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lion of necessities; in other words, JEWISH NATIONALISM
in addition to credit co-operatives,
OUTSIDE OF PALESTINE
they became producers' and consum-
ers' co-operatives.
(From the Office of Albert Lucas, Secretary of The Joint Distribution
(Continued from Page One.)
To find a new field for their capital
Committee.)
and to provide employment for their meant incurring the heaviest risk
without
the smallest chance of gain,
members, these societies undertook
THE Joint Distribution Committee create a steady supply of credit and to till war orders for shoes and for as in the case of defeat of their chosen
has already carried out a number to see that it is justly distributed clothing for the government and the party they would have been sure to
of important reconstruction measures. among, and wisely employed by, our Zemstvos. Their new activity proved pay for the disaster, while its the case
It has, for example, rebuilt many needy brethren. As we manifestly very successful, for they turned out of victory they would have been se-
homes in Galicia and lent two hun- could not deal with each of the mil- better work, charged the government verely excluded from any share in the
dred thousand dollars to the Jewish lions of Jewish war sufferers, scat- less, and paid their workmen more, benefit of the triumph. 'flue only es-
co-operative societies of Rumania. tered as they are all the way from than did the private war contractors. cape from the torment of being placed
Moreover, some time ago It created Siberia to Palestine, nor insure proper And to overcome the acute shortage between the hammer and the anvil
spec.al committee on, reconstruction, use of credit granted to individuals,
a utidir the chairmanship of Colonel H. it follows that the credit should be of necessities, they purchased and dis- was to declare themselves as a nation-
tributed vast quantities of them. Here ality of their own, different from the
Lehman, and placed five million dol- supplied to, and administered by, or- their success was greater and more
l'oles as well as from the Ruthenians,
lars at its disposal. As long, how- ganized groups of war sufferers, lasting, for their action caused con-
claiming the same rights as they,
ever, as Eastern Europe was , still in bound by our terms, and supervised sumers' societies to spring up every-
speaking
their particular language-
by
our
representatiyes.
a state of war, the committee s work
where. In addition, they extended
long these fines was necessarily Ion-
There is another reason why our their credit operations by granting Yiddish—going their wit): by them-
selves,
and
pursuing their own aims,
iftd; for there was danger that what measures for reconstruction, to be loans to those who had fled, or whom
Necessary at Time
we' rebuilt might be desrtoyed again. effective, must be of a collective rather the government had expelled from the
But
these
conditions which made
But with the cessation of hostilities than an individual nature. As a re- northwestern provinces. In this they
the expedient of the Jews declaring
between Russia and Poland, Eastern sult of six years of wholesale destruc-
were
largely
aided
by
the
ICA.
themselves a particular nationality de-
Europe is finally in a fair way toward tion and a suspension of normal eco-
Another great stimulus to the Jew- sirable and even necessary. existed at
peace. and the Joint Distribution nomic activity, an acute shortage of
Committee will be able to undertake raw material, machinery, and finished ish co-operative movement was the the time When I drew up my program
this emir on a far bigger scale. It products exists throughout Europe, Revolution of 1917. The Czarist goy- in Eastern Galicia only, and, to my
behooves us therefore to give careful with a corresponding rise in prices cement, ever fearful of all voluntary knowledge, nowhere else. I am told
consideration betimes to the problem aggravated by the decline in the value associations, had imposed many re- at viscid that they prevail in Lith-
of lewish reconstruction in Eastern of money. Moreover, the innumer- strictions upon them. These were uania also. In this case. the Jews
Euiope. This problem is threefold: able political boundaries that have now abolished. Consequently, co-op- would, with advantage, constitute
How can the stricken Jews best and arisen render many sources of supply erative societies, particularly those of themselves as a separate nationality
soonest lie restored to • state of self- very difficult of access. For the in- consumers, arose everywhere; and to there too. In all other countries where
supple What social agencies among dividual, with his necessarily limited co-ordinate and stabilize their activ- there arc no rival nationalities con-
them are best adapted to carry out means, it has become well-nigh inn ities, regional unions of co-operatives tending for political power in the
this work of restoration? And how possible to procure goods on Profit- were formed. The greatest of these state and speaking different languages
shall we, who must expect to furnish able terms, if at all. To insure a i s the Kiev Regional Union of Jew- which they insist upon using in all
most of the money needed for this steady supply of cheap goods, par- , ish I. 0-operative Societies, winch their official relations with the author-
enormous enterprise, deal with these ticularly raw material and machinery, comprises the provinces of Kiev, ities, it would be sheer folly for the
V
men have been drivels to pool theirehynia,
Podolia, Poltava, and Cher- Jews to come forward with the pre-
agencies?
