Dramatic Story of Youth Aliya Movement Related in Mrs. Pincus' Historic Record Israel's and world Jewry drama- tic experiences of the past 30 years will be marked by many projects and scores of developments, and major among the life rescuing activities will be the Youth Aliya program, which remains indelibly among the most significant efforts to save lives. Mrs. Chasya Pincus, the wife of Louis A. Pincus, chairman of the Jewish Agency, has compiled an important account of Youth Aliya in "Come From the Four Winds," published by Herzl Press. More than 120,000 children, very young and teen-agers, were brought to Israel through Youth Aliya. From the inception of this human- itarian effort in 1934, the great task, which commenced with the proposal of Recha Freier, the wife of a Berlin rabbi who gathered a group of seven young Zionists to set into motion an effort to take children out of Germany, the cause moved on until it become one of the most serious obligations of the Jewish people to the children whose very lives were at stake under Hitlerism. Norman Bentwich, who was attorney general of Palestine dur- ing British mandatory rule, in one of his accounts of the Youth Aliya movement, paid the founder of the movement this homage: "Recha Freier had given the movement its ardent impulse amongst the youth. She had won for it the support of the Social- ist settlements (in Palestine). It was for Henrietta Szold, the affectionate and understanding planner and the inspiring work- er, to turn that impulse and that acceptance in principle into an ordered movement. One woman HAPPY PASSOVER U. T. Garden Restaurant 7105 W. McNichols UN 3-1454 ' Ample Parking MRS. RECHA FREIER of the youths who were rescued, of the new life they helped to build, of the many who faced dan- ger and found succor in the Israel- to-be. Describing the themes and responses she encountered, Mrs. Pincus states: "Common to them all was the fact that immi- gration to Israel — whether it had been in desperate flight or in an orderly, well-planned de- parture—had coincided with the young immigrants' own per- sonal period of adolescent change and insecurity. Thus, they pass- ed their crucial formative years not in a familiar environment peopled with parents, brothers and sisters and signposted by accepted values and traditions, but on alien terrain, with stran- gers pointing the way in a lan- guage still harsh and unfamiliar to the ear." In this sense the author delves into the psychological factors and provides a thorough study of the Youth Aliya movement as a socio- logical and psychological experi- ment. There is this impressive conclu- sion in the epilogue to Mrs. Pin- cus' book: "The state of Israel was brought into being by the struggle of a generation that fashioned its ideals from the ageless hopes and dreams of an old-new nation. Youth Aliya has been privileged to take its part in this struggle. Youth Aliya not only helped thousands of young people rebuild their own lives but it gave to the Jewish State a gen- eration of young people who truly 'care.' Surely, this is the best promise for the fulfillment of man's eternal dream of a better tomorrow." —P.S. Friday, April 17, 1970-29 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Sonneborn Chemistry Chair Set Up at Hebrew U. JERUSALEM — "I wish there were more persons like you," He- brew University President Avra- ham Harman told Dr. Henry Sonneborn of New York, at the dedication of the Sonneborn Chair in Physical Chemistry. He was referring to the fact that there is still only a very select group of persons who try to avoid "brick and mortar," i.e., are bene- factors of building projects at the university, while the institution is now increasingly interested in the establishment of chairs. The chair in-physical chemistry, whose incumbent is Prof. Gidon Czapski, 38—one of Israel's most promising physical chemists and one of the youngest professors at the Hebrew University—was estab- lished by Dr. and Mrs. Henry Sonneborn and his cousin, Rudolf Sonneborn, also of New York, pro- minent U.S. businessmen in the field of dil and chemicals and long- time supporters of Israel and the Hebrew University. BEST WISHES TO ALL OUR FRIENDS AND PATRONS was the dynamo; the other, the skilled pilot." It was a slow process, but the FOR A movement started first with 43 children who were brought to Pal- estine from Hitler Germany on JOYOUS PASSOVER Feb. 19, 1934, and then it grew into the major efort that rescued the many tens of thousands. Thus we have, in this impressive volume, a thorough review of the results of a great movement and a tribute to the women who devel- oped the idea. To Recha Freier goes the tribute of this and future generations. (Mrs. Freier's son, Dr. Andrew Freier, is a practicing physician in Southfield). Mrs. Pincus' book is much more than a history of Youth It contains stories of Aliya. MR. AND MRS. EARL RUBY heroism among those who spon- sored and encouraged the move- ment. It introduces Youth Aliya AND FAMILY graduates and relates the pro- gress they made from the time of the settlement in the Jewish UN 3-0400 18135 LIVERNOIS Homeland. Mrs. Pincus went to Kiryat Gat We only need travel enough to to assemble the story of Arye give our intellects an airing. Meir who heads the Lakhish Re- —Henry David Thoreau. gional Plan for immigrant inte- gration and here we have another account of the Patria, the refugee ship that was denied admission by the British, the ship that was sunk with 257 refugees, Arye hav- ing jumped into the cold sea to escape the tragedy. Thus we have in this significant book an account not only of a great movement but also of the history of refugee flights from the Nazi terror and their defiance of the British who sought to bar their roads into Eretz Israel. And in the course of relating these stories the reader learns the background the manner in which Nazi Ger- many threatened the very lives of the incoming Youth Aliya youths who were finding and building new homes for themselves and their people. u . 'N' There are the stories of re- CASE Pitick..1 fugee children not only from Germany, from 'Central and Eastern Europe, but also from Yemen, North Africa and Iran. There is the story of "Ben-Zion Tomer, the Teheran 'graduate' who had written 'Children of the Shadows,' the first important attempt by an Israeli playwright to portray the doubts and con- flicts that beset the immigrant children of his generation in their search for a new identity as free citizens of the Jewish homeland." Mrs. Pincus relates the story of Dr. Moreali, a physician in the village of Nonantola in Northern Italy, and Father Beccari of the Nonantola Abbey theological sem- inary who rescued 100 children from the Nazis. 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