Million Jews Migrate, Mostly to; Israel Many Detroiters Heinrich Heine a Very Modern Poet
HEINE — A BIOGRAPHICAL AN- common in his days, a certificate
By Hugo Bieber .and
During Last Decade, Survey Shows Protest Sanctions •THOLOGY,
Moses Hadas. Jewish Publication So-. of, baptism. This he obtained

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In the. nine-year period 1946-
19156, more than 1,000,000 Jews
migrated, mainly from Europe
and the Middle East, to new
homes throughout the, world,
the majority settling in Israel.
This massive move affected
almost 10, per cent of, the global
Jewish population of 11,810,000,
figure based on a 1956 census,
according to the "Institute An-
nual-19.56," survey of world
Jewi-y prepared by the World
Jewish Congress' Institute of
Jewish Affairs.

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Yeshiva U. to. Institute
New $1 Million Project

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An unprecedented million-
dollar project to alleviate the
critical teacher shortage will be-
gin this July at Yeshiva Uni-
versity's graduate school of
education, co-educational non-
denominational institution i n
New York. City. In cooperation,
with the New York City board
of education and other N.Y.
school systems, the program
will provide education students
with opportunity to "earn while
they learn," according to YU
president Dr. Samuel Belli-in.
Subsidized by a $500,000 Ford
Foundation gratit, the five-year
experiment will innovate the
internship method of training,
whereby students will be sal-
aried school trainees. Participat-
ing school systems 'include
Mount Vernon and Harrison,
N.Y.; Long Beach, Carle Place,
Rockville Center, East Meadow,
L.I.; Westport, Conn., and
Rhodes private secondary school
in Manhattan.

Edison Expansion Shows
Doubled Electrical Use

.Detroit Edison's 1957 con-
struction program — estimated
at about $89 million — reflects
the company's faith in the con-
•tinued growth and progress of
-
southeastern Michigan.
The amount budgeted for
construction this year will pro-.
vide for continuation of work
on Edison's new River Rouge
Power , Plant and the two-unit
addition to the St. Clair Power
Plant; the construction of 25
new distribution substations;
the building Of new transmis-
sion and distribution lines; ex-
pansion of 46 existing distribu-
tion stations;

In addition to a section on
Jewish population figures, the
survey deals with world Jewish
communities and their achieVe-
ments, with special sections on
conditions behind the Iron Cur-
tain, in North Africa and in
Moslem lands. The treatment of
German war criminals, and the
measures applied by West Ger-
many and Austria to compen-
sate the victims of Nazism are
dealt with in separate chapters.
Though Jews are located in
about 110 lands and territories,
90% are living in 13 countries:
United States (5,200,000) ; Sovi-
et Union (2,000,000); Israel (1,-
585,000); Great Britain (450,-
000); Ar g e n tin a - (400,000);
France (250,000); Canada (230,-
000); Morocco (210,000); Ro-
mania (190,000); Algeria- (130,-
000); Brazil (125,000); South
Africa (.110,000); and Hungary
(100,000).
Countries showing major in:
creases since World War II are
Canada, whose Jewish popula-
tion rose from 170,000 to 230,-
000; Argentina, which added
80,000 to its 1939 Jewish popu-
lation of 320,000, and Australia,
the 1939 JeWish community of
30,000 augmented to 53,500. The
1,585;000 Jews in Israel com-
pare with 475;000 in pre-State.
Palestine.
Apart from the drop in Eu-
ropean Jews resulting from
Nazi massacres and subsequent
migration, several other old-
established communities show-
ed marked decreases. The Iraqi
Jewish community now num-
bers 4,000 as compared with the
1939 figure of 110,000, Yemen's
Jewish population of 50,000 has
been reduced to a handful. In
both cases, the bulk of these
communities settled in Israel.
Scattered - throughout the world
are the 25,000 Jews who lived
in China 20 years ago. A mere
680 remain on the Red-held
Chinese mainland.
The E g y p t i a n community
dropped from 75,000 in 1939 to
45,000 in mid-1946. At least. 10,-
000 of this latter figure re-
cently have left under recent.
pressure. The only other Jewish
community of any size in. the
Near East—aside from Israel-
is Lebanon's 10,000.
The WJC's 512-page survey is
"available at the organization's
offices, 15 E. 84th St., New
York, at $4.

