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NEW POGROM WAVE I. ZANGWILL ANALYZES
ON JEWS GROWING HUMORISMS OF YIDDISH
IN POLAND, UKRAINE Noted Anglo-Jewish Author Explains Derivation
Alarming Reports of Excesses
Come from All Parts
of Poland.
APPEAL TO RUSSIANS
TO "BEAT THE JEWS"
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—Alarm-
ing reports of excesses and pogroms
against Jews reach here from all
parts of Poland. The soldiers of Kor-1
fanty now returning from Upper Si-
lesia carried out a four-hour attack on
the town of Kieltz. The military forces
and police were powerless to prevent
their activity. In the town of Lash
another group of Korfanty'a insur-
gents attacked a Jewish hotel and
beat most of the guests including
women, most brutally. Jewish pas-
sengers on the railroad line between
Bleshno and Tchenstochovo were mis-
treated and thrown from the cars.
One Jew by the name of Jacob Ya-
chimowitch was mortally wounded ,
and taken to a nearby hospital.
Attacks by armed civilian bands as
well as by returning soldiers of Kor-
funti's insurgent army, took place
Thursday at Bendzin, Sosnovki and
Graniza. Meyer Zayonz was severe-
ly wounded.
Another disturbance has occurred,
where, among others, Aaron Lastman,
60 years old; Jacob Bergman and
Moishe Weisskopf, 70 years old, were
brutally beaten on Sunday evening.
Several hundred hooligans attacked
the town synagogue. They demand-
ed that the doors be unbarred and
that the Rabbi surrender to them.
When the demand was refused, the
synagogue building was badly mutil-
ated, the doors were forced and the
synagogue furniture wantonly de-
stroyed. Aged Jews found in the
Synagogue were badly beaten.
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1921.
VOL. X. NO. 10.
Denies Palestine
Britain's Burden
Sir Stuart Samuel Declares
Jews Contribute More
Than Their Share.
of Word Yiddish and Quotes Numerous Stories
and Anecdotes from Vernacular
LONDON. — (J. T. A.) — In his
opening address as chairman of the
Board of Deputies' meeting held on
Sunday, Sir Stuart Samuel, brother
of the High Commissioner of Pales-
tine, reported at length on conditions
of Jews throughout the world, dilat-
ing particularly on conditions in Pal-
estine as he saw them during his re-
cent visit there from which he re-
turned only a fortnight ago.
Sir Stuart declared that the Jews
in l'alestine were not a burden to the
British government; that, on the con-
trary, they contributed far more to
the expenses of the Palestine admin-
istration than was their
. proportionate
.
constituting only 10
dut y.
per cent of the population of the
country, they paid one-sixth of the
current expenses of the administra-
tion. He asserted likewise that the
necessity of maintaining large mili-
tary forces in Palestine was not due
to the Jews, nor to the Zionist pro-
gram of the government. Ile declared
that large sums'will have to be forth-
coming in the nearest future to fi-
nance the immediate development of
Palestine and the colonization of the
Chaluzim who Were in the country
and of those immigrants for whom
the possibility of settlement would
have to be provided.
In the same speech Sir Stuart
Samuel urged that an exhaustive re-
port of conditions in Ukraine and
Eastern Europe be presented to the
British Foreign Office and that that
office be urged to adopt diplomatic
measures to prevent the recurrence
of the horrible tragedies that have'
afflicted the Jews in those regions.
It is learned here that since his
return from America, Dr. Chaim
Weizmann has urged the Itritish gov-
ernment to make a clear and definite
interpretation Of the Balfour Declar-
ation so that it will no longer be pos-
sible for officals, either in England or
Palestine, to give it maximum or min-
imum content.
Before definitely settling the whole
matter the British government may
send a prominent representative to
Palestine to make a careful survey of
the situation there. •
Commenting on the officialdom in
Palestine, the Times criticized the
minor officials in the Palestine admin-
istration, maintaining that they are
the cause of considerable harm.
