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14/ 160 . " 8, 71f5ffii Anti-Semitism Frowned
Upon by Soviet Russia
GiAS. - H-. JOSEPH -,
(CnnwirrInAl, tad.
Br CI... H. Jediets.)
There seems to be • Bible f•mine in hp., but before they begin to
supply th. need, it seems to m• the Christi•n theologi•ns ought to decide
among themselves exactly how the New Testament should be interpreted.
It would be wicked to pl.. the sdration of the souls of the heathen in
jeop•rdy.
Well. I am glad that Anton Lang, the "Christ." of the Passion Play,
who is now •isiting our land, sisys: "Yes, I think the Jews, too, will go to
Heaven. " Tilsit'. comforting, •nd I am sure that Lang me•ns it, though I
cannot help but believe that the Passion Play creates just that prejudice and
hatred against the Jew that Lang seems to deplore so much. He says
"there are no religious quarrels in Oberammergau." Possibly not, but from
what comes out of Oberammergau cre•tes qudrele.
Nothing like getting the fdts. Marvin Lowenthal, writing in the Nation
on the subject of Anti-Semitism in European Universities, add among other
things:
"The Roumanian students demanded, with usual rioting, that the
Jews be excluded from college unless the Jewish community fur-
nished corpses for dissection."
So, presumably a Christina Roumanian living in Cleveland, Ohio, rises
to remark that inasmuch as the university in question p d 70 per cent
of Jewish medical students, "and there was not on• J•wish corpee for dis-
section"—why—why—the conflict started. Well, my dear Mr. An•gnos-
t•che of Cleveland, I have heard of • great many reasons for mob outrages
•gainst the Jews, but you have supplied me with • new one—on the surface.
For I strongly suspect that under the disguise ...led by you that the
same old anti-Semitic prejudice stalked. The "Ch r i rr ian" students in such
countries as Germany, Austria, Roumania, have the same brand of Chris.
Hanky that belongs to those villagers in Italy who burned • human being
to death because he stole some church ornaments. All for the glory of
God! and in the name of Jesus the Jew! "Forgive them, for they know not
what they dor
A newspaper comments on the "encouraging situation in the South dur-
ing the year 1923," due to the fact that there were only 26 lynchings as
compared to some 60 the year before. One will appreciate how naive such
• statement is when we learn that one of the principal redone for such
higher standard of moral conduct in due to the fact that there were fewer
Negroes in the South to lynch, some 600,000 having migrated to the North
during the past year. Yes, they are becoming quite • God•fearing people,
those Southerners!
I notice where "Rabbi" David H. Bdh.ch of Providence, R. I., was
indicted by the Federal Grand Jury for alleged violation of the prohibition
act. I heard of this rabbi. The title of "Rabbi" is used most promis-
cuously these days. Reminds me of the fact that every time some chorus
girl gets on the front page, she is advertised d an "actress."
I hope that no one will raise the cry of "risk." over the dismissal of
Joseph Aksler, traffic manager of the Palestine railways, who, according to
press report., has been asked to resign." The Jewish editor in Palestine
surely does not find his mail filled with protests against Jews being barred
from clubs and summer hotels; from apartment houses, or who cannot get
jobs because of prejudice! Though perhaps there is Arabian prejudice
which in its way may not be quite an refined as the kind we And here, but
possibly is just as effective. But think of such • caption as "Prejudice
Against the Jew. in Jerusalem!"
The campaign for • million-dollar fund for the Jewish Theological Semi.
nary will be extended, owing to the fact that there is still a shortage of
some $200,000. In all "drives" there arc two kinds of shortages; one, the
shortage in the amount pledged, and later on • serious shortage in the
amount paid. The seminary will be able to congratulate itself if the short.
age is limited merely to the first mentioned.
Attitude Towarde Religion and Na-
tionalism However, Endangers
Future of Jewish People.
By LOUIS FISCHER
(Copyright, 1924, by Seven Arts Syndicate.)
(The author of this article is the Russian correspondent of the Nation,
lie is considered one of the best authorities on preeent day Russian affairs.
lie has spent considerable time in Russia under the Soviet regime, and now,
after a short stay in this country, is returning to Russia. Mr. Fischer's un-
biased observations on the status of the Jews under the Bolshevik. are un-
doubtedly of great interest and importance.)
Do the Bolsheviks do these things? Zionist activity by bourgeois Jews
No. There is no pogroming and no is strictly prohibited. Russia has no
beard pulling; no anti-Jewish eco- Zionist organization. No Zionist
nomic boycotts as at times in Poland, propaganda may be conducted. In.
and no "numerus cluasus" as in many fraction of these laws have been pun.
of the universities of Europe. Anti- ished.
