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`Gentile' Story
Has Its Pleasant
Ne aative
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Fryer Gives $200,000
to Hebrew University
,
Samuel A. Fryer, noted bio-
chemist and philanthropist of
Los Angeles, has given $200,000
to the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, it was announced
by Daniel G.
Ross, preident
of the Ameri-
can Friends of
Hebrew U n i-
versity. Funds
will be used
for comple-
,tion of the
•Samuel A.
Fryer Buil-
ding, the cen-
tral and major
structure of
the Los An-
geles edifice
of the Physi-
S. A. Fryer cal and Inor-
ganic Chemistry Building being
constructed on the new campus
of the Jerusalem university in
Israel.. Fryer has also been a
generous donor to Technion-
Israel Institute of Technology
in Haifa and the University of
Judaism at Los Angeles.
Dr. Gabriel Davidson,
Farm Expert, Dies, 79
Dr. Gabriel Davidson, former
managing director of the Jew-
ish Agricultural Society, died of
a heart ail-
ment Saturday
in Flushing,
N. Y., at the
age of 79. In
his many
years of activ-
ities, he has
placed thou-
sands of Jews
on farms.
Since retiring Mr
as the Agri- Dr. Davidson
cultural Society's director in
1951, he served as its consul-
tant. He was an attorney and
was awarded an honorary LL.D.
by the Jewish Theological
Seminary of America.
Louis Cobane, Prominent Attorney,
Community Leader, Dies Here at 70
Attorney Louis S. Cohane,
prominent in American law cir-
"The Gentile," a novel by
cles and an active member of
;, Sylvia and Henry Lief era nt
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the Detroit Jewish community,
(Mrs. Lieferant died since t he
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died last Friday at the age of
novel's completion), publish ed
70.
at by lquhlenberg Press (29 00
•r.; Queens Lane, Philadelphia 29 ),
Born in Detroit on Jan. 18,
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1888, Mr. Cohane became promi-
supposedly was written as a 11
nent in Jewesh community life
I answer to Laura Hobson's "Ge n-
when he was elected president
ct) tleman's Agreement" publishe d
a decade ago. The effectivene ss
of the Young Men's Hebrew
Association in 1910.
44 of the reply may' be challenge
Mr. Cohane was graduated
The gentile in the story is
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from the Detroit College of Law
the pleasant, attractive and a r-
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in 1909 and had practiced law
tistic Linda Macneil. The tu
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here until his death.
prejudiced girl comes to Ne w
York from Compton Center i n
He was a member of the
ti the Midwest in search of a jo
board of Shaarey Zedek from
0 as a fashion artist and designe r.
1916 to 1922 and in 1918 he
served on the City of Detroit's
E-4 She lands in a Jewish fin 11
44 which has hitherto not employe d
Americanization Committee.
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non-Jews. She begins to hea
During World War II, he
Mine B. Saarinen's
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references to "shiksa" and titer e
was one of the best known
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'Proud Possessors
E.4 is the danger of her bein
Four Minute Speakers in be-
Aline B. Saarinen, author of half of Liberty Bond cam-
"sucked into the whirlpool o f
LOUIS S. COHANE
"The
Proud
Possessors,"
a
book
discrimination."
paigns.
about art collectors, published
cited by the Red Cross for
In 1921 he formed the law
Indeed, she counters prejt t-
by Random House, is a native firm of Cohane, Rhodes, Gar- 40 years of service to the
dice with prejudice, only to re -
New Yorker who now lives with vett and Frankel, which then movement, and early this
cant after leaving her job t o
her husband, the architect Eero included, in addition to him- year, community leaders join-
which she returns when she
ed in honoring him on his
reconciled with Russ Gould, th e Ashkenazic Synagogue Saarinen, and son, in Bloomfield self, Samuel J. Rhodes, Morris
man she becomes engaged to Given to Algerian Jews Hills, Mich.
Garvett and Samuel D. Frankel. 70th birthday and re-elected
A former New York Times
Russ, too, had blundered by n of
In 1924 he formed the law him to the Red Cross board.
