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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
34 Friday, February 21, 1975
Early Detroit Jewish History, Yiddish Literary
Studies, Lida Yeshiva in Yivo Annual Volume
Reform Campaign for Syrian Jews
wry Sabbath will be held Feb.
21-23 under the auspices of the
Commission on Social Action of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and the Central
Conference of American Rab-
bis.
The weekend activities in-
clude special Sabbath services,
community meetings and a pe-
tition campaign to gather one
million signatures calling upon
President Ford to intervene per-
sonally on humanitarian
grounds to save those Jews re-
maining in Syria.
NEW YORK — Reform syn-
agogues in the United States
and Canada are devoting the
last weekend of this month to a
religious and community-wide
campaign calling attention to
the plight of 4,000 Syrian Jews.
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History, literature and Yitzhak Yaacov Reines, the
linguistics receive appro- Lida Yeshiva was modern-
priate consideration in 16 ized and the curriculum in-
valuable studies featured in cluded modern science and
the 15th volume of "Yivo language studies.
Annual of Jewish Social
It was a revolutionary
Science" published by Yivo development in traditional
Institute for Jewish Re- theological school pro-
search.
grams, marked by the guid-
The current volume con- ing genius of Rabbi Reines
tains an essay by Prof. Rob- who was the founder also of
ert A. Rockaway of Tel Aviv the Mizrachi Religious Zion-
University, a native Detro- ist Movement. The author of
iter, on "The Eastern Euro- this essay, Yosef Salmon,
pean Jewish Community of thus has traced an impor-
Detroit, 1881-1914," which tant progressive step in Jew-
deals with the early com- ish educational program-
munal experiences of De- ming.
troit Jewry.
Essays in this volume
The works of a number of deal with the works of Men-
Yiddish writers are dealt dele Mocher Seforim and
with, and an article of re- Shmuel Niger, the anti-Nazi
lated interest, by Prof. Irv- boycott of the late 1930s, the
ing Howe, deals with his Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a
devotion to the translation chapter on Civil War history
of outstanding classics from and a number of other his-
the Yiddish.
toric Jewish developments.
The variety of essays that
In his
lends importance to this
essay on
volume is the description of
Detroit
the uniqueness of the Lida
Jewry,
Yeshiva. Founded by Rabbi
D r .
Rocka-
W a y
traces
the early
Eastern
Euro-
pean
Jewish
migra-
ROCKAWAY
tion, the
early settlers, their reli-
gious life which also was
marked in some areas by in-
difference and defection and
the elements of anti-Semi-
tism, primarily aimed at the
Jewish peddler.
Primarily, Dr. Rocka-
way's research is periodical,
and the personalities listed
are limited'.
In another sense, it is a
generalization because the
Detroit Jewish experiences
were in no way different
from those of many Eastern
European Jewish settlers in
other American cities. For
example, he described the
plight of the Jewish peddler,
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Kahane, 7 JDL'ers
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Seven
members of the Jewish Defense
League, including Rabbi Meir
Kahane, JDL founder, were
arrested Feb. 10 at Temple
Emanu-El here on charges of
criminal trespass. They were
given summonses and released
for appearance in New York
Criminal Court Feb. 21.
Russ Kellner, JDL operations
officer, said the seven JDL
members had been holding a
vigil in the virtually empty
sanctuary of the Reform syn-
agogue in protest against "the
silence of American Jewish
leadership on United States
pressures on Israel" in the ne-
gotiations for which Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger is
again visiting the Middle East.
The sit-in at the Reform syn-
agogue was one of a series of
protest actions staged by the
JDL since Kahane returned
from Israel. to protest alleged
U.S. pressure on Israel.
Mack (Herzl Press) relates
how the peddlers in Chicago
were molested, humiliated
by the police, hounded and
persecuted. Judge Mack's
courageous stand provided
relief for the peddlers and
led to an end to the brutali-
ties that were practiced
against the helpless Jews by
the police and an introduc-
tion of justice for the ped-
dler in courts of justice.
Dr. Rockaway's essay
deals with the period of the
emergence of Conservative
Judaism in Detroit under
the leadership of Rabbi A.
board in 1901; Charles C. Si-
mons, elected to the state
senate in 1902; Louis J. Ro-
senberg, a director of the
Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children; Wil-
liam Saulson, president of
the water board in 1903; D. -
W. Simons, a member of the
public lighting commission;
Dr. I. L. Polozker, the
county physician in 1903. --
As he indicates, gr ill
interest in municipal a
was displayed by Detroit
Jews after World War I, an
era not dealt with in his
essay.
The rise of the Talmud
Torah after struggles in ed-
ucational efforts in Detroit,
and other factors in Detroit
Jewry's functions at the
beginning of this century
are outlined in the Rocka-
way essay. His sources are
mainly periodical. There are
few left who are knowledge-
able about this city's early
Jewish settlers and their
struggles.
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M. Hershman who assumed
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1907. It was a revolutionary
step that marked a new era
in the synagoguge activities
of Detroit.
Significant also was the
influence of Rabbi Judah L.
Levin (father of Prof. Sam-
uel M. Levin) who unified
several synagogues into ac-
tion to protect kashrut in
the city. But there were ob-
structions from some quart-
ers, and these, too, are de-
scribed in the Rockaway
essay.
While few of the person-
alities in Detroit Jewry rate
mention in the Rockaway
essay, a footnote on Jews
who rose to prominence in
politics lists several of the
successful activists in Michi-
gan's political life. Those
listed by Rockaway include:
Louis Goldberg, elected
president of the school
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