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State Dept. and Bnai Brith
Hail Timmerman's Release
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Our Great Loss Must Be Remembered
27th NISAN - YIZKOR DAY
Designated By the State of Israel
Shaarit Haplaytah
Holocaust Memorial Center Committee of Metropolitan Detroit
—in cooperation with the Jewish Community Council — Invites
the entire community to join in a
MEMORIAL ACADEMY
Tribute To Six Million Martyrs
of the unspeakable Nazi Genocide
Sun. at 12 Noon - April 30, 1978
Cong. B'nai David
24359 Southfield Rd., Between 9 & 10 Me
Jewish War Veterans Block Rose Post and
Boy Scouts of America Troop 23
in solemn color presentation
Suitable Photographic Exhibits On Display
35th Anniversary 1943-1978
Warsaw Ghetto-Uprising
REMEMBER 6,000,000
prison of Jewish editor and
publisher, Jacobo Timmer-
Department spokesman
Tom Reston added, "We
hope that whatever matters
remain pending in Mr.
Ri will be
handled expeditiously."
Timmerman's release,
more than a year after he
was arrested, was also
hailed by David M. Blum-
berg, president of Bnai
Brith. While describing it as
"an encouraging sign," he
pointed out that Timmer-
man remains under house
arrest. Nevertheless,
Blumberg added, "Bnai
Brith is hopeful that his re-
lease spells the beginning of
change in Argentina's pol-
icy toward humanitarian
concerns."
He paid tribute to the
White House and State De-
partment and members of
Congress whose interven-
tion helped secure Tim-
merman's release.
CJC Protests
Passion Play
MONTREAL (JTA) —
The Canadian Jewish Con-
gress has protested to the
West German Ambassador
to Canada, Dr. Rupprecht
von Keller, against the re-
cent announcement that the
1980 Passion Play in
Oberammergau will be
based on a "flagrantly
anti-Semitic text."
In a letter to the Ambas-
sador in Ottawa signed by
CJC executive vice-
president Alan Rose, the
CJC said: "It is inconceiva-
ble to the Canadian Jewish
Congress, as it must be to
our fellow citizens of all
faiths in Canada, that at a
time when we are witness-
ing a recrudescence of
neo-Nazism in the Federal
Republic of Germany and
elsewhere in Europe, an in-
citement to anti-Semitism
could be staged under the
guise of the religious pre-
sentation."
The letter added that the
CJC is "anxious to learn
what action is being consid-
ered by the Federal or
Bavarian (State) govern-
ments to prevent this anti-
Semitic travesty from tak-
ing place. We believe that
the Federal Republic of
Germany, which has sought
to overcome the dark his-
tory of the Nazi period, can-
not _permit such a public
spectacle.to take place."
Israel to Host
Sister Cities
NEW YORK—The world
meeting of Israel's twin
cities will be held in Israel
Sept. 17-22.
Sixteen U.S. cities -have
twin-cities in Israel, includ-
ing Oak Park, Mich., whose
twin city is Safed.
The heads of each delega-
tion will be received at the
residence of the president of
Israel and will travel
through much of the Holy
Land.
The Saga of -an Eminent Family
Ab , Sarah Goldberg in Cha p ter
of American Zionist History
■
At the crucial convention School of Medicine; An- career in America i
of the Zionist Organization drew, a-medical student; 1902. In 1918 he becarn
of America, in Cleveland, in Dale, a teacher; David, a associate editor and i
1921, when the rift occurred PhD in American
1920 editor of the Hebrel
between Chaim Weizmann
nation from Harvard monthly Hatoren. He wa
and Supreme Court Justice
University; Laura, an editor of the officio
Louis Dembitz Brandeis,
English teacher and Zionist bi-weekly, Da
there was drama and orat-
Daniel, a resident in Yiddishe Folk and con
ory. It was an age when
radiology. Amy also tributing editor of th
Yiddish shared a role equal
earned a PhD in French Jewish Morning Journa
to English. At the conven-
literature and lives in and Arnerikaner.
tion the most oratorical
France.
