7 MIONINS THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hebrew U. Holds Student Elections JERUSALEM (ZINS) — In elections to the Students Council of the Hebrew Uni- versity the Likud slate won 37 delegate seats out of a to- tal of 94. The Ma'arach list elected 13 delegates — a decline of almost 50 percent compared with the previous balloting. The joint list of Arab students and left-wing elements placed 19 dele- gates in the Council while the religious bloc elected 10 delegates. Right in Your Own Driveway! \ _ THE TUNE -UP MAN ■ ■ ■ ■ They come to your home or office with their "garage-on- wheels. - Valet service that doesn't cost one penny extra! Expert diagnostic tune-up Electronic analyzer -- all engine systems Professionally trained mechanics Perfect results assured Call Sanford Rosenberg 398-3605 6-cyl. cars $31.50 includes EVERYTHING: Labor AND Parts. 4 and 8 cyl. comparatively iow. Mastercharge and BankAmericard `Commitment' : Living Labor Zionist Movement in America By ALLEN A. WARSEN The origin of the Labor Zionist movement goes back to the last decade of the 19th and to the first of this cen- tury. The movement started simultaneously in Ger- many, Switzerland and in the Russian Pale of Settle- ment. Its ideologists were Dr. Nachman Syrkin, Dov Ber Borochov and Dr. Chaim Zhitlovsky. In the United States small groups of Poale Zion (Workers of Zion) began to form early this century; and in 1905 there were enough groups to form a national organization. It was offi- cially established at the Philadelphia convention the same year. Three years later the Jewish National Workers Alliance (Der Far- band) was organized. In 1972 it changed its name to Labor Zionist Alliance. This movement Jacob Katzman portrays interest- ingly and vividly in his me- moir "Commitment,” sub- titled "The Labor Zionist Life-Style in America" (Labor Zionist Letters, New York, 1975). The memoir is preceded by a "Foreword" by Marie Syrkin. 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However, the author is only indirectly concerned with party ideology. His main interest, as the book's sub-title indicates, is the movement's life-style. He is interested in matters such as self-help, mutual-aid, meetings, picnics, and "chavershaft." What is "chavershaft?" "In the movement," the author explains, "the chav- erim (friends, fellows, mem- bers) formed an enlarged, closely knit family. They often felt closer to one an- other and had more in corn- mon than with their blood relations . . . To be sure we had an affection for aunts, uncles and cousins . . . But the truth of the matter is that we spent more time, and more happy times, with my parents' chaverim and their children." Just as "chavershaft" was an integral part of the life-style of the Poale Zion, so were its meetings. There were weekly branch meetings, executive meet- ings, Friday night lecture gatherings, and Saturday night "Mlave Malkes." - The Mlave Malke is the counterpart of the "Ka- boles Shabes." Both were introduced by Jewish mys- tics in the Middle Ages. The Cabalists associated the Sabbath with a queen or a bride, and as queen they inaugurated the Sab- bath by reciting special psalms and singing hymns. The best known hymn is "Lecho Dedi" ("Come, my friend, to meet the Bride") com- posed by Rabbi Solomon Halevy Akabetz. In similar manner they ushered out the Queen-Sab- bath. At present the bidding farewell to the Queen, the Mlave Malke, is celebrated on Saturday nights with distinctive meals and "Zmires" (table hymns). . At the party meetings chaverim were eager to show off their skill in public speaking and their often rudimentary knowledge of parliamentary procedure. Humorous by-play occurred frequently. Once at a meet- ing a chaver kept insisting that he wants the floor even though the subject was al- ready closed. In exaspera- tion, the chairman finally told him: "Sit down because I do not recognize you." — "What do you mean you don't recognize me," the chaver exclaimed in aston- ishment. "We played pin- ochle last night. Since its formation the Labor Zionist movement has participated in all phases of American union activities. The Poale Zion even established unions of certain trades. In Chalsea, where the author grew up, the Poale Zion organized a union of rag-pickers con- sisting mostly of bearded orthodox Jews. The union did not last long. The Poale Zion were also active in the fight against child-labor, for better work- ing conditions in the facto- ries and shops, and in the struggle . against restrictive immigration legislation aimed primarily against Jews. When the Bolsheviks gained power in Russia, a split occurred in the ranks of the Poale Zion. "Some of yesterday's chaverim became today's enemies. Not only branches of the movement, but also fami- lies were split assunder." Still, the majority of the members remained loyal. to their party and opposed to Communism. Their opposition grew in intensity when the Com- munists, especially the Jew- ish Communists hailed the Arab massacre of defense- less yeshiva students in Hebron in 1929 as a revolt against Zionist imperialism and acclaimed the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem as a re- volutionary hero. From that time on "the chaverim re- fused to sit at the same ta- ble or to appear on any plat- form together with them." The chaverim, moreover, gave expression to their feel- ings of abhorrence by put- ting the Communists "in the dock of public opinion" by staging public trials throughout the country. The most famous took place in Cooper Union in New York. "In the folklore of the move- ment, there remained espe- cially the story of Hayim Greenberg's plea for the defense. In a brilliant peror- ation, he pleaded for the Jewish Communists—on the grounds of insanity." 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