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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Rosenfeld's Yiddish Poetry and the Discontents
ish Institute of Religion. Profs.
The Yiddish "tailor-poet" Morris Bolivian anti)Semitism during Jacob R. Marcus and Stanley F.
—P.S.
Rosenfeld, who settled in the World War II; new data on the ear- Chyet are its editors.
United States during the 1880s, was ly 19th Century North Carolina
his legislator Jacob Henry; and the
not
content
to
be
celebrated
for
The Jewish Vocational Service considering either entering or re- Yiddish poems. Leo Wiener, a disgust Reform Judaism aroused in
Feather, Down or Wool
announces the opening of a new turning to the labor market also specialist in East European studies an Orthodox rabbi who came as an
suburban office at 15660 W. 10 was announced. JVS notes the ever- at Harvard University, believed immigrant to late 19th Century
Mile, in the Fairfax Building, increasing opportunities for mature Rosenfeld's gifts worthy of "glory New York. The magazine, now
women outside the home. This
Recovered Like New
Southfield.
and universal recognition," and the completing its 22nd volume, is
EL 6-9152
All of the JVS services, includ- workshop is intended to meet the publication in 1898 of Rosenfeld's published in the Cincinnati campus
TR 2-7554
needs
of
housewives,
divorcees
and
BED PILLOWS CLEANED
ing counseling and job placement,
"Songs from the Ghetto," contain- of the Hebrew Union College-Jew-
widows
concerned
with
occupa-
will be available there as well as tional or educational opportunities. ing Wiener's prose translations of
at the downtown JVS office. In
the Yiddish poems along side trans-
Affair to Remember
J. J. CLARKE STUDIO
Have
"Project Return" will consist of literations of the Yiddish originals,
addition, plans are being made for.
Portraiture of Distinction
regular group sessions to meet small group meetings and counsel- made the immigrant poet a great
For Your Wedding
MORI
Formals - Candids - Direct Color
the needs of students, adults and ing which will assist and prepare literary sensation. Still, his fame
women with the information and was less a comfort than it might
And Orchestra
senior citizens.
3223 W. McNichols
Hours for the new suburban confidence necessary to taking that have been, Rosenfeld was con-
Muirlond
KE 4-5980
center, beginning Nov. 1, are 9 "first step."
Call 341-4141
vinced, for Yiddish had no future
a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday,
Four evening sessions are in America: "Woe to those ... un-
Wednesday and Friday; and 1.9 planned for each Tuesday in No- able to utter their thoughts and
p.m. Thursday.
vember, beginning Nov. 3. All feelings in a living tongue," he
From LONDON, ENGLAND
Appointments will not be neces- meetings will take place at the told Wiener.
sary except in special circum- new JVS suburban office.
Ezekiel Lifschutz, archivist
stances, and an informal atmo-
of the YIVO Institute for Jewish
P r e-registration is necessary.
sphere will be maintained. For in-
Research in New York City,
Call 961-8570 or write Group Serv-
formation, call JVS, WO 1-8570.
points out in the forthcoming
ices,
Jewish
Vocational
Service,
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November
1970 American Jew-
The first of a planned series of 163 Madison, Detroit, 48226, for ish Archives, that Rosenfeld de-
"Distinctive Styling in Music
workshops for women who are an application.
to
assure himself a
termined
to Your Individual Taste"
measure of literary immortality
by writing poems in English. He
American College in Jerusalem Dean
would never abandon Yiddish,
but "In a year from now," be as-
to Review School's Progress Here
serted in mid-1898, "I shall write
-
English poems." Though, as Lif-
say,
ordained
at
the
Jewish
Theo-
Itrogress achieved in the three-
schutz says, "he could barely
year history of American College logical Seminary, Rabbi Goldstein,
IRV IS .VolI NI
I. •.411) 7 1;
write a grammatically correct
dean
of
administration
of
the
in Jerusalem will be reported here
English sentence" when he made
at a meeting of the Detroit Com- American College, is a native of
his assertion, "his prophecy came
mittee for American College in Trenton, N.J. He held pulpits in
Coraphic% • 1950-1970
true."
Jerusalem, at the home of the co- Wisconsin and Connecticut and
served
as
chaplain
in
the
U.S.
Not that it brought him -much
chairmen, Dr. and Mrs. Harold
Davidson, 5 Shadow Lane, Bloom- Submarine Base Coast Guard joy. In 1920, Rosenfeld was affront-
l•tuli•r 2 1 NI ,
r
Academy before affiliating with ed when a potential publisher for
field Hills, 2 p.m. Nov. 1.
his English poems suggested that
Dean Leonard Goldstein of the the Jerusalem college.
He was founder and former di- young Louis Untermeyer be al-
college will outline the school's
Illarella.. 4:aller. - Ltd.
aims and the accomplishments rector of the Connecticut College lowed to revise them. "I must re-
and served as program di- fuse. We belong to two different
since its formation.
NI)•tlilaild • !"• ■ oilllificioi • 37,2 19:37
A graduate of Yeshiva Univer- rector of the Association of Amer- schools of poetry," he declared.
icans and Canadians in Israel.
Lifschutz offers a fascinating ac-
count of Rosenfeld's ill-fated
efforts to find a publisher for his
Detroit Post Gets
...
