10—Friday, June 5, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS Historical Scty. Compiles Pictorial Archive of Jews in America, One of a Kind
Thts Week in History
From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
40 Years Ago This Week: 1930
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency, opposed
any restrictions on immigration to Palestine or property acquisition
there. "There can be no Jewish National Home without men and
land." he said.
The Berlin budget commission rejected an anti-shechita bill pro-
posed by the National Socialists. On another front, a Hitlerite deputy ,
declared. "We are not interested in the protection of animals but we
hope that anti-Semitism will keep Jewish visitors away from the sum-
mer resorts in Thuringia."
Dr. Drummond Shiels, British undersecretary for the colonies,
said suspension of Jewish immigration into Palestine was temporary,
pending receipt of Sir John Simpson's immigration study. In New
York, 25,000 Jews, keynoted by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, marched to
protest the suspension.
A Jewish family in Falenica. near Warsaw, watched its house burn
down rather than violate the Sabbath by attempting to put it out, or
call the fire department.
BOSTON—A grant from the Jew-
ish Community Federation of
Cleveland will enable the American
Jewish Historical Society to assem-
ble and catalog a pictorial collec- will constitute the only archive of
tion of sites, buildings and persons its kind.
relating to the history of the Jews
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10 Years Ago This Week: 1960
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The Central Committee of Mapai, overriding objections by its own
leader, Premier David Ben-Gurion, voted to expand the Zionist move-1
went despite the establishment of Israel. Arguing against the Premier ,
were Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Mrs. Rose .Halprin of the World Zion-!
ist Organization. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and Finance Minister
Levi Eshkol.
Presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon disavowed the support of
the American Nazi Party. The Justice Department considered listing
the party as a subversive organization. President Eisenhower ordered
Attorney-General William P. Rogers to investigate neo-Nazism in the
Washington area.
Five Soviet Jewish scientists—one a developer of the Ilyuishin-18
plane—were awarded Lenin Prizes.
Israel marked the 200th anniversary of the death of the Baal Shem
Tov, founder of Hassidism.
Israeli police began questioning the jailed Adolf Eichmann. Argen-
tina's demand for his return led to a "delicate," "critical" situation in
relations with Israel. Argentina threatened to take the matter to the
UN if Israel did not meet its request within a week.
_Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Israel's UN representative
Michael S. Comay met in New York with Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold on the Mid East conflict. Mrs. Meir told a fund-raising
audience that Israel would insist on Suez Canal transit rights because
"it is not Mr. Nasser's private river."
Housing Fund Aids :Refugees
In the past eight years, the North was recently extended to all Jew-
African Housing Fund has extend- ish. newcomers in France, regard-
ed loans to over 3,000 Jewish refu- less of their country of origin.
gee families newly arrived in
France, it was reported by Sam-
uel L. Haber, executive vice-
chairman of the Joint Distribution
Committee.
Since large families are the rule
in North Africa, the loans have
benefited 16.750 individuals, in
many cases permitting them to get
out of overcrowded slums into
decent, if modest, apartments,
Haber said. As of December 1969,
the fund's total expenditures
amounted to over 82,000,000.
The housing fund was set up in
December 1961 to meet the needs
of several thousand Jews who fled
from Tunisia to France following
the outbreak of fighting at Bizerte.
Then, as now, the acute shortage
of low-cost housing in France pre-
sented one of the greatest obstacles
to the integration of new refugees.
To help the newcomers, the JDC
took the initiative in setting up
the housing fund, with an origi-
nal capital of 6200,000. As partners
JDC enlisted the Fonds Social Juif
Unife (the central French fund-
raising and social services agency)
and two British agencies — the
Central British Fund for Jewish
Relief and Rehabilitation and the
Jewish Colonization Association.
In the spring of 1962, the Nor-
wegian Refugee Council made a
grant of 536,000 to the fund.
Further contributions from the
original four partners and also
frain a number of European Jew-
ish communities eventually raised
its capital to 51,000.000.
Charter House living is gracious,
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The JDC receives its funds
mainly from the campaigns of the
United Jewish Appeal.
In addition to the Tunisian Jews,
the housing fund benefited subse-
quent waves of Jewish refugees:
from Algeria in 1962 and from
Morocco and Tunisia following the
Six-Day War in 1967, Haber said.
With the large scale refugee move-
ments from Czechoslovakia and
Poland in 1968 and 1969, the fund
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