_ 12 Friday, August 11, 1918 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 40 41•41 41 40 41 40 40•41 41 41 41 40 41 41 41 Gi 41 41 41 41 41 40 40 40 NOW ON SALE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Innovation in kitchen appliances to make food processing quick and easy! • • • •• 40% OFF 40 41 41 41 • • • 14k COLD CHAINS • 40% OFF • • [OSCAR BRAUN'S C 3406 W. 12 RU LE. BERKLEY,-MICN. ., .r 1108-Iderlm e, 8 Meeks I. el Orsoallo14 Hours: Mon. to Sat. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 40 SKI1-01111111 • au= moms • • 41•40 41 41•41 41 41 40 CP 41 41 40 CP CP 40 40 40 The book shelf of every Jewish home can now be en- riched by the authentic and exciting biography of a Jewish hero of our time, the heroic rabbi of Nazi Ger- many, Rabbi Leo Baeck. Although the title of Leonard Baker's book is grim, "Days of Sorrow and Pain — Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews," (Macmillan) the content is stirring and stimulating. Many a rabbi in Jewish history became a martyr, gave up his life "Al Kidush Hashem"— for the sanctifi- cation of the name of God. Rabbi Baeck, however was not a martyr. He lived for his people and thereby gave the gift of life to thousands of Jews. So powerful was his personality that he was able to defy Hitler. The Nazis were afraid to touch him. He was the kind of Jew Hitler had never known or imagined — a man unmistakably German, speaking and writing in the purest German style, yet carrying his Jewish identity proudly and with dignity. He survived the concentration camps and the Holocaust unscathed. He kept the promise he made at the beginning of the Nazi regime "I will go when I am the last Jew alive in Germany." His supreme courage and astute statesmanship made it possible for more than a third of the Jews of Ger- many to escape the gas chambers and find new lives in America, in Israel and elsewhere. Other, younger, rabbis left their doomed fatherland with his bles- sing. 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Rabbi Baeck was glad to meet a young rabbi from America, and he offered to show me his favorite synagogue, the Progressive Synagogue called, the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, the Pheasant Street Synagogue. It proved to be a memorably beautiful example of the new type of synagogue architecture for which Berlin had become famous. I especially ad- mired its double dome. Many years later I was to see it again — as the ruin which Hitler's Storm Troopers had made of it on Kristallnacht, "The Night of Broken Glass," that night of Nov. 9, 1938, when Hitler carried out his first physical assault upon the Jews of Ger- many, ordering his Storm Troopers to break into Jewish owned shops and to destroy all synagogues. In the spring of 1957 I was in Germany again at the in- vitation of the Federal Re- public of West Germany to witness the rebirth of Ger- man democracy and the new conditions of Jewish life in post-Nazi Germany. I was walking along that sparkl- ing shopping avenue of West Berlin, the Kur- fuerstendam, when my eye was attracted by a cross street sign Fasanenstrasse. It rang a bell in my memory. Instinc- tively I turned to walk along that street until I came upon a magnificent ruin — the Pheasant Street Synagogue, Leo Baeck's favorite synagogue. I recog- nized the double dome even in the ruins When I returned to my hotel that day, I found a telephone message from Heinz Galinski, the director of the Jewish Community Office in Berlin. He invited me to appear at the site of the Fasanenstrasse Synagogue ruin to partici- pate in the ground-breaking for the new Jewish com- munity center and synagogue which the Berlin government was building. This was part of a West German reparations plan for the rebuilding of all the Nazi-ruined synagogues of Germany and of Europe. The architect's design for the new building cal- led for the inclusion of some of the surviving elements of Baeck's synagogue in the new structure — a living wit- ness to the shame of Nazism and the beauty of democracy. The spirit of the heroic Rabbi Baeck lives in that new center which I visited on a third arrival in Germany, again at the invitation of the German government. No Jew should regard his tour of Europe complete without seeing that re- markable monument to the rabbi as hero, Rabbi Leo Baeck. I am person- ally proud to have touched that great man's life, even if ever so tangentially. I have to admit that the early chapters of the book which delineate the pulpit career of a scholarly young German rabbi may appear to be too uneventful for the average reader, but when this story of Rabbi Baeck arrives at the Nazi period, the book comes alive, be- comes a thrilling story, and even the average lay reader cannot put the book down until he has finished it. This biography of the ideal rabbi turns out to be one of the finest examples of the epic literature of the Holocaust. Teacher Training for Russian Jews NEW YORK (JTA) — Twenty young Soviet Jews will enter Brooklyn College this fall, benefitting from the collaborative efforts of school and Board of Higher Education officials, and Un- ited Jewish Appeal- Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign-supported agen- cies. The 20 entering freshmen will begin a unique, new Russian offering in Brook- lyn College's bilingual teacher-training program. Teacher training pre- pares them for careers in bilingual education at the elementary school level. A second bilingual package, as yet only in the early stages of development, is slated to offer students pre- paration to teach in junior and senior high schools. " - ",■■• 1