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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
32—Friday, July 5, 1974
Hantke: Zionist Activist's 100th Anniversary
At the spring financial
seminar sponsored by the
Endowment Fund of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation-Unit-
ed Jewish Charities, attorney
Miles Jaffe spoke on the
ABCs of wills. After declar-
ing the belief that adequate
estate preparation is a real-
istic and sensible practice,
he defined some of the basic
options available to people
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making their wills.
One of the rights of prop-
erty ownership is the control
of its'use after death. Either
a will or a legally recognized
substitute document is the
means for such control.
A will can determine who
inherits (property, how large
the tax burden on the prop-
erty will be and when that
burden must be met, and the
extent of control to be exer-
cised by those inheriting the
-
property.
If one has preference in
any of these areas, the nec-
essity of a will is obvious.
Without a will, the court will
dispose of your property in
strict compliance with the
statutes of your state. Since
without a will your desires
will not be known, they may
not be followed.
Some options open when
you make a will include de-
cisions in the following area:
1) How much of your avail-
able assets is to be spent
now, and how much should
remain after death;
2) When, if ever, your
heirs should assume the re-
sponsibility of managing the
funds and properties left to
them;
3) Which charitable inter-
ests, if any, should receive
property from your estate:
and
4) How much this philan-
▪
thropy will cost your heirs.
These questions could be
crucial in estate planning.
Of course, the entire will-
making process is one rigidly
dictated by statute. It is al-
ways advisable to consult
with a profestional when you
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June 26—To Dr. and Mrs.
Harvey E. Williams (Ruth
Roth of Mt. Clemens), of
Chicago, a daughter, Lisa
Beth.
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June 25—To Mr. and Mrs.
Jeffrey L. Schmier (Eliza-
beth Budman), 1824 Villa,
Birmingham, a son, Jason
Franklin.
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June 24—To Mr. and Mrs.
David A. Jaffa (Sheri A.
Britchky), 24251 Keno s h a,
Oak Park, a daughter, Eden
•Faith.
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• June 22—To Mr. and Mrs.
Allan Karden (Anna-Jean
Betman), 14671 LaBelle, Oak
Park, a daughter, Belle Ilene.
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June 19—To Dr. and Mrs.
Ronald M. Tauber, 55 Gran-
tour, Pontiac, a son, Aaron
Reuben.
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June 18—To Mr. and Mrs.
Sheldon Kohn (Sheila Ber-
man), 27600 Franklin, South-
field, a son, Jason Benjamin.
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June 17—To Dr. and Mrs.
Arthur Cherkinsky (Rosanne
Behrmann), 3240 Belle Ct.,
Royal Oak, a son, Jeffrey
Howard.
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June 11—To former De-
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and Mrs. Goldberg (Joanne
Breton) of Manchester, N.H.,
a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth.
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June 10—To Mr. and Mrs.
Moshe Grossbard (Erica Gel-
berman), 24210 Radclift,
Oak Park, a son, Elliott
Brian.
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resulted in strengthening the Organizations in Central and
Zionist framework of the Eastern Europe and of rela-
Whenever one hears the host country and smoothing tions with the "C e n t r a 1
Powers." Thanks to his con-
expression "Early Pioneers out difficulties.
But Dr. Hantke shunned nections with the German
of Zionism" one generally
brings to mind the "Biluim" the lime-light and avoided government he deserved well
of Russia. In actual fact, publicity; he preferred to of the Yishuv which, it will
there were many Jews from work quietly and efficiently, be remembered, was saved
other countries as well who more often than not in the from virtual destruction by •
focused their eyes on Zion background rather than on the intervention not only of • •
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America but - also of the dip-
although they may not have the platform.
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lomatic
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drawn all the conclusions the
Dr. Arthur Hantke, a na-
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Biluim did from their Zionist tive and resident of Berlin, Turkey's ally, Germany.
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convictions. German Zionism, soon became liked particu-
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Dr.. Arthur Hantke was rael, while western Zionists Zionist Congress in 1921, he
born in Berlin 100 years ago, generally preferred political was elected deputy-chairman
March 5, 1874, and his life, Zionism. It was certainly of the Zionist General Coun-
rich, in achievement, came to largely due to Hantke's in- cil.
