Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1968 — Page 12

THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION

Friday, December 27, 196t

Pearlrodi

Your Name

8y NORBERT PEARLROTH

Dear Mr. Pearlroth: Our family is very anxious to determine the origin of our family name — SITRICK. My parents both came from Bialogrodka which is Volhynia Gubernia near the city of Zaslav. Thank you for any help you can give us. Sincerely

— Mrs. H. Sitrick Lenin, Chicago.

Sitrick — a misspelled version of Sitnik — is a surname of geographical origin. It is derived from the village of Sitniki located on the highway from Kiev to Brest, in the district of Radomysl in the Ukraine. Sitniki is a name celebrated in the history of Russian Jewry. It was here that an agricultural Jewish colony was founded by 300 Russian Jews in 1840

who were determined to become farmers. Sitniki (plural of Sitnik) has three different meanings in Russian, a cotton gown, a loaf of bread of a certain type and bulrushes. It is

the latter meaning that applies to your name.

Dear Mr. Pearlroth: My family name is Falckenstein and they came from Hofgeismar, Hessen, Germany to America in 1746. Please tell me the origin and meaning of this name. Yours truly — Mrs. B. R. Howard, Louisville, Ky. Falkenstein (no c) is a surname of geographical origin. Its source is the town of Falkenstein, population 15,618, located in the Saxon province of Vogtland. This Falkenstein had a large Jewish population and it is from Saxony that your family migrated to Hessen-Nassau. There are three other localities named Falkenstein in Bavaria and Saxony but I have reasons to believe that your ancestral place of

origin was the town I indicated.

(Do you want to know what your name means? Send all queries to Mr. Pearlroth, National Jewish Post & Opinion, 70 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011.)

Flaming Denunciation

Eisendrath On Warpath

The Post and Opinion Read By All

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. -- A leading liberal in organized Jewish life, Rabbi Maurice Eise n d r a t h touched all the bases as he blasted society for its shift towards the rig h t , charged that we have oppressed the Eisendrath black citizenry for 400 years, characterized the Existentialists as latter day Cassandras and said the God-is-dead preachers are dead,

not God.

PRESIDENT OF the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath told a regional reform meeting here that “We have become blase over mass starvation in India and Africa and other countries, to say nothing of starvation here in the most affluent country in the world. We have supported a policy which has despoliated and destroyed the land and the people of a country we profess to be ‘saving.’ We have repressed and oppressed the black citizens of our own nation for 400 years, emasculated their menfolk, con-

Jewish Scientists Aid Apollo Flight

fined their young to rat-infested ghettos, excluded them from our history and society and allowed them to perish by the thousands through such sophisticated torture methods. Are these not examples of mass

murder?”

Addressing more than 300 Reform leaders from Washington, Baltimore and Virginia at the biennial convention of the MidAtlantic Council of UAHC, Dr. Eisendrath admonished “my fellow Jews who, above all people, have suffered through the millenia, to remember the Holocaust in Germany, not out of morbid masochism, but to deepen our empathy with our

brothers of all countries and all races and all colors who are suffering as we have suffered. “GENOCIDE,” he said, “has become endemic to world society, and Jews, perhaps mor« than any other people on earth, must stand up as one man to stop this maniacal state of affairs.” Rabbi Eisendrath urged disavowal of the philosophy of the Existentialists, whom ho characterized as “latter day, Cassandras,” and the God-is-dead preachers who “arrogantly suppose that because they ar^ He is. The Jewish people bear witness that God is alive and well and living in the universe.’*

Books

Poetry Of Torment “I fling my challenge, proud reminded. One needs to b% and free reminded of what evils man caa Upon Ute blind who will not perpetrate and ignore, whal see.” hunger does to man and chUd* Challenge, Herb Brin what dark sidepaths maa

If the gift of prophecy is not

crawls tq forget his guilt and shame while searching for even greater evil to wallow in. One ought to awaken to the realities hidden beneath our mundane, artificial pursuits, to the Bab*

tionably possesses the prophetic bittry of f 13 / 1 wbo S f r '^, S f . gift. In a time when those over Wllll "8'y » l the allar o[ selflsh -

"*>' which of us in Auschwitz,

h „!. y e ^. r ,„ haV n e io d r”lSC Biafra, Racism, War, Poverty.

only to foretell events, before their arrival, but connotes also to clearly see those which have already taken place or are in the making, Herb Brin, unques-

HOUSTON — A number of

and overly threshholds,

thf au C thor 1V “o y f Mindlessness, and the Eclipse

Jewish scientists are playing not enough Tveiiture, but Herb hey roies in the mission of "n"m Ite Bnn .s Lh * Mly

real issues facing man in this hls torment can become h,s

orbiting, whirling, and increasingly shrinking world.

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Apollo 8 to the moon.

A loosely-knit Jewish community exists at Clear Lake, some 25 miles south of here, where NASA headquarters are

located.

AN OFFICIAL of the local Jewish community who visited Clear Lake recalled that he spoke to some 30 to 40 men and women at a meeting 18 months ago. He said the corn-

torment

reader’s too.

The disadvantage of feeling another’s pain as one’s own is soon lost by the everyday man — but to increase one’s sen-

Unfortunately, dissent, conscience, indignation against the evils we accept as necessary, lies dormant. If reading this slender volume of poetry can enflame some long-dead pas-

graphically portray

less sensitive is more than artistry — it tells about a writer

•* , „ and hopefully his reader as

mumty was hardly stable, since ,. F J

the scientists come and go.

. f 0 _ the sions to right the wrongs, Herb

Brin will be amply rewarded.

“Where is the pen

Thrust in a well of passion To strike at the callous

Sometimes the group holds its

own services, while other Jewish scientists attend services

at synagogues in Houston.

THE LOCAL official told ' r he POST and OPINION that tne Jewish scientists would like very much to have their own synagogue and community center, but this seemed hardly

very likely at this point.

What are the issues we refuse to face, although they daily hit us with the force of a Mack truck? Read Herb Brin to be

heart?” From ‘Casualty Lists’ Herb Brin Reviewed by Rabbi Joseph Schachter

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