By ISRAEL ZANGWILL.
(Copyrighted, 1921, by Jewish Correspondence Bureau.)
Dr. Gotthard Deutsch of Cincinnati, who makes a specialty of omnis-
cience in Jewish history, says of me in hia latest book, "Jew and Gentile:"
"To him international vocabulary is indebted for the invention of the term
'Yiddish.' It is the best name for a diaect which in its previous form of
Judeo-German is awkward, and under the name of Jargon, unjust." Far
be it from me to contradict a [(avant who is usually in the right. But if I
invented the term it was inadvertently. Presumably, it was in "Children
of the Ghetto," published in 1892. At any rate, the term was adopted by
Alexander Ilarkavy of New York, whose "Directory of the English Lan-
guage" dated 1898, and it may be said to have been finally fixed when,
in 1899, Leo Weiner, instructing in the Slavic languages at Harvard Uni-
versity, published his excellent "History of Yiddish Literature in the Nine-
teenth Century;" though I note that M. Pines, Doctor of the University of
Paris, who has supplemented Weiner's work by a still more comprehensive
study in French, entitles his monumental volume "Ilistoire de la Litterature
Judeo-Allemande."
The actual word "Yiddish" has, however, been adopted into French by
M. Pierre Mille in' his translation of "Children of the G:ietta." On look-
ing up the "Standard Dictionary of the English Language," published by
Funk and Wagnall of New York, as early as 1903, I found to my surprise
the word "Yiddish" included, though it is inaccurately explained as "a cor-
rupt form of Hebrew, a polyglot jargon used for the intercommunication
by Jews from different nations." Our
r(
i
"Oxford Dictionary,"
which
also includes it, is not much more ac-
curate, for it defines it as "a mixture
of Hebrew and other languages used
by or to the Jews."
M•kes Valuable Contribution
To the study of this comparatively
unknown tongue, whose real basis is,
of course—despite its Hebrew letter-
ing—mediaeval German, with only 20
per cent of Hebrew and 10 per cent
of Slavic, etc.—Dr. Immanuel Olsvan-
ger of Cape Town, has now made a
valuable contribution under a title
conceived in the true Hebraic spirit—
"Raisins and Almonds" IRosinkeas
Mit Mandlen). Unfortunately, he has
written in German, so that the mak-
Rabbi Spiro Attacked.
ers of English dictionaries will not b e
A second attack on Jews took place much enlightened. This is a pity, fo r
at Bendzin Friday. Rabbi Spiro of Dr. Olsvanger has put together one of
Czenstochova, who happened to be the most interesting and amusing
at the railroad station at the time, books in any language, and the mem-
was severely beaten, and only with bers of -the Swiss Commission for
Jewish Folklore, under whose aus-
difficulty saved from certain death.
On the railroad line between Cra- pices it is published, are sincerely to
cow and Ziumkovitch, Jews were be congratulated on their enterprise.
thrown from an express train. Jew- It was in Switzerland, in fact, that
ish passengers on the train were bad-: all these anecdotes, folk-songs, rid-
dles and proverbs were originally
1y mutilated .
Premier Witos announced that of- gathered. For Switzerland is a stage
ficially the government had no knowl- on the road to America, as well as a
edge of reported excesses that have place of study and business for Rus-
taken place recently in the Lodz dis-j sian and Galician Jews. The students
trict. In the same statement he de-. and business men settled in that
dared that the negotiations for a country had therefore special facili-
Polish-Jewish understanding would ties for collecting from their transient
visitors the stories and sayings which
begin soon.
The condition of the Jews in Po-. make the book a rich feast of humor,
land, especially of the homeless refu- as well as a valuable historical mir-
gees from Soviet Russia and White ror of the Jewish life and the Jewish
Russia, grows worse from day to day, soul in the Judengassen of Eastern
due to the uninterrupted influx into Europe. It is comedy and the joy of
the country of Ukrainian pogromist , Jewish life which are the dominant
banks who cross the Polish border notes of this collection, and therefore
without permission. Oskilko, the well it is the more tragic that the bulk of
known Ukrainian Hetman, is at pres- it should have been taken down from
ent in Rovno, where serious attacks the mouth of Jewish refugess from
upon Jews have taken place within Jerusalem on their flight to America.
