26—Friisy, December 11, 1970 THE DETROIT JEW511 NEWS. The Mystery of Aaron Lopez By JACOB R. MARCUS (Dr. Marcus is the 1411ten and Rattle Kota, distinguished Service Professor of America& Jewish Hider, and Direc- tor of AlefiCa ■ Jewish AfekilleS at Hebrew Union College.Jewisk IstsUhile of Religion, Cincinnati). o • • Wayne State University Press has just published "Lopez of New- port: Colonial American Merchant Prince" by Stanley F. Chyet„ pro- fessor of American Jewish history and associate director of the Amer- ican Jewish Archives at the He-. brew Union College-Jewish Insti- tute of Religion in Cincinnati. Aaron Lopez came to Rhode Is- land from his native Portugal in the early 1750's as a young man and went on to achieve the rank of what his contemporary, Yale College President Ezra Stiles, called "a merchant of eminence." In his spectacular career as mer- chant-shipper and industrialist, Lopez embodied Newport's Golden Age of pre-Revolutionary commer- cial enterprise. Lopez also represented a new historical phenomenon: the colo- nial American Jew, freer perhaps than any other Jew in the world, continually in contact—often affec- tionate, but sometimes abrasive contact—with non-Jews, and yet deeply, devotedly Jewish. Dr. Chyet's book, based on re- search in the available contempo- rary sources, addresses itself to Lopez' career and also to what is known or can be surmised about his personality and family life. The book sets forth the tragedy of Lopez and his Newport—the ruin that the Revolutionary War spelled both for Lopez' mercantile empire and for the Rhode Island metropo- lis. Ezra Stiles thought Lopez "an ornament" to Newport Jewry. Lopez' "knowledge in commerce," he said, "was unbounded and his integrity irreproachable." Yet Stiles knew that Lopez, like many a colonial businessman, never shrank from smuggling when it suited him and had for years been active in the slave trade. Lopez, genuinely a good man by virtually every contemporary estimate—and not without reason, as abundant documentation attests — remains for later generations something of a mystery. That mystery is of course not his alone. It is also the mystery of the turbulent, expan- sive, often cruel and sometimes elegant world that was 18th Cen- tury America. JVS 'Project Return' MissAltmantoBeBride Nutrition Plan Begun For Older Americans of William Kuncewicki NEW YORK (JTA)--Preparation for Women Slated The Jewish Vocational Service announces the formation of another "Project Return" group for Jan- uary, at the new JVS office, 15660 W. 10 Mile. "Project Return" is a workshop for women who are considering entering or returning to the labor market It is intended to meet the needs of housewives, divorcees and widows concerned with occu- pational or educational opportuni- ties. Sessions will consist of small group meetings and counseling, which will assist and prepare women with the information and confidence necessary for taking that "first step." JVS has plans co form more groups- throughout the year. For registration information, call group services, JVS, WO 1-8570. Nobel Lectures on Hebrew Writers to UHS Teachers A series of five Hebrew lectures, dealing with prominent contempo- rary Hebrew writers, is being offered to United Hebrew Schools teachers as part of the in-service training program 1:45 p.m. Thurs- days at the LaMed Auditorium. Moshe Nobel, principal of the Bnai Moshe branch of the UHS, began the series with a discussion Max J. Pincus, chairman of Fed- of Shmuel Yoseph Agnon, winner eration's community relations com- of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966. On Dec. 10, he discussed mittee, will present the local and national needs of the community Millet Zeitlin, essayist, mystic and relations program which attempts religious poet who was martyred to deal with urban crisis racial in Treblinka. Future lecture subjects will be tension; and a deeper understand- Ezra Fleischer Goleh, who began ing of Jewish life. his literary career while a political Ronald L. Greenberg, chairman of the health and welfare division. prisoner behind the Iron Curtain, on Jan. 7; Matityah Shoham. emi- will describe programs of that nent Hebrew playwright, Jan. 21; division's agencies. and Rabbi Chayim Yoseph Azular, George M. Zeltzer, chairman of the education division, will talk on 18th Century writer who is con- sidered a founder of Hebrew current needs and problems facing Jewish and Hebrew education in bibliography, Feb. 18. Nobel, who has been with the Detroit, plits national Jewish schools since 1946, received his cultural and educational programs. Jewish education in Poland and Irving Rose, chairman of the after his arrival in the United capital needs committee, which States, attended the Teachers is charged with determining Institute in New York and Drop- physical pisa and major equip- sie College, Pknadellaia. He re- ment requirements of Federa- ceived his BA degree from Toledo tion member agencies, will pre- University and attended grad- sent his committee's