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THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

Professor Felix Frankfurter
Quits American-Jewish
Committee

Follows Doctor Friedenwald and Resigns.

Professor Felix Frankfurter of the great masses of more recent
the Harvard Law School, last week immigration, so that the wisdom
sent in his resignation to the Amer- and the sacrifice of all Jewry may
ican-Jewish Committee. In his let- be embodied in action. Democracy
ter he sayS that he cannot agree is not a political fetish, but a ruling
∎ vith the Committee's line of rea- faith that the Jews in America must
soiling in the reply to Dr. Frieden- think their own thoughts, make
wald. ' Professor Frankfurter thus their collective personal sacrifice,
also lines up with the "democrats." express their own will, choose their
The letter is as follows : own leaders, if the Jews in America
Law School of Harvard Univers- are ever to reach self-respect that
entitles them to be heard and the
ity, Cambridge, Mass.
weight that will give them a hear-
June 23, 1916.
ing, here and abroad.
My Dear Mr. Marshall:
So conceiving the issue, and find-
Dr. Friedenwald's letter of resig-
nation and your answer thereto re- ing myself in thorough accord with
veal a radical difference of attitude, Dr. Friedenwald, there is no chance
a real clash of ideas, if not of left me but to resign from the
ideals, towards Jewish problems to American-Jewish Committee.
the solution of which both the realize that I have been a delinquent
American-Jewish Committee and member, that I have had but paper
Dr. Friedenwald are wholehearted- participation with the Committee
ly devoted. These letters breathe since my election to it. That de-
certain underlying spirits, defined fault, however, in no wise relieves
hopes none the less definite because me from acting on the grave issues
inarticulate. Dr. Friedenwald has of the present. The least that one
reached the conviction that disin- can do is to give utterance to one's
terested devotion on the part of a opinion. I regret to be compelled
few, even if resulting in certain to say the American-Jewish Com-
concessions at borne or abroad, does mittee does not represent mine.
Sincerely yours,
not answer to the needs of the
days ahead ; that the great problem
(Signed)
is to mould an opinion of the Jews
FELI x FRANKFURTER.
throughout the land, particularly

popularity, might be less pro-
nounced if the English-speaking
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public were more familiar with the
Irving Pinsky's eyes he led the way great earlier European Ghetto nov-
down the aisle. Glowing with a elists and story-writers. But though
sense of victory, Irving Pinsky took their works have been translated
his seat beside the blushing Miss into English, their stories are com-
Minnkoff. The lights were turned paratively unknown in England and
low. The romantic glamour of the America. The earliest of them was
footlights filled the theater. Mr. Leopold Kompert, who portrayed
Pinsky's tongue was unloosed.
the German Ghetto in the Posen
"Minnie," he whispered, hoarse- region, with all its historic memor-
ly.
ies and romantic traditions, as Kahn
"I will," said Minnie Minnkoff.
had done in regard to the famous
Ghetto of Prague. The other two
Just after the wedding ceremony dealt with the Galician Ghetto in a
a week later, a tall, well dressed fig- critical way. induced by the break-
ure came rushing into the room and ing down of the walls of the Ghetto,
advanced smilingly toward the and the letting in of the free air of
bride and groom.
the world. Franzos, who held a
"What is that Bowery usher high rank in general literature, and,
doing at our wedding?" demanded as his name implies, was of French
Irving, indignantly.
origin, was especially condemnatory
Minnie Minnkoff glanced down of his co-religionists for fanatically
at her wedding ring and smiled.
clinging to their old ideas, so much
"Why not ?" she said. "He's so as to produce an anti-Semitic
my first cousin."—The American preface by Barnet Phillips to an
Hebrew.
English translation of one of the
author's books.
Yet it was Franzos who, though
Three Great European Ghetto
he
spoke of the Galician region as
Novelists.
The fame of Zingwill, that bril- "Half-Asia," was the author of the
liant coiner of epigrams and pre- world-known and significant saying,
senter of paradoxes, whose "Chil- sometimes attributed to Bismarck,
dren of the Ghetto" and "Dreamers "Every country has such Jews as it
of the Ghetto" have given him such deserves."

Pinsky Discovers His Tongue

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