every study mission which the
UJA has sent to Israel during
the last; few years.
Fisher also serves as board
member of the United Founda-
ti6n,, Metropolitan Detroit Build-
ing Fund and Health Council of
Detroit.
He was Big Gifts chairman of
the 1957 Torch Drive.
He is married, and has five
children. They reside at 27751
Fairway Hills Drive, Franklin,
Mich.
VIENNA, (JTA) — Out of
80,000 Jews who lived before
World War II in present-day
Yugoslavia, only 7,000 remain,
according to Dr. Jacques Con-
fino, chairman of the Jewish
comunity in Belgrade and pro-
minent Yugoslav writer, who is
visiting Warsaw.
Only 10,000 of the pre-war
Yugoslav Jews remained living
after World War II, Dr. Confino
said in an interview with the
Yiddish daily, Die Folkshtimme
Many of these were saved from
annihilation by the Nazis when
Yugoslav partisans liberated
them from an island in the
Adriatic Sea where they were
guarded by Italian fascists.
Later, about 3,000 of them left
Yugoslavia, most of them going
to Israel.
Under the chairmanship of
Dr. Albert Weiss, a professor
of the Belgrade University
the Jewish community of the
country is well organized, said
Dr. Confino. He reported that
a vigorous cultural program.
with great emphasis on Yiddish
literature, is conducted through-
out the country under the aus-
pices of the Federation of Jew-
ish Communities.
One of the features of the
Federation program is a special
series of schools, vacation camps
and publications for the youth.
For the general Jewish popu-
lation, the Federation publishes
annually a Jewish' almanac
which, according to Dr. Confino
includes the pick of Yiddish
literature, poetry and art from
Jewish authors and artists. Re-
cently, a Jewish history was
published, written by Dr. Solo-
mon Calderon, secretary of the
Federation.
There is very little anti-
Semitism in Yugoslavia, Dr.
Confino declared.
(Music Study Club of Detroit
just recently sent many music
scores to the Yugoslavian Jewish
community for use by' choirs
conducted under the Zagreb
cultural program.)
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and civic, were represented in
extending to him Detroit's good
wishes on the important mile-
stone in his life.
Irving Goldman, who is associ-
ated with Fisher in the Aurora
Gasoline Co., presided at the.
event. Judge Theodore Levin de-
livered the principal talk in be-
half of the Jewish community.
Rabbi Morris Adler gave the
invocation and benediction.
A feature of the event was
tbe playing of a recorded song
written in Fisher's honor by
Mrs. Charles H. Gershenson,
and the record was presented
to the guest of honor as a
memento of the event.
Born in Salem 0., July 15,
1908, Max M. Fisher cane to
Detroit in 1931 and entered
the oil business in that year. He
is now the chairman of the
board of Aurora Gasoline Co.
in which is included the Speed-
way Petroleum Corp.
For the past three years chair-
man of the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, Fisher is a vice-president
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and vice-president of Sinai
Hospital. He is active in the most
important Detroit causes and his
devoted services have inspired
Detroit's great efforts in behalf
of Israel's upbuilding.
Fisher is a director of the
American Petroleum Institute
and of the National Petroleum
Council at the Department of
Interior in Washington.
He holds a bachelor of sci-
ence degree from Ohio State
University where he was a foot-
ball player and a member of Pi
Lambda Phi fraternity.
He is a member of the Un-
ited Jewish Appeal National
Cabinet, UJA Big Gifts chair-
man and has participated in
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Jerusalem's newest A class
Holyland Hotel opened its doors
to the public last month. To
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room swith - private baths, 60
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situate din one of Jerusalem's
suburbs, offering a superb view
of the city and the surrounding
mountains. Building activity on
the 27 acres of wooded grounds
o fthe hotel is adding a large
garden restaurant and cafe, a
swimming pool and various
sport facilities. The cuisine of
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Associates of Max M. Fisher
in numerous communal activi-
ties here joined in honoring him
on his 50th birthday, at a lunch-
eon at the Sheraton Cadillac
Hotel on Monday.
There were 50 people pres-
ent — one for each year in his
life — and nearly every impor-
tant community agency, Jewish
7,000 Jews Remain of Yugoslavia's Pre-War 80,060
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Causes on His 50th Birthday