. a • Historic Philanthropic Chapter Represented in JDC Recorded in Prof. Bauer's y BK DURON Holiday SilOKE c=1„)Greetings at the 1938 JDC annual meet- the voice conscience—which when JDC performed so sup- ing that to foresee the expen- is more than can be said of erbly, the record needed an From ditures for JDC was, in a many in that time." authority. Dr. Bauer's back- sense, to forecast the course Dr. Bauer, associate pro- ground evidences his posses- Eddie & of history. There seems little fessor at the Hebrew Univer- sion of it. The Jewish Publi- %Pa Janie Citron doubt that during the decade sity of Jerusalem, is also act- cation Society has selected a 1929-39, the course of JDC's ing director of the Institute of suitable man to deal with the history was to a large extent Contemporary Jewry. He subject and the first volume 3 Locations to Serve You the course of the history of spent two years at the JDC in the JDC three-vloume work the Jewish people in Europe. headquarters in New York already indicates that with its 23077 Greenfield 17017 W. 9 Mile Rd. 25900 Greenfield JDC had started out in 1929 researching its archives and publication the JPS has made Advance Building Shiowasse Hotel Green Lincoln Bldg. (lower level) Corner of Lincoln with the idea of finishing a interviewing survivors of the another notable contribution 559-5559 Southfield Mich. 48075 job that had been started in Holocaust and JDC personnel to Jewish historical publish- 968-1110 559-9119 1914. By 1931 it had become involved in events prior to, ing. clear to the leaders of the during, and after the war organization that JDC could years. - -41111111. 41111111 not be disbaned. The econ- He wrote "Flight and Res- omic crisis in the U.S. had cue," a history of the under- almost killed JDC. But it sur- ground rescue movement vived and was ready to meet, which brought almost 300,- of occurrences that emanated 000 Jewish survivors into Is- in so many tragedies. rael. He also wrote "From "In a very real sense, JDC Diplomacy to Resistance," undertook a Sisyphean task. the unfolding history of Pales- With relatively little money it tine, which was published by DR. YEHUDA BAUER told in a series of three vol- tried, against all odds, to the JPS in 1970. Dr. Bauer was born in umes to be published by the save the crumbling economic Is building again to give you better service Jewish Publication Society of structure of the Jewish people Prague in 1926 and- went to America, and the first just in Eastern Europe; then it Palestine in 1939. While still DYNAMIC TIRE SALES has Trained off the press, introduces a tried to save the Jews of Cen- a young man, he joined the study marked by impressive tral Europe from the effects Hagana and served in the EXPERTS IN of the Nazi onslaught. Cer- Palmach, the Jewish Army's research. • Exhaust & Muffler (repairs & Under the title "My Broth- tainly it made mistakes, did striking force. He sudied his- ers Keeper," the author of not realize the gravity of sit- tory, philosophy and English replacement) this historic record, Prof. uations until it was too late— at the Hebrew University of • Front end alignment and steering parts Yehuda Bauer, has done but did not others fail as well, Jerusalem. He continued his more than trace the story of without trying of do a frac- studies at the University of • Brakes, Disc and Shoes Wales in Cardiff, returning a great cause rooted in ideal- tion as much as JDC? • High speed balancing ism and compassion for kins- "It can be cogently argued in 1948 to fight in Israel's men: he has portrayed the that the attempts of JDC to War of Independence. • Complete Inventory of Foreign and After the war he completed history of the years during reform the Jewish economy Domestic Tires, Radial & Conventional which it became necessary in Poland were foredoomed his studies for a masters de- UniRoyal, Dunlop, Michlin, B.F..Goodrich for American Jewry to un- to failure. With hindsight it gree in Cardiff and remained A Wearmaster Dealer dertake the task of rescuing is possible to criticize severe- in Wales until the end of Jews, of providing for vanish- ly the investment of so much 1951. Dr. Bauer returned to ing communities, of repatria- money and goodwill in Soviet Israel in 1952 and joined the ting vast hordes who had Russia. JDC's opposition to Institute of Contemporary become refugees as a result Zionists merits careful analy- Jewry at the Hebrew Univer- DYNAMIC TIRE SALES of the calamitous events oc- sis. Its hesitations regarding sity in 1964. Because "My Brother's casioned by two world wars. the emigration of German Monday thru Friday 9-6 — Saturday 9-3 The significance of this Jewry from 1933 to 1935 can Keeper" leads up to the per- 549-7350 3:26 N. WOODWARD, 3 blks. N. of 13 Mile Rd., Royal Oak work lies in the chronicling also be criticized. Yet with iod of the Holocaust and its -411111111 though it never had enough all that, JDC could look upon horrors, and to the years money, the terrible disasters that terrible decade as a per- that befell the Jews of Europe iod of trial in which it had in the 1930s. on the whole stood the test, Noteworthy in the Bauer to the best of its limited pos- record is the thoroughness of sibilities. coverage, its impartiality, "There have been few Jew- the author having taken into ish leaders and thinkers who account every conflict, re- judged their times with more gardless of the difficulties -perspicacity and lucidity than that were entailed. Bernhard Kahn, or with more There were disputes with human warmth than Felix M. the Zionist leaders, with the Warburg. JDC could not dis- competing relief movements pense more help to Europe which sought to provide for than American Jewry was those who were viewed as be- willing to provide. It never longing to the masses, and hid any facts from the Amer- the situation. It could well be ican Jewish public. It always viewed at the outset as a demanded more funds than it class struggle. got. It did not keep those It all developed into unity, funds in banks, but spent but the significance in the them to help the needy, feed struggle was embedded in the hungry, clothe the naked. personality conflicts, and on There were never enough this score, as well, Dr. Bauer funds, and too often the an- has performed magnificently swer to a plea for assistance in portraying the roles of Dr. had to be no. JDC, together Cyrus Adler, Louis Marshall, with HICEM and others, was Justice Louis D. Brandeis, involved in the emigration of Judge Julian W. Mack, the some 440,000 Jews from Cen- Warburgs, the Schiffs, the tral Europe: 281,900 from Strauses and the eminent De- "old" Germany, 117,000 from troiter; the late David A. Austria, 35,000 from the Brown. Czech lands, and 5,500 from It is a touching and deep- Danzig. It had relieved the ly moving story, enlightening, suffering of many more in enriching American Jewish Europe. It proved to them history. that the Jewish people in ACROSS FROM TEL-TWELVE MALL TELEGRAPH & 12 MILE A concluding chapter in the America cared, that they valuable introductory volume were not alone. It answered to the JDC history summar- izes the trends, the person- ality involvements, the aims and the ideals of a great movement, Dr. Bauer states: Typewriter and Dictating Equipment Standards - Executives - Selectrics From $348.88 "Morris C. Troper had said Incomparable in its mag- nitude, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee has a record of such immense accomplishments that its his- toric record carries with it a lesson for charitable endeav- ors for the generous of all nations. 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