Henry Wineman Chosen Chairman Detroit’s $305,000 Allied Jewish Campaign

Henry Wineman, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, has been selected to head the Allied Jewish Campaign for $305,000, to open here on Sunday, May 11, and to last for ten days. Mr. Wineman was selected by the nominating committee of the Detroit Service Group, headed by Maurice J. Caplan.

Mr. Wineman, as chairman of the 1926 three-year campaign, succeeded in having the quota of $450,000 oversubscribed by more than 25 percent. He has long been accepted as a leader of Detroit Jewry and is recognized as a man who does not hesitate to take the initiative when major causes are concerned. In 1922 the Wineman family provided the necessary funds for a thorough and impartial survey of the Detroit Jewish community, following which Mr. Wineman led in the formation of the Jewish Welfare Federation. Mr. Wineman is a member of the American Non-Zionist Group of 50 on the Jewish Agency.

Fred M. Butzel, in a statement endorsing the choice of Mr. Wineman, said:

“As a chairman for the first all-inclusive Jewish campaign for Detroit, it is manifestly proper that Henry Wineman should be selected. He has gained an understanding of the point of view of all elements in the community by a definite exercise of toleration and an earnest study of the problems of every group. Mr. Wineman has come a long way to envisage not only the local problem of his own group but the local problems of all groups, and he has come a longer way in understanding Jewish problems, historically and throughout the world. There is nothing parochial in Mr. Wineman’s interests. Education, culture, recreation, religion and economic adjustment of his people, here and elsewhere, are matters of his concern, as they should be of the entire community. I do not think that Mr. Wineman is a Zionist, but he has contributed his share toward making possible in Palestine a different type of life than seems to be lived by Jews, as Jews, elsewhere.”