THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Sept. $, 1972-23
Profanity
The foolish end wicked
practice of profuse cursing
1 and swearing is a vice so
mean and low that every per-
son of sense and character
detests and despises it. —
George Washington.
Octogenarian Joseph Leftwich--Rescuer of Herzl Diary
BY JOSEF FRAENKEL
Jewish News Special
London Correspondent
Theodor Herzl had three
children—Pauline Flans and
Trude. When Pauline became
dangerously ill in Bordeaux,
Hans left London. and after
the funeral of his sister he
committed suicide in 1930.
The tragic tiding reached
For 518.00—less than the
Vienna, the home of Herzl,
price of a pair of theatre and there was deep mourning
among Zionist followers. I
tickets —you can provide 15
life-sav'ng blood packs for
still remember Joseph Left-
the people of Israel.
wich's article about the
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tragedy of Hans Herzl which
Red Magen David for Israel
appeared in the Zionist
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weekly Die Neue Welt, ed-
ited by Robert Stricker. The
Yes. I want to help the people of
article was written with love
Israel for the New Year
for Hans, and to console the
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Zionists. (Trude died in_Ther-
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Jewish parents, was born in
Holland, Sept. 20. 1892, and
as a child, when his fami.y
Isaac Rosenberg, who was ; speech with a poem Herz'
killed in battle during the , which he wrote in 1932. The
First World War, and if he I Jewish State Party published
settled in London. he ab-
sorbed t h e atmosphere of
lives on. it is partly thanks both addresses and the poem
to the pen of Leftwich. ' in the publication "Herz]:
Among his books, I think the " Man and Legend" (1942).
Whitechapel. in those days,
-
HERZL
so full of Yiddishkeit, Tal- _first biography, "Israel Zang- 1
is one of the best. '
mud Torah, liumash, discus- will,'
; How 7/17101 seed
sions on Zionism, Socialism Historians will find here in-
must be sown
and Communism, and lec- valuable details of Anglo- I Till such another be grown!
t'ires of the intelligentsia on Jewish literature, Zionism. So much seed,
Herzl and Zangwill, on He- and of the Jewish Territorial . 1
through the years.
brew English and Yiddish Organization.
We scattered, and
e e
literature, on Palestine,
watered with tears,
Uganda, revolution and vis-
trees:
The voice of Leftwich. as And there grew tall
ions of the future.
representative of the Yiddish But for us
Although he began to write PEN Center, could be heard
little hope in these.
and publish poems in Eng- at meetings and conferences They bent, they split.
lish journals a few years be- of the International P.E.N.,
they broke.
fore the First World War, his in defense of the freedom of But you were
school or university of jour- the pen and to inform the
iron-hearted oak,
nalism and translations from world when Jewish poets, So we scooped out
Yiddish into English, was the writers and novelists were
your living heart;
Jewish Telegraphic Agency being persecuted. The poem And we tore the roots apart.
(JTA), Meir Grossman, to- of Iszik Fetter "I am a Jew," Who known what such a tree
Joseph Leftwich—or, actu- gether with Jacob Landau, translated by Leftwich, has Might yet have grown to be.
ally his devoted wife — found established the JTA, and in now appeared again in a For the few torn stands
and rescued the "Youth 1923 Leftwich became editor number at Jewish papers, on Men bear over seas
and lands,
Diary" of Theodore Herzl, of the London bureau, which the 20th anniversary of the
among the Hans Herzl pap- he directed until 1936. In murder of Feffer, together And hold to the
London,
on
Great
Russell
worshipping view,
ers which were about to be
with 24 other Jewish writers
As the true parts of you,
disposed of: the "Youth Di- Street, the Zionist headquar- in Soviet Russia.
How would they have grown
ary" contained important de- ters, called the Jewish Down-
Leftwich is also connected
through the years,
tails of Herzl's student days ing Street, Zionist leaders
with various organizations, Being watered by our tears?
from
all
over
the
world
arriv-
and some of the years which
was
never
a
"Party
ed to hear Chaim Weizmann, but he
How much more seed
followed.
