THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, April 5, 1974-35 I .

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Memoirs of Fred Butzel Receive Praise

Editor, The Jewish News:
publishing the major portion
At a meeting of the board of the "Fred Butzel Mem-
of directors of the Jewish oirs.'"
Historical Society of Michi-
A. S. ROGOFF, M.D.
gan held on March 27, - it was
President,
resolved to express the ap-
Jewish Historical
Editor, The Jewish News:
preciation of our society for
Society of Michigan
Your publication of the
Fred M. Butzel autobiogra-
phy is most interesting and
enlightening and has brought
back an incident that oc-
THE CARRY-06 R TI/ELICATESSEN
curred in the _summer of
1930.
EVERYBODY'S TALKING ABOUT!
I was graduated that June
•ALL SANDWICHES
• PISTACHIO NUTS
TRAY
from both Cass Technical
•SALAD SELECTION
• BAGELS
CATERING WITH
High Schdol and the Sunday
•ALL SMOKED FISH
• KAISER ROLLS
high school of Cong. Shaarey
•HAND CUT LOX
• HARD CANDIES • ETC. N UNUSUAL FLAIR
Zedek. The Great Depres-
HOME MADE PASTRIES, INCL. CHEESE CAKE
477- 555
sion was on, college that year
was out of the question, and
jobs were hard to come by.
MIDDLEBELT & 7 MILE At Edge of MID-7 SHOPPING CENTER, LIVONIA
After countless miles of
walking and scores of re-
fusals. I was given an inter-
view by a Mr. Perreault, a
foreman for the Western
Electric Co., installing equip-
ment for the Michigan Bell
Telephone Co. at 1365 Cass.
P a33over
was in late August, and
.......AD This
he told ,me to return in two
weeks.
Upon my return, he blunt-
ewa Community
ly stated that his company
didn't hire Jews and he then
walked away. Needless to
say, I was stunned.
19172 GRAND RIVER
Coincidentally, a few
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months previously, we dis-
cussed anti-Semitism in our
Sunday school class. Eiga
Hershman and the late Rosa-
lie Baruch were classmates,
our instructors the late Philip
A
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Rosenthal and attorney
Harry. Hartman.
TO OUR CUSTOMERS and FRIENDS
I retailed Mr. Hartman's
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WE WILL BE CLOSED SAT. & SUN.
office was in the First Na-
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tional Bank Building and de-
cided to relate my traumatic
Specializing In
experience to him.
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Mr. Hartman listened in-
tently, typed a letter ad-
dressed to Fred M. Butzel in
DURING THE HOLIDAY
the same building and told
me to deliver it to him per-
sonally. I thanked Mr. Hart-
man and proceeded to Mr.
Butzel's office. This was a
mid-week day and mid-after-
_ • noon in early September.
15600 W. 10 MILE AT GREENFIELD
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Butzel's secretary gave
557-71000 the Mr.
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letter to him—he asking
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college. I said no, thank you,
but would appreciate his
reading Mr. Hartman's let-
ter. This he did. made a
phone call, took his hat and
had me walk _ with him to
To All Our Friends and Patrons
the Michigan Bell Telephone
building on Cass • Ave.
for a
We chatted on the way
over. I filled him in with
some of the details of the

Butzel Recollections Spark
Readers' Reminiscences

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Editor, The Jewish News:
In the autobiography of
Fred M. Butzel (March 8)
on page 46 there is a para-
graph which reads as fol-
lows:
"We were fortunate to get
into the board (United Jew-
ish Charities) George Avru-
nin who belonged to the Ar-
beiter Ring."
George Avrunin never be-
longed to the Arbeiter Ring.
He belonged to the Poale
Zion and the Farband.
DR. J. E. ZELTZER
(Editor's Note: Butzel was
not too familiar with the dif-
ferences between Arbeiter
Ring and Poale Zion, which
accounts for his error. Ar-
beiter Ring was the non-
Zionist movement of work-
ers; Poale Zion and Farband
were Labor Zionist move-
ments.)

