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PARIS HAS BECOME THE FOURTH
JEWISH COMMUNITY IN EUROPE

Chanukah Greetings

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Season's Greetings
and Best Wishes

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Chanukah Greetings

William D. DuLac

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ance Israelite. More than 6,000
families, or about 30,000 persons,
belong to this Levantine congre-
gation, which supports its own re-
ligious institutions, clubs and so-
cieties.
Then conic the East European
Jews. In the workingmen's sec-
tion in Belleville there live about
8,000 families of Jewish immi-
grants (about 40,000 souls). A
small part of these, about 500
families, are organized as a "Po-
lish" religious congregation "Beth
Agudath Israel," which is now
building with the aid of the con.
sistory its own synagogue in th e
neighborhood of Montmartre. In
the third and fourth districts there
is a numerous Jewish populatio n
which settled there before the
war and which is naturalized for
the most part. About 2,000 fami-
lies of Jewish immigrants are scat-
tered over the left bank of the
Seine and in the Parisian suburbs,
in Gargot, a very interesting, neat
little Jewish town. In Blichie,
Raney, etc., there are about 5,000
families of Jewish immigrants
(about 25,000 persons) who sup-
port their own synagogues, Tel-
mud Torahs and societies.
All these elements and groups
together form a permanent Jew-
ish population of Greater Paris
(with suburbs) of about 200,000
persons, without mentioning the
so-called unstable elements, such
as students, seasonal workers, po-
litical emigre's, etc.

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Season's Greetings

A. G. GHYSELS
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Wishing
You All
A Joyous
Chanukah

Mitchell's

CASPAR J.

