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September 19, 1930 - Image 44

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle, 1930-09-19

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ikl'ROITI DOS A RONIGUi

We Wish Everyone
A Happy New Year

LENNANE &
McILVENNA

Jews everywhere. But in Austria
I was received at court; everybody
accepted me. I brought letters of
introduction to the leading fam-
ilies in New York. The looked on
me as if I were some strange freak;
t hey all but told their butlers t
show me the Bair. My friendship
with my emperor and his family
means nothing here. I am a Jew.
Rather than break my heart be-
, cause I am all alone in New York,
I shall go home :o ld associate with
people who care to receive me'''
"It is not a very lofty ambition,'
perhaps, to wish to he received in
New York drawing-rooms. But
here was a man who had shone in
the most civilized court in Europe;
it was strange to think that doors
I were closed to him in New York.
One realizes, after thinking it over
during the leisure of 17 years, that
it was largely his own fault. Let-
tors from an emperor (from his
Icourtiers, at least) are seldom as
effective as they might seem to be.
It is difficult in society, or in any
other occupation, to start at the

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18 Garrison Ave., Dearborn 214, Dearborn

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Wishing All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a
Happy and Prosperous New Year

JEWELL
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May the New Year bring a full
measure of happiness and prosper- oo
ity to our patrons and friends is the LM
wish of

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AL. KENNEY

Scene in the synagogue in Avignon where the 91 Jewish Immigrants from Poland who were settled

in Southwestern France met.

In olden days the south of
France was noted for its great
communities and the city of Avig-
non was known for its pre-emi-
nence in Jewish life, playing a
very important part in Jewish his-
tory. It seems as if Jewish his-

been quite an influx of Jews from
Eastern Europe, notably from
Poland. Most of these, through
the activities of the Inas-Ica-
Enngdirect, have become farmers ,
and have been settled in the south-
ern and southwestern parts of
France. They have either become
farm laborers or crop-sharing
farmers, that is, leasing land from
the local peasantry and tilli,ig it
upon a partnership basis.
Them laborers and farmers are''

with the democrat in America, when
you will honor both John Dewey
and Albert Michelson, when you
will begin to separate people into
classes according to their inner
qualities and not according to their
race externalisms, when you will
drop your hatred and envy of the
truly superior man—then you will
have no difficulty in assimilating
the Jew or any other so-called "for-
eign" race into the body politic of
America. But to ask us today to
become stupid, albeit "democratic"
peasants, is asking a bit too much
of us.

spread over a large area and are
to some extent isolated. With a
view of bringing them together not

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only for Jewish and social contact
but also in order to ascertain how
they are developing and, more

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Season's Greetings to All Our Jewish Friends
and Customers

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Tell your Nordic boys and girls,
Mr. Powell, that it is not no much
a question of the willingness of us
Jews to become assimilated with
your Protestant-Nordic majority
race (God knows, we are only too
willing, and if it weren't for your
rebuffs, about 90 percent of Ameri-
can Jewry would by now have be-
come Nordicized beyond recogni-
tion), as it is a question of your
people becoming a bit more grown-
up and intelligent. We Jews can-

Lowest Prices

IN SCHOOL

Teacher: "Did you write your
composition: Winter and Sum-
mer?"
Pupil: "I did."
Teacher: Well, what did you
say?"
Pupil: "In summer everybraly
complains on account of the heat;
in winter—on account of the cold.
I have therefore written that it
would be best if we had summer ,
not "slow down, just a little the during the winter, and winter in
terrific pace of our minds" though the summer."

the pace is really not as terrific as
What is difficut?—"To know
you think—since a mind is not ex-
.
actly a machine. But you Nordics oneself."
M hat is easy?—"To advise an-
have some good minds among you
as well as we, and you can separ- other."--Tales.
ate the gold from the dross and rec-
ognize the gold for what it is
gold. You can get rid of your
puerile notions of democracy, of
"starting from the bottom," quick-
er than we can get rid of our intel-
ligence; it will be better for you,
and for America in general, if you
will give ability, honesty and refine-
ment recognition in whatever quar-
ter you may find it, than if you will
persist in denying some really able
and worthwhile Jew the recognition

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All My
Jewish Friends and Customers

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pp

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conducting a religious service
which was addressed by M. Vale-
bregue, the president of the local
community, and others.
Quite a number of the farmers
expressed a desire to bring their
families to France and some of the
young men were anxious to have
their fiancees with them. Of
course, in connection therewith
there are certain legal technicali-
ties which, however, the Paris
branch of the Ilias-Ica-Emigdirect
is endeavoring to straighten out.
The report which Hies has re-
' ceived from Paris indicates that

the efforts to place these Jewish
immigrants from Poland on the
soil are proving successful and

(copyright. 1050. J. T. A.)

