THE JEWISH NEWS
Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20,. 1951
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will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuthal portion, Gen. 12:1-17:27. Prophetical, portion. Isaiah 40:27-41:16.
Candle lighting, Friday, Oct. 24, 5:18 p.m.
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CHARLOTTE DUBIN
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the 13th day of Ileshran, 5730, the following scriptural selections
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WC Anniversary... Honors for Zuckerman
Special interest attaches to the next an-
nual meeting of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, to be held Oct. 29, because of the
recogntion then to be given to the United
Jewish Charities' 70th anniversary.
As the predecessor to the Federation's
communal role as the chief social agency in
our community, the United Jewish Charities
for more than a quarter of a century, until
the formation of the Federation in 1925, was
the recognized agency that–served the needs
of the less fortunate. The Federation, as the
movement into which were incorporated the
major Jewish causes in this city, emerged
from the UJC and the latter continued to
function as the property-holding branch of
the Federation.
Thus a relationship was established that
retained the UJC as a vital factor in a larger
movement into which have been included all
the educational, recreational and social serv-
ice agencies and which at once became the
representative here of the great overseas re-
lief movements of the American Jewish Joint
Distribution Committee, HIAS and other
causes, and also nearly all of the causes re-
lated to Israel and the resettlement of hun-
dreds of thousands of survivors from Nazism
and persecutions in Moslem countries, as well
as those escaping from the prejudices in
lands behind the Iron Curtain, primarily the
United Jewish Appeal.
For its pioneering efforts, UJA has earned
the respect of the community and acclaim for
having established the more all-inclusive
Federation.
It is worth noting that a number of the
community's most respected citizens had
served UJC as president. Commencing with
the late David W. Simons, who was revered
for his piety. as a member of the first Detroit
Nine Man Council and as a leader in the
Zionist movement under Justice Louis D.
Brandeis, others who served as UJC presi-
dents were: the late Bernard Ginsburg, Henry
M. Butzel, Fred M. Butzel, Joseph L. Selling,
Julian H. Krolik, William Friedman, Henry
Wineman, Walter M. Fuchs, Abraham Srere
and Sidney J. Allen; and Judge Theodore
Levin, Max J. Zivian, Erwin S. Simon and
Louis Tabashnik.
The annual Federation meeting will pro-
vide occasion to honor the current UJC presi-
dent, Paul Zuckerman, who has gained na-
tional recogntion as one of the most active
leaders in the United Jewish Appeal and now
as the organizer of the series of tours to
Israel which help to link American Jews with
the Jewish state and to provide for . them the
intimacy and the knowledge that assured
uninterrupted partnership with the people of
Israel and with the causes that are so im- I
portant in assuring Israel's economic welfare
and the state's security.
Thus the annual Federation meeting
emerges as a very significant event on our
calendar and it is heartening to be able to
make note of an important anniversary of a
major community agency and to commend
the selection of Paul Zuckerman as recipient
of the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Award for
Communal Leadership.
Bnai Brith's Multi-Services Appeal
Bnai Brith's current campaign for $250,-
000 to assure that its many services will con-
tinue to function unhampered serves well to
call attention to the movement's significant
position in Jewish life.
As the movement with one of the largest
memberships in the non-congregational or-
ganizational life in American Jewry, Bnai
Brith is the vital force that has its influences
in many spheres. The Anti-Defamation Lea-
gue is among the most important civic pro-
tective agencies in ,America and as an off-
shoot of Bnai Brith, depending in the main
upon the movement's support, it ranks among
the most effective agencies in the battle
against prejudice and in exposing discrimina-
tory groups whenever they emerge. -
There is the deep-rooted hope that the
Bnai Brith-sponsored Hillel Foundation will
serve to bring our college youth closer to
their people. The Hillel movement represents
a challenge to indifference and as such is
major in the interest it invites from Jewish
communities, from parents as well as stu-
dents, from the parent body whose burden
it is to provide the social and cultural bene-
fits offered on the campuses.
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Hebrew Theater's Origin Linked
With Zionist Idea's Realization
A noteworthy chapter to the history of the arts in Israel has been
appended in the most interesting book, "The Hebrew Theater—Its First
Fifty Years," by Mendel Kohansky, pub-
lished by Ktay.
