Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora 10, 20 and 40 years ago. 40 YEARS AGO 10,000 sacks of soil from Mt. Zion were sent to the U.S. to Jewish burial societies for graves of Orthodox Jews to whom the soil is sacred. Israel Minister Eliahu Elath gave a luncheon to honor Israel and British negotiators who completed a civil aviation pact between the two nations. Joseph Bernstein, manager of N the Detroit edition of the Yiddish Daily Forward, was honored on his 70th birthday. Joel Grey and his father, Mickey Katz, appeared in "Borschtcapades" brought to Detroit by the businessmen's group of The City of Hope. 20 YEARS AGO Ground breaking for the Jerusalem Hilton was completed. More than 3,000 Jewish youths assembled in Washington, D.C., to protest Soviet suppression of Jewish rights. Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban presented Dr. Leon Fram, founder and rabbi of Temple Israel, with the prime minister's medal on the occasion of his 75th birthday and 50 years in the rabbinate. 10 YEARS AGO A view of Haifa Harbor as taken from a 17th Century engraving has been issued as a new stamp in Israel. The mayor of Gaza identified one of Israel's worst sins in administering the area was to upgrade the status of women. Farmer Jack supermarkets introduced a pioneer program of selling products grown, processed and manufactured in Israel. A University of Michigan professor co- authored a translation of the biblical book of "Hosea." 01 ,:04 Animal Cookies, A Tasty Treat INGREDIENTS: 1 cup sweet butter, softened 8 ounce package cream cheese 3 /4 cup sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 31/2 cups flour extra flour to roll out the dough extra vegetable shortening to grease the cookie sheets UTENSILS: large-size mixing bowl measuring cups and spoons large wooden spoon rolling pin cookie sheets potholder the sugar over each cookie to give it a gentle "dusting." Yield: about 24 cookies. Colored Icing INGREDIENTS: 2 egg whites 1 /2 teaspoon cream of tartar 3 cups sifted confectioners' sugar red, yellow, blue and green food coloring, a few drops of each UTENSILS: medium-size bowl egg beater 5 small bowls toothpick paper towels DIRECTIONS: 1. In a medium bowl, beat the egg whites and the cream of tartar with the egg beater until very foamy. 2. Beat in the confectioners' sugar gradually, until the icing stands in firm peaks and is stiff. 3. Divide the icing among five small bowls; leave one plain (white); tint the remaining with food coloring. Using the toothpick, ice the cookies. To keep the icing from drying out while you are working with it, cover the bowls with damp . paper toweling. Store any leftover icing in tightly covered jars in the refrigerator. Makes about 11/4 cups of icing. Note: Eyes can be made with raisins, or small candies. This is if you aren't going to "paint" them on with the colored icing. Chocolate sprinkles, colored sugars, chopped nuts, silver dragees, cinnamon redhots, or small chocolate-covered candies can also be used to decorate the cookies. These should be put onto the cookies before they are baked. DIRECTIONS: 1. Stir the butter in the large bowl until it is light and fluffy. Beat in the cream cheese, a little at a time. 2. Add the sugar and vanilla. Add the flour and continue to stir the mixture until it is completely combined. You will now have a nice stiff dough to work with. 3. Roll the dough into 1/4" thickness on a lightly floured surface. 4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Ask an adult to help you with this. 5. Cut into desired shapes. 6. After the cookies have been cut out with the patterns, place them one inch apart on lightly greased cookie sheets, 7. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Allow to cool. 8. Ice with either the chocolate icing, colored icing, or prepared icing that comes in tubes. The prepared icing can be bought in the supermarket in a variety of colors. Another super-simple way of decorating these cookies is to spread sifted confectioners' sugar over them. Just put the cooled cookies onto a large sheet of waxed paper and sift a little of L 4 - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1990 tis 00- ote• Glicklin Makes Lucky Surname By BETTY PROVIZER STARKMAN Judi Fox of West Bloomfield has inquired about the family names, Glicklin„ Karasik and Koenigsberg. All of these names are of Ashkenazic origin. Glicklin is a matronomic surname taken from the female given name Glike. In Yiddish "glike" means "luck." Karasik is an ornamental name adopted from the Yiddish/Polish word for the fish, "karp." An ancestor may have had the sign of a "karp" as identification on his home. The Unbroken Chain, by Neil Rosenstein (2 vols. 1990, CIS Pub., N.Y.) contains references to this family. The Unbroken Chain also has three entries for the family Koenigsberg. This surname stems from the residence in the former capital of East Prussia, Konigsberg. The name literally means "Hill of King," and refers to King Ottokar the Second of Bohemia, founder of the city. It is now located in the Soviet Union and is called Kilinigrad. Nineteenth and 20th century biographies from Germany and Poland can be found in the Jewish Encyclopedia, 12 vols. (N.Y. 1901-1906) and in the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, 10 vols. (N.Y. 1939-1948). The Sephardic surname Rosanes is of geographic root and can be traced to the Spanish seaport of Rosas. In the 15th century the Rosanes family immigrated to Portugal and later to Austria, Russia and Turkey. The Jewish Encyclopedia, 12 vols., has seven biographies from 17th-19th century, Turkey, Galacia, Russia and Bulgaria. Brandwine, as a surname, was adopted by a distiller. The name is of occupational origin and stems from the Yiddish, "bronfn" . meaning "brandy." There are charts and extensive data about the family in the Unbroken Chain, by Neil Rosenstein. From the Yiddish/German, we find the family name Teichner. This name was derived from a topographic area and was adopted by ancestors who lived near a lake or river. The Yiddish word for "river" is "taykh." The Unbroken Chain also has genealogical material about this family. Asher is an Ashkenazic name derived from the Hebrew given name, Osher. Betty Provizer Starkman is the past president and founder of the genealogical branch of the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan.