PE &TROT EWISA ROPIlair SWEDEN, A NORDIC COUNTRY WHERE THE JEWS ARE AS GOOD NORDICS AS THE SWEDES THEMSELVES The Merchants of Flint greet You With a Happy and Prosperous New Year who were not included in this cen- I the Jewish youth with a love for sus. Some of the leading Jews in Zionism. I got a peculiar thrill, Sweden today trace their ancestry almost a shock, when I walked to the Jews who were enrolled in through the halls of the Hebrew that census. school and heard the youngsters Impoevrished Jews. singing Chalutzim songs. White During the first decade of the hair, pink cheeks and blue eyes-1 By THELMA NURENBERG nineteenth century, when streams no obviously Nordic—yet no defiant- I of Jewish population flowed into ly Zionistic. The spirit of Juda- SUITOR'S NOTE:—With hardly more erant rulers. She extended an in- Sweden, many of them were pov- ism, or shall I say Zionism, is be- Jews within its borders than • good- st.(' street to New York, Sweden h.. vitation to men of science and let- erty stricken families who were un- ing brought back into the home via , , generally been tolerant to its ,Iewbh tern to come to her court. Dr. Ben- able to adjust themselves ecenomi- the youth of Israel. .' burgher.. Ina country of Nordica in. edictus de Castro (Baruch call in Sweden. Swedish people ow..,... re els Nordic ali their neighbor+. While the Jews were permitted This rticle traces the origin of the miss, 1597-1684) of Hamburg, a brought complaints against them, to remain in Sweden because of Jews in Sweden and give+ +mite interest. man well known as a scientist, was claiming that they were resorting their business ability—it it as poets, I ing midelight an to their history and con- urged to come to her court. On es- to dishonest business methods. Sonia artists, writers and philosophers rtmoorsry importance. tablishing himself Dr. De Castro of the Jews were so impoverished that they are distinguishing them- Although Jews were said to have entered into communication with they depended on the state, and the syves. Swedish culture abounds been in Sweden during the time of Manasseh hen Israel, describing mercy of others, for their very with contributions from Jewish' the Vikings, there is no evidence the possibilities of the land for his bread. So that Parliament voted a • sources, even far out of proportion to substantiate this belief. ugo H co-religionists. A few Jews re- law which decreed that Jews must t o their small numbers. Oscar • the sponded to his invitation. Before sign an affidavit as to their finan- Levertin, poet, is revered by the Valentin in his "History of I Jews in Sweden" states that whe 1685 there were no rules pertain- cial condition. Jews who could not Swedes as well as Jews. Ernest hack from their ing to Jews, therefore there were no the Swedes came n support themselves were deported, Josephson, painter and poet, is so predatory raids in Russia, they obstacles preventing them from and incoming Jews had to give popular in Sweden that they say "Whot It's Insurance It's living and trading in Sweden. And brought with them many captives. proof that they would not become of him, he has in his painting what I Among them were natives of Ka- as they never tried to make con- dependent on the state or commun- Beethoven has in his music." End- verts of the Swedes, (as did the ity zan. They had been observed wor- for suport, before they were less discussions are carried on shipping in a different mariner, and • Catholics) they were generally perrnited to enter. about him, some arguing that he le from intolerance and perse- supposedly a different dirty than !csoution . Again a wave of tolerance and was too modern, that ho lived long in 1838 regulations against tho before his time. Sweden stands 1 the other natives. Description ' R. F. GIBBS points a great similarity to the I No Rights For Non-Lush Jews were annulled. In Partin- , proudly by him, and his works line E. F. GIBBS •Jewish custom of worship, at that I By the eighteenth century Luth- ment, from 