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MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
Section Three
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923
VOL. XIV. No. 15.
ducational dabs or to join special
classes that were started for the study
of Jewish history, the Hebrew lan-
guage and other subjects necessary
for a proper Jewish education. The
significance of that movement was
recognized by non-Jews as well as
Jews, and the campaign was endorsed
by President Calvin Coolidge, then
\'ice-President; by Governor Miller
and Mayor IIylan of New York.
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The Year 5683: A Resume
September 22, 1922, to September 11, 1923
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
(Copyright, 1923, Detroit Jewish Chronicle.)
t offset the reactionary influ-
A NoTHER twelve-month, register-1 ! peeled
ing the crimes, misfortunes and ences of the war Nobel.
A
Burke, in "Reelections on the Revo-
follies of mankind, has passed, and
the time is at hand for a reckoning
and recounting of the accomplish-
merits of the year. Following upon the
• t period in Jewish
heels 0
history, occasioned by the World War,'
the year 56)13, dedicated as a recon-
struction period, marked the return to
more peaceful days for Jewry.
Judged by the right years that pre-
ceded it, 56%3 was a comparatively
uneventful period. There were no
great Jewish developments, and it
marked no particular change in the
attitude of non-Jews towards our peo-
ple. There were not the violent po-
groms that marked the year 1921 and
European Jewry has begun to recover
from the horrors of the bloody period
that began in 1914.
If the past year is to be noted for
nothing else, it may well be written
down as a revival period, during
which our people has begun a recon-
struction spiritually and nationally,
in the Old as well as the New Worlds.
Whatever little may have been accom-
plished, 56S3 has served as a begin-
ning for that revival which is ex-
lution," said that "people will not look
forward to pisterity who never look
backward to their ancestors," and it
is well that we learn from the past
for the profit of the future.
America—World Jewish Center.
Statistic`, compiled for the new year
reveal a total change in the complex-
ion of world Jewish centers, and the
United States enters the arena of Jew-
ish affairs as the leader of Israel in
point of numbers. With an estimated
p isolation of 3,00,000, as compared
with 3,io 1,1)1)0 Jews in Poland and 3,-
100,non in ltussia, this country is
charged with the responsibility of
leaders' ip, n t confined as heretofore
only t matters of finance, but ac-
countable also for spiritual attain-
ments that will justify such leader-
ship. The American Jew, until now
only the "Rich Uncle" for European
Jewry, takes a front seat. How will
American Jewry respond and what
Inc during the year now clos-
has it !o
ing to earn the leadership title?
With the liquidation of relief activi-
ties, actively begun during the past
few months by the Joint Distribution
Committee, Jewish leaders in this
country are turning their attention to
the problem of education and the sign
of the times is that the movement for
a spiritual revival of American Israel
will serve as a signal for a similar
world-wide Jewish movement.
The atonement for a greater educa-
tional activity among American Jewry
was really inaugurated several months
before the period that falls within the
limits to he covered in this paper. It
was at the Victory Relief Conference,
held in Detroit in April, 1922, that
Louis Marshall expressed the hope
that the time would soon be here when
we may turn our eyes from relief to
the problems that confront the Jews
in the United States, and the most
momentous problem he called the prob-
lem of Jewish education.
Signal for Educational Activity.
The initiative for an educational
campaign was first taken by the
Friedlaender Educational Conference
of New York, whose first move for
interesting the Jews, particularly the
young Jews, was the Join Week Cam-
paign which opened a means for the
boys and girls to enroll in either ed-
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This was merely a signal fur an
educational activity throughout the
country which points to an improve-
ment in the status of the American
Jewish community. The call that was
issued, less than two weeks preceding
this writing, by Louis Marshall, to
500 leading American Jews to attend
a conference for a spiritual revival in
America is the direct result of the
advancement and demand for Jewish
learning during the past year. In
New York., City, the largest Jewish
center in the world, where less than
20 per cent of the Jewish boys and
girls have hitherto received any sort
of Jewish education, there is a move-
ment on foot to place 10,000 children
in Jewish schools, and there is reason
to believe that the coming year will
see the success of this revival move-
ment.
Progress in educational endeavor
during the past year was not con-
fined to elementary Jewish schools.
The establishment of the Jewish In-
stitute of Religion by Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise of the Free Synagogue, and
the acquirement by the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary of New York of the
Elkan Adler Library, are two out-
standing accomplishments of the past
year. The latter acquisition by the
Seminary makes the Orthodox theo-
logical school the leading Jewish cul-
tural center in the world and offers
an opportunity for creating in this
country a spiritual Jewish aristis•rasy
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to supplement the already existing
money aristocracy.
Anti•Semitism in Colleges.
In the field of general education
there Were tau outbreaks during the
past year that corresponded to the
Harvard incident of the year previous.
At Syracuse University the senior
council made informal recomnienda-
Gins for the limiting of admission to
Jewish students on a percentage basis.
A storm of protest that followed the
announcement of this action brought
statements from Chancellor Flint and
Vice-Chancellor Graham, denying
that the University would taks• sash
action, and the matter was dropped,
in spite of the unanimous vote by the
senior council of Syracuse.
Only two weeks following the Syra-,
ruse incident, Jewish students at the
New York University awoke omot
morning to find the campus and dor-
mitories placarded with posters call-
ing Upon the Jews to get out. "Sari, t-
!y Koshers are not wanted up here"
was the wording of some of they.
p• stirs. A protest meeting. of New
York University students ended the
matter after a number of revelations
were made of anti-Semitic feeling at
this university.
Aside front these two incidents
there were several other signs of anti-!
Sentitism in this coun'ry, particularly
n the part of at least two publishing
houses. The Encyclopedia Britannica,
in an article on The Jewish Ques-
tion," vilified the Eastern Jew and
attacked Orthodoxy in a manner hith-
erto unheard of in publications as re-
sponsible as the Encyclopedia.
The series of articles in the WorliCa
Work, by Burton Hendrick. which
proved the most slanderous since the
outburst of Henry Ford in his Dear-
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