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the rest of the population.
FREUD AS PRESIDENT Y
Likewise, herded in cities the Jews
developed a physiological immunity
to the city diseases. The low statistics
(Concluded from page 1.1
for morbidity and mortality among
freely with the rest of the population, Jews is an established fact. Further-
exercising an influence in the arts more the effect of persecution was to
and commerce proportionate to their make the Jew mature early in life
and to age early. As a result Jewish
intellectual ability.
DRAMATIC ARTS SOCIETY
It is a story of freedom as a group children frequently show a brillance
WILL GIVE THREE PLAYS
and absorption as a group—a story which does not persist through matur-
that is repeated today without varia- ity. On the other hand, sonic of the
The Young Judaean Dramatic Arts
tion as it was repented in Italy, whose extremely able individuals, lucking an
Society will give three one-act alas s
cities, Padua and Mantua, were cities opportunity for the expression of their
at
the Jewish Institute auditorium 011
of Jewish learning in the middle ages, capacities, are disappointed in the
8432 Hamilton at Philadelphia
Sunday evening, Feb. 17. The plays,
and as it was told in Southern France fruits of their activity and develop an
from the pens of well known writers,
where flourished some of the bril- attitude toward life which is charac-
4721
Warren West at Thirtieth
are "The Fourth Dove," a drama;'
liant Biblical exegetes, Rashi and Al- teristic of the so-called Judenschmerz.
"Thursday Evening" and "The Two I
13506
Oakman Blvd. at Davison
fassi. These indeed are the terrible
The basis of anti-Semitism is un-
Goyim," farce comedies. Tickets are
alternatives of the persistent survival doubtedly the persistence of Jewish
already on sale among members of
of the Jewish people. On the one minorities, just as in Turkey the an-
this and other Young Judaea so- •
hand, ear-curls, phliacteries, kosher ti-Armenian feeling, based partly on
cieties, as well as from Young Judaea
food, Sabbath observance, segrega- religious grounds, is probably due to
leaders. They may also be secured
tion, persecution, hatred by the ma- the persistence of religion the Ameri-
at the Jewish Woman's Club, h9 Ro-
jority, pogroms, an attempt at kill- cans as a distinctive group. The Su-
wena, or from Miss Mary Kaplan at
ing of the body which is met by a periority of the literature, religion
the Jewish Institute. The plays are
strengthened will to live on the part and conduct of the orthodox Jew over
under the direction of Mrs. Miller of
of the Jews, and on the other hand, that of the East-European peasant, is
the Detroit Department of Recrea-
tolerance, the abandonment of all re- an impediment to the absorption of the
tion.
ligious observance and a shriveling of Jews in-East-Europe. The failure of
JEROME
S.
FREUD
Jewish cultural activity, followed by the Jew to respond more rapidly to the
Pirchai Zion.
physical amalgamation and the ulti- overwhelming amalganutting influen-
At the annual election of officers of
At the meeting of the Pirchai Zion,
mate disappearance of the Jewish ces in West-European countries seems the Phoenix Club, held on Jan. 17,
held
at
the
home of Celia Becker,
to he the cause of the anti-Semitism Jerome S. Freud was elected prem.
group.
986 Medbury avenue, the club, de-
Explanation of the Problem.
which prevails there and as a reaction
for 1924.
cided to buy another dunam of land
Many theories have been offered to this sense of superoriority of the dent
Other officers elected were I. Ro-
in explanation of the Jewish ques- n on- assimilating Jew, the non-Jewish senberg, vice-president; S. B. Rosen- in Palestine, through the Jewish Na-
tion and of the attitude of the world world develops a compensating con- gerten, secretary; I. R. Myers, treas. I tional Fund. It was also decided to
toward the Jew. Some say the basis tempt for the Jew, who it secretly urer. Directors elected were Samuel hold a social gathering at the home
of Ruth Beich on Feb. lb. The next
is entirely theological. The remind- envies or even may admire.
Summerfield, Herbert D. Robinson,
ers by theologians in Easter sermons
In Western Europe and in the Albert Weisman, Herman F'inster- meeting of the club will be held at
of the supposed killing of Christ by United States the Jewish immigrant weld, Samuel A. Sloan, Nathan M the home of Miss Jean Aichenbaum,
Jews is undoubtedly a stimulant to the represents unarrived "potentialities," Gross, Z. Ilimelhoch and Dr. Karl M. 532 Nleilbury, on Saturday evening.
