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hear some word of earnest protest "kosher.'
tory as its runs through the centur- mother of the Sultan, who even ad- against the continuance of a policy
Isn't it a bit unthinkable that in
ies is one that chills the blood of the vanced him a sum of money with that represents nothing 'short of a re-
this twentieth century of Christian
which
to
carry
on.
And
incidentally,
reader. For, it is a story of persecu-
'urn to the barbarism of the Dark civilization, a government could stoop
as
characteristic
of
the
treatment
of
story
of
preju-
a
tion and oppression,
to things so low as this? Nor is the
dice and hate, a story of inhumanity the Jews in Roumania, it may be Ages.
Now would it be amiss that this
By RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN
such as, happily, stands without par- mentioned that this very ruler, saved American people should hear the truth whole story yet told. Those of you
who are familiar with the story of the
by
a
Jewess,
did
not
hesitate
once
he
allel in the history of mankind. If any-
shout Roumania and her treatment of
(An address delivered at Temple Beth El, Sunday, Nov. 7, 1926.)
where on earth the Jew has lived in was restored to his throne, to rob and the Jews at this time. It is no secret Jew in the Middle Ages will recall
that no matter how hard and bitter
maltreat
the
Jews
to
the
limit
of
his
hell through the ages, it has been in
that Roumania, her credit abroad ex- was his lot—even though he was com-
The visit to these shores of Rou- plight, deprived in many instances not the land over which the queen now power.
hausted,
and
her
treasuries
well-nigh
only
of
the
means
of
material
sus-
pelled to live within the dark and
Now despite all that I have said as
mania's beautiful, gracious and ac-
reigns.
depleted, will shortly make overtures dingy precincts of a walled-in-ghetto,
complished queen, has stirred the tenance but what is infinitely of more
First Flurries of
Speaking of Rumania's attitude to the long residence of the Jews in to this country for a loan of no in- he found his consolation in his hooks.
their
Roumania,
they
were
always
and
are
hearts of the American people to greet important to the maintenance
toward the Jews in comparatively
significant amount. Will America for the Jew was above all a lover of
Snow Call for
her with welcome that borders almost self-respect and human dignity, de- modern times, a well-known historian to this day regarded by the people of
listen
to
her
call
for
help
without
prived of those elemental rights which
learning. Now Roumania is trying
that land as aliens, as foreigners, as
on adulation.
Snug Footwear
lifting voice and hand in behalf of t o make it impossible for the Jew
were assured to all minority groups writes:
intruders.
One
thinks
of
Russia
of
I do not believe with sonic of my by the Treaty of Versailles to which
"Where the other Balkan states the pre-war days as insanely hateful 'ustice and humanity? Will America within her borders to indulge even in
fellow Americans that the heartiness Roumania was one of the signatory turned to Western Europe for guid-
to the Jews, but I tell you, that her hear the pleading of the queen and her this luxury. For, compelled under her
of this welcome is the outcropping of powers.
ance and inspiration and formed their cruelty pales almost into insignifi. agents unless some promise, yes and agreement as to minority rights, to
• native snobbishness on the part of
Jewish
policy
in
accordance
with
the
speak
these
words,
there
come
cance before that of her younger some security, be given that sonic! make no distinction against Jews in
As I
a democratic people, no of a desire to
back to me the words that were spirit and example of the west, Rou- neighbor. But Russia had many times honest attempt shall be made to right the matter of university education,
flatter and fawn upon one because spoken in other days to a great queen
had
her
eyes
always
to
the
red
he
mania
more Jews in her borders than Rou. the existing wrongs and to lift Rou- s
she wears a crown. I am inclined
choosing Russia alone as her ! mania, and that is perhaps why her mania out of that state of semi-bar- h Ne
Claus
,e a y n e hs:',
us" ° ' ttl which
r us T 1 a e
who like Marie, had the opportunity
rather to believe that what has of bringing salvation and life to her East
thheich ts hoe urch liig (I' V e -
m i ght enter
mentor and guide. She accordingl y, "Jew-madness"—as it has been called harism into which she has sunken? handful of Jews m
warmed the hearts of this great peo- people. You remember that kt was became in all matters affecting the
of
ch ools,
—has made a deeper impression upor Will our country so far forget all she
ple to our royal guest is the recollec- Mordecai who thus addressed himself Jews but a duplicate of Russia on a
has
been
to
many
of
her
loyal
sons
what
she
calls
the
"baccalaureate."