Nahum Sokolow, Vladimir man." He admired Herzl,
must be sown
e s e
Jabotinsky, Selig Brodetsky, who became his hero, but he Till such another be grown!
Leftwich, the son of Polish- F. H. Kisch, David M. Eder refused to become a "disci-
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Best Wishes For A Year
of Peace, Health and Happiness
To All Our Relatives, Friends
and the Entire Jewish Community'
MR. and MRS. MORRIS DORN
or Rev. J. K. Goldbloom, and
JTA news flowed out to Jew-
ish papers.
As London editor, Joseph
Leftwich had the task of ob-
taining, selecting, formulat-
ing and often commenting
upon the daily news, the po-
litical and literary events,
the statements of Jewish
leaders as well as the attacks
plined Party man," as he
explains: "One need not to be
a hasid to see the greatness
of Baal Shem." lie had and
still has friends among the
leaders of the Zionist and
Jewish Parties, he will co-
operate with them, but serves
only the Jewish people as a
whole—and our religion. He
is 80 and goes every day
to the office of the Federa-
tion of Jewish Relief Organi-
zations, working as though
still a young man. He is a
regular speaker at meetings
of the Association of Jewish
Journalists and Authors and
of the Yiddish Committee of
the World Jewish Congress.
He seldom addresses a meet-
ing without notes, for he re-
spects his audience and, like
a university lecturer, tries to
educate his listeners.
Zionism was the will of the
Jewish people to re-create
its life through a national
homeland . . Empires live
in terms of centuries. Mil-
lennia have witnessed Isra-
el's sufferings, and shall yet
crown the triumph of Isra-
el's hope.—Stephen S. Wise.
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New York, Tel Aviv, War-
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which and the JTA reports
from London. He became one
on the pillars of Jew i s h jour-
nalists a n d correspondents,
educated in the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency and one of
the circle of Jabotinsky,
Grossman, Wurmbrand, Ten-
nenblatt, Mendel Moses and
Schick. Besides — they were
In 1942, Leftwich and I ad-
all gifted with inborn talent.
dressed a memorial meeting
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Joseph Leftwich is known of Theodor Herzl's death.
today as the "Ambassador of Leftwich concluded his
and FAMILY
Yiddish Literature." His
The Officers
and Directors
of the
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wish to extend their best wishes for
happy and prosperous New Year to all
Synagogues, Organizations and all of
the Detroit and Suburban Jewry for
helping to carry out the Mitzva of Motes
Chetim so no Jewish family or indi-
•nicist shall be denied the
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Pesach.
for
necessities
MORRIS DORN, President
MORREY GOULD, vice Pres.
ABE KATZMAN, Vice Pres. Trea.
ABE SATOVSKY, Vice Pres.
MRS. SAMUEL LEVE, Fin. Sec'y.
MRS. JOSEPH M. MARKEL, Secy.
BEN WEISMAN, Secy.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
home has always been open
to writers, poets, sculptors
and painters, and when Sho-
lem Asch or Zalman Shneour,!
Leivick o r Glanz - Leyeles,
Sutzkever or Ravitch visited
London one could usually
meet t h e in at Winchester
Place. Leftwich has trans-
I S E E AN
1 N G FUTURE
INTEREST
lated dozens of the giants of
Yiddish literature and dozens
destined to become giants,
besides many others, and in-
troduced them — the Yiddish
poets, novelists and essayists
— to t h e English-speaking
public. With these transla-
tions, Leftwich has influenced
two generations of y o u n g
Anglo-Jewish writers. H i s
"Way We Think," an anthol-
ogy of the finest Yiddish es-
says of over 80 writers, trans-
lated into English, together
with the anthology, "The
_ eacock" (1939). em-
brace the most
part of Yiddish literature. He
also has translated Max Brod
and his great friend, Stefan
Zweig, from German into
English, and even a beautiful
story by Herzl for his an-
thology "Yisrael" (1933).
In his poems and articles
he often recalls Israel Zang-
will and his friends. the poet'
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