38—Friday, December 20, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Irving Katz Recalls Sulzberger's
Relationship to Pioneering Family
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Paying tribute to the memory
of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, chair-
man of the board of the New York
Times who died last week, Irving
L Katz, executive secretary of
Temple Beth El, calls attention to
Sulzberger's family relationships
to noted American pioneers, not-
ably the Hays family.
In an article in The Jewish
News, Sept. 2, 1966, entitled "Gen-
eral Cass' Friendship With Jewish
Pioneers," in which Katz dealt
with the career of General Lewis
Cass who was territorial gover-
nor of Michigan for 18 years, he
wrote:
The first known Jew to settle in
what is now the state of Illinois
was John Hays, son of a distin-
guished Dutch-Jewish family which
emigrated to New York City early
in the 18th Century. His grand-
father, Solomon Hays, was one of
six brothers who came to this
country from Holland. His father,
Baruch (or Barak) Hays, came to
New York City about 1763. Unlike
the many members of his family,
Baruch maintained his loyalty to
the British during the American
Revolution. As a known partisan
(he had served as an officer of
scouts), he found it advisable to
leave the United States after the
war. Influenced no doubt by the
fact that his brother, Andrew, was
an established merchant in Mont-
real, Canada, Baruch fled across
the border. There he became a
merchant and auctioneer.
Baruch's son, John, was born
in New York City in 1770. He
came to Illinois in the 1780s as, an
ut
agent of a Canadian firm. Abo
1793 he settled in Cahokia, St.
Clair County, Illinois, as an in-
dependent fur trader, having
served in the militia of St. Clair
County beginning 1790.
For many years he was post-
master in Cahokia. From 1798 to
1818 he was sheriff of St. Clair
County. He was collector of inter-
nal revenue for the Indian Terri-
tory beginning 1814.
As Indian agent, Hays' imme-
diate superior was Lewis Cass,
acting ex-officio as commission-
er of Indian affairs. On Oct. 11,
1820, Cass wrote from Detroit
to Hays in Cahokia, giving him a
number of instructions regard-
ing the handling of certain
affairs wtih the Indians.
Hays married, in 1801, Louise
Brouillet — "a lady of excellent
family"—in Vincennes, Ind., and
they had three daughters. Hays
apparently retained his sense of
Jewish affiliation, although his
wife was not Jewish and his daugh-
ters married non-Jews. He died
in Cahokia in 1836.
The Hays family bad its begin-
nings in the United States some
250 years ago, when six brothers
came here from Holland. Some of
the descendants, relatives of John
Hays, became distinguished Amer-
icans and occupy an honored place
in the history of the American
Jewish community.
David Hays of Bedford, N.Y.,
and his son Jacob, fought in vari-
ous battles during the War for
Independence. Arthur Hays Sulz-
berger of the New York Times,
son of Cyrus Sulzberger and Ra-
chel Peixotto Hays, is a great-
great grandson of Jacob Hays.
Samuel Hays of Philadelphia
was secretary pro tem at a meet-
ing of Cong. Mikveh Israel of Phil-
adelphia in 1790 at which it was
decided to join the Jewish Congre-
gation in New York, Charleston
and Richmond in one letter of con-
gratulations to George Washington
on his accession to the Presidency
of the United States. The letter
was delivered to Washington in
person by Manuel Josephson, an
uncle of Samuel Hays.
Dr. Isaac Hays (1796-1879) of
Philadelphia was one of the fore-
most ophthalmologists in the coun-
try and served as the first presi-
dent of the Ophthamological Soci-
ety of Phlladelphja._He was one of
the two men who wrote the Code
of Ethics for the American Medical
Association of which he was a
founder, and he was known as an
outstanding editor of and author
in the medical sciences. Hays'
Journal, founded and edited by
Isaac, was considered for more
than 50 years "the best American
medical monthly."
