THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, January 11, 1963 -- 32
WI Tragedy of Vanishing Polish Jewry
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American Jewish visitors who numbered nearly 40
who understood any Yiddish at all..
It was at that dinner, in Warsaw, that the Polish
Jewish "culturists" boasted that they have what even
American Jews do no have—a large publishing house
that prints many Yiddish books and produces cul-
turally. Indeed, they do publish some Yiddish works,
but in comparison with what American Jewish pub-
lishing houses produce, with the creative efforts of the
Jewish Publication Society of America and the pub-
lishing houses of various theological seminaries—not
to speak of the many books issued by non-Jewish
firms—the Polish products are very, very minimal.
Their publishing treasures are exaggerations—and
their contents certainly are not in the field of JeWish
Classics.
There is a natural flocking by tourists to Krakow.
It is because of its proximity to Oswiecim-Birkenau
(Auschwitz) and because pilgrimages are encouraged
by the Polish government to the site of the mass
murders as a means of exposing fascism. But the
nearness of Oswiecim to Krakow has not inspired
greater loyalty to Jewry and to Judaism among the
Jews there.
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Polish Jewry is now engaged in encouraging
worldwide celebration of the 20th anniversary of the
Warsaw Ghetto Resistance. Efforts will be made
to make April -23, 1963, an international Warsaw
Ghetto Memorial Day, and the Jewish officials in
Warsaw no doubt will seek a fund for a Warsaw
Ghetto Memorial. What Polish Jewry should be
made aware of is that from the very beginning the
Around the World...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK—Almost $12,000,000 in Israel Bond capital was
raised in 1962 in the New York metropolitan area . . . The
annual meeting of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organiza-
tion highlighted the fact that it had distributed nearly $40,-
000,000 for worldwide programs conducted for the benefit of
Jewish victims of Nazi persecution since the start of operations
in Germany in 1948 . . . Mayor Robert F. Wagner proclaimed
last Sunday, Jan. 6, as Farband Charter Day in commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the grant of a New York state
charter to the Labor Zionist Order• .• .. A two-day planning con-
ference of the Board of Governors of the Israel Bond -Organiza-
tion will be held this weekend at the Savoy-Hilton Hotel here to
adopt a goal for the 1963 campaign . . . The Citadel Life Insur-
ance Company of New York, a joint undertaking in the United
States and Israeli business interests, announced it will expand
its operations as a result of substantial gains achieved in 1962.
BOSTON—Spokesmen for the John Birch Society reportedly
disassociated themselves here from a Boston backer of George
Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party who had planned to open
a "Joe McCarthy" book shop until the Birchers were alerted to
the Nazi leanings of the man by statement from the Jewish
Community Council.
PITTSBURGH—Montefiore HOspital officials report that the
advice of the hospital's Home Care Department is being sought
by the Puerto Rican Department of Health in plans to set up
home care programs in Puerto Rico . .. A goal of $2,070,000-
a half million dollars above the total amount raised in the 1962
drive—has been set here for the 1963 campaign of the United
Jewish Federation.
NEW ORLEANS—Jewish leaders from the entire south and
southwest will attend a three-day leadership institute here
beginning Jan. 18 under the auspices of the United Jewish Appeal.
SAN FRANCISCO—Mayor George Christopher and other
prominent civic leaders participated in ground-breaking ceremonies
for a new outpatient building to be constructed by Mount Zion
Hospital and Medical Center. The building, costing $1,500,000, is
expected to be completed by the end of this year, and will cul-
minate a $2,700,000 building program.
Latin America
BUENOS AIRES—Agents of President Gamal Abdul Nasser
of Egypt are active throughout Latin America, particularly in
military circles, Mark Turkow, Latin American representative
of the World Jewish Congress, asserted here.
Israel
JERUSALEM—A total . of 1,100 Israeli families, mostly
native-born Israelis and veteran settlers, left towns for villages
during the past year under a scheme to direct manpower to the
development areas . . . The Hebrew University will seek to set
up lecture exchange programs with American universities, par-
ticularly in the field of Middle East studies to counter the grow-
ing anti-Israel propaganda by Arab students and lecturers .
Israel's ambassadors in Western Europe, who arrived here last
week for consultations, met at the Foreign Ministry to discuss
the current negotiations between Israel and the member coun-
tries of the European Common Market . . Israeli exports
totaled a value of $277,000,000 in 1962, an increase of 12.9 per
cent over 1961, according to a published report here . . . Syna-
gogues throughout Israel recited the Kaddish on Jan. 6 in memory
of those victims of the Nazi holocaust whose day of death is
not known. -
TEL AVIV—A resolution calling on liberals in all countries
to press for removal of trade barriers among nations, especially
by the European Economic Community, was adopted here at
the concluding session of a two-day world convention of the
Liberal International.
Europe
FRANKFURT—Dr. Fritz Bauer, Hesse chief public prosecu-
tor, announced the arrest in Barcelona last week of Reinhold Paul
Vorberg on charges he was responsible for planning and pre-
paring the murders of 100,000 persons in the Nazi euthanasia
program as a department head in Hitler's chancellery.
LONDON—Colin Jordan, the imprisoned leader of the
fascist British Union Movement, at the last moment changed his
mind to remain in his cell rather than face charges levelled by
the British Union of Teachers seeking to terminate his member-
ship for unprofessional conduct . . A delegation representing
the Hungarian Jewish community is expected to arrive in Lon-
don on Jan. 17 for a visit as guests of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews.
