THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

18 Friday, October 28, 1983

JEWELRY
APPRAISALS

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Edith Sauls' Musical, Zionist
Record Recalled on Her 90th

Edith Sauls has a number
of distinguishing accom-
plishments to her credit.
She was a leader in advanc-
ing musical enterprises and
she has pioneered in estab-
lishing musical forums in
this community.
She grew up in the
Rosenstein family and al-
ready before her marriage
to Jacob S. Sauls she was in
the ranks of the earliest
Zionists in Michigan. She
retained her Zionist affilia-
tion and has a lifelong in-
volvement with Hadassah,
having served as a chapter
president, as well as with
the Jewish National Fund.
Her 90th birthday will be
the occasion for her family
and for her associates in the
community functions to re-
call her many activities
here.

Born in Pabianitz, Po-
land, a small community
near Lodz, Nov. 10, 1893,
she was brought to De-
troit by her parents, Ab-
raham Meir and Anna
Rosenstein, in 1902, and
the Zionist spirit of that
home was among the
major inspirations in her
life. She was educated in
the now extinct Detroit
Clinton and Capern
schools and devoted her

EDITH SAULS

life to music as well as to
Zionism.

Herself a soprano of note,
she was in the Temple Beth
El and later Temple Israel
choirs and her pioneering
labors in'Music Study Club
gave her the position of
leadership in musical cir-
cles.
It was largely through
her efforts that the Music
Study Club annual concerts
were introduced. A gift she
secured from Mrs. David W.
Simons provided the means
of creating the Sylvia Si-
mons Memorial Scholarship
Fund sponsored by the
Music Study Club, and
many other factors in these
efforts were recorded by the
club.
In the early 1930s, Mrs.
Sauls did programming for
children at the Jewish
Community Center and was
inspired by the Symphony
Orchestra members who
came to give lessons gratis
to youngsters at the Center
when funds were unavail-
able.

When she became
president of Music Study
Club in 1934, the group
sponsored a luncheon at
the Statler Hotel. The
proceeds, $475, were
used to re-open the
Center 'Music School. In
1935, a concert was given
and the proceeds were
donated to the Center for
a piano in memory of
Dora Lappin, the club's
second president.

Because of this very special purchase, we
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that handsome French flair. Fully lined with
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The following year, Mrs.
Sauls planted the seeds that
eventually grew into an an-
nual concert series and a
scholarship fund.
She resigned her post as
scholarship chairman in
1975, and moved to San Di-
ego, Calif.
Mrs. Sauls married Jacob
S. Sauls, a wholesale
plumbing supplier, in 1914.
He died in 1979, when she
settled in San Diego, to be
near their only daughter,
Miriam Lewis, and her two
grandchildren.

The family background
is a chapter in Detroit
Jewish developments,
with an overseas back-
ground. Edith Sauls and
her brothers and sisters
derived their Jewish in-
spiration from their par-
ents. Her father was a
noted artist and de-
corator.

They came to this country
after her father had already
established a reputation as

a talented artist and de-
corator. He had attended
the World Zionist Congress
in Basle, was a Hebraist and
through the periodical Hat-
zefirah befriended its
editor, Nahum Sokolow,
who later became president
of the World Zionist Organ-
ization.
It was as an artist devoted
to the Jewish folk themes,
that Abraham Rosenstein
retained his popularity
here.
Upon coming to Detroit,
Abraham Rosenstein be-
came active in the Mullett
Street Synagogue, later af-
filiating with Corig.
Shaarey Zedek.
The Rosenstein children
attained community roles.
Pearl Berman, who died in
1973, was active in leading
movements.

The eldest of the
Rosenstein sons, Samuel
J. Rhodes, who adopted
his present name while at
the University of Michi-
gan, was among the lead-
ing Bnai Brith per-
sonalities here and was
known- for his oratorical
skills. He became a na-
tional leader in Jewish
War Veterans of
America.

Another sister, Ruth
Rhodes, lives in Chicago.
Their sister, Esther
Appleman, for several years
supervised youth and young
adult activities for the
Jewish Welfare Federation
and the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
Two other brothers now
deceased, left marks of dis-
tinction.
Irving J. Rhodes, as pub-
lisher of the Wisconsin
Jewish Chronicle, estab-
lished a most reputable
newspaper and under his
direction the most eminent
writers were included
among the contributors.
Under his leadership the
Milwaukee Jewish Welfare
Fund reached the highest
goals in fund raising for Is-
rael and U.S. causes.
The youngest, Benjamin
H. Rhodes — his parents
named him Ben Zvi Herzl as
a mark of their Zionist devo-
tions — was a practicing at-
torney here and later be-
came associated with his
brother Irving in the Mil-
waukee Jewish Chronicle.

Senate Approves
Wallenberg Move

WASHINGTON — The
United States Senate has
approved an amendment to
the State Department
authorization bill proposed
by Michigan Sen. Carl
J evin that asks President
Reagan to make an effort to
track down a man who may
have met with Raoul Wal-
lenberg in a Soviet prison.
The man, Soviet re-
fusnik, Jan Kaplan, repor-
tedly told. a daughter in Is-
rael that while serving his
prison 'sentence he met a
Swede who had survived 30
years in the Gulag. Kaplan
was re-arrested in 1977 and
his whereabouts remain .
unknown.