Visitors are always welcome.
flames of prejudice. Another theory a gifted race that comes in the (Ra- Fechheimer.
is the German doctrine that the Jews
ise of the lower classes of Europe,
Mogen David Club.
are an inferior race—that the great but as opportunity presents itself ar-
In celebration of Chamisho Osor
creative geniuses of the world were rives more rapidly and to higher
Pri B'Shvat, the Mogen David Club mem-
" 1
the blond-haired, blue-eyed Nordics. levels than do the fellow immigrants rivals of the Jewish religion are
Another theory to justify anti-Jewish in the steerage. Whether America marily Palestinian national festivals i hers were recipients of Palestinian
—Pesach commemorating the exodus I fruit hags at their last meeting.
prejudice is that the East European is to capitalize these abilities or is to
Jews are the descendants of the Kah- repress them would seem one of the from Egypt; Succoth, the feast of Plans were made for a Purim enter-
booths, coninternorating the ingather- tainment, the committee in charge
ears, a Tartar tribe. In other words, American problems of the future.
ing of the harvest of Ian agricultural consisting of II. Faigen, Abe Grace
this theory of anti- Jewish prejudice
Is There a Solution
people in Palestine;1Iannukkah, or
Harry Katz.
is justified on the ground that the
Physical absorption is held out as the feast of lights, in i remembrance and Election
of officers at this meeting
Jews are not really Jews.
the solution of the Jewish question,
of the spiritual victory won over the resulted as follows: I. Shavitz, prem.
All of the above explanations over- solution in the same sense that ad- Hellenic forces which threatened to
look what seems to lie the fundamen- ministering a death-producing drug is crush the Jewish people, their culture dent; II. Katz, vice-president and
chairman of the program committee;
tal sociological reason—namely, that a cure to an individual suffering any
and tradition.
N. Cooper, secretary anti reporter;
any scattered group attempting to illness or physiologic maladiustment.
The
survival
of
the
Jews
as
a
mi-
M. Rosen, treasurer; I. Cohen, ser-
survive as minorities in the several Yet disappearance of the Jewish peo-
nority
group
in
order
to
develop
I
a
-
geant-at-arms. The absentee com-
countries of settlement causes anti- ple is inevitable without a center such
social feeling. Undoubtedly the per- as Palestine where the Jews can re- estine should not be an impossible mittee for the coming term is to con-
goal.
Apparently
the
first
two
solo-
•
sist of Cutler, Weiner, Faigen and
sistence of Jewish minorities for two establish a complete normal social
thousand years explains many of the life containing not merely a merchant tions, amalgamation and survival as Karp.
During the program of the even-
scattered
minorities,
which
have
been
social and psychological phenomena class as in most countries but a com-
tried in vain for centuries, are not ing, J. Faigen spoke on Chamisho
of Jewish history.
plete economic, vocational and psy- likely to be any more successful in ()tom B'Shvat. Karp and Cutler spoke
In their Ghettoes the Jews were cut chological pyramid of farmers, me-
off front the main currents of western chanics, merchants and teachers. This the future than in the past. The re- on Palestinian fruits and other agri- I
civilisation and therefore was an in- is the central theme of this paper, settlement of Palestine as the home cultural products. Next week, Grace I
tellectual in-breeding and a tremen- that the Jews are very rapidly being for the Jewish people nail for the and Katz will present a dialogue.
dous amount of effort and energy de- absorbed where conditions permit the Jewish culture and tradition may of- Plans are being made for the forma-
fer a solution. Or, as Zangwill puts lion of a junior club.
voted to dialectic and to theological free intermingling with non-Jews.
it, the Jewish problem will have a
subiects. On the other hand the Jews
Another solution is the survival as territorial solution. This solution was,
in dispersion developed a high intellec- a religious group. A complicated and
tual capacity, for under a settled sta- elaborate theory, the mission of Is- once before tried with brilliant suc-
tus, wealth is the desired indication of rael, has been built up to justify the cess by Ezra, when only 42,000 Jews,
social position and the basis of pow- survival of the Jews as a scattered according to the Biblical count, re-
er. Wandering in exile, scholarship religious group. However, this theory turned to Palestine. And even if in
and mental keenness were the surro- WAS constructed to fit the facts and modern times one or two million Jews
gate traits prized by Jews. It is hard- was designed to answer the search- should succeed in settling in Pales-
ly to he wondered in view of the his- ings of the human soul for justifica- tine after several generations, and
NEW YORK.—Israel Zangwill, dis-
even if the rest should be, as they
tory of the Jewish mind that the per- tions of courses of conduct. The probably will be, physically absorbed, tinguished Jewish scholar, who is now
centage of Jews in academic institu- question arises, if mere survival as a
touring
America, has made an appeal
the Jewish problem may have been
tions should be larger than that of scattered religious community is to
for the Jewish Theological Seminary
be the end, is not the price too great? solved.
