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September 14, 1928 - Image 72

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1928-09-14

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PAGE EIGHT

JEWISH LIFE IN BELGIUM

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By J. FUSS

Immigration into Belgium, which the Jewish communities and the
s ',Lopped some time ago, has Talmud Torahs and it has even
new teen resumed and is proceed- granted recently n subsidy to a
ing normally. If you go out into Yiddish socular school en the type
the streets of Antwerp or Brussels, of those in Poland.
The leaders of the central Jew-
you will meet on most streets faces
which recall to you Palish, Ruman- ish charitable institution were re-
inn or Lithuanian Jewries, newly- eently decorated by the King. Pro-
arri ■ ed immigrants going about fessor Ginsburg, the president,
trying to tied employment. In was made a Knight of the Order
most cases they find a job very of Leopold, and the other members
soon; in Antwerp in the diamond of the committee were made
industry. and in Brussels in the Knights of the Order of the Crown.
fancy leather coeds industry, A while ago the government ap-
which are both in Jewish hands. pointed a commission for immigra-
'she Jewish community in Belgium tion and nominated the president
is thus growing by leaps and of the Jewish Emigrant Society
(Ezra) M. Tolkowski, as vice-
bounds.
The Jewish streets in Antwerp president of the tommiesien. The
a re becoming too small for their president is to high government of-
populations and new streets are fiend.
The friendly latitude of the goy
Do you want your adver-
tieing taken into Jewish occupa-
t ion. Whole Jewish quarters are eminent towards the Jews is not
tisements to stand forth
springing up overnight, and some- dependent on which party happens
-7:-
from the printed pages— 777
times you will find yourself stand- to be for the time being in poaer.
strikingly effective because g.
ing stock still in the midst of a It is characteristic of all the Bel-
street in Antwerp wondering gian political parties. Very often
of their originality? Buy
whether you are indeed in Belgium the tatholic Party is the most
your Engravings wisely!
or whether you have suddenly been friendly of all to the Jews and in
transported to IVareaw or Berdit- trying to secure larger subsidies
EVERTON
•hev. As it happens, one of the for religious institutions makes ef-
new Jewish quarters is actually re- forts also to obtain them for the
ENGRAVING COMPANY
ferred to by the Antwerp Jews as Jewish religious in s t i t utions.
loccad no. Ito. Building
the Nale•kis, the name of the Jew- Throe months ago a Catholic dep-
Retinae It. allefftne.
uty introduced a resolution into
ish quarter in Warsaw.
em.. Croy as
The government apparently is Parliament to make Sunday ob-
favoring this new immigration servance compulsory, but his res-
movemenL which without doubt is ',lotion was defeated.
Jewish life in Antwerp is full
stimulating trade and industry in
the country, especially in advanc- of vitality. There is a Yiddish
ing the diamond industry in which weekly in the city. The various
Belgium is in competition with Jewish parties all have a central
Ace in Antwerp and in general
Holland.
the Jews of Antwerp live a distinct
Question of Citizenship.
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There is one difficulty which the life. so much so that it appears that
if they live the rest of their lives
Belgian Jews have to face and that
in Antwerp under such conditions
is the question of citizenship. Not- thee will not
learn a single word
withstanding the friendly relations of French or Flemish.
between them and the authorities,
Communists' Growth.
95 per cent of the Jews in Belgium
are aliens. Recently there has The growth of the Jewish can-
been a slight improvement in this munity in Belgium necessitates al-
To Our Many Friends
respect. Thanks to the efforts of so the expansion of the Jewish so-
the Socialist Deputies, several cial institution and there is talk
hundred Jews have been natural- of establishing a Jewish hospital.
ized, but the difficulties in regard It is very difficult for a Jew who
'r to the mas of Jews still remain. has to go to a hospital to find him-
Nevertheless, the Belgium Jews self visited by a priest. There
feel their lack of citizenship very have even been cases in Antwerp
little and generally speaking they where Jews lying on their death-
suffer few disabilities because they bed in hospitals have been baptized
are technically aliens. The govern- by priests and there has been an
merit treats them as if they were outcry in Antwerp over this.
natives. It provides subsidies for There are internal disputes, of
course, among the Jewish residents.
There is the conflict between the
Agudist community, Machziki Ha-
Rosh Hashonah
doss, and the Mizrachist cemmun-
ty, Shomreh Iladass. The Shorn-
Greetings
reh Iladass, which regards itself
92-98 GARFIELD AVENUE
to all
as the official community, not long
ago decided to build a new syna-
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gogue, a synagogue which would
not have its like in Europe. There
Was talk of the government hay-
:
ing promised to make a grant of
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several million francs for the pur-
pose and some newspaper repre-
sentatives wrote up a story that
, the king himself would nttend the
'
corner laying ceremony and would
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lay one of the foundation stores.
NORTH J. LUSK
The st ,ry appears to have been
premature. Over a million francs
Landscape Gardener
were put into the fe'nelation and
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wa d
Happy New Year to All My Jewish
t vl i & heeg g
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c l a s f t . „id ro its us 1 ifneeil e
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Friends and Patrons
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sud de nly
and
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the government found itself in
rea t financial difficulties. The
community had to be \ satisfied
with a smaller synagogue erected
upon the huge foundation.
merous in the university cities of
Season' Greetings
The competition between the two Liege and Ghent did organize in
Jewish communities has led them their cities protest metings in
To all My Jewish Friends to rival each ether in cantors and which the Belgian students organi-
the Jews of Antwerp have recently zation took part. These Jewish
and Customers
had the pleasure of listening to students, numbering about 2,00),
some of the finest cantors in Eu- who hose com• from Poland, Rus-
„.1
rope who have been seeking to ob- sia, Lithuania and Palestine, are
tain appointments in the Antwerp for the most part living in pover-
synagegues. By a strange freak ty, neglected by the Jewish public
of chance both communities finally and kery often they have not
selected cantors from Odessa- enough on which to live. Many of
l'antor Rabinovitch being appoint- them go out to work at night in
Landscape Architect
ed to the Shomreh 'Wass and the coal mines or the factories in
Cantor Barski t a the Machziki Ila- order to be able to carry un during
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the day with their studies. The
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dass.
There are conflicts, of course, al- result is that they cannot apply
so in Brussels, but in Brussels themsAves to their sludies with
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Jewish life is still primitive in sufficient intensity and often it
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form, like in a small town, and the takes them 10 or 12 years before
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conflict, too, is not as organized they can obtain their diplomas.
Two new organizations have re-
and developed as it is in Antwerp.
But the main point is that [ki- cently ben established, both of
anad,g,
itself
ided
suggest the permanency of
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against the persecution of the Jews the Jews in Belgium, whose work
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So-
bring abut a unity between them. and there is the Jewish Music
which
has
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orchestra
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which some of the greatest Jewish
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, rceehed alarming reports about
others
have
appeared. They both
deed been
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It is a matter of economy to be
happy to view life and its conditions
from the highest angle; it enables one
to seize life at its very best. It ex-
pands the soul and makes life worth
while. In that spirit we greet our
JewiFih friends on their New Year
with best wishes.

