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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 10:1-13:16.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 46:13-28.

February 7, 1930

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Shvat 9, 5690

What About a Jewish Center
Leaders in the Detroit Jewish commun-
ity are disturbed over continually forced
delays in the construction of an adequate
center for youth activities. The economic
depression has caused the postponement of
serious consideration for the immediate
building of a much-needed hospital, and by
the same token those who are anxious about
the status of the Jewish youth must be wor-
ried because conditions do not permit
speedy action for the erection of an up-to-
date center.
Responsible leaders are at this time per-
fecting plans for a campaign in the spring
to care for the foreign relief and Palestin-
ian demands, and to raise the quota neces-
sary to carry on the work of the United He-
brew Schools and other institutions in De-
troit. These leaders are also charged with
the responsibility of reaching a decision on
the question of a center, and it is very im-
portant that all socially-minded Jews con-
sider seriously the importance of this need
and determine to co-operate in every w.rty
possible towards the achievement of this
goal.
We can not urge too strongly upon our
leaders that one of their first considerations
with regard to the forthcoming campaign
should be the laying of a foundation for
a center. It really should not be necessary
again to repeat the reasons for this. The
present center facilities are far from at-
tractive to our youth. Instead of creating
a social and cultural atmosphere, the pres-
ent poor facilities merely emphasize how
poverty-stricken the community is socially
and culturally.
It is really a cause for surprise that more
of our young men are not driven to the pool
rooms and more of our young women to the
public dance halls. For if they do not,
where else are they to go? And yet we
speak of the youth being the masters of pos-
terity, and we bewail the fact that more of
our youth do not take an interest in the
affairs of their people. Let the elders stop
to consider what little is being done to at-
tract the attention of the youth, and they
will stop bewailing a lack of interest and
will instead devote their attention to a lack
of such facilities which would encourage
the youth Jewishly.
The longer the construction of an ade-
quate center is delayed, the greater the
damage to healthy Jewish thought and the
further removed will our youth be from us.
The joy that came from the youth last year,
when an announcement was made that a
Jewish center is to be built in 1930, must
not be marred. One of the first communal
responsibilities is the erection of a building
adequately equipped to care for the needs
of the Jewish youth.

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a bad job of it that this p )rtion of his re-
marks was alone sufficient t o disqualify him
from discussing the Palesti ne issue.
We adhere to the view a hat in the future
Jews should be careful not to dignify
meetings of the type that Mr. Brockway
addressed with their partic ipation in them,
and it would be healthiest to forget the in-
cident. But his misrepres station of the
pledge to the Jew contains I in the Balfour
Declaration must not be permitted to go
unchallenged and unanswe red.
General Jan Christian S nuts, who, with
Lord Banta and Lloyd ( ;eorge, was an
author of the Balfour Dec laration, in his
address in New York, on t to eve of his re-
turn to England, made it clear that Eng-
land promised "to facilita te the achieve-
ment" of the object callin g for the crea-
tion of a Jewish National Ilome in Pales-
tine. Mr. Brockway dared deny that Brit-
air was pledged "to facilit ate this object."
We quote briefly from Gen eral Smuts' ref-
erence to the Balfour Decl 'ration in refut-
ing the Labor M. P.'s mis-s tatement:

After the British Cabinet agreed on it, we
wired it to America to l'resi lent Wilson and
got his agreement to it. Ther store we had the
greatest backing before us a and the greatest
backing behind us, in these m .ist solemn delib-
erations—the greatest backin a that could be
given a people for this declar ation. It is not
a small 'thing, not a hole in th s corner. It was
before the great history of the world— dealing
with the great history of the : world, and we
had this promise, this declarat ion which is call-
ed the 1:alfour Declaration:
"His Majesty's
Government views with favor the establishment
in Palestine of a National Hors
me for the Jewish
people, and will use (these are operative words)
their best endeavors to tacit tate the achiev-
ment of this object." And you see, ladies
and gentlemen, the Balfour Declaration was
laid down not in vague terms or aspirations—
not merely a gesture of good w ill, but a definite
constructive policy laid down : 'His Majesty's
Government will use their be :st endeavors to
facilitate the achievement of t his object.' That
is the promise. That is the p Mies', and it will
stand.
There should be no barrie ✓ for Jews who
wish to go to Palestine to go there. Law and
order should be maintained th ere in the proper
sense. I think that that is impl ied in the under-
taking, and that undertaking must be carried
out. No pogroms under the B ritish flag!

