THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS — Friday, August 29, 1958
ate yen in Literature
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1958,
Jewish-Telegraphic Agency Inc.)
Obituaries
South African Jews
Mourn Premier's Death;
Strijdom Was Friend
In the literature of the great, Lincoln made on him. His fath- ness of every celebrated man.
one does not expect to find nar- er, Charles Francis Adams, had When he met Mark Twain, he
NELLIE HOROWITZ, former-
row prejudice. But the weed of been appointed by Lincoln as was sure that Mark's long nose
JOHANNESBURG (JTA) —
hate springs up everywhere. ambassador to England. Henry showed that he must have Jew- ly of Detroit, died Aug. 15, in
The Jewish community of
Denver.
She
leaves
two
sons,
How is one to account for Adams went along as his fath- ish blood.
Josh, of Huntington Woods, and South Africa mourned Jo-
the vicious hate of the Jews to er's private secretary. Before
Of course, this was nonsense. Isadore Harwood, of St. Louis, hannes G. Strijdom, Nationalist
be found in the writings of going abroad, he came with his
Prime Minister who died Sun-
Henry Adams? We should ex- father to Washington and there Mark Twain had no Jewish Mo.; two daughters, Mrs. Ben day at the age of 65.
blood
in
him,
although
his
Kurtzman
and
Mrs.
Ben
Keil,
pect him to know better. He got his first glimpse of the war
Strijdom's term of office was
was of the great Adams family President. What was his im- daughter later was to marry the both of Denver; and nine grand- characterized by a marked
Jewish
pianist,
Gabrilowitch.
children.
which furnished two Presidents pression? It was that Lincoln
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friendliness toward Israel and
of the United States. His great was a man who sorely needed Mark Twain too had a pessi-
HARRY ROSENBAUM, 15341 a cordiality toward the Jewish
grandfather John Adams in a education, but he felt that Lin- mism, about the hunian race, Rosemary, Oak Park, died Aug. community back e d by a
letter to Thomas Jefferson coin's character was such that but his pessimism was of a dif- .20. He leaves his wife, Faye; strongly-worded guarantee,
wrote: "In spite of Bolingbroke no amount of education would ferent kind—far different than two sons, Jeffery A. and Brian scrupulously observed, of its
and Voltaire, I will insist that do him any good. In other Adams. To him, the gloom arose S.; a daughter, Candace P.; and equal position among the white
the Hebrews have done more words, to Henry Adams, Lin- because of man's inhumanity to three brothers, Charles, David population of this country.
to civilize man than any other coin was hopeless. But this man. The worst thing Mark and Bernard.
A message of condolence by
nation. If I were an atheist and feeling extended beyond Lin- Twain said that could be said
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Edel Horvitz, chairman of the
against the Jews was that he
DAVID GOLDSTEIN, 19475 South African Jewish Board of
believed in blind eternal fate, coin and the Jews—it embraced
I should still believe that fate the human race. Some one said belonged "to the infernal hu- Santa Rosa, died Aug. 23. He Deputies, broadcast over the
man race."
leaves a brother, Louis, of Chi- national radio service, called
had ordained the Jews to be that if Henry Adams had heard
cago; and a sister, Mrs. Isaac the P r i m e Minister's "last
the most essential instrument that the whole world would be
for civilizing nations." blown up, he would have Noted Jewish Conductor Goldstein, of Detroit.
heroic battle" to carry out his
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*
In John Adams' time, Voltaire shouted "Hooray."
of Berlin Opera Dies
MARVIN GARLAND, 19340 public duties in the face of ill
wrote rabidly against Jews. Vol-
health "typical of his fortitude
Fundamentally, he was a
BERLIN, (JTA)—Leo Blech, Lesure, died Aug. 23. He leaves
taire was the great warrior frustrated person. He would noted Jewish conductor of the his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. and devotion."
against religious fanaticism, yet never eclipse or even stand on
Chief Rabbi Louis I. Rabin-
Berlin State Opera whose per- Garland; two brothers, Norman
Voltaire's prejudice is under- a par, he knew, with his famous sonal popularity in Germany was and Donald; and his grand- owitz, in a statement made at
standable. It was personal. He ancestors. He reached a kind of
mother, Mrs. Helen Holtzman. the dedication of a new youth
had had some unhappy busi- fame unwittingly in a kind of so great that they never ousted
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center adjoining the Great
him openly but forced his re-
ness dealing with a Jew and jeremiad of pessithism.
AL BE R T KOBYLANSKI, Synagogue of this city, spoke
tirement in 1937 for reasons of 15086 Burton, Oak Park, died
being, as G e or g e Brandeis
of the Prime Minister as a
James Russell Lowell, anoth-
pointed out, himself an avari- er distinguished f i g u r e in "age," died here Sunday night Aug. 20. Survived by his wife, man who filled the Biblical
at
the
age
of
87.
Blech
was
ap-
cious and greedy person, he re- American letters, likewise suf-
Rose; two sons, Martin and qualifications of a ruler who
acted sharply. He seems later fered from anti-Jewish halluci- pointed general music director Robert; two brothers, two sis- "kept God's word at his hand
of
the
organization
in
1913
by
to have recanted his anti-Sem- nations. Lowell's obsession was
ters and a grandchild.
and often turned to it for
Kaiser Wilhelm H when the
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itic phobias.
guidance."
of a very peculiar kind. Partly, institution was known as the
DAVID WEISBLATT, 2918
But Henry Adams had no it appeared to stem from a Royal Opera.