the minds and souls of men, than has
calling themselves Jews as to give Under this system the examination of
tion that here is a woman who dur- in ancient Persia to Queen Esther: small scale. She copied in every de- that of Roumania.
ing the terrible years of the war—
help and sustenance, should she to students applying for admission to
tail the duplicity and hyrocrisy of her
I wish for the sake of accuracy that sailed upon to do so, to a power that
when her country was so sorely (Esther IV :13)
Who knoweth whether it is not for 'Ides sister, often even improving upon time were at my disposal to trace stet- knows no justice and humanity toward the university is left to sonic single
troubled—cast aside her queenly robes
professor without the right of appeal
the former's barbarity and inhu-
and remembered only that she was a such a time as this that thou art come manity. Russia could at least claim by step and stage by stage, the history them?
from his decision.
of the Jew in Roumania. But that is
woman who might with the tenderness unto the royal estate?"
1
have
said
that
I
would
call
to
your
Since the very hot-lied of anti-
the credit of originality in her anti-
and gentleness that is the crown of
Who knows, I ask, whether It is not Jewish methods. Roumania remained obviously impossible this morning, fm attention a few of the atrocities com- Semitism in Roumania is in her
Something decideoly new'
womanhood, serve her suffering peo- to meet just such an emergency as in as mediocre in her hatred of the Jew I wish to stress the things that are mitted against Jews in Roumania due schools and colleges, how obvious it
To the fastidious woman this
ple. I like to believe that it is her these times confronts the million Jews as she was in all othr matters. She in that land rather than those that ing these last times, but I confess that is that but the minutest proportion of
new Fits-all Zipper Boot of
queenly personality rather than her of her dominion that a woman like has steadily proved her incapacity for were. As to the past, nothing can m y heart sinks within me when I look Jewish students will ever be permitted
light weight brown heather
the f present
nt ma
m ay y over the list of them all—so long a
about it; the
queenly office that has won for her Queen Marie, gracious, intelligent, learning anything new, and where be
b changed,
the joy of entering the halls of Rou-
cloth, heel-less style, with
the loving respect of the American high-minded as she is said to be, has here, in Europe, Germany and Aus-
list it is and so inhuman. here are mania's great temples of learning. So
rubber sole, will appeal. For
people; for unquestionably, she is a come unto her place of power? It is trig, anti-Semitism at least sought to through wisdom and courage be pre- some things that have happened te late as last month, the vicious dis-
trips to the dance, theater or
woman of fine instincts unspoiled by well that she should know something hide its hideous nakedness under the Pared for. Were it possible to tell the Jews in Roumania within these crimination against Jewish applicants
for street wear it keeps the
her high position, a woman to whom of the story of this people now liv- fig leaf of scientific calculation, polit- Jewcruelty
last times with the recital of which I led to race riots, the only result for
t e w oo t u e d l b oef a s t r), would not offend your ears or teal the Jewish students being that num-
foot warm yet retains its
in R u nu ia o p n i :t e , e t i ,d
wifehood and motherhood are sacred ing in her dominions, some of them
fa
in
nt
shapeliness.
privileges, and one whose heart has tracing their Roumanian ancestry Roumania hatred for the Jew has re-
your hearts. But some things you bers of them were cast into jail, while
not been hardened against the appeal through a period far longer than can mained the elemental and static hatred murder, of intolerance and tryanny must know.
their attackers were released without
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her lieutenants and advisors, some of of the unreasoning brute for one not of persecution and chicanery, of polit-
It was one John Bratiano, holding so much as a reprimand.
of the humanities.
ical inequality t of economic disad. absolute power, who more than others
Time will not permit, nor will my
It is because of this conviction that them brought in to the new Roumania of its kind."
vantage,
of
social
ostracism.
