A mway, 5arish Periodical Cater CLIFTON ATINUI - CINCINNATI 30, OHIO 1923 E bETROIT AMISH 1-1-RONICL - 5684 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. ••• 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- 4, P 1 / 4 55 Pa I1 /1 , 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 It 1, 41/4 4, P 1/4 41/4 41/4 1, /t , /0/, 11/4. 1,. / Prominent Clubwoman With Grandchildren 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. 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