PARIS, (JTA) — The Paris
telling her his parents wer e Consistory has turned over one art critic, author of a number firm of Cohane and Cohane,
Funeral services were held
Jewish. But when she meet . of the most famous synagogues of articles on art in leading which included until his death on Sunday with burial in New
his "adopted parents", non-Jews of this city, the synagogue in magazines, Mrs. Saarinen un- himself and his wife, Regene York.
and learns about Russ's sincer the Rue des Tournelles, in doubtedly knows her subject Freund Cohane, whom he mar-
He is survived by his wife
ity, she returns to him and con which the Ashkenazi rites have well.
ried on Dec. 9, 1924. Their and law partner, Regene, who
In "The Proud Possessors," first case together was argued is nationally known in legal
sents to marry him.
been practiced for more than 80
Meanwhile, Linda had be years, to a new Sephardic con- she describes the activities of before the U.S. Supreme Court and Jewish social service cir-
friended her Jewish employer s gregation composed of Algerian many notables. Among them and the judgment was rendered cles.
and had occasion to tell the so n Jews who have settled in Paris. are Gertrude, Leo, Michael and by the late Mr. Justice Louis
of one of them about Christ. It Rabbi Andre Chekroun, an Al- Sarah Stein, all born in Alle- D. Brandeis. It was the first Moses Slavin Dies; Was
created a rift, and in that rif t gerian, will be minister of the gheny, Pa., children of the time on record that a husband
German-Jewish settler, Daniel and wife team had argued a Leader in 'Old Timers'
lies the inconsistency of the au congregation.
thors who emphasize American-
Establishment of the Algerian Stein, collectors of "many fas- case before the Supreme Court.
Moses Slavin, former Detroit-
ism and freedom of worship congregation in Paris empha- cinating and illuminating paint-
Mr. Cohane had served on er and a leader in the Hannah
while denying that right to the sized the extent of the move- ings, but only a very few were numerous committees for the Schloss Old Timers' movement,
Jews in the story. The denial ment of Jews from North Africa of the first order of magnitude." Detroit Bar Association.
who made his home in Chicago
She is critical, in a similar
to the latter is not an outright to France during the last de-
He was chairman of the for 35 years and recently moved
vein, of the other collectors, speakers' committee for the to Joliet, Ill., died Nov. 5 in
blemish: it rather develops out cade.
of the authors' failure to por-
Alain de Rothschild, president whose habits she outlines and
YMCA $5,000,000 building Joliet. Funeral services were
tray observing Jews with high of the Paris Consistory, esti- whose tastes she explains in her
fund; represented the Ameri- held here at Kaufman Chapel
standards of Jewish loyalties: mated the number of these set- new book.
can Bar Association at the last Friday.
Presented in "The Gentile" are tlers in Paris in the tens of
An interesting section of the U. S. Attorney General's
Surviving him are a son, Rob-
fanatics who keep their hats on thousands and pledged that the book is devoted to Joseph H.
crime conference in 1934; ert; daughter, Mary Leiter;
because the elder in the family Consistory would do all in its Hirshhorn—"Little Man in a
and served on scores of civic brothers, Harry and Hyman of
chooses to keep his on out of power to provide adequate reli- Big Hurry" — the 59-year-old
committees by appointment Detroit and Sidney of Houston;
extreme orthodox views. But gious facilities for them.
"Uranium King" of Eastern
of Bar Associations, state and sisters, Sarah Slavin, Stella
there is no reasonable explana-
European Jewish . ancestry. It city officials.
Himelstein, Minnie Stone and
tion for the observation, and the Israel Asks UN to Aid
is difficult at times to detect
He had served as chairman Mary Leider; and five grand-
characters are crudely pictured.
whether she actually paints a of the speakers' bureaus of children.
In the long run, this is a in Smaller Projects
true portrait of Hirshhorn or Allied Jewish Campaigns and
Moses Slavin regularly came
much fairer novel than most
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. mocks him.
has been active in many local to Detroit for meetings of the
others in which Jews portray (JTA)—Israel proposed before
At one point, describing fund-raising efforts.
