"LETTER BOX"
Swa rtz _Rovner
Engagement Told
Report High Leukemia
Rate Among Jews
Environmental and genetic
factors have been suggested as
of
and
dedicated
to
Piatigorsky.
Relative of Victims
Piatigorsky has played solo
probable causes for the high
Angered by Analysis
recitals and has performed with
degree of leukemia among Jews
Louis Marshall Lodge a n d
of Holocaust Victims all of the great orchestras Chapter of Bnai Brith will host
in New York City.
Editor, The Jewish News: - throughout the world. His ge- "Cafe Tel Aviv," Israel Cabaret
From a study of 1,600 cases
nius
has
been
acclaimed
as
the
program Tuesday, April 30, 8:30
Yes, you are right. I was "dis-
in 35 hospitals in Brooklyn, the
turbed, oppressed, saddened" greatest cellist of all time; the p.m. at the Labor Zionist Insti-
United Nations World Health
and also angry. Your "Com- trio of Heifetz, Rubenstein and tute. Guest star will be Joey
Organization reports the disease
Piatigorsky
has
been
recognized
mentary" of April 12 should not
Adams.
occurs twice as frequently in
as
perfection
in
chamber
music
Co-sponsors of the celebration,
have been written. How can one
New York City's Jewish popula-
The cellist is married to to mark the 15th anniversary of
analyze and describe his own
tion, as compared with Protes-
Jacqueline
de
Rothschild,
a
the State of Israel and the re-
brother, starved, degraded and
tant or Roman Catholic groups.
reduced to the status of an ani- daughter of Baron Edouard de demption of the 'first Israel
Mortality studies have con-
mal at the door of a slaughter Rothschild, formerly of Paris Bonds, are seven lodges and
firmed
the 1957 findings of Dr.
but
now
in
America.
They
have
chapters, Detroit, Brandeis,
house? No matter who writes
Brian Mac Mahon, professor of
about it, friend or foe, he sticks two children, Jephta and Joram. Bloch, Israel, Keidan, Tikvah
epidemiology at the Harvard
a knife into an open wound. It Piatigorsky became an Ameri- and Business and Professional
School of Public Health, who
has no historical value whatso- can citizen in 1942. They live Chapter. The affair is on behalf
directed the U.N. leukemia
near Lake Champlain in the of the Bnai Brith Israel Bond
ever.
Adirondacks at Elizabethtown. program.
study.
ot
The integration of Poland in
Other conditions noted by the
JASON H. TICKTON
MISS MARCIA SWARTZ
Refreshments will be served.
a few days, the fall of France
UN study include the urban-
•
Everyone is welcome. Admission
within a few weeks—within less
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Swartz of rural leukemia comparison .
Says Jews Bowed to Nazis
is free.
time than the Warsaw Ghetto—
Ward Ave. announce the en- "World Health," monthly UN
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this has historical' value of Editor, The Jewish News:
In
your
article
on
the
War-
gagement of their" daughter, publication, reported mortality
16 BNAI BRITH LODGES,
weakness and betrayal.
from the disease in the United
saw
Ghetto
Revolt
you
have
CHAPTERS TO CELEBRATE Marcia Karen, to Nathan Sol States is 50 percent higher
It is impossible for me to
Sixteen Bnai Brith Lodges and Rovner, son of Mr. and Mrs. among urban dwellers than
evaluate the bravery of my equated the lack of resistance
brother, brother - in - law, first to the Nazis of the "Russians Chapters will sponsor an Israel Samuel Rovner of Dante Ave., among those living in the coun-
cousins, neighbors and my child- and the Poles and the French anniversary celebration April 28,
try.
hood friends facing the gas and anti-Nazi Germans" with 8:30 p.m. in the Gemiluth Chas- Oak Park.
The periodical also stated
the
lack
of
resistance
manifest-
sodim Social Hall, Greenfield
chambers. The only thing we
leukemia is more common in
Three
Mitzvoth
ed
by
European
Jewry.
This,
and Vassar. The guest star will
can ,do now is to sit on the floor
the U.S. in first born children
These three will . inherit the of older mothers.
and put ashes on our heads, as I admit, is a false equation, for be Mort Freeman, baritone. Hy
we do every year at the Yahr- the reason that servile compli- Crystal, executive director of world to come; he who dwells in
zeit of the six million martyrs, ance on the part of the other Bnai Brith in Michigan, will be the land of Israel, he who brings
up his sons to the study of the
at the Warsaw Ghetto uprising peoples of Europe had an al- the guest speaker.
Sponsoring the celebration Torah, and he who repeats the
anniversary. Even here we fell together different implication
short last Sunday at the Adas for them than the same be- are the following Bnai Brith ritual blessings over the appoint-
haviour for Jewry. The Jews lodges and their chapters: Down- ed cup of wine at the close of
Shalom Synagogue.
