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Famous Hostess
at UJA Meetings

The vital role of the Israel
Defense Forces, in absorbing
new immigrants into the social
Mrs. Edith Sucher, who, with
fabric of the country, will be
her husband, C. William Sucher,
discussed by General Haim
gained national attention for her
Barley, former commander of
charm as a hostess at the famous
the Israel Armored Forces, at
annual "Sucher Meetings" in be-
the United Jewish Appeal's
half of the Detroit Allied Jewish
Second National Young Leader-
Campaign and the national Unit-
ship Conference, to be held
The Israel Ministry of Posts has announced Friedel Stern of Tel Aviv, are (from left) Kefar ed Jewish Appeal, died last Sat-
Nov. 10-12, at New YOrk City's the forthcoming issue of three additional airmail Hitim—Tomb of Yethro, Jerusalem—outside the urday at the age of 51.
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
stamps of the third definite series depicting Old City, and Yafo (Jaffa)—a view of the Old
The "Sucher Meetings," held
Barley, who served as chief landscapes of Israel. The stamps, designed by City.
at their home, 1500 Balmoral,
of the Training Department
became traditions here and they
before succeeding the former
produced initial gifts to the Al-
Chief-of-Staff, General H a i in Noted Cellist, Wife
lied Jewish Campaign that ran as
Laskov, was a key figure in
high as $2,200,000.
shaping The Defense Forces' Return from Israel
Mrs. Sucher remained active in
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
education program.
behalf of the campaign and the
The UJA Young Leadership
Editor, Seven" Arts Feature Syndicate
UJA until the very end, and only
Conference, designed to devel-
on Friday she participated in an
Medic Errs . . .
op future leaders within the
The right to change a name is so basic that there generally important gathering in behalf of
American - Jewish community,
appears no room for argument. One man changes his name the 1962 Allied Jewish Campaign.
will feature a series of- discus-
to elude creditors. Another to elude identification. Very often one
She also was actively associ-
sion seminars at which various
alters his name out of artistic motivation, as when the name ated with Hadassah, Temple Beth
aspects of Jewish problems in
has an offensive . posture. At ( times one drops a name merely El and Women's American ORT.
Europe and Israel will be dis-
because it sounds derogatory or has a connotation that is not
Funeral services were held
cussed. Gottlieb Hammer, exe-
Sunday afternoon in Brown Me-
accepted in good company.
cutive vice chairman of the
Now in our good city of New York, where everything hap- morial Chapel of Temple Beth El.
Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc:,
Born in Chicago, Mrs. Sucher
pens, a physician has changed his name because "he now has a
will deal with the multiple -
psychological aversion" to the old name—Salman Gunsberg- lived here for 45 years. Surviv-
problems facing the Agency,
under which he practiced medicine in the Warsaw Ghetto until ing her besides her husband are
which has the responsibility for
he assumed the good Polish name Witold Zdrojewski, presum- three daughters, Mrs. William
the immigration, transporta
ably for the purpose of greater professional mobility. Now, a Zupner, Candace and Cathy; a
tion, initial - r e c e p t i o n' and
resident of this country, he has sought and received court per- son, Richard; -a brother, Ben
_settling in of the newcomers.
mission to "drop his Polish name because it is too burdensome Stark, and five grandchildren.
Eminent cellist PABLO CA- and assumed instead the name Victor G. Bach, a name that is
EX-High Army Officer SALS
and his wife return to New more in the heritage of his tormentors than of his ancestors. Baby Products Co.
Testifies In Israel Trial York from Israel aboard an El- Al We will not quarel with the doctor's - assertion that he is still Founder Jacobs Dies
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Di. Is- -Israel Airlines jet after appear- experiencing torment as a result of his traumatic experiences.
The president and founder of
rael Beer, -former high officer, ing with other leading musicians . But it seems to us that the Nazis would have gotten him under the National Baby Products Co.,
of the Israel Army charged with at Israel's recent music festival any other name. German names did not save the German Jews. Philip Jacobs, 19159 Robson,
espionage, has testified in his sponsored by the government of Yes, doctor, we are baffled by the "psychological aversion" died Nov. 8. He was 47.
trial as the only -defense wit- Israel in cooperation with the diagnosis, and even more so - by the cure. Sacred as the Bach
Surviving are his wife, Belle;
ness.
America-Israel Cultural Founda- name is, it can never be a substitute for a Jewish name under a daughter, Susan; three broth-
Beer denied reports he was tion. -
which so many of our people died for the Sanctification of the ers and four sisters.
non-Jewish, but confirmed other
Name. Nor can Victor ever be a replacement for Salman. How-
reports that he had not_ taken Becker Made Chairman ever, if the doctor thinks changing of name will rid him of Isaac J. Cohen Dies
part in the Spanish civil war
this particular psychosis, he alone is the judge of what is good • Active in Detroit real estate
and that he had deliberately of Montreal Federation for him. From this corner it seems that his prescription is lack- and
property management for
MONTREAL, (JTA) — Levy ing in the elements that hold the cure to the disease of which
spread falsehood.
M. Becker, first .'ice-president he was a victim with countless others whose names did not 40 years, Isaac J. Cohen, 825
Whitmore, died Nov. 8. He was
and chairman of the executive betray their origins.
NCJW to Train 2,000
71.
committee of the Federation of
_*
Born in Buffalo, he lived
for Communal Projects Jewish Community Services of
