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Singapore's Jews: Rich History
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By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1975, .JTA, Inc.)
The decision of June Li-
nowitz and her bridegroom,
Gabriel Gerstenblith, to
make their home in Singa-
pore doubtlessly is bright
news for the dwindling Jew-
ish community in that little
island which shelters some
of the most historic Jewish
landmarks in Eastern Asia.
June's father is Sol M.
Linowitz, former chairman
of Xerox and U.S. represent-
ative to the Organization of
American States who now
practices law in Washing-
ton. Gabriel, of Searing-
for u 110,vy err col . to
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Our Relatices. Fr iewls awl Patrons
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Among the numerous
Jews of Singapore who
received acclaim, Sir
Manasseh Meyer who died
in 1930 stands out. This
Orthodox and pious Jew of
Sephardic- origin made a
fortune in the export-im-
port trade and devoted
much of it both to Singa-
pore and Judaism.
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a Happy New Year to Our Relatives and Friends1
1 Midwest Waste Material Co.
town, L.I., is regional sys-
tems coordinator for the
NCR Corp. in Singapore.
In the mid-1930s, Singa-
pore's Jewish population
was between 3,000 and 4,-
000. The ravages of World
War II caused many to emi-
grate, mainly to Australia
and California.
It now numbers perhaps
600, many of them old, poor
and without work.
In a larger sense, they are
somewhat like the remnant
of Jewry in Penang, once
also a British stronghold in
Malaysia. Now Penang has
only about 20 Jews who help
maintain their identity by
selling off bits of a cemetery
the community acquired
about 1835.
On the grounds where he
lived with his wife and seven
children, he built a magnifi-
cent synagogue and a per-
manent sukka. There is also
a community center and
school named for his young-
est son. Within the mansion
are numerous symbols of
Judaism.
Whenever he traveled he
took with him a Jew from
Cochin in the south of India
who slaughtered chickens
and prepared his meals.
Singapore's only knighted
Jew, he is associated with
Singapore in countless
ways. His name leads all
individuals on the marble
slab listing benefactors for
Raffles College, now the
University of Singapore.
Meyers Chambers, a promi-
nent building on Raffles
Square, bears his name be-
low a Magen David on the
keystone over its main door-
way.
jungle where tigers roamed
to rent a parcel of land for
one dollar a year.•They took
a lease for 99 years
forgetting that the dead live
much longer than the living.
This was in 1838, 20
years after the founding of
Singapore."
Marshall added that in
1939 the government of Sin-
gapore sought to reclaim the
land. As president of Singa-
pore's Jewish Welfare
Board, Marshall resisted
and continued to resist for
more than three decades.
"I will never give it up," he
said after fighting 33 years.
"I told the authorities
not be persuaded to leave it.
They'll have to throw me
out." The cemetery with
about 400 graves is main-
tained. All of its original
trustees had Sephardic
names.
A Horatio' Alger story is
the life of Jacob Ballas, who
was several times chairman
of Singapore's stock ex-
change. When he was born,
his parents lived in acute
poverty in a half-buried
shack with windows just
above ground.
Agudath Israel
Hits Elderly Test
NEW YORK — A pro-
posed provision of the new
Title XX Program of the
Social Security Act which
would subject a large num-
ber of elderly to a "means
test", was sharply criticized
by Agudath Israel's com-
mission on senior citizens as
a measure "which will
create undue hardships on
the elderly as well as in-
creasing the administrative
costs and paperwork."
The new Title XX Pro-
gram of the Social Security
Act which is due to take ef-
fect on Oct. 1, 1975, calls
for senior citizens to un-
dergo a means test recertifi-
cation every three months.
This eligibility requirement
would end the current pol-
icy of allowing any senior
citizen over age 60 to partici-
pate in the senior citizen
cenYer
, program.
Cotton Rags
CAPITOL
WASTE PAPER CO., _INC.
NEW YORK — The Na-
tional Jewish Welfare
Board's youth ulpan in Is-
rael has a long-range influ-
ence on its graduates, a
JWB-sponsored study found
recently.
brew after returning from
the ulpan, and 32 are cur-
rently studying the lan-
guage. Twenty percent indi-
cated that they were
contemplating permanent
moves to Israel.
The survey showed that
out of the 47 who responded
out of a total of 165 gradu-
ates, 40 said they had con-
tinued their study of He-
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in their wisdom," Marshall School of American Mizra-
explained, "went into the' chi Women in Israel.
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Youth Influenced by JWB Ulpan
Dr. Yawha Cohen, who
was born in Sarawak, is a
living legend, too. His
mother was killed on that
island by the Japanese
while she was helping
prisoners of war and is
hailed as a heroine there.
There were 10 or 12 Jews
in Saravgak before the
war. There is now believed
to be only one family, run-
ning a shop.
The last of Sir Manas-
seh's children lives in the
923-6400 I . family mansion and is re-
ferred to as "the un-
crowned queen of Singa-
Best Wishes to Our Friends and Patrons
pore."
for a Happy New Year
In her eighties, Mrs.
Mozelle Meyer Nissim,
second child among the
seven, sought to maintain
the traditions her father
had nurtured, including
aid to the poor.
Hy Lipsitz and Family
Her only ornament .is a
bracelet with three
charms — one with the
Ten Commandments in
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Hebrew; a model of a To-
Our Friends andTatrons
rah, and at hwt-shaped
ornamed givgit to her in
Israel.
Miqachi Women
ether Jows promiptent
in Singapore inglxide Dedicate Plaza
David Marshall, who was
NEW YORK — Several
Singapore's Prime Minis-
hunded American Mizrachi
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ter in 1955 and sat in its
Womtn delegates from
3"=;•t -.4Parliament as an indepen-
thIoughout the U.S., along
dent.
with,Fpembers of American
Best Wishes for the New Year
Among Marshall % a# f-44,;
izr4i-Women now living
ices to the Jewish commu- Ir• 1, were present at
nity was his effort to save
Kfar. , atya, the Bessie
Singapore's first Jewish - Gotsfeld Childrens Village
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ceinetery, which he said
for the recent dedication of
marks the first traces of . the amphitheater and'plaza
Jews in Singapore.
of the Regina and Oscar
Woo/ al- id
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