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MOLDERS OF JEWIS PUBLIC OPINION
background and resultedin important
o rents. His connection pith Taft and
Witte was mainly resposible for the
By WILLIAM Z. 9PIEGELMAN
pinging to the notice o'the American
public the treatment i , the Russian
(Copyright, 1924, .ewish Telegraphic Agency, licd
too -eminent of the A n e ri c an J e wish
citizens, which resultot in the final
Settees,
(It is the general opinion that vith the passage of the new immi-
dissolution of the commercial treaty
gration bill, American Jewry is entering a new epoch in its history.
" between Czarist Russo. and the Uni-
Chairs,
With immigration severely restricted, American Jewry will from
:, ted States.
now on have to depend for its spiritual development on its own re-
Rockers,
't
His fight against Os Russian noon-'
sources. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency considers this moment
arehistic clique of -totters in this
Tables,
opportune to portray to the Jewish public those figures in American . ' country resulted in tie discovery of
Jewish life who are at the head of Jewish public affairs, and are
Lamps.
the source of that irbrnational falsi-
responsible for the molding of J ewish public opinion, through the
tication, called "The , ?rodoccola of the
Ferneries,
medium of the Jewish press of this country.)
Eldereof Zion," Ilis ontroversy with
Desks,
Ford, started on Kurd the "Peace
HERMAN BERNSTEIN
i
Ship," has not yet coded.
Chaise-lounges,
It was his deep merest in his moo-
What is journalism? Is it merely many times as is imaginable in 'the plc that promoted his in all his jour-1
Day-beds
to write of things that happen course of five years, he finally Int oal statistic ventures to cook for the Jew-'
through the will of other people; or is on Division street, New York,
ish clement. It wa. his l ove f oe the ,
it rather writing that which influences clothing store, where the positi io of truth that was the eiving power that
other people and creates in them the bookkeeper offered him a livelpood led him from one
osure to another.
will to do? What is the inner force with the possibility of continunt his
What is the out -t.noting problem in
of a man who has encircled the globe, education and his literary work.Hav- American Jewish Ife at the prescid
ing
mastered
the
English
larituave,
come in contact with kings, presi-
time, was the qui
that I put to
dents and diplomats, discovered sec- his old literary ambition found ex- Herman Bernstein "There are two
ret treaties and unearthed the most pression in continuous attempts at questions which ire of interest t,
Russian poetry, translations ato the leaders of American Jewry above e s
intimate letters of emperors?
Is it merely the journalistic search English from the Russian and 1,11u. mh- erything else," to answered.
.
for "good newspaper stuff," or is car es.
tie
is the questee of securing a slew-
there in back of it a central idea that While some of his poetry mil trans- ish education foe our youth. It hues ,
employs these methods in order that lotions were published in weally Jew- I/I ell the evil of om life in this too,
some higher ideal may be achieved? i5h magazines, his short st to offer-
h i m, try that in exchoore for the material
With these questions in mind, I ings were always returned
blessings which ur people have re. I
century
went to see Herman Bernstein. I until one day, a quarter of
ceived here, man; of us, in our anx-
had met him several years before. It ago, the young Bernstein f n d to his iety to become fully American, have
was in the city of Warsaw during the own surprise that a story f his had
been
published
in
the
lite
ry
section
overdone
et. Miry have become 110
Versailles peace conference. The of the New York Evening Post per cent Americo,
crushing entirely
prestige of President Wilson and
their Judaism hod thus losing their
The name of the story was "Sareh
America was at its height. Rumors
rich racial and animal heritage, the
It was a had story of
were afloat in Central and Eastern Rivke's
things that meek, for their individual-
e r w a t c his
g over her
Europe that President Wilson was a Jewish moth
It is evidot that if Jewish life
determined that his Fourteen Points, son, who, in her brooding, seemed to ity.
