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RIJHA 2 0 1 9 Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Notes VOLUME 18 NUMBER 1 NOVEMBER 2019 Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association 130 Sessions Street Providence, Rhode Island 02906-3444 RIJHA 2019 Notes 1200053_Cover.indd 1 1/14/20 1:15 PM 1200053_Cover.indd 2 1/6/20 1:19 PM Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes Volume 18 Number 1 November 2019 The Association is grateful to the Harold A. Winstead Charitable Foundation Trust for its generous support of The Notes Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association 130 Sessions Street Providence, Rhode Island 02906-3444 1 1200053_Text.indd 1 1/13/20 5:01 PM PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Mel A. Topf, Ph.D. Chair Harold Gadon John Bush Jones, Ph.D. Linda Lotridge Levin, Professor Emerita Lowell Lisker Lillian N. Schwartz Michael Schwartz Bailey Siletchnik EDITOR George M. Goodwin, Ph.D. DESIGN Logowitz and Company Newton, Massachusetts Copyright © 2019 by the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Printed in the USA The Library of Congress National Serials Data Program (NSDP), Washington, DC 20540, which operates the US Serials Data System, has assigned the following International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) to Rhode Island Jewish Historical Notes, a publication of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association: ISSN 0556-8609 OUTSIDE FRONT COVER: Bennet Chapel, Temple Beth-El INSIDE COVERS: founders and donors, Congregation Sons of Jacob OUTSIDE BACK COVER: sanctuary, Temple Emanu-El 1200053_Text.indd 2 1/13/20 5:01 PM Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association 130 Sessions Street 130 Sessions Street Providence, Rhode Island 02906-3444 Providence, Rhode Island 02906-3444 email: [email protected] email: [email protected] web: http://www.rijha.org web: http://www.rijha.org Founder David C. Adelman Board of Directors 2019-2020 President Mel A. Topf, Ph.D. Secretary Ruth L. Breindel Fisrt Vice President Harold Foster Treasurer Melvyn Blake Second Vice President Lowell Lisker Members at Large Elizabth Bakst Linda Lotridge Levin Michael Schwartz James Waters,Ph.D. Cynthia Benjamin Marilyn Myrow Rabbi Raphie Schochet Marlene Wolpert Maxine Goldin Larry Parness Bailey Siletchnik Esta Yavner Presidential Appointee Dr. Larry Ginsberg Past Presidents Stanley Abrams (1933-2015) Robert Berkelhammer David C. Adelman (1892-1967) Ruth L. Breindel Stephen M. Brown (1931-2013) Geraldine S. Foster Aaron Cohen (1923-2009) George M. Goodwin, Ph.D. Seebert J. Goldowsky, M.D. (1907-1997) David H. Leach Robert A. Kotlen (1927-2015) Michael Schwartz Marvin Pitterman, Ph.D. (1912-2007) Eugene Weinberg Benton Rosen (1914-2002) Beryl Segal (1898-1980) Jerome Spunt (1929-2017) Erwin E. Strasmich (1925-2014) Honorary Board Members Harold Gadon Lillian N. Schwartz Melvin L. Zurier Charlotte Penn Philip Segal Staff Kate-Lynne Laroche Jaime Walden Executive Director Office Secretary 1200053_Text.indd 3 1/3/20 5:32 PM 6 Editor’s Comments 8 David E. Cane The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War, Part I 24 Tony Silvia Fred Friendly of Providence 36 Michael Fink Paris, 1953-54 50 Jeffrey A. Brown Memories of Androscoggin: Summers Spent on and off “The Rock” 68 Androscoggin and Beyond: An Interview with Alan Hassenfeld 80 Melvin L. Zurier Pesach in Ireland, 1978 92 Robert P. Swierenga Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger: Radical Reformer 101 Heske L. Zelermyer Rhody and Me 110 David Rosen East Meadow, Cranston, and Houston: My Rabbinate in Three Cities 128 Avi Shafran Our Wonderful Years on the East Side, 1983-1994 1200053_Text.indd 4 1/3/20 5:32 PM 142 James B. Rosenberg Entwined in Our Jewish Textline: One Rabbi’s Story 157 Samuel D. Gruber Four Synagogues and a Hillel House: Notes from a Quick Trip to Rhode Island 186 George M. Goodwin My Editorship 201 65th Annual Meeting 203 In Memoria 214 Funds & Bequests 215 2019 Life Members 218 Photo Credits 1200053_Text.indd 5 1/3/20 5:32 PM Editor’s Comments A week before Thanksgiving, Betsey and I were proud to attend a Shabbat service at Hartford’s Trinity College, where our daugh- ter Molly had graduated a decade ago. Not only had she been president of Hillel during her senior year, but she was also recognized for helping launch “Pink Shabbat” during her sophomore year. This observance at the once all-male, Episcopal college creates aware- ness of breast cancer and raises research funds. Before the Friday night service, I thought about visiting Zion Hill Cemetery, which is nearly adjacent to Trinity’s picture-perfect campus. Almost three decades ago, when conducting genealogical research, I discovered that two of my great- great-grandparents, Samuel and Miriam Feingold, had been buried there. And, after examining thou- sands of graves, I eventually found