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An important chapter in
Michigan's Jewish history
was
reconstructed in an ar-
rj
the 1973
ticle in Michigan History writ-
at Camp
ten by Rabbi James Rudin,
available
assistant director in the in-
it Society.
terreligious affairs depart-
1, the so-
ment of the American Jewish
said more
Committee.
'lions are
Under the title "Bad Axe,
mailing in
Michigan: An Experiment in
orms and
Jewish
Agricultural Settle-
be avail-
ment," Rabbi Rudin describes
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the history of that settlement,
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its struggles over a decade
be picked
starting in 1891, and the per-
isk of the
sonalities who were involved
in the project.
brochure
r camping
The author of this essay
ffered this
recalls that Martin Butzel,
two main
the father of Fred M. Butzel
nd Orton-
and Supreme Court Justice
'o outpost F..•
Henry M. Butzel, as president
•l
at the time of . the Temple
I for boys
Beth El Relief Society, was
include a
primarily instrumental in ef-
program
forts to assist the Russian
of arts
immigrants who established
al out-of-
the Palestine Colony in Bad
;rams and
Axe.
ping pro-
The other noted figure who
le to older
assisted in the effort was the
eel • trips
Civil War veteran, Emanuel
ted States
Wodic, who labored untir-
*ed to teen
ingly with the colonists.
The project collapsed but
ated that
the experience with it, ac-
ciety was
cording to Rabbi Rudin, re-
elf to a
sulted in the founding of the
Live corn-
Jewish Agricultural Society
rograming
wiith aid of funds from the
Baron de Hirsch Fund.
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Rabbi Rudin credits Irving
an 2,000
I. Katz, executive secretary
e Detroit
of Temple Beth El, with much
of the data be secured for
his article.

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3rd Century Caskets

JERUSALEM (JTA) Two
third century lead caskets
have be e n discovered by
work ers at a Jerusalem
building site. The caskets,
decorated with engravings of
the goddess Minerva, gor-
gons, and cherubs, w e r e
found in a tomb hewn out of
rock on a hillside near the
Holyland Hotel.
Archeologists of the gov-
ernment's antiquities depart-
ment are cleaning and
examining the caskets, one of
which was damaged. The
other one was found still
sealed and in good condition.

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MARTIN BUTZEL

Kovner, 100; Kallen, 90

By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright iris, /TA., MR.)
Some don't care for birth-
day parties. The Indians
didn't care for them. Maybe
they didn't like to blow out
candles. Besides, in order to
have a birthday, you need
a calendar. If you gave an
Indian a calendar, he would
cut off the bottom part with
the numbers and throw it
away, but he would hang up
the picture on the top of the
wall of his wigwam. That
was why it was hard to get
the installment business go-
ing among Indians. When
the first of the month came
around, he never knew it. If
you asked an Indian how old
he was, he would say Sky
number that came into his
head — 100 or 350. Some
times he migh look at his
telephone number and give
you that as his age.
Thomas Jefferson didn't
like birthday parties either.
He didn't want to celebrate
Washington's birthday. He
kept his own birthday a
secret also. But even Thomas
Jefferson would have liked
to attend the birthday party
held the other day for B.
Kovner.
If you are up on your Yid-
dish journalism, you know
who B. Kovner is. But for
those who are not informed
in this area, here are a few
of the pertinent facts:
B. Kovner is a member of

the staff of the Jewish Daily
Forward and has been almost
from its beginning. When
Abe Cahan read one of his
humorous pieces, he immedi-
ately wanted to engage him.
But there was one difficulty.
The writer of this humorous
piece was a Galitzianer and
Abe Cohan was a stout-
In those
hearted Litvak .
days, they hadn't yet begun

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bussing Litvaks and Gatitz-
ianers to integrate them. The
ingenious Cahan found a
solution. Hocus pocus, he
would turn the Galitzianer
into a Litvak. He gave the
writer the name of Kovner.

Kovno is the capital of
Lithuania, so Kovner meant
a Lithuanian or Litvak.

So the writer of the humor-
ous sketch whose original
name was Adler was changed
to B. Kovner and under that
name in the long period of
years since, tens of thou-
sands have turned to his
pieces for a little smile or
chuckle.
it is plain why his birth-
day party is worth noting.
But there is something else.

By S. J. GOLDSMITH
London JTA Bureau Chief
Chaim Nachman Bialik,
the Jewish national poet,
was born 100 years ago —
Jan. 9, 1873.
The son of a village inn-
keeper in southern Russia,
he was given the traditional
Jewish education of his day,
culminating at the Yestiva of
Volozhin,, the greatest insti-
tution of Jewish learning in
Eastern Europe.
Volozhin fashioned his char.
acter and provided his vast
store of Jewish knowledge.
He missed nothing from Gen-
esis to the latest scribe of
his day and everything that
was in between.
For sheer poetic form, he
was among the great poets of
all time. As a Hebrew poet,
he covered the whole gamut
of Jewish erperience.
He ranged from a harrow-
ing lament for the destruc-
tion of the Temple to a pro-
test over the pogrom of Kish-
inev, from the abiding long-
ing for Zion to melancholy
-reflections on the passing of
an era, from admonitions
about divisions and futile ar-
guments in Jewish life to
the extolling of the moral and
tstical values in Jewish
teaching.
The more Jewish Bialik
was, the more universal he