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an end, at age 81, in Jeru-' fluence that in the ninth
Dr. Hantke was privileged
Zionist Congress in Hamburg to witness both the establish- Tb SELL YOUR HOME
salem on Oct. 10, 1955.
As early as 1895, one year (1909) most German dele- ment of the state of Israel
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before the appearance • of gates, like their Russian col- and the mass aliya of the
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Herzl's "Jewish State," while leagues, opposed the purely late 1940s and early 1950,
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still a law student, Hantke political approach of the for which he had striven so
much during the six decades SEYMOUR COLLEN, Broker
joined a Zionist association movement's • leadership.
Dr. Hantke was a delegate of his Zionist work.
in Berlin. It was a revolt not
HOMESTEAD
'only against the German for the first time to the 5th
On the occasion of Dr.
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Jewish establishment but also congress in Basle in 1901. Hantke's 80th birthday,
against his own family, rich In 1911, he was elected to the David Ben-Gurion wrote to
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and well connected, which executive which had its seat him from Sde Boker: "You
had no sympathies whatso- at that time in Berlin, and
ever for Jewish natonal re- owing to his special aptitudes
was charged with organiza-
vival.
A genius for constructive tional affairs.
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During the "War of Lan-
compromise and a sense of
humor, he was soon sought guages" in 1914, Dr. Hantke,
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after and appreciated as a though steeped in German
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Park,
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"trouble shooter" and "peace- culture, came out, together
with
Shmaryahu
Levin,
for
maker," not only in German
Zionism but also in other the rights of the Hebrew
European countries, when- language in the schools of
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fore World War 1—always work of the World Zionist
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Origins of Yiddish
The Yiddish language has
been used by Ashkenazie
Jews for the past 1,000 years,
it is indicated in Encyclo-
pedia Judaica.
It developed as an intri-
cate fusion of several unpre-
dictably modified linguistic
stocks and was gradually
molded to serve a wide range
of communicative needs. It
was estimated that before
the Holocaust, 11,000,000 Jews
spoke Yiddish and achieved,
in and with this language,
one of the highest levels of
cultural autonomy in Jewish
history.
From its beginning in the
10th Century and until the
end of the 18th, Yiddish was
the virtually uncontested
medium of oral communica-
tion among Jews from Hol-
land to the Ukraine, from
Livonia (Latvia) to Romania,
as well as in the Ashkenazi
colonies in Italy, the Balkans
and Palestine.. Alongside He-
brew, it was also an impor-
tant medium of literary and
other written communication.
The great migratory move-
ments of the late 19th and
early 20th centuries caused
the Yiddish community to
expand to the far corners of
the earth. In the earliest
period, before 1200 CE, the
EJ says, Jews from northern
France and northern Italy,
speaking a Romance lan-
guage which they called
"Laaz," established their
first bridgeheads in German-
language territory in the
kingdom of Loter (i.e., Lo-
tharingia).
Exposed to more than one
variety of Christian German,
the surviving vestiges of
Laaz were constantly re-
duced, though Jewish var-
iants of Romance languages
remained. The bulk of the
new language's vocabulary
and grammar developed
from a fusion of various
medieval western, southern
and central German dialects.
Also, vocabulary from the
sacred language, Hebrew, as
well as from Aramaic was
added.
After 1250, the EJ reports,
Yiddish-speaking Jews made
contact with Slays and Slavic-
speaking Jews, first in south-
eastern Germany and Bo-
hemia, then in Poland and
still further east. Large new
communities were founded
in the new environment, and
existing communities speak-
ing Knaanic, a Slavic-based
Jewish language, were con-
verted to Yiddish which be-
gan to accept elements from
Eastern languages such as
Polish, Czech, Ukrainian and
Byelorussian. Nevertheless, a
relatively uniform literary
language slowly developed.
From 1500 to 1700, the
movement toward the East
intensified, and after 1700
Yiddish declined in the West,
while, around 1820, a new
standard eastern Yiddish be-
gan to form. With the devel-
opment of a press and a self-
conscious literature in the
1860s, a supradialectical lan-
guage with only limited re-
liance on German patterns
gained rapid ascendancy and
Yiddish became stabilized.
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