i.
resources and purchase and produce nigov. Organized only three years tention of forming a nationality differ-
ago,
it now includes 482 co-operatives,
No answer to any of These ques- in common. This accounts for the
ent from the nation of the state and
tions is possible unless we first form phenominal growth of co-operative with agencies, and purchasing offices mjoying particular political rights.
some idea of the havoc wrought societies throughout F:astern Euorpe throughout the Ukraine, with mills
Yet this folly has been and is being
and factories working exclusively on
among the Jews of Eastern Europe since the end of the war.
its orders, and with an annual volume committed. I can understand that
by six sears of warfare and pogroms.
A phenomenon so universal we Call
Jewish organizations which have al-
Exact figures, of course, are not avail- not ignore, even if prim en to be im- of business running into the millions. ways been bitterly opposed to Zionism
able, and may never be; but enough permanent. For one thing, no Jewish And this at a time of political upheav- and to Jewish Nationalism have got
als
and
pogroms.
is known, both from general accounts artisan or shopkeeper, however well
hold of my program of 1915, have
From this bare sketch of the his- misinterpreted and distorted it, apply
and from the reports received by the supplied with credit from America,
Joint Distribution Committee to rus- could exist in the face of non-Jewish tory of the Jewish cooperatives in it indiscriminated to countries where
tily the assertion that the losses sus- competitors, w hen the latter are not Eastern Europe it will be clear to all there is not the slightest justification
tained by the Jewish people during individuals, but co-operative bodies. that they are admirably adapted, both for it, and boast clamorously that they
this period have rarely been paralleled Hence, if we would really help our nature. experience, and numbers, to have obtained minority rights for the
in the annals of man.
brethren to their feet, we must en- bring about the In:habilitation of the Jews in East European states and
The losses include both life, limb, courage and foster group action war and pogrom victims, and that we
thereby become their great bene-
and property. We must remember among them. Above all. we must must supply them with ample means
Designed and executed by Detroit Furniture Shops.
that about nine-tenths of the Jews support those social agencies among to perform the task that destiny has factors, while at the same time turn-
use in countries which were belliger- thesis which by their nature and ex- set before them. In the words of ing them away from Zionism. But
Facilitated by factory association.
how
could,
and
can
Zionists,
engage
ents in the late war, that over one- per:ence are best fitted to carry not Abraham Kotik:
half of them dwell in or near what reconstructive measures of a collec-
"We arc at the threshold of a new in an action so utterly contrary to all
the
essential
tenets
of
their
doctrine?
was the eastern war zone, and that tive stature.
economic order. The government,
Not Ceased to be a Nation
the cities and towns in that zone,
These agencies are the numerous both national and municipal, is becom-
V•e Zionists are convinced and pro-
where naturally the fiercest fighting Jewish co-operative societies in East- ing an increasingly important econo-
claim
that the Jews are, and have
occurred, are mostly inhabited by wn Europe.
mic factor. More and more industries
Jews. The casualties among our
are being operated by the state, and never ceased to be, a nation in spite
Until recently but little was known this, as well as the growth of
of
their
dispersion over the whole sur-
brethren must therefore have been
in this country of the many Jewish Jewish cooperatives, is steadily non-
appallingly large.
de- face of the globe; but we take care to
co-operative societies which flourish priving the Jews of business oppor- add at once, and to emphasize with
Many, again, perished from hunger, in the vast territory which formerly
cold, and exhaustion in the fields and constituted European Russia. This tunities. And the decline in the value the utmost energy, that this unde-
Warren and Riopelle
woods when suddenly forced to leav e summer, however, the Joint Distribu- of money, thus necessitating enor- niably existing Jewish nation can only
their homes and flee for their lives. tion Committee received two reports mous sums for the opening of even hope to live and to develop normally
Open
Saturday
Afternoon
Telephone Melrose 1320
The sight of multitudes of men, worn- dealing with this subject. One is a the smallest shop, only quickens the when it is reinstate!! in Palestine
en, and children, half naked, shivering, paper by Abraham Kotik on "The process of socialization in industry which has become again the interna-
fear-crazed, trudging along Russia's Rise and Progress of the Jewish Co- and commerce. It is quite clear that tionally recognized homeland of a self-
By automobile, via Woodward
Ity street car, via Woodward Avenue
snow-bound highways, wink mothers operatives in the City and D'strict of a large part of the Jews will have to governing population in its great ma-
Avenue, east on Warren Avenue to
and Crosstown cars, east to Riopelle
cried for their lost children and chil- Bialystok," and the other is a memo- adopt other occupations Salva- jority Jewish. Outside of Palest' me
tion
lies
only
in
cooperation,
and
it
dren for their lost mothers, [mist randum by the Kiev Regional Union
Riopelle Street.
there is no room for a Jewish nationa
Street, then walk two blocks north.
have been one of the most tragic ever of Jewish Co-operative Societies on is therefore urgent that the Jewish ism as a permanent, final state imply-
cooperative societies he given the fitt- ing no desire for a change. When
beheld.
"The l'art to Be Played by the Jew-
Moreover. epidemics, due to over- ish Co-operatives in the Work of Re- est support by those who would aid we do all we can to awaken the na-
"Thilmmommolimmo w nallt OM 0 G 00 000 0 0 C 0 0 3 C 03 0 00 0 0 CO OA mourrillOminumnintioni0Inamnninnmirn
crowding, poor sanitary conditions, construction." The latter, especially, in the reconstruction of the Jewish tional consciousness in the Jews of the
war sufferers.•
Diaspora, to strengthen their feeling
and inadequate medical aid, have dec- is full of valuable information.
imated many Jewish communities,
of
solidarity,
to
spread
the
knowledge
IV.
The first co-operatives appeared
particularly in the Ukraine.
among the Jews of Russia about 20
Granted, then, that the Jewish co- of Hebrew among them, it is not for
Finally, the pogroms have, next to years ago in the form of loan and operatives are the best agencies for it s own sake, as an end in itself, it
the military operations, caused the savings societies. This form of co- carrying out the work of reconstruc- is as a means of education for future
greatest loss of life and limb. These operation was the most intell'gible to tion. But the question arises, How citizenship of Jewish Palestine. as a
attacks upon the Jews surpass in sav- the mass of the Jew s; the small shall we deal with them? Shall we preparation for effective emigration to.
agery, numbers, and area of extent trader, the shopkeeper, and the arti- supply them with credit free or and definite settling in, the land of
anything known even in the days of san needed credit, but as individuals charge them for it? Shall we grant Israel. Jews who have made up lb -ir
Bogdan Hmelnitsky. How sanguin- they cool!' not obtain it except on it to them for a definite or indefinite minds to return to their owb country
ary they have been appears from a the most usurious terms; hence they period? And finally, shall we exer- cannot honestly and reasonably wish
few typical cases. Thus in Proskit! organized loan and savings societies cise, or refrain from exercising, some to play a part in the political life of
rov 100 Jews were killed; in Cher- which rendered credit on easy terms kind of control over their operations? the slate of their present residence
kassy, 2,000; in Elizavetgrad, 1,526; available to them. Altogether 700 of
An answer to these questions is and thereby interfere with its life and
in Fastov, 2,000. In many towns the these societies were founded before contained in the action recently taken destinies. They have virtually be-
whole male Jewish population was put the war, with a combined member- by the Joint Distribution Committee come strangers to it even before they
to death. During the last two years ship of half a million. As the aver- in the case of the Jewish coopera- actually realize their desire of leaving
over 800 pogroms have occurred in age Jewish family in Russia consists tives Of Rumania (mostly located in it for good, they or their children, and
the Ukraine alone, where there is of five members, this means that the the former Russian province of Bes- all they can expect and ask for is to
These are durable, beau-
hardly an acre of land but has been credit societies ministered to the sarabia). The Committee placed two be treated with that humane hospital-
tiful, snug-fitting satin slip-
drenched with Jewish blood.