It
would
with
the
territory
that
she
achieved
was
responsible
for
the
overthrow,
in
make
bold
today—while
she
is
upon
inclinations
allow
me,
to
go
further
I
These are harsh and bitter words be a story
of a people loyal to the its relation to the Jews, of the pro-
'
these shores—to speak a word that as her share of the prize in the post- but unhappily, they do not overpaint
into this tale so sordid and sorrowful
. ry that
at oppresse
oppressed them and pa-
. country
may somehow reach her ears, for her war settlement—hut all of them, the sordid picture. It is a picture power that treated them v isions for the naturalization of Rou- which I have felt must be told at this
despite
their
proved
patriotic
loyalty
manian subjects under the Treaty of time.
own guidance and for the salvation of
which
if
painted
in
its
true
colors
like
(T
to
would
he
a
story
of
men
. a It
When Queen Marie stepped foot
• great and loyal and patriotic portion subject to discriminatory laws that fight find a leading place in a world's who shed their life's blood times with- Berlin, to which I have just referred
By a peculiar fate two brothers Bra- upon this soil, one of the first ques-
of her people. For these people of make life for them in her realm a very chamber of horrors,
out number that their cuntry might tiano, sons of this ancient enemy of
whom I speak—there are about 1,000,- hell of torture.
tions
that was put to her was this:
The residence of the Jews in Rou- be sa
saved, only to receive as the reward the Jews, today have the ear of the "what about the Jews in Roumania?"
The history of the Jews in Rou-
000 of them in the new Roumania—
mania, as already indicated, dates far of their ' sacrifices
the malediction and reigning powers in Roumania. They
on y
find themselves in a moat desperate mania begins very early, but that his- hack, according to some historians as
To
this
question, she gave the evasive
the ha ' te of those for whom they bled have inherited perhaps in an intense answer that to her all subjects in her
far back as the time of the Dacians.
But as already said, the book of the tied form the Jew-hatred of their country were alike. God help Rou-
Titus, it is said, after the destruction past ei e s easo c i l i o ,s e ed
at
.
th Woh ua gtht of to tord eaz ,b ? father. And under such circum- mania if in that land, all subjects are
subeo;tk
of Jerusalem sent some of the Jews
stances, it is not surprising to read in the eyes of the government as are
into that country where the city of Is
Talmus was assigned as their place of the ears of the gracious Queen of such things as these, the accuracy of the Jews!
Roumania, who is receiving at this which is in every case fully attested
I would for her sake I might believe
residence. That Jews inhabited Dada time the homage of the American pee- I In J u l y of last year the all-Jewish
Zipper Boot, the new stand-
after its conquest by the Romans, pie? Are these things of which 1 town of Ungheni, formerly in Bess- that Queen Marie knows none of these
by, serviceable, warm, neat,
there can be no question for historians have told you only some dread night- arabia, was given notice that its in- things. But such a supposition would
be
obviously
foolish.
I
dare
permit
fashioned
of black Jersey,
are agred that Jews followed the Ro- mare out of a horrible past, or do the y habitants—all of them—must clear
with rubber sole. First qua.).
man legions as purveyors to the army somehow stand out as so many evil out within three years. In Septem. myself to imagine, however, that she
Beginning Nov. 16
has
not
measured
the
meaning
of
ity,
in
when they marched triumphantly spirits inciting the Roumanian of to- ber of the ounce year, 4,000 Ukranian
these atrocities, that she has not
across the land. Long before the day
ay to new and lustful orgies at the refugees are forcibly removed from
All
Christian era, Jews lived in scattered expense of the Jew? Can it be that their old homes in Bessarabia to the plumbed the depth of bitterness in the
souls of her Jewish sublets, that she
communities along the shores of the a queen who forgot her royal station interior of the old Roumania.
has
not
counted
the
cost
to
humanity
Black Sea, and they gradually made during the years of the war, and with
Surely it was hard enough for these
their way into many of those coast her own hands did deeds of inercy that men, women, and children to be torn of what her people are doing. And
cities which formed an integral part have won her the love and the respect up by the roots from their ancestral if it be said that as queen, she can-
of the principalities of Wallachia area to uncounted thousands, can be blind homes, but the suffering incident to not speak upon these subjects, then let
Moldavia later known as Roumania. to the fact that this specter of anti- their removal was as nothing. The it be remembered that another queen
In the eighth century, a people of Semitism yet stalks in her land and removal of these people is in charge of her own land, the well-beloved
Turkish origin whose history is inter- without mercy is depriving 1,000,000 of the highly favored Morarescu, a Elizabeth, known more widely as Car-
woven with the very beginnings of the of her loyal people of their elemental man who is the embodiment of cruelty men Sylva, did on one oecason speak
in behalf of her Jews, going so far as
story of the Jews in Russia and known human rights?
and blood-madness. The story of his to write for publication an article on
as the Chasers, appears in Roumania.
treatment of Jewish refugees is the subject "Moses and the Jews." In
quote
I
As
bearing
upon
the
nation,
The story. of these Chasers is one of
For a novel galosh, differ-
scarcely readable. I recite you but a this article she deplored the hatred
the most interesting in Jewish history a paragraph from a recent editorial few incidents out of the sordid tale.
ent and snappy, the NEW
manifest against the Jewish people,
for they represent an entire people' in the Nation:
COUNTESS, in brown or
On
Nov.