1847 to 1848 many bills I the wall in the Museum at Stock- I period. But the first Jew to be eranism had not only become the were introduced which were friend- , holm. Martin Lamm was the first 'officially recognized, and recorded state religion, but the Swedes had ly to the Jews. The House of No-'I Jewish leader of the Swedish Arad- ' in Swedish court chronicles was a I developed an intensity for religion bility tried to stop the agitation for' i.my. This academy comprises the 1 Dr. l'hillipis Wulf, court physician' which woo paralleled only by the these bills and it was not before 18 men who yearly give the Nobel 405.406 Genesee Bank Bldg. Phone 2.5951 ; Catholics in Spain and Portugal; 186(1 that they were defeated. One I prize to the outstanding work in to the royal family in 1557. I The earliest definitely known i I with the difference, however, that of the bills most advantageous for • literature. Hugo Valentine, his- FLINT, MICH. contact between the Jews and i its natural outcome, intolerance, the Jews was the right to buy prop- torian, Henrik Schick, Prof. Carl Swedes was in the eleventh century I resulted not in n persecution, but . in erty. King Charles IV, approved Warburg, member of Parliament, these friendly when the Polish and German Jews' a gradual elimination of rights for journalist and professor of Litera- s % . were adopted whereby lure in the Stockholm University, visited Sweden as traders. But it non-Lutherans. Prohibitive edicts was not until the period of the enacted were promulgated for Jews the Jews became subjects of Swe- I Albert Bonnier, editor and publish- , Reformation when Europe began to as well as Catholics. Among the den with complete equality of er , head of the leading ublishin • r stir with intolerance and persecu- 13 prohihitive act were: no fran- ricAhlttsh . Alth ough the present total of house in Sweden, Abraham Nach- tion that the German Jews began chive, no court protection, therefore, manson, philanthropist, Louis no right to sue, no Jie.wlitci,,, au l dinhfoold. Jews in Sweden is not on record, Fraenckel, managing director of to migrate to Sweden. I the accepted figure approximates The first official acquiescence to a state position, no the Stockholm Handelsbank; these FROM Jews as subjects came during the ence of any kind, no institutions 12,500. Swedish is the language are but a few of the names of those commonly used. The Jew has who have aided progress in Swe- time to Queen Christine, one of for religious observances and edu• mast so assimilated a d that one never knows den. Sweden's most enlightened and tot- cation, religious ceremonies and co-religionist. And what is pe- festivities were not permitted, and (Copyright, MO, J. T. Al . participants were brought to trial, collar about this complete assim- they could live only in a prescribed Ration is that unlike the German e Swedish Jew is not disdainful area, and in the three cities of Season's Greetings GREETINGS Stockholm, Gotteburg and Marr- to others who can not, or will not assimilate. Race consciousness or' koping. They were not permitted membership of the guilds, and Zionism has not penetrated into while they could own and operate Sweden's Jewry. The Swedish Jew • stores and factories, they were not it he is not a nationalist Swede, is Flint's Leading Graduate permitted to be artisans. Also, quite cosmopolitan. One gets very Furrier FIRST STREET at Harrison Dial 9.3161 little of that race responsivity they could not own land. FURS, SU DIR TE S,SS CE OS ATS AND which emanates from Russian and Gustavus III was favorably dis- FLINT, MICIIIGAN posed towards the Jews, whom he Polish Jews. To cite an instance. Ladies' and Gentlemen's recognized as a positive asset for On the boat sailing to Sweden I was introduced to a man who was Tailor the economic development of for born in Stockholm, and who had country, due to their genius tor Dort Highway at Crago commercial Delivered When Wanted pursuits, and associated lived the greater part of his life