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IP .., .fv tlf‘ .c pT,0-,A i ! pom ;term ere - 6.- .r lands and periods which left their int- end the Greek-ruled lands along the Mediterranean the given names of Jewish babes were just as frequently those of the neighboring non-Jewish children as those borne by the patri- vicuhns,inke idngls,,,wpirsneit,,stoarnyel sages IN AMERICAN JEWS -49fr ■ ) 40. •"IC Rh eumatism DISCERNS POWERS aible the more superficial earmarks of his mental and cultural distinctive- ness. A sad thing this is, for it gives expression to his failure to un- derstand that even though his name Rabbi Kook Sees Bright Feder, for be redolent of the highlands of Scot- Judaism in U. S. land, his individuality, be it good, had sur- or indifferent, is as easily identified names of Spanish-Jewish statesmen as is the break of day by the crowing' NEW YORK.—(J. T. A.) -.A rne, be true that Ameri- jir and humbler citizens in the ante-in- cock. And if it icon Jewry is a hidden tree-tire which quisition era were redolent of the can Jews are engaged in a veritable 'Desire to Assume Anglo-Saxon III sunshine and color and romance of stampede to change their names so contains great material and 1 ( ..ritual --,,,/4. \ . Patronymics Termed Wish Iberian life. Yet not long -after the that they may liberate themselves wealth, potentialities which rt,ay con- front what they believe are shackles tribute towards securing to Escape Judaism. l expulsion of the Jews from Spain, it the cx.dence was a Manasseh ben Israel, as Hebrew of hardship, it must be declared in of Judaism and the development „f t h e (From Correspondene• .d Cables of J•wi.h Telegraphic Agency.) (and therefore Jewish) a name as one tones both solemn and loud that the highest and best Jewish URGES HISTORICALLY might bear, who petitioned Cromwell Jews of America not only are deceiv- Adolph Jolfe, Soviet Iliplotnat and negotiator of the Riga peace treaty PROPER COGNOMENS to readmit the Jews into England. ing themselves but bringing upon claret! Rabbi A. 1. Kook, ct, between Poland and Soviet Itu,sia, was appointed ambassador to Austria. • • • • And when, several centuries later, a themselves an ignominy that is all the of Palestine, in an int,, ',..fore more sad because it is uncalled for w leaving for Palestine. The famous gaon, author of "Chafer Ilayint" and the rabbi of Chortko, Children Bearing Appellations great Jew was vested with the highest and quite of their son creation. powers which a British citizen may known rabbi of Gura will Rabbi Kook, Rabbi A1 , •, , ,,on 9. of Jewish Great Possess a Poland, will shortly settle in Palestine. The well - Measure of Moral Armor. command, his name was as loyally Shapiro of Kovno and visit Palestine for the third time While it is true that not all Jews i Distinct Advantage. Jewish in its quality as though it • • • • decai M. Epstein, dean et' Sla- — were the name of a Palestinian sage. who bear Biblical names carry the bodka Yeshibah, left Net. ;. ,tft e r Dr. Marx, German chancellor and leader of the Catholic party, is a Jew, banner of Judaism to high places, it a stay of eight months in t• ,,, tdted Names and Self-respect. to the Berlin correspondent of the London Times. His family (Copyrigt, 1924, by Seven Arts Fen- must be insisted that a steady adher- according States. The rabbis came But he who sees nothing of special lure Syndicate.) dele- ence to names that history and asso- accepted Christianity when Marx was 6 ye ars obi. • gation for the purpose o f I,- 11,Inv, i n • • insistence in this or that manner of elation have invested with a Jewish CAPLAN a campaign of the Centre, Kcliet names will suggest that many Jews By ABRAHAM The name of the ministry of Jewish affairs is now being eliminated suggestion contains the germ, at least, — Committee to raise fund- f , r the ' who bore names that were historical- from all official Lithuanian documents. The ministry of the interior has i of potential Jewish consciousness and theological seminaries and ,c1,„,1, in The closing of the doors of the I • Jewish because they were precise taken over the entire property of the Jewish ministry. devotion. The boy or girl who goes • United States to Jewish immigrants translations of Biblical names or by a name that finds mention in the Europe and Palestine. NIctc than Ben S oor, chief organizer of the British Labor party, is leaving