1973 Butzel Award Will Be Announced
at Annual Federation Meeting Oct. 16
Plans for the annual dinner citizen and philanthropist.
meeting of the Jewish Wel- I Berman urged that "as
fare Federation of Detroit many Federation members as
were announced this week by possible gather to honor that
Mandell L. Berman, presi- person chosen to receive our
dent, to be held Oct. 16, at community's highest distinc-
tion."
Cong. Shaarey Zedek.
T h e evening's business
The meeting will be high-
lighted by the presentation of agenda will include the an-
the prestigious Fred M. gut- nual report of the president,
zel Memorial Award for Dis- and the election of nine mem-
tinguished Communal Leader- bers-at-large to the board of
ership. The recipient is governors for a three-year
chosen by a special commit- term. Action will also be
tee of presidents of all local asked to approve a recom-
Federation agencies and mended technical amend-
awardees of previous years. ment to Federation's by-laws.
Newly nominated for mem-
The award, first given in 1951,
commemorates the memory bership on the board are Mrs.
of one of Federation's found- N. Brewster Broder, Samuel
ers, a distinguished Detroit Hechtman, Herbert P. Sill-
1st-Day Cover Shows Patriot of U.S. Revolution
WASHINGTON—A first-day
cover memorializing Aaron
Lopez, a Jewish patriot of
t h e American Revolution,
will be issued by the Bnai
Brith Philatelic Service this
weekend.
The cover, to be post-
marked Sept. 30, bears a can-
cellation of the 8-cent U. S.
bicentennial commemorative,
"The Drummer," and a pen-
and-ink portrait of Lopez.
An immigrant from Portu-
gal, Lopez renounced his
Marrano past, rewed his wife
man and Richard Sloan.
Nominated for re-election are
Mandell L. Berman, Arnold
Faudman, Stanley D.
Frankel, Thomas I. Klein and
Jack 0. Lefton.
Chairman of the 1973 nom-
inating committee is Erwin
S. Simon, who was last year's
Butzel Award recipient. Com-
mittee members are Burton
D. Farbman, Judge Lawrence
Gubow, Mrs. Norman H. Ro-
senfeld and Hyman Safran.
A 6 p.m. reception will pre-
cede the annual dinner. All 6—Friday, Sept. 28, 1973
Federation members are wel-
come at the dinner, Berman
said. Reservations may be
made by calling Federation
office, WO 5-3939.
New Book on 'Evolution of Hitler's Germany'
Viewed as an Incitement to Anti-Semitism
"The Evolution of Hitler's
Germany" by Horst von Mal-
titz, published by McGraw-
Hill, is a very big book. It
goes into many details in
tracing the roots of - Nazism.
It leans upon many authori-
ties.
It reaches many conclu-
sions. The author believes
that "the violent catharsis by
which much of the old ideal-
ogy was expelled and the far-
reaching destruction of poli-
tical and other continuities
in 1945 left the Germans
with a nearly unprecedented
vacuum in political tradi-
tions, indeed with a wish to
divorce themselves from their
own recent political history."
But added to this and other
viewpoints is this assertion:
"Paradoxically it is the ab-
sence of a liberal Jewish in-
telligentsia which may con-
tribute to the stability of the
German democracy today, in
contrast to the Weimar Re-
public. There is no longer
the large, articulate group of
Jewish intellectuals who kept
the struggling young Weimar
Republic under a ceaseless
drumfire of merciless criti-
cism."
Tracing this viewpoint to
the very long chapter, in the
earliest portion of the book,
on anti-Semitism, the author
of this volume leaves the im-
pression that he finds Jews
as having been destructive,
that the intellectuals were
undermining good will in
Germany.
He draws especially on
what he calls "the Tuchol-
sky syndrome," and he
quotes extensively from the
writings of Kurt Tucholsky, a
German-Jewish writer (1890-
1935), who is described as
"a fairly typical representa-
tive of the Jewish intelligent-
sia of the Weimar Republic,"
as one who "was critical even
of the Jews and 'perhaps held
the Jewish middle class in
even greater contempt than
the anti - Semitic German
bourgeoisie' " (a quotation
from comments on Tuchalsky
by Harold L. Poor).
Von Maltitz quotes at
length from many Jewish
and non-Jewish sources to
uphold this viewpoint.
So drastic is the emphasis
on Jewish guilt, that this re-
viewer believes the new vol-
ume on Hitler and Hitlerism
and the German attitudes
contributes towards a renew-
al of anti-Semitism.
Self-criticism is normal,
commendable, rational. The
Prophets criticized Israel and
NEW YORK (JTA)—Yeho-
shua Levy, treasurer of His-
tadrut, told the board of di-
rectors of the National Com-
mittee for Labor Israel that
a new four-year expansion
program would be under-
taken in the field of vocation-
al training, health services
and cultural work among Is-
rael's new immigrants and
youth.
The combined program will
exceed $60,000,000 in n e w
construction and service
costs.
Levy stated that four new
hospitals would be built at a
cost of $25,000,000. The first
of the new structures will be
in Haifa; a second, was dedi-
cated in Jerusalem by enter-
tainer, Alan King, who, with
his friends, raised $250,000
for the project, and another
is planned in Natanya at a
cost of $3,000,000.
An endowment of $1,300,009
is sought for the Histadrut
Scholarship Fund and $1,500,.
000 for the Afro-Asian Insti-
tute in Tel Aviv. Levy also
reported that during the next
three years. Histadrut plans
to spend close to $25,000,000
for new accommodations for
the elderly.
An additional $2,500,000 will
be spent on enlarging the
educational youth centers at
Onim and Urim, which offer
courses for problem youth.
A total of $30,082,000 w a s
raised by the Israel Histadrut
Foundation for a wide pro-
gram of health, educational
and welfare programs in Is-
rael, according to a year-
end report by Dr. Sol Stein,
president of the foundation.
The board adopted a
budget projecting a $20,000,-
000 goal of new commit-
ments for the next three
years in order to reach a
cumulative total of commit-
ments of $50,000,000 by 1976.
available at 40 cents each
from Bnai Brith Philatelic
Service, 1640 Rhode Island
Ave., NW, Washington, D.C.
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stamped, self-addressed en-
velope.
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May the coming
year be f•lld
condemned the unrepentant.
Rabbi Leo Baeck was among
Jewry's critics but not their
indicters on every step.
Why didn't the author of
this damning book quote
Isaiah and Jeremiah? It
would have been more dif-
ficult to quote condemnations
out of context. But those he
did quote, including Baeck,
are mainly misrepresented
just because their criticisms
were taken out of context.
That's why the von Hortitz
book must be viewed as in-
citing to anti-Semitism.
The chapter in this book
on anti-Semitism, while aimed
at being objective, reveals
an approach that empha-
sizes valid anti-Semitism. It
is the most distressing work
yet to appear since the Hol-
ocaust and it calls for more
extensive review as an ex-
pose of unfairness in treating
Nazism, Jews, the Holocaust
and the aftermath.
—P. S.
Histadrut Plan Tops $60 Million
in a Jewish ceremony, under-
went circumcision and be-
came a leader of the Jewish
comunity of colonial Newport,
R. I.
As a merchant-shipper, he
became Newport's leading
businessman, contributing im-
mensely to that city's pros-
perity. He risked his fortune,
and lost most of it, in his de-
termined support of the Rev-
olution.
The Lopez cover, sixth in a
Bnai Brith series honoring
Jews of the Revolution, is
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