Dr. Olsvanger, who has written out
the last few days, some of them re-'
suiting in killings. Representatives all the stories in the Roman alphabet,
according
to a careful phonetic sys-
of the Jewish Kehillah, who appealed
to the governor of Rovno for the de- tem, has provided elaborate explana-
tory
notes,
an historical and gram-
portation of Oskiko, were not given a
matical introduction, and a full vo-
satisfactory reply.
cabulary of words differing consider.
Call for Attacks on Jaw,.
ably from the old German ground.
In White Russia, proclamations work of this dialect. It is difficult
have been discovered, issued by the to choose from such a rich bag of al-
"Ukrainian Defense of Vaterland and monds and raisins. One can only dip
Freedom" Committee, of which Gen- i one's hand in at random, certain of
eral Savinkov is the spiritual leader, finding something toothsome. It was
urging the counter - revolutionary in this book, to tell a secret, that I
forces to make pogroms on Jews. The found the anecdote applied in my last
proclamation ends with the words, speech to Sir Ilerbert Samuel and his
"Beat the Jews and save Russia." handling of the Arab-Jewish question
large masses of Jewish refugees are in Palestine—the anecdote of the
wending their way through Ukraine Rabbi who says that both the liti-
towards the Polish border. The con- gants are right, and when reminded
fusion and congestion in the Russian, by his wife that this cannot be, re-
frontier towns grows steadily worse, plies equally: "You are right." I can
due to the recent Polish decree pro- cordially recommend other speakers
hibiting Ukrainian refugees from en- to dip as I did.
tering the country. The request of
Stories Lacking Background.
The only fault I have to find with
the local Ukrainian committee that
refugees from Ukraine be granted the compilation—or is this perhaps a
asylum in Poland was refused by the merit?—is that there are many
Minister of the Interior, who held out stories or jests which lack an old his-
the hope, however, that the border torical background, and are too new
might be opened within a short time. to have become already folk-lore.
The Poish newspapers report a' Thus the joke involved in the story
pogrom on Jews in Astrakhan.
of "The Short Telegram" is obvious.
The anti-Semitic organ Dwa Groshe ly not antique. A boy was born to
printed an editorial denouncing the . a young wife and there was rejoicing
Zionist Organization as an enemy to in the room. The happy husband
Poland. "The Zionists," says the pa- wished to telegraph to his mother. He
per, "carry Polish millions into Pales- took a piece of paper and wrote a
tine, but fail to transfer the Jews to telegram: "Fanny happily delivered
Palestine."
of a boy." He showed it to his fath-
er-in-law, who gave a glance at it and
said: "You are certainly no busi-
ELABORATE PROGRAM ness man. Fancy such a long tele-
how many unnecessary
FOR THEODOR HERZL gram. Look have
put. First, 'Fanny.'
words you
YAHRZEIT PREPARED Do you suppose your mother will
imagine you have telegraphed to her
Detroit Rabbis Scheduled to Eulogize about a strange woman? Second,
'happily.' Could you possibly have
Founder of Zionism.
telegraphed 'unhappily?' Obviously
Elaborate preparations are being your telegraphing at all means that
made by the Zionist District of De-
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'trod for the holding of the Herz!
memorial meeting Sunday evening at
the Shaarey Zedek, on the occasion CAMPAIGN FOR JEWISH
RELIEF IN UKRAINE TO
of the seventeenth Yahrzeit of the
death of Dr. Theodor Herzl, the
START SUNDAY, JULY 31
founder of political Zionism.
