Artists Crowd
Hurok Rites
NEW YORK — More than
2,600 mourners, among them
musicians, conductors, opera
stars and ballerinas, attended
funeral services last Friday
for impresario Sol Hurok at
Carnegie Hall.
Dr. Bernard Mandelbaum
of- the American Israel Cul-
tural Foundation read pass-
ages from the Bible, includ-
ing the description of the
young David playing the harp
King Saul.
iolinist Isaac Stern, who
was one of Mr. Hurok's spe-
cial proteges and closest
friends, walked onto the
stage, gave a nod toward the
coffin and 'played Bach's B-
minor Partita. When he fin-
ished, Stern touched the rose-
draped coffin and walked off
the stage.
Marion Anderson, whom
-Mr. Hurok had discovered in
Paris in 1935, gave the eul-
ogy, followed by Jan Peerce,
Metropolitan Opera tenor,
who sang a special hymn
for the dead, instead of the
Kadish, because the funeral
fell on Purim, a joyful Jew-
ish holiday.
One of the first to arrive
at the funeral was David
Altman, a member of Work-
men's Circle, an organization
to which Mr. Hurok remained
close until his death. Altman
said he first met Mr. Hurok
in 1921 when the latter spon-
sored a concert for Work-
men's Circle.
Thailand Chaplain
Killed in Accident
NEW YORK — Chaplain
Captain David M. Sobel
(USAF), Jewish chaplain in
Thailand, died March 7, in an
automobile accident on a road
from Bangkok to the airport,
the commission on Jewish
chaplaincy of the National
Jewish Welfare Board
learned. He was 28.
The soon of Mr. and Mrs:
Charles R. Sobel of West
Hartford, Conn., Chaplain
Sobel was a June 1973 grad-
uate of Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of - Re-
ligion. He received his bach-
elor: of arts degree from Dart-
mouth College in 1968.
Rabbi Sobel had served
the Farmington Valley Jew-
ish Congregation in Sims-
bury, Conn., from September
1972 to June 1973. He had
been assigned as a chaplain
in Thailand last fall. He was
a member of the Beth Israel
Congregation in West Hart-
ford and belonged to the
-ntral Conference of Ameri-
- - Rabbis.
it
Father Van Breda;
Aided Jews in War
BRUSSELS (JTA)—Fran-
ciscan Father Herman-Leo
van Breda, a long-time friend
of Israel and the Jewish
people, is dead at 63.
Father van Breda, who
was awarded the Yad Vas-
hem Medal for his support
of Jews during the Nazi oc-
cupation, was a professor at
the Catholic University of
Louvain.
He was a member of the
administrative councils of the
"Belgian Friends of the He-
brew University of Jeru-
salem" committee and the
"Belgian-Israeli Friendship"
committee.
Arabs Who Remained Illustrate
3 Generations of Progres s in Israel
JERUSALEM—"We return
to our house in Wadi Joz, I
stay, I know' the Jews, they
are not going to harm us."
Sheikh Saleh Ali Adib
Khamis, the Old City story-
teller, calmed his family
during the Six-Day War with
these words at a time when
Arab families were deciding
whether to leave or to remain
in Jerusalem. The Khamis
family remained.
Khamis was joined by his
Memorial Planned
for Maurice Sucrar _
A memorial meeting for
the late Maurice Sugar will
he , held 3 p.m. March 24 at
the Community Arts 'Audi-
torium, Wayne State Univer-
sity.
Mr. Sugar was a noted la=
bor, civil rights and civil
liberties attorney in Detroit
for many years. He died Feb.
15.
Among the speakers will
be Mayor Coleman Young,
Recorders Court Judge
George W. Crockett, Jr.;
Robert Travis, leader of the
Flint sitdown strikes; Myra-
Wolfgang, international vice-
president, hotel and restau-
rant employes union; and
Sidney Rosen of the Ameri-
can Civil Liberties Union.
Attorney Ernest Goodman
will preside, and singer Bar-
bara Dane will present labor
songs written by Mr. Sugar.
Kalman Magen,
Israeli General
-TEL AVIV (JTA) — Maj.
Gen. Kalman Magen, one of
Israel's - youngest command-
ing officers, died Sunday, at
age 45.
Gen. Magen was a divi-
sional commander in the
Yom Kippur War. His unit
crossed the Suez Canal Oct.
18.
Born in Vienna, he arrived
in Palestine in 1933 and was
a member of the under-
ground Irgun Zvai Leumi
during the pre-state period.
He fought with the Givati
Brigade on the Egyptian
front during Israel's War for
Independence in 1948, was
wounded in 1954 in a re-
taliation action in Sinai and
again in 1969 when he was
then a senior commander in
the armored corps.
