54 ;Friday, December 20 1 1980 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS : Honorary Committee Marks AJC's 75th Anniversary : Centenary of Author Sholem Asch Marked to meet the enemy on the different expressions of the miracle of God. I also be- same culture. By pointing lieve in the future of Israel, enemy's terms. em " out the common heritage of that no human evil will ever NEW YORK — Some 50 Gottschalk; artist Chaim With "Ridush Hash This year marks the distinguished American Gross; National Academy of centenary of the birth of (Sanctification of the Christianity and Judaism, succeed against her. Although he lived his last Jews have agreed to serve Science president Philip Sholem Ash Name), a narrative celeb- h e hoped to contribute to a h , the literary Arthur future of better understand- two years in the Tel Aviv rating Jewish martyrdom as members of an honorary Handler; Rabbi or story- se genius an d select an d geni suburb of Bat Yam, where during the infamous ing. committee to mark the 75th Hertzberg; auth Irving Howe; Sen- teller, who managed to skip The uproar was aggra- the mayor, David Ben-Ari, a Chmielnicki massacres, a anniversary of the Ameri- educator ator Jacob K. Javits; Am- the obscurity most neophyte recurrent theme in Yiddish ddish vated by inexcusable tim- native of Plonsk, Poland, can Jewish Committee, to writers suffer. At 20 he was bassador Max M. Kampel- already recognized; by 30 he literature, his place in ing, not to mention critics had prevented an unofficial be celebrated in 1981. They include Nobel man; former Secretary Jewish letters was secured. envious of his royalties and boycott urged by local Or- laureate in medicine Julius State Henry Kissinger; Sec- had won international Asch earned the dis- widespread success. "The thodox zealots, he died dur- Axelrod; historian Salo W. retary of Commerce Philip acclaim. He was the first Yiddish tinction, in the first half Nazarene" came out in 1939 ing a visit to London. Baron; sociologist Daniel M. Klutznick; editor and so-- of the 20th Century, of —its hero, Rabbi Yeshua of He spent his last Kristol; writer to enjoy a worldwide being the most popular Nazareth, whom Jews for July 10, 1957, at his cit.: Bell; conductor, pianist, cial critic Irving University reputation, the first to be- composer Leonard Berns- Yeshiva Lamm; come a leading contempor- Yiddish author in the nearly two millennia have writing in Yiddish. He was Norman world. In recent years, blamed as the source of at work on a novel based on tein; publisher Robert L. president industrialist FrankR. ary novelist in the West. only Isaac Bashevis their afflictions. The year the lives of Abraham and Bernstein; Brandeis Uni- Official statistics indicate Unive?sity of 1939 proved no respite from Sarah, Jacob and Rachel. versity president Marver H. Lautenberg; Chicago president Edward he was born Nov. 1, 1880, in Singer has achieved such previous suffering. Chris- He had requested burial in universal recognition. Bernstein; Rutgers Univer- His essential motifs were tians were once again Israel, but was interred sity president Edward J. Bl- H. Levi; and political scien- Kutno, Poland, a village near Warsaw, while his oustein; Nobel laureate in tist Seymour Martin Upset. birth certificate lists Jan. 1 man's . goodness and slaughtering Jews. To quietly in West London generosity, Jewish survival suggest, at this moment, Synagogue's cemetery in medicine Baruch S. Blum- Also Senator Howard and his mother claimed his and martyrdom. His fiction, that Jews receive the mes- Hoop Lane, Golders Green, berg; economist Arthur F. University of arrival four days after sage that gentiles are their Burns; union leader Sol C. Metzenbaum; Pennsylvania president Passover. The 11th of 15 divided into three spiritual brothers was sheer a decision reached by Chaikin; attorney and legis- Martin Meyerson; violinist children, he was the son of categories, include stun- Matilda, his devoted ning portraits of East Euro- chutzpa. lator Benjamin V. Cohen; Yehudi Menuhin; playw- Moshe, a sheep and cattle 7". for 56 years. pean Jewry, Jewish life in Jewish Theological Semi- Grieved and confused Arthur Miller; former dealer and innkeeper, nary chancellor Gerson Co- right Federal Communications whose first marriage had America and biblical by each hurtful UAHC Creates hen; business executive Commission chairman produced five Hasidim. novelszr onslaught, Asch never The latter, characterized deviated from his Religious Action Henry Crown; industrialist Although he began Newton N. Minow; artist Nathan Cummings. writing in Hebrew, under as his Christological period, passionate preoccupa- Chancellor Louise Nevelson, broadcast- the influence of I. L. unleashed a tumult that tion with Jewry. With Center in D.C. Also Emeritus of Jewish ing executive William S. Peretz, he soon turned to never subsided, not even profound knowledge and NEW YORK — The Theological Seminary Paley; opera singer Jan Yiddish. His portrayal of with his death. Endeavor- insight, he caught the es- Union of American