Western Electric interview
and my Sunday school back-
ground.
We went to one of the
upper floors of the Telephone
Building. I waited in a re-
ception area while Mr. But-
zel went into the office of
Michigan Bell Telephone Co.
Vice President George M.
Welch. About 20 minutes
later, Mr. Butzel emerged,
wished me well and had me
go into Mr. 'Welch's office.
Mr. Welch was pleasant
and understanding, told me
I'd hear from his office with-
in a few days. True to his
word, I began working, for
the Western Electric Co.
early the following week at
the then Hogarth Central of-
fice. The job lasted almost
one year—after which I was
enabled to begin my college
career.
In recalling this experi-
ence, it brings to mind the
forces and counter-forces for
good and evil in this and
other communities — the
privilege of having known
such giants as Fred M. But-
zel, Harry Hartman and
George M. Welch to counter
the bigoted elements in our
community.
As an epilogue to the fore-
going, does Philip Slomovitz
rem e m b e r addressing a
group of v _ oung, students,
Zionists, at the old College
of - the City of Detroit, early
in 1931?
I recall him telling of his
experience as a student ear-
lier at the University of
Michigan, holding a Zionist
meeting ,in Ann Arbor—and
everyone st an din g. They
stood in fear of being called
Socialists or subversives arid
being expelled for holding a
Zionist meeting—standing so
that they could disperse be-
fore such a charge could be
made. In my book Philip
Slomovitz too, belongs with
the giants—Fred M. Butzel
and Harry Hartman.
DR. M. M. HOFFMAN

Gefilte Fish Gets
a Local Touch

Editor, - The Jewish News:
The gefilte fish recipe you
published last week is suit-
able for those who can
secure British products. Here
is a recipe for fish that can
be purchased locally:

GEFILTE FISH
5 lbS. whitefish and pickerel filet-
ed and ground
Add 2 onions, chopped or grated
114 tbsp. salt
3 /I tsp. pepper
1 /4 cup cold water
1 /4 cup matzo meal
3 eggs
Mix thoroughly and form fish
balls.
Place bones, heads, one onion, one
carrot, 2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. pepper
and water to cover. Add fish
balls, bring 'to a quick boil in
covered pot. Reduce to slow boil
for two hours. The liquid will be
reduced to half.
AGS

In Congress Race

NEW YORK
John J.
Loeb Jr., nephew of the late
Senator Herbert H. Lehman,
has announced his candidacy
for the U. S. Congress on the
Republican ticket. He will
seek the post to succeed Og-
den E. Reid, former U. S.
ambassador to Israel, who is
a candidate for governor of
New York.

Teen Differs With Peers; Sees
Good Reason to Observe Pesah

Editor, The Jewish News:
For hundreds and thousands
of years, the Passover seder
was a beautiful part of the
Passover holiday, in remem-
brance of the Israelite exo-
dus from bondage into free-
dom.
Jews put an enormous
amount of feeling into the
seder, and as it is command-
ed, "felt as though they them-
selves" had gone forth from
slavery into freedom.
This year; I asked some of
my friends why they weren't
celebrating Passover.
"It happened so long ago."
"We're not that religious."
"I celebrate Rosh Hashana
and Yom Kippur — that's
enough."
The seder -is just a cere-
mony."
"Why bother?"
_"It didn't happen to m.e."
Of course, there are some
people who will argue, "But
these are young teen-agers,
they all feel the same about
religion anyway." But these

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are the next generation of
Jews, who will be• called
upon to represent and carry
on a religion that has sur-
vived over 5,000 years of per-
secution.
A suggestion to use a
fourth matzo at the seder ta-
ble, commemorating the Hol-
ocause, was met unfavorably
by a local Orthodox rabbi,
who responded, "If God
would have wished us to
commemorate the Holocaust
of our people in this way, he
would have said so. We re-
spect the traditional seder,
with no changes."
What he says may be true,
but I disagree. The way to
observe Judaism is to draw
more people into Judaism,
and to make them feel as
though "they themselves
went out of Egypt." In every
generation, we must say,
there is an Exodus into Free-
dom, a reason to celebrate
the Festivral of Freedom.
Sincerely,
LAURIE SENDLER

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