Rabbi Harry Z. Gordon, chairman
The
Federation of Ukrainian Jews
of the committee in charge, an-
nounces that Rabbis Judah L. Levin announces that a general campaign
for
funds
for the millions of suffer-
and Ezekiel Aishishkin have been se-
cured to address the meeting in Yid- ing Jews and the hundreds of thou-
dish, while Rabbi Samuel Sachs will sands of shelterless orphans in the
he the English speaker. Rabbi Gor- Ukraine will start Sunday, July 31.
The Detroit committee hsa issued
don will act as chairman. Cantor
Minkowsky of Shaarey Zedek will an appeal to the Detroit Jews to re-
((pond on behalf of the Ukraine suf-
make the Ilazkorah.
Rabbi Gordon also announces that ferers and to assist in making this
Rabbi Saul Silver, who is the most relief campaign a success.
An appeal is also issued by the lo-
prominent Yiddish speaker in the
Middle West, has been invited as the cal committee to the Jewish youth,
out-of-town speaker for the me- who are asked to come out and act f
as volunteers for the canvassing o
morial meeting.
Announcement is made that the Jewish homes for funds. Volunteers
executive committee of the Keren are requested to come to the Labor
Hayesod will meet Monday evening Lyceum, on Livingstone near Antoine
at the Shaarey Zedek, when arrange- street, at 8 a. m. Sunday, July 31.
Contributions for the Ukrainian
ments will be made to send out a
corps of volunteer collectors to col- Jewish relief may be turned over to
lect the funds pledged for the Keren A. H. Jaflin, acting chairman, 3011
Hastings street.
J. D. C. WILL SPEND
$1,000-,000 IN POLAND
Adopts Reconstuction Plan De-
veloped and Endorsed by
Polish Jewry.
NEW YORK.—At the last meeting
of the Joint Distribution Committee,
Col. Ilerbert 11. Lehman, chairman
of the reconstruction committee, sub-
mitted a detailed and comprehensive
plan for the commencement of recon-
structive work in Poland. This plan,
developed by Sir. Landesco, the re-
construction director of the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, after lengthy
conferences with many of the leading
Jews of Poland, has been carefully
studied and discussed at numerous
meetings of the committee on recon-
struction held since his arrive in this
country on June 4, and was finally
adopted at the last session of the
executive committee.
It has been decided to net aside
from the funds of the reconstruction
committee the rum of $1,000,000 for
general reconstruction purposes in
Poland, out of which the sum of
$230,000 has been assigned for im-
mediate use with the primary end in Convention Report Reveals Remark-
view of demonstrating the workabil-
able Work Accomplished Here in
ity of the entire scheme.
Past Two Years.
J. D. C. Enters New Era.
With the adoption of this plan the
The report received this week from
activities of the Joint Distribution' Miss Blume Slomovitz, Detroit's rep-
Commissee in Poland enter into an resentative at the Young Judaea Con-
entirely new era; the emergency vention held recently at Lake Hopat-
work of immediate relief brought cong, N. J., reveals that Detroit is
about by the ravages of the war and ranking highest among the Young Ju-
which found its expression in the dis- daea centers in the land, New York
tribution of food, clothing and other City being the only district excepted.
prime necessities of existence, will
Miss Slomovitz, who sends her re-
give way to a more permanent work port from Bayonne, N. J., where she
of rehabilitation and upbuilding, of is spending the summer, writes that
the economic life of the Jew in Po- her report for Detroit was most en-
land.
thusiastically received and the work
The various institutions of mutual of Detroit Young Judaea was lauded
aid and co-operative assistance which by the leaders in the movement. Miss
already exist in Poland and are so Slomovitz presented the convention
well adapted to the local needs will with a check for $150 as Detroit
furnish the foundation upon which Young Judaea's initial contribution
the work of reconstruction will be towards the support of the national
built.
organization.