Hebrew Rabbi Louis Finkelstein; Peerce; Nobel laureate in the shtetl world was a ing to create a climate of sence of the Jewish soul Congregations announced former Supreme Court Jus- physics Arno A. Penzias; departure from the pens mutual trust and under- and the expectations of that it has raised special tice Abe Fortas; indus- opera singer Roberta Pet- of his predecessors who standing, he produced a the Jewish heart. funds to create a new reli- trialist Max M. Fisher; ers; author Chaim Potok; had depicted life in ex- triology: "The Nazarene," During the Sinai cam- gious action center in Wash- industrialist Jay Pritzker; "The Apostle," and "Mary," paign, Sholem Asch de- ington as a "visible presence author and women's advo- elusively Jewish terms. fictionalized accounts of the clared: "With the heroes of in our nation's capital of the cate Betty Friedan; Nobel laureate in physics Although fervently com- I. Rabi; Senator Ab- educator Paul Freund; Isidor raham Ribicoff; attorney mitted to his fellow Jews lives of Jesus, Paul and the Israel in the desert-trinal religious conscience in the economist Eli Ginzberg; Simon H. Rifkind; and and their destinies, he mother of Jesus, portrayed were all the generations of struggle for social justice." Hebrew Union College- former Undersecretary of broke away from the limited with loving piety. The new center will serve the Jewish people and with Jewish Institute of Religion Instead of enshrining him those who fell there were all, as headquarterl for efforts confines of the distinctly State Eugene V. Rostow. president Alfred Jewish genre, becoming the as a champion of the sacrifices of all the by Jewish and inter- first Yiddish writer to ecumenism, the books fired Diasporas. I believe com- religious groups to oppose "paint the out of doors with a fierce controversy in the pletely that the creation of "the radical right attack on pagan joy, the first to Jewish world, with wild the state, after the destruc- America as a pluralistic luxuriate in the description charges of reverential tion of Eastern Jewry, was a society." 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd. of sensuous beauty for its treatment of Christianity. own sake," as a scholarly Despite denials of defection Suite 865 admirer of Sholem Asch ob- he was the target of merci- Southfield, Mich. 48075 -served. less attacks. He was Exposed to no formal branded a charlatan and disciplines except the Bible meshumed or apostate. and Hebrew religious writ- While his books became ing until his 18th year, he best sellers, he was os- was basically self-educated tracized by leaders of but never provincial,. ex- Jewish groups. hibiting intellectual pro- - He was accused of wess and vivid imaginative courting gentile favor, of powers. He excelled in the distorting Jewish history outpouring of simple, sen- to serve as missionary for - suous emotions. the Christians. Most sav- Asch wrote almost daily, age were the tirades by non-stop for five hours after Abraham Cahan, power- breakfast identifying with ful editor of the Jewish his characters as completely Daily Forward, who di- di- as an actor in a new role. rected a campaign of hate Although he lived in and vilification. Ironi- the United States for ex- tally, Freiheit, the Com- publication tended periods and was munist an American citizen, he which Asch had always found difficult the disliked, was the only adaptation to the fast, Yiddish paper willing to noisy and distracting accept his fiction. Asch could never com- tempo of American life. - Asch sought to inspire prehend the avalanche of Paste in old label readers with a readiness to antagonism his book struggle militantly on be- prescribed. Critics thun- half of Jewish survival, re- dered that "it was a mis- jecting the pacifist role and sionary book, designed to reinstituting the tradition lure Jews from their tradi- of Jewish heroism. He was tional faith. Some suspected driven by the compulsion to that this was a last-minute put blood and guts into strategem to win the Nobel Jewish life. Prize, after all previous at- Not given to obeying tempts had failed. For popular demands, he wrote years, Asch had hoped des- as his conscience and im- perately for the Nobel Prize; pulses dictated, glorifying hi s frustration had been bit- the "proste," the ordinary ter, especially since he was folk, and the "grobe nominated in 1933. Prof. Michael Cais of the Technion's Chemistry Asch insisted he wanted yungen" unfamiliar with Department has developed a new system of test-tubes society's refinements. This to emphasize the founda- NAME and equipment based on immunoassay techniques theme was best exemplified tions which Judaism and which will make clinical diagnostic tests safer and in Kola Street, honoring Christianity share. The two Effective Date expensive by reducing radiation hazards. rough, earthy brutes, eager faiths, he was certain, were less L By GLORIA CHARNES (C opy g ht 1980 , JTA Inc.) - r To: The Jewish News Technion Prof's System to Make Medical Tests Safer WE'Vf JUST from TO: , )'"Ar'• • 24. 4;A: