Memorial to
Dr. Hershman
on May 26
@IPS Re-Elects Wolf, Elects
Detroiter, Honors Grayzel;
Membership Shows Increase
Members attending the 71st country in the world where Eng-
Judge Theodore Levin has Annual Meeting of The Jewish lish is spoken. Bible sales in-
been named as chairman of a Publication Society of America, creased by 11 per cent, while
special Shaarey Zedek commit- held in Philadelphia on May 10, sales of other books were the
1959, re-elected Edwin Wolf, same as in the preceding year.
tee to arrange for a memorial
2nd, as President. Other officers
tribute to Dr. A. M. Hershman. elected to serve with Wolf were The new paperback series
The memorial will be in the the - Hon. Horace Stern-, Sol launched by the JPS in cooper.
ation with Meridian Books, Inc.,
form of a Maarili Service, to be Satinsky and Dr: Jacob
R. Mar-
held at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, May cus as Vive-Presidents; Myer met with a gratifying response.
Judge Louis E. Levinthal, in
26, in the main sanctuary of Feinstein, Treasurer; Lesser
his. report as chairman of the
th synagogue.
Zussman, Executive Secretary; publication committee, discuss-
Dr. Hershman, rabbi emeritus Judge Louis E. Levinthal, Chair-
of Cong. Shaarey Zedek to man of the Publication Commit- ed an independent survey made
whose pulpit he was called 52 tee; Dr. Solomon Grayzel, Edi- by Research, Inc., of Philadel-
phia, in an attempt to analyze
years ago, died on April 6.
tor.
the constituency and desires of
The memorial assembly fol-
Trustees re-elected were Har-
lows Shloshim, the traditional ry W. Baumgarten, Harry Starr the membership. An analysis of
30-day period of mourning. Dr. and Roger W. Straus, Jr., of the returns which exceeded 50
Hershman's daughters, Ruth New York; Samuel H. Daroff, per cent of the questionaires
mailed, indicated that more than
and Eiga, of New York, will Joseph First and Bernard G.
four out of every five JPS mem-
join their brother David, of De- Segal, of Philadelphia; Philip
bers had college training - or
troit, here for the service.
D. Sang, of Chicago; and Dewey better and that three out of
Rabbi Morris Adler will de- D. Stone, of Boston. Justin Tur- every five had continued their
liver the eulogy, and Cantor ner, of Los Angeles, was elected education past the college level.
Jacob H. Sonenklar and the as a new Trustee. J. Solis-Cohen, In general, JPS members were
Shaarey Zedek choir, under the Jr., of Philadelphia, was elected well pleased with the books
direction of Dan Frohman, will as Honorary President.
being published.
conduct the service.
Honorary vice-presidents
The program portion of the
Following opening remarks elected were Samuel Bronfman,
annual meeting was dedicated
by Judge Levin, Cantor Reuven of Montreal; James Marshall,
to Dr. Solomon Grayzel, editor,
Frankel wil chant a Hebrew Samuel I. Rosenman and Lewis
upon his completion of 20 years
Psalm. Rabbi Adler will read L. Strauss, of New York; Philip of service to the JPS and the
a Psalm in English and deliver Slomovitz, of Detroit.
cultural life of the American
the major address.
In his report covering the Jewish community.
The tribute will close with the year 1958, Wolf pointed out
chanting of the El Mole Racha- that membership enrollment in
Fifth of Liberation Army
min by Cantor Sonenklar.
the JPS had shown a substan-
The entire community is in- tial increase during the year Were Foreigners, B-G Says
vited to attend the service and and that there are now more
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Twen-
to participate in this tribute than 10,000 members enrolled, ty per cent of Israel's army dur-
to Dr. Hershman.
with representation from every ing the War of Liberation was
composed of volunteers from
abroad, who laid the foundation
of Israel's Air Force, Army and
armored corps, according to
Prime Minister David Ben- Gu-
rion in his preface to "The His-
Tom Borman, chairman of the visiting Israeli leader, and tory
of War of Independence,"
Detroit Israel • Bond Organiza- Robert Lurie, St. Louis Bond which the
Army Publishing
tion, announces, that prominent leader.
House is issuing here.
a local leaderS
guest speakers and
Col. Gaon, a. native of Bel-
will participate in the annual
gium, of Dutch parents, joined
the British army in 1940, at the
age of 22, and took part in the
Far Eastern campaign in World
War II. In 1948 he joined the
Israel defense forces. He is a
graduate of the Israel Staff and
Command School and has held
various offices in the Israel de-
fense forces.
During the Sinai Campaign,
he was Governor of the Gaza
Strip. He retired from the Israel
Col. Gaon
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