36 Friday, April 28, 1918
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
WSU Archives to Receive Papers
of Late Professor Samuel Levin
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Letters and collected
works by the late Prof.
Samuel Levin will be pre-
sented to Wayne State Uni-
versity, where he had
served as a professor of eco-
nomics, 3 p.m. May 5 in the
Walter P. Reuther Library
of Labor History on campus.
The collection of the
Levin papers will be known
as the Prof. Samuel M.
Levin Collection and will be
housed in the WSU archives
in the Reuther Library.
Dr. Philip Mason, direc-
tor of the archives at WSU,
will preside. Addresses will
be delivered by Prof. Lawr-
ence Seltzer and Philip
Slomovitz, editor and pub-
. lisher of The Jewish News.
A reception will be hosted
by Prof. Levin's children:
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley
(Miriam) Friedman, Dr. and
Mrs. Herbert (Marjory) Le-
vin, Dr. and Mrs. Joseph
(Molly) Levin and Mr. and
Mrs. Bernard (Judy) Can-
tor.
Prior to the an-
nouncement of the pre-
sentation of the Levin
Collection to the univer-
sity, it was learned that
some letters written by
Prof. Levin and his
father, Rabbi Judah I.
Levin, spiritual leader of
the United Orthodox
Congregation in Detroit,
had been discovered in
the WSU archives.
The letters were found by
Natan Bachrach, a shaliakh
and director of the Hebrew
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PROF. LEVIN
Department of the Jewish
Community Center, who
had been doing research in
the archives.
The exchange of letters is
dated during the period
when Levin was a student
at the University of Michi-
gan in Ann Arbor.
The contents of the let-
ters are described by Rae
Goodman, an associate of
Bachrach's at the Jewish
Center:
The letters are all written
in Hebrew, both by father
and son, the language is
scriptural rather than mod-
ern.
The letters depict the life
of a Jewish student in Ann
Arbor at the turn of the cen-
tury, and the supportive
love and encouragement of
an Orthodox, yet very pro-
gressive father in Detroit.
The spirit of love, under-
standing, mutual admira-
tion and common interests,
permeate the letters. The
father dated his letters ac-
cording to the Jewish calen-
dar, and even resorted to
"numerology." His excite-
ment was evident when he
learned that his son has
founded the first "Society
for Jewish Students" in Ann
Arbor, (the only other one
being at Harvard). Hp
suggested that the club 136
named "Urim v' Tumim"
(sacred objects in the cus-
tody of the High Priest, used
as Oracles), and wrote that
"the spirit of the Lord will
hover over the Hebrew lan-
guage, which will be as an
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The son evaluated this
achievement of founding
the first Hebrew Club to
be known as the
"Menorah Society of
Michigan," in much the
same light. On March 7,
1910, he wrote his father
that the first meeting was
held in his quarters, and
described the event as: "I
have planted the root,
and this root will grow a
rare flower."
In the midst of advising
his son to preserve his
Jewishness, to adhere to the
laws of kashrut, and to put
on his tefilin regularly, the
father delighted in his son's
friendships with non-
Jewish American students
and advised him to "emu-
late their good qualities."
The life of a Jewish stu-
dent in Ann Arbor in 1908,
particularly of one who ob-
serves kashrut, was not an
easy one, according to the
Levin letters. Levin sus-
tained himself on cookies
when his landlady left for a
weekend in Toledo. All
stores being closed on Sun-
day, he could not even buy
himself a loaf of bread.
Levin spoke in his letters
to his father of "hazing" of
the freshmen, of the pre-
football rallies, the noise
and the music, so loud, "it
could split rocks," and the
"Yom Kippur" atmosphere
which pervaded the campus
after the loss of a ball game.
The hardships of com-
muting between Detroit
Ann Arbor are
graphically described
with humor in a letter of
Jan. 6, 1910, written by
Levin after a visit to De-
troit. A gusty wind, which
played havoc with his
hat,- a kind lady who re-
trieved it, strings holding
his packages together
that become untied,
strewing his belongings
in every direction, and
finally, -he sadly dis-
covered upon arrival in
Ann Arbor, the loss of a
box of home baked cakes.
His father described
them, their shape, size,
forin and amount of love
vested in them by his (the
younger Levin's) mother.
The letters reveal that
the University of Michigan
offered four credit-earning
courses in Hebrew, as far
back as 1908, the Bible
being used as the main
textbook.
The Hebrew Department
of the Jewish Center is
planning to use some of the
material for its students in
the advanced classes.
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