THE JEWISH NEWS

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

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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

Business Manager

CHARLOTTE DUBIN

SIDNEY SHMARAK

City Editor

Advertising Manager

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath. the 19th day of Sivan 5728, the following scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion,, Num. 8:1-12:16. Prophetical portion, Zechariah 2:14-4:7.

Candle lighting, Friday, June 14, 8:51 p.m.

VOL. Lill. No. 13

June 14, 1968

Page Four

Refugees: The Tragic Imbalance

If mankind is to be at peace with itself,
if there is to be an end to misery, there will
also have to be an end to refugee problems.
During the World War I period, there were
the Armenian refugees as well as the Jewish.
After World War II, the Displaced Persons
represented survivors from the Holocaust.
They numbered in . the millions. Many hun-
dreds of thousands were rehabilitated, thanks
to the fulfillment of prophecy and the re-
birth_ of Israel. Now there are Arab refugees,
there are Vietnamese refugees, and wherever
there is conflict between nations, that prob-
lem emerges in all its distressing aspects.
The Arab refugee problem, often ex-
aggerated but immense nevertheless, is not
always treated in its fullest status. There
is an imbalance that is not treated properly
and is unjustly ignored. Even before the
Arabs had fled from Israel and created their
own refugee problem, there already emerged
a tragedy involving Jewish expatriates from
Arab countries who more than matched the
number of Arabs who gave up their homes .
in Israel contrary to the advice of the Is-
raelis who invited them to remain and to
share statehood with the Jews.

There is no source of work, and every
attempt to install small factories has been
discouraged for years. Of course, to keep
a considerable bulk of people in idleness
and poverty has been, so far, a cunning
political weapon. But that the United Na-
tions allow themselves to perpetuate the
sub-state of the refugees is unforgivable.
"The political situation, on the other
hand, seems totally stale. The June war
hasn't solved any problem s. Nasser's
menaces are the same. Israeli ships can't
go through the Suez Canal. The frontier
fighting and terrorist activities follow the
same pattern. One thing is clear, though.
Jerusalem golden Jerusalem, is here to
stay."

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It is clear from these figures that some
700,000 Jews had lost their homes in Arab-
dominated countries. Most of them found
refuge in Israel. If there is to be repatria-
tion or compensation, shouldn't the losses be
viewed on both sides?
And when losses are accounted for, the
wealth abandoned by Jews in Moslem coun-
tries should not be overlooked. There have
been, as there still are, confiscations by Arab
potentates of Jewish wealth. This wealth was
acquired by the governments that had ex-
pelled the Jews after a series of persecutions.
There are not many Jews left in Arab-ruled
countries, and these are suffering want, their
businesses have been ruined, their fate is
uncertain.

The number of Jews who lost their citi-
zenship in Moslem countries was outlined.
in an article in the London Evening Standard
by Gaia Mostyn-Gwen who wrote in part:
"Thank God for the refugees. How
could the rich and the beautiful occupy
themselves combining charity with travels
in sunny places? If there weren't any re-
Perhaps there will be an eventual show-
fugees they should be invented. And that
down.
When that takes place it will be neces-
is precisely what one feels has been done
sary
to
take the Jewish losses into account on
in the refugee camps of the United Nations
a
par
with
the compensations to be made to
Relief and Works Agency.
the Arabs who had left Israel.
"There are two kinds of refugees in
The situation is grave, but it is not in-
Israel: 120,000 Jews from the Yemen,
soluble. Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba
220,000 from Iraq, 250,000 from Egypt,
speaks in terms of adjustments, and he has
400,000 from Morocco, 120,000 from Libya,
in view Israeli withdrawals from newly-
about 25.000 from Algeria, 20,000 from
gained territories. That's like following the
Syria and 10,000 from Lebanon. Almost all
Nasser line while disputing Nasser. Bour-
fled their countries — had to leave their
guiba has broken relations with Syria, and
possessions, and arrived in Israel with next
one wonders whether he would at the same
to nothing. The majority are now inte-
time speak in terms of Israel giving up the
grated, are working regularly, and do not
Golan. While Israel must seek protection
consider themselves as refugees.
for its citizens by retaining strategic areas,
"Then there is the other kind. In the
she must at the same time take into account
Balata camp, which until last June was - repatriations based on justice, never ignoring
in Jordan, the situation is tragic. The dam-
the existing imbalance. This applies to other
age done by UNRWA and by the Jordanian
Moslem countries and certainly to Egypt and
authorities is inconceivable. People have
to Jordan; and compensations must take into
been trained not to work. Electricity,
account Jewish losses in Morocco, Lebanon,
sewers and water have never been supplied.
Libya and Algeria.

