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'THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. VII. No. 9.

30,000 U. S. JEWS
SEEK RE-UNION
WITH FAMILIES

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920.

JEWISH JUDGE RESIGNS;
CAUSE: ANTI-SEMITISM

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ARNOLD B. EHRLIC: H

Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents

$1,700,000 TO BE -RAISED
BY NEW YORK JEWISH
PHILANTHROPIES

DR. ABBA H. SILVER
TO GIVE LECTURE
HERE ON MONDAY

WARSAW—After a long series of
protests on the part of the legal profess
Because the dollar pledged for
sion of Lodz, Adolph Kohn, a Jew who
A Great Bible ghelar.
prilanthropy four years ago is worth
was recently appointed Judge of the
Aim 48 cent;!, the Federation for Sup-
Circuit Court there, has practically been
port of Jewish Philanthropic Charities
compelled to resign his office. Polish W.
will launch a campaign today to make
BY PROF. ISRAEL FRIEDLAENDER
judges, lawyers, and law clerks, feeling
Immigrant Aid Society Makes it beneath their dignity to serve under a
up a deficit of $1,700,000, according
to an announcement made yesterday Gifted Young Cleveland Rabbi
Plans for Bringing Together Jew as president of a higher court have
by Felix M. Warburg, Chairman of
Tens of Thousands of Jewish kept tip a continuous agitation for
Is Next Speaker in Pisgah Lodge
the federation. The money is to go
Kohn's dismissal. The government re-
Families Separated by War.
The death of Arnold B. Ehrlich,
Lecture Course, at Temple Beth
Realizing the need of communicat- to increase the budgets of the ninety
fused to accede to their request for
El, February 2.
Kuhn's recall, but the latter has finally which occurred in the city of New ing the results of his studies to the institutions affiliated with the federa-
$700,000 ASTOR LIBRARY
settled the matter by tendering his resig- York a short time ago, has deprived non-Jewish scholarly world, Ehrlich tion.
the
world
of
Biblical
scholarship
of
abandoned
the
use
of
Hebrew
and
The campaign will he known as the "GREAT OPPORTUNITY
BUILDING PURCHASED nation.
of its most brilliant exponents. resorted to German as the linguistic "Safeguard Federation" drive and
Posen —Strongdissatisfaction is ap- one
OF AMERICAN ISRAEL"
Ehrlich was not officially connected medium of his later works. In 1905 more than 100 committees will begin
parent
among
government
circles
of
Many National Figures Address
with any institution of learning; his he published an elaborate commen- active canvassing today. "Few busi-
the
country
over
the
resignation
of
Eleventh Annual Meeting of He-
Leader in Jewish National Move-
Judge Kohn, who had recently been name is little known outside of the tary on the Psalms, and beginning ness enetrpriscs are run as econom-
ment Visited Devastated Lands
brew Aid Society on Problems appointed as president of the circuit narrow circle of professional Bible with 1908 he was engaged in the pub- ically and effectively as the federa-
students,
and
is
possibly
not
suf.
lication
of
his
"Randglossen
our
tion,"
said
Mr.
Warburg.
of Immigration in U. S.
of Europe in Interest of U. S.
court, but who withdrew from the
ficiently
known
even
among
them.
If
ebraischen
Biller'
("Marginal
Notes
"Federation
through
the
Jews
of
— ---
position owing to the clamor raised
Government.
New York.—The Hebrew Shelter- against him by Polish judges and Yet, his life work, represented by on the Hebrew Bible") consisting of New York support ninety philan-
ing and Immigrant Society of Amer- lawyers who did not wish to serve eleven substantial volumes dedicated even large volumes, in which, fol- thropic institutions," said Mr. liYar-
Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver, spiritual
"It makes one appeal for
ica, at its eleventh annual meeting, under him. The authorities feel that to the elucidation of the Scriptures, lowing the order of the Hebrew burg.
leader of the Temple of Cleveland,
It includes every 0., and one of the most cominanding
held recently at the Lexington Opera this incident does not accord with merits the grateful appreciation of all Bible, he endeavors to unravel its ninety charities.
House, bade farewell to Leon Kam- their policy which is aimed at bring- those to whom the Bible is an in- original meaning and purport. In phase of philanthropic work, and we figures of the American Rabbinite,
aiky and Jacob Massel, vice-president ing about harmony with the assimilat- tegral part of human civilization. spite of his remarkable industry and feel that every individual in this city, will speak under the auspices of Pis-