Jewish literature and anti-Semitic
Surely on the basis of the lines on
agitation is frowned upon by official this, the reverse side of the medal,
Olympian Kremlin as angrily as ia the Bolsheviks might well be con-
counter-revolutionary or monarchist demned as anti-Semites. Prior to
propaganda. The conventional Jew- their condemnation, however, they
comedian is under the ban of the could present some extenuating ex-
Soviet law, and even the well known planation& Imagine a Bolshevik rep.
and able poet Yessenin, once the hus- resenting in his person the entire Do!.
bandof Isadore Duncan, could not in. shevik party, on trial before a world
sult a Jew without landing himself Jewish court. The accusations as
in jail. outlined in the last paragraphs are
First, however, let us see what is read by the prosecuting attorney.
thg attitude of those of the Russian Numerous instances are adduced and
leaders who are Jews: Trotsky, Ka- countless witnesses depose to prove
money, Zinoviev, etc. None of these the authenticity of the accusations.
will deny that he is a Jew, but every One woman tells of how an effigy of
one of them will deny that he is God and Moses was burned in the
I streets of Moscow; a man relates of
Jewish.
a mock Pesach Seder in Minsk at
Jews Do Not Disguise Origin.
which a parody of the Ilaggodah was
It has been said that Trotsky, Ka-
read; a rabbi reports on the number
menev and the others have tried to
of synagogues in the Ukraine confis-
conceal their Jewish religion, the
rated by the authorities and trans-
proof of it being that Trotsky drop-
ped his revealingly Jewish name of formed into workingman clubs or
Bronstein for that he now. carries, theaters; a letter is read from Rabbi
and Kamenev preferred Kamenev to Borischansky of Homel describing his
Rosenfeld. It should be understood, seven months' stay in a Soviet prison'
(he had preached against the Jewish
however, - that adoption of fictitious
party names is a regular Communist Communists for attacking the Jewish
practice born of necessity in the days religion); a member of the Zeire Zion
when they Were pursued and perse party recalls the fact that a group of
pplshevik
at certain times for an Asking.
the Bolsheviki who are Jews take no limitations or disabilities; that in the
pains to disguise their Jewish origin. educational field they are enjoying
If they were asked they would prob. unprecedented advantages. The prone.
ablyanswer that the matter is too on- Cution admits these truths. All wit-
important to - bother about. They senses who have been in Russia agree
were born Jews—that was an acci- that the Jews have benefited by the
dent. They may have received a Jew- Bolshevik regime.
Denies Anti-Semitism,
Rabbi Msix Weis of the Height. Free Synagogue in upod New York City
s in ist that
Yet they
ish education.
But the prosecuting attorney
does not intend to let the Modernists and Fundamentalists of the Christian
t ey have divested themselves of their
h
le
plan
to
church re 1iso the front page. No sir.ee! He is making
Jewish consciousness, and that nei- presses the Bolshevik representative
abolish Yum Kippur, d h e thinks .1. Length of the service makes r sleepy• ther Jewish religion, nor Jewish no- for a statement that deals directly
he•ds and incidentally encourage hypocrisy. It falls in the fall of the tlonality, nor Jewish culture is any with the accusation. He finally ad.
ye.. That's bad, too. It is such • gloomy Period. If we must have Yom longer pert of their spiritual baggage. mite that what the itnesses have said
Kippur, let's pick out • sunshiny day in May. Yes, it's strange, the ideas They are thus thorough-going assimi- and what the prosecution charges is
way this philosophy true. lie denies, however, that any
we old folks have. But I am afraid if our good friend continues to wield
lationists In a
• hot poker that he won't be called upon to officiate at very many more redounds to the -benefit of Russian of these actions are anti-Semitic. For
Yom Kippur services. I have not yet received • rennet of the reaction of Jewry. The Bolshevik chiefs who are he submits that none of them were
the congregation. There is an old Arabian proverb that motion is not Jews and similarly those who are not aimed at Jews alone, or at Jews be-
always progress, d, for, example, witness • squirrel running around in Jews recognize no distinction of race, cause they were Jews. The Bolshe-
• C1411.
•
I never like to give very wide publicity to reputed cures by famous phy.
sicians as reported in the newspapers, but the newspapers sometimes have
habit
of leaving out some important item in giving the -det•ils of such
•
cures. But for the benefit of those members of the medical profession who
find time to read this column, I dill their attention to th• dispatch cabled
to this country not so very long ago by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in
Rome, to the affect that Dr. Leonel. Tom•rkin, a Jewish bacteriologist, is
the discoverer of • remarkable cure for pneumonia, having successfully
treated 24 out of 25 cases, the fatal dise having been in • very advanced
0.;
stage when he was called in.