he in danger of being led astray. in America is to continue, it must
including the point of self-determina-
Herman Bernstein has: been ever have a sound fundation in a proper
odd pieces and suites in our
tion for small nations, should be car-
ried out. Reports had been circu- since vigilant of the important prob. Jewish educati n. There is no con-
stock are included. A variety of
ffict between Pal Americanism and I
temn
in
the
life
of
America
and
in
lated in the Polish press that the
the ancient le:ilium; of Judaism.
beautiful finishes—gold and red,
"anonymous power" (meaning Jew- the life of his people all over the
"The second problem which ought
ish representatives at the Paris con- world. Although an immigrant of
silver and black, blue and gold, gray
to
get
the
audition
of
our
people
in
ference) had net all forces in motion not more than five years' residence,
this country is the problem of re-build-
and frosted gold, nut brown and frost•
to influence the contracting parties Bernstein's stories, which had been
ing Palestine. 'With the other relief
to guarantee in a special interna- sent back to him time and again, were
ed gold, and pearl gray.
work
stopped,the
work
of
rehabilita-
tional treaty the rights of small na- now in great demand by American
ting Palestine is the only great task,
You will want to take advantage of
tions whose fate it was to live on ter- editors and publishers, Unrecom-
the fulfillmen: of which is rightly ex-
ritories ruled by other nations. It mended and unsponsored Herman
this
wonderful sale tomorrow while the
pected from A."
Bernstein's
journalistic
work
won
was merely rumored, but not be-
"What is the future of the Yiddish
selection is most complete.
lieved; but Herman Bernstein, who success on its own merits and placed
press in thi' country," I asked the
him,
in
a
short
period
of
tole,
in
the
on a short-cut from Paris to Moscow,
All Floor Samples Reduced
founder and former editor of the great
You need pay only a small amount
stopped over in Warsaw and brought rank of those who form America's
33 I.3%—Porch Swings and
with him the actual text of the treaty, opinion on international affairs, and Yiddish daily, The Day,—"and what
down
and
the
balance
in
convenient
tendency is Acely to predominate in
before it over was intended to be pub- one of the molders of Jewish public
Hammocks Reduced 20%.
is this country after the
Jewish
life,
opinion.
weekly amounts.
lished.
It is hard to choose from the mul- complete stooge of immigration?"
He came armed with a letter of
"While
it
is
true,"
Mr.
Bergstein
introduction from the then powerful titude of problems which attracted
Prime Minister Paderewski to Minis- the attention of Herman Bernstein said, "that 'tie Yiddish press has al-
ter of the Interior Wojciechowski, those which are of greater signifi- ready seen a best days in this coun-
now the President of the Polish re- canee. It is the tragedy of the jour- try, there io no ground to hold any
public. However, when the docu- nalistic profession that the greatest pessimistic 'rews regarding the future
ment was published the Polish press amount of intellect and skill, invested of America' Jewry which has already
poured out its wrath on the "anony- in "burning issues," is of no longer sufficiently strong elements of com-
mous power" and most of all on the duration than Jonah's gourd. With munal vitsity, learning and leader-
the difference, however, that while ship.
wandering Jew, Herman Bernstein.
"Do yot think that the passage of
But the Wandering Jew did not the leaves of the journalistic Jonah
stay long enough in the capital of the disappear as soon as the sun rises the anti-emigration bill, together
with
the talk about the superiority of
and
a
new
day
is
marked
on
the
cal-
8432 Hamilton at Philadelphia
resurrected Poland to see these at-
tacks upon him. In pursuit of his endar, the work of the Jonah in jour- the so-caed 'Nordic' may create a
Branches: • 4721 Warren West at Thirtieth
mission, he proceeded north and west, nalism, the one who in his sea cross- ferment ! racial discrimination in
13506 Oakman Blvd. at Davison
east and south? Who could tell ex- ings is driven by an inner search of America,etTecting the Jewish people
truth and has a message of real value first of O!" I asked in conclusion.
actly where?
"Amera,
as
well
as
the
rest
of
the
endures.
