THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspaper, Michigan Press Association, National Edi-
torial 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 Po st Office, Detroit, Mich. underact of - Congress of March
8, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
City Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, Shabbat Parah, the twenty-third day of Addl., 5721, the following Scriptural
selections will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portions, Vayakhel-Pekude, Ex. 35:1-40:58; Num. 19:1-22. ProphetiCal portion,
Ezek. 36:16-38.
Licht Benshen, Friday, March 10, 6:14 p.m.
VOL. XXXIX. No.
March 10, 1961
Page Four
Must Enlist 5,000 New Contributors
In recent years, emphasis on major bers of contributors are most interesting.
needs in American Jewish communities During the years 1926-1960 they are listed
has shifted to cultural needs. There is as follows:
Number of
greater emphasis on Jewish education
Amount
Pledges
Pledged
Year
than on any other cause for which our
3,185
$ 738,242
1926 (a)
communities are laboring. The emphasis
1,599
130,473
1929
on Jewish education not only equals, but
5,047
326,017
1930
in a sense exceeds, that which is, most
4,646
218,270
1931
naturally placed on the means that are
4,302
140,113
1932
being gathered for the rescue of op-
3,330
112,913
1933
pressed Jews in many lands and for their
4,752
139,506
1934
A Westerner's Affection
settlement in Israel. It is being recognized
8,063
220,454
1935
8,235
that unless our communities are well in-
318,421
1936
I
9,908
350,690
1937
formed, Israel and the overseas relief
13,374
390,732
1938
agencies will suffer, that only thoroughly-
19,080
651,889
1939
convinced and fully-dedicated constituen-
20,440
735,970
1940
cies can be expected to respond in great-
21,118
835,633
1941
est measure to the vast needs involved
Arthur Koestler, distinguished author, whose novels and
22,445
897,341
1942
in relieving the distress in many lands of
literary essays, whether they dealt with conditions in Russia
1943 (War Chest) 850,000
or the Middle East, created worldwide interest, went on a pil-
oppression.
960,000
1944 ( "
grimage to the East, hoping to find a cure there for the West's
1,135,940
1945 ( "
Thus, - our fund - raising campaigns
tensions and spiritual disturbances.
22,120
3,744,351
(b)
1946
(
"
must henceforth provide not only the very
The results of his search for such a
27,454
3,968,572
1947
large sums that are needed for relief
cure are incorporated- in his new
30,734
5,756,133
1948
book, "The Lotus and the Robot,"
and rehabilitation, but also for our schools
28,923
5,409,276
1949
which has just been published by
and their related agencies.
28,003
4,650,538
1950
Macmillan.
28,533
4,733,354
1951
If such support is to be enrolled, it is
He comes to a disturbing, albeit
28,625
4,354,228
1952
necessary that all of our people should
interesting . conclusion. He writes:
28,401
4,469,252
1953
contribute to the major fund-raising ef-
"Whether we believe in Christian
26,795
4,150,612
1954
dogma or not, the tenets of Judeo-
forts. It is urgent that every Detroit Jew
26,583
4,148,639
1955
Christian ethics, of Latin civitas and
should be a participant in the Allied
25,319
5,296,804
1956
Greek conceptual thought, which we
Jewish Campaign.
25,960
5,918,268
1957
imbibed unconsciously, almost at the
24,525
4,993,739
1958
In the current drive, it is urgent that
mother's breast, have become inte-
25,031
4,890,589
1959
gral elements in our make-up as Euro-
several thousand additional donors should
25,000
4,850,000
1960
peans, and are taken as much for
become partners in the great effort to
granted as the red and white cor-
(a) Funds were raised for a three-year per-
raise $5,500,000 as a minimum task for
puscles in our blood. The migrations
iod-1926, 1927 and .1928.
this year's solicitations. While this sum
injected the vitality of the barbaric
would mean a $500,000 increase over last
(b) Includes $912,091 from the War Chest
Arthur Koestler tribes into the tired old races around
campaign conducted by the Community
year's income, it is vitally urgent that our
the Mediterranean basin, but Europe did not become barbarized-
Chest of Detroit.
people should understand that even an
it was the barbarians who became Europeanized."