According to the Univer
anti-Brandeis speech was
Their home was a center sal Jewish Encyclopedia
by Abraham Goldberg, usu-
for the most distinguished Mr. Goldberg's influence oi
ally referred to as Ab.
in world Jewry. Sholem American Zionism began t■
Goldberg. Even the
Aleichem, Shmaryahu be felt soon after he arrive(
strongest of the Brandeis
vin, Louis Lipsky, Philip in the U.S. In 1903 he wa
supporters, Abba Hillel
Raskin, Ludwig Lewisohn, the co-founder am
Silver and Stephen Samuel
Bernard Richards, Saul president of the Poale Zion
Wise, sat in awe at the bril-
Raskin, Isaac Allen and In 1911 he was, the co
liance of the Goldberg
Meyer Weisgal were fre- founder and first secretor}
oratorical skill.
quent visitors, and the wit
of the Order Sons of Zion. He
It made him famous, and
and skillful conver-
was also a co-founder anc
Ab. Goldberg gained
sational ism that abounded many times president of thc
worldwide Jewish fascina-
should have beckoned for Histadrut Ivrit. In 1914 he
tion on his travels for the
transcriptions. They would became a member of the
Zionist cause in nearly all
have created inerasibility World Zionist Action:
parts of the globe. His wit,
for the grandest in humor. Committee; in 1920 a
his erudition, made him the
There was much of member of the Political
most distinguished of the
uniqueness in Ab. Goldberg Committee. During World
Yiddish orators of his day.
as it is now being recalled. War I, he was active in the
Thus, he actually There were perhaps 100 or creation of the People's Re-
fashioned a chapter in
more listings for Abraham lief Committee and of the
American Zionist history
Goldberg in the New York American Palestine Jewish
with his skill as interpreter
Telephone Directory. How Legion for Service in Pales-
of the movement. He died in could he be reached, when tine.
1942, six years before the
he was so deeply involved in
He assisted Chaim
rebirth of Israel, and he had
the Zionist movement? He Weizmann in the estab-
left an indelible mark on gained added fame with the lishment of the Keren
Zionist history.
listing of Abraham Zionist
Hayesod in 1921 and was
The recollection of him Goldberg. his special emissary to
assumed revivalism
Following her husband's the non-Zionists in the
when his widow, Sara
death, Mrs. Goldberg con- founding of the Jewish
Dancis Goldberg, died on
tinued to be an active Agency, of which he was
April 3 at age 92. A turn to
member of many Jewish a member of the Execu-
the record of her career organizations, among them tive.
affirmed the view that in
Esrath Noshim. She also
He is past vice president
the two personalities
finished her husband's last of the American Jewish
there was an unerasable
book, "Pioneers and Buil- Congress, and became a
chapter of American
ders," and had it published. member of the executive
Zionist history.
It was a compilation of some committee of the World
Sarah Goldberg was as
of his own biographical Jewish Congress in 1936. In
much a pioneer Zionist as
Yiddish articles which he 1939 he was elected chair-
her distinguished husband
had translated into English. man of the administrative
and she retained that role to
Mrs. Goldberg distributed committee of the World
her dying day. But she had a
the book to libraries here Federation of Polish Jews.
very rare achievement to
and in Israel. He also was chairman of the
her credit. She was among
A devoted Zionist since Jewish Council of Russian
the earliest of the advocates
age 14, Mr. Goldberg War Relief.
of feminist rights and pre-
began his journalistic
— P.S.
ceded the ERA, the current
battle for equal rights for
women, by some 70 years,
and she was among the first
women to become pharma-
cists.
How remarkable that the
Goldbergs now should count
in the family ranks many
men and women of distinc-
tion. They had five children
and all attained fame.
Daughter Natalie became
a physician, Ruth was
graduated from Barnard,
Mordecai became an attor-
ney, Joseph a pediatrician
and Ranana became • a
statistician and author.
Among the
grandchildren are Joel,
an attorney; Jeremy, a
computer specialist;
Linda, a college Latin
American history
teacher; GeeGee, a high
Michigan Hon.. Speaker Bobby D. Crim, left, ac-
school physical educa-
cepts the Great American Award from International
tion teacher; Amy and
Bnai Brith Vice President Jack Spitzer for his "dis-
Barbara, named for their
grandfather (AB), musi- tinguished and enduring contributions of a
humanitarian nature" and for his "dedication to the
cians; Bobby, a profes-
sional violinist; Joey, welfare of the people of the entire state of Michigan."
chairman of pediatrics at Crim received the award from the Lansing Bnai Brith
New York Universit y Lodge at a black-tie dinner given in his honor at the
Kellogg Center, East Lansing.
House Speaker Crim Wins
Bnai Brith Fund Award