Jews accept the views of General Smuts
as representing the sentiments of all honest-
minded Englishmen. We have confidence
that this view will prevail!

"Rosh Hashonah in t he Forest."

There is something symbolically beauti-
ful about Jewish Arbor Day, observed on
the fifteenth day in the Hebrew month of
Shvat, and therefore known on the Jew-
ish calendar by the name of the Hebrew
date—Chamisho Osor b'Shvat. There is
another Hebrew name for this traditional
agricultural festival, to be observed next
Thursday. It is Rosh Hashanah L'Illonoth,
the New Year of the Trees, and it serves
to remind the millions of Jews whose re-
moval from the soil has caused them to
pale and to become somewhat bent-backed
that long ago they, too, as a nation shared
unhampered in the glories of nature; and
that in the land where they once so shared
in nature's joys Jewry is once more being
rejuvenated.
In the days of independent Jewish na-
tionhood in Palestine, the custom prevailed
of planting trees on the Jewish Arbor Day.
During the past few hundred years, Dias-
pora Jewry substituted for the planting of
trees on Chamisho Osor the custom of par-
taking of Palestine grown fruits. With the
re-settlement in Palestine of large numbers
of our people, this festival has again come
back into its own and is today one of the
landmarks in the Jewish back-to-the-soil
movement.
The beauty of sentiment embodied in
The Appointment of Herman Bernstein
the observance of Chamisho Osor b'Shvat
President Hoover's appointment of }Ler- was best expressed by the great Yiddish
man Bernstein as Ambassador to ,Albania poet Yr)hoash (the late Sol Bloomgarden),
marks a departure in political patronage. in his "Rosh Hashonah L'Ill moth," a stanza
Hitherto. Jews appointed to important na- of which we give here in English transla-
tional positions were almost without excep- tion:
tion chosen from the ranks of, either Amer-
'Tis a joy-day in the forest
ican-born of West European Jews. The
Since the break of dawn, the soft-wind
East-Europeans, particularly Russians, al-
Blows from tree to tree th e tidings;
Through the branches runs a quiver,
though they form the vast majority of Jews
Runs a sweet and swaying whisper;
in. this country, were seldom considered.
Lightly binding, hear them crackle-
"ily"rrsing Mr. Beregkein, the President
Now at last our day is co ning!"
'Tis the joy of the wood fo
estukAlishes a new precedent which should
Rosh Hashonah in the fores
fore\•er shatter the preference in favor of
Earth and Heaven, every c 'eature,
Jews who hail from Germanic countries. It
All are crying forth "Good Yomtov!"
should serve as an acknowledgement of the
Thus Diaspora Jewry fo rgets the bleak
great contributions to America by East Eu-
February winds of Chamish o Osor, some by
ropean Jews.
partaking of Palestinian f ruins, others by
Mr. Bernstein's appointment will no
remembering the soil whic h gave birth to
doubt be hailed with satisfaction by Ameri-
the festival and by plantin ig trees in Zion
can Jewry. Long known for his Jewish in-
through the Jewish Nation ial Fund. And
terests, an editor of note, he has won the
in Palestine old traditions a re being revived
respect of Gentile and Jew alike, and is
on this day. In ancient Jet •usalem the cus-
certain to lend credit and importance to his
tom prevailed of planting a cedar tree to
new post.
commemorate the birth of a son, and a cy-
press tree on the birth of s t daughter. On
Bemuddling Facts.
the wedding day this tree was cut down to
Out of the recent outbreaks in Palestine make the pillars for the C 'huppah, or the
arose a campaign of misrepresentation of nuptial canopy. This bea utiful tradition,
facts in which Arabs on the one hand dis- linking the youth with th e soil has been
torted the truth relating to Jewish aspira- revived by the pioneers in the Jewish
tions in Palestine, and Englishmen, posing Homeland. and is today a s ymbol of the re-
as authorities on the Near East problem, birth of Judaea.
grabbed at the opportunity of getting into
the limelight by speaking on a subject they
At Washington the Rut nanian legation
are in no way in position to discuss.
Detroit had an opportunity to judge a calls reports of student a ttacks on Jews
spokesman for the latter element, in the exaggerated. But at Jassy , Bucharest, and
person of the Labor member of parliament, other Rumanian centers r ace hatred con-
Fenner Brockway. Revealing a deplorable tinues to run riot. When representatives
lack of information on the Palestine sit- of anti-Semitic governmen is abroad begin
uation, this Laborite undertook to interpret to deny their outrages, it is is
to suspect
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Horizon

