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THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association, National
Editorial Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co. 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35,
Mich., VE 8-9364. Subscription $5 a year. Foreign $6.
Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
5, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
• SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
Sabbath Shekalim Scriptural Selections
Sha.bbat Shekalim, the following
ThiS Sabbath, the twenty-ninth day of Shevat, 5720,
Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues:
portion, II Kings
Pentateuchal portion, Mishpatim, Ex. 21:1-24:18, 30:11-16. Prophetical.
12:1-17.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m.
VOL. XXXVI----No. 26
Page Four
February 26, 1960
'Give Again and Again...Don t Lose Courage
learn nice manners, then there wouldn't
Another great campaign is about to be
be any difference at all.
launched in Detroit. Many solicitors al-
Everyone is born the same, every-
ready are at work to secure advance
one has to die, and nothing remains of
gifts for the Allied Jewish Campaign,
their worldly glory. Why do people
whose major beneficiary is the United
cling so desperately to these passing
Jewish Appeal, without whose funds it
things? Why can't people who have
would be difficult, if not impossible, to
more than they need for themselves
settle homeless and dispossessed Jews in
give the surplus to their fellow citizens?
Israel. The Allied Jewish Campaign is,
Why should some neople have such a
however, also the supporter of many
hard time during their few years on
major causes nationally, and upon it de-
pend all of our local educational, recre-
this earth?
ational and social service agencies.
The true greatness of a person does
not lie in riches or power, but in
In the inauguration of the current
character and goodness. Everyone is New Herz! Year Book
drive, income from which is so vital in
human, everyone has his faults, but
providing for immigrants to Israel from
everyone is born with a great deal that
many lands of oppression and in holding
is good in him. And if one were to begin
aloft the banners of our cultural move-
by encouraging the good, instead of
ments which we must support if Jewry is
smothering it, by giving poor people the
to function as a great spiritual force, it is
feeling that they are human beings too,
important that we re-evaluate the signifi-
one would not even need money or
cance of the mitzvah of giving.
Zionist literature is enriched and the history of the move-
possessions
to do this.
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ment is augmented by the second volume of the Herzl Year Book,
. Everything begins with the little published by the Herzl Press and edited by Raphael Patai.
We are drawing upon a significant
things. For instance, say you are sorry
Important essays in Zionist history and thought, including
essay by a Jewish child whose name has
if you step on a poor person's toes as new facts about major Zionist issues and leaders, are included
figured so prominently in exposing the
you would for someone rich. Be the one in this important volume.
horrors of Nazism. Anne Frank, whose
to set the good example, then it won't
Theodor Herzl's return to Judaism, described in the article
-
diary became a best seller in its English
be long before others follow. More and
by Grete Mahrer, is viewed as "earthy, more physical and less
translation, whose story was staged and
spiritual—a return which led much further back into times
more people will become friendly and
filmed, and was told in many languages,
when the spirit of Judaism was a naively experienced reality."
generous, until finally. poor people will
also wrote a number of. essays which have
The author states that Herzl's return to Judaism was "gen-
not be looked down upon any more.
been published, together with the repub-
uine, determined by love and yearning," and adds: "Trans-
How lovely to think that we can
formed into a love of origin it became the joy and the fulfil-
lished text of "The Diary of Anne Frank,"
start
now,
start
slowly
changing
the
ment of his maturity. This love of origin does actually
by Doubleday and Company, in a volume
world! How lovely that everyone, great
characterize his return to Judaism. His new life-emotion as a
the publishers titled "The Works of Anne
and small, can make his contribution
Jew was a plunge back into the primeval, into prehistoric
Frank," copyrighted by Anne's father,
time. He looked upon himself primarily as the descendant of
toward introducing justice right away!
Otto Frank.
the proud and ancient race of the heroes of .the Bible."
Open your eyes, first make sure that
Anne was in hiding in an Amsterdam
you are always fair yourself. Give of
warehouse with her family in 1942. She
yourself, give as much as you can! And
Two other essays deal with Herzl and his associates: "Philipp
was taken to a concentration camp where
you can always, always give something, Michael de Newlinski: Herzl's Diplomatic Agent" by N. M.
she died when not quite 15. Even under
even if it is only kindness! If everyone Gelber and "Herzl and Sokolow" by Josef Wenkert.
tortuous conditions, she continued to
References to Herzl and his co-leaders in the Zionist move-
were to do this then there would be
write, and one of her essays in the
much more justice and love in the ment also are made in the article by Josef Fraenkel, "The
Doubleday-published "The Works of Anne
Jewish Chronicle and the Launching of Political Zionism."
world.