Because
of
his
literary
ac-
When I sat down in his apartment
in New York for the purpose of in- tivities, particularly in the transla- world, be not yet demobilized its
terviewing Mr. Bernstein, I thought tions from the Russian into English, spirit of :vest and the wave of chau-
I had a very hard task before me. To Mr, Bernstein found a short story in vinistic oadness. The anti-immigra-
interview a president or a minister the Russian magazine Viestnik En- tion bill.s one expression of this gen-
is not a hard thing. If you concen- ron'," under the name of S. Witte. eral unnst which -is still prevailing.
trate on your subject you will "catch Being anxious to translate the story America will sooner or later free it-
him." But to interview an inter- into English, he wrote to S. Witte, in self from it. But while we need not -
viewer, one who knows the ins and care of the journal, asking for per- he alarms', we should not follow any
outs of the interviewing genie, minion to do see. In return Mr. Bern- longer no course of the "Great Non- COMMUNITY CENTER
seemed to be rather a difficult task. stein received a letter from Mlle. Resistrt 4 as TolStoy named us. We
MOVEMENT GROWING
However, Herman Bernstein, the 4yt a Witte, enclosing an entire vol- ought h , combat anti-Semitism open-
,
great intervi wer, proved to be not al r"..f her stories which she thought lyeand corbrously at any time it mates Conorentoopnarotf. Sole rir
e es Bears Re-
i ei:r
hl prove to be as interesting as
stance."
so terrible after all. On the con- would
Crary, he seemed to have decided in' her first story. However, some of
advance to make up for all the sus. the stories were ink-spotted in a man-
ATLANTIC CITY.—(J. T. A.)—
app
COOLIDGE
INQUIRES
which he must have caused in Tier that indicated censoring. The its
-
Wherever the r e is a cwis c
others, by repaying with kindness censored spots proved to be unpleas-
CONCERNING
STRAUS
munity,
there soon will be an ode-
those who would come to interview Ant references to the Je,ws. Without
quate center to meet the peculiar
being
personally
known
to
each
other,
him. As I looked at the amiable,
f American needs of the Jewish co no-
smiling countenance and listened tee author and translator engaged in a
man ities in this country," declared
Write• After Hearing
his fluent conversation, a most inter- heated correspondence concerning PresiCot Diplomat's
Illness.
Herman Passamaneck, retiring presi-
esting tale of a life started in Russia, he Jewish question in Russia. The
dent of the National Association of
developed in New York and exercised controversy coded, however, in a sin-
W., SHINGTON.—President Cool- Jewish Community Center Secre-
in Tokio, Petrograd, Parts and Vladi- mere friendship which was to lead to
idge
elegraphed
a
message
of
con-1
Wien, at the last session of the con-
great change in Herman Bernstein's
vostok, unfolded itself.
cern upon learning that Oscar S. emotion held here June 22,
Born in 1876 in Neustadt-Shervint,
The outstanding number of the
raised in Mogilow in a well-to-do, en• Sofia Witte proved to he the aris- Strata had undergone an operation
conference program was a talk by
lightened Jewish family, he received tocratic sister of Count Witte, the in No, York and received a reassur-
Professor Julius Drachsler of the Col-
e thorough religious training cone. Prime Minister of Russia, who came hug rely from Mrs. Straus. The noes-
lege of the City of New York, in the
bined with a sound secular education, to the United States at the invitation sage, follow:
course of which he stressed the ne-
As early as 11 years of age, his in. of President Roosevelt to negotiate "Tho-White House, Washington, D. C.
cessity for developing a more co-
"June
18,
1924.
terest in the affairs of his people the Russian-Japanese peace treaty' of
operative relationship between the
"M r Oscar Straus,
manifested itself in his attempts t Portsmouth .
professional workers and the con-
'i
West
Seventy-sixth
Street,
Startling revelations of an inter-
become the correspondent of the i
scantly growing number of volun-
"New York City.
fluential and widely read Hebre national character, probably still re-
't
have
been
deeply
concerned
to
teers.
daily paper, Ha Meilitz, ni Petrograc membered by newspaper readers, were
Work He. Expa nded.