Cleaners & Dyers

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The Season's Greetings

Thousands of Jewish religious
school children participated in
a nation-wide campaign during
Chanukah, Dec. 8 to 15, to raise
$15,000 for the Palestine Lunch-
eons Fund, which provides hot
meals to school children in Pales-
tine. The drive is conducted an-
nually by Iladassah, the women's
Zionist organization of America.
Hadassah committees every-
where are obtaining the co-opera-
tion of rabbis, religious school
teachers and mothers to give talks
to children on the work of the
Palestine Luncheons Fund. Many
Hadassah chapters are planning
special programs to be presented
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in the schools and will award prizes
to those children who obtain or
give large contributions. The
luncheons work has a special ap-
peal for children, and it is hoped
that a large part of the $15,000
will he raised directly by them.
Mrs. Ethel S. Cohen of New York
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is national chairman of the fund.
The sum which the fund com-
mittee is trying to raise will pro-
vide daily luncheons to 1,400 pu-
pils in 11 schools and as many
kindergartens in Palestine. Under
adult supervision the luncheons
are prepared and served by the
children. They thus learn food
values, methods of cooking that
preserve the most nourishing etc
ments, and efficiency in house-
keeping. They bring this knowl-
edge into their homes, spreading
modern ideas of diet, cleanliness
and health. So important has the
luncheons program become in the
Influence of Immigrant.
six years of its existence that the
This 'number, 200,000 Jews, Jewish Board of Education has in-
seems surprising at first but when cluded it in its domestic science
one tries to compare the result of COMPS.
More schools are demanding to
this calculation with other facts it
does not seem at all extravagant. be included in the Hadassah lunch-
So a French Jewish journalist, for eon service, and Hadassah is
instance, during the Jewish High eager to expand the work so that
Iloly Days made an interesting in- many more thousands of pupils
quiry about the number of syna- can be provided with the meals.
gogues and worshippers and it Their beneficial effects in both
MEMBERS
turned nut that in all Paris at that health and education are widely
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time there were functioning 61 recognized.
In addition to the luncheon sys-
synagogues, Bathei-Medrashim and
temples, and that they were at- tem, Iladassah maintains in Pales-
tended by 38,000 persons—men tine four hospitals, 21 health wel-
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and women. Does this not indi- fare stations, pre-natal and post-
cate a Jewish population of at natal clinics, and conducts anti-
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trachoma
and
anti-malaria
cam-
least 200,000 persons?
100,000 of French Descent.
If this calculation is correct, the paigns, district nursing and rural
In the newspaper La Tribune role played by Paris in Jewish life medical service.
Juive, which is published in Stress- in general is suddenly changed
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burg, there appeared an article and it becomes, according to the
DETROIT
which throws an entirely different number of Jews in its population, PROBLEM OF DAMP
light upon the whole problem. Ac- the seventh Jewish community in
CELLAR NOW MET
cording to the figures of this ar- the whole world, and the fourth in
ticle, there are living in Paris not Europe. Larger than Paris are
Private Wires to Leading Markets
For many years the problem of
less than 100,000 Jews of genuine' New York, Warsaw (309,165),
French or Alsatian descent. They Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest water seeping through crevices and
are citizens of France, whose na- (217,545) and Vienna (201,513). tiny cracks in the basement walls
GRAND RAPIDS
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tive tongue is French, and they According to the number of its and floors was an everlasting worry
are permeated with French cul- Jews, then Paris exceeds Berlin to home owners.
Tiny
cracks
grew
larger—the
air
ture, and are very far from Judo- (172,672), Lodz (155,860) and
was heavily damp—the basement
ism and Jewish interests, That Kiev (128,141),
sagged. There was one rather
part of them which does feel some
The entire growth of the Jewish crude solution of the problem.
connection with Judaism belongs population of Paris is accounted
It was to excavate on the ex-
to the Jewish consistory in Paris. for by the immigration of foreign
Very close to them is the large Jews. In Germany, as well as in terior, plaster the walls with ce-
and wealthy community of Levan- France, the native born Jew ment plaster from the foundation tiful outside finish for homes or
buildings; not only beautiful today,
tine Jews from Salonika, Smyrna, would have long ago drifted apart footings up.
This was necessarily an expen- but it will remain beautiful for
Stamboul, Sofia. etc., who also and become assimilated if tens of
speak French and are great advo- thousands of immigrants had not sive operation, requiring much labor many years. It can be purchased
cates of French culture which they come from Eastern Europe and and material. Excavation ruined in a variety of lasting colors.
"It might be well for you to take
acquired in the schools of the Alli- the Levant. Not only in Paris, but the lawn and landscape.
Today it is quite different and stock of your home. If the base-
also in the French provinces it is some waterproof materials applied ment is damp, water is finding an
the Jewish immigrants who are to the interior of the basement abso- inlet. It should he attended to be-
still keeping up the old Jewish lutely prevent the inseepage of fore serious damage is done.
Jewish communities in the provin- water.
"If the appearance of your house
Chanukah Greetings
cial towns. Some time ago there
"Certain waterproofing mater- could be improved by a coat of
were published exact statistics of ial," Mr. White of the Liquid- stucco, it would be wise to have it
foreign Jews in the various French Iron Waterproofing Company, In- attended to at once."
provinces. The results are ex- corporated, said, "has rescued many
tremely interesting. In northern foundations and has withstood in
France, Lille has 1,000 foreign every case, the constant attack of Herzl Club of Windsor Seeks
Jews, Valenciennes also 1,000, dampness.
to Book Basketball