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

THE FORD OF BOOKS

Just about the time that you 'le-
(Ade that the last legitimate ra ket
has been staged, and there is no
alternative, but to go to work :old
earn your buttered toast by the
sweat of your brow, someon, is
sure to come along and give you
a rude awakening.
Here, the book business has been
going along for years in its on-
servative fashion. There have teen
a few innovations, it is true, but
on the whole, nothing very excit-
ing.
'tut then when a lawyer's busi-
ness is not so good, you can never
tell what will happen. In this case
the lawyer is Sidney Feldman. This
Jewish lawyer used to notice that
when he went into a drug store
for some pills, he generally came
out with a camera and a pressing
iron.
That set Feldman thinking. Why
shouldn't he come out of the drug
store with a book as well' And
after all, why not?
Well, anyway, it gave Feldman
an idea. Ile started visiting one
publishing house after another. In
each one he would ask "are you do-
ing, anything with the plates of the
books of yesteryear?"
"No, they are lying in the cel-
ler."
Well, to make a short story long-
er, before Feldman left each pub-
lisher, he had signed a contract for
the left over books, and the left
over plates. Then he went to see
all of the big chain druggists. The
upshot of it all is that several thou-
sand drug stores in New York are
now selling books at bargain prices.
Feldman is now called the Ford of
the book business. And all this
lawyer had was an idea.
is--

WHAT THE AUDIENCE SAID
There are people who still go to
banquets and such things to hear
the speakers on the program. But
the real fun is in hearing the aud-
ience.
There was the banquet recently
of the Zionists tendered to General
Smuts, for instance.
Jacob Fishman, editor of the
Morning Journal at one table af-
ter the address of Smuts casually
remarked, "he ought to be elected
president of the Jewish Agency."
Isaac Landman, editor of the
American Ilebrew, and a non-Zion.
ist, casually remarked: "that's tl,e
best non-Zionist speech I ever lis-
tened to."

THE COLOR OF THE HEART

Not all the wise-cracks are made
by Jewish wits. There is the story
that Dr. Englander of the Hebrew
Union College tells of the days
when he was, I believe, Rabbi in
Providence, where my good friend,
Dr. Gup now officiates.
Well, one day, Dr. Englander
was up for an address before some
colored organization. In present.
ing him, the colored toastmaster
concluded his peroration with the
following:
"I want to say that though Dr.
Englander's skin is white, his heart
is as black as any of ours."

SPEAKING OF EGO

I don't know how true it is, but
they do say that Shalom Asch, the
famous and brilliant Yiddish novel-
ist had the habit of going into
book stores in which his works were
displayed, and telling the book-
sellers with pride that he was the
Shalom Asch, whose name was em-
blazoned across the book jackets.
It appears that this mild fever
of the ego is rather prevalent
among some of our Jewish scribes.
I was just listening to the story
Bernard G. Richards tells of
Schneur, the famous Hebrew poet,
who makes his residence in Paris.
It seems tht Schneur one day
while on an ocean voyage, decided
to gaze at the watery panorama
from the vantage point of the cap-
tain's bridge.
"Say, you'll have to get ofT there,
that's for the captain alons," said
one ofthe sailors.
"Don't bother me," snapped
Schneur.
Finally, the captain came along.
"I am sorry, you will have te leave.
That place is set aside for my ex-
clusive use."
"Say, listen, captain," replied
Schneur," "do you know that you
are speaking to the greatest liv-
ing Hebrew poet?"
"Oh, how do you do, I am so
glad to meet you, Mr. Malik,"
beamed the captain.

