THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Vaad Dinner Chairman Named
Julius Rotenberg has
been named honorary chair-
man of the annual dinner of
the Vaad Harabonim —
Council of Orthodox Rabbis
and Merkaz to be held May
27 at the Sheraton-South-
field Hotel.
Twenty congregations
from Detroit, Toledo, Wind-
sor and Mount Clemens will
participate with local and
national organizatiuns.
Rabbi Chaskel Grubner,
executive director of the
Vaad, announced Rabbi
Isaac Stollman, former De-
troiter of Jerusalem and
brother of community lead-
ers Phillip and Max Stoll-
man, will be guest of honor.
Avern Cohn and David
Hermelin, dinner co-chair-
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Sun. May 25—Mon. May 26
7:30
Temple Players
To Present Drama
Rehovot Parley
Focuses on Cells
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AKIVA HEBREW DAY SCHOOL
SANS SOUCI HALL
ON 9 MILE AT MIDDLEBELT
EVERY SUNDAY 7:15 P.M.
JULIUS ROTENBERG
The Birmingham Tem-
ple's Friday Players will
present a drama, "Don Juan
in Hell," based on George
Bernard Shaw's "Man and
Superman" 8:30 p.m. today
in the temple.
Participating in the
drama are Shelby New-
house, Joseph Zendell, Lor-
raine Ernst, Jules Abrams
and Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine.
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CONG. BETH SHALOM
14801 WEST LINCOLN
OAK-PARK
EVERY TUES. 7:30 P.M.
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men, announce proceeds
from the dinner will be used
to further services of the
Vaad.
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REHOVOT —An inter-
nationally prominent group
of scientists from England,
Germany, Holland, Sweden,.
Switzerland and the U.S.
were in Israel recently at-
tending an EMBO Work-
shop on the topic of cell sur-
face membranes.
As a result of his pioneer-
ing work in developing new
means for looking at the-
movement of different
chemical substances on cell
surfaces and their relation
to cell behavior, the Euro-
pean Molecular Biology Or-
ganization asked Weizmann
Institute Prof. Leo Sachs,
dean of the faculty of biol-
ogy and head of the genetics
department, to organize the
membrane dynamics and
cell regulation workshop in
Israel.
Prof. Sachs holds the Otto
Meyerhof Chair of Molecu-
lar Biology.
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Tribute to Peretz on 60th Anniversary of His Death
By ALLEN A. WARSEN
I. L. Peretz died 60 years
ago at the age of 63. He died
in Warsaw while helping
Jewish war refugees who
were driven out of their
domiciles by Czarist barbar-
ians and made the scape-
goats for their defeats and
incompetence at the war
fronts.
' Though Peretz started to
write Yiddish prose and
poetry in 1888, he already
had composed Polish verses
and Hebrew poems. Of the
Hebrew poems "Kiddush
Hashem" (martyrdom) is
most impressive. It is based
on an occurrence which took
place in 1648, and is rec-
orded in the book "Tsuk
Haitim" (1656).
The years 1648-1649, as
we know, were tragic and
crucial for the Jewish peo-
ple. Hundreds of thousands
of Jewish men, women and
children were slaughtered
in cold blood and Jewish
mothers and their daugh-
ters were tortured and-dish-
onored by the savage hordes
of the Ukrainian hetman
Chmielnicki.
According to "Tsuk Hai-
tim," a kossack wanted to
marry a Jewish girl who on
the way to the wedding cer-
emony jumped into a river
and drowned.
Peretz wrote most of his
Hebrew poems in Za-
moshch, a well known city
in Poland, where he was
born in 1852. There, too, he
twice married, had a son,
Lucian, from his first mar-
riage, and practiced law for
ten years.
In 1889, Peretz and his
family moved to Warsaw
where he became famous
with the publication of his
408-verse poem "Monish."
In Warsaw, he at first,
participated in the so
called "Statistical Expedi-
tion" organized and
nanced by the banker Jan
Bloch, a convert to Chris-
tianity. The purpose of the
expedition was to investi-
gate the economic condi-
tion of the Jewish popula-
tion. In this venture Jacob
Dinesohn and Nahum So-
kolow took part.
The investigators visited
numerous localities and ev-
erywhere encountered ex-.
treme poverty, but also a
deep-seated spiritual life.
- In a "Hatseforah" issue of
1915, 'Sokolow relates that
the small town Jewish peo-
ple would fear Peretz be-
cause of his thick non-Jew-
.
ish looking mustache,
though his contenance was
almost always pleasant.
Upon his return from the
Statistical Expedition, Per-
etz became an employe of
the Warsaw "Kehile" also
known as "Gmineh." It was
a legally established com-
munal council empowered
to tax members of the Jew-
ish community for religious,
educational, health; and
welfare purposes.
It is interesting to note
that the "Gmineh" had to
receive special permission
from the Warsaw City Gov-
ernment to employ Peretz.
At the "Gmineh" Peretz
worked as a bookkeeper for
25 years until his death in
March 21, 1915.
In 1891, Peretz started
publishing "Di Yiddisheh
Bibliotek" (the Jewish
Library) of which six is-
sues appeared. In them
Peretz published short
stories, poems and articles
of current import. In one
article he wrote, "We have
not suffered in vain for
thousands of years to -for-
get our civilization. WE
WILL AND MUST CON-
TINUE IT!
In "Di Yiddishe Bibliotek"
numerous authors partici-
pated: Dr. Joseph Klausner,
I. Katsenelsohr, Baal Makh-
shoves. Yehoesh, Abraham
Reisen, Ch. N. Bialik and
others.
A few years later, Peretz
started to publish the fa-
mous "Yom-Tov Bletlekh"
(Holiday Sheets). The name
of the publication was a
camouflage as the Russian
authorities did not allow to
publish Yiddish periodicals.
Hence, each issue bore a dif-
ferent name, such as
"Lekoved Pesakh" (In Honor
of Passover), "Di File-un-
Boygen" (Bow and Arrow),
"Der Shoyfer," "Hanuka
Likht," "Shabes Oybs"
(Sabbath Fruit).
For reasons of censorship,
Peretz had to assume differ-
ent pen names. They in-
cluded "Lompenputser"
(Lamp Cleaner)," "Hayosem
Minemirov" (the Orphan of
Nemirov), "Dr. Shtitser"
(Assistant Doctor).
It is noteworthy that Per-
etz participated in the his-
toric famous "Tshernovitser
Yiddish Shprakh Confer-
ence (1908). In his speech he
said among others, "Our
first-- folk-poet was Reb
Nakhmen of Bratslav and
the "hasidic tales" marked
the beginning of Jewish
folklore."
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The arrangements com-
mittee includes Messrs. and
Mesdames Mario Sevy, Gil-
bert Senor, Salvatore Ka-
tan, Marcel Behar and Sam-
uel Betsalel, assisted by
Sedel Chicorel and Raisy
Serour.
For ticket reservations,
call Shirley Behar, 557-8551;
Susan Betsalel, 399-7325; or
Livia Katan, 273-1344. Dr.
Sion Soleymani is president,
and David Chicorel is dinner
chairman.
Peretz, moreover, was a
folklorist. He collected folk
songs and tales and remade
them into his famous
"Folkstimlikhe Geshikhtes"
(Intimate Folk Stories).
Though Heine, Dostoev-
ski, Gorki influenced him,
only the prophets inspired
him.
Some of his stories are
"Bontche Silent," "Between
Two Mountains," "If Not
Higher," "Three Gifts."
These and other stories
Maurice Samuel Olov Hash-
olem translated and in-
cluded them in his "Prince
of the Ghetto."
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