Friday, July 8, 1983 49 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS • Parley to Discuss Martin Luther ▪ ZOA Activist Leikin from Prominent Families NEW YORK — Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum of New York, national interreligi- ous affairs director of the American Jewish Commit- tee, will represent the AJ- Committee at an interna- tional consultation exam- ing the theme of "Martin Luther, the Jews, and Anti-Semitism," in. Stoc- kholm July 10-13. Ezekiel Leikin, who has just been named executive vice president of the Detroit District, Zionist Organiza- tion of America, has had a long career in Zionist public service. In January 1981, he re- tired from his executive position with the ZOA in Philadelphia, capping 34 years of continuous service RON BLOCK Northland LAWN SPRINKLING We Make House Calls Install & Repair. 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As a youth he was actively involved with the Zionist-Revisionist movement, founded by Zeev Jabotinsky, and held lead- ership positions in the Betar youth organization in Europe and in the U.S. In 1936 he left the U.S. for pre-state Israel, where he served in Brit- . ain's civil service. He was active in the Hagana and the Tel Aviv Special Constabulary, a volun- tary police force formed to protect the all-Jewish city against Arab marauders. In -1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Arniy in Palestine and .sub- sequently served with army intelligence teams in the Near East and Europe. • While stationefi in Egypt, he collaborated with Hagana emissaries in pro- curing arms for the Jewish underground. Leikin's es- says on Zionism, Israel and U.S.-Israel relations have appeared in newspapers and ideological journals. He has been a frequent con- tributor to Jewish news- papers and has lectured ex- tensively on Zionism and Is- rael before Jewish and non-Jewish audiences. During the summer of 1982, he was enlisted to work for Israel's_ Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem as a writer and public affairs consultant. Leikin's father, Dr. George Leikin, was Chief Rabbi of the Volga Region with residence in Kazan. He received simcha at age 18 at the famous yeshiva of Volozhin, where his classmates were Chayim Nahman Bialik, the poet laureate, and Rabbi Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan), one of the founders and leaders of the Mizrachi movement. A protege of the vener- able Chief Rabbi of Mos- cow, Rabbi Jacob Maze, Rabbi Leikin gained prominence as one of Russian Jewry's most eloquent spokesmen. Upon the advent of the Bolsheviks, he fled in the middle of the night from his home in Kazan, hav- ing been tipped off by. a Jewish Communist stu- dent , that a warrant was issued for his arrest. He managed to reach Mos- cow and spent two weeks hiding in the basement of Rabbi Maze's home, while the latter secured a . visa for him under an as- sumed name from one of the Jewish Commisars. Rabbi Leikin made his way to Paris and then to the U.S., where he conferred with Rabbi Stephen Wise, Judge Jonah Wise and other Jewish leaders and was EZEKIEL LEIKIN enlisted to address major conferences and public meetings on the condition of Jews in Russia. He sub- sequently held rabbinic posts in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ottawa, Canada. Leikin's mother, Anna Leikin Bramson, is the granddaughter of Menahem Mendel Bramson, author of a talmudic tract, "Torat Menachem." He was the owner of one of Lithuania's a prominent linguist and largest estates, Lasevich. 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