the new year ahead. We are ush-
ering in 1957 with new demands for assistance to kinsmen who are confronted with
great dangers. As we leave behind us a year of tensions and war threats, we pray
that the new year should witness the em ergence of genuine efforts for peace among
all nations.
American Jewry is confronted with one of the most serious demands for assistance
—to the persecuted Jews in Moslem and Communist countries and to Israel.
The Save-a-Life slogan, in the 1957 Emergency Rescue Fund of the United Jewish
Appeal, must become meaningful. It must serve as a symbol of our readiness to come
to the aid of the fighters for freedom and those who must find havens of refuge in
the Land of Israel.
The emergency campaign, for the normally needed funds and for the special Res-
cue Fund necessitated by the war declared upon Israel and Jewry in Egypt and the
Arab states allied with Nasser, places extra duties upon Detroit's Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
In welcoming 1957, we plead with our community to prepare itself for serious
action in the forthcoming campaign. May our responses be commensurate with the
needs in these depressing hours.
Let us hope that our efforts, in the months to come, will relieve the sufferings
imposed on Jewish communities overseas, and will strengthen the hands of all who Dr. Runes' Anthology
defend the just rights of the oppressed everywhere.
May 1957 truly be a Happy Year for mankind.
Ending Soviet Push for Power-by Peace
The country's most distinguished clergy-
men, scientists and men of letters joined
forces last week in appeals to President
Eisenhower to come to the defense of the
Jews of Egypt and to strive for peace
between Israel and the Arab states.
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Dean James A.
Pike, Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, John Stein-
beck, Lewis Gannett, Elmer Davis, Prof.
Henry Steele Commager, William L.
Shirer, Lewis Mumford, McKinlay Kan-
tor, Frieda Kirchwey and scores of others
who are among our nation's most promi-
nent leaders have expressed concern over
what is happening in the Middle East.
The appeal of the artists and men of
letters called for an end to "Russia's push
for control and chaos in the Middle East"
by invoking the United Nations Charter
and, through it, peace. Their open letter
declared:
"To restore the balaxice we need
peace between the Arab states and
Israel; and a reforming of the alliances
between the United States and its allies.
If Britain and France are ruined and
Israel smothered, the United States
stands alone.. Is that what we want?
That is what Russia wants. Shall we
give her that victory?
Middle Eastern peace would
stall the Russian offensive in the region
more effectively than any other thing.
It would remove the lever of anti-Israel
hostility with which the Soviet Union
has pried its way into Egypt and the
rest of the Arab world; 'remove the in-
centive to sell freedom for Russian arms;
and divert the energies of the region
from destructive purposes to the ends
of economic development and social
progress. In that direction lies the real
deterrent to the Communists."
In the meantime, however, an out-and-
out pro-Communist, India's Prime Min-
ister Nehru, on his visit here, confused
rather than clarified the issue: to give
Egypt courage by justifying Nasser's un-
ending state-of-war against Israel. We
pray for clarification of the facts by our
President who met with him in lone ses-
sions.
At the same time, Senator Flanders of
Vermont has proposed a similar invitation
to President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt,
and Secretary of State Dulles expressed
the view that a visit by Yugoslavia's Mar-
shal Tito with President Eisenhower might
serve a useful purpose.
We have no objections to such visits
by men who only a short time ago were
thoroughly discredited in this country—
provided they are for the expressed pur-
pose of attaining peace. And if peace is
".
.
the objective, as it should and must be,
then Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion also must be called in for consul-
tations. There can be no two ways about
it. Either our Government is consistent
in such actions, or it will be disgraced by
double-talk.
Furthermore, peace conversations must
be along lines of bringing Israel and the
Arab states together for direct negotia-
tions. Through such face-to-face talks, it
will be possible to adjust boundaries, to
come to terms on repatriation of peoples
and compensations. In any other fashion,
such as Nasser's and his associates' con-
stant threats to destroy Israel, we will
only be brought closer to another war.
In the interest of world peace, in be-
half of which President Eisenhower spoke
so eloquently during the political cam-
paign, we must have a speedy peace be-
tween Israel and the Arab states. This is
the President's great opportunity-to attain
the major objective in his Administration's
program.
Marshall Centenary
'Treasury of World Literature'
Utilizes Many Literary Sources
"Treasury of World Literature," edited . by Dr. Dagobert D.