Fifteen years of study in Pales-
tine in poetry of South-Arabian
Jews over a period of several cen-
turies will be represented in a
hook, "The Yemenite Diwan," by
Prof. Abraham Z. Idelsohn, pro-
f he doesn't belong to our own those Jews who assimilated with
Nordic race and doesn't act exact- his milieu and who thereby be- fessor of Jewish Music and Liturgy
Hebrew Union College, to be pub-
y like we do). came great. But would Disraeli lished during the coming year.
Yes, it is our fault, Mr. Powell, I have had a chance in present-day
Lexicographical notes will be by
f those of us Jews (and Gentile i standardized, Babbittized, peasant.:
oo, for that matter) who still re - i governed America? The English; Prof. Harry Torczyner of the
Hochschule in Berlin.
!thin some European ideas of col Mal called Disraeli "a queer little
Dr. Jacob Z. Lauterbach, pro-
s Jew" and with all his assimilation fessor of Talmud, at the Hebrew
they still recognized the "Oriental," Union College, recently completed
that is, the Jew, in him, but nev- his "Critical Text of the Mekilta"
ertheless they talk him as he "so, with a translation, prepared for
acknowledged his superior abilities I the series of Jewish Classics and
and mode him their Prime Minis-I for publication by the Jewish Pub-
ter! Your Nordic-Yankee peas- lication Society.
ants would have rejected a Dis-1
The Hebrew Union College An-
raeli because he gesticulates while nual will appear early in 1931.
talking, or for a similar racial
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manent settlers on the land and
that the number may increase as
well.

Happy New

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Season's Greetings to All

PETERSON

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Rosh Hashonah Greetings to the Entire
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Rosh Hashonah Greetings to the Entire
Community

LINWOOD PIPE
& SUPPLY CO.

PLUMBING & HEATING SUPPLIES

14760 LINWOOD AT D. T. R. R.

Phone Longfellow 1870

Wishing All My Jewish Friends and Patrons a
Happy and Prosperous New Year

LE SHONO TOVO TIKOSEVU !
A Happy New Year to Everybody

Nancy Van Wyck

Queen Quality Laundry

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PERFECT WORK AND SERVICE

OF SCIENTIFIC SCALP TREATMENT

That's the kind you get here. We call promptly, and the
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often found in laundered goods. The cost is very low.

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Season's Greetings and Best
Wishes

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Electrical

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HOTEL AND RESTAURANT WORK

Professional Finishers for the Amateur

Year

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of your Puritan race, even though mature people, not a race of adoles-
we may get for exchange in addi- , cents, peasant boys and girls! Nev-
tion a mess of pottage in the form I ertheless, we can point out to you
of material wealth! It is our fault the example of England—one coun-
that we are too honest and too in- try at least which you respect, since
telligent to accept the hypocritical your race originated there—where
and stupid l'uritan idea of democ- democracy was first invented, but
racy, the idea that every one in where the aristocratic class idea
order to be a worthy citizen must has not been entirely abandoned to
"start at the bottom:" that the col- this very day, which has yet lived
lege graduate must first prove him- and pro spered for !wally a thou-
self to he a good waiter or boot- sand years. And the strength of
black or elevator operator before this England during the past cen-
he can become a successful lawyer tury has lain in the fact that in
or physician or teacher; the idea choosing its rulers it did not think
that a boot-black is just as intel- primarily of their race but of their
ligent and just as refined (especial- individual fitness as men and wow-
ly if he has made a little money), en to become part of an efficient
li ru c I ass. ut
11 course,
o of
we
perhaps even more so, as a coege
professor who earns no more, or who point out the danger to Amer-
. perhaps even less, than the boot- ice in judging a man according to
black; the crazy Bolshevik idea race and not according to class,
(more rampant in America today are considered by your folks bail
than even in Russia) that all men Americans and unfit to mingle with
are alike and that one man is as you.
good as another (except of course' You mention Disraeli as one of

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And when you will recognize the
back thousands of years, and that , vides people into classes, instead of
many of as cannot lightly exchange judging them by their color, shape I able Jew together with the able
that tradition and that culture for of nose and inherited race quell- Gentile, when you will give the true
the primitive, backwoods culture ties! It is our fault if we are a aristocrats at least an even break

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2457 Woodward

Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All My Jewish
Friends and Customers

than anything else, what further 00
service they require, the officials
Gold leaf window and office lettering, cloth, paper
tory , is renewing itself.
of the Ilias-Ica-Emigdirect are 00
cards, raised letters.
I. ranee has become practically
/I
utilizing the Jewish holdays for
the only Jewish immigration coun-
periodical gatherings. Recently
Largely his own fault! Of course,
try on the continent of Europe and
such a gathering took place in the
it is always the fault of the Jews,' in the last few years there has
city of Avignon, reminding one of
to
a minority race, if he happens
the olden days in ancient Palestine
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be too intelligent and refi ned for I
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countryiture
and
civilization,
have
a
secret
that he deserves from society just when the Jews all over the country
the ruling caste of the
would come to Jerusalem. The
where he happens to sojourn! It is feeling that it is more Just, and because you don't like the shape of
synagogue at Avignon was the
our fault that we have inherited better according to his mental and his nose, or his manner of dress,
meeting place, Rabbi M. Scialtiel
tradition and a culture that goes spiritual capacities, when it di- or his English accent.

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384 Piper Blvd.

JEWISH IMMIGRANTS SUCCEED AS FARMERS IN FRANCE

them in society? No. Why? Be-
cause-- well, because they are too
aristocratic, too intelligent, too re-
fined, and too proud to deny their
race heritage, for your peasant folk
to stomach.
Am I misinterpreting you? But
in this connection you yourself tell
an interesting story, which shows
how democratic Yankee farmers
react to a European aristocrat, even
though he is not a rich idler, but an
active business man and a former
military offifer. Let me tell the
story in your own words:
"The best looking man I happen
even to have seen was a firmer
Austrian cavalryman, who came t
the United States in 1912 and en-
tered busineas in New York. '1
simply cannot believe it, he said
'I an a Jew, and
one evening.
there is some prejudice against

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