for constitutes a blow to the Jewish Iwo- characters are, for a variety of rea- Bible or in Jewish history, that re- $300,000 was raised during ono cam- paign. hand knowledge of the pie, who at no time in their history suns, no longer sons of the covenant. Ezypt and Palestine for the purpose of obtaining last calls a man or woman who thought In speaking of the titnil,te< of The labor party's representative will visit suffered as Europe. they do The now in That may be so, but the fact does not luminously, or uttered words of God- eastern as and much central few -ituation in those countries. American Jewry, Rabbi ■ lophas .1Iexandria, Beirut and the Jewish colonies in Palestine. intoxication, or fought with high sac- who will filter through the fine sieve vitiate the that one of need the sized the sense of social respenhbil- the thesis Jews of America • • • • rifice for spiritual truth, and real- t, J ew . ity which is finding expression ; to adopt has to do with the preserva- Personifying Torquemada, the head of the Inquisition in Spain in the of the quotas will make but a slight izes the meaning of the name—that ish life in America. Both the human masquerade impression on Jewish life in this coun- fifteenth century, and disguising as the devil of "Faust" at boy or girl already is equipped with an two try. In several decades American lion of names, both given and ew sur- material of which the Jewi coin_ names, that remind both the Jew and less th . . . a greater or lesser degree of moral the Polish republic, punishable with not munities in the United Stitt,. con- o Jewry will be ph,ically, mentaly an those about him of his ew h orlon armor. imprisonment, according to a decison rendered by the Court years • sist and the civic liberty enj. , yed by socially indigenous to the civilization and his religious and cultural obliga- American Jews might do well, in- Appeals. . • • • of the country. What they will be in, tions. It means much—more than in- deed, if they took out a leaf of the American Jews as free cuaer ,, of a , eren t persons will concede—to the free republic under a dcw , ,cralk Anti-Semitic disturbances occurred again at Jassy University Dec. 10. respect to their religious culture may diff book of life which their kinsmen in In view of the serious situation, the senate issued an order to suspend all only be conjectured. Religious and !Jew's self-respect if he fears not to Palestine are writing. The Jewish government are responsible for the high standard it maintains :II Philan- activities at the university. Demonstrations were held in Bucharest by anti- communal leaders are awake to the children of Palestine bear singing u- bear Israel or name Isaiah, if the Jewish Semitic students, but they were suppressed with the assistance of military need for deepening the Jewish spirit the of and Moses or Jacob or names, triumphant and beautiful thropic and social activities. of not less importance is the civic --duration girl or woman answers to the name and stimulating a desire to perpet names, but they are Hebrew names. which American Jews receive through detachments. er of Sarah or Rebecca or Miriam or ate the Jewish heritage in a manner • • • • They bless with the comfort of peace their unhampered participati, , n In the Esther or Ilannah or Ilulda rather that will be in keeping with historic The government upheld the decision to confiscate the premises of the sing the song of books, suggest the political affairs of the republic, the than to names which are so floridly ministry which are now occupied by the Club of Jewish Deputies. The requirements. heroism of martyrs and the wisdom of rabbi declared. i h s as to be applicable to aniza- 1 en t s 0 rg Those J ews who w o h ate • g irded them - non- J ew to be occupied by the Lithuanian National Stu< sages and are redolent of forests, , ,s in the "However, my observati ,r bull ding is Club of Jewish De uties however, has decided not to leave until selves to the task of making American characters in novels or to stars on streams, stars, sunshine, flowers and last eight months." Rabbi Kook said, • life safe for the Jewish spirit face the screen or the stage. happy labor. If it is beauty—rather "during which I had the priv,1,•ete of it is forcibly ejected. what everyone concedes is an uphill The unpalatable fact is that the ex- • • • than prettiness—that American Jews coming in contact