Runes, published by Philosophical Library. (15 E. 40th St., NY
16), is a monumental work of 1450 pages. In his preface, the
editor, whose equally-monumental "Treasury of Philosophy" and
a number of other books, makes this interesting assertion:
"A treasury of literature is a personal matter. It represents
one man's choice - of creative writing taken from the vast reser-
voir at his disposal. Thus, what is inspiring to one may seem
dull to another . .. I say in sincere humility that my judgment
("1,7 gyr,,
is biased — as it rn,,ct b. by ro. 3 ,
—and that in all likelihood have as far as this volume is con-
cerned muted the voices of many who are truly outstanding, and
perhaps made some speak who had better remained silent."
Nevertheless, it is this reviewer's opinion that he has selected
very valuable material, and has., shown goOd judgment in his
choice of Hebraica and Judaica.
In his preface, Dr. Runes states:
"For the poetry of old in its purest form, we must turn to
Israel, where 3,000 and more years ago we find such gems as
the Psalter brightening the life of a desert people. Whether all
or only some of this was written by the Shepherd King. or by
his scholarly son Solomon, is • not important, but in their grace-
fulness and the ardor of their appeal to yearning mankind,
nothing else of that era can compare to the songs ringing from
King David's harp."
r
* * *
Dr. Runes has selected from the writings of modern Jewish
authors as well as from Scriptures. He has not covered the en-
tire field of Hebrew and Yiddish works, but he has included a
number of important selections; and since we could not expect
everything in any anthology, we must be grateful.for the works
chosen.
From Sholem Aleichem, Dr. Runes selected the
famous story "The Passover Guest."
Vittorio Alfieri, who is described as "the greatest tragedian
of the ;Italian drama," is represented by "David Soothes Saul's
Madness" and "The Death of Saul."
"A Jewish Child" is the selection the compiler
took from Sholem Asch.
Dr. Runes has included the..Russian Jewish novelist, Isaak
Emmanuilovich Babel, with "The Birth of a King," one o_f the
famous Babel stories.
Hayyim Nahman Bialik's famous "Where Are
You?" poem is in this anthology.
David the Psalmist is represented by Psalm
- XXXVH.
Three Songs by Abraham Ibn. Ezra were selected by Dr.
Runes. Also, "Night" and "Meditations" are the songs he se-
lected from Solomon Ibn Gabirol. "A Letter to His Friend
Isaac" is the selection from Judah Halevi. There are several
Heinrich Heine songs in the collection. "A Country Doctor" was
selected from the works of Franz Kafka,
One of the most famous stories in Yiddish liter-
ature, "If Not Higher," by Yitzkhok . Leybush
Peretz enhances this volume.
From David Pinski's works, Dr. Runes has chosen the story
"And Then He 'Wept."
Included also is a selection from "The Nag"
("Die Kliatche") by Mendele Mocher Seforim.
From "The Song of Solomon," Dr. Runes has taken the
fourth and fifth chapters.
Louis Marshall, the centenary of whose
birth occurred on Dec. 14, was one of the
great Americans of all times.
He distinguished himself at the bar.
He was a great constitutional lawyer. He
was a member of three . New York State
Constitutional Conventions—in 1890, 1894
and 1915. He was an outstanding defender
of civil liberties.
His great accomplishments were, how-
ever, in behalf of the Jewish people. As
president of the American Jewish Com-
mittee and as a participant in scores of
Jewish movements, he fought for religious
and political freedom for the oppressed,
and all faiths benefited from his work.
M. Marshall was a leader in war relief
movements. Fate willed it that he should
have died while in the service of his people
—in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 11, 1929,
just as he had completed the task of
uniting Zionists and non-Zionists in the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, -
Credit goes to him, in great measure,
for having induced President Taft to ab-
rogate the trade treaty with Russia, in
1911, when the Czar's government dis-
criminated against Americans of the Jew-
Jakob Wasserman's "The Beast," Franz Werfel's "Theologo-
ish faith.
umena,"
and Arnold Zweig's "The Apparition" are other selec-
Mr. Marshall was a man of the people tions by Jewish
authors.
He was past 50 when he learned Yiddisl-
Each of the more than 300 authors whose selections are
in order to be able to understand the ncluded in Dr. Runes' "Treasury of World Literature" is de-
views of the masses whom he served aF scribed in a brief biographical note. This volume will be found
the leader of American Jewry. Indeed, he :aluable in libraries and homes. It- will provide wholesome
was a spokesman for Jewry. Blessed b'
eading for all members of all families, of - all ages from teen-
nood upwards.
his memory.
* * *