needs of two and a half million Jews, hundred thousand dollars at the dis- ity which all free and civilized states
From all these causes—military or about 40% of the pre-war Jewish posal of its Regional Director in Ru-
pers. Very fairly priced.
extend to writ-behav ed and desirable
operations, exposure, famine, epidem- population of Russia.
mania and authorized him to lend it aliens who abide scrupulously by all
ics, and pogroms—it is conservatively
at
his
discretion
to
the
Jewish
co-
their laws and make them benefit eco-
Classified according to their occu.
estimated that during the last six
operatives there at a rate of interest
years half a million Jews have per- pations, the members were as follows: not to exceed 5%. Ordinary loans are nomically, morally and intellectually,
small
merchants,
by their presence there.
32.6%;
artisans,
ished. To which must he added the
Buckles. 43.60
36%; small manufacturers, farmers to be granted for a period of five
Blind to Consequences?
myriads of maimed and dish."°ied.
years, payable in installments begin,
tom Cut Steel
and
laborers,
18.3%;
professional
peo-
How do the partisans of national
The material losses are equally
fling
with
the
third
year;
building
0.50
Eucklos
staggering. To begin with, innumer- ple and miscellaneous, 13.1%. it will loans are to be granted for a period minority rights for the Jews imagine
$10 to $12 Cut Steel
able buildings were destroyed by be seen that, as in the case of the of ten years payable in installments t he future developments of the legal
$7.00
!hellfire. Moreover, whole towns whole Jewish population, the major- beginning with the fifth year. The co- situation they are bent upon creating
Euchlos
were burned, factories were gutted. ity were artisans and small merchants. operatives snap in turn lend this in the old and new states of Eastern
:12 to $17.00 Cat Stool .$10.00
Nearly all of the credit societies
Europe?
Are
they
blind
to
the
dis-
and valuable machinery was destroyed
money to their members and charge
$10 to $30 Mine-
or carried off by retreating armies. were of the nature of joint stock them any rate of interest, subject to astrous consequences it will inevitably
. .0 to $16
atone
Again, the military authorities rect?. companies; that is. membership in the approval of the Regional Direc- entail? Anti-Semitism, already viru-
them
was
conditional
upon
the
pur-
sitioned all kinds of supplies, and Ire-
tors, to whom they must likewise stub- lent everywhere, will be whipped up
qfiently levied contributions. Then chase of at least one share, whose mit a monthly report of their activi- to delirious acuteness.
there is the wanton destruction and price rarely exceeded 10, and never ties. Should this arrangement prove
Double allegiance, absence of un-
looting committed by pogroming 25, rubles. Their working capital was satisfactory, the Committee will make reserved patriotism, want of sincere
hooligans and robber !sands, certain derived partly from the sale of shares, further appropriations for this pur- devotion to their country: will be the
Jewish communities in the Ukraine but chiefly from deposits. Thus, on pose.
most lenient reproach that will be con-
having been pillaged as many as ten January I, 1914, 456 Jewish credit
215 Woodward Avenue
Here, we believe, is an admirable stantly thrown in their teeth. If the
times in the course of one year. societies had aggregate deposits
legally constituted Jewish nationalities
Lastly, many livelihoods were blotted amounting to 22,443,200 rubles, which solution of this question. By charging of the different COLIntrieS were to try,
out, and promising careers blighted, constituted 66.5% of their working interest and limiting the time of the as is natural, to affirm their national
when the whole economic organize- capital. As the average savings ac- loan, we give to the whole affair the unity by establishing bonds between
!ion was disrupted and the old chaf. count was 13955 rubles, this further aspect of a business transaction, and themselves, they would be accused of
Welt, Mr. and Mr.. Jos
Loon
nets of trade and industry were shut shows what wide confidence these in- thereby impress the cooperatives forming an international organization JEWS CONTRIBUTING
Welt, Louls
1.000 ELKUS AT STOCKHOLM
off.
stitutions enjoyed among the masses. with au added sense of responsibility.