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Flattery is a base coin to which
only our vanity gives currency.—
La Roche.

Even for the rebuilding of the
dreg the instruction of the cbil-
must not be interrupted.
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u very-
knows how she sunk
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The Mills Baking Company extends to
its many Jewish friends greetings of the
New Year. Having served Detroit for
many years, we feel a dear obligation to
our many customers for their continued
patronage. It is only occasionally that
we are able to express our appreciation
publicly, and so in the columns of the
Chronicle this year we bestow a small
measure of our gratitude in our hearty
good will.

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the learned man
called his servant and asked him
to bring him
him the
t Bible which he
had left in his room.
The servant brought the heavy
and sacred Bible. The woman nat-
urally surmised that the rabbi
would look for a passage concern-
ing her, But the latter simply
opened his Bible, took his glaeses
which- had been left between the
pages, adjusted them carefully and
gazed at the plaintiff. Then, with
a wave of his hand, he said:
""Madame, anyway this man is
right."

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BIBLICAL CONFIRMATION

One day a very ugly woman
came to see her rabbi and said to
him:
"Rabbi, as you see me stand
here, I am the best wife in the
world, and yet my husband wants
to divorce me."
The rabbi raised his head:
"And for what reason, ma-
dame?"
"Be says that I am an terribly
ugly, that he can't even look at

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