Robert Briscoe, Dublin's Former Lord Mayor

DUBLIN (JTA)—Robert Briscoe,
grandchild of a Lithuanian Jew
who came to Ireland to escape per-
secution, and Dublin's first and
only Jewish mayor, died May 29
at age 74. His 1956 election as lord
mayor of heavily Catholic Dublin
made him an international figure.
He used to say that Ireland's
proudest boast was it tolerance.
adding "Look at me. the lord
mayor is Jewish." In 1957, he came
to the United States for a seven-
week tour for the United_ Jewish
Appeal and the Irish Societies in
America. The hundreds of invita-
tions he received after his election
were handled on a 50-50 basis.
appearing before Jewish and Irish
groups in equal portion.
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An Orthodox Jew, he observed
the dietary laws, and all the groups
he addressed during his tour were
informed accordingly.
Director of several textile manu-
facturing concerns including kos-
her meat packing houses. he sup-
ported numerous Jewish organiza-
tions. He traveled to the U.S. in
1938 with Vladimir Jabotinsky.
who formed the first Jewish self-
defense units in Palestine.
Mr. Briscoe spoke in Detroit

numerous times, at Allied Jew-
ish Campaign and Israel Bond
functions. He was a guest here

at a St. Patrick's Day dinner at
which he was honored by Catho-
lic and Jewish leaders, by
spokesmen for the Irish com-
munity and officials of the state
and city.

In his later years, Mr. Briscoe
liked to pass out calling cards en-
graved with his new family crest:
a blue Star of David draped with
a red band bearing the Irish words
for freedom, equality and frater-
nity.
In a March 1957 newspaper ad-
vertisement of the United Jewish
Appeal, calling for contributions
to help Jewish refugees from Eas-
tern European and Arab nations,
Mr. Briscoe said. "Perhaps the
fact that I am a Jew is enough to
explains my interest in this life-
saving work. But the fact that I
have spent a good part of my life
in the effort to gain freedom and
independence for my own country,
Ireland. also has a great deal to do
with my feelings in the matter."
Reared to be a businessman by
his father, a furniture dealer,
young Robert studied at Trinity
College. Dublin, and afterward was
sent to Berlin to study electrical
engineering and commerce., Arrest-
ed apparently for political reasons
at the outbreak of World -War I.
Mr. Briscoe later was released
during a prisoner exchange.

Hamburg's Jewish Mayor Views
Position in Postwar Germany

BONN—Amid the vigorous de-
bate over lifting the statute of
limitations for the punishment of
Nazi war criminals, one of Ger-
many's highest government offi-
cials—a Jew— is remaining aloof.
In an interview with the New
York Times, Dr. Herbert Weich-
mann, mayor of Hamburg, called
the statute a moral problem for
non-Jewish Germans.
Dr. Weichmann, 73, said he
turned down the opportunity last
year to become federal president
because he felt that a Jew should
not be Germany's head of state.
His party, the Social Democrats.
and the dominant Christian Demo-
crats. asked him to be a bipartisan
candidate for the post, but Dr.
Weichmann refused, feeling that a
Jew should not lead the way
among Germans, who must come
to grips with their past.
He added that West Germany's

mayor. He has been in that post
ever since.
Dr. Weichmann claims he has
never been subjected to mistreat-
ment or slights in postwar Ger-
many because of his Jewishness.
He is not a Zionist, he said, "al-
though I recognize the necessity of
the state." He is quick to jump on
those who raise false issues of
anti-Semitism, and he criticized
the West German ambassador to
Yugoslavia, Peter Blachstein, for
charging in a party squabble that
anti-Semitism would keep him
from running for parliament in the
election Sept. 28.

Dr. C. Angoff Wins
Daroff Novel Award

NEW YORK—The award for the

outstanding English-language work
of fiction of Jewish interest pub-
lished in the United States during
relations with both Israel and 1968 will be given to Dr. Charles
Arab countries could be jeopar- Angoff of New York for his novel,
dized by a Jew's presence in the
"Memory of Autumn" (Thomas
presidential chair.
Yoseloff, Cranbury, N.J.) at the
Mayor of the largest city in West annual meeting of the National
Germany, Dr. Weichmann also is Jewish Welfare Board's Jewish
current president of the Bundesrat, Book Council of America.
the upper house of parliament. A
The $400 Harry and Ethel Daroff
state judge in the Prussian state
Memorial Award which Dr. Angoff
government before the Nazi take-
will receive is one of the seven
over, Dr. Weichmann and his wife
prizes totaling $2,050.
escaped to France in 1933 and to
The $500 Leon Jolson Award
the U.S. when the Nazis took over
in the category of the Nazi Holo-
France in 1940. He worked as an
caust will be shared by Dr. Jud-
accountant, but realizing his home
ah 'Pilch of New York and Nora
and his work lay in Germany, he
Levin of Philadelphia. Dr. Pilch
returned to the new Federal Re-
is
the editor of "The Jewish
public after the war. Dr. Weich-
Catastrophe in Europe" (Amer-
mann vowed to keep out of poli-
ican
Association for Jewish Ed-
tics; however, during a govern-
ucation, New York). Nora Levin
ment changeover, he was. per-
is the author of "The Holocaust:
suaded to become temporary

