• - 72 Friday, September 24, 1976 • • • • • THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Hebrew Poetess Elisheva Best wishes to all our friends and relatives for a happy New Year the Proselyte as a Hebrew poetess, al- though born of Christian : MR. & MRS. NATHAN BARBAS parents and later con- AND FAMILY • verted to Judaism was Oak Park • Elisheva—the Proselyte. • Born Elizaveta Zhir- kova in 1888, the daugh- A Healthy & Happy ter of a Russian father EVELYN & AL BROOK New Year to Our and Irish mother, Relatives and Friends Elisheva became in- Wish their relatives & terested in Jewish tradi- friends A Healthy & tion following a Shabat ABE & LEE CORMAN Happy New Year evening visit to a Jewish friend's home. The scene 1 11 11 11 1 11 11 11 1 11 11 11 1 11 1 111 1 11 1 111 1 11 1 11 11 11 1 11 11L 11 11 1 11 11 11 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111 ▪ of the girl's mother light- ing the Shabat candles New Year's Best Wishes reciting the brahot To All Our Friends & Relatives = and became imbedded in her mind, and led her to dis- ERNEST & OLGA ADLER cover more of this "new" And Family lifestyle. 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111r She became fond of 5 111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Yiddish and began to ARDMORE SHOE REPAIR AND THE SHERBERG FAMILY study it, finding it fairly easy. Like all her family Wish Their Friends, Customers and Family she had a gift for lan- A Happy New Year guages. One of her Chatham Square Shopping Center brothers was a professor 25796 Middlebelt-11 Mile Farmington Hills, Mich. 474-8585 in the Moscow High School for Oriental lan- guages. It was the same brother who gave her her BEST WISHES FOR A first Hebrew grammar book. HEALTHY HAPPY NEW YEAR Since she knew German she found it simple to learn JULES, ROSE & WENDY FAYNE Yiddish but an unexpected difficulty occurred. The Hebrew element was quite foreign to her. PHILIP & MITZI FIELD Yet it was just those in- explicable words which Wish All Their Family & Friends called forth her greatest a Happy, Healthy & Peaceful interest; and she began to New Year wish to study Hebrew. She began to attend the evening classes of the "Lovers of the Hebrew Tongue" in Moscow and AND Family MR. & MRS. STAN GITTLEMAN found the language an in- Wish all their relatives and friends exhaustible mine of A Very Happy, Healthy & Prosperous poetry. Her desire to study the New Year Hebrew and Yiddish lit- eratures grew stronger and her efforts brought To All Our Friends in Detroit and her to a distinguished Hebrew style. At the members of Detroit Club of North Miami Beach same time she began A Healthy, Happy, Prosperous New Year translating from the JOSEPH H.SIEGEL and Family Hebrew and Yiddish into Russian. Her renderings ...iiiiimmiumilimmlimmillimmilimmillimilimmilmimpluitittinummium : of Nomberg, Anochi and Rabbi Judah Halevi were Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy New Year = printed in the Jewish Shalom = - - paper "Yevreshkaya - - -_ Zhisn" in 1915. In addi- = Dr. & Mrs. David Silver and Sheldon Silver . JO - 23133 Farmington Rd. Farmington, Mich. 48024 Rattitttimitimmitutilititimintiimitititimiiiiiimittititililimmilmilitiiiiittiii r : = A HAPPY HEALTHY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR To all of our family and friends MICHAEL & BARI SILVER 18849 Lincoln Rd. Southfield, Mich. 48076 • Best wishes for a Happy, Healthy new Year to all our Family & Friends • MR. & MRS. JULIUS STOBINSKY r • • • • • • • • • •• ...............-..................0 41:«••• ■••■■• MR.& MRS. SAM WEIMAN 11 Wish all their family and friends I iA Happy Healthy Prosperous New Year 1 cwz Good Health and Happiness for our Baubie & Zida ALAN, LAURIE, MARC, WENDY MARGO, MARLA & STUART 1 Three Requisites A newly-engaged can- tor used the Rosh Hashana service to dis- play his vocal talents. He sang the prayers, to his own satisfaction at least, repeating the same words many times and prolong- ing the service until late in the afternoon. At the conclusion of the service, the cantor ap- proached the rabbi to wish him a happy new year and to hear the com- pliments of the spiritual leader for the manner in which he led the congre- gation in prayer. The rabbi returned his greeting and added: "It is written in the "Ethics of the Fathers." `The world is based on three things — Torah, prayer and deeds of kind- ness.' Blessed is our con- gregation which fulfills these three