Beloved Concertmaster Retires An audience of 10,000 bid fare- well to the concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mis- eha Mischakoff, Sunday night at Meadow Brook. Mischakoff, who retired after 16 years with the or- chestra, drew the festival's biggest crowd in years. His co-star for the evening was an old friend, cellist Gregor Piati- gorsky, with whom he played the Brahms Double Concerto and later, after a standing ovation, an encore they remembered from youth. Piatigorsky — "Grischa" to his friend—and Mischakoff (his name then was Fishberg) escaped from Russia together back in 1921. As they swam the Zbruch River, they clutched their only possessions over their heads. Grischa his cello and Mischa his violin. Safe in Warsaw, Mischa was made concertmaster of the Phil- harmonic and Grischa the first cellist. The latter stayed in Europe; Mischakoff came to the United States where his brothers lived, In the past 55 years, Mischakoff has been concertmaster of the Bol- shoi Opera, New York Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony and NBC Symphony, in addition to the Warsaw and De- troit orchestras. In his teens, he was concertmaster with the Petro- grad Orchestra in Russia. With retirement, Mischakoff will MISCHA MISCHAKOFF continue to perform in solo work and concertos and will teach. At a retirement party in the Tam O'Shanter Country Club, Can- tor Harold Orbach, Nathan and Marjorie Gordon, Julius and An- nette Chajes took their turn at con- NEW YORK — Twelve Ameri- certizing—with an impromptu en- - cans have been appointed to the tertainment in Mischakoff's honor. faculty of Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, for the aca- demic year beginning in Septem- ber, according to an announcement by Bar-Ilan University and the BONN (JTA)—A Hamburg court in the mass murder of over 30,000 Israel Aliya Center here. The Israel Aliya Center arrang- has sentenced a former SS officer Greek and Bulgarian Jews during life imprisonment at hard labor World War II was sentenced to ed for their employment with the or the murder of Jews in Poland eight years' imprisonment at hard university and provided the neces- labor by a Frankfurt court at the sary financial and travel arrange- in 1943. Wilhelm Rosenbaum, 83, was conclusion of a 10-month trial. The ments for them and the 44 mem- found guilty of ordering mass exe- defendent, Fritz Gerhard Von bers of their families who will be cutions of 159 Jews in the Cracow Hahn, was convicted along with traveling with them. Among the newly appointed district and of having himself shot Adolf Beckerle on two counts of faculty members is Prof. Solomon mass murder. The prosecution had persons, including chil- 10 at least Poll, who has been appointed a demanded a life sentence. dren. BONN (JTA)—Two former Ges- full professor at the university. The prosecution alleged that tapo officers were sentenced to Dr. Poll, author of "The Hasidic Rosenbaum ordered the shootings life imprisonment at hard labor Community of Williamsburg," will and hanging of Jews as his own Aug. 13 by a Nuremberg court conduct his own sociological re- "private affair" and not on the that found them guilty of partici- search in addition to teaching at orders of superiors. pation in the executions of Polish the university. A Nazi convicted of complicity Jews in Gorlive in 1942 and '43. Other appointees include: Dr. Alex Blum, department of philo- They are Paul Baron and Ernst sophy; Dr. Richard Goldberg, mathe- matics; Joseph Halbfinger, social work; Erich Piecha. Canadian Foundation Dr. Gerald Krakower, chemistry; Dr. Meanwhile a member of the Stanley Kupinsky, sociology; Dr. Harold to Grant Awards for West German Parliament denied Lerner, political science; Dr. Howard Talmud; Dr. Eli Passow, mathe- a charge by the Soviet Army Levine, Jewish Creative . Effort matics; Dr. Aaron Skaist, Semitic languages; Dr. D Mitchel Snyder, sociol- Red Star, that member- MONTREAL — The J. I. Segal paper, ogy; and Dr. Aaron Striter, English. ship in the neo-Nazi National Foundation at the Jewish Public Party had increased Library has been established here Democratic in the West German Army in Delegation Petitions by the initiative of Dr. Hirsh and the past year. Dora Rosenfeld and a group of Austria for Retrial In his answer to the Soviet sponsors who secured funds for a of Nazi Gauleiter charge, Social Democrat Deputy 10=year program. TEL AVIV (JTA) — A dele- The purpose of the foundation is Hans Iven said that such mem- berships had not increased in gation of Vilna Jews presented the Jewish creative effort enhance to Austrian ambassador here with a in Canada in the fields of litera- either of the past two years. The petition demanding the retrial Red Star had claimed that NPD ture, art and education. Franz Murer, the, Nazi gauleiter members in the West German Three awards in the amount of of the Vilna ghetto in World War $500 each will ge granted annually Army had increased from 700 to II, who has been accused of mass 900. con- best book of Jewish for the Plans were disclosed in Paris murders of Jews. tent, written in Yiddish, Hebrew, The petition, addressed to the for a West German one-hour tele- English or French; for the most president of Austria, cited new outstanding contribution to Jewish vision film on the problems of evidence by ghetto survivors that art, and for the most outstanding European Jewish communities, Murer had personally murdered which will be shown in West Ger- contribution to Jewish education. Jews. The Nazi was acquitted by The prizes will be awarded an- many next October. The television a jury in Graz in 1963 for lack nually in March, the date of the staff, directed by Paul Mautner, of evidence. Austrian law holds a death of the Jewish poet, J. I. will start shooting in France at defendant accountable only for the end of August. Segal. crimes committed by his own hand but not for criminal acts he may have ordered. The demand for a new trial arose during a world congress of Vilna Jews held here recently. The petition was presented by Dr. By BENNETT CERF Marc Dvorzetzki, a researcher of the Nazi holocaust who is him- ENATOR JAVITS tells about a neighbor's little girl who self a survivor of the Vilna ghetto. really believes in the power of prayer. When her It cited testimony given by seven brother built a trap to catch sparrows, she prayed hard that other ghetto survivors before a he wouldn't catch any, special department of the Israeli ktor did he. police investigating war crimes, Some mornings later which implicated Murer directly in the murder of Jews. her mother asked, "What One witness identified Murer as *trade you so sure your the killer of her 3-year-old child. prayer would be answer- The Austrian ambassador, Arthur ed "Well, for one thing; Ankster, promised to transmit the Mother," replied the de- petition to the president and ex- Xout youngster, "I . went pressed hope that a retrial will be back there three days ago ordered. tind kicked the trap to 12 Americans Take Bar-Ilan Posts - Deputy Prime Minister i n. Alien to Address ZOA National Caudal* NEW YORK — Top Israeli lead- ers, including Israel Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon and other members of the cabinet and the Knesset, will be among the Israeli and American officials who will address the 71st national conven- tion of the Zionist Organization of America, Sept. 12-15, at the Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C. Besides Allon, the Israeli offi- cials who will speak to some 1,200 delegates, will be the Israel am- bassador to the United States, Yitzhak Rabin; Yosef Saphir, min- ister without portfolio and chair- man of the Liberal Party; : and S. Z. Abramov, member of the Knesset. Jacques Torczyner, president of the ZOA, wily) Mk* presidential aildot§§ 444. .2 that Anon, who Is ire cbo• newly-created mini:0,1'y At tion, will come 1. 014. cially to address Ow ZQA at its session on aliya. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 23, 1968--1 CARS TO BE DRIVEN To any state. Also drivers furnish- ed to drive your car anywhere. 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