Moses Michael Hays (1739-1805)
of Boston is well known in the
Masonic world as an early pro-
moter of Masonry in the colonies
and states. He was a founder of
the Harvard Medical School and
was one of the petitioners for a
mutual life insurance company in
Boston in 1798. His son, Judah, was
a founder of the Boston Athenae-
um, first library asociation in the
United States, and the first Jew in
Boston to be elected to public office,
as fire warden, in 1805.
Reyna Hays, sister of Moses Mi-
chael Hays, married Rev. Isaac
Touro, Ilazan and Minister of New-
port's Congregation Jeshuat Israel.
Their son, Judah, of New Orleans,
was one of the great philanthrop-
ists of the 19th Century.
Funeral services were held Dec.
12 at Temple Emanu-El for Mr.
Sulzberger, publisher of the New
York Times from 1935 to 1961, who
died at the age of 77. The body was
cremated. Dr. Nathan A. Perilman,
senior rabbi of Temple Emanu-El,
officiated at the memorial services.
The New York Times came under
Mr. Sulzberger's direction upon the
death of his father-in-law, Adolph
S. Ochs. He guided it through the
Depression years, World War II,
the post-war period of prosperity
and revolutionary scientific and so-
cial change. He is credited with
many striking innovations that kept
the newspaper abreast of the
changing times while maintaining
its basic traditions.
He carried on Mr. Ochs' Christ-
mas-time appeal, the Hundred
Neediest Cases. From 1912 through
the 1967 appeal, it raised $18,233,-
133 for major Catholic, Protestant
and Jewish charities.
Mr. Sulzberger was born in New
York City and was educated at
Columbia University. He was a
life-long member of Temple
Emanu-El, the largest Reform con-
gregation and biggest house of
worship in the world. He served as
a trustee from 1935 to 1955. Early
in his tenure as publisher, the
Times in its editorials advocated
opposition to Nazism and fascism
and he attacked American isola-
tionism.
Mr. Sulzberger was deeply op-
posed to Zionism. He believed that
Judaism is a faith, not a national-
ity and that Jews should not be
regarded as a race or separate
people.
President-elect Nixon, Senator
Javits, Mayor Lindsay of New York
and scores of other notables attend-
ed the memorial services for Mr.
Sulzberger in Temple Emanu-El
Sunday.
Rose Zuroff, 79;
Owned Furniture
Store on Twelfth
Rose Zuroff, owner of Zuroff's
Furniture Store, 8810 Twelfth St.,
for 35 years, died Wednesday at
age 79.
Mrs. Zuroff, who was still active
in the business at the time of her
death, was born in Russia and
lived in the Detroit area 47 years.
Despite the widespread arson and
looting on Twelfth during the 1967
riot, Zuroff's was not damaged.
Mrs. Zuroff's son Sam ran the bus-
iness with her.
She was a member of Hebrew
Benevolent Society, Jewish Na-
tional Fund, Turover Aid Society,
Beth Tefilo Emanuel4Tikva Syna-
gogue, Cong. Bnai David and Jew-
ish Women European Welfare Or-
ganization.
Surviving besides her son are two
grandchildren and five great-grand-
children.
David Katz, Hotel
Owner, Financier
David Paul Katz, Detroit finan-
cier and hotel owner, died Dec. 12
at age 59. He was a past president
of the Standard City Club and the
Detroit Hotel Association, as well
as a board member of Temple
Beth El.
Mr. Katz at one time owned five
Detroit hotels, including the Royal
Palm, Eddystone and Fort Wayne.
He also owned a Miami Beach ho-
tel. It is said that his health failed
after he learned of a $2,000,000
fraud against him and his asso-
ciates in 1966. Eight other business-
men were similarly victimized at
a total fraud of nearly $5,000,000.
A native of Youngstown, 0., Mr.
Katz lived in Detroit 44 years. He
resided at 1300 E. Lafayette.
Among his other memberships
were the Franklin Hills Country
Club, 100 Club, Great Lakes Club
and Racquet Club in Palm Springs.
Survivors are his wife, Adeline
S.; a son, Frederick J.; a brother,
Samuel P.; a sister, Mrs. John
(Shirley) Schneider; and one
grandchild.
