September 07, 1945

…Detroit Jewish Chronicle and The Legal Chronicle VOL 47, NO. 36 SECTION FIVE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Friday, September 7, 1945 THE WAR VETERANS RETURN By S. ZAHAVI At a superficial glance they might have been any soldiers on i the move. Travel-stained and weary, with their kit-bags, coats and blankets, they stood on the railway platform a little dazed at first. Then you could see that this look was due as much ...…

…Page Two DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle MEETING THE NEEDS OF POST WAR JEWISH YOUTH By JULIUS BISNO Administrative Secretary of the Bnai Brith Youth Commission What are the interests of Jewish youth today? What are the problems that loom ahead for them in the post war world? What is American Jewry doing to meet those prob- lems? These are the questions posed and answered in this timely appraisal by Mr. Bisno, administrati...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 Page Three DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Palestine's Land Problem Calls for Radical Solution if Solution of This Problem Is Main Purpose in Struggle for Eretz Israel's Future, Declares Noted Authority By DR. ABRAHAM GRANOVSKY EDITOR'S NOTE—The author of this article, who is a member of the Presidium and Managing Director of the Keren Kayemeth Le Israel in Jerusalem, is a renowned authority o...…

…Page Four DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle 11 -E Day in the Valleys A LETTER FROM PALESTINE By DOROTHY KAHN BAR-ADON It was about four o'clock in the afternoon when the news came through. The dinner gongs in tens of settlements in the Jez- reel, Beth Shan and Jordan Val- leys dinged out the long-awaited bring home wine and sweets. The cooks dashed back to the kitchen —only a few hours left to con- coct some added delicacy...…

…Friday, September 7, MS DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Page Five_ AN ANALYSIS OF JEWISH PROBLEMS AND POTENTIALITIES returning veteran and to usher I lance as "battle fatigue." Many, the American Jewish community, in one phaso and undoubtedly the perhaps most of these young men including the facilities of the most important department of will return quickly to good health Bnai Brith Vocational Service Hillel's post-war pro...…

…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle From Rome's Ghetto To Jordan Valle y ing of its soil. And now here they are in Dag- ania, in the Jordan Valley, going , through a further period of train- ing to prepare themselves for came from the kind of home that their ultimate settlement on a the American soldier wrote stretch of National Fund land of about. Others came from poor their own. For the present they homes in the Roman ghetto. ...…

…tam Friday, September 7, 1945 I DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle MONEY INTO LAND In the 5 years of the war, the Jewish National Fund has added to the na- tional land possessions in Palestine more than half the area it acquired in the preceding 20 years—. 1140/44 thanks to the increased response of the Jewish people, which contrib- uted 6 million pounds in these five years, compared with 4.2 million in • the preceding twe...…

…Page Eight Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle The Unfinished Symphony Senator Reynolds and His Nationalist Party By ROSE LEVY 1952 Virginia Park We :ward the news, we read it too The world is quite upset We've lost a great American — One we'll never forget. It seems as though we've lost a son Or someone close and dear We're glad he knew before he died That Peace is very near. The way he always sa...…

…Fr iday, September 7, 1945 VHAT FREEDOM IS" By IRVIN PETOFSKY 15-Year Old Memeber of AZA from Fargo, N. D. DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle PALESTINE: LAND AND PEOPLE Non-JNF Jewish land: 56% Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu Jewish National Fund land: 44%. ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS AND BEST WISHES TO YOU ALL • 56% 44% 'poem, dedicated to his two brothers, bolls of whom are in the work of 15-year the Navy, old Irvin Petofsky, a ...…

…Page Tan Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle An Analysis of Jewish Problems And Potentialities (Continued from Page 5) not be completely unaffected by the tensions through which he has passed; all students cannot help but be bruised by the inevitable problems and tensions which will arise in the greatest period of national and international re- construction which America has ever faced. The post-war ...…

…;cl ay, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Eleven lar undertakings in the non-Jew- ish campus community. ROSH HASHONAH That these projects of inter- Rosh Hashonah Greetings GREETINGS! national education will b e strengthened in the post war world is already apparent in Hillel's thinking and planning for the campus life of tomorrow. It is obvious that the returning veteran will have a real and per- 1210 D...…

…w w .sw riSSW aill• - •M7=E Friday, September 7, I945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twelve tion of this means of production by wider sections of the popula- tion. In Palestine, these aims alone are not sufficient. (Continued on Page 15) a far-reaching agrarian reform, without which action on state lines will be impossible. The ob- ject of this reform is to transfer the land from its present owners to the State or t...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle INDUSTRIES -EVEN IN PALESTINE- DoNY - Elti - THE THEY NEED LAND FOR BUILDINGS,WAREBOUSES, YARDS - AND FOR WORKERS' QUARTERS THE 3. N. F. MUST PROVIDE Fri on the eastern shore of the Lake 7-E Day in of Galilee, the victory celebra- the Valleys tions came as a continuation of (Continued from Page 4) tudent body (consisting of chit- ren from various settlements, ...…