In his very thorough account of tl)e
theater's development, tracing its ear-
liest beginnings, Kohansky gives due
credit to the trailblazers by stating:
"It was the dream of theater in the
Hebrew language that inspired a re-
markable man named Nahum Zemach,
a Hebrew teacher in Bialystok, who in
1914 founded a drama company and took
his players to Vienna, where a Zionist
Congress was then meeting, to demon-
strate cultural Zionism in action. It was
the same Zemach who, four years later,
with a world war intervening, opened a
Hebrew theater studio in Moscow and
called it 'Habima.' That was the be-
ginning of the Hebrew theater as a
living. continuous entity, and that is why
we consider the date of Habima's first
performance in Moscow, Oct. 8, 1918, to
mark the inauguration of the Hebrew
theater."
Nahum Zemach
In a preface to this volume, written in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland,
Tyrone Guthrie, the famous theatrical director, poses the question: "Is
it not reasonable to suppose that in the fullness of time a Hebrew
theater may express not solely Hebrew conceptions, inevitably influ-
enced though they are by the long years spent in the countries of the
diaspora, but also ideas derived from a climate, a landscape, a way of
Bnai Brith's interest in Israel has made life, which will be confined not to a single race, a single religious tra-
the movement one of the very vital partici- dition, but will be a shared institution amongst all who inhabit the
pants in the causes in defense of the Jewish Eastern Mediterranean?"
position in the Middle East. Support of the
To Kohansky, "the origin of the Hebrew theater is bound up
Israel Bond campaigns, of the Jewish Na-
with the realization of the Zionist ideal."
tional Fund and other branches of the Zion-
What the author does in this book is not only to provide a history
ist movement, in addition to alignment with
the major fund-raising body for. Israel—the of the theater but also to indicate how Hebrew took hold, how the
United Jewish Appeal and the Israel Emer- theatrical art developed out of small beginnings into a powerful factor
gency Fund — has given encouragement to in the entertainment field.
Israel and its defenders.
He does even more: he shows how Hebrew became a workable
medium of expression on the stage and he shows the transition from
There are so many social service causes such plays as "Uriel Acosta" and the earliest dramas into the present
that depend upon Bnai Brith that the over- which includes the musical and the modernized.
all program of the movement provides a
We meet in Kohansky's history the actors and the directors, and
powerful many-sided appeal in support of the
we get a splendid idea of the manner in which an important art
current campaign for which the entire com-
became the medium for a people's expression. Not only Zemacb
munity should assure an unqualified success.
but a score of noted personalities of the stage in Israel (Hanna
Bovine, Menahem Gnessin, Aaron Meskin and many others) as well
as the new skills in producing attractive placards, the staging, the
advancement in producing plays that match in expression and
effectiveness those of Broadway are introduced for a complete
understanding of the entertainment areas in Israel.
the land against the enemies who surround
Actually, Kohansky's book is a history of the theater in Jewish life.
the state.
By tracing the background, by following the Habima's treks in its
Duty to Protect Israel's Economy
Israel's monetary reserves have been
reduced by some $150,000,000 to the present
$500,000,000, thus creating a minor crisis in
the country's economic position. The reason
for the decline is obvious: it is the result of
the obligations created to retain military
strength in the struggle for existence.
Nevertheless, Israel is economically
sound, there is very little unemployment,
new industries are being created and the old
ones are prospering.
But there is the great need to assure the
retention of strength for the functioning busi-
ness projects so that an internal economic
security should contribute towards an assur-
ance of strength in the processmf.clefending
Serious obligations devolve upon Israel's
kinsmen and friends in the face of a possible
crisis if the cash reserves should continue
to decline, Israel must and does provide her
own means for military defensive action.
She does, however, look to us for support in
protecting her economy. This is where the
Israel Bond efforts play a major role in
Israel's defense. The current Israel Bond
projects must be given fullest support and
must emerge as basic means for protecting
the economic position of the Jewish state.
There must be no letdown in these tasks in
defense of Israel's economic security.
' trips to the U.S., and its transformation from a Russian to an Israel-
Jewish creative force, he writes history of the art.
In his well illustrated historical -work, Kohansky shows how difficult
the beginnings were, what uncertainties there existed in the establish-
ment of the theater in Tel Aviv. The emergence of- a powerful thea-
trical force is added proof of the Israelis' creative skills, their determ-
ination to arrive at success in the projects they undertake.
A full understanding of the "Israeli style" entertainment is pro-
v ided by Kohansky in his description of the Cameri, the Imbal, Zavit,
Telem, Ohel and other groups that have contributed towards the build-
ing of a great art by an imaginative people. The theater in Haifa as
well as in Tel Aviv and in other Israeli centers, the government-spon-
sored School of Stage Arts and the Children's Theater of the Cameri-
all jointly point to the powerful force called the Hebrew theater that is
1 so well defined in Kohansky's splendid history.