32—Friday, March IS, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Revision in U.S. Laws
Bid to Admit Russ Jews

Son-in-Law Maxwell Geismer Honors J. N. Rosenberg i n Book of Memoirs

Editor's Note: "U nifished , part of this volume deal with these I ness and conscience alike. The sec- lege youth that I was, I had so
Business," the volume of memoirs problems, and the central theme . ond article in Part Three, an ex- much good sense—or good luck.
by the
b J y am
h e is s s N. -i R nol s a ew
n: l is followed up in Part Three of the tract from JNR's early book, "On I certainly had no idea that behind,

present book, "We Jews and Anti-

NEW YORK (JTA)—Rep. Eman- the eminent literary critic Max- Semitism." Just as this was the
uel Celler, chairman of the House well Geismar. Rosenberg, now 93, central concern of James N. Rosen-
Judiciary Committee, told a Madi- has rendered great service in many berg in the mid-thirties, the prob-
son Square Garden rally Sunday areas which are indicated in the lem of Genocide became a domi-
night that the United States im- interesting new volume by the nant issue in the mid- and late-
migration laws should be revised great lawyer who also became a forties, and another series of es-
to permit admission of Jews from famous painter. Rosenberg was a says and articles are developed
the Soviet Union if and when they leader in JDC and in Arthur around this issue .. :
are allowed to leave. The rally Morse's "While Six Million Died"
Meanwhile his own painting had
was organized by the American he is given credit for the rescue proceeded steadily, and we have in
League for Russian Jews.
of hundreds in the Dominican Re- this volume the catalogues of the
"During the Nazi years, we kept public. In "Unfinished Business" "Ironism" exhibit in 1944, and the
our immigration barriers strongly Geisnwr honored his father-in-law Wildenstein exhibition in 1947. We
in place because we didn't be- in an
interesting introduction have the Fogg Art Museum exhibi-
lieve," Rep. Celt e r declared. from which the following excerpts tion in 1950 and the "Atoms for
"There is one thing we must do are takes).
Peace or War" exhibition at the
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now and that is to make it pos-
•
Associated American Artists Gal-
By MAXWELL GEISMAR
sible—now--that should there be
leries in 1955. By the mid-fifties,
an exodus from Russia, our laws James N. Rosenberg has been a indeed the paintings of James N.
be so shaped that we can, in a highly successful reorganization Rosenberg had become established
minimum of time, permit a goodly lawyer, a public-spirited citizen and in museums and art galleries, and
portion of the Jews of Russia to philanthropist, and a respected this period of his mature and later
enter this land of asylum, ust as painter almost simultaneously dur- life was marked by a growing pub-
we did in the case of the fleeing ing his full and long life, and it lic interest and a burst of one-man
Hungarians and Cubans. For we is the purpose of this collection of shows.
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must support and keep to the hope public papers to illustrate the three
that Kosygin, who at one time main phases of
In one sense, the Third Part of
expressed the willingness to per- his activity.
this book, "We Jews and Anti-
mit Jews to join their families Though the law
Semitism," belongs with the First
elsewhere, would keep his word, was his first love
Part. "The Law and Public Af-
if not through any sense of honor, and the basis of
fairs." James N. Rosenberg's con-
then through a sense of shame his professional
cern with Jewish affairs is part
induced by the volume of protest." career, he had
of, and surrounded by, his larger
concern with public affairs. But
The New Yorker has proposed little patience for
since he has been so intimately and
to give the attorney general dis- the narrower as-
deeply involved with Jewish causes
cretion to permit entries by parol- pects of the legal
from the very start of his career,
ling people into the United States profession or for
since he has been a leading figure
the accumulation
in the American-Jewish community
of wealth for its
Israeli Bank's Affiliate
for over fifty years, it was thought
own sake. Yet
Offers Stock Dividends 4 during this phase
proper to concentrate this material
into a separate section—which in
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Amen- of his career he
itself forms an interesting chapter
can Bank & Trust Company, Amer- participated it
in contemporary American-Jewish
lean affiliate of the Swiss-Israel the reorganiza-
history.
Trade Bank and of the Foreign tion of the Max- Rosenberg
Trade Bank of Tel Aviv, announced well Motor Company which later
It is historically interesting, too,
a 20 per cent stock dividend pay- became the Chrysler Corporation, to see how the earliest paper on
able to stockholders of record as and in the period from 1932 to this theme "The Gentile's Atti-
of Feb. 15. 1939, long after he had retired tude toward the Jew," so clearly
Philip M. Klutznick, chairman from active pursuit of the law, he reflects the fears, hesitathins,
of the board, forecast that 1968 had the most famous case of his qualms of the recently assimilated
earnings per new share would be legal career: the International Jew towards his Gentile neighbors
equal to that of shares outstanding match Corporation. Now I find this —who are not quite neighborly.
in 1967. He said the .bank's total a most fascinating document in the How typical a statement this was
assets had increased to $176,400,000 following papers, just as Ivar for its time and place, and how
in 1967, 38.8 per cent over 1966. Kreuger's case was one of the most much James N. Rosenberg was to
Deposits, as of Dec. 31 were lurid episodes in international develop in his Jewish conscious-
$176,420.000, as compared to $127. finance.
000,000 in the previous year.
This was one of the largest bank-,
ruptcies in the history of the Unit- 1 Expect Diplomatic Corps
ed States. according to the report to Shun Jerusalem Parade
Memorial Services Held
of the Trustee in Bankruptcy, and I
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Members
for Men Missing in Action the final settlement was "an out-
of the foreign diplomatic corps will
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Memorial standing accomplishment in the probably boycott this year's Inde-
services were held on Mt. Herzl history of bankruptcy administra- pendence Day parade in Jerusalem,
March 7 for Israeli soldiers and lion." This was the climax of JNR's just as they did the same event last
sailors missing in action or whose Icgal career, and a sparkling event year, though for slightly different
remains are beyond recovery. The it was, and meanwhile, by the mid- reasons, political observers indi-
services were attended by Defense 1930s he was deeply involved in cated.
Minister Moshe Dayan, heads of the rise of the Nazi dictatorship,
Last year, diplomats refused to
the armed services and other dig- the threat to Jewish existence that
nitaries. They coincided with the developed so demonically, and the attend on the grounds that their
seventh day of Adar on the Hebrew spread of the anti-Semitic virus countries did not recognize Jerusa-
lem as the capital of Israel. Al-
calendar. the date which, accord- to the USA.
though invitations have not yet
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ing to tradition, is the anniversary
of the death of Moses.
Some of the articles in the first been issued for this year's parade,

