36 Friday, March 12, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Jewry Recalls Arthur Ruppin, Promoted Jewish Settlement
BY ALEX BEIN
World Zionist Organization
Information Division
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niversary of whose birth
(March 1, 1876), is currently
being marked in the Jewish
world, was one of the great-
est personalities in the his-
tory of modern Jewry and of
the Zionist movement.
A statistician and demog-
rapher, he directed the Bu-
reau for Jewish Statistics
and Demography which was
founded in Berlin in 1903.
While in that post, he pub-
lished his monumental work
"Die Juden der Gergenwart
(a shortened version of
which appeared in English
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Although not yet a Zion-
ist when the first edition of
his German work was
brought out, the book
brought him close to the
Zionist movement and to its
goal of solving the "Jewish
problem" by founding a
Jewish society in Eretz Is-
rael based on systematic
urban and rural settlement.
In 1907 he was inducted
by Herzl's successor to the
presidency of the World
Zionist Organization,
David Wolffsohn, and by
Prof. Otto Warburg, head
of its Palestine Depart-
ment, to undertake a study
of the situation in Eretz Is-
rael and to probe the possi-
bilities of Zionist work in
the country. The following
year he was appointed
head of the Palestine office
opened in Jaffa in 1908,
and from then until his
death, on Jan. 1, 1943,
Ruppin was responsible
for the work of Jewish
land settlement in Eretz
Israel.
Forced to leave the coun-
try by the Turkish govern-
ment, he directed a-id activi-
ties for the Yishuv during
the World War I years, and
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(Copyright 1976, JTA, Inc.)
An Orthodox rabbinical
official has offered to assist
in any effort to revise Social
Security regulations in his
opposition to a proposal that
Widows facing a severe cut
in their Social Security pay -
ments if they re-marry
should choose to live with a
new-found mate without
marriage.
The proposal was made
by Henry Finkiel, 68, a
Warsaw-born Jew who
came penniless to the
United -States in 1942, oper-
ated a hardware firm for 25
years before retiring and
NEW YORK — An explo-
sion police said- was heard
almost a mile away shat-
tered windows in a building
occupied by the Czechoslo-
vak and Soviet national air-
lines, authorities report.
No injuries were reported
after the blast shortly be-
fore midnight Monday, but
damage extended to build-
ings in the vicinity.
A young man claiming to
represent the Jewish Armed
Resistance Strike Force tel-
ephoned the New York Post
to claim responsibility for -
the bombing.
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Europe, and in solving the
From the outset Ruppin
problems resulting from aspired to purchase contig-
their migration. uous tracts of land for agri-
The most important of cultural settlement and to
Ruppin's activities took create a self-governing pop-
place in the first period in ulation. It was he who en-
which he paved the way couraged the acquisition of
for systematic agricul- the Jezreel Valley and other
tural settlement in cooper- regions. He was also instru-
ation with the second mental in the establishment
Aliya which began arriv- of Tel 'Aviv and in the pur-
chase of land on Mount Car-
ing to the country in 1905.
mel and its slopes in Haifa,
His efforts led to the rec- and in Jerusalem (the Re-
ognition of the fact that the havia Quarter.).
most important factor in
Deeply concerned with
settlementactivities was the the problem of Arab-Jew-
settler himself, and that the ish cooperation, he be-
settlement agency and the lieved it necessary to
settler must work in conso- strengthen the economic
nance as equal partners in and political position
every enterprise. Ruppin the Jews in the count
thus created the proper con- as to create a situatio
ditions for transforming the which both parties would
enthusiasm of the pioneers be willing to cooperate to
into a driving force in the their mutual benefit.
settlement of the country. It
Ruppin paved the transi-
was this basic outlook that tion from political Zionism,
lent a fillip to new forms of which many people re-
settlement —,the kevutza garded to be more of a de-
and the kibutz, the moshav clarative than a substantive_
ovdim and the moshav shi- nature; to pragniatic Zion-
tufi, middle class villages, ism in which practical set-
etc. Ruppin came out in de- tlement work and political
fense of these forms of set- effort were but different
tlement against their oppo- facets of one and the same
nents who regarded them enterprise — the upbuilding
merely as costly and worth- of the land and the Jewish
less experiments.
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Rabbi Hits Senior Cohabitation to Gain Social Security Funds
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when he returned to Jerusa-
lem in 1920, he became a
member of the Zionist Corn-
mission. Subsequently, he
was elected a member of the
Zionist Executive and of the
Executive of the Jewish
Agency. He was also profes-
sor of Jewish sociology in
the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
Ruppin's greatest achieve-
ments — outside the field of
Jewish sociology — were in
the realm of Jewish land
settlement.
