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By HARRY SCHNEIDERMAN,
Editor of the American Jewish Year Book.
1924, by Seve n Arts Feature Syndicate,)
monists. Zionism continues to be un
(The writer of this survey Of Jew- actrnent o a f the new immigration law,
I ish events gives the main outlines of the present writer ventures to assert. der ban, and the Soviet governmen
A what the past year means fur the was, Jewishly speaking, the most has twee struck by the happy thought
Jews of the world. He has purged signficant event of the past year, until of exiling to Palestine those Jews who
his article of all unnecessary details, may cause 51044 to be pointed to by are arrested for engaging in Zionist
and presents an all-embracing picture future Jewish historians as one of the propaganda.
Economic Ufa.
I of the year 56P4. Mr. Schneiderman most momentous in the history of the
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TO this .spiritual persecution was
A is recognized as a competent chronic- Jewish people.
Stupendous
historical
forces
have
added
economic
hardships which are
A Ire of Jewish events throughout the
decreed the expulsion (coin their i making life impossible for the Jew
world.—THE EDITOR.)
homes
of
several
times
as
many
Jews
in
Russia.
With
the exception of a
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During 51iS4, for the first time in a ., we re affected 432 years ago by the small number of Jews who hold gov.
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I its history, the United States of ' decree of their Catholic majesties,
A nie rice caused intense suffering to herd i nand and Isabella of Spain, and industrial workers, all the .1 ews of
the
very
same
moment
the
country
Russia
back
any
but
the most irretru-
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in which many of these exiles could tar employment and are Railing an
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most easily have re-oriented I hem- extremely' precarious existence.
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I pelves denies them admittance. They i s th esr millions who are tragically
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They must do one of two , things: Go, tion law and who remain the chief
before the Jews of the world.
1 to Palestine, the and of their fore- problem
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But Russia is not the only country
/fathers,
whose
doors
nuty be opened
o
. has been made
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.h existence
those who have a ke : or m to in %%
in which
Work, Based On Subscriptions ' I s 1 ' me new land or lands. Probably more difficult for the Jew. The rise
both courses will lie followed. Each •of a narrow nationalism in Turkey
Imperilled, Relief Head
Quality furniture of the right character is
is pregnant with great consequences— and in Greece, and a movement in
vers In Message.
typical of this organization. Our business is
on the one hand, the hastening of both countries to favor the majority
built upon service and your complete satis-
into the
NEW YORK. — Louis Marshall, the re-settlement and re-building of nationalities have cut a deeply
the J ews. an d
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faction is our ideal.
chairman of the American Jewish Re- ' the Jewish national home; on the econom existence
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lief Committee, issued an appeal to other, the establishment of new can-, have created Jewish questions where
A the delinquent subscribers to the ters in an ever:widening dispersion— , these did not exist before.
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"Back to the Soil."
$14,000,000 national appeal for Jew- ' the one, a centripetal force leading
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war sufferers to make good their to the unification anti reblending of
ussia the masses of the Jews,
Russia
tablished every day during our
e ish
pledges immediately. All appropria- the scattered fragments of the Jewish prevented, on the one hand, from tot.
great 16th Anniversary Sale.
dons fur relief and constructive work people; the other a centrifugal force, lowing trade their only means of
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in eastern Europe and Palestine were leading to increased diversity because livelihood in the past, and on the
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by the Joint Distribution COM• of new environments. It is on the; other hand, from emigrating, see their
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ed at such h low prices and on such easy
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mittee on the basis of the pledges basis of these considerations that the only salvation in turning to agricul-
Credit Terms that it is possible for
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cure. At first the various local gav-
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every family to furnish or refurnish
assumed by the Joint Distribution critic so much importan ce to 5fiS4.1
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f Committee that these pledges would The future only can tell whether thisI path
ernments
placed
difficulties
in the
now at a tremendous saving and w ith -
of those
desiring
to settle
on
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/lall be paid. It is pointed out that if prophecy is justified.
out the slightest financial hardship.
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For
the
present,
let
us
make
a
rap-
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meat became anxious to facilitate the
a s these pledges remain unpaid, much
O. of the constructive work will be left id survey of the main tendencies of 1 movement , and there was even sonic
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hanging in the air, with perhaps die- the forces within and upon ewis i talk about the establishment of a Jew-
year
life which operated during the
e estrous consequences.
ish autonomous republic in the Cri-
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This Gigantic Event!
under discussion.
In his appeal Mr. Marshall says:
ales, the garden spot of Russia. This
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Spiritual
Activity.