enlarged sum represents a minimum in
His end conclusion is clearly evident when he states: "I
One of the major tasks in our present
current needs.
drive should be the enrollment of 5,000 started my journey in sackcloth and ashes and came back rather
of being a European ... A detached comparison with other
The campaign leaders and their hun- more contributors. While it is essential proud
continents of the way Europe stood up to its past trials, and
dreds of co-workers must exert their that all gifts should be as generous as of its contribution to man's history, leaves one with a new
energies to assure the enrollment of every possible, it is equally urgent that all of confidence and affection for that small figure riding on the back
Jew who can contribute to the drive. If our fellow-citizens in the Jewish com- of the Asian bull."
we are to judge by the available figures munity should participate in the drive.
on the number of contributors during the
To accomplish this, we must have Classic Reprinted
past 35 years, there is reason to believe more workers in the drive. To attain the
that several thousand more donors should goal we must have the greatest measure
be approachable for the drive.
of dedication.
Deronda" by George Eliot was credited to have
The figures are interesting. From a
Under the chairmanship of Paul done "Daniel
more
to
the English people in support of Jewish
total of 3,185 donors in the 1926 cam- Zuckerman and his army of co-workers settlement in influence
the Holy Land than any other literary work-
paign, we have risen to 25,000 last year. we have an opportunity this year to reach except the Bible,
and perhaps, also, the novels by Benjamin
But there were 30,734 contributors in a_ very high goal. We should also aim at Disraeli. Nahum Sokolow had written that George Eliot may have
1948, and we must learn to view the need matching the highest amount ever raised created the intellectual welcome ,
for funds, for, all causes at stake, as being -the $5,918,268 of 1957. By enrolling and background for Zionism.
The book has just been issued
even greater today, and the abstainers more workers, and through them more
Harper & Bros. as a Harper
must be reached this year.
contributors, we have a chance to attain by
Torchbook, and as a paperback
this
objective.
The comparable figures of the num-
it should now, create renewed
Koestler s Lotus and Robot '
Renewed Pride in Europeanism
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'Da niel Deronda i Paperback
Mol os Hitim Campaign Most Vital This Year
With all the confidence we place in
our status as a secure economic group,
there is no doubt that the recession that
has set in has increased our responsi-
bilities towards the less fortunate among
US.
While we have many duties to per-
form - primarily those relating to the
Allied Jewish Campaign - there is an
immediate traditional appeal to us: that
of the Mo'os Hitim, the annual obligation
in this season of the year to provide
means for the needy in our midst to cele-
brate the approaching Passover festival
in accordance with established traditions.
The Mo'os Hitim tradition is one of
the most commendable of Jewish observ-
interest.
An interesting and very critical
introduction by F. R. Leavis adds
to the attention in the reprinted
paperback. Leavis is critical of
what he constantly refers to as
"the Zionist part" in the book.
Leavis quotes Henry James who
wrote in his criticism of Deronda:
"All the Jewish part is at bot-
tom cold." Leavis is critical about
Eliot's Deronda, and he states:
"She expanded herself on the
George Eliot
`Jewish question' because (partly,
at least) of a personal emotional need working in ways of
which she is not sufficiently aware, and in this the whole
Deronda function involved . ."
Nevertheless, the book remains historic in Jewish national-
ism. From the moment of its appearance, Jewish scholars
throughout the world judged "Deronda" as a great instrument
for reawakening interest in Jews, who were oppressed in many
lands, and the need for fulfillment of prophecy for their return
to Palestine. "Daniel Deronda" remains one of the creative
Zionist foundation documents. The new paperback may well
ances. It symbolizes our concern for those
in want and it admonishes us that when
we say, in reciting the Hagadah, that "all
who are hungry may come and share our
food," that we mean it, that it is not
mere lip service.
It is incumbent upon us, therefore,
to make certain that not a single Jewish
family should be deprived of means to
observe the Passover properly.
A call has been issued for increased
Mo'os Hitim funds. The need is greater
this year than ever, and our sharing
with the less affluent must be compar-
able to the need. Let the response to
the Mo'os Hitim appeal be more generous
become a best seller.
than ever before.