Ehrlich was born seventy-one years 'pertinacity which enabled him to who is not himself dependent upon
and honorary secretary, who depart- ed Jews: Two Christian judges have
gah Lodge, No. 34, Independent
ed January 28 for Europe to help resigned in protest against the en- ago in a typical Jewish town on the publish eleven volumes in fifteen charity, should be a supporter of it, Order of B'nai Drab, Monday even-
banks of the Bug River, on the bor- )ears—the last volume of his Rand- to the extent of his means."
approximately 100,0(X) relatives of forced resignation of Judge Kohn.
ing, February 2, in the auditorium of
der
line
of
Russia
and
Poland.
De-
glosses
appeared
in
1914--Ehrlich
Jewish families scattered by the war
Temple Beth El, on "The Great Op-
priced, like practically all Russian remained far front satisfied. He was
and reunite them with their kin in
portunity
of American Israel."
Jews of two generations ago, of the fully aware that his work was not
this country.
The address, which is the fourth in
opportunity for secular culture, Ehr- finial, and, in the nature of things,
Announcement was made that the
the
lecture
series arranged by the In-
lich received a typical old-fashioned could not be final, and, with a con-
old Astor Library building on Lafay-
tellectual Advancement Committee
Jewish education, amazing in extent ceutration which bordered on eccen-
ette street had been purchased for
as well as in depth. He learned to tricity, his whole being remained
administrative purposes in accommo-
master the Bible in the original and wrapped up in the pursuit of his
dating Jewish immigrants, many of
the immense post-Biblical literature studies. So great wss his anxiety to
whom arc expetced to be found by
in
Hebrew. Like all educated Rus- fathom the mysteries of the Biblical
Samuel S. Mayerberg
the men going abroad. Police re- Says Ill-Disciplined Troops Al-
Points Out Urgent Need for
ways Ready to Plunder and Kill Sian Jews, he acquired above all a word that during the last few years
serves were used to turn away 3,000
command of the Hebrew language, of his life his friends found it en-
persons seeking entrance to the
Larger and Better Equipped
Jews Under the Influence of the not merely as the key to a hoary tirely impossible to divert his
meeting.
Jail.
Anti-Jewish Press.
past, as which it is still taught at our thoughts even for a moment from the
Already 30,000 Jews have registered
universities and seminaries, but also discussion of Biblical problems.
with the society asking assistance in
Declaring that Wayne county's
l'aris—Gustave Herve, writing in as a living medium of literary ex- Without any regard to his physical
finding relatives torn from them by
pression—a
command which stood needs or to the amenities of life, his treatment of prisoners was making
his
paper
"La
Victoiro,"
says
that
the
the war. The work of reuniting fami-
lies will he headed by Messrs. Kam- reports about the pogroms in the him in good stead in his later exe- mind remained riveted on the &Ili- law-breakers out of law-abiding citi-
getical endeavors. At a somewhat curries of the Biblical text, is the zens. Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, as-
aiky and Massell, assisted by a staff territories occupied by General Denis
kin are greatly exaggerated, the ob- mature age Ehrlich became attracted hope of supplementing his published sociate rabbi of Temple Beth El, in a
of SO to 100 assistants.
ject of these reports being to damage towards modern culture, and, after a works by the later results of his stirring sermon Sunday morning,
First Effort in Poland.
severe physical and mental struggle, studies. He died with a Hebrew scored heavily the methods of the
The first effort will he made in the reputation of Deniken and Kol- such as has been the lot of so many Bible in his hands.
county board of supervisors that was
chak in the public opinion of the
Poland. A list of lost relatives has
Russian Jews during the nineteenth
Ehrlich's exegetical work is char- endangering the health and morale of
been prepared by towns. Agents of United States. He warns the Jews century and will one day be appre- actenzed
by several features which the men and women detained at the
against taking these contradictory re-
the society will visit towns all over
elated by the world as one of the single him out from among the host county jail.
Europe, attempt to find relatives on ports seriously. The fact that Jews finest manifestations of the uncon- of modern Biblical commentators. A
"The treatment of criminals has a