not only with the of America do not aggerated Anglicization (and, in stated. Nahum Sokolow, chairman of the Zionist World Organization Exe- struggle. The Jews seek, let them name their girls De- disguise the fact that they have aban- many instances, feminization of male borah, Shoshanah, Judith and Hades- elite in American Jewry but also cutive, expressed appreciation for the successful work of Rabbi Kook in with the masses, lead me to think that past was cognomens) of names reflects an ob- America and appealed to British Jewry to help make Palestine the center doped much of what in the salt, and their boys Isaiah, Akibah, there are great potentialities to be vious effort on the part of Jews to of Jewish learning. Rabbi Kook, in reply, summarized his impressions of generally regarded as indispensable to Jochanan, Judah and the countless developed in those elements which win a more secure position in the ' America complete ewish living. The religious h J • other names that recall mighty deeds, his stay in America and declared that the .. en divested of its sacrificial American social and political world great strivings, and the desire to im- may be termed raw material. I want life has bJ and • to ay special emphasis on the needs is better than anywhere else. of those social exes- than the American people are willing plant within the human heart the • • • • exac tions I of a proper Jewish education for the theory, accepted the honorary sions which, as has been pointed out to vouchsafe to them. It is more than yearning for the rule of God in the Albert Einstein, author of the relativity growing gt•neraion. In this respect presidency of the World Federation of Jewish Students, according to the so often, justify the insistence that that. It betrays, for one thing, a turbulent governments of men. it is my belief that the parochial lack of courage that augurs ill for the t of the executive committee of the federation in Vienna. Judaism—the religion . of the . Jews—is school system which would accord to of the American Jews orld Federation of Jewish Students was formed at a recent confer- the life, or the mei maion, The Sisterhood of Temple Emanuel the Jewish children a general. as well stil The W Jewish boy and girl spirit. The ence of Jewish students held in Antwerp. The executive offices of the new Jews rather than a system of dogmas welfare of Denver recently raised a fund of as a fundamental Jewish religious suffers front a name dualism tit. a means of attaining salvation. . must exert an altogether harmful that in, $2,500 to equip a kitchen for the new training, is an important necessity. organization were established in Vienna. life, in other words, has lost s • • • • temple recently completed. The com- These schools would have to be built The Brazilian government has issued an order stopping all immigration much of its distinctiveness and has fluence upon him. For, as is still al- munity Sunday school conducted by on a large scale and in conformity those most exclusively true among Jews of become so secular as to render into Brazil, according to information received by the Vienna Morgen Zeltung. into tern European extraction, as well the temple has an enrollment of 85 with the needs of the environment." That German and Italian immigrants stimulated the recent revolution in who would see it prosper religiously eastern among those whose forebears pupils. the reason for this order. The statement of the govern- and culturally apprehensive as to its Brazil is given as . hailed from central and western Eu- ment issued to this effect declares, however, that Jewish immigrants did Ifuture in the western hemisphere. rope but who are Orthodox or Con- Must Devise Solution. aactivities. • not participate . in the recent revolutionary American Jews must and will de- , servative in their religious identifica- A reception in honor of Rabbi A. 1. Kook, chief rabbi of Palestine, took vise II solution of the problem whichnun, the new born babe is given either a Hebrew name or one that, place in London recently. Rabbi Joseph 11. Hertz, chief rabbi of Great has been thrust upon them with such for all practical purposes, has a qua)- Britain, who presided at the gathering, c praised the work of Rabbi Kook ' sudden and awesome tru ulence. The , who has accomplished much for the Jewish theological seminaries and re- Jews of America henceforth will have