Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1967 — Page 12

Frida/* October 20, 1V67

Your Name

By NORBERT PEARLROTH

Dear Mr. Pearlroth: I would like to learn the origin and possible meaning of our family name GOLFER. My father came from Kartuz-Bereza in old Poland. Thank you. Yours

truly — Marvin N. Golper, M.D., Indiana. Golper is an idiomatic rendition of the celebrated Jewish surname Halpern which is based on the name of the German city of Ileilbronn where the family originated. By omitting the final “n” and substituting a “G” for the initial “H” you obtain Galper. live vowel “a” was changed into an “o,” because in the Hebrew script there is no difference between “a” and “o.” Halpern is a name borne by many generations of rabbis and other Jewish leaders. Your ancestor was

either a genuine descendant of the Halpern family or he took the name as a compliment to one of its many bearers. Dear Sir: Will you please let me know the origin and meaning of the name BRANDER or BRENDER from Bucovina, Austria. Yours truly, — Mrs. C. Brander, Florida. Brander or Brender refers to a distilling apparatus known in English as an “alembic.” It consisted of a boiler connected by a long tube to a chilling chamber. The liquid in the boiler was vaporized and condensed in the chilling chamber as a pure vodka. Your ancestor who took this name in 1789 was connected with the distilling trade and took his rue from an

important tool of his trade.

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Rabbi Tells When He'll Attend Parties

Pearlroth

SKOKIE, ILL — Rabbi Sidney J. Jacobs has told his congregation that he will attend only those bar mitzvah receptions on Saturday afternoons that are held on the synagogue premises. He also announced that he will accept invitations to receptions only where a certified Kosher caterer is used if meat or fowl is the entree otherwise when a permitted fish is served to all. He wrote: "Our Congregation, as part of fte Conservative movement and committed to the Reconstruc-

tionist philosophy is as morally obligated to the observance of Kashruth, as is its Rabbi. “Here, again, the question of choice by the individual celebrant family is theirs to make; but if we are to uphold the level our Congregation has attained, your Rabbi’s attendance requires that due consideration be given to Jewish tradition in this and other respects. “Whenever these two conditions are observed, I will attend all Bar Mitzvah receptions to which an invitation is extended to me.’*

Obituary Hyman Grover Dies In Montreal MONTREAL — Hyman Grover, 70, noted textile manufacturer and philanthropist, died Sept. 26. President of Temple Emanuel for 12 years and senior honorary president at the time of his death, be was president and managing director of Grover Mills Ltd., Regent Knitting Ltd. and Knit-to-Fit Manufacturing Co. He was the 1956 recipient of the Temple Brotherhood Award of Merit and recently was named Man of the Year by the Israel Bond Organization in Montreal. Mr. Grover was vice-president of the Weizmann Institute of Rehovot and was honored by the Institute with the Weizmann Medallion for the advancement for the cause of science.

Ben Medofsky PORTLAND, Ore. — Ben Medofsky, 76, a Portland civic leader, died Oct. 4 of a heart attack. Born in Odessa, Russia, he was the son of a rabbi who took his family to Nagasaki, Japan to escape the pogroms during the reign of Czar Nicholas. The family later traveled to Portland. A realtor at the time of his death, Mr. Medofsky had operated a bakery and candy store during his career. Active in civic affairs, he was an active fund raiser during World War II and headed a successful Israel Bond drive.

Dr. Hildegard Lewy CINCINNATI — Dr. Hildegard Lewy, 63, professor of Assyriolegy at the Hebrew Union CollegeJewish Institute of Religion, died last week. Dr. Lewy succeeded her husband, Dr. Julius Lewy, in teaching at the Reform Jewish seminary when he died in 1963. Dr. Lewy had contributed articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and to the Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible. Assyriology is the study of the language and history of ancient Assyria, the West Asian empire which became Nineveh.

Red Leader Stabbed On Tel Aviv Street TEL AVIV — A Russian-bom Israeli who claimed “he could rot bear the way the Soviet Union treats its Jewish minority,” stabbed Israeli Communist party leader Meir Wilner as he walked with his wife in Tel Aviv. A hospital spokesman reported that Wilner, head of the left wing of the party in the Knesset, was out of danger. The attacker, who remained unnamed, said he was arrested in Russia several years ago because of his Zionist views.

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The Digest Of The Yiddish Press Aaron Zeitlin On Hillel Zeitlin

By RABBI SAMUEL SILVER In Poland before World War H one of the most revered of sages was Hillel Zeitlin. A crony of Bialik and other great Jewish writers, Zeitlin was both scholar and pietist. He was devout but also acquainted with secular philSUver osophy. He had a period when he was enamored of Spinoza but then became disenchanted when he realized that Spinoza saw no divinity beyond the earth as man knows it. Hillel Zeitlin was an intellectual prodigy even in his teens, but never strayed from the paths of piety. He was so be-

loved by the Polish Jews that he was referred to by his first name, Reb Hillel. When the Na> is took Poland Hillel Zeitlin stayed with his people and the storm troopers were awed by him. When a batch of Jews were being hauled off to their death, Zeitlin refused to go, and wan murdered in cold blood. On his twenty-fifth yarhzeit his son, Aaron Zeitlin, one of the brightest luminaries of the Yiddish press, wrote an article praising his father. In the article Aaron Zeitlan says that his father had taught that the passage in Habakkuk (2.4) usually translated. “Hie righteous shall live by his faith,” means thal in the case of the zaddik, the just, there is no gulf between his protestations and his actions. So it was with the unforgettable Hillel Zeitlin.

King Flays Black Power

For Stand

On Israel, Jews

NEW YORK — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. went on record this week with a sharp denunciation of black power separation and anti-Semitism in a letter to the American Jewish Committee. He said that anti-Semit-ism was "immoral’’ and was being used to divide Negro and Jew “who have effectively collaborated in the struggle for justice.” Dr. King, who heads the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, stated his views in a letter of reply to committee president Morris B. Abram in which he also repudiated the an-ti-Israel stand adopted last June in Chicago by the “New Politics” parley. The Chicago convention denounced the “imperialistic Zionist war’’ but later watered down its impact with a clarification that this resolution was not to be deemed to be an-ti-Semitic. It had been reported that Dr. King’s organization had been part of the group which introduced the anti-Israel resolution at the Chicago conference, but the Negro leader denied it, declaring that his group had ac-

tually been “the most vigorous and articulate opponents of the simplistic resolution on the Middle East question.*’ Had he been at the convention, the Negro leader said, he “would have made it crystal clear” that he could not have supported “any resolution calling for black separatism or calling for a condemnation of Israel and an unqualified endorsement of policy of the Arab powers." Nuns Denounce Lies About Israel JERUSALEM—Those who have conducted a campaign of lies aimed against the Israelis have been denounced by the nuns of a Catholic order in Jerusalem. Members of the Order of the Daughters of Charity, the nuns went on record as saying their “work has been made especially happy, and its path smoothed, by the good will of the Israeli authorities in peace and war alike.” “Nothing gives us the right to set ourselves up as judges of the people of Israel, or of its army,” they said.

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