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ment. He married Rachel
Israelis and Jews around Katznelson in 1920 and re-
the world mourned the man turned to Europe for four
whose voice rang out across more years of academic and
the Jewish world as a poet, political work, and settled
biblical scholar. Chabad permanently in Palestine in
hasid, Socialist, Zionist, and 1924.
Western intellectual for al-
He was appointed to the
most Seven decades.
executive committee of His-
President Shazar, who suf- tadrut, and in 1925 he joined
fered a heart attack last May, the editorial board of "Da-
was taken to Hadassah Hos- var," the newly established
pital Sept. 29 for an unspe- labor daily, of which he be-
cified ailment. An- aide to came the editor-in-chief in
President Shazar said he was 1944 after Katznelson's death
suffering from a general de- and served until 1949.
Through these years he was
terioration of the body
active in the World Zionist
brought on by old age.
Prof. Avinoan Zlotnick, the Organization and toured the
physician who treated Presi- world repeatedly, his oratori-
dent Shazar, said the former cal qualities gaining him
president died after a quiet fame and respect wherever
he appeared.
night.
Ills immediate relatives
In 1929, President Shazar
were not at his bed at the was elected to the executive
time of his death. Both his of the Vaad Lumi (National
wife, Rachel, and daughter Council) and in 1930, with
have been hospitalized for a Chaim Arlosoroff, he edited
long period, and were con- the monthly "Ahdut Ha'-
Avoda." He also participated
fined to bed..
No one who ever heard in the founding of,Mapai.
President Shazar speak—and
In 1933, he went to War-
in his prime he could hold an saw where he founded, and
audience entranced for three for a time edited, the Yid-
or four hours on end — can dish daily "Dos Vort." In
ever forget his warmth and 1938 he attended the Interna-
ardor which made him one tional Conference of Refugees
of the finest orators of Zion- at Evian, France. In 1943 he
ism.
wrote the manifesto in which
His addresses were always the Vaad Lumi drew the at-
filled with learning and with tention of the world to the
fervor and emotion in equal Holocaust.
part. He would often begin,
During the pre-state strug-
like a rabbi, with a biblical gle with Britain, President
or talmudic text, and would Shazar participated in the
so expound it and build upon 1946 hunger strike of Pales-
it as to harness its own mes- tine's Jewish community. In
sage and invest it, too, with 1947 he was named by the
his own thoughts and ideas. Zionist General Council to'
At home in poetry as well the political committee col-
as prose, his public addres- laborating with the Zionist
ses and private conversations Executive in its negotiations,
always had the wealth of at the United Nations.
style of the rounded litera-
He appeared on behalf of
teur, and he brought to bear the Histadrut at the hearing
his scholarships in many of the UN Special Committee
fields, secular as well as Jew- on Palestine (UNSCOP) in
ish, to further enrich his Jerusalem and was a mem-
spoken and written word. His ber of the Jewish Agency at
10 years as president of Is- Lake Success, N.Y., when the
rael welded strong elements UN General Assembly 'de-
of Jewish tradition and Jew- cided on the establishment of
ish pride to the national and the Jewish state.
Early in 1948 President
scholarly heritage which his
two predecessors, Dr. Chaim Shazar drafted the resolution
Weizmann and Yitzhak Ben- passed by the Zionist Gen-
Zvi, had already built into eral Council on April 12 an-
the presidency.
nouncing that Jewish inde-
Schneur Zalman Shazar, pendence would be estab-
whose original name was lished at the end of the man-
Shneur Zalman Rubashov, date. In 1949 he was appointed
was born in 1889 in Mir, minister of education and cul-
Russia. At home he inbibed ture and promulgated the
both traditional Judaism — compulsory education law.
in the mould of Chabad hasid-
Following the Soviet Union's
ism which was his family's refusal to accept him as am-
allegiance—and Zionist ideal- bassador, he became a mem-
ism.
ber of the Jewish Agency
Influenced by the writings Executive and for years
of •Ber Borochov, the father headed its education depart-
of Socialist-Zionism, he joined ment. From 1956 to 1'960 he
the Poalei Zion (•abor •Zion- headed the agency's Jeru-
ists) early in this century. salem executive.
He was active in writing and
He was elected president in
publishing works for this
movement, together with
Borochov, Ben-Zvi, and OWE Natanya Adds
Rachel Yannait (she later
married Ben-Zvi) and was School Laboratory
NATANYA — One of the
jailed for it for two months
new additions to the ORT
in 1907.
In 1911 he spent the sum- school in Natanya is the mod-
mer in Palestine on a kibutz, ern laboratory of maritime
falling in love with Rachel communications. This year
Blaustein, a poet from Galilee 428 students graduated from
and came under the influence` the school representing 11
of Berl Katznelson, a Labor different sectors of voca-
Zionist leader. He spent tional education. Among the
World War I years in Ger- 30,000 recent graduates of
many, studying and working ORT in Israel, 3,000 finished
for the local Zionist move- their training at Natanya.
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
1963 and re-elected in 1968.
He paid state visits during
his two terms to Brazil,
Nepal, Chile, Uruguay, Can-
ada, and the U.S., which he
visited as personal guest of
President Johnson in 1966 and
visited President Nixon in
1971. During his first term he
represented Israel at the
funerals of President Ken-
nedy and Sir Winston Chur-
n . In 1964 he welcomed
Po e Paul VI to Israel.
On each U.S. visit he called
on the Lubavitcher Rebbe,
Rabbi Menehem Mendel
Schneerson, at his Brooklyn
headquarters. He was criti-
cized on the grounds that this
compromised his official posi-
tion, but he rejected the
critics and insisted on visit-
ing his Rebbe.
Each 19th of Kislev (the
`anniversary of the Chabad
Movement's founder's release
from the czarist jail) Shazar
would head the celebrants at
Kfar Chabad near 'Ramie, the
Lubavitch center in Israel.
His literary output was
enormous. His first recorded
effort was a magazine he
edited at the age of 10. He
was at home in Yiddish pub-
licism as well as Hebrew
prose and poetry. His main
field of research was Shab-
bateanism—the study of the
Shabbtai Zvi': and subsequent
messianic movements which
swept European Jewry in the
17th and 18th centuries.
He was also one of the first
to introduce Bible criticism
to the Hebrew-reading public
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