list of pri- uate school- there and at Obis withs for the analog year. State University. Meyer M. Fishman and Mar M. Nobel's interest in Hebrew , lit- Shaye, chairman of the 1971 Allied erature, both classical and mod- Jewish' Campaign - Israel Emer- gent-Jr Food, will present a state- ern, dates back to his youth. He has been one of the _moving forces ment on the plans far the coming campaign and its need for com- in the Heat= Ivrith (Hebr e w Cultural Society) and is one of plete community support the editors of its publication, Bed Hakvutza. The public a invited to Children's Home Therapy the lectures. :- . - Pre-Campaign Budget Conference to Suggest Allocation Formula All areas of Jewish communal service and responsibility will be represented at the 22nd annual Pre-Campaign Budget Conference of the Jewish Welfare Federation 9:30 a.m. Dec. 20 at the Jewish Center, Alan E. Schwartz, Federa- tion president, has announced. All contributors to the annual Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Emergency Fund are invited to participate in the open forum, which will suggest a formula for allocation of funds for overseas, national and local beneficiary agencies. Schwartz said that every person who attends the forum will gain a perspective on priorities for Jewish community services for the year ahead. The conference pro- ceedings will pertain to the 1971 campaign results, it was explained. Hyman Safran, immediate past ' eat of Federation and presid chairman of the executive com- mitter- will report en resells el the committee's censideratines seeking to determine a peeper basset between fiimming Neal services des a strung comamnity at bunt and Inasielng Jewish 'mites overseas. Steve Young to Marry Averts Foster Placements (ITA)—A see- Ferne Rosen berg in June s* PHILADELPHIA year al research on, a project Albaisigiineator of the Association ins Jewish - 7,4 Locgdi dram,. in which an effort is made to to A'0. -6 avert the meatier inner placement Faemiftyjiiistilutt by services to children and !mai- - '; - Ins in then owe heines.lwas been Play Arian,"Mnicien et gawk Sale panibie by a SWAM- Vaal boa at Yawls break Abeser, from title lkoseuri S. _Feb Posall, se- Moil discoli -**New Anambra le bvisg-ItastrasAa, grad- Teaching Pm eo at tbr eosin Psi of an , laconic for the factikr- of Be mil the project bpi*" bein Camer ► ative syeagegms . i the glom; ions been appalled dialler Detroit area Dee. Mat League of America as am el tie Clog. Shimmy Link In co- meet dhainctiwe of its kiwi. Seated member with Shiebes last year will a. skier Fels Irma, ant unsio•ilti rsoosorsup of the it is beteg &reeled by Dr. Ludwig Ileibillbosagegueof eamsebsiee es Geismar of llzdatirs Dlimezeity. Jail* lainesihm, is amobeiliog the beNtebedleagesi tp kpler means easeational ,ohniiisparmt -Indigent Jews Gwen esomiber of a bomb, Free Burials in "My lbw of Doe rallOwthortkr LOS ANGEL/CS (JTA) — Indi- rallied in MS, i lailbe gent Jewish Iambs in Lis An- . letterer In Iasi& edbeallan al' geles have been d flee Restalleis University, - pastrami burials for their dead through the Melees Academy of the temporary agreements developed Capital Cap it al district and lomoder by the community planning de- director el Camp Cobra, Albany. partment of- the Jewish Federa- He has been awarded the Amer- tion-Council and local morticians. ican- Association award for the That program will continue to eastamlng American. Jewish next Jan. 31, according to Robert Educator. Felixson, vice-chairman of a spe- Rabbi Elias Chary, spiritual cial committee handling the prob- leader Of Germantown Jewish Cen- lem. He said that after that date, ter and co-author of the "Eternal the committees hoped more per- People," will speak to the com- manent arrangements would be bined faculty on new methods in made. LA NODS FRAME NORINDERG Yr. and Mrs. Allan Rosenberg of Catalina Dr., Southfield, aa- nensee the engagement of their daughter Verne Carol to Steve David Young, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Young of Rue Versailles, Oak Park. Miss Rosenberg is a senior at Eastern Michigan University. Her fiance, a graduate of Eastern Michigan University, attends the Detroit College of Law. A June wedding is planned. of a model nutrition program for elderly Americans, adaptable for use by municipalities throughout the United States, has been under- taken by the Associated YM- YWHAs of Greater New York after completion of a two-year demon- stration project in nutrition and health education for older adults. The demonstration project was con- ducted in the Shorefront Y in Brooklyn. DICK STEIN THE DICK STEIN ORCHESTRA ND THE JEEP SMITH ORCHESTRA LI 7 - 27 7 0 MISS JUDITH ALTMAN Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Altman of Thorndyke Rd., Southfield, an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Judith Lynn to William Kuncewicki, son of Mr. and Mrs. Izak Kuncewicki of Condon Ave., Oak Park. The couple will marry in July. 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