$1,000,000 endowment fund, in which
In the travels of the tourist through he says that if the Jews are to sur-
The static wing of the Jewish re-
SERVICE
BICUR CHOLEM TO HOLD
ligion, the Orthodox, is losing in at- many countries of Europe and owe, they cannot do it without place CHOSEN TO REPRESENT
41 Palestine he is impressed of training for "teachers of Jude-
tractive power daily, along with the h
OPEN MEETING FEB. 7:
in
LOCAL TALMUD TORAHS
other static religions of the world, with the tact that in Palestine alone ism„" and unless it was on the
AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE such as the Catholic. On the other is the Jew spiritually renascent. The grounds of poverty or meanness, he
Calvin Coolidge Inscribed in
The Blear Cholem open meeting.:
l'olictholders in the CENTRAL MIT.
Golden Book:
hand, like Unitarianism or any of the little Jewish girl in the school in Pal• added, the Jews cannot refuse to
originally announced for last Thura-1
'f UAL enjoy a senile of gerurity while
progressive Christian sects, Reform estine who reads, in the original, the rally to the project of establishing
It fell to the Zionists' in the small day evening will instead be held on.
motoring. They know they are 'Pro-
tected by their poll, and that In
Judaism, the progressive wing, lacks Book of Isaiah prophesying the re- the seminary on a sound financial
Jewish community of Horodzei ( Go- Thursday evening, Feb. 7. The pro-!
of accident they will receive
the conserving force of tradition. In turn of the remnant, is a pioneer in basis.
rodejal, Poland, to be the first to in- gram of this open meeting will in-
Prompt and efficient .erica. And the
fact, what religion of modern origin achieving the historic longing. There
Mr. Zangwill's letter follows:
here part of It all that rates for
scribe the nam• of President Coolidge clude. "The Dance of the Flutes" by
is successful? However, the survival is hope that the physical difficulties
CENTRAL M OTUAL nituaT•r ION
"I should have thought that the
in the Golden Book of the Jewish Na- little Sylvia Cowen. Russian Cossack
ARE LOWER!
of the Jews as a religious group may of the land will he met successfully,
tional Fund in appreciation of his (lances will be given by little Zelda
, so j cause of the Jewish Theological Semi-
for those bare Judaean hills,
CENTRAL MUTUAL be regarded as a means of facilitating lated
support of Jewish aspirations to re- Rosenthal. Dancing and refreshments'
since the ancient Israelites left nary needed no pleading before those
the re-development of Palestine as a
establish the Jewish National Home- will follow the program.
Automobile Insurance Co.
them,
are
a
challenge
to
the
modern
who
desire
Judaism
to
persist.
For
Woodward Ave. normal Jewish homeland. Indeed,
how can there be teachers of Judaism
land in Palestine. The Golden Book
S,,enth Floor
Jack Rosenberg, who is in charges
at Spbley
DETROIT
Holman Bldg.
this was a prominent characteristic Jews and they constitute an auto- r if there is no place of training for
certificate was transmitted to the of the Ilicur Cholem ball, to be heldf
Main 3157-3195
of Judaism for 2,000 years. The fes- made psychological selector of the them? It must be remembered that
President througi the Jewish Na- Thursday evening, March 20, at the'
immigrants. Palestine is not the place , if our people survive at all today, it
tional Fund Bureau for America.
General Motors hall room, will an-1
for those of faint heart, of faltering Is because, when the Romans were
nuance in an early issue of The Chron-
courage, and those that hovesettled besieging Jerusalem, Jochanan ben
icle the patrons and patronesses for
there evince by that very fact the Zacat managed to escape and to
Upper Peninsula of Michigan
•:.'af, •
Lihei .
the affair. Mr. Rosenherg announces
necessary physical and moral stamina found a Jewish theological seminary
that the enthusiasm displayed by the
-
Responsive to J. N. F. Appeal:
which the difficulties of the land calls at Jabne, thus substituting a spiritual
Iron River, Crystal Falls and Iron- committee in charge, as well as the
for. A hardy section of Jewry is be- Judea for the lost territorial Judea.
wood, Mich., are the lust little com- entire membership of the Bicur Cho-
ing selected by Palestine and is bring- Since his days, the Jews have been
Ill
munities in the Upper Peninsula of lem, promises success for the ball.
ing abounding energy to solve the the People of the Book and it is to
Michigan visited by I'. M. Raskin in
problems of agriculture, sanitation, the Book that they owe their salva-
ATLANTIC CITY.-1.1. T. Al—
the past week. Small as these com-
and is building a new civilization.
