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'Between You
. . . and Me'

Boris Smolar's

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1974, JTA Inc.)

MARCH OF TIME: American Jewish leadership has
been undergoing an important change withoht noticing it.
There was a time — not so long ago — when the president
of 'almost every major Jewish organization was a New
Yorker. This was in the tradition of Louis Marshall, Felix
Warburg, Rabbi Steven S. Wise and other top leaders of
American Jewry a generation ago.
Today this is no longer the case. Slowly but surely
positions of top national leadership are passing from New
York personalities to personalities in provincial cities. The
American "Jewish Leader Number One" is today not a New
Yorker but a Detroiter. He is Max Fisher, who had served
with great distinction during the last years, first as national
chairman of the United Jewish Appeal and later as president
of the very important Cohncil of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds. Fisher is today the top representative of
American Jewry in the reorganized Jewish Agency, holding
the posittion there of chairman of the board of governors.
The national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal to-
day is also not a New Yorker but a Detroiter. He is Paul
Zuckerman, who has long been active in UJA and is this
year raising for Israel in this country the largest sum ever
raised for Jewish philanthropy in world Jewish history. The
national chairman of the United Israel Appeal in this coun-
try is similarly not a New Yorker. He is Melvin Dubinsky
of St. Louis.
The Joint Distribution Committee, whiAli is in existence
60 years, has now for the first time in its history, a non-
New Yorker as national chairman. He is Edward Ginsberg
of Cleveland. Prior to Ginsberg — who has established for
himself a high reputation through his active leadership in
the UJA — the chairmen of the JDC were all New Yorkers.
The president of the American Jewish Committee is
today Elmer Winter of Milwaukee. The president of the
National Jewish Welfare Board is now Morton Mandel of
Cleveland. The president of American ORT is Dr. William
Haber of Ann Arbor. The president of the National Jewish
Community Relations Advisory Council is Lewis D. Cole of
Louisville.
Raymond Epstein, the prominent Chicago Jewish leader,
is now the president of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds, the central body of all organized Jewish
communities in the United States and Canada which is con-
sidered the most important body regulating Jewish com-
munal life in this country.
CJFWF IDEA: It was actually the CJFWF that broke
the monopoly of New Yorkers in holding top leadership
positions in major Jewish organizations. From its very in-
ception in 1932, the CJFWF introduced the idea that the
president of a national organization must not necessarily be
a New Yorker merely because the headquarters of his.
organization is in New York, or because New York has the
largest Jewish community in the country.
Thus, among the president of the CJFWF even during
the first years of its existence were Jewish leaders from
Miami, Indianapolis, Baltimore and other cities. Some were
also from New York but not just because they were New
Yorkers.
The CJFWF experience of selecting a -president on the
basis of his ability and his interest in Jewish communal
affairs, and not merely on the basis of his residence in New
York has brought into the ranks of national Jewish leader-
ship many important people active in Jewish communities
outside of New York.
This experience has helped to bring out new active
forces in Jewish communal life. It stimulated many a local
community leader to strive to become a national figure in
Jewish life. It helped to develop ambitions among local
leaders to "graduate" into national leadership by intensified
dedicated work.
Little by fittle, other national organizations took a leaf
from the CJFWF book. They, too, began to realize that there
is excellent manpower among Jewish leaders in provincial
cities fit to be elevated to top national leadership.
Does it work well when a national organization has its
top leader living in a provincial city while its headquarters
are in New York? Is there sufficient contact between the
leader and the headquarters of the organization?
There is constant contact between executive officers
of all major Jewish organizations and their lay top leaders,
whether the latter live in New York or in any other city.
The notion that prevailed for years that to be a president or
a chairman of a national organization one must reside in
New York has become obsolete..
This explains why Jewish leaders from -provincial com-
munities are emerging more and more as national top lead-
ers. They prove themselves by their abilities. Of course,
there is also the possibility that the sources for Jewish
leaders may be drying up in New York.

Poland Hit for Plans to Raze Cemetery

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
20—Friday, February 1, 1974

Magazines
Offer Jewish
History. Slides

By DAVID FRIEDMAN

(Copyright 1979, JTA, Inc.)

NEW YORK — American
Jews long have complained
about the dearth of material
on Jewish history and culture
in the public schools. Scho-
lastic Magazines Inc., pub-
lishers of instructional ma-
terial for public schools, has
taken a step to fill this gap
with the production of a
soundslide program, "The
Life That Disappeared: A
Jewish Experience in East-
ern Europe, 1935-39."
The program, which in-
cludes 80 slides with an ac-
companying 16-minute nar-
ration on tape cassette, re-
cently was previewed for
representatives of Jewish or-
ganizations at Scholastic's
offices.
The slides are narrated by
Roman Vishniac, who took
the pictures himself in
travels through Eastern
Europe before World War II.
Dr. Vishniac, who is a sort of
renaissance man as a zoolo-
gist, professor of medicine
and philosophy as well as a
skilled photographer, ex-
plained that he wanted to
preserve the faces of East
European Jews, who he knew
were about to be extermi-
nated.
Richard Robinson, Scho-
lastic's vice president and
publisher of its school divi-
sion, said the program was
devised from a permanent
slide-sound program at the
Jewish Museum in New York
and was produced by the In-
ternational Fund for Con-
cerned Photographers in co-
operation ..with . the Jewish
Museum.

In addition to the slides
and cassette, the $50 package
includes a 28-page teaching
guide with additional histori-
cal background, translations
of two of the songs that ap-
pear on the sound track, a
glossary of Yiddish terms,
an illustrated transcript of
the program and discussion
and project ideas.
Dr. Vishniac told the pre-
view group that he was ar-
rested 11 times- by Polish
police, who did not want him
to photograph the horrendous
conditions under which Polish
Jews lived. He shot - 16,200
frames, of which 13,000 were
confiscated by the police.
After each arrest he also
had to find another camera
since that too was taken by
the police.
After the war, Dr. Vishniac
returned to Poland, and he
has pictures of the only three
survivors he could find of
those who he had photo-
graphed previously. There
are deeply moving photo-
graphs of one of the sur-
vivors saying Kadish for
those who died in the Holo-
caust.

Classifieds Get Quick Results

::•• . •
LONDON (JTA) — A Gensza St. in Warsaw, was ci

spokesman for the Polish-
Jewish Ex-Servicemen's As-
sociation told the JTA that
the association had sent a
letter of protest to the Polish
ambassador in connection
with the news reaching here
that- the Jewish. cemetery. on.

being obliterated to provide
a building site.
The association asked the
ambassador to convey their
protest to his government,
and also to ascertain the fate
of the historical tombstones
in the cemetery.

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