THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, June 27, 1958-24

A ZOD Birthday Cake for Israel

At a dinner marking the installation of new officers of
the Zionist Organization of Detroit, given also in observance
of the tenth anniversary of Israel, the candles on birthday
cake were lit by the wives of the new president, Mrs. Milton
Arm (left); the retiring president, Mrs. Milton Marwil (right)
and of the oldest past president of the ZOD, Mrs. Maurice
Zackheim.

Life in Catskill Mountain Resorts
Put Under Harper's Microscope

The "Borscht Circuit" of the
Catskill Mountains summer re-
sorts is the subject of a thorough
knowing and at times highly
amusing, article by David Bo-
roff in the July Harper's Maga-
zine.
Boroff, a Brooklyn College
teacher, tells the fascinating
story of the Catskills region as
a world-famous Jewish play-
ground—its history, the pattern
of life at its big and small
hotels, and the area's future.
In the region's 500 hotels and
2,000 bungalow colonies, 2,000,-
000 visitors yearly find summer
accommodations suiting every
taste and purse.
A curious mixture of modern
opulence with traditional and
rustic serenity, in which people
will throw themselves frantic-
ally into the pursuit of a mam-
borama just after the finish of
a kosher meal, pervades the re-
sort life there. Culture exists
side by side with nouveaux
riches psuedo-culture. And sta-
tus is determined by how close
to the pool one's chaise longue
is set up, Boroff writes.
Grossinger's is the "undis-
puted aristocrat" among the
hotels, but its rival, the Con-
cord, is another "titan." At
Grossinger's, the tradition of the
shadchan lives on in the office
of the hostess. "The hotel's ar-
chievs are full of marital tri-
umphs achieved by people who
traveled hundreds of miles to
Grossinger's in order to meet
and marry mates from their
hometowns." Guests are ap-
praised of each other's presence
through a newspaper distributed
at the dinner table. "In the
euphoric lexicon of Grossinger's,
no female guest is ever less than
pretty and no man ungallant,"
the writer continues.
Ranking on a level below
these two undisputed kings of
the Catskills are about a dozen
hotels which offer "the abun-
dant life on a smaller scale."
Each has its speciality—while
one may be a sports center, the
other will emphasize dancing,
while yet another will bring cul-
tural experiences to one and
all.
And below these rank the
bungalows and still a little fur-
ther down are the kochaleins.

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ramshackle buildings with a
communal kitchen.
At these summer resorts,
which had their origins in the
'20s and survived the depression
with great difficulty, the busi-
ness pattern of the nation's
economy is making itself felt.
The small hotel owner is being
driven to the wall by the gi-
gantic and luxurious "titans."
Another change is taking
place in these resorts. Gentiles
are discovering the Catskills.
They like what they see and the
Catskills are delighted to have
them. For many, Jewish food
is "an exciting new eating ad-
venture." The Catskills hotels
are coming to be used as con-
vention sites, with the family
tagging along. Winter sports are
keeping the hotels open year-
round. The Concord Hotel, in
pursuit of winter trade, has ar-
tificial snow on- its slopes.
"There has even been experi-
mentation with polychromatic
snow with creme de menthe fla-
vor for the hapless who land
face down," Boroff says.
Even with all the frantic
efforts to have a good time, the
author notes that "Jewish tra-
ditions are free from certain
kinds of excesses. Drinking is
always kept within reasonable
limits, and there is rarely any
brutality or grossness."
The article contains many
acute observations and enlight-
ening thoughts. It's worth pick-
ing up a Harper's for.