ity that might be termed Jewish. And , while the babe is thus named, fond ' their ligious schools of Palestine. The dream of Rabbi Kook is to see the re-Ito tap to h own moral resources and r I parents and relatives think hard for lehncteheoin ihnflug alization of a central Jewish theological academy in Palestine," Dr. Herz ao t,t n ainerft ortsi, gth stature through a name that will be as "pretty" as • • • • ity, whereas I possible and yet be phonetically sug- Sir Joynson Hicks, British Home Secretary and sponsor of the anti-alien historico-spiritual integrity, movement, modified his tone in speaking Parliament recently on the pro- until it became clear that the immi-Igestitve of the Hebrew or Jewish essary at present," he 'i I gration c policy of the ountry would original. posed alien registration. "No new legislation is nec Doubtful Transmutations. declared. "There is no need to establish boards before whom all aliens be radically changed they found vi-' For example, what is intern et a. would appear on a given date and prove that their residence is not against I carious stimulation and strength in Sarah is transmuted into Shirley or the interests of British citizens. There is no stream of alien labor flowing the large numbers of eastern Euro- into England at present. Should conditions change, however, I will not ! pean Jews who brought with them the Susan, and the child who is entitled 10- to the great name of Jacob or Moses "- voice that was the voice of historic hesitate to introduce necessary legislation." We Are Now' Taking Reservations for is dowered with the doubtful Jack or e • • ,iFt Yr *.__ IFIFIRS .a.REALTY COMM DECEMBER 26, 1924 RONICLE Detroit's Largest and Most Artistic Cafe L ROKEACI I Sa. SONS, Inc BROOKLYN, N. Y. KING WAH LO 11 8Michigan Ave. (West of Kinsel's) Jb aco Chritian James, or saddled with . al- — The bill now under consideration in the Polish parliament for the with- . • How the process of inner develop- , t. . meat in American Jewish life should calm or Morton. &reveal of concessions for monopoly articles, which threatens the economa be initiated will be a point regarding the tendency becomes quite obvious existence of many Jewish firms, may be modified in such a way that its con- Dance music on both floors furnished by our "Music- Was which there will be considerable dif- when James is followed by Rubino- sequences will not be felt immediately. A promise in this direction makers," besides an elaborate entertainment by made by the Polish vice-premier, Thugott, and the Polish minister of trade, ference of opinion, although it is gen- witz or Malcolm or Muriel or Gloria special artists. Favors of all kinds will be given to Kedron, after a conference with the Jewish Sejm members, Dr. Reich, Dr. (-rally agreed that education—that is, or Barbara must hold comradeship , with surnames which the non-Jewish religious education—will have to be Than, Dr. Shipper, Waclaw Wislieki i and Schreiber. our patrons to help make the night an eventful one. ronhal of course, utters half ic, wgly • • • passion has publ it athan eived. emphasis , iv .n for sneeringly, half mockingly. But how Colonization of Jews who live in Russian Armenia was made possible ever recreater For Information Call = TLANTIC CITY, N. J. escape from , by a decree issued by the Armenian Communist government. "Jews who education may he created is a prob.! But the tendency to _77. - o t quite Anglo- i - , want to settle on the land should be provided with sufficient land," the lem in itself, the answer to which surnames that are n is just as marked as I E decree states. The conference. of Jewish land settlers, which was held in can come only with a realization of Saxon in ring case of given names. And this IN Minsk, closed Dec. 12. The conference adopted a number of resolutions the elements that should enter into! in the No Cover Charge At Any Time work among the , the determination of a sturdy Jewish , nervousness of temper with reference cultural intensified activities in agricultural and It .` ana- I .