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THE JEWISH NEWS

Our Obligations in 1958

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle, commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers. Michigan Press Association. National

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Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 1'7100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35,
Mich.. VE. 8-9364 Subscription $5 a year. Foreign
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1952 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under Act of March 3, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK

Advertising Manager

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

FRANK SIMONS

Circulation Manager

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the nineteenth day of Te bet, 5718, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
P entatenchal portion, Shemoth. Ex. 1:1 -6:1. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 27:6-28:13,
29:22-23.

Licht Benshen, Friday, Jan. 10, 4:40 p.m.

VOL. XXXII, No. 19

January 10, 1958

Page Four

Allied Jewish Campaign's '58 Objectives

A minimum goal has been set and the
chairmen have been selected to conduct
the annual Allied Jewish Campaign.
The New Year therefore begins with
a purpose for the Jewish community of
Detroit.
Responsible committees have studied
the needs. They have arrived at the irre-
futable conclusions that certain addi-
tional sums are needed locaUy if our
schools are to function properly and our
other agencies are not to suffer from a
lack of means with which to continue
normal operations.
It has also been established that in-
creases must be made in allocations to
national Jewish agencies. These are vital
in our cultural planning and on the civic-
protective fronts.
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Especially urgent are the needs for
continued efforts in behalf of Israel, the
causes that aid the dispossessed and
homeless and the numerous overseas
agencies that serve as inspiration to com-
munities that seek to protect Jewish lives
and to perpetuate the heritage of the
Jewish people.
A special Rescue Fund again is being
raised for the United Jewish Appeal, and
there will be need for . extra giving this
year.

When we speak, therefore, of a base
goal of $6,200,000—by which is meant
the minimum amount to be raised here
if the past year's allocations are to be
repeated—we mean the lowest denomina-
tor for our campaign.
What is meant is that extra funds will
have to be raised. Our campaigners
therefore have the responsibility of secur-
ing increases over the gifts made last
year.
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With the selection of Max M. Fisher
as the 1958 Allied Jewish Campaign
chairman, and with the appointments of
Irwin I. Cohn and Leonard N. Simons as
his co-chairmen, a vital beginning has
been •made in setting up the campaign
machinery.
These men are aiming high—to make
this the best campaign year in the history
of the Jewish community of Detroit.
Now it is up to all of us to cooperate
with them, to lend them our support, to
assist in making this a good fund-raising
year—in order that the sums raised may
elevate the standards of our community's
agencies by providing them with the
means to render the best services.
Indeed, let all of us join in making
this the best Allied Jewish Campaign
year in history.

Anti-Semitic Manifestations in 1957

A World Jewish Congress analysis of
existing conditions contends that about a
fourth of the 12,000,000 Jews in the
- world have felt the effects of anti-Semit-
ism, in one form or another, during the
past year.
This study acknowledges that there
was a marked diminution of bigotry in
1957, but it points to the following mani-
festations of anti-Semitism:
In Egypt, whence 22,000 of the 45,000
Jews were compelled to leave due to the
relentless pressures and decrees seques-
tering Jewish businesses and properties,
the blackest record of anti-Semitism was
recorded in the last 12 months. Egyptian
emissaries, it is pointed out, attempted
also to disrupt the traditionally good rela-
tions between Arabs and Jews in Latin
American countries, but "the attempt to
promote a boycott of the Jews and of
Israel in Latin America has been a total
failure."
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There was anti-Semitic agitation and
outbreaks in Poland in 1957, "but in con-
trast to the Egyptians the Gomulka re-
gime exerted itself to denounce and
prosecute the anti-Semitic agitators, and
repeatedly expressed its resolve to bring
the -anti-Semitic agitation to an end. At
the same time the regime recognized the
human rights of Poland's 45,000 Jews and
facilitated the emigration of those who
desired to leave. It is estimated that
29,000 Polish Jews emigrated, mainly to
Israel, while the community welcomed
back to Poland some 10,000 repatriates
from Soviet Russia in 1957."
Grave concern is expressed by the
World Jewish Congress over the status
of the estimated 3,000,000 Jews in Soviet
Russia. It is pointed out that the Jews in
the USSR "continue to suffer as a cor-
porate body the restraints and restric-
tions to which it has been subjected since
1948." While Moscow Jews were per-

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theological seminary, the World Jewish
Congress report emphasizes that ."in the
field of culture and ethnic identity,
though every Jew is described as such on
his passport and on every certificate from
a public or educational authority, organ-
ized Jewish cultural life in any form has
disappeared among the Jews of the Soviet
Union."