The material help of the Joint Dis-
This convention, the delegate's re-
tribution Committee will not only in- port states, was one of the most suc-
sure these institutions greater means cessful ever held, in that it finally
of existence but will also instill in decided on a definite policy of work
them new life and strengthen them among the Jewish youth in the land,
by uniting them into one great or- said work in the future to be con-
ganization.
ducted by Young Judaea as an inde-
Plan Enthusiastically GI-e.t.d.
pendent body, but co-operating with
' The Jews of Poland have greeted the Zionist Organization of America.
Mr. I,andesco's plan with enthusiasm, This year's convention was the Bar-
because it heralds their emancipation Mitzvah convention and marked the
from the humiliation of the daily completion of 13 years of Young Ju-
bread line and aims at the establish- daea work.
The Detroit delegate's report states
ment of a condition which will enable
them ultimatey to work out their own that the concensus of opinion at the
economic salvation.
convention was against the collection
This economic rehabilitation will of funds among the Young Judaeans
be worked out through two channels: or by Young Judaeans for the upkeep
the Hebrew Loan and Credit Socie- of the organization's educational
ties and the Co-operative Associations work. A decision was reached where-
already in existence among the Jews by the funds to finance the work of
Young Judaea are to be gotten from
in Poland.
For the last few years the so- a graduate and adult membership in
called Loan and Credit Societies have Young Judaea.
Responding to an appeal made to
spread all over that country as well
as over the former Russian provinces, the delegates, Miss Slomovitz pledged
partly with the support of the ICA, for Detroit to secure the minimum
but largely with their own meager number of 30 adult members at $5
resources, and have been of great a year, in addition to the graduate
assistance to the workingman, the Young Judaeans who may join the
ranks.
small merchant and middle class.
Miss Slomovitz's lengthy report will
Types of Co-operatives.
The war has destroyed most of be read at the next meeting of the
these institutions or has reduced the Young Judaea Council to be held
assets of those that remained to such Wednesday evening at the Shaarey
Zedek. Miss Slomovitz will return
(Continued On Page 5.)
to Detroit the latter part of August.
DETROIT YOUNG
JUDAEA RANKING
HIGHEST IN U. S.
MISS BLANCHE CONE DIES
BICUR CHOLEM EXPECTS
FROM HEART AFFLICTION
BIG MOONLIGHT CROWD
The death of Miss Blanche ('one
occurred on Saturday, July 23, at her
residence, 645 Bethune avenue west.
Miss Cone had but recently returned
from Atlantic City, where she spent
the spring months following a winter
in Florida.
Since the death in February, 1917,
of her sister, Carrie, from whom she
was inseparable, Miss Cone had
grieved constantly until her heart be-
came affected, from which affliction
she suffered during the past year.
She traveled extensively in an effort
to assuage her grief, but to no avail.
She was the daughter of the late
Hannah and John Cone, pioneer Jew-
ish residents of Detroit, and is Bur-
vier(' by her sister, Mrs. Rose Ilersch;
three nephews, Alvin D. Ilersch, RUA-
sell Cone and John Cone, and her
aunt, Mrs. A. Engga.ss. She was- a
member of the Jewish Woman's Club,
the Woman's Auxiliary of Temple
Beth LI and other organizations.
Funeral services were held at the
residence on Monday, Rabbi Henry J.
Berkowitz officiating.
—
The twentfth annual moonlight
committee of the Incur Cholem, Jrs.,
is preparing for a record attendance
at their annual moonlight dance to
be held Tuesday evening, Aug. 16.
The steamer Put-in-Bay has been
chartered for the event, which marks
one of the last Jewish excursions of
the season. The boat leaves at the
foot of First street at 8:30 p. m.
The proceeds of the moonlight will
go to the nedey sick.
The Bicur Cholem, Srs., are work-
ing in collaboration with the Junior
society.
RELIEF BOAT SINKS
CONSTANTINOPLE—(J. T. A.)—
The steamer Mermen of the Interns-
one' Transit Company, carrying
$125,000 worth of clothes and medi-
caments from America to the Jewish
population of Kishineff in the Uk-
raine, struck a floating mine off the
coast of Bulgaria in the Black Sea
and sunk immediately. None of the
crew were saved.
