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LISTENING

Four Great Women Listed in Hall
of Fame — Golda One of Them

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)

If there were an American Jew-
ish Woman's Hall of Fame, among
the four sure entries, I believe,
would be Ernestine Rose, Adah
Isaacs Menken, Emma Lazarus i
and the lady who is guest of honor

at the 1966 Israel Bond conference

at Miami—Golda Meir.
It might be said that Golda Meir
belongs to Israel rather than
America; but America has a little

EX-FENCING CHAMP and now
ice builder in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,
ferry Taines, writes of an invita-
-cion to join a local fencing club
that reads, "Join us now. New
blood always welcome."
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Auxi-
liary is working to raise funds for
purchase and maintenance of their
own two-bed ward in the new Chil-
dren's Hospital expected to start
building in fall . . . Spring Benefit
symphony, by auxiliary, April 13,
1:45 p.m., at Ford Auditorium, is
being billed as "An Afternoon To
Remember" . . . For tickets, call
0o-chairman Marian Galin, UN
1-0630.
MERWIN SOLOMON was in a
home recently snapping photos to
be put in those key chain viewers
. .. While at work, a five-year-old,
whose picture Merwin had taken
when the boy was only six-months-
old, remarked, "Mr. Solomon, I
can't get in there anymore. I'm
bigger now "
THIRD ANNUAL Passover Sed-
er, last week, by Knights of Pyth-
ias Detroit Lodge 55, was a fitting
tribute to memory of Max
Charness, member who passed
away recently .. Max was always
in charge and helped conduct the
services with ardent fervor.
THE WOMAN DRIVING the car
in front of us gave a distinct right
hand turn signal . . . However, her
male companion in the front seat
put his arm out of the window and
over the top of the car and pointed
vigorously — indicating she was
going to turn left . . . She did.
FROM BASIC TRAINING at
Amarillo, Texas, Air Base, Leslie
Ball writes, "It's sure a new ex-
perience having wall - to - wall
brothers!"
LAST WEEK, little Suzie Klein,
daughter of Mona and Ed Klein,
climbed on her father's knees and
put her arm around his neck . .
"Let's be pals, daddy," she said ...
He was pleased no end and giving
her an affectionate hug, said, "Cer-
tain, my dear." .. . "Well," asked
Suzie, "how about dumping out the
cod liver oil, pal?"

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equity in her too. She grew up in
Milwaukee and was a school teach-
er there.
Ernestine Rose today is a for-
gotten figure but, if you delve in
the history books - between 1835
and 1860, you will find her a dom-
inant personality at the various
woman's rights congresses of those
days. Even the great Susan An-
thony spoke of her as her teacher.

NEWS
Friday, April 8, 1966-23

THE DETROIT JEWISH

' Paper Reports Egyptians
Defeated by Illiteracy

BEIRUT (ZINS) — The efforts
of the Egyptian government to
combat illiteracy among the popu-
She was an effective speaker, mov- lation have met with failure, the
pogrytpst.ian paper "El Ahram" re-
ing by argument rather than by E

contrived eloquence. She did not
limit herself to the suffrage cause.

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The newspaper further asserts
that the number of illiterates in
the country at the present time is
17 per cent and prospects of im-
proving this condition in the future
are not bright. Bemoaning this
situation, "El Ahram" comments
that this is the most important fac-
tor in Egypt's inability to defeat
Israel.

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When Robert Owen came from
England and sought to establish a
kind of American Kibbutz here,
Ernestine Rose was one of his ad-
vocates.
She was born in Pietrikov, Po-
land, where her father was a rabbi.
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It was a small town but Pietrikov
6338 W. McNichols
played a considerable role in Polish
(Near Livernois)
1966 marks the silver anniver-
history. There the Polish Parlia-
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no doubt that the Jewish position
might be ameliorated by the gen-
eral advance of civilization.
Adah Isaacs Menken was born
in New Orleans. Primarily, she was
an actress and, in her role appear-
ing in tights in one of Byron's
plays, she was a sensation from
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coast to coast. If she rode a horse
bareback in the play, she was ad-
venturous off stage also. She was
once captured by the Indians and
also served briefly as a Confeder-
ate spy. She wrote a good deal of
poetry. Many of the great literati

