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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel High Schools Barely
Teach U.S. Jewish History
Detroit Service Group Head Esther Prussian
Will Be Honored at Annual Stag Day Event
ESTHER PRUSSIAN
Miss Prussian came to
Detroit for a visit in 1924
and remained to become
the founder of the DSG.
Asked by Morris Wald-
man, a former professional
director of United Jewish
Charities if she was in-
terested in working on the
first campaign, Miss Prus-
sian agreed to stay tem-
porarily. She saw more
than $160,000 raised in
that first campaign.
She agreed to stay in
Detroit and saw more than
$700,000 was raised in the
1926, 1927 and 1928 cam-
paigns. She later was
elected secretary of the
DSG following its forma-
tion in 1926.
In the years that
followed, Miss Prussian
became involved in many
aspects of fund raising and
communal planning. She
was instrumental in the
development of both the
Women's and Junior
Divisions, helped to
organize the first DSG mis-
sion to Israel and the annual
Stag Day for campaign
workers.
On the 60th anniversary
of the UJC, she was honored
"for her many years of
dedicated communal ser-
vice."
ORT Parley Head
NEW YORK — Mrs.
Gert White of Springfield,
N.J., has been named
chairman of the forth-
coming 11th national
board conference of Wo-
men's American ORT, to
be held Oct. 24-28 in Cin-
cinnati.
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NEW YORK — Shirley
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prominent Westchester
communal and civic figure,
has been appointed chair-
man of the American
Jewish Committee's com-
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committee oversees the
human relations programs
of the American Jewish
Committee on the local level
through 23 offices in major
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in the United Sates, as
revealed in the study,
adversely affects the
understanding of the
Jewish community in the
U.S. by Israeli Jews and
therefore makes their
compatability more
difficult.
Surkis found that most
high schools teach about
American Jewry in only
one course on "Jewish
Pistory in the Modern
Era," in which only a
minimal amount of time
is devoted to U.S. Jewish
history.
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K R E SG E FA MI LY CO N C ERTS (6 Su n. aft. a t 3: 30)
Prussian,
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Esther
Detroit Service Group direc-
tor, will be honored at the
group's 27th Stag Day to
take place Sept. 15 at Tam
O'Shanter Country Club.
According to DSG presi-
dent, Arthur Howard, the
occasion will mark the
success of the 1976 Allied
Jewish Campaign and the
50th anniversary of the
DSG.
Isadore Sobeloff, ex-
ecutive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
from 1937-1963, also will
participate. Sobeloff is
ISIDORE SOBELOFF
living in Los Angeles.
Stag Day Chairman George M. Zeltzer,
Milton Lucow said the day hospitality committee.
will include golf, tennis Oscar Braun is golf com-
and an award presenta- mittee chairman. Myron L.
tion.
Milgrom is prize committee
Stag Day committee chairman, with Sam Rich,
members include Mitchell co-chairman.
Feldman, hospitality ,chair-
Anniversary chairmen
man; Oscar Band, Arthur are Leonard M. Simons and
Beckwith, Nelson Dembs, George M. Stutz.
Dr. Leon Fill, Harold N.
Requests for tee-off times
Finney, Gabriel Moscow, must be made no later than
Samuel Pearlman, Sanford Wednesday. For reser-
L. Perlman, Nathan Sober- vatins, call Miss Prussian at
man, Jack J. Surnow, the Federation office, 965-
William J. Weinstein and 3939.
NEW YORK — Israeli
students receive a skimpy
and unbalanced view of
the history and
accomplishments of
American Jewry in their
high school studies, due
primarily to the
inadequate material on
the subject found in
Israeli history texts.
This finding ' was
reported by the Israel
office of the American
Jewish Committee, which
released a two-year study
on "Teaching About
American Jewry in
Israeli High Schools."
The study, which was
financed by a grant from
the American Jewish
Committee's Jacob
Blaustein Institute for
the Advancement of
Human Rights, was
conducted by Reuven
Surkis, director of the
Historical Society of
Israel.
In an introduction to the
study, Dr. M. Bernard
Resnikoff, director of the
American Jewish
Committee's Israel office,
pointed out that the poor
information that Israeli
students have about Jews
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