have been killed in Kieff and other
their lists, render them any financial
towns of South Russia is only a querable striving of modern human- radical in religious matters, he con- distinct religious background that has
aid possible and assist them to come natural consequence of war in these ity for intellectual advancement, he tended that the Bible must be treat- been wholly forgotten or ignored,"
to this country.
territories, the whole country being a managed to gain access to the Uni- ed like any other ancient text, and Rabbi Mayerberg said. "Men are
Assurances that the immigration
battlefield. The troops, ill-disciplined versify of Leipsic, where he came Inc carefully refrained from reading taken on suspicion, hurled into a jail,
laws of the United States will not and ill-fed, are of course
the very appearance of which is spirit
, ready under the influence of that saintly any theological bias into it.
operate against these persons have enough to Plunder and kill, and,
un- scholar and celebrated exponent of
But, while refusing to accept the breaking. Not only are they locked
been given, it was stated. At present der the influence of the anti-Jewish Biblical exegesis, Professor Franz
up, but they are denied sunshine and
Bible
as
the
authoritative
source
of
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver.
the "literary test" is a nominal bar, press, which represents the Jews as Delitzsch. During these years Ehr-
fresh air."
but the high degree of literacy among responsible for the situation in Rus- lich laid the foundation for his re• religion, he insisted that the Biblical
of
the
I.
0. B. B., under the director-
"In
Wayne
county
today
we
send
the prospective immigrants will over- sia, they prefer to plunder and kill the markahle mastery, not only of the authors were masters of thought and men to jail and keep them awaiting ship of Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg,
come that obstacle, it was declared. Jews. The fact of the Jewish origin classic languages, but also of Arabic, diction, and Ile repudiated, and fre- trial for weeks and months when the will be offered free of charge to the
quently ridiculed, the attempts of
Purchase Astor Library Building. of Trotsky and Zinoviof, who had not which is indispensable for a thorough many modern exegetes who, in their maximum sentence they might receive public thvough the courtesy. of indi-
The old Astor Library was pur- the tact to avoid playing an important understanding of the language and desire to force a meaning into the for their crime is sometimes only vidual members of Pisgah Lodge,
chased from the New York Public part in the Bolshevik revolution, has phraseology of the Bible. After un- Bible text, have saddled the Biblical three or four months. Such men are who are defraying the expense of
Library Association for $325.000, ac- stimulated the anti-semitic feeling. told hardships and many wanderings writers with all kinds of linguistic put in a position to he maimed for bringing national leaders of Jewish
cording to a statement by Harry "But," says nerve, "all these things which at one time carried him to and stylistic monstrosities. He ac• life with rheumatic trouble or broken thought to Detroit through the pur-
Fischel, treasurer of the society. He are inseparable from any civil war, England, he ultimately settled in this cepted the results of modern Bibli- in health by the white plague. \‘'e chase of course tickets. The last and
declared the lot and building are and the Russian peasants upon whom country, to which he remained pas- cal science as a matter of course. Yet maintain a hospital at the jail with a concluding address of the series,
worth $700,000. A mortgage of $255,- Denikin was obliged to rely for his sionately devoted until the day of his he remained indifferent to so-called capacity of 23 patients and there are which has brought to the city such
001) will be carried on the place and army, are 110 exception to the rule. death. Though he was denied an op- Higher Criticism, maintaining that usually 511 more waiting for medical men as Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Rabbi
Nathan Krass and Dr. Leon Harri-
reconstruction costing $75,000 will be It is," 'Terve declares, "a cruel injus- portunity to devote his life to the the critical analysis of the literary attention."
"Bear in mind that many of the son, will be given by Hon. Abram I.
made before the building is taken tice to hold General Denikin responsi- studies so dear to him, his extra- sources of the Bible is pure guess•
user on May I.