The discovery, so goes the statement, is • chemical therapeutic prepda.
lion. Says the writer;
"It can best be described as a gray powder easily soluble in cold
water, but not so easily in alcohol, and it is not soluble at all in
sulphuric ether. It acts upon the blood, it being claimed for it that
it causes the production of the pneumonia to cease and kills these
germs now already in the system. It then produces defensive germs
in order to strengthen the patient in his battle against the disease."
There, you know just as much about it as I do. But if there ha• been
discovered • cure for pneumonia, • great benefit to mankind has surely
been discovered. Physici•ns, or patients for that matter, who wish to in-
...tirade the matter further can easily do so.
If the immigration redtionist• continue to have their way, they will
have the percent.e of immigration reduced from 3 per cent to one•half
of 1 per cent.
Yes, I know that his name, Stearns, sounds like it, and his photographs
look • little like it, but Frank W., the 1923 Warwick from Boston, Mass.,
is not • Jew.
Or.
It's interesting to see the laymen taking more interest in the cause of
peace than the clergy. While they are wrandin• about the ability of an
angel to balance on the point of • needle, men like Edward Bok and Edward
A. Filene are endeavoring to arouse • deep- d interest among the public
at large in the cause of permanent peace. Mr. Filene has given $50,000
for • series of competitive esuys on nede plans, to be allotted to French,
English and Italian contast•nts. I am glad to see • Jew, even though he
be a "racial" Jew, interested in the cause of cede in such an outstanding
cause,
manner.' There have been many other Jews interested in the same
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creed. color. From this it followed viks, he claims, do not proscribe the
that the pale of settlement of Czarist teaching of religion to Jewish minors
Russia had to be abolished and that only; they do not permit any religion
Jewish and Negro peoples of the
gift to the library through the med-
Russian Jews could not be subjected or creed to maintain schools where
world.
ium of the Messenger from the Negro
to any special disabilities or centric- children may be taught the precepts
The letter, an part, follows:
race. It may be considered as a gift
tions, no more than the Poles or Ar- of their faith. The Bolsheviks did
"To the end of rendering available from the race, since I shall solicit the
menians or Chinese in Russia could not close synagogues only; they
to the Jewish thinkers the works of works from indviidual Negroes and
be exposed to any discriminatory leg- simultaneously closed churches and
Negro scholars, I want to suggest and Negro institutions."
islation. The Bolsheviks divide the mosques. The Bolsheviks did not Support Asked for "Ades B'nai request that a section of the library
rich from the poor, the workingman merely burn an effigy of Moses; his
Yisroel."
be net aside for Negro literature by
from the bourgeois, but not the Uk- effigy was preceded on the pyre by
Negro writers, so that Negro life and NATHAN STRAUS IN PALESTINE
Editor, Detroit Jewish Chronicle:
minion from the Tartar nor the Jew that of Christ and succeeded by that
Knowing the good work of your pa- culture by Negro authors may be pre-
from the Christian. In their eyes the of Mohammed. The prohibition
JERUSALEM (J. T. A.)—Nathan
per for the welfare of local Jewry, sented authoritatively to the Jewish
poor and the workingman are entitled against Jewish charity and social we!.
we believe you will help us acquaint world.
Straus arrived in Jerusalem on Jan.
to advantages and rights which the fare organizations, he maintains, is •
"Now,
in
order
that
the
collection
I.
On Saturday a reception was ten-
the Jewish youth of this city with an
rich and bourgeois do not deserve, general prohibition against all hour-
organization which we expect will in of these works may not constitute a dered Mr. Straus, who enjoys great
but Moslem, Jew, Pole, Russian, Yel- geois organizations — It militates
burden
on
you,
permit
me
to
offer
my
time play a vital part in De,roit af-
popularity with the entire country.
low I.ap and White Caucasian are against the bourgeoisie of all nation-
services in assembling the most nota- Repesentatives of the government and
fairs.
equal before the law. This may be alities, the Russians included. Zion-
ble works and presenting them as a of many organizations attended.
We
have
reference
to
the
"Ades
wrong or just. Only one thing is cer- into, he says, are bourgeois, and suf.
tain. The Jew gains by the arrange- ter from the same general ban, for B'nai Yinroel," an organization of
if the opposition were against Zion- young people whose purpose is to pro-
ment.
The Bolsheviks certainly are not ism, he adds, why would he permit mote traditional Judaism among the
professed anti-Semites. They do not the existence of Zionist organizations youth.
History has taught us that the
countenance anti-Semitism, and as a which are socialistic and not hour-
Jewish religion is the cause of our ex-
government they do all within their gro i n ,
The jury retires to deliberate. istence today as Jews. It is also the
power not only to prevent active out-
breaks of the anti-Semitic spirit, but There are no differences of opinion mother of our national aspirations,
also to prevent its development and and it appoints a committee from the hope of Zion having been mani-
growth. They teach the workingmen among its own number to draft the fested in our prayers throughout the
ages. Zionism is, therefore, a part
that not the Jew but the capitalist, verdict.