Ben-Zvi Greets Egyptian Refugees

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Scores of telegrams and let- ciety of America, Philadelphia.
from the Protestant Church. Lit-
ters were sent by Christians A Review by James I. Ellmann tle did Seine dream the high
and Jews in Michigan to re-
Though there is no final word price he was -to pay for this act
sponsible leaders • in Washing- about any literary genius, even and for a profession he never
ton, protesting against propos- a hundred years after his death, was to pursue. It brought him
ed sanctions.
the life and works of Heinrich none of the emoluments but only
Rev. William B. Sperry com- •Heine provide a genuinely re- the pain and emotional disturb-
mended Senator Knowland for freshing experience. Notwith- ance of being ever on the,defen-
his stand on the question and standing a most turbulent exis- sive about his forbears.
appealed to Michigan's Sena- tence, he continues to rank high
The French wife he married
tors to support him in his op- both as lyrist and essayist. It in the Catholic Church vPas no
was
not
his
signing
verses
alone
position to sanctions.
act of consecration either. He
The Jewish Community Coun- but his sardonic w`it that brought observed, "No Jew can ever be-
him
quick
renown
and
far
mare
cil sent a • statement to Presi-
lieve in the diVinity of another
dent Eisenhower calling for outside his native land than Jew," and "I am baptized but
:U.S. action to help forestall within it. We are indebted to I am never converted."
UN :sanctions againSt Israel as Dr. Moses Hadas and to the
His early association in Ber-
"operating directly against the memory of Dr., Hugo Bieber as lin with a Jewish cultural so-
well
as
to
the
Jewish
Publica-
best interests of the United
tion Society for bringing us this ciety, the "Verein fur Kultur
States."
most recent and. very readable and Wissenschaft der Juden"
provided him with intimate
Rep., Alvin Bentley, Michi- "biographical` anthology."
gan Republican, said it was an
The Jewish community of friendships which he cherished
, "unfortunate occasion" when Dusseldorf, Heine's birthplace, and retained throughout his
the United States; in connec- provided him with the religious lifetime. It was to Dr. Arnold
tion with the United Nations, and educational start of a che- Zunz that he turned when he
considers sanctioning a small der, to be followed eventually wished more knowledge on the
nation like Israel when the by studies at the University' of Cabala and other Jewish
Soviet Union is only lectured Gottingen for a doctorate in ju- themes he needed_ for his
to for its flouting of the UN risprudence. For graduation and "Rabbi of Bachayach," a work
on Hungary. . , •
practice he needed not only a which though n e v er com-
Presidents of 17 ' major diploma but also, as was quite pleted, brings him back into ,
the fold.
American Jewish organiza-
"I have coquetted," Heine
tions met for 'emergency de-
liberations on the threat of `Stubborness . . . to Live' writes, "with every possible sys-
tem, without being satisfied, like
United Nations sanctions Shown by Mrs. Meir as
Messalina after a riotous night:
againgt Israel in the UN dead-
Israel Survival Secret
.and now, after all this, I sud-
lock over Israeli final with-
"Stubborn
WASHINGTON
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denly find myself on the same
drawal froth Sinai.
The conference issued a call ness . to live the same as platform as Uncle Tom. That
other
people
do"
is
the
way
platform is the Bible, and I kneel
to all synagogues in the United
States to arrange for prayers Mrs. Golda Meir explains Is- by the side of my dusky brother-
invoking divine aid for U. S. rael's ability to survive sur- in-faith with the same devo-
Government leaders against er- rounded - by hostile neighbors in tion . . ""
Yes, Heine was to spend half
rors in their consideration of the National Jewish Monthly,
Bnai Brith magazine. She finds of his mature life trying to jus-
sanctions against Israel.
The call was issued in re- this persistence a tradition in tify his apostasy and the remain-
Jewish life.
der in finding ways to return to
sponse to -a plea bk. such ac
"Maybe it is easier for us to the fold. ' •
tion Made to the conference
understand
than
.
for
others,
be-
by congregational organiza-
With liberty in peril Heine left
tions of American JeWrY, the cause, throughout Jewish his- his -fatherland in 1831 to• go to
Union of Atherican Hebrew tory, if the Jewish people had Paris w her e, notwithstanding
Congregations, the Unite d agreed to go out of existence language barriers, he found the
