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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Marriages

Historic Facts on Jewish Detroit

By ALLEN A. WARSEN

Detroit's first Jewish
religious services, con-
ducted in 1850, were held at
the home of Sara and Isaac
Cousins.
The Bet El Society was
founded in 1850.
Beth El, Detroit's first
congregation, originally or-
ndox, was established in

The Beth El Lafayette
cemetery, founded in
1851, is Michigan's oldest
Jewish cemetery.
Shaarey Zedek, formed in
1861, is Detroit's first Con-
servative Congregation.
Bnai Israel, Detroit's old-
est Orthodox Congregation,
was incorporated on June
19, 1871.
The United Jewish
Charities, Detroit's first or-
ganized communal philan-
thropies, were organized in
1899.
The Babetta Brown
Krolik Memorial and the
Knights of Zion libraries
were Detroit's earliest
Jewish libraries.
The Hebrew Free School,
Detroit's first Jewish com-
munal school, was estab-
lished in 1902.
The Hanna Schloss Cen-
ter, founded in 1903, was
Detroit's first Jewish com-
munity center.
The Shaarey Zedek Sis-
terhood, originally the Aux-
iliary, was organized in
1906.
The Detroit Jewish Di-
rectory of 1907 was the
only directory to be pub-
lished in Yiddish.
The David Horodoker and
the Turover Aid Societies,
organized in 1910, were De-
troit's earliest landsman-
shaften.
"The Survey of the De-
troit Jewish Community of
1923" resulted in the forma-
tion of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit in
1926.
Hyman Altman con-
ducted Detroit's first Jewish
radio hour.
J.B. Baruch was the
first principal of a Jewish
communal school.
David Brown, founder of
People's Ice, was Detroit's
first Jewish ice manufac-
turer.
Isadore Carravala, De-
troit's first Jewish physi-
cian, practiced in Detroit
from 1872 until his death in
1899.
Abraham Chapman was
)etroit's first Jewish resi-

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was Michigan's first
Jewish congregational
historian.
Joseph H. and Solomon A.
Goldberg 'were Detroit's
early Jewish plumbers.
S.M. Goldsmith pub-
lished "The Jewish Ameri-
can," Detroit's first Jewish
weekly (1900-1910).
Samuel Goldwater was
the first Jew to run for
mayor of Detroit in 1895.
His opponent was Mayor
Hazen Pingree.
William Haber was
Michigan's first
president of American
ORT (Organization for
Rehabilitation and
Training).
Blanche Hart was the
first full time executive di-
rector of the United Jewish
Charities.
David E. Heineman,
Michigan's first Jewish his-
torian, designed the flag of
Detroit and was the first
Jewish president of the De-
troit Common Council.
Adam Hersh and Jacob
Silverman were Detroit's
first Jewish cigar makers.
Abraham M. Her-
shman, Rabbi of Shaarey
Zedek, was the first
president of the Detroit
Zionist Organization.
Bernard Isaac was the
first superintendent of the
United Hebrew Schools.
L. Knoppow and Sons
were Detroit early Jewish
printers.
Louis LaMed established
the first foundation for the
advancement of Hebrew
and Yiddish literature in
America in 1940.
Jacob Lang was De-
troit's first Jewish
blacksmith.
Joseph Lang, Martin
Hersh, and Sarah Silver-
man were the first JeWish
children born in Detroit.
Rabbi Judah L. Levin
founded Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah in 1916.
Albert Shapiro was the
first Jewish superintendent
of the Detroit House of Cor-
rection and the first chief of
the Detroit city detectives.

Jacob Silverman was
the first president of
Cong. Beth El.
David W. Simons was the
first president of the United
JeWish Charities.
Philip Slomovitz founded
the Detroit Jewish News in
1942.
Ezekiel Solomon was
Michigan's first known
Jewish resident.
Weinberg
S.D.
authored "Yiddishe in-
stitutsyes un anshtalten
in Detroit" (Jewish Social
Services of Detroit).
Henry Wineman was the
first president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of De-
troit.
"Joseph E. Zeltzer was
Michigan's first Jewish vet-
erinarian.

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Israeli Planes
Continue Patrol
of S. Lebanon

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Is-
raeli planes will continue to
fly over southern Lebanon
as long as Lebanon does not
have a government that
controls the terrorists on its
soil, Deputy Defense Minis-
ter Mordechai Zipori de-
Mark Cohen helped clared last week.
Zipori, in an interview on
found Cong. Beth El and
was instrumental in the Army Broadcasting Sta-
engaging Detroit's first tion, was commenting on
reports from Damascus that
Tabbi.
Norman Drachler was the the Syrian Air Force will try
first Jewish general to intercept Israeli planes
superintendent of the De- flying over south Lebanon.
troit Public School System. In one such attempt Aug.
Irving I. Edgar is the his- 24, Israeli planes shot down
torian of Michigan's Jewish a Syrian MIG-21.
physicians.
Max Fisher, Michigan's Survivors Meet
first chairman of the United
VANCOUVER (JTA) —
Jewish Appeal, is currently More than 1,000 Holocaust
Michigan's first chairman survivors from the west
of the Executive Committee coast of the U.S. and
of the Jewish Agency for Is- Canada are expected to
attend the World Gathering
rael.
Rabbi Leo Franklin, of Jewish Holocaust Sur-
author of two volumes of vivors in Israel, June 15-18,
history of Cong. Beth El, 1981.

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