Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1960 — Page 4

The National Jewish POST and OPINION

Friday, September 30, 1960

Your Name

By N PEARLKOTH

Want to know what your name means? Address y^ur questions to Mr Pearlroth, National Jewish POST and OPINION, Box

1633. Indianapolis 6. Indiana.

DEAR MR. PEARLROTH: I am a subscriber to The POST and OPINION and would like to find out the origin of the following: My mother was born in Galicia and if memory serves me right the name of the town was Rzeszow. Her maiden name was Sarah Furst.—SIDNEY ENGELHART, Newark, N. J. FURST (Fuerst) is “Prince” in German. Since there were no

Jewish princes in 1789 when Galician Jews adopted permanent family names there are two explanations. One is that your 18th century ancestor was a man of impressive appearance and enjoyed the nickname of Fui’st. The other is that the name of geographical origin and is derived from the town of Fuerth in Bavaria where due to peculiar circumstances Jew's enjoyed special privileges in the 15th, 16th and 17th centimes. The name of the town is so similar to the title that it is easy to see how

the evolution occurred.

DEAR MR. PEARLROTH: I am very interested in the meaning and origin of my maternal grandmother’s name, which was Druks. She came from Bursztyn in Galicia. Thanks for your interest.—MRS. CLARE ERSTLING, FLUSHING 67, N. Y. DRUKS—more coi’rectly Drucks—is German for “a timid or discouraged looking person” and is therefore a family name derived from personal appearance. This was probably the way the Austrian Name Giving Commission sized up your ancestor in 1789. The word is obsolescent now and is. no longer used

even in Germany.

Pearlroth

Terrorists Bomb Jews in Morocco; Herman Stiiints Smear Smfiofe

New outbreaks of terrorism and anti- Semitic activities occurred during the observance of Rosh Plashanah in different parts of the world. IN ALGERIA, 38 Jews were injured in the Jewish quarter of

Constantine on the first of the High Holy Days when terrorists threw a hand grenade into a group of Jews returning from services at the main synagogue. The terrorists hid near the gate of the synagogue and waited un-

Demand Eban Resign As Head Weizmann Institute

Enemies Stren ten Jews Says Sociologist

DURHAM, N. C. (P-O)—A new twist on anti-Semitism as a strengthening factor for the Jewish group was offered by a Duke University sociologist. DR. EDGAR T. THOMPSON said that “enemies make us aware of who we are and what it is we honor and value. Does the sociologist have facts to support his surprising assertions? He has: Before World War I in Lithuania, Jews and Gentiles hated each other. Yet when members of each group migrated to Chicago they deliberately settled side by side. “Why did not the Jews settle on the south side and follow the fortunes of the White Sox'and the Gentiles retire to the north side and support the Cubs?” Dr. Thompson asks. “Why did they settle so close together again?” For several reasons, Dr. Thompson states. “Because in the Old Country they had been customers of each other and were familiar with the tastes, the likes and dislikes of each other. But there was more to it than this. Jews and Gentiles helped each other to remain Jews and Gentiles and this was the way they each wanted, it.” DR. TI^MPSON also notes that in “Around the World in New York,” an old book by Konrad Bercovici, the author told how the various immigrant groups in New York quickly reestablished themselves in neighborhood relationships to their old and favorite enemies. NKRUMAN ADVISES ARABS UNITED NATIONS — A hint that it was time for the Arab states to recognize Israel as political reality by President Nkrumah of Gnana brought protests from the UAR and other Arab delegations.

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Heads Hadassah

MRS. S. KRAMARSKY . . . succeed Mrs. Freund Mrs. Siegfried Kramarsky of New York, who was elected national president of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, at Hadassah’s 46th national convention in New York last week. A national vice president of Hadassah for the last four years, Mrs. Kamarsky succeeds Dr. Miriam K. Freund, national president of Hadassah for the last four years.

JERUSALEM (P-O) — The Knesset education and culture committee has been asked to consider a demand for the resignation of Abba Eban, Minister of Education and Culture, from the dual post he holds as president of the Weizman Institute. The resignation has been demanded b y Mrs. Esther Raziel - N a o r (Herut, rightwing) who Eban pointed to the fact that the Weizmann Institute is one of the institutions which receives subsidies from the ministry which Eban heads.

A spokesman for the Weizmann Institute declared that when Eban joined the cabinet at his own request he was relieved of all administrative duties at the Institute. He nevertheless, according to this spokesman, agreed to retain the title of president and to attend board meetings. Eban recently accepted a commission from “The Readers Digest” to write an account of last month’s Conference on Science in the Advancement of New States. Pie presided at the conference. He is also writing an article on the meeting for “The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists” of Chicago and is considering invitations from other scholarly journals.