THINGS I'D LIKE TO KNOW
KNOW

Where a good Jewish boy like
F. I'. A., columnist of the New
York World raised on the west
side of Chicago, got such a Nor-
dic name as Franklin Pierce
Adams?
Why Thyra Samter Winslow,
famed Jewish authoress, always
walks about with a dog?
Why reporters always insist on
speaking atpublic meetings, in-
stead of confining themselves to
reporting the affair?
Why so mrny of the tumid Jew-
ish personalities who live in New
York come from the west and
South?

CALLED HIM LITVAK I

There are so many ways of
"hitting hack" at a Jew. There is
Sammy Lee, for instance, the king
of chorus trainers.
An "extra" girl phoned Mr. Lee
for a job.
"I have nothing," shouted Mr.
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Lee.
"Any hope for the future, Mr.
Lee?"
"No," thundered Mr. Lee.
"But Mr. Lee, you never give
me any jobs."
"Oh, don't bother me."
"Very well, godhye, Mr. Levy,"
shouted back the girl, getting her
revenge.
And that reminds me of the
story told me by Isaac Liberman,
president of Arnold Constable,
swank Fifth avenue department

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Charles ff. Joseph

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LL of us like to be one of the "1-W1(1-you-so"

boys. It flatters our vanity. The other day iler-
best Solow, assistant editor of the Menorah Jour-
nal, sent me the following not to remind me of how
perspicacious I am:

"Dear Mr Joseph:

"The other day I was going through some old
clppings on my desk and I came across one out

of your column some time in August, 1028. You

warned the American Jewish community that

the problem of the Arabs in Palestine was not

yet settled. Just one year later occurred the
trouble. I suppose you realize that you were

one of the few, in American Jewry, who both

knew and dared to say that all was nut yet for
the best in Palestine. It is too bad that Amer-

ican Jewry did not pay more attention to your
prophecy.

I

MAY not always know but I do dare to say what I
think. And that isn't no easy as the average read-
er thinks. For sometime I have been one of the
very few Jewish writers in this country to suggest
that Dr. Magnes' attitude toward the l'alestine sit-
uation deserves more consideration than is being
accorded to it. Some newspaper publishers have
asked me to soft pedal my statements as many of
their readers rent my position. My answer to
the publishers is that if they don't like what I say
they have the choice of omitting the offending
paragraphs but I must and will write as I think on
any public question. I say to the extreme and bit-
ter-enders in the Zionist party who still hug the
delusion of a political state that they are standing
in the way of progress for the Jew in Palestine and
are only continuing a situation that makes for con-
stant friction, disagreement, and bloodshed. If
they refuse to see or can't see it then no much the
worse for the Jews who follow such leadership.
Long before the Zionist leaders modified their
program for Palestine, long before Great Britain
ever had the Mandate I urged men like Brandeis,
and Kallen and Dallies and Wise and Mack that
their position was not in harmony wth the practi-
calities of the situation. My position was unfavor-
ably and resentfully received by Zionist enthus-
iasts all over the country. But time proved that I
was right and the Zionists themselves retreated
from their original extreme position. It was the
right thing to do and events proved it. So today it
may be necessary to make a still further readjust-
ment in the Interest of peace and harmony, and
for the assurance of a permanent homeland for the
Jew in Palestine. Think it over gentlemen!

IT'S

been quite a long time since business mailing
matter offensive to the Jew has come to my atten-
tion. A reader sends me a copy of a form letter
sent out by the Credit Clearing House Adjustment
Corporation, a national organization. I have a fair
knowledge of letter writing and advertising. In fact,
most of my time is devoted to that work. In my
judgment, leaving aside all other considerations of
implied reflection on Jewish character contained in
the offending letter, the introduction of a cheap
story in a business letter sent out to the representa-
tive firms by a representative corporation, is the
worst kind of advertising and indicates a lack of
advertising knowledge on the port of the writer.
Now the man who wrote the following letter sim-
ply doesn't know his job as a publicity man. And
the Credit Clearing house Adjustment Corporation
better censor the letters that are sent out by their
managers. If they do they won't permit a repeti-
tion of the offense contained in this questionable
piece of mail-matter.