tion as a separate entity.
munities are, they have responded Local Jewry launched its $200,000
For the Jews who wish to become
,,I can understand those who feel
campaign
for a Jewish community
with cash and pledges to the amount
absorbed by their neighbors, the set- the Jewries of America should be
For everyone looking for latest design
of $1,065 in land donations and building at a dinner in the Knickers
dement of Palestine would seem to fused in the melting pot objecting to
bock
More
than 400 were pres-
Golden Book inscriptions. A. Men-
and quality in high-grade
facilitates their exit from the Je ss Is help the conservation of Judaism, but
delson and E. Miller of Crystal Falls ent and $100,000 was raised. Jacob
group. For the Jews who wish to I fail to see on what grounds, except ,
ii
have donated $100 each to inscribe Billikopf was the speaker of the eve-
O
remain as a religious group scattered of course, poverty and meanness, any
M. J. GREENSTEIN
ning.
their names in the Golden Book.
throughout
the
nations,
Palestine
may
other
kind
of
Jew
can
refuse
to
rally
ran
M. J. Greenstein has been chosen
tunics their aim by functioning for to the project of setting theseminary
t o
them as a spiritual center. Around once for all upon a sound financial to represent the United Hebrew
Phonographs, cabinet and console; lamps
this fact the whole doctrine of dias- basis. The names of some of the Schools of Detroit, according to an
of latest designs and colors; polychrome
pore Judaism has been built up and greatest Jews of the day, unfortun- announcement made this week.
console tables with plate glass tops and con-
Mr. Greenstein is well known in
they may constitute a persisting mi- ately taken from us by death, many
sole mirrors to match; davenport tables, li-
nority group in the several countries, of whom were personal friends of the Detroit Jewish community, hav-
brary tables, spinet desks, combination daven-
as do the Protestants in France, the mine, are indissolubly associated with ing been active in a number of Jew-
port and spinet desk tables, end tables, sew-
Catholics in England and the Quakers the seminary—I need only mention ish affairs. In soliciting funds for
ing cabinets, smoking stands, tabourets, etc.
in the United States. Whether they Judge Meyer Sulzberger, Dr. Solomon the local Talmud Torahs, Detroit
Beautiful mohair and velour living room
will disappear as Jews or remain sec- Schechter, Joseph Jacobs and Dr. JPIA'S are urged to receive him kindly
suites, eight-knot tic, web bottom and three-
tarian in the several countries is an Israel Friedlander—and therefore I and to respond with their contribu-
row front stitched edges! pictures and poly-
unsolved question. I feel it a privilege to be allowed in tions.
chrome buffet mirrors; combination walnut
There nifty he a harmonious accomo- this way to advocate the noble cause
and two-tone dining room suites. Rugs, Wil-
dation as there is in England today or you have at heart."
tons, velvets, Axminsters and Brussels; Wilton,
there
may be continuous friction as in
Rabbi Max Drib, national chair-
velvet and Axminster throw rugs; runners and
Poland and in Germany. Perhaps the man of the campaign, announces that
stair carpets; combination walnut, mahogany,
social
implications
of
a
Malthusian-
the
fund's total now is $875,000, rep-
teen and three-tone bedroom suites; cedar
ism, the crowding of the population I resenting contributions from all parts
chests, night tables, dressers, vanities, chif-
SI rs. T. Oppenheim entertained
upon the means of existence may de - of the country.
foniers, chifferettes, chifferobes and bow-foot
three tables of bridge on Monday at
!ermine whether harmony or friction I
beds; bedroom rockers, chairs and benches;
!
Red
Cross;
David
Lubin,
the
Russian
,
ternoon.
will characterize the living of the Jews
mohair and velour seated rockers with cane
among their neighbors. On the other I immigrant to America, the founder of
bucks; odd buffets, tables, chairs and chinas;
When we tell you that the Maxwell Club
0
hand physical amalgamation may re- . the International Institute of Agri-
A. Greenbaum, Milton Greenbaum
breakfast suites, kitchen table and chairs;
stilt in the creation of brilliant half- culture at Rome. The world will lose and Max Hershberg are attending the
beds, springs, mattresses and pillows. If you
Sedan has two-door friendliness with
Jews, such as the Ilerschels in astrl- I the public and social sympathy of the convention of the clothing merchants
wish to buy new, high-grade furniture and
omy, Mendeleff in chemistry and a Jew which seems to he present in him in Grand Rapids.
four-door facility, only a fraction of the
rugs at a tremendous saving, come and see
host of the geniuses in science who . in unique coniunction with a keen
our large display before buying elsewhere.
story has been told about this amazingly
arose when Jews, on the morrow of sense of material values, in America
spent a few days at
Ellis
M.