His xvork may be divided
into four periods: in the first
period (1908-14) he laid the
foundations for Jewish set-
tlement in the Country; in
the second (1914-18); his
endeavors were directed to
saving the small Jewish
community of Eretz Israel
from destruction; in the
third .(1920-33), he played a
decisive role in the system-
atic expansion of Jewish set-
tlement in town and village ,
and in the consolidation of
the country's economy; and
in the last period (1933-42),
when he was a recognized
expert on Palestine's econ-
omy, he played a leading
role in the absorption of the
German Jewish aliya and
refugees from Nazi occupied
GR 6-3401
who now lives with his wife rity law does not oppose
in Long Beach, N.Y.
such arrangements.
The opposition was ex-
According to the publica-
pressed by Rabbi Israel Kla-
tion, Rabbi Klavan replied
van, executive vice president that while he "sympathizes
of the Rabbinical Council of
with the problem raised, the
America. The 'opposing solution proposed by 'the
views were published in the
writer is quite unaccepta-
JASA/Brookdale News, a
ble, since it tends to encour-
publication issued by the age promiscuity which un-
Jewish Association for Serv-
fortunately already is on
ices for the Aged for retired
the increase in our society."
Jews of New York City and
Rabbi Klavan added
Nassau, Suffolk and
that "to have_ the elderly,
Westchester counties.
Finkiel, described as an
active member of the JAS-
A/Brookdale Senior Citi-
zen Center in Long Beach,
made the proposal in dis-
HAIFA — The director of
cussing the problems of
the
Nazi War Crimes Docu-
the woman whose husband
has died and whose chil- mentation Center in Haifa,
dren are married. "She is Tuvia Friedman, has pro-
left alone, sometimes for -posed that a committee of
many years and often in European Jews be estab-
good health. Social Secu- lished in Zurich to deal with
claims for Jewish property
rity and health insurance
are provided and those stolen by the Germans, and
problems are solved" but with Germany's "farcical"
war crimes trials.
the problem of loneliness is
After returning from a
not, he wrote.
five-week
visit to Germany
If a widow in those cir- and attending
several trials,
cumstances meets a corn-
Tetible man and if there are Friedman said Germany's
no financial problems and
Israel Expecting
they agree to marry, the so-
lution to the problem of
Tourism Increase
loneliness for both "is easy,"
Finkiel asserted.
JERUSALEM (ZINS)
He said the idea might oc- The director of Israel's
cur to the new partners
Tourism Ministry expressed
that, with their incomes
confidence that the year
combined and with one rent
1976 will witness a signifi-
bill, instead of two, their
cant increase in the number
lives "might be easier. But
of Jewish travelers to Israel.
the 50 percent cut in a wom-
According to his esti-
an's check makes marriage
mates there should be about
impractical, and that alone
500,000. Jewish tourists this
often decides the future of year, compared with 300,000
two lives." If that problem who came last year, and
bars marriage, Finkiel
roughly 400,000 who-visited
argued, the two elderly per-
Israel in 1972. The Ministry
sons could rent a small
spokesman stressed the fact
apartment and live in it that 88 percent of the Jews
"without the blessings of an
living in the United States
official wedding." He de- have still to make their
clared that the Social Secu- maiden trip to Israel.
4or
whom Jewish tradition
upholds as our models and
teachers, succumb to the
same temptations for eco-
nomic and financial rea-
sons, would have a devas-
tating effect."
He proposed instead what
he described as "a much
more radical current Social
Security regulations "seem
to reward promiscuity and
punish probity in marital
relations."
'Germany Has Re-Paid Little
of What It Stole From Jews'
reparations of $20 billion is
only two percent of what
was stolen from Jews
throughotit Europe.
Friedman said a commit-
tee of European Jews would
not be dependent on Ger-
man aid as Israel was.
He charged that the
Nazi war crime trials had
now become a farce, aided
by the absence of Jewish
spectators. He said the
committee could stir inter-
est in the trials and insure
the criminals are pun-
ished.
Friedman said only one of
the 15 former Maidanek
camp guards currently
being tried in Germany
actually under arrest, a'
each of the 15 is represent
by two lawyers paid for '
the German government.
Faithful Observance
They who are insulted
and do not insult others,
they who are reviled and
retort not, that observe the
law with love and are happy
even under suffering, — of
them the Scripture saith:
"They that love him be as
the sun when he goeth forth
in his might." —Talmud
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