\ • • 7, a
'WorldofOurOwn English-language productions. Fif-
teen of Rosenfeld's English poems,
National Award
d
fir
Provides Choate
all but one hitherto unpublished,
are included in Lifschutz' essay,
for Membership
School Inventory "Morris Rosenfeld's Attempts to
an English Poet."
Notes on life and learning in a Become
addition to the Lifschutz study
boys' preparatory school are pro- of In
Rosenfeld,
the November Amer-
vided by Peter S. Prescott in "A ican Jewish Archives
contains a
World of Our Own," published by number of other essays:
Coward-McCann, in which he pro- ographical reflections by a autobi-
vides an inventory of the famed day Yiddishist who lives in latter-
New
Choate School.
Mexico; the modern Hebrew novel-
17540 WYOMING • TEL. 341-1330 • THUR., FRITTIL9.
"You don't need anything outside. ist A.A. Kabak's frustrations in
Everything is inside the school," seeking an American readership;
Choate's headmaster remarks —
but students like Look book critic 'Boundaries' Reviews
Prescott, John F. Kennedy and
Edward Albee often thought dif- Life's Challenges -
ferently. Now Prescott openly ques-
Yale University Prof. Robert
tions this fundamental idea of Jay Lifton gave a series of five
Choate and its sister schools as an half-hour talks in the CBC informa-
incubator for the middle class— tion program in January of 1969.
j e
wrir.-Z, institutions self-consciously cling- They appear in a volume issued
ing to old (and often obscure)
One of Allied Van Lines Largest Haulers
Random House under the title
Accepting the award for the values while feeling increasingly by
"Boundaries," and they discuss
greatest increase in membership the pressure of the times.
2253 Cole Street
1300 N. Campbell . Road
"psychological
man
in
revolution."
of all posts in Group 5 is Senior
Birmingham
Prescott returned to Choate with
Royal Oak
Summarized in what Prof. Lifton
Vice Commander Morris Simon the blessings of headmaster Sey-
describes
as
"the
breakdown
and
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(right) of the Morton A. Silver- mour St. John to study the school
man-Detroit Post 135, Depart- in action during the 1967-68 aca- re-creation of the boundaries of our
ment of ;Halligan. Making the demic year, and to talk to students, existence," his essays appear un-
presentation at the recent na- faculty and parents about what der the titles Destruction, Death
tional convention is Commander turned out to be the most unset- and Life, Self, Revolution and The
New History.
Bernard Direnfeld.
tling year in Choate's history. It
With the realism emphasized in
was the year in which the first his essays that had been spoken
fumes of dissent and revolution 20 months earlier, Dr. Litton de- •
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were beginning to filter in from clares: "There is nothing absolute
restless college campuses and or inevitable about the New His- i *
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cities. It was a year which saw tory and its challenge to life boun- •
• JOIN THE ARK LANES WEST LEARN TO BOWL PROGRAM :
the first drug crisis; the institu- daries, except perhaps the need •
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BLOCH ROSE AUXILIARY will tion of an Afro-American Society
nbeet 8:30 p.m. Monday at the by Choate's token blacks; the in- to bring it into being."
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home of the past president, Gerry troduction of the first sex educa-
The 14th semiannual ANTIQUE
Feldman, 24760 Sussex, Oak Park. tion courses; the attempt to re- SHOW AND SALE will be held :
at 10:00 A.M.
:
A Chinese auction will follow the assess outworn education methods at the Michigan State Fairgrounds' •
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general business meeting. Refresh- and vacant sermons on values; and Community Arts Building today •
THIS PROGRAM WILL GIVE YOU:
ments will be served. For member- the realization that this tiny world through Oct. 25. Some 65 antique
Your
Own
Bowling
Ball—Expertly
Fitted
ship information, call the JWVA would have to change its orbit in dealers will exhibit items. The • •
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Personal Bowling Instructions
office, 255-4743.
order to survive.
book bazaar will be larger this • •
Learn to Score—Trophies—Nursery
year. Proceeds go to the summer •
Aesculapians to Cite
Surviving Brother Sought camp for diabetic children, spon- •
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ALL THIS FOR ONLY $3.50 PER WEEK.
The Jewish Agency is seeking a sored by the Michigan, Diabetes •
Morris Kerbs! at Dinner
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Aesculapian Pharmaceutical As- Morris Herman, believed to be a Association. Other booths will fea- •
To Sign Up or for Further Information Call:
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ture
jewelry,
furniture,
dishes,
sociation will honor Morris Kar- Detroit area resident, in connec-
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bal for his service to the com- tion with the disposition of prop- coins and dolls. Senior citizens are •
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admitted
free.
Show
hours
are
munity at the association's 44th erty belonging to his late brother
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28435-Northwestern Highway
annual charity dinner-dance 8:30 Isaac Herman, an English teacher, 1-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and •
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Northwestern Hwy. South of 12 Mile
p.m. Nov. 11 at the Raleigh House. in La Plata, Argentina. Anyone 1-7 p.m. Sunday.
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Music 'will be by Frankie Paul. with information on Herman's
Southfield, Mich.-352-3333
esesej
Pity is the very basis of genius. •
For reservations, call Max Mill- whereabouts may contact Mike
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