their resting places. When recently back at Trinity, the weather was threatening and I wasn’t feeling chipper, so I reluctantly skipped visiting Zion Hill. Thus, I was totally surprised and gratified when Mollyeferred r to one of her Feingold ancestors in her Shabbat speech. She grave of my great-grandfather, Los Angeles, 2019 6 Notes 1200053_Text.indd 6 1/3/20 5:32 PM explained to the assembled students, professors, and administra- tors- Jews and gentiles alike – that one of our distant relatives, Samuel and Miriam’s youngest child, Gustave, another Russian immigrant, had been one of Trinity’s first Jewish graduates in 1911. He achieved further distinction by earning a Ph.D. at Harvard and then becoming Hartford’s first Jewish high school principal. One of my last responsibilities when completing an issue of The Notes is writing obituaries. Because I have never met many of our deceased members or may know few details about them, most of these tributes are based on previously published sources. Yet, whether an individual has lived a fairly humble life or has achieved considerable acclaim, I am almost always impressed by the dignity, freedom, and opportunity that America has typically provided him or her. In turn, so many of our deceased members have strengthened our nation – Israel too – by living honorable and rewarding Jewish lives. Sometimes I wonder whether some of our deceased members’ survivors ever see our journal’s short obituaries. This is particu- larly true after a widow or a widower’s passing or if children or grandchildren live far from Rhode Island. Quite possibly, many survivors are unaware of our splendid organization and its journal. But I am not terribly worried. Some day, perhaps as a result of a casual conversation or an intense genealogical search, forgotten relatives will be rediscovered. I feel much the same way when, at a Beth-El minyan service, I read a list of yahrzeits. Ifeelpleased and honored to bear witness to my predecessors’ lives and all our mutual blessings. 7 Editor’s Comments 1200053_Text.indd 7 1/3/20 5:32 PM Lawrence Cane [first row, sixth from left] Camp Claiborne, LA, September, 1943 8 Notes 1200053_Text.indd 8 1/3/20 5:32 PM The World War II Letters of an American Veteran of the Spanish Civil War, Part I David E. Cane The author’s father, Lawrence Cane, was an extraordinary American, Jew, and human being. Although David is modest about referring to him as a hero, this is precisely what he was. A few readers of our journal may re- member my article in the 2001 issue, which focused on Lester Jacobs, who, I believe, was the only Jewish Rhode Islander who fought in the Spanish Civil War. He had lived at 55 War- rington Street in South Providence and in June 1937 sailed to Spain, where he sacrificed his life for Spanish democracy and freedom. Hoping to identify all of his fellow Rhode Island combatants in Spain, I found eight moremen.Atleasttwoofthese volunteers, Henry McSoley and John Mapralian, also gave the balance of their young lives. On many occasions while in Spain, Lawrence Cane faced mortal danger. He was again threatened only a few years later, when he gallantly served in the American military during World War II. It is now difficult to believe that our military spurned the service of many American veterans of the Spanish inferno. Yet, our government’s treatment of these coura- geous citizens following their World War II service may form an even darker chapter in American history. While it is true that Lawrence Cane never lived in Rhode Island, this journal has recognized other extraordinary individuals whose children or other relatives eventually made their homes here. In 9 Cane 1200053_Text.indd 9 1/3/20 5:32 PM another quirk of fate, Lawrence too gained firsthand knowledge of the Holocaust. David Cane has been our friend, neighbor, and a Beth-El congregant since joining the Brown faculty in 1973. A world- renowned scientist, he served as the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry until his quite recent retirement. Late this year, David and his wife, Suzanne, left their East Side home to live close to their daughter and her family, who recently relocated to Baltimore. We will learn much more about David’s parents, Lawrence and Grace, in next year’s issue of our journal, when we will be privi- leged to sample many of his stirring letters to her. My father, Lawrence Cane, was born in New York City in 1912. His parents, Abraham and Faye Cohen, were working-class, Russian-Jewish immigrants. Abraham was a dressmaker and an or- ganizer with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. My father and his two younger sisters, Irene and Celia, grew up in East Harlem, which in the early 20th century housed one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. Both of his parents were secular Jews, and he did not have an explicitly religious upbring- ing.
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