ble. He knows very well, for he has ordinary mental energy remained work unless firmly grounded in a men in jail are riot convicted crimi- Elkus, whose appointment as Associ-
Statistics cited regarding the 100,- been told repeatedly, tnat the ex- focussed on one point: the elucida- proper undestanding of the text. nals, but are detained on suspicion ate Justice of the New York Court of
000 persons to be sought by the so- cesses committed by his troops do tion of the Biblical word. Without Fully convinced that the Bible can and awaiting trial. In the eyes of the Appeals prevented him from filling an
ciety showed that their 30,000 rela- more to influence public opinion in any assistance and without any en- only Inc interpreted out of its own law they are still innocent. But we earlier engagement in Detroit.
Rabbi Silver, in spite of his youth,
tives in this country have a capital Europe and the United States against couragement from without, he ouiet- linguistic and cultural environment, treat them all alike, herding them to-
wealth of $73.880,000, or $2,796 per him than a lost battle. The really ly and tenaciously pursued his task he set about to find parallels to the gether like felons who have commit- ranks among the foremost rabbis of
the
Reform Jewish pulpit in the
ted
the
most
heinous
crimes.
Our
guilty,"
nerve
goes
on
to
state,
"are
until
at
the
late
age
of
fifty
he
sum-
capita, and possess government se-
Biblical usage in the extra-Biblical
curities worth $10,689,840, or $356 per the Bolshevists who have brought all mooned enough courage to present to oriental literatures, particularly in treatment of criminals in the Wayne country. Graduating from the He-
capita. Some 12,000 of them own the misfortune upon Russia. Denikin the scholarly world the first fruits of post-Biblical Rabbinic literature, county jail is little short of criminal, brew Union College at the age of 24,
businesses, 7,230 own real estate, and and Koltchak are not reactionaries. his labors.
which has been sadly neglected by and, unless we take immediate steps he was called to Wheeling, West Vir-
His first publication is a work in modern Biblical scholars, and in the to remedy conditions, we shall be as ginia, where he served for two years.
19,200 are members of fraternal or- The question is now not one of Im-
ganizations. The average weekly perialistic reaction, the reaction of a three volumes written in exquisite vast literature of the Arabs. His im• guilty of an offense against the in- At the death of Dr. Moses Grits, a
earnings of the 30,1100 were estitnated great people which begins to feel that Hebrew, under the title "Mikra Ki- canny linguistic talents which enabled mates as perhaps they are guilty of national Jewish figure, Rabbi Silver,
then barely 27, was called to succeed
Pheshuto." "The Bible in Its Literary him to attain to a profound knowl- offenses against society."
at $62. The society itself has a mem• it is a nation."
This article by Mr. nerve, which Meaning" (1899-1901). In these vol- edge of several ancient languages and
"The remedy is simple. It requires the noted rabbi in the leadership of
bershin of 100,435, an increase of
tries to whiten the character of Deni- umes, which are primarily designed to handle with exquisite literary skill only a little action upon the part of The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, one of
more than 15,000 in a year.
kin, is the more distressing, as lie has for the II ebrew-reading Jewish pub- Hebrew, German, English and Polish, our slow-moving, dilly-dallying, pen- the largest Reform congregations in
Denounce "Literary Test."
urious supervisors. We must have a the country. It is a notable fact that
been in the past one of the warmest lic, the author courageously sets
Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary supporters and friends of the Jewish aside all the old-fashioned canons of made it possible for him to observe larger and better equipped jail, not Rabbi Silver is the youngest man in
and point out many fine shades of
of Labor, enlivened the meeting with people, and before the war he made Biblical exegesis, and systematically
the Biblical idiom which had hitherto because crime is increasing, but be- the history of American Jewry to as-
a denunciation of the "literacy test" the sincerest professions of sympathy applies to Scripture the linguistic and escaped the notice of Biblical schol- cause the rapid growth of population sume the responsibilities of so large
as applied to immigrants. He also for the Zionist movement .
exegetical standards which have been ars. And wherever a text, in spite of makes it necessary. There is suffi- a congregation.
