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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 11, 1981
Jewish Culture Evident in Paris
For example, in another
PARIS (JTA) — For neighborhood, one can
nearly all men and women, walk along the rue
there is the Paris of art, of Richer, from rue
culture, the galleries, the Faubourg Poissonniere
ihuseums, the grand to the rue Faubourg
boulevards, the parks, the Montmartre. There one
superb restaurants, the meets the Jews of France,
the fourth largest Jewish
banks of the River Seine.
For Jews, there is also an- community in the world.
other Paris, not as well Their names are on the
known, but it is there. It can outdoor signs and they
be found in the rue de read: Zazou, Samy Azar,
Rosiers in the Pletzel, in the Azar Fils.
They are the Jews of
excitement of the crowds in
this neighborhood where North Africa who have es-
the buildings lean at odd tablished wonderful kosher
angles to the streets below. restaurants, bakeries,
The scene reminds one of snack bars, bookstores and
New York's Lower East small businesses.
Side. There is the small Synagogues abound here
Moroccan Oratoire, the Jo and one meets rabbis and
Goldenberg restaurant with teachers, business persons
the musicians playing Yid- and students and profes-
dish and Israeli music, the sionals.
Both neighborhoods are
selling of yarmulkes and
kidush cups and products in their own way represen-
from Israel and the print tative of this large commu-
shops running off invita- nity of 385,000 Jews who
tions in Hebrew and Yid- live in and around the
French capital. In the rue
dish.
There are many other Richer, one sees the
faces of Judaism in Paris. Sephardic Jews who have
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brought a new dynamism to
French Jewry. Many are
religious. Many have vis-
ited Israel and support the
Jewish state. They do not
live in this commercial
area, and at night they re-
turn to their apartments
throughout Paris and the
suburbs.
But the Jews of Paris
don't reside in one particu-
lar neighborhood; they live
everywhere. They reside on
the Left Bank and the Right
Bank, in the student quar-
ter, on the Champs Elysee
and on the Boulevard St-
Michel and in the narrow
streets near Place Saint-
Paul known affectionately
as the Pletzel which is lo-
cated in the Marais.
But it is the Pletzel, of
course, where one finds
the Jewish past. It is, af-
terall, the section where
the Jews lived as far back
as the 13th Century. It is
the area the Jews of
Eastern Europe came to
at the turn of the century
as they fled czarist Rus-
sia. Later, too, they came
from Poland and
Romania. They found a
haven in Paris in the
1920s and 1930s.
The name Pletzel is prob-
ably a Yiddish derivative of
the French words: "little
place." From the Saint-Paul
metro (subway) stop one can
traverse the rue Payee, rue
des Rosiers, rue des Ecouf-
fes, rue Ferdinand Duval,
rue Geoffroy l'Asnier,
where Jews have lived and
worked for centuries.
Signs and posters note
Jewish concerts, meetings
and socials. There are
numerous synagogues, in-
cluding an Orthodox
synagogue at 10 rue Payee
which was dynamited by
the Nazis in World War II
but restored after the Lib-
eration.
Paris is the gastronomi-
cal capital of the world and
the traveler seeking kosher
cuisine can certainly savor
a wide variety of East Euro-
pean and North African
specialties.
In the Pletzel is La Rose
d'Or, the first kosher
pizza parlor in Europe.
Located at 54 rue des
Rosiers, it specializes in
pizza, and other del-
icacies. Nearby is an-
other strictly kosher res-
taurant at La Bonne
Bouchess, 1 rue des Hos-
pitalieres St. Gervais.
In the Pletzel, American
tourists often visit Jo Gol-
denberg's restaurant at 7
rue des Rosiers. Open from 8
a.m. until 2 a.m., the res-
taurant is not kosher.
Located in the Pletzel at
17 rue Geoffroy 1, Shnier, a
few short blocks from the
rue des Rosiers is the
Memorial to the Unknown
Jewish Martyr, one of the
most moving Jewish sites in
Paris. It is a tribute to the
Six Million Jews who
perished in the Holocaust.
A short walk away, across
the River Seine, is another
important memorial. Lo-
cated in a small garden be-
hind Notre Dame on the tip
of the Isle de la Cite is a
monument dedicated to the
200,000 Frenchmen of
all races and religions who
died in the Nazi death
camps in World War II.
Finally, a journey to
Paris is not complete
without reporting on the
activities of the Jewish
Museum at 42 rue des
Saules.
The museum itself,
crowded into the third floor
of a community center, may
move to a mansion in the
Marais, it has been an-
nounced by the Ministry of
Culture. When that occurs
the Strauss-Rothschild col-_
lection in storage in the
Musee de Cluny will be
turned over to the new
headquarters of the
enlarged Jewish Museum.