We came, to protest against in the, face of their greatest town-Fox, Zager - Stone, Motor the Sabbath.—Talmud, Pesachims
human's inhumanity and shed tragedy were docile, accepting City, Oak-Woods, Handler-East 113a
GEOLOGIST
a tear of "b'tzibur" on the big- and cooperative and literally Side, Tucker, Centennial, Rex,
•DESIGNER
gest tragedy in our long history. marched themselves to their Theodore Herzl, Detroit Subur-
For the HY Spot
The "El Mole Rachamim" was deaths.
ban, Morgenthau, Frenkel, Jacob-
•APPRAISER
Of
Your
Affair
supposed to do it for all assem-
We should carefully reflect son, Livonia, Sam Grant and
Music by
bled. We did not come to hear upon the fact that although the Gershwin Chapter. The affair is
"The Price
a cantor show off his voice. It margin for existence diminshed on behalf of the Bnai Brith Is-
Is Always
and the Israeli speaker irritated almost to the vanishing point rael Bond program. Refreshments
Right"
many people.
is free.
at
And His Orchestra
for a Pole or a Frenchman, will be served. Admission
* *
formerly with Mickey Woolf
The only person who stood some leeway did indeed remain
up to the occasion and felt her for him. Severe, grinding op- EINSTEIN PRESENTS CAB-
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death,
Einstein Lodge and Chapter
hearted lady Emma Schaver. pression faced him—not
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She expressed our pain in her necessarily. This was not the of Bnai Brith will present "Cafe
case
for
the
Jew,
who
was
to
choice of song, her interpreta-
Negev,' in the Gemiluth Chasso-
be uncompromissingly extermi- dim Social Hall. Eric Rosenow
when you care enough to remember . . .
tion and in her behavior.
nated.
SOLOMON LEIBICK
and his orchestra will provide
I wish to emphasize that com- music for dancing. Hy Crystal,
19759 • Burgess
pliance on the part of the Gen- will speak.
•
tile aided his survival and was
Refreshments will be served.
realistic; on the part of the Jew
Call for Tribute
it
was
totally
unrealistic
and
Constitutional Privilege
to World's Greatest
could lead only to death.
by HERMAN JAFFEE
Like every other president,
Cellist Piatigorsky
It is true that initially, in William Howard Taft had to en-
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Editor, The Jewish News:
some instances, the Jew was dure his share of abuse. One
Weddings • Bar Mitzvahs • Home Portraits
We should pause for a mo- devoid of certain knowledge of night at the dinner table his
ment to pay tribute to the his fate; but even when, near youngest boy made a disrespect-
world's greatest cellist, Gregor the end, his nostrils were op- ful remark to him. There was a
Piatigorsky, who will celebrate pressed by the smell of the sudden hush. Taft became
his 60th birthday on April 17. burning flesh or when he stood thoughtful.
Elegant .
Patgorsky
possesses a dazzling before the open execution pit
ii
Bar Mitzvah
"Well," said Mrs. Taft, "aren't
technique, a warm rich tone he bowed his head before his you going to punish him?"
Suits
glowing with color, a deep po- executioners and made rio at-
With the ROYAL Fit
"If the remark was addressed
at
etic insight and an infinite va- tempt to save himself or his to me as his father he certainly
riety of expression. He is a family. We can only wonder will be punished," said Taft.
rare and unusual artist with a why, when faced with inevi- "However, if he addressed it
For Young Men 6 to 60
captivating personality.
table doom, the Jew did not to the President of the United
Seven Mile at Evergreen
Piatigorsky was born at Eka- resist. By attacking his mur- States, that is his constitutional
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SOL
terinoslav, in the Ukraine. derers he certainly would not privilege."
When he was only nine years have worsened his situation
old he became self-supporting
and, in fact, he may have given
by playing a "baby cello" in
the murderers pause before
a movie house. Because of su- they would have decided to
perior talent and great deter-
urination Piatigorsky was ap- take the lives of others. The
pointed, at the age of 15, the Jew placed no impediment to
first cellist at the Imperial speak of in the path of this
Opera in Moscow. His fame efficient murder machine.
Yours truly,
spread rapidly as a solo per-
JAMES MAYER
former. In 1921 he went to
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Poland, met Mischa Mischakoff,
and performed the Brahms
Double Concerto with the War- Pat Leaves JLC Post
saw Philharmonic Orchestra.
The retirement of Jacob Pat,
(Mischakoff now resides in De-
troit. He is the world famous who served as executive secre-
concertmaster of the Detroit tary of the Jewish Labor Com-
mittee for 23 years, was an-
Symphony Orchestra.)
Piatigorsky traveled through- nounced by JLC national chair-
out Europe. His rise was me- man Adolph Held.
Pat's association with JLC
teoric. He played chamber
music with Pianist Artur Schna- dates back to 1939 when he
bel. He played concerts under visited the United States as a
the batons of Wilhelm Furt- member of a cultural delega-
•
waengler and Richard Strauss. tion from Poland. When the out-
prevented
II
He was the solo cellist of the break of World War
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra his return to Warsaw, Pat re-
for five years, from 1924 to mained to devote his energies
1929, and then at the age of 26 to the JLC.
he made this American debut
The over-pious maiden, the
with the New York Philhar-
monic Orchestra at Carnegie widow who too frequently visits
Hall. World famous composers, her neighbors • with seemingly
such as Hindemith, Castelnovo friendly motives, and the half-
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— Tedesco and Prokofiieff have baked scholar ruin the world-
written cello concertos in honor Sotah 22
.
Hy Herman
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CANDID ART
photography of distinction
PRINCETON SHOP
TOWN and COUNTRY
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its Day Camping
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Fetes for Israel
Bonds Arranged
by Bnai Brith