Max Asnas, Owner
of Famed Delicatessen
NEW YORK—Max Asnas, once
dubbed by the late comedian Fred
Allen as the "Corned Beef Con-
fucius" because of his wit and
renown as a restaurateur, died
Dec. 11 at age 71.
Mr. Asnas, owner of the million-
dollar Stage Delicatessen on
Seventh Ave., was an intimate of
celebrities in sports, entertain-
ment and business. He often ap-
peared in Broadway columns and
on television shows, quoted for his
aphorisms.
Although the delicatessen seats
only 84 persons, and takes no re-
servations, mink-coated customers
and their escorts wait in line for a
table at the Stage.
Anecdotes about Mr. Asnas are
legion. One concerns a diner who
complained about the quality of a
corned beef sandwich. When Mr.
Asnas berated him for the com-
plaint, the patron protested: "You
can't talk to me like that, I'm a
customer."
Mr. Asnas retorted: "What do
you want to be for a lousy sand-
wich, a partner?"
Warren Eder,
Past Head of
Emanu-El
Dr. Warren Eder, immediate
past president of the Metropolitan
Detroit Federation of Reform
Synagogues and past president of
Temple Emanu-El, died Sunday at
age 41.
Dr. Eder, a dentist with offices
at 5800 W. Fort, was a 1952 grad-
uate of the University of Michigan
dental school and a World War II
navy veteran. The native Detroiter
was past president of the Emanu-
El Men's Club and a member of
Morgenthau Lodge of Bnai Brith
and Alpha Omega dental frater-
nity. Dr. Eder resided at 18840
Jeanette, Southfield.
Surviving are his wife, Lois; two
sons, Steven and Milton; two
daughters, Marcia and Janice; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert H.
Eder; and two brothers, Dr. Her-
bert and Dr. Mervyn.
Emile Zola Berman
a Sirhan Attorney
LOS ANGELES—Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan, the accused assassin of
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, will go
on trial Jan. 7 in a steelplated
courtroom with closed-circuit tele-
vision for news reporters.
Prominent New York attorney
Emile Zola Berman will be on the
defense team.
The trial will last at least two
months, with jurors locked up in
their hotel rooms nightly. Their
spouses will be..allcuydeosi visit
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Joseph Baratz, a Founder of Degania,
Israel's First Collective Settlement
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Burial ser-
vices were held at Degania Sunday
for Joseph Baratz, a founder of
that settlement, the first Jewish
agricultural collective, who died
Dec. 14, at age 79.
Mr. Baratz was born in Bessa-
rabia and settled in Palestine at
age 16. He worked as a farmer
and was a member of the group
that founded Juma, near the south
shore of the Sea of Galilee, which
became Degania, known in Israel
as "the mother of kibutzim."
Mr. Baratz held the honorary
title of "General" as head of the
soldiers' welfare fund, a project
to which he devoted the latter part
of his life. He visited the United
States several times on behalf of
the fund and Histradrut, Israel's
labor federation.
Negroes in News Media
Study Assisted by ADL
JOSEPH BARATZ
Dr. Boaz Cohen Dies at 69;
Was Professor of Codes
at Theological Seminary
A study of race relations and
the American news media has re-
vealed that 4.2 per cent of the
staffs of 388 newspapers, maga-
zines and radio television broad-
casters are Negro. The study was
sponsored by the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith and the
Columbia Journalism Review.
The percentage, based on a sur-
vey conducted between March
and August of this year, represents
1,743 Negro white collar workers
in editorial,- advertising, - business
and promotion jobs out of a 40,582
total. Woody Klein, a former
newspaper and television reporter
who was press secretary to Mayor
John V. Lindsay of New York, re-
ports on the survey in the fall
issue of the Review, a quarterly
published by _the Columbia Univ-
ersity Graduate School of Jour-
nalism.
Klein said that the percent-
age of Negro employes would
have been even lower if the sur-
vey had included printers, press-
men and production personnel be-
cause of discriminatory practices
of some craft unions.