H
l
VOORSANGER HEADS
WAR ORPHAN BUREAU
Services of Well Known War Chap-
lain Secured by B'nai B'rith.
CHICAGO.—The Independent Or-
der of B'nai B'rith has secured the
services of Capt. Elkin C. Yoorun-
ger to take charge of its recently or-
ganized War Orphans Bureau. Cap-
tain Voorsanger will also manage the
order's National Lyceum Bureau,
which will supply lecturers to lodges
and Jewish organizations generaly,
and, in co-operation with the Anti-
Defamation League, will establish
courses of lectures on Jewish subjects
in schools and colleges. lie will also
co-operate with Sidney G. Krusworm,
the director of Americanization, in
extending the scope of the American-
ization department.
Captain Voorsanger, who is a
graduate of the Hebrew Union Col-
lege and who, prior to the war, oc-
cupied pulpits in ((rand Rapids and
St. Louis, has had a most varied and
interesting career. During the war
he was chaplain for New York's fam-
ous fighting division—the Seventy-
seventh. After the armistice, as di-
rector of the Jewish Welfare Board
work in France, he established most
of the J. W. B. branches overseas.
Subsequently he organized the over-
seas units of the Joint Distribution
Committee and was director of per-
sonnel for the J. D. C. in Europe.
ANNEX NEW BUILDING
TO OLD FOLKS' HOME
Appropriate Exercises to Mark
Dedication Ceremonies of
Jewish Institution.
BIALIK OUTLINES
JEWISH CONDITIONS
Sent Felicitations by B'nai
B'rith on Occasion of Silver
IN SOVIET RUSSIA
Franklins Receive
Lodges Greetings
Pisgah Lodge No. 34, I. 0. B. B.,
at the last meeting, held Monday
evening, adopted a resolution convey-
ing the order's felicitations to Rabbi
and Mrs. Leo M. Franklin on the oc-
casion of their silver wedding anni-
versary. The resolution, as forward-
ed by the secretary, William B. Isen-
berg, to Rabbi and Mrs. Leo M.
Franklin, who are spending the sum-
mer at Kennebunkport, Me., follows:
"Upon learning that Rabbi and
Mrs. Leo M. Franklin have recently
completed 25 years of married life,
the members of Pisgah Lodge No.
34, I. 0. B. B., deem it a pleasure
to convey to the esteemed couple
their felicitations, which, though
somewhat belated, yet are most
hearty and sincere. The successful
efforts of our reverend brother in
the domain of our religion, and in
the dissemination of many benefits to
the human family, impel our frater-
nal acknowledgment and make it par-
ticularly opportune on this auspicious
occasion. We express the fervent
hope that the good Rabbi will be per-
mitted to labor with the same mental
and physical vigor, for the welfare
and betterment of all the people, for
many years in the future, as he has
in the past, and may his dear wife,
ever a true help-meet to him, con-
tinue to share the pleasures and
honors of his achievements."
Pisgah Lodge at the last meeting
also responded to the appeal issued
by the Pueblo, Colo., Jewish com-
munity on behalf of those who suf-
fered a sa result of the recent flood
there. The sum of $50 was donated
towards the fund.
Tribute was paid by the order at
the same meeting to the memory of
Joshua Grabowsky, who was killed in
action at Verdun on Oct. 30, 1918,
and whose body was brought to De-
troit a week ago Thursday. Joshua
Grabowsky and his father were both
members of Pisgah Lodge.
Hebrew National Poet Charges
Communists With Destroy-
ing Jewish Life.
CHALUTZIM MOVEMENT
SUPPRESSED, BUT GROWS
By M. ROSENZWEIG.
(Copyright, 1921, by Jewish Cor-
respondence Bureau.)