"Dear Sir:
"An Irishman had some business dealings
with a party, who soon failed in business. The

Hibernian went to see his man and tried to
secure a settlement of his account.

"The party, after much show of anxiety to

favor Flynn and save him from a loss, finally

offered to make him a preferred creditor.

"The Irishman agreed to this. He went home

and thought the matter over that night, and

grew somewhat dubious. The next morning
he called again upon his man.

" 'Finkelstoin, an' just what do ye mean by

makin' me a preferred creditor?'"

"'Veil, I tell you vot it iss. You know dot

you von't get anything vile de odder creditors
von't know it for sixty days.'"

"Don't daily with false surmise. Our service

secures prompt payment, etc., etc.
"Your very truly,

"Credit Clearing House Adjustment Corporation
"E. Lee Harris, Manager."

THE following indignant letter indicates the feel-
ing that prevails against my statement that if the
Jews should wish to enter into the spirit of the
Christmas celebration, from a pure rationalized view-
point, that a Jew would not compromise his Jew-
ish conscience. How many Jewish children do you
know who had Christmas trees? Do you know any
Jewish child who because its mother pinned its
stocking to n mantel and filled it with presents on
Christmas eve ever was influenced in the direction
of Christianity. The trouble with too many Jewish
children is that they forget all they ever learned of
their own faith, let alone bothering about acquir-
ing a new one. I am not advocating and I never
did advocate the use of Christmas trees, but I said
and say again that Jews need not hold aloof from
the spirit of the Christmas season that gets us
whether we like it or not. There is no need for
Jews to exchange Christmas cards but surely can
send cards to their Gentile neighbors and if they
want to hang a stocking up for the kiddies, don't
worry. I object however, to the Old World view
of the writer of the letter which I quote below who
still feels that the Jews should remember the misery
and the hatred caused the Jews in Europe by fa-
natic followers of Jesus. Therefore Christmas should
recall that to them. It's about time we rid our-
selves of those notions or we shall never get any-
where in this life toward a better understanding
with our neighbors.

"Dear Mr. Joseph:

"Your answer to the reader who objected to
you advising Jews that it is alright to have
Christmas trees in their homes is poor logic
even though you show good logic at other times.
"In the public school where my little girl
attends they always have a Christms tree be-

fore Christms and a celebration—and the
teacher reminds the children, that they are
celebrating the birth of the Child Christ.
"If I had a tree I would be showing my

children that I, too, celebrate the birth of the
Child Christ, since they are taught that that
is the purpose of the tree

"When Christians send greetings to Jews on
their holidays—which never happened to me in
my whole 39 years of life—at least their holi-
days do not symbolize anything that has caused

them suffering and torture, but it is damnable
to see Jews send Christmas greetings to each

other when it represents an occasion that has
always been a thorn to the Jews and untold
misery for thousands of years.
"Yours very truly.

"Chicago, Jan. 24."

"Henry M. Schaefer.

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By BERNARD POSTAL

Herman Bernstein, one of the

outstanding journalists in Ameri-
ca, founder of The Day, former
editor of the Jewish Tribune and
the American Hebrew and a promi-
nent writer and foreign comes
pendent has been offered the post
of United States Minister to Al-
bania by President Hoover and Mr.
Bernstein has indicated that he will
accept. When Mr. Bernstein's ap-
pointment is finally ratified by the
United States Senate he will be the
third Jew named to a diplomatic
post in the Hoover administration.
That Mr. Bernstein would be hon-
ored with a diplomatic place was
expected. To Jews, Herman Bern-
stein is perhaps better known as
the founder and first editor of The
I/ay and as investigator of Jew-
ish problems in Eastern Europe.
The general newspaper reader,
however, will remember him as the
finder and publisher of the famous
"Willy-Nicky" letters, correspond-
ence that passed between the Kais-
er and the Czar during the Russo-
Japanese war. Others will remem-
bee hint for his courageous expose
of the notorious "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion" and his challeng-
ing of Henry Ford in open court.