May. Max
1.000
The average loan granted was for And the modicum of supervisory con- escaping the control of the state, un-
II.
GENEROUS
AMOUNTS
lierger,
E.
'C
1,000
trol to be exercised by our direct rep- attainable to its legitimate influence,
ttallan, Saul
750 Hope. to Discharge His Aland Corn.
Having surveyed, however imper- 97 rublee, and only 2.3% ran for more resentative will act as a further safe- and open to the heinous suspicion of a
750
Mr. and Mr.. J. A.„
than twelve months. They were paid
TO COMMUNITY FUND Heevenrich,
mission Doti.. Before Christmas.
fectly, the extent of the damage, we back in monthly or weekly install- guard against hasty action by them, permanent conspiracy, of obedience
Enggass, Mr. and Mrs. C. H.—,
700
Benin. Dr. Mali
600
l i,thust now proceed to consider how it
to
orders
from
abroad,
or
representing
without at the same time encroaching
ments,
which
not
only
insured
re-
Wine
Bros.
600
(Continued
From
Page
1.)
T...`an be repaired. The dead we cannot
foreign interests, hiring a most alarm-
STOCKHOLM—Abram I. Elkus,
upon their freedom of action.
Freud. I. e
600
, • -sorilig back to life, neither can we payment, but also a steady flow of
ing permanent danger to their coun- winter. The minimum required of Goldberg lime
600 of New York City, member of the
money into the treasury. On January
V.
Jacobson. Mark and Harry
1 'ele whole the maimed. Those, too.
commission
which w'Il settle the dis-
try.
the
country
is
$33,060,000
for
food
and
Sloman, Eugene
6 600(0
!int t be written off as total losses 1, 1914, the aforesaid 456 societies had
In the course of these remarks we
If, on the contrary, they will anx- medical supplies. The Joint Distribu- Illenkberic, Morris
600 pute relative to the disposition of the
will te spirit has been forever broken outstanding loans totaling 22,382,000 have appraised the extent of the de- iously avoid entering into contact with tion Committee is included in the Sionmerneld, tirmuel
Aland
Islands,
which threatened for a
600
rubles. On June 17, or just before
Albert II
600 time to result in hostilities between
by their harrowing experience. But
vastation wrought by the war among each other and knitting connections Foreign Relief Budget. Jewish local Hecht. Mrs.
Henrietta
600 Sweden and Finland, has arrived here
what of the millions who, despite the the outbreak of the war, the number the Jews of Eastern Europe, and among them over the frontiers, firstly, charities will receive approximately !hazel,
Franklin. Rabbi and Mrs. Leo M
500
horrors they have endured, still re- of borrowers in 309 societies was shown that the only way to help they would not disarm their calumin- $80,000 from the Community Fund.
Mazer, Jacob
600 from America. Ile wan received at
Jesse I"
500 the station by Ira Nelson Morris, the
tain undiminished their will to live, to 233,438.
them is through reconstruction car- ators, and secondly, they would offer
Two million five hundred and sixty- Hirschman,
Pisgah
lodge,
No.
14,
I.
0.
H.
B
500 Am•rican M inister, and was driven to
The
immediate
effect
of
the
war
"carry on"? How shall we help
ried out by the Jewish, cooperativis the grotesque and lamentable spec- five thousand dollars is the sum asked stitahkun, Mark D
500
upon these loan and saving societies there wills our means and under our
them?
Jacobs,
A.
by
the
Community
Union
for
the
500 the Grand Hotel, where he and Mrs.
tacle of as many disconnected, isolated
was
disastrous.
In,
the
general
panic
Levy,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Ii.
J
Assuredly not by a continued dis-
500 Elkus will remain during the sessions
superaision. It only remains for us Jewish nationalities as there are states support of 61 Detroit institutions and
Brown, Mr. and Erg Waal
500 of the commission.
tribution of relief. Undoubtedly re- That ensued, depositors clamored for to point out to the Jews of America, granting them minority right.
charities.
Itownberg. T.
500
lief has its uses, not to be regarded their money; while, because of the that now more than ever mast there
Swedish newspapers express grati•
Mendelsohn, G.