Detroit Roundtable
Awards 38 Scholarships
for Inter-Group Study

The Edgar DeWitt Jones edu-
cational fund of the Detroit
Roundtable of Catholics, Jews
and Protestants and the Na-
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews has awarded scholar-
ships to 38 teachers and com-
munity leaders to attend human
relations workshops at leading
Universities this summer.
Locally, Wayne State Univer-
sity, University of Detroit, Uni-
versity of Michigan and Eastern
Michigan College are partici-
pating. The scholarships are
made possible through contribu-
tions by industry, business
firms, service clubs, educa-
tional organizations, individuals
and former recipients of the
scholarships.
Teacher teams from many
schools in the community are
attending the intensive summer
course in inter-group relation-
ships and in the problems that
arise from tensions in these re-

Dr. Howard Sachar Follows
Father's Footsteps as Author
of History of Jewish People

Howard M. Sachar, who was
born in St. Louis 30 year's ago,
received his Ph. D. from Har-
vard, specialized in Near East-
ern problems, held a Bnai Brith
Hillel directorship at UCLA
from 1954 to 1957 and then went
to Israel to pursue his studies,
is following in the footsteps of
his famous father, Dr. Abraham
L. Sachar, president of Brandeis
University.
Like his father, he has just
written a voluminous Jewish
history. His father at one time
was head of the Bnai Brith Hil-
lel Foundations and is the
author of a Jewish history that
has gone into several editions
and has had encouraging sales.
The younger Dr. Sachar is
the author of "The Course of
Modern Jewish History,"
which has been issued by
World Publishing Co. (2231
W. 110th St., Cleveland 2).
As the book's title implies,
this is a modern history of
Jewry. It commences with an
outline of "the Jew as non-
European," with a review of
the status of Jewry in the ghetto
where Jews lived under a self-
governing system, leading up to
"the glimmering of dawn in the
West."
But as dawn "glimmered," Dr.
Sachar describes the sad state
of affairs in Poland and the
Eastern portions of Europe and
states that "in the East, the cir-
cumstances of Jewish life were
steadily worsening; in the West,
there were tentative indications
that better times were on the
way."
The age of the Court Jews
and of Mendelssohn, the eman-
cipation of Eureopean Jewry,
the trials and tribulations in
Eastern Europe and the tri-
umph of liberalism in the West,
follow in the pursuing chapters.
It stands to reason that there
are lengthy resumes of the rise
of Jewish life in the New World,
the American experiences and
the more recent developments
that marked the rise of Israel.
Sandwiched in between these
descriptive analyses are evalua-
tions of the turbulent times in
Russia; the "false dawn in the
East," as the author refers to
the horrors that marked the
reigns of Nicholas I and Alex-
ander II in Russia; the emer-
gence of anti - Semitism in
Europe, and the Dreyfus Affair;
the rise of Zionism, the diffi-
culties encountered in Palestine
and related events; "the growth
of Jewish Socialism," the de-
struction of European Jewry by
Hitler and the other historical
developments of the last and the
present century.
There is a fine review of
American Jewish experiences,

Farband Camp Opens
Adult Section, July 4

Honeymoon in Florida
After June 12 Rites

and the author reaches the
conclusion that "from the van-
tage point of 1957, the Amer-
ican Jewish community was
sound and wholesome." Ile
points to young Jews' interest
in Israel and the Hebrew lan-
guage as being marked by "a
spirit of complete, unselfcon-
scious, thoroughly affirmative
Jewishness," and states that
"with this spirit, the Ameri-
can-Jewish community bade
fair to create a civilization of
such enduring vitality as to
pre-empt from medieval Spain
the title of 'Golden Age.' "

In his preface to his history,
whose lengthy bibliography at-
tests to the author's deep study
of the issues he has reviewed,
he states that if his book
"p o s s e s e s any interpretive
value, it will be found in the
effort I have made to demon-
strate the interaction between
Jewish and non-Jewish factors."
The reader will find, however,
that the thorough research made
in the preparation of this book
offers a vast amount of infor-
mation and adds considerably
towards enlightening those seek-
ing information about our peo-
ple's modern history.

MRS. SHELDON JACOBS

In the presence of the im-
mediate families on June 12,
Loretta Wisok was joined in
marriage to Sheldon Jacobs.
The wedding was solemnized in
the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Wisok,
of Oak Dr. Mr. Jacobs is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jacobs,
of Pennington Dr.
The bride is an alumna of
Liggett School, and now attends
Wayne State University. Mr.
Jacobs is a June graduate of
Walsh Institute of Accountancy.
The couple is honeymooning
in Florida.

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