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Boaz
Cohen, a professor of codes at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of
Seminary of America and an
authority on 'Jewish and Roman
law, died here Dec. 11 at the age
of 69. Dr. Cohen was a graduate
of City College, and earned his
doctorate at Columbia University,
and was ordained by the semin-
ary. He was the author of "Law
and Tradition in Judaism," "Jew-
ish and Roman Law, a Compara-
tive Study" and "An Annotated
Bibliography of the Rabbinic Res- Luthier Rosenthal,
ponsa of the Middle Ages." Dr. Violin Craftsman, 77
Cohen was a past chairman of the
NEW YORK — Master violin
law committee of the Rabbinical craftsman Luthier Rosenthal,
Assembly.
whose customers included Heifetz,
Elman and Zimbalist, died Dec.
11 at age 77.
Mr. Rosenthal, who adopted his
Mark G. Cooper, a retired De- first name (Luthier means maker
of
stringed instruments in French)
troit wine and liquor salesman'who
earlier in life was an associate of after opening his New York shop,
the late Judge Frank Picard, when was born in Latvia and learned
the latter headed the Liquor Con- the rare art of violin making from
trol Commission, died Dec. 12. He his father. He was one of the few
violin makers in this country who
was 77.
He was a manpower commis- made every part by hand, and he
sioner and civil defense volunteer taught his specialty at Teachers
during World War II and was also College, Columbia University.
So perfect was his art that once,
a life member of Perfection Lodge,
after repairing a shattered Stra-
the Masons.
divarius for a concert artist,
Mr. Cooper, 19425 Lancashire, Rosenthal was asked to crack
was born in London and lived in open a priceless Guarnerius and.
Detroit 50 years. Survivors are put on a base part of his own
two daughters, Mrs. Rita Radner making.
and Mrs. Frederic (Marjorie) Ma-
honey; and three grandchildren.
Mark Cooper, 77
,
Israelis Enter Most Lands
Architect I. M. Lewis; in Europe Without Visas
JERUSALEM (ZINS)—Israel and
Was Beth El Member Austria
have concluded an agree-
Isadore M. Lewis, founder of I.
M. Lewis Architects more than 50
years ago, died Dec. 14 at age 82.
Mr. Lewis, 25409 Sherwood, Hunt-
ington Woods, was a native of
Appleton, Wis., and lived here 52
years. He was a member of Tem-
ple Beth El.
Mr. Lewis was the architect who
designed the Adas Shalom building
on Curtis and Santa Rosa, as well
as other important public struc-
tures in Detroit.
He leaves his wife, Theresa; a
daughter, Betty; a brother, Harry
of Minneapolis; and three grand-
children.
Samuel Slobin, 61
Samuel S. Slobin, a retired phar-
macist, died Tuesday at age 61. He
resided at 23060 Riverside, South-
field.
Born in Russia, Mr. Slobin was a
member of Cong. Shaarey Zedek,
the Masons and Aesculapian Phar-
maceutical Society.
He leaves a son, Eugene; a
daughter, Mrs. Morris (Sharon)
Fineman; two brothers
and five
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ment whereby citizens of both
countries will no longer require en-
trance visas in their respective
lands. Israeli citizens now can tra-
vel freely to the Scandinavian
countries, Belgium, Netherlands,
Luxembourg, England, Germany,
Switzerland and Austria. Only three
Western European countries re-
quire entrance visas from Israeli
citizens: France, Italy and Greece.
Louis Gelber, Age 90,
Canadian Jewish Pioneer
TORONTO (JTA) — Louis Gel-
ber, a prominent member of the
Canadian Jewish community for
many decades, died here four
weeks after Toronto Jewry had
celebrated his 90th birthday. He
was the father of Lionel Gelber,
the author and historian; Marvin,
a member of the Canadian dele-
gation to the United Nations;
Arthur, former president of the
Arts Council; Dr. Sholome Michael,
a lecturer in religion at New York
University; and Sylvia, a senior
civil servant in Ottawa. A native
of Austria he
fettled i n , Canada in
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