PARIS—Resolutions calling for closer ties with Arab and
Moslem students in France and with Catholic colleagues were
adopted at the concluding session of the annual congress of the
Union of Jewish Students in France, held at Montpelier.
American and World Jewish Congresses have been
sponsoring memorials for the Warsaw Ghetto heroes,
who were fearless and pro-Zionist Jews, on the Pass-
over anniversaries of their last stand against the
Nazis.
Those who recall the dramatic sessions of the
World Jewish Congress in Stockholm, when the
Polish delegates were booed for the sentiments they
represented will remember the names of Smoliar,
Mirsky, Spard and Korman. They are still among
the top leaders in Polish Jewry. They are not the
positive Jews and they echo what they believe are
the sentiments of their Communist government, al-
though they could enjoy a positive Jewish existence
with government approval. But they choose the way
of the assimilationists. That is why the Polish Jewry
they represent is doomed.
U.S. Experts Asked to Study Feasibility
of Building Atom Power Plants in Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A three points be explored re- would not be economically
group of American experts on gardless of the ultimate de-
feasible as yet, all who must
cooperate in such ultimate
the use of atomic fuel for pro- cision as to whether such
construction is to be launched
development must be ready
duction of electric energy has immediately or deferred for
for the possibility of such an
been requested to study a re- some years. The three points
operation. These factors in-
port on the feasibility of con- are:
elude the government, the
Electric Corporation and the
strutting such power stations
1. Israel must locate now the country's various scientific
in Israel, it was announced by possible sites for such atom- institutions.
Yosef A 1 m o g i, Minister of powered energy stations along
Development.
According to the report, Is-
the shores of the Mediterranean
The group, headed by Philip Sea. Such stations, if they are rael would need, by 1980, such
Sporn, a leading American pub- to be built, would have to be vast quantities of electric
lie utility expert, was asked along the Mediterranean be- energy as to requir e an
to report its findings next cause sea water for cooling pur enormous fleet of oil tankers
month. Sporn has been advising poses, an essential element in -and an increase of -Israel's de-
Israel on power stations. He the functioning of an atomic pendence on foreign oil sources
had served formerly as chair- reactor, is cheapest. Sites must and on open sea routes.
man of a committee appointed be located now, the committee
One of Israel's leading scien-
by the United States Atomic pointed out, because housing tists, Prof. David E. Bergmann,
Energy Commission on coopera- developments are staking out
tion with the American electric many waterfront locations along head of the Atomic Energy
the Mediterranean shores.
Commission here, said Israel
industry.
may produce its own uranium
2.
Israel
must
undertake
a
Earlier this winter; Sporn had
from phosphates in Negev for
voiced opposition to Israeli survey now to determine the contemplated atomic power sta-
engagement in atomic-fueled practical results from the tions. Israel, he noted, could
power stations. However, in the operation of its first nuclear also • produce its own , needed
light of a report just issued, power station toward the end heavy water. Heavy water is
Almogi said, Sporn had agreed of the 1960's.
now being produced and ex-
to reconsider his own earlier
3. Even if present condi- ported by the laboratories of
recommendations and review tions indicate that the func- the Weizmann Institute of Sci-
the entire matter with the group flossing of such power stations ence at Rehovot.
of American experts in this
field.
The new report, a 116-page
document put out by the Nu-
clear Reactors Committee at
Tel Aviv, was prepared under
the auspices of the Defense
Ministry's scientific develop-
ment department. While dis-
cussing the feasibility of con-
structing at o m i c-powered
energy stations in Israel, the
committee recommended that
Hebrew Corner
Port of Ashdod
For many years the southern
shores of Israel were lonely and
desolate. With the founding of the
State, it was decided to build a
deep water harbor in the southern
part of the country. Hundreds of
machines of all kinds began to
clamor on this seashore, to fight
the waves and sand.
The building of the harbor
brought with it the building up of
a port city. This is what brought
the city of Ashdod into being, the
future southern port town of Israel.
Why did the planners choose the
south for the place of the fifth
port in Israel? The answers to this
question are plain and logical.
In Israel the ports are used to
export citrus fruit and minerals and
to import raw material and food-
stuffs. Half of the groves are in
the South. In addition, industry for
export developed in the South and
the Negev, the phosphate, potash
and other industries. To cut down
transport costs it is necessary to
have a port closer. It is also neces-
sary to reduce the transport price
of imports brought to the southern
part of the country.
This is not the only reason. The
Government policy is to spread the
population to all parts of the coun-
try. The building of an urban center
in the south will draw part of the
inhabitants from the north.
The building of the southern har-
bor in *Israel is today a new story
of pioneering done by thousands of
immigrants and old-timers. It is
being executed by international and
Israel companies that won the con-
tract through a tender. The budget
for this great undertaking, which
in its first stage alone will cost 75
million dollars, comes from a spe-
cial 25 year loan given to the Gov-
ernment of Israel by the World
Bank, and also from the develop-
ment budget of the Israel Harbor
Authority, set up about a year ago
to manage and develop the ports of
the country.
Translation of Hebrew column pub-
lished by Brith Ivrith Olamith, :Jeru-
salem.
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