Monterey, died Aug. 21. Sur-
business dealings with Jews. He kind of admiration of the Jew.
Arthur W. Sloman Dies
vived
by his wife, Yetta; a son,
After
his
retirement,
Blech
appeared to have had no con- He was obsessed with the illu-
in
California, Age 73
tacts or the most minimal ones sion that every great man had accepted a two-year contract to Harold; four daughters, Riva,
Arthur W. Sloman, member
Mrs. Isadore Miller, Mrs. Ben
conduct
the
Chicago
Grand
with Jews. In his case, the hate some Jewish blood in him. He
Klempner and Mrs. Morris Wag- of one of the most prominent.
seems to plumb to deeper and even thought that he and every- Opera Company, but a contro-
Jewish families in Detroit
man; and six grandchildren.
darker realms of psychology. If body with the name of Russell versy stemming from his con-
died in Santa Monica. Calif.,
tinuing
•
to
conduct
after
the
Henry Adams didn't like the —how crazy can you get—ha . '
Nazis stripped German music Funeral Services Today Aug. 22, at the age of 73.
Jews, it may also be said that Jewish blood. Where he got the
Funeral services were held
-Ircles of other Jewish person- for Aaron Wisper, 86
he liked little of anything or idea that anyone with the nam
in Beverly Hills, Calif., on
-lities eventually led to aban-
Aaron
Wisper,
86,
of
19520
anybody else. Abraham Lincoln Russell was of Jewish descent
lonment of this plan. Later he Argyle Crescent, for many Wednesday.
didn't please him at all either. I can't figure out. Maybe fron -
Surviving him is a - daughter,
ecame conductor of the Riga, years prominent in the mercan-
In "The Education of Henry "Pesachdicke Russel." From ad
,atvia, National Opera and the tile business here, as co-owner Mrs. Bernard Grand, of Santa
Adams," which has become miring the Jew, he came to re
'oyal Opera of Stockholm and of the Wisper and Schwartz Monica.
something of a classic, he tells gard him as a kind of ogre. H
.e Municipal Opera of West Department Store, died at his - Mr. Sloman retired in 1947
of the unfavorable impression grew suspicious of the Jewis!
home Aug. 27. Funeral serv- from the M. Sloman & Co. Raw
ices will be held today at noon, Furs, a firm that was founded
by his father, Samuel.
at Kaufman Chapel.
His uncle, Adolph S. Slo-
He has lived here for 66
years, since coming to Detroit man, at one time was one
from Poland. He was a mem- of Detroit's most prominent
ber of Shaarey Zedek, Pisgah attorneys. Another uncle. Eu-
Lodge of Bnai Brith, United gene S. Sloman. was a financial
Hebrew Schools and Home for backer of the Bonstelle Players.
Aged.
Sir Samuel Gluckste;n,
Surviving him are three sons, Ex-Mayor of Westminster,
Joseph, Lew and Leonard; two
Dies in London; Was '77
daughters, Mrs. Donald Leven-
LONDON (JTA)—Sir Samuel
son and Mrs. Hattie Schwartz;
six grandchildren and eight Gluckstein, a former Mayor of
Westminster, died Aug. 19 at
great grandchildren.
his home in London at the age
of 77. Sir Samuel, an attorney,
was a freeman of the city and
fornier . president . of the Macca-
In cherished memory of beans. He was a son of the
Harry Mitz, de a r l y beloved founder of a chain of teashops.
father and grandfather, who
passed away on Sept. 16, 1954
(t ,
(18 days in Elul).
Never to be forgotten by his
children and grandchildren.
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In loving memory of my be-
During the coming
loved wife and our sweet moth-
week Yeshiva Beth Ye-
er, Helen F. D'Braunstein, who
huda will observe the
passed away on Aug. 28, 1949.
Yahrzeit of the follow-
Sadly missed by her husband,
ing departed friends,
Hasckar; sons, Arthur, Jack and
with t h e traditional
David; and daughter, Joyce.
Memorial Prayers, reci-
May God assuage our great
tation of Kaddish and
loss.
studying of Mishnoyes.
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UNION, N.J., (AJP) — An
AJP reporter managed to break
through the anti-Semitic Iron
Curtain of the Christian Edu-
cational Association headquar-
ters here which is engaged in
a world-wide campaign against
Jews and Jewry and which pub-
lishes the venemous "Common
Sense."
The leaders of this group, he
found, are all fanatic Christians.
who use -certain New Testament
passages against the Jews as a
basis for their anti-Semitism.
In a large propaganda sheet
titled "The Coming Red Dicta-
torship," the group lists every
important JeW as "Asiatic Marie-
ist Jews controlling entire
world."
Hebrew
Elul
Sigmund M. Thorne 14
Civil
Aug.
30
Edus Barshack
Chana D. Kazerinski
Avrohum M.
Kazerinski
Max Newman
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15
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31
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15
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31
Samuel Miller
William Sandler
Milton Burnstine
Sarah Siegle
16
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16
Abraham Nathan
Ida Esther Becker
Rose Diamond
Esther G. Ruffsky
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Sept.
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2
2
2
Harry Goodman
18
3
Moses Liebergott
Sheine Weinstein
Harry Weisswasser
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Julius Kozloff
20
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Yeshiva Beth Yehuda
12305 Dexter
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