While memorizing Talmudic lore, h the, result of this correspondence, and less this morning that Mr. Straus
The work of the national confer
operation. r111 ow
Bernstein rose to be the feared and has undergone
endeavored to write Russian poets
his heart having been captured by th fearless American journalist, exposer me no express my sympathy to both ence, it was pointed out by Mr. Passa
poetry of Pushkin and Lermonto of international intrigue and corrup- hin and yourself, with all hopes for maneck, has been increasing with the
hisarly and complete recovery- The remarkable growth of the center
However, the life of the promising tilt
Manifold and wide-spread were the noon he has served so well and long movement. Co-operating with the
lad was destined to undergo an ini
Otival
and
social
connections
of
wi
wait eagerly for good news of Jewish Welfare Board in its work,
p
portant transformation and all the
the conference has ministered to the
pain of a transplantation into a new Jim 'man Bernstein in his journalistic hie.
needs of hundreds of communities
"CALVIN COOLIDGE"
When the names of the
and entirely strange environment. It a -
throughout the country. During the
was his uncle, Hirsch Bernstein, the 1 , onalities who were the objects of
past year, four new buildings, repre-
"June
18,
1924.
family's first "discoverer of Aneeri. 1, , pen are mentioned, one gets a rare
senting an investment of more than
ction of men of all kinds and cal- "Ise President.
ca," who, having found in the '80's a
$2,000,000, were completed. Seven
"The White House.
s, from all parts of the world;
refuge in New York, proceeded inc.
new buildings are now in the course
"Washington, D. C.
sevelt, Taft, Wilson,
Witte,
mediately to prepare the ground for
of construction, involving an outlay
"You could not have given my bus-
ovtzeff, Tolstoy and Kolchak,
a large settlement of his race in the
of
$2,500,000.
reyev and Bergson, Trotsky and lind greater pleasure than by your
New World. He was the first to es.
Charles Nemser, general secretary
ardial and sympathetic telegoam,
A., was
tablish a Hebrew newspaper in this 'col, lord Robert Cecil and George
of the Louisville Y. M.
country, under the name "Ilazopheh Bement Shaw, Paderewski and cinch we will treasure with lasting elected president; Jack Nadel, execu-
upreciation. Dr. Edwin Beer, the
Berets Ha Chadasha (the Observer veers..
tive director of the Manhattan Y. M.
Was his connection with then per- listinguished surgeon and my hus- II. A., was elected first vice-presi-
in a New Land). Soon the entire
life-long friend, says he is get-
nalities merely the attempt to get Jand ' s
family came over and the young Ber-
dent; Miss Emily Solis-Cohen, second
'good story?" By no means. His ting on entirely satisfactorily snot ex- vice-president, and Tobias Roth of
man had to assume part of the fam-
not
only
journalistic;
it
had
pects
he
will
be
able
to
leave
the
hos-
rk was
Rochester. secretary-treasurer.
ily's responsibilities.
vays a broader social and political pitul within the next two weeks. I
Changing jobs and professions as
am happy to said the operation was
entirely successful. My husband and
Y. M. H. A. ATHLETE
I join in all good wishes. With best
MAKES PARIS GAMES
regards to Mrs. Coolidge.
"MRS. OSCAR STBAUS."
NEW YORK.—Kay Geist, cham-
pion in the hop, step and jump and
At the hospital it was said that Mr.
Straus was recovering rapidly after a leading member of the track team
of the Ninety-second Street Y. M. 11.
a minor operation.
A., this city, will be one of the rep-
resentatives of the United States in
Detroit's Contribution to Vau- the Olympic games which will be held
in Paris in July. Geist recently
deville Coming to Keith's
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tell Gunsberg's and one
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Announcement has been made by H.
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