.•.4.:. ., Wtirld Jewry Pa), 1 . Tribute to to- Shazar (Continued from Page 1) 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. 10 Friday, October 11, 1974 — 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 New Town for Arabs JERUSALEM ( ZINS) — Prescription Optical Co. The Israeli government in- tends to build .a new town \\\ with his "A History of Bib- near Acre for 5,000 Arab citi- lical Criticism" (1925) in col- zens as well as Arabs from 26001 COOLIDGE HWY laboration with Max Soloveit- Galilee. 543 3343 OAK FARK chik. 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