CONSTANTINOPLE. — After vir-
tual, if not actual, imprisonment for
six years in Soviet Russia, Chaim Na-
hum Bialik, the great Hebrew na-
tional poet, has arrived in this city.
Bialik, once so erect and stately, is
now bent with care and marked with
the sorrows of war and the persecu-
tions of a troubled regime. The long
period of distress, however, seems not
to have cooled his enthusiasm nor
checked his desire for activity, nor
yet made his poetic fire burn any
the lower. Though his original in-
tention had been to go from Constan-
tinople immediately to Jerusalem, he
informed me that his plans were now
changed and that, instead, he would
visit the important Jewish centers in
Europe with a view of obtaining the
financial means necessary for the es-
tablishment of one immense Hebrew
publication house in Jerusalem in
which he would endeavor to concen-
trate the production of Hebrew writ-
ings and from which publications in
the Hebrew tongue would be dis-
tributed the word over.
How He Loft Russia .
Asked how he had been granted the
exceptional privilege of leaving So-
viet Russia at this time, Malik ex-
The Jewish Old Folks' Home, 318
plained in these words:
Edmund place, will dedicate a new
"Of late, the conditions of a group
building to house an additional num-
of authors including myself and nine
ber of inmates, on a Sunday during
others resident in Odessa, had
the latter part of August, by annex.
reached an almost impossibly dis-
ing the building next to the main
tressing climax. In our despair we
home, at 296 Edmund place, corner
addressed ourselves to Maxim Gorky,
Brush street. An appropriate pro-
the famous Russian author, who, we
gram will mark the day's exercises. SIR SAMUEL PLACED
knew, had considerable influence with
The day of the dedication will be an-
the powers that be in Moscow. We
IN DIFFICULTY BY
nounced next week.
explained that since we had been
The Old Folks' Home was founded
in the 'non-useful' category by
JEWISH OPPOSITION placed
in 1907, with Jacob Levin as presi-
the Soviet authorities there ought to
dent. Mr. Levin has been president
be no objection to our leaving the
of the institution ever since its in-
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—The pro- country. A letter to this effect, and
ception and is credited with most of test of the Waad- Ha-Leumi against giving all the details of our case, was
the accomplishments on its behalf.
the proposed parliament in Palestine dispatched through a certain Mr. Se-
The home is an offspring of the places Sir Herbert Samuel in a very , doy, a well known journalist. Two
Chevra Kadisha Society, which was difficult position. We have it from a months later, the same' Sedoy re-
organized for the purpose of taking reliable source that the High Com- ! turned to Odessa from Moscow bring-
care of the Jewish dead, rich or poor, missioner is much put out by the ; ing us the happy news that Gorky
the society providing the expenses for continued opposition of Palestine had interviewed Lenin on our behalf
burial.
Jews to his policies. The Arabs have and that Russia's rulers had consent-
long demanded his resignation, and , ed to our departure. I was fearful,
Compiles History of Home.
H. Buchhalter, financial and re- if the Jews of the country, through I however, that the permission would
cording secretary of the institution, their official representatives, will en- not be forthcoming for a long period
compiled a history of the two bodies, ter the arena in an open fight against because of the maze of official red
the Chevra Kadisha and Old Folk,' him, he is of the opinion that there tape through which our papers would
Home, and told a number of interest- will be no other alternative for him have to pass, and none too certain
that our lives would be safe till the
ing facts about the creation of a but to give up his office.
According to the information we end of that period I hastened to Mos-
home for the old in Detroit.
"At a meeting of the Chevra Ka- have received, there are two factions cow together with my colleague,
disha in 1907," Mr. Buchhalter ex- among the Palestinian Jews: one Kleinman.