Synagogue of America and just because other people want- air of freedom most invigorat-
the Union of Orthodox Jew- ed them' to go out of existence, ing. Here he could speak and
ish Congregations of America. there wouldn't be a Jewish write as he wished. He even re-
The American Jewigh Con- people today and there wouldn't ceived a government pension for
gress appealed to President be an Israel today," she de- a time. But it was not Hitler
alone who banned his works • and
Eisenhower to oppose sanctions clared.
However, Mrs. Meir said, she rubbed out his name as the au-
on Israel. It would be morally
hopes
the
present
Arab
hostility
thor of the, world famous 'Lo-
unjustified," the AJC main-
relei." Already in 1938 the Ger-
taMed, if this nation "acqui- is only "temporary."
In her article, Mrs. Meir re- man Bundesrat prohibited all of
esCed in any United 'Nations
proposal to penalize Israel by iterates the proposal that United his works.
,The present authors have done
sanctions or otherwise for its Nations forces be sent into a
insistence upon specific guaran- buffer zone in the Sinai Penin- well in revitalizing Heine for us.
sula and "remain there until a He emerges as an ultra modern
tees of security."
The_ resolutions on the un- permanent settlement has been whose lucid prose and lingering
canditiorial withdrawal of Israel reached between Israel and the lyrical quality are probably not
exceeded in the world's litera-
troops from the • Gaza and Arab nations." •
Israel still feels "a settlement ture.
Aqaba areas adopted by the
. arrived at.through direct
United Nations General ASsern- can . be
bly will Only serve to "Promote negotiations between the par-
the very conditions which are ties . . . We are convinced that
calCulated to -perpetuate the, a settlement not only is neces-
Arab-Israel conflict," Dr. Eman- sary, but -really possible," Mrs.
uel Neumann, president of, the Meir said.
Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, declared at a conference of Nasser Glorified as
ZOA regional presidents here.
A mass meeting sponsored by Nem Hitler in Syria
ROME (AJP) — The leading
the Zionist Federation of Brit-
tain expressed regret that the SS;riari daily, Al Manar, circu-
UN Genera_l Assembly resoiu- lated here, hailed Nasser- as
tions had failed to call on the true counterpart of Hitler,
I Egypt to desist from belligerent in a recent issue, in •which
acts against Israel and to aban- editor Bashir, al-Auf,
"One should not forget that,
don its blockade of Israel ship-
ping The meeting expressed in contrast to Europe, Hitler
support of Israel's determina- occupied an honored place in
tion not to give up its positions the Arab world. His name
in the Aqaba area without first awakened in Arab hearts feel-
securing effective • guarantees ings of love and enthusiasm.
"The Arab world should be
a ga t renewed belligerency
congratulated on producing in
and blockade,
, U.S. officials reported that its midst this Hitler who has
the Soviet Union has re- • shaken the world from end to
sumed heavy . ' shipments of end . . English and French
arms 'to Egypt. - Arrival of a journalists are mistaken if they
number of Russian arms in think that by calling Nasser
Alexandria was disclosed Hitler they are hurting us.
"On the contrary, his name
here. Despite unusual security
measures adopted by the Nas- makes us proud. Long live Hit-
ser -government it was learned ler, the Nazi who struck at the
• that the ships brought tanks, heart of otir enemies! Long Jive
artillery., personnel 'carriers, the Hitler of the Arab world
and probably military jet who has opened the gates of
victory and eternity for his
planes.
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President Ben Zvi (left) and his wife greet Jewish refugees
from Egypt upon their arrival in Israel. Following the welcoMe
by Israel's Presidential couple, the influx of newcomers will
start the process of adjusting to their new homeland. Their
absorbtion, like that of 14,000 Jewish refugees from. Egypt and
other countries who have arrived in the last two months, must
be made possible out of sums raised in America through the
United Jewish Appeal's $100,000,000 Emergency Rescue Fund
ov!r and above • the regular 1957 UJA campaign. With 11,000
foreign, stateless and native Jews already forced out of Egypt
by Nasser, it is expected that most of the country's 50,000
Jews will be out of the country by summer. To meet their
needs and the needs of the swelling tides of victims of op-
pression from Egypt, Hungary, other Eastern European
countries and North Africa, the United, Jewish Appeal
Emergency Rescue Fund <is now under way. •

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