FO RLOWER PRICES them with the growing prosperity there. I asked him if he had heard Phone 9-3231 FOR BETTER WORK of this country. He had plena to of a certain person, acceeded to be "Prompt Deliveries" introduce free exercise of religious one Of the best known, and most! Dial 3-8011 rights for foreigners, and tolerance beloved personalities in Stockholm. New Location 622 Buckharn St. FLINT, MICH. once more became Sweden's atti- He knew him , but the subject was FLINT, MICH. tude towards the Jews. In 1775, .hanged so adroitly. I found ou tfi I. Aron Isak, a poor Jewish engraver later that I had put the question from Brandenburg, Germany, to a Jew. I then concluded, po s to his friends that the Lord sibly the two were not kindly dis- Rosh Hashonah Greetings wrote GREETINGS Mayor of Stockholm gave the Jews posed towards each other, but when permission to build a synagogue. I had been in Stockholm a week I Aron !oak encouraged his friends realized that Jews were like that to migrate to Sweden, and he Not dislike, just Nordic indiffer- formed a little German community ence manifesting itself. Defiantly Zionistic Youth. in Stockholm. He wrote his mem- FLINT, MICHIGAN Rabbi Dr. Marcus Ephrenpreis, Plumbing and Heating bers, and left to Swedish Jews u niversally known as an ardent only records of Jewish life in Dealer Stockholm during the eighteenth Zionist, and famous for his contri- 5508 S. SAGINAW STREET PHONE 3-3551 butions to Jewish literature, acts century. as a connecting link between the Immediate Motorized Service On Jan. 24, 1871, a tolerance Swedish Jews who have grown up Rewound — Repaired edict was decreed which abrogated in the traditions of Sweden, and to Any Part of City many of the 13 prohibitive rulings. the Polish Jews. And he is using Phone 2.3355 Then Jews began to migrate to Zionism as a point of contact. Prior Sweden, from Poland arid Germany. to his arrival in Sweden (1915) Telephones 34542-94652 In 1815 the first known census of Zionism was remote from Jewish 1527 INDUSTRIAL AVENUE 310 East First Street Jews was taken, and the figures ti e. But as Zionism inextric- t ho a t at I I etdh e r7e85,wealthough re num e riot usis Jew FLINT, MICH. FLINT, MICIIIGAN sai ably wound up with Rabbi Ehren- that s life work, he is innoculating The Merchants of Flint Greer You With a Happy and Prosperous New Year We Wish You All a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year The Season's Greetings Dodds •Dumanois Company R.F.GIBBS &Co. GIBBS" FUNERAL DIRECTORS Ambulance Service Bell Phone 2-0187 901 Garland Street, Flint, Michigan DAY AND NIGHT -2J We Wish Our Jewish Friends a Very Happy New Year Season's Greetings Romain Johnston Flint's Largest Electrical Store FRED C. RAMLOW CRAGO SUPPLY COMPANY General Motors Radio 119 East Second Street Sand and Gravel Option's Greetings A Happy New Year to All Flint Mosaic Tile and Terrazzo Co. GEORGE H. HOLMES EDWIN W. BYERS REGISTERED ARCHITECT Reliance Electric Machine Co. 507-509 CITIZENS BANK BLDG. TELEPHONE 2-9279 ELECTRIC MOTORS Zt $QZfnUiXfaMMIA::;r: A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU F LORIST Season's Greetings Algoe•Gundry Co. cif cMessage FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE My Sincere Wishes to the Entire Com- munity for a Happy and Prosperous New Year From This Adorable Baby to Babies Everywhere PHONE 2-1182 703 BEACH STREET, Corner Third Mother buys everything she needs for me and little Sister from Flint's exclusive "Baby Shop," where prices and quality rival downtown stores! Beautiful hand-made Dresses, Hats, Coats, Bonnets, Toys, Bassinetts, Strollers. Fall supplies for boys and girls. FLINT, MICHIGAN Rosh Hashonah Greetings FLINT'S LEADING PLUMBING AND HEATING CONTRACTORS ruct cREAR U.-42 ./ ' PHONE 2-5194 MERCHANT TAILOR Wholesale and Retail Cleaners and Dyers ' 219 West Twelfth Street Consumers Phone 2-6187 Mascn Supply Co. PHONE 2-4713 — LAPEER and HOWARD FLINT, MICHIGAN FLINT, MICH. 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