Moreover, this spring, the
entire Strauss-Rothschild
collection will be shown in
the Grand Palais, a fitting
tribute to the Jews of
France who have contrib-
uted so- much to the country.
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Ruth Kestnbaum Pearl,
who was actively involved
in civic causes, died April 12
at age 54.
Born in Chicago, Ill., Mrs.
Pearl was the director of
Cunningham Drug Stores'
committee on drug and sub-
stance abuse. She gave pre-
sentations to youth in
grades six through 12 and to
other groups throughout
the state on drug and sub-
stance abuse.
While working for former
Detroit Mayor Roman
Gibbs on a drug and sub-
stance abuse program for
the city, Mrs. Pearl served
on the board of New Detroit.
She was on the board for two
years.
Previously she was ap-
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A man delivers matzot for Passover in the Yemin
Moshe quarter of Jerusalem.
pointed by Gov. George
Romney to his crime
commission. She was ap-
pointed by former Gov.
John Swainson to the
preparatory commission
for the Constitutional
Convention.
Mrs. Pearl was the
youngest state president of
the Michigan League of
Women Voters, when at 32
she held the top post.
She leaves her husband,
Donald; a son, Dougl--
Lichterman of New Y
City; a daughter, Nin
Lichterman of Falls
Church, Va.; her mother,
Mrs. Meyer (Gertrude)
Kestnbaum of Chicago, Ill.;
and a brother, Robert
Kestnbaum of Chicago.
Islam Scholar Eliash Dies,
Was Judaic Studies Prof.
OBERLIN, Ohio (JTA) —
Joseph Eliash, associate
professor and director of
Judaic and Near Eastern
studies at Oberlin College,
has died at age 48.
Considered one of the
Western world's foremost
authorities on Shi'i Islam,
Mr. Eliash was called to
Washington at one point
during the final hostage
negotiations with Iran.
At the- time of his death,
he had been pursuing re-
search on Shi'i Muslim latv
and was editing and trans-
lating selections from the
Lord Russell,
Scored Nazis
LONDON — Lord Rus-
sell, a former British mili-
tary jurist, who in one of his
books condemned the Nazi
atrocities, died April 9 at
age 85.
As the assistant judge ad-
vocate general in 1954 and
legal adviser to the com-
mander in chief for the trial
of World War II Nazi war
criminals in the British
zone in Germany, Lord Rus-
sell wrote "Scourge of the
Swastika," condemning the
Nazi atrocities.
The Lord Chancellor
asked him to withdraw the
book, but Lord Russell re-
fused and resigned his office
instead.
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Kids Drug Abuse Probrams
JERUSALEM — The
Educational Center for the
Advancement of Israeli
Children has begun fund-
raising efforts in the U.S.
The organization,
founded in the 1940s, has
nearly 1,500 children under
its care. The children are
placed with foster parents
on 80 kibutzim, in homes of
10 children with foster par-
ents, in foster parents' own
homes and at the Carmiel
Children's Village in the
Galilee.
Persons who wish to aid
the organization can con-
tribute to it through PEF Is-
rael Endowment Funds,
Inc. 342 Madison Ave.,
Suite 110, New York, N.Y.
10017.
Shi'i Muslim Corpus of Oral
Tradition, which supple-
ments the Koran as the
Source of Shi'i Muslim law.
Mr. Eliash discovered
through his research that
Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini had violated
the laws of his own Shi'i
Muslim religion by hold-
ing the 52 American hos-
tages and by forming an
Iranian government
which, in the strict Shi'i
view, is illegitimate.
Born in Jerusalem, Mr.
Eliash received BA and MA
degrees from Hebrew Uni-
versity and earned a PhD
degree from the University
of London. Before joining
the Oberlin faculty in 1971,
he served for four years as
assistant professor at the
University of California in
Los Angeles. He visited Iran
several times between the
early 1960s and 1977.
`Visions of Bible
at NY Museum
NEW YORK — A new
exhibition, "Visions of the
Bible: Prints from the
Daniel M. Friedenberg Col-
lection," will run through
June 21 at the Jewish
Museum.
The exhibit traces the
influences of the Hebrew
Bible on some of art's great
masters, from the 15th Cen-
tury through the 20th Cen-
tury. Included are more
than 50 etchings, woodcuts
and engravings by artists
such as Albrecht Durer,
Rembrandt van Rijn and
Marc Chagall. The exhibit
is arranged according to the
biblical subject from Mar
and Eve through the Book oi
Job.
Theft of Trees
JERUSALEM (ZINS) —
The commander of the
northern forces says Israel
is facing a serious problem
of destruction of forests in
the Galilee. The officer said
that wood is being stolen for
fuel because of the rising
costs of heating oil.
The wages of the right-
eous is life; the increase of
the wicked is sin.