JDC Board of Directors
Midyear Meeting June 26

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Monument Unveilings

Unveiling announcements may be in-
serted by mail or by calling The Jewish
News office, 171W W. 7 MUe Rd., De-
troit 48235, VS 8-9364. Written an-
nouncements must be accompanied by ,
the name and address of the person
making the insertion. There is a stand- !
leg charge of $4.09 for an unveiling
notice, measuring an inch in depth.
and $7.50 for one two inches deep with
a black border.
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The family of the late Leah Hel-
ler announces the unveiling of a
monument in her memory 11 a.m.
Sunday, June 8, at Chesed shel
Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Arm will
officiate. Relatives and friends are
asked to attend.

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family of the late Samuel
Victor announces the unveiling of
a monument in his memory 2 p.m.
Sunday. June 8, at Clover Hill
Memorial Park. Cantor Adler will
officiate. Relatives and friends

The

ROBERT BRISCOE

Again sent abroad by his
father, Mr. Briscoe came to the
United States, where he went to
work for an electric-light manu-
facturing company. In New
York, Irish nationalists were be-
ginning to agitate for complete
separation from Britain. Mr.
Briscoe was caught up in the
struggle and returned to Ireland.
As a member of the Sinn Fein
movement, and the Irish Rep-
lican army, he carried out dar-
ing exploits against the British
Navy, smuggling in arms from
Germany.

Throughout the civil war follow-
ing the agreement for the estab-
lishment of a free Ireland, Mr.
Briscoe supported the Sinn Fein
movement. He helped found the
Fianna Fail party in 1926, and
from 1927 to 1965 was a member
of the Irish parliament.
Mr. Briscoe became mayor in
1956 when he and his chief com-
petitor were tied in the city cor-
poration vote. According to tradi-
tion, the names of both men were
placed in a hat. In the election the
following year,_Briscoe was on the
opposite side of the coin and was
unseated.

Workmen's Circle Joins
Farband for Activities

NEW YORK (JTA)—The Work-
men's Circle and the Farband La-
bor Zionist Order announced they
had agreed on a joint program of
Yiddish cultural activities through-
out the United States and Canada.
Israel Breslow, Workmen's Circle
president, and Jacob Katzman.
Farband general secretary, made
the joint announcement.
One of the joint activities will
be a national concert tour of out-
standing actors and singers com-
mencing next January. The Volks-
buehne theater, which had been
maintained by the Workmen's Cir-
cle. will now be maintained joint-
ly as a social theater. The joint
program also provides for spon-
sorship of lecture tours by out-
standing Yiddish literary person-
alities. Breslow described the
agreement of the two organizations
as "a historic moment" in the
Jewish cultural life of the coun-
try. Katzman said it would do
much to strengthen Jewish life and
culture.

The Destruction of European
Jewry" (Thomas Y. Crowell
Camps for Young Jews
Co. New York).
Dr. Emil L. Fackenheim of Tor- in Poland Closed Down

A midyear dinner meeting of onto will receive the Frank and
the board of directors of the Joint Ethel S. Cohen Award of $400 for
Distribution Committee will be the best book on Jewish thought
held June 26, at the Waldorf- of "Quest for Past and Future:
Astoria Hotel, New York, it was Essays in Jewish Theology" (Un-
announced by Louis Broido, JDC iversity of Indiana, Bloomington).
The Florence and Harry Kovner
chairman.
More than 100 Jewish leaders Memorial Awards of $250 each for
volumes
of poetry will go to Reu-
from various parts of the United
States and Canada will hear re- yen Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv in He-
ports on latest developments in brew poetry for "Derekh Eretz"
JDC health, welfare and rehabilita- (Hakibutz Hameuchad Publishing
tion programs on behalf of 350,000 House, Tel Aviv); 'in Yiddish poet-
needy Jews in more than 25 coun- ry to Mrs. Rachel H. Korn of Mon-
treal for "Di Gnod fun Vort"
tries around the world.
These programs will entail ex- (Hamenora Publishing House, Tel
penditures of over $24,500,000, Aviv), and in English poetry to
Broido said. They are financed Ruth Whitman of Cambridge,
mainly by the United Jewish Ap- Mass., for "The Marriage Wig and
peal, major beneficiary of De- Other Poems" (Harcourt, Brace &
World, Inc., New York).
troit's Allied Jewish Campaign.