…, Page Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Fourteen form, and still others Conserva- , will re - Jewish educators are beginning , decade. Zionist youth organiza- over by J.W.B.-U.S.O. tive. The Jewish boy who broke 11, turn to the responsibilities of with home traditions for the first to appreciate the value of social tions are gradually winning wider I group -work methods as a valid support. But even...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Fifteen this figment of youth in the , • form in Palestine to be aimed lation of large estates, for its -V, war period . ment in the town and the vil- at three purposes; not merely the and perhaps the great- The last , , lands were purchased to an over- lages. This policy sprang from confiscation of the property of whelming extent from large land problem that face...…

…4.1 ■ 11114. Friday, Septernia r 7, DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Sixteen 1945 MacLeish, America's uncrow of Peace and Happiness here is kind and helpful. When I poet lauriate, has said; "It told the bus driver at Haifa that great beginning, a beginning By ARCHIE H. GREENBERG I would like him to help me in (Continued from page 1) which Jefferson and Lincoln the other heroes of the end permits to get there. He knew ...…

…Detroit Jewish Chronicle 7, 1945 uncrowned : "It i44„ - ;inning of incoln and he endless arty, would I." ri of e- 1 enter the knowledge ;ay of life liberated who have the past nor.stricly r a New ing with it a freedom (:.1 Nations. and The Legal Chronicle VOL. 47, NO. 36 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Leger Chronicle SECTION FOUR Friday. September 7. 1945 STAILTES WITHOUT IRONTIERS By Des Gabor be sued. For instance, the boun- just...…

…4 111Warlaew.y - . Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle page Sixteen MacLeish, America's unerovn here is kind and helpful. When I A New Year of Peace and Happiness poet lauriate, has said: "It told the bus driver at Haifa that great beginning, a beginning By ARCHIE H. GREENBERG I would like him to help me in (Continued from page 1) which Jefferson and Lincoln t the other heroes of the endl S. permits t...…

…• Detroit Jewish Chronicle 7. 1945 incrow tied "It inning of ncoln and le endless .rty would SR- CTION DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle R Friday, September 7, 1945 ri of enter the knowledge ay of life liberated who have the past or-strip a New fit; with it a freedom Nations. Bonds free d N MINM11. ■■•■ STATES WITHOUT IRONTIERS B Des Gabor be sued. For instance, th e boun- ' justice, etc. Each state would daries ...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Two The Fighting at the Toebbens and Shulz's Workshops An Episode of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising By SHALOM GRAJEK (The writer of this report is one of the acting leaders of the young generation of the Poale- Zion (Z.S.) Party in Poland. He was already active before the war, but in the wartime he proved most effective for the un d er- groundwork of the Party. I...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Workshops (Continued from Page 2) himself. Some Germans were shot later that day, whilst escorting Jews to the Umschlagplatz (the place from where the Jews were deported). Our action was more difficult that time as we could use neither grenades nor bombs in or- der not to hit Jews, and we were getting short of rifle and pistol- ammunition. Later in the afternoon the ...…

…r. Page Four Jewish Ethics In Modern Business Rosh Hashonah Birthday Of Creation FREE AT LAST THRU U.P.A. By RABBI LEON SPITZ A Unique Program of Action That Works fly ABEL BERLAND Director Community Service Depart- ment Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Drub South State Street. A strip six blocks long. A street filled with adventure and a sordid glamour. A street of cheap hotels and burlesque houses, play ar- cades and "eateries," pawn...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 v I ••■ I for them. In the good old days plagues and disease exterminated half the world's population; and murder, rape and torture were a daily occurrence. In those good old days fear and superstition and slavery and immorality ruled everywhere. This is a realistic picture of the good old days. The Rabbis bid us not to live- over sad reminiscences, but in the language of Longfellow's Psalm of Life, be "up and do...…

…Page Six dyed cities through the country. Stories of dramatic reunions brought about by Council workers fill the organization's extensive files. One of the earliest tells of the successful culmination of a seven-year search through Russia, Germany and Argentina which in 1930 resulted in reuniting a young boy and his refugee father in America. Recently, a request from Pales- tine brough about a search on two continents. A Jewish refugee from G...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 Jewish Ethics in Modern Business (Continued from Page 4) t o 'his' for thirty years and w e've never said two words to each other." Rays les. Ind en (rd s is Ian ran It went on and on. It seemed an almost impossible task. But before the evening was over, it was agreed unanimously by all those present that "business would not be clone as usual." What some had thought impos- sible at the beginning began to see ...…