Lens about 300; smaller groups
"To insure the absence of humid-
Games.
are living in Anion, Betin, etc. ity, the house should le waterproof
They are all supporting themselves above and below the surface. Good
The
Ilerzl
Club of Windsor
with trade and handiwork. Some stucco is waterproof.
would like to hear from Jewish
of them are working in coal mines,
"It will withstand the onslaught
and in Rouen there are 300 Jewish of inclement weather. Stucco is class B and C basketball teams.
families from Poland. They are also, without doubt, the most beau- Phone or write Saul Bercuson, 1332
Dougall avenue, Windsor. Burn-
all artisans. In eastern France,
side 5728-W.
Nancy has the largest community
of immigrants. There are about key and Salonika, the other half
400 families from Poland, Ruma- artisans from eastern Europe.
nia and Czechoslovakia, besides
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200 students at the university; 500
Everywhere, all over France,
immiggrant families from Russia there are now scattered smaller
Season's Gretings.
and Poland are living in Metz. and larger groups of Jewish immi-.
they are artisans, some are mer-
grants, and if Jewish life still pul-
chants. In Sedan, Besancon, Epi-
sates now only in Paris, but also
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cently settled in these provincial
families who preserve their tradi-
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towns. In central and southern
tions and bring new life into the
France, Marseilles has the largest trophied organizations of French
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number of Jewish immigrants; a
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Jewry. Not in vain, then, do the
1,000 families from Turkey,
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and Palestine. The immigrants
all their hopes upon the "new"
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from the Orient are mostly mer-
lements. They are grieved to
chants. The immigrants from Po-
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land and Russia are artisans. In note that the native French
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dropping more and more away
are
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Bordeaux there are 10 Jewish im-
from Judaism, even from that
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migrant families and 50 single im-
Jefferson at Fairview
"preserved" Judaism which was
mgranta without families. Half created in France during the last
of them are Sephardim from Tur-
100 years. The secretary of the
consistory, Dr. Editz, complained
bitterly at the last meeting of the
fact that the French Pews think
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that, in order to be genuine
Frenchmen, it is necessary to cast
off all religious customs which
could set them apart from the sur-
rounding environment. He advo-
cated, therefore, a closer contact
To the Jewish Community
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with immigration circles.
Paris has become the fourth
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Jewish community in Europe.
Courteous and Coofideotial Treatment,
This involves an obligation that
CHURCHES, PARTIES,
has been imposed upon Parisian
Jews to bring its importance to
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Paris is becoming more and
more a Jewish city. Rot how large
is the Jewish community? How
many Jews live in the French cap-
ital? Even in France they have a
meager idea about this.
It is known that the number of
Jews in Paris has grown unusually
in the last few years. Some peo-
ple speak about this with pride and
joy, others with quiet regret, but
neither group has a clear idea as
to how this growth expresses it-
self numerically. There has been
no census in France for a long
time. The police statistics take
no cognizance of the Jews as such,
they only register foreigners,
as citizens of such and such a
country, or as "homeless." The
foreign Jews appear in the police
statistics as citizens of Poland,
Lithuania, Rumania and other
countries. Among the "homeless"
are thousands of Russians, Ukrain-
ians, Austrians. Thus, there is no
definite official data concerning the
number of Jews in Paris. Opin-
ions concerning this number differ
so greatly that they mention from
50,000 to 200,000.
Yes, even 200,000, and that,
perhaps, is not such a gross exag-
geration as it appears at first. We
are not accustomed, it is true, to
such a large number. Until now,
a much smaller number was always
estimated. A year ago, for in-
stance, the organ of the Jewish
Consistory of Paris, "Universe
Israelite," published an article by
a certain U. D. who pointed out,
by reference to Jewish mortality
statistics, that in the French capi-
tal there are now living not more
than 65,000 Jews. This calcula-
tion was wrong without a doubt,
because it was based solely upon
the number of deaths registered
in the Jewish consistory of Paris.
The consistory contains, however,
not more than 5,500 memIssrs,
that is, approximately,, 5,500 fami-
lies or 25,000 persons. That is,
of course, only a very small por-
tion of the Jews of Paris, and all
statistical combinations that are
based upon mortality tables of this
portion are far from agreeing with
the actual facts.

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CHILDREN TO RAISE
A LUNCHEONS FUND

Recent Immigration From Eastern Europe and the Levant
Brings New Life and Activity to French Jewry;
National Hadassah Asks for
Popular Estimate Places Communitys' Strength
$15,000 for Hot Meals in
in French Capital at 200,000.
Palestine Schools.

WARE & COMPANY

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SCHLESINGER CHOSEN
PRESIDENT OF UNION,
SUCCEEDING M. SIGMAN

NEW YORK.—(J. T. Al—
Benjamin Schlessinger, former
president of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
was unanimously chosen by the
union's general executive board to
succeed Morris Sigman in that
post.
Mr. Schlessinger, who was one
of the builders of the union, held
the office of president for many
years, retiring from the post be-
cause of ill-health in 1923.
Upon his election, the new
president declared that he hopes to
unite all elements in the garment
union with a view of pursuing an
energetic activity towards the
betterment of the conditions of the
workingmen in the trades repre-
sented by the organization.

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Wishing All Our Jewish Friends and Clients
Joyous Chanukah

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