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46—Friday,

LONDON (JTA) — The Jewish
summer camps for children which
have been a feature of Polish Jew-
ish life for more than a decade,
will not function this year, accord-
ing to information received here
from Warsaw.
The information confirmed pre-
vious reports that the Polish re-
gime had decided not to permit the
Jewish social and cultural organi-
zations to conduct the camps this
year. It was at those camps that
Polish Jewish children were given
the instruction in Jewish history
and culture of which they were de-
prived during the school year.
The Jewish school children are
now scheduled to go to the general
summer- camps with their school-
niaster.

are asked to attend.
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The family of the late

Mattie and
Isador Sitron announces the unveil-

ing of a monument in their mem-
ory 4 p.m. Sunday, June 15, at
Machpelah Cemetery. Rabbi M.
Halpern will officiate. Relatives
and friends are asked to attend.
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The family of the late Louis
Dunn announces the unveiling of a
monument in his memory 12.30
p.m. Sunday, June 15, at Chesed
shel Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Prero
will officiate. Relatives and friends
are asked to attend.
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The family of the late Alex Feld-
beim announces the unveiling of a
monument in his memory 11:30
a.m. Sunday, June 15, at Chesed
shel Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Schnip-
per will officiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to attend.
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The family of the late Joseph
Leider announces the unveiling of
a monument in his memory 11 a.m.
Sunday, June 15, at Chesed shel
Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Schnipper
will officiate. Relatives and friends
are invited.

New Highway Links
Ports of Ashdod, Eilat

EILAT (ZINS)—The Israeli press'
has announced that a "land bridge"
connecting the port of Ashdod, on
the Mediterranean Sea, with the
port of Eilat, at the Red Sea, is
open to travel.
This new highway between the
two ports is used as part of an ex-
port route between Europe and
Asia. Vessels carrying goods from
Europe are unloaded in Ashdod
and then transported via the new
land route to Eilat, reloaded and
sent on to the various Asian ports.
It is of seecial significance, parti-
cularly at a time when the Suez is
closed to shipping.

The Family of the Late

NATHAN YAFFA

t h e unveiling
of a monument in his
memory 2 p.m. Sunday,
June 8, a t Machpelah
Cemetery. Rabbi Arm will
officiate. Relatives a n d
friends are asked to at-
tend.

Announces

The family of the late Sara Solo-
mon announces the unveiling of a
monument in her memory 12 noon
Sunday, June 8, at Chesed shel
Emes Cemetery. Rabbi Prero will
officiate. Relatives and friends
are asked to attend.

The Family of the Late

BEATRICE
GUTMAN

Announces t h e unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 11 a.m. Sunday,
June 8, at Beth Abraham
Cemetery. Rabbi M. Hal-
pern will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are
asked to attend.

The Family -of the Late

GUSSIE
GOLDENBERG

Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 11:30 a.m. Sun-
day, June 8, at Chesed
shel Emes Cemetery.
Rabbi Gruskin will offi-
ciate. Relatives and
friends are asked to at-

tend.

The Family of the Late

LOUIS FINKEL

Announces the unveiling
of a monument in his
memory 1 p.m. Sunday,
June 8, at Chesed shel
Emes Cemetery. Rabbi
Levin will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are
asked to attend.

The Family of the Late

' BELLE
HOLTZMAN

Announces the unveiling
of a monument in her
memory 11 a.m. Sunday,
June 15, at the Turover
Section of Chesed shel
Emes Cemetery. Rabbi L
Halpern will officiate.
Relatives and friends are

asked to attend.

The Family of the Late

ISRAEL
ST I LLERMAN

Announces t h e unveiling
of a monument in his
memory 12 noon Sunday,
June 8, a t Machpelah
Cemetery. Rabbi Kranz
w ill officiate. Relatives

and friends are asked to
attend.

The Family of the Late

HARRY BASKIN

LEON KOHN and
HERBERT C.
KOHN

Announces the unveiling
of a monument in his
memory 2:30 p.m. Sunday,
June 8, at Machpela
Cemetery. Rabbi Arm will
officiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to at-
tend.

Announces the unveiling
of monuments in their
memory 10:30 a.m. Sun-
day, June 8, at Beth Yehu.
dah Cemetery. Rabbi
Spiro will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are
asked to attend.

The Family of the Late

