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Baron's `Steeled by Adversity' Useful, Well-Edited Collection
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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
(Editor's Note: This
brief review, by Dr. Mi-
chael D. Whitty, associate
professor of labor and in-
dustrial relations at the
U niversity of Detroit, is
supplementary to The
Jewish News lengthy re-
view in the Jan. 14, 1972 is-
sue.)
The examination of ethnic
roots, which is currently
stimulating a fresh look at
immigration, ethnic studies,
American Catholicism and
labor history, has equally
rich parallels in American
Jewish life.
Historians specializing in
these aspects of history will
find "Steeled by Adversity"
a useful and well-edited col-
lection of essays by one of
the leading interpreters of
Judaism.
By DR. MICHAEL WHITTY
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The book is an extensive
collection of 20 addresses
and essays written and de-
livered by Salo Baron over a
20-year period.
The rationale of the
spirit of Zionism is placed
within the context of those
who found their way to
Zion in North America.
This experience was,
much like that of Catholic
immigration, initially a
working class experience,
and thus a subject for la-
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her four-day visit to Israel
last week.
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bor historians as well as
immigration historians.
For Catholic historians,
this volume can demon-
strate that intense cultural
and religious identity can
characterize the best impul-
ses of the new ethnicity .. .
surely a potential to be
found within all working
class ethnics.
An example found in Jew-
ish history is described in a
long and fascinating chap-
ter titled "Palestinian Mes-
sengers in America,
1849-79: A Record of Four
Journeys."
The chapter describes
SIMONE VEIL
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feted at lunch and dinner.
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PARIS (JTA) — Rabbi
Israel Miller, chairman of
the Conference of Presi-
dents of Major American
Jewish Organizations, said
here that he had found the
Romanian Jewish commu-
nity to be a highly vital, well
organized and active com-
munity.
Rabbi Miller returned last
week from a week-long trip
to Romania during which he
visited synagogues, Jewish
institutions, clubs, welfare
facilities and conferred with
local officials and foreign
diplomats. He visited the
country as guest of the Ro-
manian government.
The chairman of the Pres-
idents Conference said "I
was surprised to see the
Romanian community to be
so vital, so well organized
and so well attended." He
said that all these activities
were carried out not only
Belkin Resigns
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with the full knowledge of
the Romanian government
but with its active help.
Rabbi Miller said that
he did not know how many
of Romania's estimated
60,000 Jews want to leave
the country but he hoped
and believed that all those
who want to do so will be
able to do so. He said that
he, nonetheless, gave the
American Ambassador in
Bucharest a list of Jews
whose families in Israel
and elsewhere said thay
were prevented from leav-
ing the country.
Rabbi Miller, who visited
Jewish installations in both
Bucharest and a number of
other cities, said that as far
as he could ascertain the
synagogues were not merely
show pieces but vital parts
of the community.
He deplored the fact,
however, that there are only
two rabbis left in Romania
and expressed fear as to
what will happen after Ro-
mania's Chief Rabbi, Moses
Rosen, retires.
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The episode serves as one
of the proofs of Baron's con-
tention that the Jewish
community has met every
challenge facing it effec-
tively and creatively.
Rabbi Lauds Romania Jews
Mrs. Veil began her visit
with a work session at the
Health Ministry, with her
aides and Health Minister
Victor Shemtov's top offi-
cials taking part. She is the
only Jewish minister in the
French government.
Among other subjects, a
plan was outlined for a
cooperation agreement on
medical treatment and re-
search between Israel and
France.
Mrs. Veil also managed to
confer with various govern-
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Financed
how messengers were sent
to America to appeal to
charitable instincts of
American Jews, their love
for Palestine, and their sup-
port of the concept of Zion-
ism. The tight-knot struc-
ture of the Jewish
communities enabled the
messengers to concentrate
their efforts in areas where
they could get results.
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4,000.00
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579.13
9%
3,000.00
95.40
434.36
9%
2,000.00
63.60
289.56
9%
NEW YORK — Dr. Sam-
uel Belkin, president of
Yeshiva University for 32
years, has resigned because
of serious illness and has as-
sumed the newly created
post of chancellor.
The 64-year-old Dr.
Belkin, a Hellenist scholar,
played a major role in devel-
oping the university. Last
Sunday he entered Mount
Sinai Hospital in New York
where he had undergone
major surgery this summer
for an intestinal obstruc-
tion.
One of Dr. Belkin's major
achievements was the estab-
lishment of the Albert Ein-
stein College of Medicine, a
graduate school of Yeshiva.
It was the country's first
medical school under Jewish
auspices.
NEW YORK — Leonard
H. Rudolph, prominent
Pittsburgh business and
Jewish communal leader,
has been appointed chair-
man of the Council of Jew-
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds' task force on multi-
ple appeals. The task force
is concerned with the prob-
lems of multiple appeals in
behalf of Israel agencies and
institutions.
Rudolph, a former vice
president of the United Jew-
ish Federation of Greater
Pittsburgh, is chairman of
its social planning and
budgeting committee. In
more than 15 years of com-
munity activities, he has
served as well as the federa-
tion's campaign chairman,
as treasurer of the Jewish
Chronicle, and on the
boards of Montefiore Hospi-
tal and the Squirrel Hill Y.
He is a member of the board
of Israel Bonds, the Joint
Distribution Committee and
Technion.
Little Children
Upon the little children of
the schools does all the
world depend — Saved by
their breath of innocence
from coming to an end.
—The Talmud