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turned out to be a mere bubble. The
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clear our consciences before Gad, who
In the realm of spiritual and Intel- government's willingness to have Jews
liberty
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, leaual life we see two forces at work ! engage in agriculture Witt to help
; prosperity in this blessed cou
—the one aiming at the preservation , them, however, appears to he a fact,
sacred of what tradition has made dear and , but the enterprise requires stupen-
"Ilave you met in full the try.
e olgovernment
4'. obligation you owe to our suffering pnrg ec , i o o n t. sen
t t to utn hceonJse cw io,..s tlitye ta i tt h etrh e t tend t ila ocukss. capital which
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fellow Jews--our brothers and sisters'
With
& in the stricken countries of Europe? ' struction of these things. There is,' Jewry much may be accomplished in
; Have you kept your promise to help , fr example, the Sabbath of the Jew. I this
al not
t t enot.. , h to solve
s direction,I
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I more rigidly enforced in Poland dur- ,
Minority Rights.
Relied on Pledgee.
ing the year; in Lithuania, a bill for I
Practically all the countries of
"We have relied upon payment of I , its introduction failed to pass, largely ' eastern Europe which have pledged
14 your subscription. The Joint ' ' I because of the opposition of the Ms - the conferment of so-called minority
t j bastion Committee has incurred large, °P of Kovno and of the Socialist and rights were true to their pledges.
debts on the strength of your infinitely
prom-1 I peasant deputies in parliament. The Lithuania, which had gone further
, I ise, which must be kept. Tens of ' introduction of Sunday observance in than any other country and had es-
I thousands of our brethren still are in l Greece has caused consternation tablished a Jewish ministry in its cab-
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Of Congregation Shaarey Ze.dek.
1 the greatest need. The failure to among
the 50,000
who will
now be Jews
forced of to Salonica,
remain idle inch, this year retrogressed and, by
meet your obligation is
manipulating the budget, practically
THE TIME
worse than if you had never made an extra day, , or abandon their Ba b- abolished this place in the cabinet and
choose • Anal reeling place for your family la ant when sudden bereave-
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_1 any promise at all, because the lives , bath.
hadow or the home, but rather when you can calmly con-
Y Turkey, which had here- caused the . resignation of Simon
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of
nations,
prove une•tieactory ftrward"
to pay is also a breach of c ontrac
- Lo those who have paid up and to the I conic a state after the European pat- yoked the minority clauses when Po-
tern and has established Friday, the land was considering the introduction
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that will prove most satinfactory In you is one (het it within easy mull
men and women who have unceasing. '
sit the requirement" of • perfectly
ly devoted their energies in dealing I Mohammedan Sabbath, as the nation- of a numerus clausus for Jews, and
of thecity'a muter and which an ewe
,oreotery la lhe most beautiful, welb
ppoinled burial park. Clover Hill Park ,-
with the thousands of problems inci- al rest-day. It is one of the ironies forced the abandonment of this pro-
• kept
Jewish Cemetery in the city. Family plat• meting from tour to twelve
of history that the people who have ject, at least for the time being.
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grayen can be purchased be the Jewish community at aaaaaaaaaa prices.
I dent to the relief work undertaken
1 given the Sabbath to civilization ,
Anti-Semitism.
the instances of these subscribers.
should . suffer sa many hardships to I Insofar as the plague of anti-
In Co.. el Bereavement Call
For Information Call
"The closing of America's gates has , enjoy it on their own day. Appar-, Semitism is concerned, the chief sore
D. S. ZEMON, 816 Virginia Park
L. KATZER, 569 East Kirby
compelled thousands to return to
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the Sabbath meanu l spots during the past year were Rou-
their
funds'
ently,
however,
the
a itn ecderh e oy nws, p
J. H. EHRLICH, 5553 Second Blvd.
hueli lr. dI t\,,yeasts
a ' tf
already
spent or taken from them. more to some Jews than It does to mania , Germany, H ungary, Poland
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I. SAMSON, 300 East Hancock
appears
Unpaid
pledges
cannot
help
them.
We
others,
for
we
find
4,000
heads
of
and
Austria.
The
foul
disease
I. SAULSON, 300 Emit Hancock
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appeal to you to pay the debt you families in Palestine petitioning the also to have invaded Russia, where
owe in tinder that we may send them high commissioner to stop the des•-1 several delegates to a Soviet conve n -
. This i lion at Zhitomir delivered anti-
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a message of cheer during these holy oration of the Sabbath, by law
days. On many previous occasions request was granted to a limited ex- Semitic addresses. It is important to
ea; however, that during g the past
j.ve, have reminded you that your tent in sections which are over-, ■ y note
Jewish, and in the city , p organon
izati s, es-
anti-Seniitic
pledge to the American Jewish Relief , whelmingly
of Tel Aviv Saturday is i the official ' ecially in Hungary and Roumania, fell
swocr.