11—strikingly
enough,
"Whatever Queen Marie may be Armistice Day—the Minister of the and called attention to the tremendous
who voluntarily became converts to
s.
grey tweed or black Jersey,
debt which cilivization owes to them.
the Jewish faith. They extended their personally, her kingdom is one of the
with turn-down collar and Zip
conquests to Eastern Europe and en- plague-spots on the map of Europe. Interior had given permission to the In the course of the article as quoted
fastener, will serve your pur-
who had entered Roumania by Dr. Leonard, Queen Elizabeth
tered the Roumanian principalities The spirit of Locarno has touched !refugees
pose. Excellent quality ma-
from Russia during the preceding two
and Transylvania, where a number of neither its internal nor its foreign years to re-immigrate to Russia. They writes:
Will be under the personal supervision of
terial.
"The
Christians
excuse
their
hate
of
places still bear names that are iden- policies. Now-here in Europe today is were assured that no unusual hard-
tified with them. These people, it is the lot of the Jews more terrible. They ships would attend such re-immigra- the Jewish people under the pretext
Ausiz,
that
the
Jews
crucified
Christ.
Let
pointed out by the historian Schwarz- are excluded from the universities and tion the permission of the Soviet gov-
field, left a very considerable impress subject to constant attacks in the ernment to that end having been ob- us be honest with ourselves. What
would
the
Christians
of
this
day
and
on Roumanian poetry and tradition, streets• Of Marie's personal con- tained. However, within three weeks
where the word Jew is synonymous nections with the crimes committed in of the time that this assurance was age do if Christ appeared on earth?
I fear they would not sing hosannas
her country we know nothing. But it
with giant or hero.
given, Lieutenant Nlorarescu Was on
But one cannot take time to trace would he well if the public which trial on the charge of having shot or to him. They would probably call him
the increasing settlements of Jews in listens to her over the radio and gapes ordered shot many of these Russian a dangerous Socialist. If they did not
Late of Statler Hotel, Detroit, who has installed an
Roumania, who came in evn greater at her glorious strings of pearls Jewish refugees on the Roumanian mete out to him any worse punish-
entire new personnel to give our guest
numbers with very conquering host should realize what misery lies behind border. A number of witnesses, main- ment, they would at the least send him
better service.
that in turn set foot upon its soil. For their beauty and upon what bloody ly soldiers serving in his frontier to a madhouse."
If one queen had the courage to
Roumania, it must be remembered, has suffering is built the throne of her
guard, testified that he had ordered write thus, trying through an extreme
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cross
the
river
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though
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sense of humanity in the majority for
tory to he impressed with the sordid-
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My point is that Jewish settlement ness and the wretchedness of the Jew this order was modified to apply only a group of people living within her
in Roumania is not the result of re- in Roumania. A glance at the last to Jewish refugees. And as a mat- borders, might not another queen-
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case,
defendants
in
the
growing
Girls, with new ad-
been due to them almost from the be- mania were one—were to be granted
justable top to fit the ankle
ginning. They were her bankers, and certain political and economic and re- each of them had shot to death some for some little sense of human broth-
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Jewish
refugees,
includ-
seven
snugly.
Upper
boot of water-
erhood?
financiers, and traders; but they were ligious rights. To these conditions, five to
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Oh, might these words somehow
also in more than one instance, her Roumania unqualifiedly gave her as ing women and children. This, they de-
stared,
had
been
done
at
the
corn-
,
/
s
to
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2
reach the ears and penetrate the soul
statesmen, and her political leaders. sent and her solemn promise.