Bar-Mitzvah Celebrated In a Methodist Church

CHICAGO (P-O) — When Robert Pollyea sits around the 21st century version of a cracker barrel and reminisces about the dear dead days of 1960, he will be able to say, “I was bar mitzva in a Methodist Church.” WHEN THE eyebrows come back from the ceiling, Robert will explain that he was called up to the Torah on Saturday, Sept. 24, 1960, in the Windy City’s Bethany Union Church, an edifice consecrated to Methodism. If his hearers think him mad,

they will simply have to concede there is Methodism in his madness for the Beth Torah Congregation is temporarily conducting services in different Chicago churches while their own new building is being completed. THE SYNAGOGUE will be ready for occupancy around the first of the year, according to C. J. Wollheim Jr., president of the congregation. Robert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Pollyea, members of Beth Torah Congregation.

Chief Rabb 7 s Citizenship Dispute Up To Cabinet

Rabbi Y. M. Toledano, Israel Minister for Religious Affairs, is now on the horns of a dilemma and will let the Cabinet get him off. RABBI TOLEDANO has dual citizenship and he is not certain whether this< is proper for a Minister who is a Rabbi, even though the legal adviser of his

Doctors and Nurses Laud 107-Year-Old Patient

Harry Bregman of Everett, Mass., a 107-year-old “Kohen,” who has been receiving geriatric treatment at Beth Israel Hospital since July 22, is scheduled shortly for discharge from the hospital where he has won many friends. AFFECTIONATELY tagged “grandpa” by nurses, doctors and hospital- attendants, Bregman is really a great, great, great-grandfather with five generations of descendants. He has a daughter of 80 who lives in Cuba; a son of 70 who resides in New Yorh; a son Aaron, 60

of Everett with whom he lives; four grandchildren; two greatgrandchildren and two great, great, great-grandchildren. The Baltimore Jewish Times reports that )vir, Bregman, born in Russia, migrated to the U. S. in 1930 and became a citizen at the age of lOj.. ONE OF' tfHE staff surgeons remarked: Bregman has been a wonderful patient His energy is am.ajzing. His mind is clear. He ja ; .very alert. This type of patient gives the medical profession a better, idea of what can be done for geriatric patients.”

ministry has assured him that it is. Born in Tiberias, Rabbi Tole-' dano inherited French citizenship from his father who emigrated to Palestine from Morocco. The rabbi is also of course a citizen of Israel. ACCORDING TO The Jerusalem Post, the rabbi decided to let the Cabinet settle the matter when the question of the propriety of dual citizenship was raised by newspaper reports. Rabbi Toledano' said that if the Cabinet found it “improper” for him to hold dual citizenship he would “act accordingly.”

til the services were over and the worshippers began to depart. The police vowed not to rest until the criminals are caught. THERE HAVE been previous attacks on Jews in Algiers but it was assumed they were part of the general campaign waged by the native rebels against white people The Rosh Hashanah attack was the first direct attack on Algerian Jewry. Jewish circles recalled an appeal issued by the rebels a few months ago, calling upon the Jews to “Make up their minds” on the question of Algerian independence. The “appeal” warned the Jews that if they did not support the move for independence they would reap a “bitter” harvest. IN PARIS, a group of 80 German students visiting the Documentation Center where the Monument of Hitler’s Jewish Martyrs is located smeared swastikas over the monument. The committee charged with maintenance of the monument was outraged by the students’ demonstration and dispatched a strong note of protest to the German Ambassador in Paris. GERMAN ENVOYS in the French capital summoned the students and their teachers to return to the desecrated monument. The swastika smearers were asked to confess their guilt. They maintained they had not painted the offensive Hitler emblems on the statue and their teachers backed up their denials. The German Government, it was announced, has launched a full-scale investigation of the incident and the monument committee in Paris is awaiting further developments. THE SWASTIKA made its appearance during the High Holy Day period in Oslo, Norway, where it was daubed on the home of the Norwegian Foreign Minister, Mr. Lange. Later, between 100 and 200 swastikas were found on Oslo street lamps, fences and along hedges elsewhere in the country. One theory advanced by Norwegian commentators was that the swastikas did not connote any anti-Semitic sentiment but were directed against Norway’s membership in NATO. ANTI-SEMITISM cropped up in Australia where an organization called the Australian Nationalist Workers’ Party began collecting and distributing books, pamphlets, newspapers and Hitler emblems, obviously designed to stir up anti-Jewish sentiment. Linked with other “hate” groups around the globe, including George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nationalist Party in the United States and Oswald Mosley’s fascist bund in London, the Australian bund is now under investigation by the Australian police.

It Has Been Announced That • •

. . . Sol Silverman, well known San Francisco attorney and com : munity 1 ead^er, has been reelected to his. sixth therm as president of the Jewish National Fund by the delegates on the JNF Council, representing some 50 Northern California Jewish organizations with an estimated membership of over 30,000. . . . Captain Zcev Hillel, master of the M. V. Nahariya, presented to representatives of the Jewish

National Fund a shield made of Israeli wood , with compartments (windows) containing soil froni the various sections of Israel when the vessel docked at Howard Terminal,. Oakland, on it 5 maiden voyage inaugurating Zim Israel Navigation Co., Ltd., Pacific Coast-Mediterranean Service. The Nahariya, flying the blue and white Israel national flag, was the first Israeli ship to dock in. San Francisco.