•-- . eems, when mm.1111111111 Jews of Soviet Russia. The conference was held in the building w citizenship in America. If the Jews to names s u c ricy an as posy s Am ote r theirllyzed, to ec iiiilliiiiiit iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilin1111111111111111 ab 1111111111111111111111111111 are concerned O f America Jews ZIII111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I 0-as formerly the Great Synago g ue of Minsk. qi kl L • • they must out at oncTagerness t o close has future as Dr. Alexander Braudo, prominent Russian Jewish scholar and head of concede that the problem of Jewish tt 1 111119 the Russian department of the Petrograd National 1.ibrary, died in London persistence must be approached with! I recently. Dr. Bread° was 60 years lad. Ile was one of the leading political candor, courage and decision. Amer- I hatel figures in pre-war Russia and hail left Russia four months ago to come to can Jews must undo much that has I England for the purpose of renewing his contact with European scholars. been built up in the hurried zeal for,, Dr. Braudo occupied the post of head of the Petrograd library for 35 years , , adaptation to the outward exactions On the Ocean Front and played an important part in Jewish life in Russia. He was 'fi v e ' n • of the common American life. Highly Significant. all organizations whose purpose was the emancipation of Russian Jewry. American and European Plans. • • One of the measures the Jews of • • New Hydri•tic Baths. A new' theory with regard o the difference between the Jews of east- America will have to consider has to Golf Privileges and Garage. ern and western Europe was offered in London by Dean Inge, who is con- , do with the seemingly unimportant Bathing From Hotel. sidered one of England's foremost writers, in a recent article: "The Jews but in reality highly significant mat- JOEL HILLMAN, President ' of western Europe have no reason to become indignant when Bolshevik I ter of names. I almost hear a multi- of Russia; the three main races of tude of voices cry out "What's in a atrocities are attributed to the Jews eastern Europe are deeply tainted with Tartar blood. This is true of the name?" Shakespeare's famous words I Russians and the Poles and also of the millions of so-called Jews in east- I will be thrust to the fore, but little ern Europe who are inferior to the genuine Semitic Jews," Dean Inge as- will it be realized that its argument , • • confounds the proponents of the idea MEYER BARRON, Prep. secret, • • • I that Jewish names should be Anglo- • Buyers el All Kinds of Steiger, accused of throw- I Saxon just as the outlook of the , Further revelations in the trial of Stanislay. WASTE PAPER ing the bomb at the Polish president, Wojcieehowski, were made by an- , American Jew- upon political and so. 1342 Brewster St. l'antschisin, who is repored to be the main (v ia l questions should—and necessarily other Ruthenian, Mikittin. Cadillac 1701 [Cadillac 1708 figure in the Ruthenian bomb plot, has a long record of Ruthenian nation- l so—be vigorously American. Ile was; It is of course undeniable that,. alistic activities, accordng to evidence found by the authorities. a member of the Petrograd Socialist terroristc school and was at one time strictly speaking, and in so far as I entrusted with the mission to kill Petlura, the leader of the Ukrainian patronymics are concerned, there are i movement. It is the general opinion in Lemberg that Steiger will be re- no such things as Jewish names. First I of all it must be borne in mind that, leased shortly. the institution of surnames is of very • • • • If members do not come to the synagogue, the thing to do is to disband late origin. that in eastern Europe,' the congregation, as it is "an economic as well as a moral waste" to spend for example, Jews were known by' a memento of former their first names and those of their thousands of dollars a year ''to keep an institution as grandeur in which we no longer takean active interest." This statement fathers, or, in some cases, their moth was made by Rev. Edward I.. Israel, rabbi of liar Sinai Temple, in an open ers' names. They were just as often rabbi to beg people to referred to according to their occu- , letter to his congregation. "It is not my job as r ' come to the temple. It is not my business to create a demand for Judaism, potions or the town or village in ! Select Dancing Nightly but to fill a demand that already exists, and to till it in the best possible which they lived. The process by manner," he added. which Jewish family names were coined parallelled that which obtained • • • • Plans for the establishment of a modern eye hospital and post grata- in every part of the civilized world, Particular