600
Besides, who, in the light of his-
Partial List of Contributors.
I , ghtly: the hungry must be fed, the proximity of the front, many fled to be no slackening of our efforts in be-
Robinson, D. and Sons
540 fication over the arrival of Mr. Elkus,
torical experience, is ingenious enough
l'isgah
Lodge,
No.
34,
I.
0.
B.
B.,
Prensky,
M.
I.
600 which they consider as significant of
the
interior,
among
them
debtors
of
naked clad, and the homeless shel-
half of our affiliated brethren over- to believe in the loyal application of
Robinson,
Mr.
and
Mrs.
D.
600
gave $500 and $5,500 was collected
tered. But this, it cannot he em- these societies. This double strain seas, that now' more than ever must
Schwartz, Mr. and Mrs. II
500 America's interest in settlements of
thasized too strongly, is only pallia- on their resources put these institu- we uphold the hands of our great these rights? Hungary has already from members at a regular meeting Berson, Harry and Sam
500 European disputes. The king is ex-
given the example of abolishing eman- held the first day of the campaign.
King, David
pected to receive him at a special
t ive and preliminary; it clears away tions in a critical position. They relief agency, the Joint Distribution
Enggass. M. A
cipation and doomed her Jews, under
Other large contributors were:
the ruins, but does not set up a new saved themselves from total ruin by Commi•tee.
Jacob.
Mr.
and
Mrs.
lien
iF0
) audience. Mr. Elkus said today that
0
Mr.
end
Mrs.
David
A.
Brown...
112,000
the pretext of their being an alien
Siegel,
Mrs,
Sophie
he hoped the work of the commission
building. A soup kitchen will feed mobilizing all their resources, by the
500
Leopold
Wineman
We all respond to a cry for immed-
Winernan, Mrs. L
600 would be finished in a fortnight, and
a man, but it will never enable him partial collections of debts, and by iate relief. Who can remain deaf to minority in the nation, to utter out- Seigel. li,jarnin
500 that he expected to be back in the
Finsterwald Clothing
6 6,0001 Cohn. Richard
to earn the price of a meal; nay, if contracting outside loans, particularly the cry of the hungry, the homeless, lawry, and there is no doubt that Plogiathoiladn
Epstein, Geo. 0
500
)No. 16, I. 0. H. II,
fed gratis too long, he will lose the from the Jewish Colonization Asso- the orphan? But there is a kind of some or all other countries will sooner
500 Coked States by Christmas.
5.500 Feldman, Samuel
500
5,000 Ackerman. Jerome
desire and capacity to earn his food . ciation (ICA.), which from the very need which, though less spectacular, is or later follow this precedent. A Kahn, Alpert
Frank and Steinberg
500
4.500
chasm
will
open
between
the
Jews
Finsterwald.
Mr.
and
Ntrs.
Adolph
And it is precisely to enable him beginning had assisted them with ex- equally urgent; nay, is even more so.
Cohen,
Ile
and
Mr..
1
RELIEF AGENTS SAFE.
600
3.500
Goldberg, Mrs. Hannah
A.
Jacob
&
co
again to earn his food and everything pert advice and with money, By No- For greater than to give a poor man and their gentile countrymen wherever Butsel.Henry M
500
3,000
600
1.000 M. Jacob & Sons
rise that we should aim, if we would vember, 1914, the peak of the crisis bread is it to give him the means to they are at present living in good un- Mendelsohn, 5,.
500
1. 000 Kahn. Louis
NEW YORK—A cable message re.
really help him. No, the salvation of had been passed, and 72% of these earn his bread with. God helps those derstanding. They will everywhere Wineman, Henry
Wineman, Andrew
3 000 Opponhelm,David
ceived Tuesday from Dr. Frank Ro-
the stricken Jews lies not in relief, societies were already granting new who help themselves, we say; but by he felt as a foreign body which the Butsel. Frond M
2.500 Zulebach,
500 senblatt, now in Moscow, Soviet Rtas-
loans, while 59% were fully refunding helping our brethren help themselves, national organism makes instinctive Fechimer, Mr. and Mr.. Henry
2.500 Tannenhols, M.O.
but in reconstruction.
