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Seven Arts Features
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Jacob R. Marcus
By RABBI SAMUEL SILVLER
Recently Pope Paid celebra
ted his 50th year as a priest.
Mazal tov.
Here in this country grateful
students have recently marked
the 50th anniversary of the ca
reer of a great teacher, Jacob
Rader Marcus.
Dr. Marcus is probably the
leading American Jewish his
torian. Ordained a rabbi in
1920 by the Hebrew Union Col
lege, he has
spent most of
his Me teach
ing Rashi and
history at that
school.
Two genera-\
tions of rabbis
have reason to
be thankful to
the genial, jovi
al Dr. Marcus.
He has served as president of
the American Jewish Historical
Society and other Jewish groups,
and has lectured extensively all
over the world. Before becom
ing a rabbi he fought in the Jew
ish Legion of World War I fame.
Bom in Connellsville, Penna.,
Dr. Marcus has never lost his
JEWISH CALENDAR
I
•TISHA B’AV
Aug. 11, Tuesday
•ROSH HASHANA
Oct. 1-2,
Thursday-Friday
•YOM KIPPUR
Oct. 10, Saturday
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
twang. He will display it at the
drop of a yarmulke if you ask
him something about Jewish
history in the U.S., or let him
tell you why you should make
a contribution to the organiza
tion he heads, the American
Jewish Archives.
The archives are a repository
and research center for Jewish
life in the U.S. Dr. Marcus will
be happy to receive minutes of
any Jewish organization you
know about, or memorabilia
about any of your ancestors
here, anything that pertains to
the history of our people in this
republic.
If you have such data, send
it to him, care of the American
Jewish Archives, Cincinnati,
Ohio. He’ll photostat the stuff
and return it to you.
Author of scads of books (one
of them on Jewish life in Ger
many), “Jake” Marcus, as his
friends call him, is far from be
ing pedantic. He’s a rabbi’s
rabbi, a favorite among his stu
dents, and it is understandable
that they are the ones who are
whooping it up on the golden
anniversary of their teacher’s
career.
Dr. Marcus has known personal
tragedy, having lost a wife and
daughter. Philosopher and the
ologian that he is, Dr. Marcus
knows that you can’t eliminate
grief; you can only combat it
by devotion to good causes.
And what finer cause is there
than that of truth. Hail to a
champion of truth, a great schol
ar and a delightful person: Dr.
Jacob Rader Marcus! The Pope
should only be as popular!
A Seven Arts Feature
COMMUNAL AFFAIRS
Jewish communities in various parts of the
country are beginning to take note at the demands
of Jewishly-concemed youth groups to include
their representatives in communal policy-making
bodies. Boston was the first to do so. Others are
now following. This is being done in accordance
with a resolution adopted by the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds to invite
college youth and' faculty members on boards and
committees of the Federations and their agencies.
In Canada, too, the trend to give representa
tion to college youth on communal bodies de
termining policies, programs and priorities is
gaining momentum. The Allied Jewish Community
Services in Montreal has decided to give such
representation in its own structure and called on
its 19 constituent agencies to do the same.
In Portland, Oregon, the Jewish Welfare Fed
eration has appointed a college student and a
college professor to its Board, of Directors.
In Cleveland, the Jewish Community Fed
eration has allocated $10,000 from its en
dowment fund as a discretionary fund to be
made available for innovative programs qn col
lege campuses in Ohio. The grant is considered
a “risk capital” to be used for suggestions and
ideas emanating from the college youth on the
campuses.
In Oakland, where the Jewish Welfare Fed
eration is supporting the Union of Jewish Students
and a student newspaper, the leadership of the
Federation has now allocated several thousand
dollars to help finance the establishment of a
“Havurah” by a group of Jewish students.
Simultaneously Jewish communities throughout
the country are organizing commissions on man
power for Jewish service with an eye on bringing
in able young men and women in such careers.
Leadership in setting up such commissions has
been taken by the Jewish Community Council of
Essex County (New Jersey), the Jewish Federa
tion of Youngstown, and the Jewish Federation
of Cincinnati The commissions will help to make
possible the professional education of the youths
where necessary. In Columbus, the United Jewish
Fund and Council has established a Jewish
teaching program at the Ohio State University
School for Social Work which involves 34 stu
dents. .