…Page Eight DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Refugee in U.S. Army Sends Gift Appeal NEW YORK — When young Manfred Philip fled from Ger- many in 1939, a refugee from Nazi persecution, he did not real- ize that the pendulum of history would bring him back as con- queror and guard over the very supermen who had destroyed Ger- man Jewry. Having reached the United States with the aid of the agen- cies of the United Jewish Ap- pea...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle !I- re if me ognize the school as a miniature society which can and should be the "testing ground where the optimum values in human rela- tionship can be striven for," may have evolved the answer to this delicate problem by experiment- ig with joint Ch•istmas-Hanuk- ah and Easter-Passover pro- grams of a non-religious char- acter in the schools. So far as I know, t...…

…DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Page Ten of Christmas carols and Hanuk- kah hymns. "A Festival of Lights," the script of which has since been published by the Na- tional Conference of Christians and Jews, was first given in 1944. Now it is an accepted part of the Springfield Plan. Bessie Geffen Wilensky, in a letter to the editor of The Re- constructionist last February, told how th e Christmas-Hanukkah program idea was introduced in ...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 Jewish Life on the College Campus c & rc the rief ref- or non re- lent Igo. .ast I ices iath 'der MIA lent ns, ) Soh. be De- Lary was ori- UM- ices ith- the ably vith the lour we oted few- - n. J t ish students to hold Sabbath serv- ices under Hillel Foundation aus- pices. There are the usual slack- bhues t ethyeouantg tenpdet et oupiclee resr'c eonft acgoeu rfsoe; is much higher than in Temple or Synag...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twelve ----- - J.D,C. AIDS JEWS IN NAZI-HELD AREAS This is the Jew in Europe today— caught in a Nazi web of imprison. ment, starvation, torture, and fear. Al. lied armies are bringing him libera• lion; American Jews are bringing him the means to live. In cooperation with the War Refugee Board and the Inter. national Red Cross, the Joint Dis. tribution Commit...…

…45 r the rout (;,„i ma L 0 peo- ra t- road- zwie- were s at •iecu- tor- and loped 'wipe Gets 5 icy ed ler! )0 Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Jewish Ethics in Modern Business In Chicago, alone, 35 different I trade groups, numbering 5,000 Australian- members, have been organized in Palestinian Trade programs of self-discipline and high standards of commercial Agreement Seen ethics. In Bo...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Peg. Fourteen Jewish Publication Society Announces Seven Outstanding New Books for 1945 (Philadelphia, Pa.) — Mr. J. Solis-Cohen, Jr., president of The Jewish Publication Society of America, has just announced the Society's program for the year 1945. The list consists of the following seven books. biblical stories and poetry what- ever interferes with smooth readin...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 Workshops erty 1phs ngs, of rom It f eor Ang :vah .00. eie- Sth So- per !ive ioks as a iddi- DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle It [her- 0,00 any s hed Dove- tails ata- lite- jew- mer- lish- lish, the Mr. wer —.' DId (Continued from Page 3) J.D.C. SENDS RELIEF SUPPLIES FROM PALESTINE Landau Workshops. When he fell in the Ghetto Battle as one of the most active fighters, he was only 11. P. irk...…

…Page Sixteen Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Land and Culture National Soil is the Foundation on Which the Principal Institu- tiol s of Jewish Palestine Have Been Erected By NORMAN BENTWICH Former Attorney General of Palestine Vaad Hatzala Sends Representatives to Visit War•Torn Jews in France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland T tr5tt 5frt'Mtrnt HE French authorities have eic- tended a specia...…

…IS Detroit Jewish Chronicle (bath and s in- only and The Legal Chronicle d is cale. oi ver, is a tr it e ill 11101', (net at s of tects and itu re stab- _ and I of 5 rit VOL. 47, NO. 36 Friday, September 7, 1945 HEBREW IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS By JUDAH LAPSON maintained Semitics departments one could take courses in Biblical Hebrew. However, not until 1930 was modern Hebrew successfully introduced in an American public high school....…

…Page Two DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Concerning Jews Jewish positions. Regarding Pal- estine, the author has this to say: In the case of Palestine, the desire to find common ground with the Arabs of today must not be allowed to prejudice the prospects of a just and lasting solution of the future. From the viewpoint of an uncom- self-determination it is quite promising demand for national understandable that in the movem...…

…fad Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle G. I. Pleads for Settlement Of Jews in Palestine Page Three :C1100 II SCOVENI YOUR INVESTleATION OF DIFFERENT OCCUPATIONS A majority of the Jews who express intention . SHOULD TELL YOU WHAT YOU to infm• m .e d from their homes in coun- those of you who have been aid- WOULD DO ON A PARTICULAR jes under Nazi rule and found ing their fellow Jews in distress JOB...…