Israel, Egypt Make
Population Transfer

was. Some of his memorable
poems relate to the human
condition. They mourn talent
enslaved by poetry, weep for
orphans without protection,
echo the pain of the lonely
who sing to themselves like
a cricket in a humble dwell-
ing, and praise the down-
trodden and voiceless whom
he begs to accept him in
their midst.
Blank lived In Erets Is-
rael since 1924. He died in
Vienna in 1934 after as opera-

Israeli Freighter
Struck by Fire

don and was buried in Tel

Aviv.
He foresaw his untimely
passing:
After my death
mourn me thus:
There was a man
and, see, he is no more
And his song was cut
before tire . . .
The greatest Hebrew poet
since the golden age, Bialik
was the custodian of the Jew-
ish heritage and tradition,
the exponent of the Jewish
genius and the interpretor of
the longing for Zion.
He is shared by Israel and
the diaspora, and his spell
remains an abiding force for
unity in Jewish life.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. —
Two men were killed and
three others injured when
fire, dense smoke and a Doctors in Israel
series of smal lexplosions
JERUSALEM — A country
struck the crew's sleeping
with the highest rate of doc-
quarters on the Israeli
tors per capita already, Is-
freighter, Arad. The 650-foot
rael received another 400 new
grain carrier was docked and
immigrant doctors in 1972.
empty of freight when the
This figure comes from
fire broke out.
Stephen Grayek, of the cen-
Other crew members es- tral Kupat Holim manage-
caped the blaze. A U.S. Coast ment. Kupat Motion has 3,200
Guard spokesman said the doctors in its service—it is
cause of the fire was unde- the largest health insurance
termined.
operation in Israel.

Arabs in Histadrut

JERUSALEM — Histadrut
is considering the possibility
of signing up West Bank
Arabs employed in Israel.
It is important to enroll
these West Bank workers in
Histadrut, say the organiza-
tion's officials, in order to
ensure them the same social
and working conditions en-
joyed by the Jews alongside
whom they work.
Some West Bank Arabs
have already made requests
for Histadrut membership
and protection.

THE DETROIT JEWISH MEWS

Friday, ha 12, 1973-3

DICK STE/A

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A population exchange be-
tween Israel and Egypt was
conducted by the Interna-
tional Red Cross within the
framework of its family re-
union program.
• DICK STEIN
This was B. Kovner's 100th
Forty-nine residents of the
birthday! He has reached the
e• Jeep Snoods
Gaza
Strip
were
transferred
century mark.
• Mori Lillie
That is an achievement. to Egypt and 72 persons from
• tilveltiv 1,11.
Something to be proud of. Egypt crossed the Suez Canal ARAB, DRUZE STUDENT'S
for
the
Gaza
Strip.
He still, of course, has 20 to
Moddi Met:abets.
HAIFA — There are 1,060
go to reach the classic 120
• Joel Tobiason
Grads Still Observant Arab and Druze students at-
of Jewish tradition.
tending Israeli universities
From Miami, where he re-
CLEVELAND (JTA) — A this year, one-third of them
sides, B. Kovner still sends survey of the graduates of at Haifa University.
a piece once a week for the the two high schools of the
Sunday edition and the Hebrew Academy of Cleve-
sparkle of wit and humor in land, aimed at measuring the
it shows no diminution.
impact of intensive Orthodox
There was another notable schooling on their lives after
PHOTOGRAPHY
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birthday party at about the graduation, has disclosed
Specoolo.ong on
ty.
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Wecidongs, Sof PArtzvons. Irk '
same time. Some 40 Jewish that virtually all of the grad-
college professors gathered uates have remained Ortho-
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to honor Horace Kallen on dox, the Academy reported.
his 90th birthday.
Of the 158 Yavne gradu-
Dr. Kallen is recognized as ates, 109 went on to institu-
one of the foremost philoso- tions of higher He
phers in America. He is the studies, including college for
author of some 30 books. He most. Sixty went to Israel or
was among the first to chal- are in Israel for study or BF
lenge the "melting pot" phil- settlers and 47 are teachers.
osophy, the idea that every
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group should completely lose
itself in the majority culture.
Kallen thought the various
ethnic groups had their own
contributions to make. He
called his philosophy "plu-
ralism" Today, his ideas are
not considered so radical. It I
takes about 50 years, as Dr. I
Kallen has said, before a new
idea gains acceptance.

Crops Threatened

JERUSALEM — Winter
crops in the northern part of
Israel are threatened by the
low water level of Kinneret.
The Mekorot Water Co. re-
ports that the water level of
Lake Kinneret has plunged
to 210.8 meters, the lowest
level since Mekorot started
pumping water from it to
the National Water Carrier in
1164. Scant rain in the north
so far this winter has created
the situation.
Melds in the south have re-
ceived adequate rainfall, but
crops in the north are still in
danger.

Incidentally, the New Scbool
for Social Research, where
Dr. Kallen has taught for
many years, has a large
number of courses for older,
retired people. Perhaps, in
the future, education will be
made compulsory for the old
instead of the young.
The juveniles really don't
need education too much. Plan . Je wish Studies
They have such things as New York (JTA)—A new
baseball to interest them. program to enable degree
The elders do not seem to be candidates to use elective
much interested in catching credits to earn a certificate
and throwing balls. in Jewish studies will be
started in the fall semester
Whoever seeks more will of 1973 at the Long Island
get less.—Hans J. Morgen- University Brooklyn center,
th a u. the.university has announced.
focolcfniA —
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