William Fox, one of the king-
pins of the American movie indus-
try, whose meteoric career would
in itself make a fine moving pic-
ture, is now fighting tooth and
nail to prevent certain financial
interests and minority stock-hold-
ers in his companies from ousting
him from control. All the legal
matters involved are too compli-
cated for a layman. Mr. Fox, who
was not only one of the pioneers
in a great industry is also a power
in the film world today. Many of
the innovations that have revolu-

tienized the movie industry in re
cent year's came front the Fox
studios and the displacement o
Fox would be a serious blow to th
industry itself.

Jews in baseball are few and
far between. So far as we know
there have been no Jewish mana-
gers and the numbers of players
has not been imposing. The re-
tirement this week of Barney Drey-
fus, owner and president of the
National League Pittsburgh team,
brings into the public eye a char-
acter known from coast to coast
in baseball circles but not so well
known in Jewish circles. After 30
years of actively running one of
baseball's most lucrative proper-
ties, Dreyfus has turned it over to
his son. When he bought the Pitts-
burgh team in 1880 it was a chron-
ic last place club but in the 30
years that have elapsed since then
Pittsburgh has always been in the
running for the championship.

News reports indicate that Judge
Joseph M. Proskauer, Justice of
the Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court of New York, is to
resign from the bench shortly and F
resume his private law practice.
Proskauer is one of the ablest and
best liked jurists in New York.
When Alfred Smith was governor,
the judge was one of his most
trusted advisors and was a
cabinet" that helped the governor
make his four administrations so
notable. Judge Proskauer is a
transplanted Southerner, hailing
from Alabama. After graduating
from Columbia Law School he be-
gan the practice of law in New
York and remained there to be-
come one of the city's outstanding
attorneys.
'Copyright. 1930, J. T. Al

PASSING MY WINDOW

By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

ANTI.