…Page Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Four Building a New Tradition of Jewish Learning in America [THE SEA GIVES THEM LIFE IN PALESTINE WITH THE HELP OF U.P.A. the older we become. Each year adds to our experience. Each year gives new background for what we are learning. Each year gives us added power to cope with the ever-changing problems of life. Each year gives us added ability to make more m...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle I Was in a Death Camp By ALFRED WERNER Before the Anschluss, Dr. Werner was a newspaperman in Vienna. He spent a half year in the Concentration Camp of Dachau, Bavaria, to be released in the spring of 1939 or condition that he leave the Reich immediately. After a lengthy internment in England as "enemy alien" he managed to go to the United States where he con- tinue...…

…Page Six DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legel Chronicle Jews in Music By PAUL GOULD Though it is not probable, it is within the realm of possibil- ity that one might before a glit- tering audience at the historic Metropolitan Opera House in New York a cast made up pre- dominantly of featured Jewish stars will thrill the Diamond Horseshoe in Halevy's "La Juive." For, st the rate that Jewish artists have been distinguishing themselves at th...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Yiddish Literatur e in America By N. B. MINKOFF Page Seven A NOMELAND FOR THE LIBERATED THROUGH U. P. A. I 'Keep, ancient lands, your atonic d pomp!' cries she Yiddish has been spoken in the With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor, United States since the first group of Polish, Hungarian and Your huddled masses yearnings to breathe free, German Jews arriv...…

…Friday, September 7, I945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Eight The Citadel of the Spirit of Judaism By JOSEPH KLAUSNER (Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem) When millions of Jews were exterminated in. Europe, it meant not only the slaughter of human beings whose only crime was their Jewish origin, not only the ruin of hundreds of ancient and deep- ly rooted Jewish communities; it also...…

…Fr iday, September 7, 1945 THE CITADEL OF THE ItSPIRIT OF JUDAISM (Continued from Page 8) would step down from the stage of history, and that the springs o f Torah and Jewish learning would then dry up. And so it • e about that the first im- Int cultural activitiy to be .rtaken in the period of set- ent ushered in by the Bal- four Declaration was the Insti- tute of Jewish Studies of the He- brew University, In December 1924, this Insti- tute...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle Page Ten What's in a Name By LIONEL J. ZIPRIN 4 "What's in a name?" -1, "Everything," replied a long- ago favorite teacher of !Mice.. That was the first 'remark Mr. !•ide during a term of very delightful remarks. We were then, the 34 children that we were, in what has since bren called, "a., creative "writing -class." Names and numbers wen/ the subjects of our firs...…

…• 1945 Friday, September 7, 1945 A. Today, swish ppeal, every David igade; rid of DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Pegs Eleven r United States. After Nazism has • ' been defeated, the compromises of the World Security Conference have been established, and Japan has been stripped of its power, we who remained at home while our By MARTHA SILVERMAN men gave of their youth and strength, will be put to another (Member of Rebecca...…

…Friday, September 7, I94t DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twelve PIONEERS ON LAND AND SEA IN PALESTINE -1 overheard me say a few words to a friend during working hours, he jotted down my number-26,760 —and in the evening, instead of a supper, I got a one hour's les- son in genuflection. For another (Continued from Page 5) "minor sin" I was compelled to year-old Justizrat from the Rhine- bury my head in a heap of snow,...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Jews in Music (Continued from Page 6) he decided he didn't want to be a business man and so he went to study under the dean of Jewish c omposers, Zavek Zilberts. After becoming cantor for the Temple Emanuel in Passaic, N.J., and Temple Adath Israel in the Bronx, he took a fling at opera and sang five times in New York and Bostoit. A private audition with the Met's W...…

…Distinguished Portrait EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD, By Isaac Naiditch — Washington, D. C. Zionist Organization of America. Price $1.75. focusing point of Edmond de Rothschild's drawing room and study. Amid heavy solid tomes, how- ever meritorious, it is a relief and a joy to come up a brief book that brims with life. Mr.. Isaac Naiditch, veteran Zionist and one of the founders of the Keren Hayesod, probably fell quite naively upon the delightful f...…

…Friday, September 7, 1945 nk ;a- it. it- V he ke I." . a- he Idi- the my sic us =' Population in Germany Put at 1,000 1,000 Jewish Survivors In Vienna na- 6 Page Fifteen June-July) belongs in the sa me any honest film on the subject ' category as the Common Group d would . . have to deal. The whole !Jewish (Continued from Page 2) articles. The author, a history WORK ON EDMOND DE ,teacher rig is an example of evasion t in a m ...…

…Friday, September 7, 1941 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Sixteen make the necessary technical ad- nation, where the possibility brew. It is estimated that about for courses in Hebrew languages justments in the school program introducing Hebrew c o u rses and literature. The Culture Clubs 20,000 students have already com- new subject like Hebrew. Great their local high schools mid pleted this minimum course dur- have h...…