Committee has not yet been paid in
of
rest
This
vexed
question
is'
in
popular favor because they we re l oomswomoisicwoommacwo"womevocaNsvais
hoe that no 1
v
plotting the overthrow of
I further reminders will be necessary likely to remain with us, howe er, un- discovered
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
, and that you will send your check at til both Saturday and Sunday become existing governments and planning
Careful dressers come a Hickey Shops. There
i l i I once to Paul Baerwald, treasurer of , rest-days—a proposal which i gain- 1 the inauguration of Fascist regimes
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to our many friends and patrons
is a certain something that sets thffm above the
adherents in the United'' of the most reactionary type. Such
who have helped to make this business • success.
, ' the Joint Distribution Committee, 64 i tag many
average.
where government bureaus , a plot was also recently exposed in It
, Water street, New York City, for the States,
WE ANNOUNCE
are inclined to do everything pos sible , Germany, where the dynamiting of
If you have never worn Hickey clothing, make
amount you owe.
it a point to come in soon and have us show you
We are prepared on • much larger scale to handle your future orders
"Clear your record today so that I to facilitate the observance by jews j several synag.eigues was to be the gig-
- n the New Year we may extend to of their Sabbath and holidays. nal for a putsch. In that country,
with up-to-data methods of artistic d.igning in all its brands.•.
their distinctiveness.
Generally speaking, there aPP cars too, we now the beginning of attempts
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o l you, in the name of these children I to be a strong desire among Jews
el ;whom your contribution will have ' everywhere, but especially in eastern to bring about an alliance between an-
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ti-Semitism and extreme communism.
Designing and D•coratiois for
Now Cal
MI helped, their best wishes for a happy
In Wedding Banquets, Funera l casions.
educate their children
W”hIngten Boulevard
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Europe,
to
e
' new' year."
Adlolning
the tenets of Judaism. Great atten• content did not differ much from pre-
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Lion is being paid la the maintenance
of Cheder and Yeshihah, both of which joy
ceding
years. The
Protocols and
still con-
en-
considerable
popularity
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are
becoming
increasingly
modernized.
tinue
to
be
translated
into
various
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are
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Even in the Ukraine, where they are
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illegal, mpny Chedarim were opened. the editor makes the revelation that
CHARLES H. ROSENMAN, Prop.
Moses Montefiore (!) is "slated" to
The number of Tarbut schools, in guages.
the language of in-
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struction in Jewish and secular sub- (Continued On Page B.)
jects, remained large during the past
year, chiefly in Roumania, Poland,
Lithuania and Latvia, but there was
a perceptible falling off in the number
of Yiddish schools. But, hampering
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all these institutions was the lack of
.r
means, especially since the suspension
bf the relief work of the Joint Distri-
bution Committee.
In western countires, where a
laissez faire policy had been followed
in connection with Jewish education,
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the past year saw a distinct revival.
In the United Stales intensive efforts
were made to increase the attendance
at religious schools, and vigorous
A campaigns to raise endowment funds
for the Jewish Theological Seminary j
and for the Yeshihah Rabbi Isaac El.
(Immo were launched. Similar steps I
were taken in Enland and in Italy. I
E are offering wonderful values in this beautiful fur, dis-
The higher education of Jews was
hampered in Russia by the refusal
playing all newer versions of the slender-line mode.
of the Soviet government to admit
Each is made from lustrous, dark, Northern or Eastern
any but proletarians to the univer-
sities, and in Hungary by the Tudor-
skins, of finest quality, with medium flair or semi-melon sleeves
Man numerus clausus. Italy extend-
and mushroom or choker collar. It is in no uncertain tone of
ed her hospitality to these unfortun-
ates and 400 eastern European Jewish
oice that we announce that these coats cannot be duplicated
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elsewhere at these prices.
tics.
In Russia a fruitless attempt was
made to have the ban against Hebrew
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lifted, and even in Palestine the Jew-
ish press had occasion to criticize the
government for paying insufficient re-'
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gard to Hebrew.
Magnifireat large specimens un-
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dark
skins,
priced
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Ilraally mired at
field of art, many Jewish artists hold-
his at
ing exhibitions; Jewish theaters'
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pair
forged ahead, and Jewish libraries ac-
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Rumia'• Persecution of Judaism.
Russia was the only country in ,
which any attempt was made deliber-
ately to suppress the Jewish spirit.
These attempts did not take the form, I
the buries-
as in previous years, of
the re-
quing of Jewish rites. But
, quisitioning of synagogues went on,.
and early in 1924 the government de-'
creed the abolition of all private
schools, secular as well as religious.
Many teachers were tried for main-
taming Chedarim clandestinely. Jew-
ish Communists also held public lec-
' tures in which Jewish rites and tr.-
were held up to ridicule, and
!I ditions
quite recently a "model synagogue"
the Weekly
was established in which reed
in Yid-
portion of the Torah is
the Corn-
dish translation made by
In our Cloth Salon you will find the smartest of new Autumn Apparel—
All priced temptingly low.
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