THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

DIAMOND BAKERY

6722 Orchard Lake Rd., South of Maple
West Bloomfield Plaza
626 2212

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A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM
Ed, Joe and Sam

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Honey Cake, Sponge Cake, Challa, Mandel Bread,
Angel Wings, Soup Nuts and More
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• Miami Bake Shoppe
• Gourmet Cheese Headquarters
• Complete line of
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• Complete Dairy Dept.
• Cut Flowers available

We regularly carry many fresh fruit-
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markets call "hard. to Get."

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Mon. thru Sat. 9-7
Sunday 10-5

557-6820

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Thank you, again,
. for your continued patronage

Personal Chronicle
of Chaim Raphael

By ALLEN WARSEN

. Chaim Raphael, author of
"A Feast of History" and
"The Walls of Jerusalem,"
has produced a personal
chronicle titled
"Encounters with the
Jewish People," published
by Behrman House.
Like other chroniclers,
Raphael begins his narra-
tive with his family sur-
name. Originally Pruss, his
father, on arriving in
England in 1895,
Anglicized it to
Rabinovitch, the surname
of the great Yiddish writer
Sholom Aleichem.
Interestingly, the
surname-changes are in-
tertwined with his com-
prehensive study of the
process of Jewish name-
changing and its causes.
Among the names he cites
are: "Katz" — "Keats";
"Levine" — "Le Vien";
"Emile Herzog" — "Andre
Maurois"; "Erich Weiss" —
"Harry Houdini"; "Avron
Goldbogen" — Mike Todd."
The Warner brothers' origi-
nal surname was Eichel-
baum.
However, history's
most celebrated case of
name-changing was that
of the Moses Men-
delssohn family.
Until about the 19th Cen-
tury, German Jews were
known by their forenames
and places of birth. A good
example is the name Fritz
Hamburger (Fritz of Ham-
burg).
Similarly, the great
Jewish philosopher Moses
Mendelssohn was known by
'his forename Moses and his
native town Dessau (Moses
Dessau). However, as he be-
came famous, he assumed
the surname Mendelssohn
(son of Mendel) "with the
aim of expressing the new
harmony that could exist in
being both a Jew and- a
German."
But his son, Abraham, a
convert to Christianity,
changed his surname to
Bartholdy-Mendelssohn.
He assumed the name
Bartholdy "for the sake of
the children" and because
his "brother-in-law, born
Solomon," had taken that
name.
Abraham insisted that
his son, Felix, a music
prodigy, call himself
Bartholdy. He argued, "A
Christian Mendelssohn is
an impossibility. There
can be no more a Chris-
tian Mendelssohn than a
Jewish Confucius. If
Mendelssohn is your
name, your are ipso facto
a Jew."
Felix agreed "with great
reluctance." Yet in
"England — scene of his.
greatest musical and social
triumphs — he was known,
and still is, as Felix Men-
delssohn. The Bartholdy
cover proved useless in
Germany, even against the
anti-Semitism of his time.
Under the Nazis his music
was totally forbidden."
Raphael, the chronicler,
combined the Litvak strain

of his family background
with his pen poitrait of the
Litvak par excellence,
Rabbi Elija ben Solomon
(1720-1797), the Gaon of
Vilna, whose life and Wel-
tanschouung he described
superbly.
Notably, the author de-
fines Litvak as "a state of
mind." But he also states,
"The Litvak likes to think of
himself — especially vis-a-
vis his traditional enemy
the 'Polak' or Polish Jew —
as endowed by Providence
with a true sense of values:"
Finally, Raphael links
his vivid and fond
memories of New York,
where he lived for many
years, with his reflections
on the Jewish experience
in America, a country he
considers as "a symbol of
power and fulfillment."
For the first time in their
Diaspora history, Raphael
writes, Jewish in America
"were not peripheral as a
community, but an integral
part of what they helped to
create."

Friday, September 21, 1919 45

Under Supervision of
The Council of Orthodox Rabbis

STRICTLY KOSHER MEAT MARKET

13831 W. 9 Mile Rd., Oak Park 543-7092

To All Our
Customers and Good

A Happy, Healthy
N e w New Year I

The Manufacturers and Distributors of Farm Maid
Kosher Dairy foods extend to the Jewish Community ;:
best wishes for a

APPY NEW YEAR: 5740

Aguda Names
Knessia Delegate

BOURNEMOUTH,
England — Yosef Men-
delevich, the Jewish "pris-
oner of conscience" incarc-
erated in Soviet Russia, was
elected an honorary dele-
gate to the Sixth Knessia
Gedolah (World Congress)
of the Agudath Israel World
Organization, which open;
in Jerusalem on Jan.l.

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The hand of the diligent
maketh rich. .

HAPPY NEW YEAR

May It Be Thy Will

0 Lord Our God,
And God Of Our Fathers
To Bless Us All This
Coming Year With The Joy
Of Long Life And Lasting Peace
Throughout The World.-

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