defended Secretary of Labor Wilson
cient room on the present site to
recognized in the elucidation of other
Ardent Zionist.
for his interpretation of the immigra- DEMAND FOR NURSES, SAYS ancient texts. The quotation from an all scholarly attempts, refused to build a jail with six tiers of cells
yield a logically consistent and gram-
A brilliant orator, gifted with the
tion laws.
which
would
take
care
of
our
de-
Arabic
writer,
placed
as
a
motto
at
N. Y. SETTLEMENT HEAD the head of his work, "He who has matically acceptable meaning lie de- mands in a humane and decent way "silver tongue" and the language of
Senator W. II. King, of Utah, a
Il
a purist, a clear and keen thinker, an
clined to be satisfied with an artificial
member of the Senate sub-committee
NEW
YORK—The w ork of the past the truth is in the maiority, even exegesis, but resorted, as every edi• for years to come. We must do that aggressive and tireless worker, Rabbi
on immigration, also denounced the
immediately."
though
he
he
one,"
is
characteristic
of
Silver's name has been identified
for of an ancient literary document
"literacy test," and urged an Ameri- year at the Henry Street Settlement was the spirit of daring research which is bound to do, to a reconstruction
Must Not Count Cost.
with every forward movement in the
canization program among immi- reviewed at a meeting of directors of pervades his entire exegesis.
of the text.—The Natinn.
country. He is an ardent Zionist,
"We
must
not
haggle
about
build-
the
institution
at
the
Cosmopolitan
Club.
grants to show the difference be-
ing prices when life and happiness and not long ago returned from an
Among those present were Jacob H.
tween free government and license.
are at stake. In the present automobile tour through Palestine,
John I.. Bernstein, president of the Schiff, Dr. I.. Emmet Holt, Paul War- MERGER OF TWO WARSAW
trampled
quarters it is almost im- where he made a first-hand study of
burg,
1.co
Arnstcin,
Paul
D.
Cravath,
society, said that they had assisted
JEWISH NEWSPAPERS
possible to keep men and boys apart. existing conditions. At a recent
Live thousand immigrants to take out Herbert Lehman and Felix M. 1Varburg,
—
Consequently
the boys held on meeting of 500 Zionist workers of
naturalization papers during the Lillian D. Wald, head of the Settle-
merit, presided.
charges of automobile stealing or Greater New York, where he was
WARSAW — A merger has been
year.
Landau, Germany. — The paper petit larceny are given a course by principal speaker, over one million
Miss Annie W. Goodrich, director of effected between two local papers, the "Beobachter," in an article directed
Jacob II. Schiff characterized the
dollars. representing one-third of
Jews of America as men of energy nurses, said that requests for nurses Warsaw "Tag" and "Dos Yiddish against the Jews in general, declared the older ones in all branches of New York's quota of $3,500,000 of
and courage. "Immigration is tem- constantly were coming in from all parts Folk." The consolidated paper which will that the Jewish physician, Dr. Feibel- crone from housebreaking to safe- the Ten Million Dollar Palestine
porarily at a standstill," said Mr. of the three boroughs covered by the be the official organ of the Zionists in man, haul been on too friendly terms robber• and forgery. Under the Restoration Fund, was raised within
Schiff. "The immigration restric- Settlement's nursing service. At no Poland, will be known as "News of with the French army of occupation. present circumstances Wayne is a few nmlnutes at a remarkable ban-
manufacturing as many criminals as
tions will never keep out Jews, he- other time except during the influenza Today." it will be edited by Deputy
Dr. Feibelman brought suit against
other agency or factor in the quet at the Hotel Astor. His audi-
cause there is nothing in the Jews epidemic, she said, was there such a de- Greenbaum, assisted by the former the editor of the paper, and the court any
ence, "composed of veterans of the
community."
w hich justifies keeping them out. nand for the services of the Henry "Tag" staff.
sentenced the latter to pay a fine, and
"The
returned convict is creating pulpit and platform, pronounced him
Street
Settlement
nurses.
Miss
Wald
The 3,000,01)0 Jewish immigrants are
compelled him to withdraw Iris a problem at the jail A man, Un- unhesitatingly one of the greatest
an asset to this United States of ' said the institution had trained 176
charges, and also to print a denial of kempt in appearance with a hollow Jewish orators of America.