About People
here 50 years. For the past
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A series Montreal, has been named chair-
The head of the Education Department of Mexico City decade, he operated the Macon
of regional training programs man of the Inter - Federation
College
is a -Jewish woman, Malvina Liebman, from Florida. A Realty Co.
Council
of
Montreal.
will be provided by the National
Surviving are his wife, Sadye;
The- Council is the consulta- unique feature of the school is that all instruction there is in
Council of Jewish Women for the
2,000 women volunteers who tive body of the four local wel- English, the only English-speaking school of higher education in a son, Louis A. Crane; two
manage its network of -16eal edu- fare federations and two social Central and South America. Mrs. Liebman retired in September, daughters, Mrs. S. M. Israel and
1960 as Director of Elementary Education for the Dade County Mrs. Donald Loria; and eight
cational and service projects, it agency councils in Montreal.
School System (Florida)—the 8th largest in the country. She grandchildren.
was announced by Mrs. Charles
also gave graduate .courses in education at the University of
Hymes, president, at the annual Rubinstein on Music
CARD OF THANKS
Seymour Liebman, is currently doing
meeting of the organization's
Music . . . to the listener it Miami. Her husband,
The
family of the late Judith
with
the
view
of
writing
the
first
book
in
board of diredtors.
means many things .. . beauty, research in"\Mexico
Kron . acknowledges with grate-
English
on
the
history
of
the
Jews
in
that
country.
joy, relaxation. But what about
ful appreciation" the many kind
9th Century Astronomer
the man who plays the music? Is Sotcha
expressions of sympathy ex-
It is quite doubtful whether any readers of this column tended by relatives and friends
Sahl Al Tabari, a ninth cen- it just a job, just a way to make
tury Jewish astronomer, mathe- money? Artur Rubinstein, the ever heard of Sotcha, as he was affectionately known throughout during the family's recent
matician and physician, who great pianist, says in Look Maga- the Yiddish-speaking world in the United States. In fact, many bereavement.
lived in Tabaristan on the Cas-_ zine: "I will tell you something. of the people who so often addressed him as Sotcha did not
plan Sea, was the first to ex- If people would not pay to come know his true name, Israel Dillon,' until they read newspaper
tensively study the refraction to these concerts, I would give notices about his death.
CONDOLENCE
Sotcha was a unique figure in an area of Jewish concentration
of light. He is -said- to have them free, or maybe I would pay
The Brisker Mlawer
that
produced
a
host
of
radiant
personalities—New
York's
East
been so popular among his stu- my friends to come. It is not
Aid Society
dents that he was forced to work. It is joy. I sit at the piano, Side. Sotcha was not a writer, possibly by choice, yet he counted
wishes to express its
hold his lectures out of doors to and play beautiful music. Tell among his friends the entire Yiddish colony of writers in the
deepest sympathy to
accommodate them.
me, what could be better to do?" country. He was not a critic, yet poets often sought his judgment
the family of the late
before going into print. Sotcha played no instrument, yet he was
MORRIS L.
a great lover of music and an avid collector of records. Sotcha
throughout the days of his life struggled with poverty, yet he
SCHAVER
BY HENRY LEONARD
was a collector of books and of all sorts of unique objects, rare
His passing is a great
and curious. Sotcha was not a scholar, yet he was possessed by
logs to the Jewish
community. May he
profoundest respect for learning and erudition.
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Sotcha in essence was a folkfigure, blessed with the capacity
rest in peace.
•o
"7-
—William Paul,
to epitomize by action and demeanor the folkways of which
president
he was a product.
0
—Max Lewenhof,
Who was Sotcha? Here is the answer as he once told it.
secretary
He had been on his way to the subway through the crowded
streets of New York City when he entered into a dialogue with
a dead poet of whom he was severely critical. The sharp
imaginary debate lasted endlessly, it seemed to Sotcha. When
Sotcha reached the subway, with the disputation still ringing
We mourn the pass-
in his ears, he dropped two coins into the turnstile, one for
himself and another for his companion. It was only when the
ing and great loss
dead man did not pass through the turnstile that Sotcha first
from our midst of
became aware of the reality that he had been in a disputation
with a dead man.

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On the Record

DAYENU 00

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Morris L. Mayer

TEMPLE CRISES: The time someone put straight
bourbon in the cantor's Kiddush cup

Copr. 1961, Doyanu Productions

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — It
sometimes is difficult to realize
the 'swift paCe of change, ex-
emplified in few places more
graphically than at Miami
Beach. Here, less than two life-
spans ago, there was not a
single building and only the
Indians c a in p e d and swam
along the beach. Now there are
371 hotels, 2,700 apartment
buildings and the jet airplane
brings visitors at nearly sonic
speed where 100 years ago all

traffic depended on sails.

New Film on Center Work
Premieres in New York .
A new film on Jewish Cbm-
munity Center work has been
produced and is now available for
showing before local groups.
Titled "To Be As One," the film
tells the story of a Center and
how it touches the lives of the
different people who come to it.
It was produced as a cooperative
Venture by the Jewish Centers
Association of Los Angeles and
the National Jewish Welfare
Board.

Let's not despair
and console our
dilemma.
He left us many
gems —
Among them is
Emma.

MR. AND MRS.
MAURICE HERTZ
Miami. Beach, Fla.

