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The Detroit Jewish News, 1962-01-19

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member American Association of English—Jewisb Newspapers, Michigan Press Associations, 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.
Filtered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich., under act of Congress of
March 8, 1879.

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

The Little TNT Box That
Became an Aladdin's Lamp

r=1-'

SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG

Advertising Manager

Business Manager

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath, the fifteenth of Shevat, 5722, the following Scriptural selections will be read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Be-shallah, Exodus 13:17-17:16. Prophetical portion, Judges 4:4-5:31.

Licht Benchen, Friday, Jan. 19, 5:12 p.m.

Vol. XL. No. 21

Page Four

January 19, 1962

Generous Gift to Aid Hebrew Studies

Announcement of the $1,000,000 gift
by Abraham and Jacob Goodman, veteran
Zionists, for the establishment of the
Tarbuth Foundation for Hebrew Culture,
made by Dr. Emanuel Neumann, the
Foundation's original sponsor, deserves
much more than commendation earned by
so generous a contribution. It calls also
for additional evaluation and for recog-
nition of its merits so that it may be
emulated by others in the sponsorship
of Jewish educational efforts.
It is not to be wondered at that this
gift has drawn the attention not only of
American Jewish leaders but also of
world leaders and of Israel's Prime Min-
ister David Ben-Gurion, who has referred
to the undertaking sponsored by Dr. Neu-
mann as "this blessed enterprise."
Aiming at the creation of an accred-
ited degree-granting College for Hebrew
Studies, Tarbuth Foundation aspires to
assist in alleviating the shortage of quali-
fied teachers, the development of a pro
gram for promoting Hebrew education
among Jews of all ages, the publication
of books for those possessing some knowl-

edge of Hebrew and cooperation with
other agencies "in a sustained effort to
bring about a new and better climate of
opinion through a campaign of education
among parents and community leaders in
favor of Hebrew studies."
The architect of this program, Dr.
Emanuel Neumann, who has gained
worldwide recognition as a Jewish leader,
is himself known as one of American
Jewry's most eminent Hebraists, as a
scholar and a teacher, as one who has
devoted his energies, through the Herzl
Foundation, to encouraging the publica-
tion of many important books on Jewish
subjects.
Abraham and Jacob Goodman have
earned the gratitude of the Jewish people
for their wonderful gift, and Dr. Neu-
mann shares in the thanks rightfully ex-
tended to them. Through this combination
of generous men and Dr. Neumann, who,
as their mentor, has guided them towards
a noteworthy constructive effort, Amer-
ican Jewry's status is certain to rise in all
cultural endeavors.

YIVO Encourages Scholarly Writing

YIVO (Yiddisher Wisenshaftlikher produced by YIVO and as collaborator
Institut) has for many years occupied an with Yad Washem Martyrs' and Heroes'
important place in Jewish archival pro- Memorial in Jerusalem it has gathered
grams and in the retention of valuable documentary material perpetuating the
historical material affecting our people. facts relating to the Nazi holocaust.
Its activities were at first centered in Encouragement given by YIVO to
Eastern Europe, but Jewish leaders in scholarly writing today includes it expan-
Western European countries, as well as sion into the English language and other
in the United States, had taken a deep fields. While its early efforts were espe-
interest in its work. As far back as 1919, cially in the Yiddish sphere, the English
the late Prof. Sigmund Freud had accept- publications issued by YIVO in recent
ed the chairmanship of the Vienna YIVO years have enhanced its status.
At the same time, YIVO has not
Committee, and noted leaders elsewhere
abandoned
its Yiddish creative work, and
encouraged and supported YIVO's work.
In recent years, YIVO's activities have the publication of the Great Dictionary
been centered in this country. For obvious of the Yiddish Language supports its
reasons, because of the support it is aspirations and proves the wisdom of its
receiving here and because American programming.
An analysis of YIVO's recent accom-
Jewry is the largest single Jewish corn-
munity in the world, YIVO's headquarters plishments, including its valuable micro-
film archives, proves heartening to those
are located in New York.
The latest report on YIVO's functions who provide support for YIVO. The aid
and accomplishments deserves review and we give it through our Allied Jewish
should be given consideration for the Campaign provides such satisfaction to
practical and constructive work it is pur- our own community for its over-all efforts
suing. Many scholarly works have been through our major fund-raising activities.