The
Buy Quickly and Get Good Goods
civil emancipation, intermarried with I the work of Brandeis in social legis- the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
popular model. Never before has there .
'
latis
n
,
of
Rosenwald
in
the
advance-
at Low Prices.
the non-Jewish population.
ment of the colored people.. of Wet , J. Thal.
Open Monday and Tuesday Until 10 P. M.
"If Israel Disappears—"
been an enclosed car that combined so
If Israel disappear as a people from burg in the perfecting of the Ameri-
Free City and Suburban Moving.
The Jewish Young People's Society
much comfort and varied utility with.,
among the nations of the earth, the can banking system.
completed plans for a community
The Jew has been the barometer of bridge party to be held at the Com-
world will be the poorer, not mends .
sound engineering at so low a price.
because every nation adds its distinc- advancing civilization. The extent munity Center on Feb. 3.
live note and thereby enriches the and method of his persecution is the
New Location:
4301-4303 Fourteenth Avenue
world harmony, the world will be index of the culture and progress o f
Alex S. Levinsohn. returned from
ID
corer because it will have lost the the country in which he lives. The Detroit, where he attended the Auto
Corner Buchanan earns
Glendale 7817
0
r-v,
services of a thoroughbred people inquisition stood for the dental of that Show.
which has paid dearly in persecution liberty of the individual which was
and death, the price of biological se- ultimately to be proclaimed by the
1 0
Sam Weinberg of Prescott spent
4446 Cass Ave.
lection. The world will lose the paten-, French Revolution, the Russian Pale Wednesday in Saginaw.
Glendale 9310
tiality in a future order of ever pro- meant the denial of minority rights in
ducing religious or social leaders. Eastern Europe. The ostracism of
Miss Stella Thal has returned from
The prophets of a new era. It will the Jew in Western Europe and in the a visit to Detroit and Flint.
Club Sedan
lose the pioneers in establishing new United States is the denial of those
social relations. It seas the unkempt, rights which a future generation will
The Beth El Sisterhood's card
610 45
and despised Russian and Polish Jew proclaim proudly as its contribution party, postponed from Jan. 22, was
f. 0. b. Detroit
in the needle industries who raised to the advancement of the race. The pronounced a success.
working conditions to the highest la- Jew has the function of teaching the
bar standards in the United States. brotherhood of man as his ancestor Julius Deutelbaum Appointed
Further, the world will lose the gen- taught the fatherhood of God. Here
Chief Deputy Clerk.
ius of the Jews in interpreting the indeed is a new meaning of the term,
spirit of several nations. Sarah Bern- "Chosen People."
Julius Deutelbaum, former editor
According to Christian tradition the
hardt, the interpreter of the French
spirit and Sir Israel Gollanca, the son Jew must live and suffer until the of the Detroit Labor News, was ap-
pointed chief deputy clerk of Re-
second
coming
of
Christ.
In
•
social
who
has
interpreted
of a Polish rabbi
Court at • meeting of the
Corporation, Partnership and Personal Income Tax
Shakespeare to present day England. sense may not this tradition be true corder's
judges. The position was created at
In the disappearance of the Jews the in that the Jew will and must survive a judges' conference. Deutelbaum
world will lose the host of lesser in- under persecution, until the symbol
terpreters of the higher international- of Christ is realized, the reign of will take office Feb. 1. Other ap-
SAGINAW, MICH.
pointments of deputy clerks were:
DETROIT, MICH.
ism—Ivan de Blioch, the Russian Jew- brotherly love? Must not he continue Karl Eisele to replace G. A. Sales and
222 West Congress St. Returns. 509 Wiechmann Bldg.
ish hanker, the prophet of the League to walk the earth until the coming of Conrad Stein to replace John Miss-
Phone Riverside 1403
of Nations; Henn Dunant, the Swiss peace on earth and good will to all
Phone Main 3240
kowaki.
cesestsroorsootata-OO-0000 Jew, the founder of the International men? "Tarry thou till I come."
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mdy to
clients
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terrace.
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Is Now in Progress
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cum-
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SEMINARY SUPPORT
URGED BY ZANGINILL
for
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On All Odd Pieces of Furniture,
Rugs, Lamps, Breakfast Suites,
Sun-Room Furniture, etc., as well
as Every Living Room, Dining
Room and Bedroom Suite in Our
Stores,
J. N. F. NOTES
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FURNITURE
MA X WELL
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