Gen. Magen was regarded
as one of the most promising
member s of the army's
young officers corps. He
served for years as an
armored corps commander
and as commander of offi-
cers training schools.
Jacob Liepah,
Civil Engineer
Jacob Joseph Liepah, a
retired civil engineer for
Detroit's depart ► ent of city
planning, died March 7 at
age 85.
Mr. Liepah, 25128 E. Rue
Versailles, Oak Park, retired
10 years ago after 35 years
with the city.
He leaves his wife, Vera;
and three nieces, Mrs. John
(Sarah) Nemon and Mrs.
Norval (Judy) Slobin, both
of Detroit, and Mrs. Fred
(Ann) Borden of New York.
sou, Ali, in a similar pro-
nouncement. As he watched
the mobilization in the Old
City, Ali remarked, "Jewish
soldiers, whom we had been
told were the 'devils them-
selves,' turned out to be hu-
man beings . . . just as we
ourselves."
Ali Khamis has come a
long way.
Grandfather Khamis was
an illiterate merchant who
required absolute obedience
from his children to himself
and to the Moslem faith. One
of his sons, Saleh, Ali's
father, was to achieve a
peculiar renown within the
Old City, according to the
Israel Digest.
Sheikh Saleh or "Abu Ali"
(father of Ali) became the
most popular story-teller in
the Old City when he took
the idea for his occupation
from the man he used to
hear read Arab tales. Think-
ing he could do a better job,
he leased 32 volumes of
works by the Arab author,
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Dachau Survivor
Honors His Rescuer
KARLSFELD, Germany—
Leslie Schwartz, 43, of New
York, returned to Karlsfeld
near Dachau to celebrate the
90th birthday of the woman
who saved his life.
Agnes Reisch had regular-
ly giverr the salf-starved boy
of 13, who had to work with
a labor gang at Karlsfeld
station, half a loaf of bread
although she had been-warn-
several times by SS guards
and ran-the risk of being put
into Dachau concentration
camp herself.
After liberation, Schwartz
maintained contact with Frau
Reisch who, he says, was like
a mother to him.-
SHEIKH SALEH KHAMIS
Poll Says Israelis
Back Kissinger Role
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—A re-
cent public opinion poll con-
ducted by PORI (PUblic
Opinion Research Institute)
reveals that most Israelis ap-
prove of U.S. Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger's
role. A total of 58 per cent
of those interviewed ex-
pressed satisfaction with Dr.
Kissinger's handling of the
Arab-Israel conflict. An addi-
tional 24.5 per cent expressed
approval "more or less."
Only 13.3' per cent of those
polled said they were un-
happy and dissatisfied.
Those age 18-29 tend to
favor Dr. Kissinger's media-
tion more than the older gen-
eration. Among the younger
people no less than' 61.8 ex-
pressed approval of Kissin-
ger's methods as contrasted
with only 48.3 per cent from
among the older generation.
Approval of Kissinger is
even more pronounced among
Israelis of Afro-Asian origin
(62.7 per cent) •and among
those who were part of the
massive aliya in the years
1948 to 1952 (63 per cent).
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Israel's decisive role in conflicting forces in the
the new influence wielded Middle East.
by the U. S. in the Arab
He said the forthcoming
countries was discussed in a talks between Israel
talk Monday by Prof. Saul -and Syria, which will take
S. Abarbanel, vice rector of place in Washington and not
Tel Aviv University, who Geneva, point up the Ameri-
was visiting the campus of can — not Russian — influ-
Wayne State University.
ence on Israel.
Prof. Abarbanel, whose
visit was arranged by the German Association
American Academic Associ-
Hosts Israeli Arabs
ation for Peace in the Middle.
HANOVER, Germany — A
East, met with colleagues
and delivered a talk on group of nine Arabs from
"Prospects in the Middle Israel came to Hanover as
East" under the auspices of guests of the Schaumburg-
the Hillel Foundation and the Lippe Association for Inter-
Conference of Jewish national Contacts.
The association has been
Faculty.
A professor of applied in contact with a kibutz in
mathematics, Prof. Abar- Israel for many years and
banel also is an observer of on one of its visits there es-
the political scene and as tablished good relations with
such discussed the possible the Arab inhabitants of the
outcome of the interplay of neighboring village.
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Oakland Community College,
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American Cancer Society,
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whom he borrowed the idea.
During the War of Inde-
pendence, he was urged by
an Arab commander to move
to Jordan for the safety of
his family. Even though he
was away from his local fol-
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large udiences as-he recited
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Rosenzweig Recalled
KASSEL, Germany — The
local office for the promotion
of agricultural relations and
the Kassel Society for Chris-
tion-Jewish Co-operation have
jointly published a limited
edition of a brochure on the
Jewish philosopher Franz
Rosenzweig, who was born in
the city.
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