MITISM IN RUSSIA
ceive deep sympathy. Ills work
is unique in that he writes a mas-
The three volumes containing his
terly French, in which ho combines
observations on Soviet institutions
a lucidity of expression with a
which Panait Istrati has published
wealth of exotic Oriental atmos-
in Paris recently, contain the most
phere.
He learned French in two
formidable attack that has been
years, and was a house painter be-
launched by any man against the
fore.
It
was as such that Holland
Stalinist regime in Russia. Corn-
became acquainted with him, at a
ing from a writer of international
moment
when !strati had attempt-
repute whose talents were dIscov-
ed to commit suicide.
ered by Romain Rolland, and one
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who remains a militant communist
NOTE ON EDMOND FLEG
in spite of the titanic disillusion he
The French-Jewish poet, Ed-
experienced in Russia, the books
mond Fleg, whose work "Moses"
have created a sensation. It is not
was called "a collossal tribute to a
a paid agent of the bourgeois kept
colossal figure" by Dr. Stephen S.
press who net out with preconceiv-
Wise, has published a new "life".
ed notions this time and who di-
This time on "Solomon" (Dutton-
rects that gruelling blast against
N. Y.) It is marked by the same
the New Russia, but a true and
intrinsic beauty and reveals the
tried "comrade" who had fully
same profound Hebraic scholarship
made up his mind to settle down
as
the author's former contribu-
in the Soviet Union, whither he de-
tion. Curiously enough while Fleg
parted from Paris in company of
has
acquired for himself a remark-
his bosom friend, Christian Rakow-
able following in England and
sky, former Soviet ambassador to
America,
largely through his ro-
France. It cost Istrati immense
manced lives, his fame in France
pain to write the three books and
rests primarily on his production
he warns the capitalists that they
as a playwright. Last year his
must not include him in the num-
"Merchant of Paris" was produced
ber of their friends. "If you dare
at the Comedic Francaise, one of
as much as lift your finger against
the French State Theaters. With
Soviet Russia, we will fly to arms
that play Fleg attempted to met up
yet!" he exclaims in warning. Of
a counteraction against Shake-
particular interest to Jews is Istra-
speare's immortal "Merchant of
tis' rigorously authenticated des-
Venice," and the figure of a Shy-
cription of a growing anti-Semitic
lock bent upon his "pound of flesh."
spirit among the Communists of
The piece created a furore in Paris.
Russia. If a tenth of the facts he
All the old sleeping dogs of
marshalls are true, there is no
the anti-Dreyfus movement sud-
doubt that in spite of official de-
denly
awakened and poured forth
nunciations of anti-Semitism, the
their venom with the same old bit-
Jews of Russia are drifting into an
ter
virulence.
In a way it was an
impossible and utterly hopeless sit-
amusing revival that 'lid no one any
uation. Unfortunately one feels
harm while it gave Fleg's play an
from Istrati's passionate recital
unhoped for amount of publicity.
that not only a tenth but the whole
It also blew a new breath of life
of what he tells is true. "The
in "The House of Moliere" as the
causes of anti-Semitism are not
Comedic Francaise is sometimes
dealt with by the Soviet authori-
called. Edmond Fleg, it should be
ties" he says. Individual cases of
added, is a radiant personality. In
anti-Jewish excesses are sometimes
his magnificant apartment on the
punished and even severely, but
historic Isle Saint Louis, the heart
the fundamental malady is left to
of I'aris, one meets some of the
gangrenate the entire social body.
foremost liter: try men and artists
"They are trying to cure colds in
of the day. One may be pretty
Russia by increasing the drafts,"
certain to find Ernest Bloch, the
he says. !strati goes so far as to
composer there, who is to Fleg
say that a majority of the proletar-
what David was to Jonathan. Ed.
iat is being contaminated by the
mond, like his friend is a first-rate
savagery of anti-Semitism and he
musician. Ludwig Lewisohn comes
cites pages upon pages of instances
giving date, chapter and text from
there, and that other brilliant
official publications. Panait !strati
American Jewish exile Marvin
is a Rumanian by birth. Ile is a
Loewenthal; Algazi, the expert on
born story-teller. Among the Jew.
synagogal music; Rupin the pain-
ter. Many others still. Fleg's
ish characters in his breathless nar.
ratives there is not one for whom
acquaintances however are by no
the reader does not at once con-
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VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS

DR. MAURICE II. IIARRIS, Rabbi of Temple Israel of New York
City: "Zionism was a movement to offset world ostracism. The Ortho-
dox Jew had always prayed for national restoration, but that hope was
religious. Zionist nationalism is wholly secular. It has transferred
emphasis from the Jewish religion to the Jewish people. But it remains
as one of the most vital movementsin
i Jewry today."
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LORD MELCHETT, President English Zionist Federation: "I
have
learned with great pleasure of the new scheme for land redemption in
Palestine through the Jewish National Fund, and I feel confident it will
meet with a ready response from every member of the Anglo-Jewish
community."
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CONGRESSMAN ADOLPH J. SABATII of Illinois: "With very
few exceptions the European immigrant has proved himself a good,
loyal, law-abiding citizen, and has in a great measure contributed in
making this country the mightiest, most powerful and—I am even
tempted to say, were it not for the hard times upon us—the most
prosperous nation in the world."
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DR. JACOB KATZ, Rabbi • of the
Bronx, N. Y.: "Discarding all creedal differences, the educator of
youth, of whatever race or religion, is inclined to agree with the Pope's
encyclical. The recently published full text of that wonderful docu-
ment reveals the fullness of the heart, the maturity of the mind and the
eternal vision of a teacher of religion who seeks to give his own, we
believe, a whole philosophy of life. Who can disagree with the Pope's
criticism on modern education and modern life? Let his weighty words
become an inspiration to Catholics and • stimulus to Jews to give their
youth a Jewish education!"
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M. LANDAU, Deputy of the Rumanian Parliament: "A year has
gone by since the central-national government took over the reins, and
we can, from our viewpoint, make a resume of affairs.
If we can
exclude the isolated and scattered gestures of the government consider-
ing our demands, we will with light hearts be justified in saying that
progress has been made since Maniu became prime minister."
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