Fresh Air Society's 60th Anniversary

Marking the 60th anniversary of the
Fresh Air Society, the annual meeting of
the Jewish Welfare Federation, on Feb.
6, will assume special significance.
From its earliest beginnings, Fresh
Air Society provided recreation for needy
children in our community, and in the
course of the six decades of its existence
has expanded its program by providing
facilities for campers who were able to
pay for their summer vacations and in
recent years also for adult programming
in a summer camp's environment.
Camping has become a vital factor in
community planning, and the Fresh Air
Society's pioneering efforts have given
Detroit Jewry an avenue on which many
have traveled along the road of com-
munal training and planning.
Establishment of Camp Tamarack, in
addition to the Fresh Air Camp's facili-
ties, have added to the means of incor-
porating into the society's program proper
environmental camping sites for adults.
The aged have benefited from it, ado-
lescents have been given means of utiliz-
ing the camp's sites for special programs,

and week-end seminars have enabled
schools to make use of Tamarack for
educational purposes.
To the society and to the Federation,
its sponsoring parent organization, go our
hearty congratulations on its important
60th anniversary.

USSR 'Justice

Soviet Russia's purges have always
been undiscriminating. It didn't matter
who the victims were: once they were
marked for death, neither party member-
ship backgrounds nor family relationships
mattered.
This fact was revealed anew in Tel
Aviv when the Israeli Communist leader,
Shmuel Mikunis, who has given so much
trouble to his fellow citizens by his pro-
USSR partisanship, revealed, at a meet-
ing of his party, that his two brothers
were executed during the Stalin purge.
Under Stalin, it was the Mikunises and
so many others, among them many promi-
nent Jewish authors. Who knows who can
be next in line under a cruel system!

Sixiy

years of J.11.F (1901-1969

Jewish State's Indelible Portrait

Dr. Howard Morley Sachar's '
'Aliyah—the Peoples of Israel

Dr. Howard Morley Sachar, son of the distinguished presi-
dent of Brandeis University, Dr. Abram Sachar, is emulating his
able and famous father with great distinction. His "Course of
Modern Jewish History," now in its second printing, has become
an accepted work for students of Jewry's experiences, and now
he is certain to attain fame with another out-
standing work, "Aliyah—the Peoples of Is-
rael," published by World Publishing Co.
(2231 W. 110th, Cleveland 2).
In this new work he has selected 15 per-
sonalities who shared in Israel's destiny, and
his elaboration of them forms an indelible
portrait of the new state and its subjects
while, at the same time, delineating the pio
neering idea that brought Israel into being.
Dividing the book into sections entitled
"The Settlement" and "The Mandate," Dr.
Sachar describes the artist, mayor, planter,
Dr. Sachar
farmer and Halutzah in the first division, and
the desert rat, vendor, landlord, worker, businessman, custodian,
the illegal, the scar, the visitor and the Sabra in the last portion.
The informed reader will see in this selection a reflection of the
elements that made Israel.

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It is because he deals mainly with people that Dr. Sachar's
book assumes its important role. There will be general con-
currence in Dr. Sachar's belief "that it is possible through
selected biographies to capture something of the spirit—or,
if you like, the mood—of the men and women who settled
in Palestine before 1948."

His artist is Moshe Castel who is a splendid and interesting
introductory character to the set of 15 pioneers. He is the
Castel who gained fame in the art colony of Safed. •
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The late Gershon Agron, Mayor of Jerusalem, is the sub-
ject of the next sketch. It is an account of a journalist's attain-
ments, of a pioneer who labored for Israel's independence during
the trying times of British rule, and who became Mayor of the
Holy City after Israel's rebirth.
Reb Joel Moshe Solomon is the early pioneer planter in this
collective pattern of state-building. Chaim Chissin is the farmer.
Rachel Lishansky Ben-Zvi, the wife of Israel's president,

is the Halutzah, and in relating the story about her Dr. Sachar
tells about the woman's role in creating kibutzim, her meeting
with the future President of Israel, their joint pioneering

efforts in pre-Israel Palestine.

Yehudah Kapolovich is the pioneer who knew the desert,
who acclimated himself to battling for Jewish rights under odd
circumstances.
Almogi as the worker is one of the fascinating characters in
the book. Oscar Stock is the businessman. Brother Francois
Haas is the custodian of Christian property. The manner in
which Dina guided the "illegals" in their entry to Palestine
will remind the reader of an heroic decade against great odds.
and obstacles set up by the British.

"Aliyah" reads like fiction, but it is history -woven into

biography. It contains many historical facts, and among them

is the story of Dr. Rudolf Kastner, which also includes the
Joel Brand story and the tragedy of the Kastner trial, in the
chapter entitled "The Scar."
The Sabra and The Visitor conclude the panoramic view
which, in its totality, is the story of men and women who were
among the makers of statehood, the pioneers who defied all

obstacles.
Dr. Sachar tells his stories well. He has made excellent
choices in characters. •
"Aliyah" can be credited as another Howard M. Sachar
literary triumph.

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