ROLL OF HONOR
The unlimited devotion of Philip Slomovitz,
editor and publisher of the Detroit News, to the
Jewish National Fund is well known. It has always
been admired by Zionist leadership in this coun
try and in Israel.
Fifty years ago, as a young man active in the
Young Judea movement, Slomovitz distinguished
himself as founder and first president of the Jew
ish National Fund in Detroit Since then, he has
distinguished himself also in many other fields
of endeavor—communal, Zionist and journalistic
—but the JNF has remained a cause most dear
to his heart and to the heart of his wife Anna,
who is a moving spirit in Hadassah.
In very few Jewish homes in this country have
I seen so many citations from the JNF and Ha
dassah as I was privileged to see in the home
of the Slomovitzes in Detroit. A man of wide
interests and busily engaged in producing one of
the best English-Jewish newspapers in the coun
try, Phil—-as Slomovitz is affectionately called
by his friends—has never subdued his loyalty
to the JNF to other causes in which he is active.
He is a generous giver to the local Jewish Wel
fare Federation and to other worthy causes. His
contributions to the JNF are outstanding.
No Wonder that the Detroit Jewish community
and the Jewish National Fund have jointly hon
ored him at a testimonial dinner June 17 which
marked the Golden Jubilee of the JNF in Detroit.
No wonder too that as a token of appreciation for
his untiring efforts on behalf of the JNF a
Philip and Anna Slomovitz Forest will be estab
lished in Israel
To be the guest of honor at a public function
is nothing new to Phil. He has long established
for himself a commendable reputation in the
Zionist movement, in the field of Jewish culture,
and as one of the best editors in English-Jewish
journalism. He was not only the first president
of the JNF in Detroit but also the first president
of the American Jewish Press Association. His in
terest in many phases of Jewish life, local, national
and international is deep. His knowledge on mat
ters Jewish is profound. His dedication to causes
strengthening Jewish life and traditions is limit
less.
• • •
JEWISH COUNTERACTION
Jewish action against the determination of the
governments of the Soviet Union and Poland
to make the world forget the Nazi annihilation
of Jews is now being planned on a world-wide
sc&le.
It is well known that the Soviets do not permit
the erection of a Jewish monument at the no
torious ravine of Babi Yar as well as at any
other place of mass-killing of Jews by the Nazis
during the occupation period. The Soviet intention
is to erase from history the fact that Jews were
the major victims of the Nazis.
Now Poland is following suit by not permitting
the erection of a Jewish monument at the no
torious camp of' Oswiecim where millions of
Jews were brought by the Nazis in cattle-trains
and put to their death in gas ovens. The Polish
move was made despite the fact that ever since
the end of the war groups of foreigners—and also
of Polish military units and of school children—
were brought to Oswiecim to show them on the
spot the brutal methods used by the Nazis in
their mass-killing of the Jews.
The policy of Russia and Poland to deliberately
eliminate any reference to Jewish victims of Nazi
brutalities and to falsify history by presenting the
millions of killed Jews merely as Soviet or Polish
citizens—without mentioning the fact that they
were Jews—is now going to be strongly combatted
by the surviving Jewish underground fighters of
the Nazi years who are scattered in many coun
tries in the free world. Under the leadership of
Yad Vashem in Israel, they held a world Con
ference and established their own world organiza
tion. Members of their world executive include
Soviet Jews who participated in partisan units in
the Ukraine and Byelorussia.
The material now in the hands of this world
today, deposited in the archives of Yad Vashem,
include very interesting documents by a Soviet
military correspondent who was with the Red
Army on the front and witnessed the role played
by Jewish partisans and fighters in liberating
Eastern Europe from the Nazis. ’Hie documenta
tion also includes hundreds of original photos of
the destruction of Jews by the Nazis in a number
of Soviet cities. Simultaneously the Yad Vashem
now published the first volume of a biographical
dictionary of Jewish partisans and underground
fighters in Western Soviet territory, proving the
role played by Jews in fighting the Nazis behind
the battlefront.
Copyright 1970, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
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