Hannah Schloss Old Timers. He
JewS as outlandish. But too the United Nations that the Hirshhorn's activities in Can-
An ardent Zionist for near- was president of the Old Adri-
many of our young writers have projected $100,000,000 special ada, she speaks of "the sus- ly 50 years, he had advo- atic Club and in his youth was
suffered from this ailment: of fund for economic development picion and chilliness with which
cated Israel's cause, in fund- outstanding as a basketball
being allergic to Jewish observ- projects, that was initially pro- conservative, rather anti-Semi- raising and defense efforts.
player and was considered one
ances, of picturing Jews who posed by the United States last tic Canadian society first greet-
He was a former vice-presi- of the late Jacob Mazer's best
are extremely bigoted, of failing year, be established in such a ed Hirshhorn . . •"
dent of Pisgah Lodge of Bnai pupils.
to introduce the new type of way that relatively inexpensive
Another personality dealt Brith and was a member of
Over 5,000 University of Mi-
American Jew who is as Ameri- projects be encompassed under with by Mrs. Saarinen is Peggy Temple Beth El, Union Ma-
can as his neighbor and who is the new program.
Guggenheim—"Appassionata of sonic Lodge, Zionist Organiza- chigan students purchased
as faithful as his neighbor, while
The proposal was made in the the Avant-Garde"—about whom tion and many other move- health insurance policies during
the first year of a new program
retaining his loyalties to Juda- General Assembly's economic she writes: "However free she ments.
sponsored by the U-M Student
ism.
and financial committee by Miss felt from her bourgeois Jewish
Last year, Cohane was Government Council.
"The Gentile" does not irri- Hava Hareli, a new member of background, it had chronically
tate us as much as "Remember Israel's permanent mission here. infected her with a strong sense
Me to God" or "Morningstar." In her first address before, an of moral responsibility about
But we wish the novelists, who assembly group, Miss Hareli told wealth." It is a puzzling state-
BY HENRY LEONARD
had a good point in a reply to the committee on behalf of the ment, as are many others in
"Gentleman's Agreement" by Israel Government that "the this book.
showing that prejudice may be- size of a project need not neces-
get prejudice, had chosen sarily reflect the degree of its
Israel Achievements
healthy Jewish ideas rather essentiality."
Reported to UN Body
than emphasize a prejudice ro-
tating around Christmas and the
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)-
Christ story that could have Israel Studies New
The General Assembly was told
Smelting Procedure
been averted. —P. S.
that in spite of all the political
The Government of Israel and economic difficulties that
has expressed interest in a have faced Israel during the
France Acts Against
plan advocated by a French first ten years of its sover-
Anti-Jewish Newspaper
scientist, Prof. Barlot of the eignty, the Jewish State has
PARIS (JTA)—The French University of Toulouse, where- considered its activities in the
government will institute legal by Israel could make more social and humanitarian fields
action against the weekly news- efficient use of her natural of foremost importance.
paper "Dimanche Matin," which resources.
The statement was made in
a year ago, published anti-
The plan involves the erec- the Assembly's Social, Humani-
Semitic articles.
tion of a side-by-side co-ordin- tarian and Cultural Committee
A complaint was filed by ated coal and iron ore plants. by Dr. Eliezer Yapou, Israel's
the Movement Against Racism
The coal, which because of delegate to that committee, who
and for Peace and was under Israeli terrain can be strip- delineated Israel's general pol-
consideration by an investigat- mined, would be used to pro- icy regarding the activities as-
ing magistrate who, according duce gas for the smelting pro- signed to the committee. He
to the complainant, has now cess of the raw iron ore, there- called attention to his govern-
recommended prosecution of by saving costly shipping to ment's progressive policy in the
Dimanche Malin. Proceedings diatant plants which have nat- social and humanitarian fields.
will begin under the French ural gas available.
Obliquely, without mentioning
law known as the 1Vlarchandeau
"Yes, I did ask you to build us a temple in keep-
In addition to this, addition- the name of any country, he
Decree which forbids defama- al advantage is expected from assailed the Arab states for ob-
ing
with modern times, BUT ..."
tion of members of an ethnic the chemical by-products of the structing Israel's humanitarian
Coin. 19S8 , Leonard Pritkkin
or racial group.
coal-to-gas process.
efforts.
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DAYENU