Treated With Respect.
plained, "it was decided, at Mr. Le- claiming that the resignation of
"We arrived there at a most un-
vin's suggestion, that it was not Samuel must by all means be avoid-
enough to care for the dead, but that ed, because the world might interpret fortunate hour. All of Russia's en-
it was just as necessary to provide a it as the collapse of the attempt to ergy and the attention of all its many
home for the old before they die. realize the Zionist dream, and the commissares and commissariats were
With only $87 in the treasury, a com- Arabs would certainly celebrate it as concentrated on beating down the
mittee was appointed to look for a a signal victory; the other faction Kronstadt insurrection then threat. ,
suitable building for a home, and contends that if the Jews will not ening Petrograd. We nervously bided
without delay the building at 121 put up a fight against the situation our time, but when the revolution
Winder street was purchased for that has been created by the immi= collapsed and quiet was restored,
$10,000. The sum of $2,000 was to gration restrictions as well as the pro- Gorky informed me that all the de-
be paid in 60 days and a mortgage posed parliament, there will be no partments concerned had received in-
possibility for the further Jewish de- structions to facilitate our passage
assumed for the balance.
"Through the efforts of Mr. Levin, velopment in Palestine. They empha- through and out of the country. On
size
the fact that the initiative for the all sides officials treated us with the
the president, and a number of mem-
bers formed into committees and or- establishment of a general parliament greatest sympathy and respect.
comes, not from the English govern.
"But it is characteristic of Jewish
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ment, but from Sir Herbert himself. affairs in Russia today that whatever
difficulty arose was created by the
Jewish communists known as Jefaek
(from the two Russia words Jefraiske
Sekatie, the Jewish 'section). These
gentlemen exerted themselves to the
utmost to hinder our plans. Lunat-
charsky, commissare of education,
and many other Russian intellectuals
Known As The Saturday Oil-Pressers
had intended giving us a great fare-
well dinner in the Presse Home in
Moscow, but the 'Jefaek' interfered
and the banquet did not take place.
The 'Jefaek' wrote to the Central
Communist executive accusing Lunat-
charsky of hobnobbing with counter-
revolutionary authors and aiding in
the overthrow of the Soviets. Pri-
vately and personally Lunatcharsky
and Gorky and many others harbor
intense bitterness toward these gen-
tlemen of the Jewish section. But
Native Jews of India
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CONSISTENCY OF REFORM
JUDAISM AND ZIONISM TO
BE DISCUSSED BY I. Z. A.
The study circle of the Detroit
chapter of the intercollegiate Zionist
Association last Tuesday evening, at
the Shaarey Zedek, conducted a dis-
cussion on the relative difference in
the strength of anti-Semitic move-
ments that vary between the larger
and smaller Jewihs settlements.
The discussion on the subject was
based on the statement in the Juden-
stoat of Dr. Theodor lierzl where the
:founder of political Zionism gays that
Jews will flock to a place where anti-
Semitism does not exist, but that by
populating that place with a large
number of Jews they bring anti-
Semitism with them.
As a result of the discussion, vari-
ous phases of anti-Semitism were
brought out by the 25 members of
the study circle, those taking a lead-
ing part in the discussion being Paul
Goldstein, Edward Reuben Rabino-
witz, Miss Esther Rosenstein, Joseph
Erman, Sam Zellman and Sam Hey-
man.
By a decision of the circle, a chair-
GROUP OF BENI-ISRAEL IN ANCIENT COSTUME.
man will be elected for every session
of the study circle to lead in the suc-
The Beni-Israel, the native Jews of India, dwell mainly in the presi-
dency, of Bombay. They were formerly known by the name of "Shanvar ceeding discussions and to sum up
the arguments brought out in every
Telis, " or the "Saturday Oil-Pressers," in allusion to the chief occupation discussion.
and their Sabbath day. The Beni-Israel avoided the use of the name
Miss Zelda Medvedov was elected
"Jew," probably in deference to the prejudice of their Mohammedan neigh- , to lead in the discussion next Toes-
bors, and preferred the name Beni-Israel in reference to the favorable use ' day evening at the Shaarey Zedek on
of the term in the Koran. The Beni-Israel retained from the earliest times the question: 'Is Reform Judaism
practically all of the Jewish festivals and feat days.
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