I make the assertion now and here mend of their superior officer, the of Queen Marie! To her I repeat
At least one instance may be cited
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when Peter Raesh, driven from his that so far as the Jew's are concerned, lieutenant. He had punished the sol- again the words already quoted, as
there
when
they
brought
in
the
re-
spoken to another queen:
throne in 1541, was helped back to it she has kept no part of her promise.
fugees
alive,
and
granted
a
leave
of
"Who knows but that it was for
by a Jewess, th confidante of the Nor is it true only of those Jews who
Fitted by an Expert on
have lived in Roumania through a life- absence to every soldier who had shot such a time es this that thou hest been
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time, but also of those who before the at least one of these Jews. lie him- lifted to a high estate?"
self
confiscated
all
the
property
of
war had enioyed all the rights of citi-
these
murdered
men
and
women.
Not
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zenship in the lands where they had
lived. Indeed, it say he said, that in less than 200 victims fell in this orgy
Beavers
pre-war days all the Jews that since of murder. Lieutenant Morareseu in
Perfection Lodge, No, 486, F. and
Seasonable
his
defense
declared
that
he
had
acted
A. M., will hold a special communica-
have cynic to he a part of the new
Velours
Fashions
Roumania—with perhaps the excep- on the instructions of the Third Rou- tion Wednesday, Nov. 24, at 6:30 p.
Brushed Felt
manian Corp Commandment, which m, E. A. degree in the Ionic room
tion
of
those
who
came
from
Bessa-
,
in
rabia—had enjoyed full citizenship ordered him to prevent with arms the fifth floor, new Masonic Temple.
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C. K. SANDORF, Secretary.
rights. They had come from Austria crossing of the Roumanian frontier.
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Mark
you,
this
was
after
the
per-
and Hungary and Bulgaria, which in
By Order of—
part were the war prizes that fell to mission to cross had been given by the
SAMUEL J. EDER, W. M.
■ =,
Department
of
the
Interior.
But
why
Roumania when the spoils were di-
vided. In these lands the Jews held go on? After it was proved beyond
public office, they had had economic the peradventure of a doubt that this
opportunities, their religious practices lieutenant had been guilty of all that E
were not interfered with, they were had been charged against him—of
men who could lift up their heads and robbery, of pillage, of murder, even
look the world squarely in the eye. of the murder of a mother hearing her
But Roumania, true to her traditional babe in her arms—he was actually
policy of deceit, regards these Jews acquitted by the court.
What more then would you have?
Its well as her native Jews, as aliens Perhaps
you think, however, that
and foreigners—a subterfuge which
have
told the very worst that might
permits her to exercise her brutal
be
told
of
Roumanian conditions as
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power over them and to degrade them
they exist today, but I hardly think
to the level of beasts and brutes.
that
this
is
the case. I have told you
at the
This policy of regarding the Jews as
of
the
crimes
of
violence
that
have
aliens took definite form following the
I•en
committed
by
a
ruthless
people.
Russo-Turkish war—a fact made clear
in a recent article by Oscar Leonard. But after all, crimes of violence ran
The congress of Berlin in 1878 had in the end affect comparatively few !
been regarded as an opportunity to people—a few individuals, a few hun-
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regulate the Jewish question in Rou- dreds, perhaps even a few thousands.
However, there is taking root—I
mania. This congress proclaimed the
should
better
say
is
flourishing,
for
it
!
equaPty of all creeds before the law.
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It was regarded by all Europe, and is rooted in the soil of the past—an-
particularly by the Jews of the world. other phase of anti-Semitism that is' j ALVIN E. SCHREIBER
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the
more
insidious
and
the
more
hate-
1
as a tremendous forward step, and NI because it is of a subtler sort. It
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there was great rejoicing everywhere.
has
always
been
the
case,
as
a
matter
But Roumania would not he bound
by mere treaties so far as her Jews of fact, that when the enemies of the
were concerned, and in response to the Jews found that they could not destroy
indignant outcry of the Roumanian them, they took another tack and in- I
press against the Jews, Article 7 of stead of merely directing their evil
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torian as "a model of jesuitism, du- true, you will recall, in the dove of the
plicity, and rascality"—took its place. Egyptian Pharaoh concerning whom
HERE is a great difference in the way a
To quote further from this same his- we read that the more Jews of his day
were oppressed, the more did they
torian:
hat is fitted to the head, as to the style
"The Jews disappeared with a mutt i pI y an d spree d a roa d .
it conveys. Men are becoming more fas-
Now in Roumania, the subtle, nag-
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last
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E. A. LUBIN
Formerly Manager of the
Terrace Gardens in Chicago, Ill.,
136 East Adams Ave.
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