DAYENU

it is expected that most diplomats

will stay away because their pres-
ence might imply recognition of a
united Jerusalem under Israel's
rule. The parade route will pass
through East Jerusalem.

BY HENRY LEONARD

Insurance Firm Starts
Minorities Recruitment ,

NEW YORK (JTA)—An inten-
sive employment recruiting effort

among the qualified minority group
college students, announced by
Travellers Insurance Co. of Hart-
ford, Conn., will utilize the facilities
of the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
A memorandum from the com-
pany to ADL offices throughout
the country indicated that the ADL
will assist the company recruiters!
in helping identify schools with
manpower potential which has not
been successfully tapped, by sug-
gesting way of reaching and en-1
cotwaging response from minority
students and by acting as inter-
mediaries.

Radomer Banquet Sunday

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banquet 6:30 p.m. Sunday at Beth
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Bs chairman.
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the Steppes," marks the first large
step forward in the process of Jew-
ish self-awareness and self-realiza-
tion. As vice chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee, Jim Rosen-
, berg went on a tour of inspection
of the Russian-Jewish affirming
colony which had been founded
to relieve the Russian famine of
1921 and to encourage the ghetto
dwellers to return to the earth.
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the pleasant physical presence of
this genial, unassuming paterfami-
lias there was a brilliant lawyer
and business man, a most public-
spirited citizen of his people and
his country, an active participant
in the ideas and the affairs of
his time, an artist whose work will
endure.

James N. Rosenberg was also
one of the pioneer rebels in the
conservative ranks of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, long hesit-
ant about committing American
iJewry to the concept of a Jewish
homeland. He early sponsored the
cause of Israel. He had an active
part in the appointment of James
G. McDonald as first American am-
bassador to Israel, and there is the
growing and nostalgic account of
his trip to that country in his
seventy-sixth year. (Out of this
trip came some of the best Rosen-
berg paintings of Israel which con-
stituted a new period in his art
career.) Born in 1874, JNR is still
actively functioning today, and one
of his earliest concerns in public
life—World Peace through World
Law—has become a dominant pas-
sion. He has written over twenty-
five essays on this theme; he has
donated funds to the New York
Bar Association and the American
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These, then, are among the high-
lights of this volume of selected
Rosenberg papers which it has
been my pleasure to edit. When I ,
look back to that beautiful sum-
mer day in early August, almost 37
years ago, when I first met Jimmy
Rosenberg in his Shanty Brook
camp at Elizabethtown, and when
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