Frank," she titled Give." She wrote it on
The opening essay in the book ; "The Origin of the Term
Give and you shall receive, much
March 26, 1944, shortly before her death,
and Concept 'Zionism'," by Alex Bein, traces the history of
more than you would have ever thought
organizations and national Jewish efforts to the Hibbat Zion
and in it she expressed the blessing of
possible. Give, give again and again,
and to the activities of Nathan Birnbaum (1864-1937), who
sharing and giving. In it she appealed for
don't lose courage, keep it up and go on
"was during the decade 1885-1895 the most distinguished intel-
"room for everyone in the world." She
giving! No one has ever become poor
lectual personality in Jewish national circles in Austria and
wrote about beggars who need charity,
Germany" and who used the term "Zionistisch" in his per-
from giving! If you do this, then in a
and while those to be helped by funds
iodical Selbst-Emancipation. The use of the term "Zionist" and
few
generations
no
one
will
need
to
derived from the Allied Jewish campaign
"Zionistic" is traced to Hebrew and English literature in 1890
pity
the
beggar
children
any
more,
are not beggars, and what we give is not
and 1891. Quoting an address by Birnbaum on "The Principles
because
they
will
not
exist!
charity — because those we help are
of Zionism," delivered Jan. 23, 1892," before the Admat
There is plenty of room for every-
Jeshurun Society, and published in Selbt-Emancipation, Bein
proud people who must be uplifted and
one in the world, enough money,
states that "here, the word Zionismus is used and explained
what we are to do is to share our earthly
riches, and beauty for all to share!
for the first time with precision as a specific term."
possessions with them — her message
God
has
made
enough
for
everyone!
nevertheless has vital significance in our
Let us all begin then by sharing it
Other articles of great merit included in this "Herzl Year
current drive. Its appeal for fairness to
Book" include a valuable essay on Leo Motzkin by Simcha Kling;
fairly
our fellow-men is expressed as follows:
an important review of "Immigration to Israel: Its Causes and
Consequences," by Edwin Samuel; "Reconsidering Max. Nordau,"
I wonder if any of the people sitting
We reprint this essay, with the per- by
Meir Ben Horin, and a "Leon Kellner" sketch, by Paula
in warm, comfortable homes have any
mission of the publishers, with a sense of Arnold.
idea what it must be like to be a
humility. It tells a great message. Truly,
Another essay, by Alfred Werner, on the subject "The
beggar? All right, everyone gives a
it is not, as already stated, a message for Tragedy of Ephraim Moses Lilien," throws light on the char-
beggar a few pennies now and then.
charity for beggars: it is a call to action acter of the noted artist who attended two World Zionist Con-
But they are usually pushed hurriedly
by
a child to the mature communitites of gresses and who drew extensively on themes dealing with
into his hands, and the door is closed
Jewish national rebirth. Lilien was highly commended by
the
world.
with a bang. And what is more, the
Israel Zangwill. Herzl appreciated him. Werner states that
This 14-year-old girl had said, in the while
generous donor usually shudders at
Lilien was not a first-rate artist, "he deserVes to be re-
essays
that
were
rescued
from
the
con-
having to touch a dirty hand. Is it true,
membered as a historic link in the history of general and
centration
camp
and
her
hideout
debris:
or isn't it?? And then people are sur-
Jewish art . • ."
"I want to go on living even after my
prised that beggars become so rude.
Jewish history is enriched by the new Herzl Year Book, and
death." In the essay we have just quoted, Zionists will find new inspiration in its contents.
Wouldn't anyone, who was treated
she does go on living, even after her
more like a beast than a human being?
death at the hands of the Nazis.
'
Have any of the well-to-do people
`5
Year
Guide
to
Jewish
Holidays
Anne
Frank's
"Give"
should
have
a
ever asked themselves how these poor
A simple way of getting information about Jewish festival
place in the heart of every Jew. If it
wretches have become like this? Just
attains that position, we will have no dates is provided by the "5 Year Guide to the Jewish Holidays,"
compare your own children with these
anxiety about the results of our appeals on a single card published by "Whirl O'Knowledge" (P.O.
poor children. Your children are clean
for
aid to the Allied Jewish Campaign. B. 2366, Grand Central Stat., N.Y. 17).
and tidy, the others dirty and uncared
It is an "educational wheel." By rotating the card, which
The
response then will be spontaneous,
for. Is that all? Yes, that's really the
is in the form of a wheel, it is possible not only to get the
and
our
generosity
will
symbolize
our
only difference. But if a poor beggar's
festival dates, but also explanatory notes about the festival.
spirit of kinship with our fellow men.
child were to receive good clothes and
Zionist Literature Enriched
by Essays on Jewish History