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admired her—Swinburne, Dickens,
even Mark Twain. Swinburne said
to her, why, does a woman with
such beautiful legs want to write

poetry? In some of her poetry, she
called upon the Jews to reestab-
lish their nationhood. She gave the
impression of having sometimes
looked upon herself as perhaps
something of a Jewish Joan of Arc
to help the Jews regain their an-
cient land.
Edgar Lee Masters wrote of her
that the physical and the mental
MISS BARBARA KASH
in her were at war. Her life was
Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Kash of brief. She died at 33, but she had
Parklawn Ave., Oak Park, an- had five husbands. What was she
nounce the engagement of their seeking for? Perhaps the answer is
daughter Barbara Ann to Stephen in the inscription she ordered
Scott Green, s-on of Mr. and Mrs. placed on her tomb. It reads: "He
Harry Green of Adrian Ave., Knows."
Southfield.
While Ada Menken was sympa-
The prospective bridegroom at- thetic to the Jewish cause from the
tends Wayne State University.
beginning, Emma Lazarus in the
A Jan. 2 wedding is planned. beginning had been indifferent and

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GENEVA (JTA) — A Lausanne
court prohibited further distribu-
tion of an anti-Semitic book, and
ordered copies not yet sold im-
pounded by authorities.
The court acted after the . Fed-
eration of Swiss Jewish Communi-
ties lodged a complaint with au-
thorities that "The Past, the Pre-
sent and the Jewish Question," by
Dr. J. A. Mathes, of Vevey, was a
violation of the Swiss Civil Code,
and demanded that it be banned.
The book contains lengthy quota-
tions from the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion and other anti-
Semitic libels, refers to Jewish
"ritual murder," and blames, the
Jews for the outbreak of both
World Wars.
The author is a well-known
doctor in Vevey and a very wealthy
man who financed publication of
his own book. About 500 copies of
the 4,000 published last November
have ben sold. It was the first
anti-Semitic book published in
Switzerland in more than 20 years.
Meanwhile, in Zurich, Peter
Woog, director of the information
department of the Swiss Federa-
tion of Jewish Communities, told a
conference that the headquarters
of the neo-Nazi movement for
Europe are located in Lausanne,
from which the movement regular-
ly issues neo-Nazi publications.
He added that the organization,
named "Stille Hilfe," operated in
West Germany under the guise of
a welfare institution but was

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fending the R u s s i a n pogroms
against Jews. It was what she need-
ed. Some people are better off for *
a punch in the eye. The article
made her boil. She rushed to the
editor, demanding that the article
be answered. She began to immerse *
herself in Jewish writings and she
wrote her Epistles to the Hebrews
and her poems calling upon Jews to
"recall the glorious Maccabean her-
itage" and take up the battle for
the reestablishment of the Jewish
State. Most Americans know her
for her poem about the immigrants
inscribed an the Statue of Liberty,
but she was also one of the fore-
runners of Theodor Herzl.

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arms, and so independence was
gained.
She has been Ambassador. and
spending "vast sums" for the de- several kinds of Minister and,
through it all, remained the same
fense of Nazi war criminals.
simple woman — whom all Israel
Books are made for use, not to loves to call by her first name, the
sure sign of affection, Golda.
be hidden away.—Sefer Hasidim.

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Golda Meir in a way has carried
the work of the previous three to
fruition. She has advanced the
cause of woman's rights dear to
Ernestine Rose and the hopes of
Ada Menken and Emma Lazarus
for a Jewish State.
It is accounted one of Franklin's
great achievements that he went
to France and secured aid for the
American war of Independence.
When Israel declared its independ-
ence, and faced an enemy far
superior in numbers, there was a
desperate shortage of arms. Golda
Meir flew to America. She could
not even go back to Jerusalem
from Tel Aviv to change her
clothes for the long journey. She
came back from America with the

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wondered why she never
Swiss Court Bans 1 friends
wrote on Jewish themes, she turned
one day she read
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