nurses for public health service. They GERMAN MINISTER URGES
the accusation in his paper. This cough, contracted in two years' con-
ours."
Visited War-stricken Europe.
included graduate and undergraduate'
was ordered done in the other papers finement while awaiting trial, was
ALIEN
JEWS
BE
JAILED
students.
In the interest of the Department
as well
AUSTRIAN JEWS TO GET
finally dismissed because witnesses of Justice of the United States Gov-
Berlin.—The German Minister of
had disappeared. Four days later he ernment, Rabbi Silver visited the
LIMITED RIGHTS
Jewish Question Economic
State, in an address before the Prus- DR. KELLER GREETED UPON returned. He had found himself un-
(Continued On Page 4.)
sian
Parliament,
has
formulated
a
RETURN
FROM
PALESTINE
able
to earn a livelihood after his long
VIENNA.—There has been a pro-;
Not Political, Says Premier plan in reference to the question of
imprisonment and had tried to get it
ject worked out by the Anti-Semitic
the
"Alien"
Jews
now
in
the
coun-
the
only
way
he knew. If the records BREAK GROUND FOR
New York, Dr. Henry Keller, just
Christian Social Party in Austria,
London—In a statement given to try.
NEW
In his address, the Minister returned from Palestine, after having are examined similar cases will he
which it is shortly proposed to put th e local "Daily Telegraph " the Rou
TEMPLE B'NAI ISRAEL
before the National Assembly, which , /us mail Premier says that the Jewish sat "We Germans cannot be benefited lectured extensively throughout Eng- found. The county will spend hun-
land and in Dublin, Ireland, was ten- dreds of dollars to convict a man
appeals for laws granting the reeogOi- qu
New York.—Ground was broken
his
country has laws
been of by their (the Alien Jews) presence dered a dinner at the Central Jewish for an offense, but will never thing
tion of the Jews as a nationality with set estion
tled by in
the
naturalization
in
large
numbers. At the same time, Institute last week. Many prominent of spending a penny on him to pre- Monday for the construction of
national rights. It is proposed to es- 19
Temple
B'nai Israel on 149th street,
19.
and
that
any
lack
of
harmony
however,
we
cannot
turn
them
over
men
were
present
to
greet
him
and
vent
his
return
to
crime.
tablish Jewish schools and a special, in the present relations between Rou- to the
Poles and Russians now in to receive his impressions of Pales-
"There are four girls who, for between Broadway and Riverside
Jewish Ministry; but the project also via nians and Jews
is
due
not
to
poll-
power,
who
are
in
readiness
for
them
tine.
periods ranging from 30 to 173 Drive, Washington Heights, by Jacob
advocates the admission of Jews into ti c al but to economic conditions. The with knives in their hands. We must
days. have been detained in the Adler, Chairman of the Building
the universities only in proportion to Pr envier also declared that the new forbid the Jewish refugees from the
of Congregation B'nai
their number, and the exclusion of Ro umanian must he such that it will Fast admission to our larger cities. Zionist Bank Founded in Zurich. juvenile detention home as witnesses Committee
aga inst men charged with crimes I srael. Prayer of consecration was
Jews from the higher posts in the he loved by all its citizens, of all And there is only one course to pur-
given
by
the
rabbi of the temple,
inst
them.
The
girls
are
entirely
Berne, Switzerland:—The Jewish `. 111a
state. It is quite clear, therefore, sat ionalities and of all beliefs. sue; 'We must place them in prison
r-destine Bank has been organized by 11111 ocent and yet they are forcibly Dr. Nathan Blechman. Temple B'nai
that although ostensibly this scheme
'We have faith in the Jews," he and later send them to concentration
Israel
is
planned
as a religious and
let
ained. while the men are out on
Zionists. It will be established at
recognizes the Jewish nationality, it sal d in conclusion. "and we hope that cam s "
Zurich, instead of at London or New hai I. With this kind of treatment go- social center with provisions for a
aims at doing away with equal rights the Jews will answer us in the same
This plan is finding support in the York, as originally proposed. Its mg on from day to day, our jail filled gymnasium and swimming pool and
of Jews in the state.
spirit of confidence."
Prussian Parliament.
with facilities for clubs, dances, and
capital is fixed at 1,000,000 francs.
(Continued On Page 4.)
other social activities.

JAIL CONDITIONS
SCORED BY RABBI
IN SUNDAY SERMON
Rabbi

GUSTAVE HERVE BOLDLY
DEFENDS THE POGROMS
OF GENERAL DENIKINE

ANTI-SEMITIC PAPER
CONVICTED OF LIBEL