requisites. I teach them the Torah; you pray for them; and they perform deeds of kindness by listening to both of us." become my lullaby In dreams unfelt. unknown. To The mournful lilt sped afar, Far as the distant town With Jewish Book Month approaching, the names of famous Jewish writers come to mind. One writer, who gained fame 1 Inspired by Sabbath Rite MR. & MRS. STEVEN DISKIN AND FAMILY Of Oak Park Wish all their friends and family a happy healthy New Year I I I I I , ....i vtlIlittuttlimmittfitmlIttifitmlittliiu — = — = = A Healthy Happy = New Year to All our Friends and Relatives —= = - - 7 :+ Mr. & Mrs. Irving Gould E.. = — .1" Southfield ii itiittittimmiimmtmultitmmtimii Healthy and Peaceful New Year to all My Relatives and Friends = = - = NATE MALLIN, Locksmith = Wishes all his relatives, = = friends & customers a healthy and happy New Year = = SttitttlitilltimummilittIttlattlittlifir .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • MR. & MRS. BERNARD MALAMUD • • • ILENE KAREN & KENNETH • • • • • • • • • Wish all our relatives • ,- • & friends a Happy & Healthy New Year • • MR. & MRS. BERNIE MARKOFSKY & FAMILY ELISHEVA Oak Park wish their friends & relatives a Healthy & Happy New Year. MRS. SANDOR GRUNWALD tion she translated stories by Shofman, Brenner and Berkovitch. Elisheva was gradually Best Wishes to all our MR. & MRS. influenced by the Jewish friends and family for a D. HOSHKOVITZ National Renaissance happy New Year Wish their friends and the awakening of the MR. & MRS. and relatives Zionist idea. Having mar- ried the devoted Zionist a Happy New Year BEN MASLOWSKY Simeon Bichovsky she took the Hebrew form of I her name, Elisheva, and Wishing all our relatives Wishing our Relatives passed through all the and friends a very Healthy a Very Happy & & Friends experiences of Russian Healthy New Year and Happy New Year Jewry. During the first World Anne And Albert Jacobs JUDY & SAM SUGERMAN War, when Jewish re- Southfield fugees came to Riazan, she devoted herself to the edu- tr E cation of their children, I = Wishing All Our Friends and I Happy & Healthy . 7 .2 - Relatives A Happy, Healthy —= organizing classes in I New Year to all I = and Prosperous New Year which she taught them our relatives I Hebrew and Bible. She felt Mr. & Mrs. Iry Vinokour, and friends and Family it her mission to spread Southfield, Mich. Bozsi & Zoli Kreisman the knowledge of Hebrew. Her first poems ap- L peared in volume XIII of "Hatekufa." Since that MR. & MRS. BEN ZAGER Esther & Aaron Malamud time her work has been Oak Park published in all serious Wish all relatives and Hebrew journals. In addi- Wish all their family & friends a Happy and tion she wrote stories and friends a Happy & Healthy Healthy New Year literary criticism. Fi- New Year nally, she came to Israel to find that the Hebrew language had indeed be- come a living well. Best Wishes For a Elisheva was heard of Healthy Happy New Year in the literary world whenever she published MARVIN RUTH & LIBBY WAIN her slender volumes of verse which all critics re- ceived with enthusiasm. This, however, was not MR. & MRS. LEO H. WILNER enough to make a living in Palestine and she was Wish All Their Relatives & Friends employed. as a typist at Rutenberg's power-house A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous New Year in Tel Aviv. In addition to her poems she published a long novel entitled "Sim- HANAN & GOLDIE WEISMAN taot" (By-Ways) dealing &mit, Michael & Sharma with the life of Soviet Wish all of our relatives & friends a Bohemians. It was very Healthy & Happy New Year. warmly received by Heb- May you be inscribed in the book of life for a good year. rew critics. She died in 1949. A sample of her poetry follows: Sabbath Eve A city afar appears to me With a guiet evening o'erhead, While the house where I was born Stands in the street as - though dead. Even the trees were hushed, The tired leaves slowly fell, While the evening in the crystal sky Lit the Sabbath stars as well. And a lad swayed far away Over an old, old tome, Studying with ancient melody In an aged house, study's home. MEYER AND BESS EISENBERG Wish all our Relatives and Good Friends A Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year 11 1 111 1 111 1 111 I CANTOR & MRS. NICHOLAS FENAKE AND DAUGHTER JUDY 3050 CONGRESS AVE. /202 WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. 33401 Best wishes for a healthy, happy New Year -71111111$11111111 I 0