WWI g %Ng • MN 1.11 11 MN II WI MI I MI I I I I I I 6: •
The verdict asserts first that the of Judaism.
be he Jewish, Christian, Moslem or
pagan, is the person whom labor must Bolsheviks are not anti-Semites either - It is the object of the "Ades B'nai
fight. Rakovsky, the present Soviet in their philosophy or program. It Yisroel" to organize the young men
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LONDON._ (J. T. A.)—The well-
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Minister Freidrich, according to in- plants.
formation received by the Jewish
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time ago with Henry Ford, regarding
the tatter's financial support for the
Visit to Palestine.
monarchist propaganda in Hungary.
Austria and Bavaria. The negotia-
William C. Lancsweert, manager the Czar Jewish attendance at uni-
tons were conducted through the
Turkis
h Minister !met Pasha and of the White Star and Red Star Lines, versities was limited to 4 per cent of
the Amercian Admiral Chester. In with OffiCCII at 214 Maiestic building, the total number matriculated. At
return Ford is said to have been prom- who recently returned from an ex- present there is no limit placed by the
ised important railway and industrial tensive trip through Poland, where law or by tradition or by prejudice;
concessions upon the realization of he met Mr. Levy Epstein of the Hiss, in some univresities as high as 60 per
Warsaw, will sail for the Mediter- cent of the students are Jews, and
Freldrich's plans.
ranean with a party of 350 first class in the White Russian University at
tourists,
on the steamship Lapland Minsk the percentage is even higher.
BUDAPEST.—(J. T. A.)—Henry
This is one side of the medal. Let
Ford will be rewarded for helping in Jan. 16, having charge of all the shore
other. The Bolahe.
the financing of the anti-Semitic excursions. (Inc of the chief 'Mae. us examine the
of all
menement under the auspices of the lions of the trip will he an extensive viks have decreed the closing
Awakening Magyars if and when a tour in Palestine and Egypt. Jewish religious ethools, with the re-
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Are the Bolsheviks anti-Semitesl cult that almost all the Chedorim and
We could answer "yes" and prove the Yeshivoth in the country have been
answer; we could answer "no" and forced to bar their doors. Bolshe-
prove the answer. We will not begin viks mock the Jewish religion, and
by groping for a definition of anti- demonstrate in front of synagogues
Semitism. All will agree that when on the high holidays. They conduct
the Poles massacred Jews, pulled their elaborate campaigns before Passover
beards and threw them from running counselling against the observance of
railroad trains, they were doing that holiday.
The mass of Russian Jewry is not
things that were distinctly anti-Semi.
tic. Likewise, when Ilenry Ford filled permitted to organize for charity pur-
e paper with scurrilous attacks on poses. The law forbids their estab-
Jews simply out of a perverted desire lishing independent institutions for
to increase the amount of hate in a their own orphans, widows, poor,
world already too full of the virus, homeless and destitute.
he stamped himself an anti-SemIte.
Zionist Activity Prohibited.
I
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I don't know what I an) going to do with that man Zan•will. Someone cuted by the Czariet regime. Theeire
Zion in Kiev had been sen-
told me the other day that in • post-prandial speech he said that when he pratice was followed by non-Jews as tenced to two years' imprisonment
simply because they had engaged in
came to America the newspapers begged him to oven his mouth and
it was by Jews. Lenin wee born
Zionist activity. Other witnesses pro.
and now they beg him with equd emphasis to shut it and stop talking. It'.
assumed, name of
Ulianov and only assumed
acquired his duce similarly condemnatory evidence
redly • bewildering predicament to find oneself in, especially when so far
Lenin. Stalin likewise
sway from home. But I think Zangwill has found • way out, as he usually present surname after he had reached which makes a profound impression
does of most things. In a speech delivered at the entertaining dinner given maturity. Instances among Christian on the jury.
Then the defense places before the
by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in New York, he said that he was going Communists can be multiplied with
to confine his future statements (that is, his public statements, of co..), ease. But all of them keep their first court documents and evidence to
show
that the Simian Jews are now,
to the drama and life, vague subjects that could not possibly get him into names and their patronymics. Thus
regime, safe
trouble. I am really afraid that too many of us •re afflicted with • Md. Trotsky in Les Davidovitch, which thanks to.the
Street complex and cannot appreci•te one of the wittiest and most interest• immediately singles him out as being from pogroms And phsecution, " that
t
•
ing personalities that has visited us in • long time.
of Jewish parentage. In other worth, they are subject to no restrictions,
Shakespeare dm thank God that he never met in person the millions of
his worshippers. One dreads the remarks they would have made. Genius
should be left to itself; put in camphor balls, so to speak, and taken out only
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