18 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 By BEN FRANK LINE-UP YOURSELF AND ALL YOUR FRIENDS WITH THE PAPER THAT KEEPS EVERYONE FULLY INFORMED ON LOCAL, NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL HAPPENINGS OF JEWISH INTEREST 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. Matzot for Passover so 1 To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 Please send a year's gift subscription to: 1 NAME 1 1 1 I ADDRESS CITY STATE I FOR: state occasion if gift ZIP 1 1 FROM 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- ❑ $15 enclosed Ilummommmammammandl 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. Israeli Group Aids Children THE JEWISH NEWS rill ON SW MI WI BO IIIII IN MI SE SE =I Ruth Pearl Dies at 54, Held-7 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.