People Prefer ate ophthalmological school in Jerusalem, which is to he a part of the medi- although a large proportion of the NeW names derived from sources that are the Palais cal department of the Irebrew University, were discussed recently in Jewish. Those Jew's who York by the American Jewish Physicians Committee, the Palestine Foun- distinctively Highest Strictly censored. of Am- traced their ancestry to the priestly dation Fund and the Iladassah. the Zionist Woman's Organization Standard erica. Dr. Joseph Krimsky, a director of the committee, will sail for or I.evite classes came to be known of the as Cohen and its variations and de- Europe in connection with this plan. He intends to make a study Pala. Musicians—The Band You hospitals and clinics in the' medical centers of Europe, preceding the rivati,es, and as Levi and its several love to Dance With. eye variations. Other names, too, were hospital. adopted most logically because they • - - final arrangements for the Palestine • • • SPECIFY Dr. Louis Israels, Dutch Jewish journalist. shed in Amsterdam Dec. 3. signified one or another expression of He was a prominent writer and one of the foremost contributors to Die the Jewish religious or cultural life! or because they were founded on Bib- Telegraph, which, with the Algenwen Handelsblad, are the two most impor- Granite and Marble tant dailies of Amsterdam. Dr. Israels was attached to the Dutch legation kcal names. Jewishness Accidental. the had an important part in the Dreyfuls affair. He was' We sell them in Detroit exclusively and they satisfy in Paris in 1897 and Those names, however, that suggest instrumental in arousing Dutch public opinion in favor of Dreyfus. Dr. most exacting requirements of Architects, Contractors Russian or Gemn r ta or Anglo-Saxon uring Is frequently wrote on Jewish problems for Die Telegraph. and Builder.. Is Me T e 1 e- are no t J •wish b Y any stretch , the war he pleaded the cause of the Allies in his contributions to the sources the imaginon, athgh the 864 Winder Street space to Dr. Israel's passing. graph. The Dutch press devoted much • • l ou of these marked prevalence of some Phon• Cadillac 48 • • m mmencement exercises of the fourth graduation class of the names among Jew's has resulted in LIAli• A. %Verb., Repree•nt•ti•• The c o Training School for Nurses were held at the Jewish Boys School giving them a Jewish flavor. While The Only J•wish MONUMENT Iladassah NEW YEAR'S EVE CELEBRATION 0 1 e 1 Breakers CADILLAC 5074 Michigan Paper Stock Co. NEW YEAR Palais de Dance We wish you and your family good health, because, if you have good health you will enjoy living and working — be prosperous — and have a good roof over your heads-- but be sure it IS a GOOD ROOF KEYSTONE HEXO SHINGLES MANUEL URBACH Monuments Dealer in Detroit. r". • . MAIN 1491 SPIZUNIC ENGRAVING CO. Commercial Artists and Engravers '00 MARQUETTE BLDG DETROIT Herbertand Lady Samuel. Col. Heron, director of the health names like Goldberg and Rosenthal recently. Sir Herbert were present. Mrs. N. Mossensnn presided. intrinsically are no more Jewish than department, and ninny guests The lligh Commissioner, Col. heron, Col. Kisch and Miss SherdowitzkY, I.atin, Celtic or Scandinavian names, the acting principal of the training school, delivered addresses. I.ady Sam- they will in practically all instances uel awarded the diplomas to the graduates with a speech of congratulation he identified with Jews. When the ws of Germany and Russia began in Ilebrew. One of the graduates answered with a speech of thanks and J e Dr. Salkind, the acting director of Hadassah Medical Organization, con--to append patronymics to their given eluded the celebration with a speech explaining the work of the school. names in order more precisely t o s e- cure a recognizable place in the in- • • • • creasingly complex life about them, they appropriated names which, be- 1001041010KIVIL1010 101 11.167 11 '. cause of their widespread adoption,; WIL101.110 r710K assumed a Jewishness that is quite ac- itiental. The fact is that Jewish names con- stitute a sort of running commentary 13 on the bafflingly strange (dream- Telephone Empire 2114 # stances under which Jews lived and 7739 John R. Street A adjusted the ros el ves in the various \16. I rt ■ 0A ■ ■ ■ ■ ■11•■•■Te LEWIS BROTHERS Funeral Directors and Embalmers ■■•\•■■•■■■■•■■■■■■■■•■■■•■■■■••■■•■■■•■■■ 0