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Then there is the report that during
1957 the notorious Swedish anti-Semite,
Einar Aberg, despite his conviction by a
Swedish court, renewed his efforts to fan
anti-Semitism on an international scale
and has disseminated his anti-Semitic
propaganda through the mails, in Spanish
and English, to countries in the Western
Hemisphere." -
Indeed, many of the Afro-Asian acts in
recent times may well be interpreted as
anti-Semitic. True: the participation of
Arabs in fomenting anti-Jewish feeling
makes it impossible to refer to our Semite
cousins as being anti-Semitic, but as ap-
plied to Jews who are of Semitic origin
they are anti-Semites. This source of anti-
Jewishness calls for as much combative
action as any other type of anti-Semitism.

Such is the status of anti-Semitism in
the world today. While the World Jewish
Congress report makes no reference to
any manifestations on this continent,
there are occasional displays of bigotry.
Fortunately, anti-Semitic evidences are so
rare in our hemisphere that the condi-
tions for the future are more heartening.
A decline in prejudice in this country and
in Canada enables us better to contribute
to the battle against bigotry in other
lands.
One fact remains paramount in this
discussion: that there is always need for
vigilance. As long as people are on the
alert in their lookout against bigotry, they
have a chance to destroy the roots of

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New Book by the Ausubels

A Treasury of Jewish Poetry'

Nathan and Marynn Ausubel have combined their skills in
preparation' of an outstanding book, "A Treasury of Jewish
Poetry—From Biblical Times to the Present," published by
Crown (419 4th, N.Y. 16).
In more than 500 pages of text, Mr. and Mrs. Ausubel
have incorporated the outstanding poetic selections written by
Jews.
They have omitted some poets, and they have undoubtedly
included some selections that won't please certain readers, but
in the main their work is impressive and represents a valuable
contribution to Jewish literature.
The Ausubels should, for instance, have
included the work of the late Dr. Noah E.
Aronstam, The Jewish News poet whose verses
had been published in scores of newspapers and
magazines in this country and abroad. But they
did come across and include in their anthology
a poem by a former Detroiter, 30-year-old
Chaim Zeldis, who now lives with his family in
a kibutz in Israel.
Zeldis' poem is entitled "The Holy Ones,
the Young Ones." Its four stanzas reveal
genuine inspiration.
N. Ausubel
Incidentally, Chaim Zeldis is a former Jewish News em-
ployee whose verses first were published in our columns.
The 62-page introduction to this volume is in itself a
scholarly analysis of the husband-and-wife team's editorial
attainment in the ,preparation of this book. They review the
nature of Jewish poetry, the Biblical versifications and the
poetry of the Prophets and the Psalms; post-Biblical, medieval
and Yiddish poetry and modern Hebrew poems.
The Ausubels explain why they have included in their
volume works by authors who may be found objectionable for
such a compendium but who they believe "fit into the cate-
gories of Jewish traditional values and attitudes on which
our book is patterned" and they therefore consider that they
"have a right to be there."
The note on the translations also is enlightening. It ex-
plains the choices made, in spite of some difficulties encountered
in selecting proper translations. They followed the advice of
Jean Jaures: "Take from the altar of the past the fire, not the
ashes." In making their selections, they state, "we sought to
present that which, in our opinion, articulated the ideas, tastes,
problems and goals of the Jewish people throughout its millen-
nial history."
The subjects covered in this book include: The Spirit of
Man—Hope and Faith, Love, Sorrow, Courage and Defiance;
The Jew in the World—Beauty in Nature, Power of Evil, Oppres-
sors, Steadfast in Adversity; God—Hymns of Love and Praise,
Prayer and Conscience, Sabbath, Messiah and Redemption; The
Mind of the Jew—Pursuit of Wisdom, Death and Immortality,
Irony and Satire, In a Lighter Vein and Wine Songs.

`Treasury of Jewish Quotations

"A Treasury of Jewish Quotations", edited by Dr. Joseph
L. Baron, remains the best available collection of the wisest
thoughts by Jews.
Published by Crown (419 4th, N. Y. 16), this volume is a
classified anthology of thoughts by Jews of all ages, of all
lands, about every conceivable aspect of Jewish life.
There are more than 10,000 thoughtS incorporated in this
book. The reader becomes better informed by these wise sayings.
He gains an acquaintance with the hundreds of authors and
leaders who are quoted.
The literature of our people has been scanned by the able
editor for this collection. The great Jewish leaders of all ages
are represented in these selections. There are translations from
the Hebrew and other languages, and in its totality this repre-
sents an outstanding compendium.

