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THE ONLY JEWISH NEWSPAPER PRINTED IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926
VOL. XXX, NO. 15
REVIEW OF THE JEWISH YEAR
By HARRY SCHNEIDERMAN,
Editor, the American Jewish Year Book.
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(Editor's Note:—In this extensive article the editor of the Jewish
Year Book reviews Jewish life and events in all its major and minor
phases throughout the world. Mr. Schneiderman's review is the
most authoritative and complete review of the Jewish year pub- -
fished, regardless of language.)
I and aspirations; to promote an ac-
INTRODUCTION
Since the close of the World war, j
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each year, except 5636 just passed,I
has been for as Jews similar in kind
if not in degree to that which precedtvl
it. The war had left in its wake, for
multitudes, hardships tuo grievous to I
describe, and had, in addition, let I
loose a tempest of hatred and cruelty,:
a disproportionate share of which ,
smote the Jews in many lands, dis-1
organizing their community life, and
tearing away from under their very :
feet the, in many cases, already fee-
ble foundations of their economic ex-
istence; in one country, Russia, even ,
their religious beliefs and practices
were, along with those of other sects, I
derided, ridiculed, and burlesqued, and I
there, the very preservation of the :
traditions of their faith has been and'
is now in jeopardy.
And just at the time when these
dire misfortunes befell, a country
which had for generations justifiably
prided itself upon being a haven for ,
the oppressed and which had already
welcomed almost 2,000,000 of their
brethren, practically closed its doors.:
About half the Jews of the world'
found themselves in a condition of
great wretchedness and profuond mis-
ery which would have been accompa-
Med also by deSpair had it not been
for two facts of such miraculous co,
incidence that they cannot but be re-
garded as 'emanating from the "Di-
vinity which shapes our ends."
On the one hand, the hundreds of,
thousands of Jews who had come to-I
the United States during the preced-
ing 70 years, most of them penniless
refugees, had grown into a large and
comparatively wealthy Jewish cum-
„rnunity, able and also willing to help
their brethren out of the Slough of
Despond. On the other hand, due to
the fortunes of war, a great govern-
ment found itself as situated as to
be able to promise to do everything
in its power to facilitate the estab-
lishment in Palestine, from whose soil
the Jewish people had been exiled for
almost two millenia, of a national
home for the . Jewish people. Were it
not for these two factors—the help
of the Jewish community of the United
States, and the hope which resides in
the prospect of the existence of a cor-
ner of the earth which would he a
national home—what might not have
become of the Jews of Russia, of Po-!
land, of Roumania, of Austria and of
Hungary!
But all those who have watched the
events of the past eight years with
attention and study must have come
to the realization, with the present
writer, that the Jewish year 5680 just
closed, has differed essentially from
its seven predecessors, that it had wit-
nessed the beginning of a turn of the
tide of misery and suffering which had
all but submerged half of the Jews
of the world, although there remain 1
sonic low countries from which it will
take a longer time for the tide to
cede. The careful observer of the
events of the past year could not have
failed to note (1) a hopeful trend
in the Baltic Republics and in Greece;
(2) what is very likely to prove a per-1
manent improvement in the political
status of the Jews of Poland; (3) the ,
beginning of better times, economical- I
ly, at least, for a large portion of the :
Jews of Russia, and (4) a more earn-
est and more purposeful attitude
toward the rehabilitation of Palestine
on the part of both the British gov-
ernmentand the Jewish people.
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The United State..
In communal affairs, the outstand- '
ing events of the past year in the
United States were the renewal of in-
terest in the conditions of Jews abroad,
and in the intensification of the exist-
ing interest in the rehabilitation of
Palestine. The revived interest in the
fate of Jews abroad became dynamic
at a conference held in Philadelphia
on September 12-13, 1925, at which
representative Jews express I their
sense of obligation tower their
brethren by agreeing to la nch and
support a campaign for $15,000,000
for relief work during the next three
years.
Toward the end of November, the
Zionist Organization of America held
a conference in Baltimore, at which
the collection of $5,000,000 was deter-
mined upon, to care for the needs of
the 'various American agencies en-
gaged in constructive work in Pales-
tine which had heretofore followed the
practice of making individual appeals,
to-wit, the Karen Ilayesorl (Founda-
tion Fund) the Jewish National Fund,
the Iladassah, the Hebrew University
Fund, the Mizrachi (the orthodox
wing of the Zionist movement) and
the Junior Iladassah. That the two
drives—the United Jewish Campaign
and the United Palestine Appeal—
should in some quarters have been'
regarded as competitive instead of
parallel movement was inevitable, and
much bitterness resulted. On the other
hand, in many communities Zionists
and non-Zionists joined forces and
prosecuted joint drives. Both cam-
paigns were gratifyingly successful,
and, according to the latest reports the
sums sought have been oversubscribed.
Other important events within the
Jewish community were the organ-
ization. in November, of a Council on
American Jewish Student Affairs; the
i r s;
formation in May, by a the
American Hebrew Congregations, the
United Synagogue of America, the
Union of Orothodox Jewish Congre-
gations, and the rabbinical organiza-
tions affiliated with them of the Syn-
agogue Council of America "to speak
and act unitedly in furthering such
religious interests as all their con-
stituent national organizations share
in common,” the founding in May,
192f., under the auspices of the Zion-
ist organization of America of the
Association for Jewish Culture and
Education "to foster in American-
Jewish life an appreciation of Jew-
ish cultural values; to create a better
understanding of Jewish traditions
tive interest in the rebuilding of Pal-
estine; to spread a knowledge of the
Hebrew language and literature, to de-
velop a positive attitude towards all
creative effort, for the renaissance of
the Jewish culture and ideals," the
celebration of the one hundredth an-
niversary of the Congregation B'nai
Jeshurun of New York; the opening
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of a new playhouse for the Yiddish
Art Theatre in New York; the suc-
cessful campaign for a building fund
of $5,000,000 for a Jewish college—
the Yeshivah College of America,
where young men desirous of doing
so may obtain an academic education
in a Jewish environment, and the sil-
ver jubilee of the Jewish Morning
Journal, the only Yiddish morning
newspaper in the United States.
In addition, the Federations for
Jewish charity all over the country
raised their budgets, aggregating
over Promoon Judged by these
facts it would be quite safe to assume
that, aside from special donations and
bequests, the Jewish public of the
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United States laid upon Itself a vol-
untary tux aggregating upwards of
$50,000,000 during the past year.
The Jewish community was hon-
ored, during the past year by the ar-
rival of a number of distinguished
visitors from abroad. These included
Chaim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew poet;
Dr. Solomon Ehrmann, director of the
Palestine Ilureau of the Agudath
Israel at Hebron, Palestine; Dr. Will-
iam Filderman, president of the Union
of Roumanian Jews; Dr. Jacob Etats-
kin, author and editor, Berlin; Vlad-
imir Jabotinsky, Russian literateur
and Zionist leader; Rabbi Ezekiel Lip-
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