Detroit's Role at Bar-Ilan University

Detroit Jewry has a great share in all of
Israel's educational projects—in the Hebrew
University, the Technion, Weizmann Insti-
tute and more especially in Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity located in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv.
The latter great creative effort deserves
special acclaim from our entire community,
as it already is receiving in Israel.
Thanks to the devotion of Phillip and
Max Stollman and their families. Bar-Ilan
University, which was founded 14 years ago
by the Mizrachi ReligioUs Zionist Movement,
received the type of support, from this emi-
nent Detroit family and the many associates
they enrolled in the movement, that the very
foundation of that university may be said
to have come from. Detroit.
The construction of several Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity buildings was financed by the Stoll-
mans and_ the many Detroiters who joined
the cause as a result of the dedicated leader-
ship they provided.
A generous contribution from Charles

Grosberg now is assisting Bar-Ilan University
in the establishment of a three-building com-
plex for the department of education, and
one of the buildings will bear Mr. Grosberg's
name, thus adding to the list of Detroiters
who are aiding the school of .higher learning
with great generosity.
The dedication of the Stollman Adminis-
tration Building on the Bar-Ilan campus on
May 29 was another indication of the extent
of the assistance Israel's educational efforts
have received from our community's men
of vision who realize that the defense of
Israel is linked with the progress the 20-year-
old nation can make culturally.
Bar-Ilan University's growth from a hand-
ful of students to the present enrollment of
nearly 4,000; the faculty that includes many
noted scientists; the attractiveness of the
expanded campus—all serve to indicate the
priority given to education in Israel, and the
constructive efforts of the Detroiters are a
cause of pride in our community.

Dramatic Story of Holocaust's
Survivor in Hitler's Poland

In view of the developing anti-Semitic occurrences in Poland,
"Child of the Holocaust" by Jack Kuper, published by Doubleday,
assumes special significance.

In this story of a youngster's struggle to survive in Poland while it
was under Hitler's domination, the author gives a realistic account of a
little fellow's desperations, his resort to many means of defying death
and of seeking survival while all about him tumbles into ruins.

The hero of the story. Jankel Kuperblum, is separated from his
parents at the age of 9. The Paizak family takes him in, treats him well,
has him tend the cows. But then come the warnings of punishments for
those who shelter Jews 'and the boy assumes the role of a Christian,
sports a religion medallion, changes his name, travels from farm to
Ifarm to earn his way as a child laborer.

He has to explain why he does not show his nudity when he is with
other boys and gets away from that danger of being exposed as a eir-

cumcized Jew.

He begins to think in terms of being a non-Jew, talks about "dirty
Jews," and keeps up the anonymity.
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Then come the final days of rescue, he is once again his own self;
hoping that the woman who wanted him to readjust himself knows the
whereabouts of his mother, he faces the realities that came with the end
of the period of horrors: "Blushing I turned back and carefully wrote
the following: 'Jankele Kuperblum is alive.' " It is accompanied by the
hope that his father is still in the army and alive, because, he tells
himself, "everything is possible.2'

The author, Jack Kuper, when he was 15, was brought to Halifax,
Canada, in 1948 by the Canadian Jewish Congress. He entered technical
school, and for four years studied commercial art. On graduation he
joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a graphic designer.
He began writing for radio, television and the stage. One of his plays,
"Sun in My Eyes," was produced on television in Canada and distributed
by RKO in the United States. In 1961 he wrote, produced and directed
a short film called "Run" which was shown at the Venice and San Fran-
cisco Film Festivals, and was bought by Brandon Films of New York
for world distribution. He is now creative director of an advertising
agency in Toronto. Several of his TV commercials have won awards in
the U.S.A.

Jack Kuper lives with his wife and four children in Toronto. "Child
of the Holocaust" is his first book, and it is dedicated to his family, "so
they will know.''

'House in the Tree' — an Israel
Story for Very Young Readers

Molly Cone, a Seattle, Wash., author of _several charming stories for
children, utilizes the Israel theme in her newest book, "The House in the
Tree," published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. (201 Park S., NY3).

This story of Israel takes a young American boy to the Jewish
state. He is a dreamer who wishes to build a house in the tree he se--
outside the window of the house of his Israeli aunt. He looks at a ta,
that could well have survived from the time of King David, On
search' for wood he learns that Israel has no wood, but all who 8r/3-
approached by him to guide him to the material have hopes that any-
thing can happen in Israel. Eventually he finds a box in which hoOkS •
were shipped to Israel.

It is while he makes the search for wood that the American boy
Yaacov, learns ,Israel's ways, is introduced to important Hebrew word's
and salutations, gains knowledge of the land and the people. And thaVs
what gives this book special merit.

Mrs. Cone narrates a good story. Her fine book for youngsters VMS
well illustrated by Symeon Shimin, Russian-born Jewish artist who III
1938 painted a mural for the Department of Justice Building in Wash-
ington and whose works have been widely exhibited in leading Amer-
ican art galleries.