500 via,
2,500 Enggasx, Maurice
Krollk. A. & Co
the representative of the Joint
Reconstruction means to help a depositors.
we, too, may partake of this divine efforts to eliminate.
600
2.000 Frank and Davidson
M. & Bt
Jewish nationalism has no meaning Friedberg.
man help himself. It means to pro-
Mendelsohn, Mr. and Mrs. A
2,0n4
Many additional subscriptions not Distribution Committee of the Amer-
Moreover, the war, which at first virtue. And, for the first time since
aide the artisan with tools and raw seemed to threaten the very existence Europe was overwhelmed by the mad- outside of Palestine, or at least with- Freud. Marcus I..
2,000 as yet recorded make the list of ican Funds for Jewish War Sufferers,
2.000
refutes press dispatches of the past
material, and the merchant with capi- of the Jewish co-operatives, actually ness and misery of war, we are now out the clearly defined aim of ultimate tichloelo, Albert W
Bros.
1,200 Jewish subscriptions a long one.
week, received in the United States,
tal and goods. It means to rebuild gave them a powerful stimulus, and able to do so.
reintegration in the Land of Israel. Illmelhoch
Heineman. Mr. and Mrs. D. E
1.000
via
London. that American relief
homes, shops, factories, schools. it by extending the scope of their ac-
1.000
The waves of destruction are sub- If this aim is disavowed, if Jews are Nederlander, Jos. and D. T
1,000
means to reawaken a sense of self- tivities assured their future growth. siding; we are on the homestretch, determined to remain permanently in Ilerm•n. Raphael
The Federation of Ukrainian Jews workers had been imprisoned and
Mars.
Benjamin
and
Herman.,
1.000
their
belongings confiscated.
reliance and hope in the individual,
1,00e in England is calling a conference for
Because a majority of the Russian and our battered boat is nearing port. the Diaspora, Jewish nationalism in Sloman. Nn. g. A.
Dr. Rosenblatt cables that he is
of security and mutual confidence in Jews were small merchants and arti- Shall we, dare we, rest on our oars their case is a nonsense, they can only Outset, Leo II
1,000 the 17th of this month, at which all
about
to proceed to Renal to take
Freund,
Huge
A.
1.00u
the individual. it means, in brief, to
now? No let us rather redouble our pretend to be followers of the mosaic
I
t. 000 organizations of Ukrainian Jews in charge of a further shipment of
restore the normal life of the pre-war sans, they were indifferent to pro- efforts and bring our stricken breth- persuasion, their unavoidable fate is Goldberg.
Robinion•Cohen Co
1.000 this country will be represented. Ar- American supplies from that port to
ducers, and hostile to consumers
days, with such readjustments as are
1,000 rangements are also being made to
ren safe and sound to the harbor of assimiliation and rapid dissolution and Ittoonthal, Ed. M 1.000
Moscow for the aid of the Jewish
made necessary by the new condi- co-operatives, and this is why in the hope, work, and happiness. So, when disappearance in their ethnical sur- Welt. Loins
normal pre-war days only credit co-
well /d.
1.000 have a number of delegates from population. There has been no inter-
tions.
roundings.
I
expressed
this
convic-
the
call
goes
forth
for
further
sacri-
/Mittman.
A.
Ukrainia to attend the conference. It ference with the activities of Ameri-
1.000
Now, besides political stability, the operatives flourished among them. But fice, let us respond whole-heartedly, tion more than 20 years ago, when I Kahn. Mrs. Albert
1.000 will be the chief object of the con-
can Jewish Relief workers upon the
chief prerequisite to normal life is under the stress of war conditions the the poor man with h's mite, the rich said: "Judaism will be Zionist or it Kline Garment CO
1.000
Freud. Julius
1.000 ference to consider further means for part of Soviet Government. Dr. /Ur
an abundance of easy credit. Our credit societies were forced to en- man with his millions!
will not be."
gage
in
the
production
and
distribu-
Simone, David A.
aiding
the
1.000
Jews
in
L'krainia.
senblatt's message states
main reconstruction task, then, is to

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