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Charles L. Feldman, corporation
counsel of Buffalo, are among the
eight members of the legislative
committee which was named by
Governor Roosevelt, Senator
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study the tax laws of New York
state and recommend changes to
the next legislature.
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gotiations with the British gov-
ernment. Upon their return, the
Zionist Organization of America
called another public meeting in
Town 11811, New York City, Sept.
15, 1929. This assembly was made
the occasion of a tribute to Louis
Marshall, the leader of the move-
men which had culminated in the
enlargement of the Agency, who
had passed away in 'Zurich on Sept.
11. The speakers at this meeting,
which was presided over by Her-
man Bernstein and was addressed
by Morris Rothenberg, William M.
Lewis, Felix M. Warburg. Louis
Lipsky, Bernard A. Rosenblatt and
Stephen S. Wise, all of whom had
but recently returned from abroad,
agreed that the Palestine outrages
could. have been avoided but for
the negligence of the local au-
thorities. Coupled with a demand
for the removal of the responsible
officials, and for full British co-
operation for the achievement of
the objects of the Balfour Decla-
ration and the Mandate, the deter-
mination of the Jewish people to
go forward with constructive work
was expressed by all.
Palestine Discussion in Con g
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officially brought to the attention
of Congress on Jan. 7, 1930, in a
speech delivered by the lion. Sam-
uel Dickstein of New York City, a
member of the House of Represen-
tatives, in the course of which the
appointment of an international
commission of inquiry, the organ-
ization by the British authorities
of a Jewish militia, and the grant-
ing of permission to Palestine
Jews, under proper safeguards, to
bear arms for self-protection were
made.
In the meantime, the American
Jewish community maintained a
lively interest in Palestine affairs,
anxiously following the progress
of the investigation of the British
commission, headed by Sir Waite!
Shaw, and taking sides in the con-
troversy which followed the plea
by Dr. Judah L. Magnes, dean of
the Hebrew University at Jeru-
salem, for an Arab-Jewish under-
standing—a controversy, it should
be said, which probably would not
have been as intense as it was for
a time, had Dr. Magnes' complete
statement, instead of a somewhat
misleading abstract, been before
the community. The report of the
Shaw commission, made public on
March 31, 19:30, was received with
amazement and chagrin by Amen-
can Jewry.
I
New York City. When, in Feb- of New York City, president of the
ruary, various churches in Amer- American Society for Jewish Farm
ica decided to act in compliance Settlement in Russia, publicly pro-
with the suggestion which had been tested against disparaging state-
made by Pope Pius XI, a large part menu made without substantia-
of the Jewish community showed Lion.
eagerness to participate in the
During the agitation against the
movement.
anti-religious policy of the Soviet
On Feb. 19, the Synagogue government, the Jewish community
Council of America, representing was aroused by reports of the ar-
the three national synagogue fed- rest of 14 communal leaders, in-
cluding rabbis, in Minsk, and their
erations and the three national as-
probable execution. These reports
sociations of rabbis, adopted a were officially denied, in a message
to United States Senator William
E. Borah.
Ninety-six clergymen, including
several Jews, issued a declaration
pleading for "a note of humility
and a recognition of historical
facts" in the protests being made,
and that "whatever values be born
by the Soviet social experiment
should be given the opportunity to
mature."
Polish Situation Causes Concern.
The situation of the Jews in Po-
land • which has been a matter of
profound concern to the Jewish
community of the United States
ever since the close of the World
War, was the subject of a number
of important conferences during
the past year. In October, when
Mr. Tytus Filipowicz, then newly
appointed minister (later ambas-
sador) of Poland, arrived in the
United States, he stated in an in-
terview with a representative of
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
that the wretched economic situa-
tion of the Jews in Poland is the
unfortunate but inevitable result
DAVID A. BROWN
of the reorganization of the eco-
nomic life of the country, which is
resolution expressing the aolidar- having the effect of eliminating, to
ity of Jews with the world-wide a large extent, middlemen, a great
protest and calling upon their many of whom were Jews. The
government of Poland, however,
"brethren in the House of Israel stated Mr. Filipowicz, is doing its
in this land of freedom to repair utmost to relieve this situation by
to their synagogues on the Sal,- facilitating the process of the liqui-
bath, March 7, to offer up public dation of ghettos and raising the
prayer that the campaign against evil of the Jewish population
religion in Soviet Russia may cone. through better education and t•ch-
to a speedy end, giving way to nice! training.
that brotherhood which is the
In January, a delegation of the
flowering of God's spirit on earth." Federation of Polish Jews in Amer-
This appeal was widely heeded. On nt, headed by Benjamin Winter,
Feb. 23, a Jewish protest meeting
an
in Chicago decided to appoint a president, submitted a memor-
dam to Mr. F "
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suggesting
committee, headed by Bernard that economic conferences be held
Ilorwich, to raise a fund of $100,- in Poland to discuss the plight of
The announcement made in June
of the temporary suspension of
immigration to Palestine, pending
the completion of the inquiry into
the immigration capacity of the
country by another British com-
mission, was protested against as
another act prejudicial to the suc-
cess of Jewish effort in Palestine.
In spite of the heat of the day, ,
huge precession was organized i n
New York City on June 5, as an
expression of grief and disappoint-
ment. These found an echo inthe
Congress of the United States. On
June 17, 1930, the Hon- Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr., a representative from
New York City, spoke on the mat-
ter, expressing the view that "it
may become necessary for the gov-
ernment of the United States to
call upon the government of Great
Britain to inquire with regard to
its future intentions in Palestine." 000 to aid rabbis and other re- the Jewish population and that rep-
ligious functionaries in Russia'
resentatives of the American Jew-
Russia Lively Subject Here.
' The American Jewish Congress is community be invited to partici-
The situation in Russia, especi- called a conference of national
t
the di scuss i ons.
ally as respects the status of re- Jewish organizations in New York inter promised
to
the
ligion, and particularly Judaism, City on Feb. 27, which decided to memorandum to his forward
government
was the subject of lively discussion
within the Jewish community, es- proclaim Sunday, March 16, the with a favorable recommendation.
pecially during the brief period day set aside by the Christian In March a joint conference on Po-
churches, as the national (lay of land was held under the auspices
corresponding roughly to the Protest by American Jewry;
and of the American Jewish Congress
months of February and March,
on that (lay meetings were held in and the Federation of Polish Jews.
1930, when the persecution of re- several cities, the most noteworthy In May, at the twenty-second an-
ligion in Russia was being univer-
sally condemned, following a dec- being the one held in New York nual convention of the Federation
City under the auspices of the of Polish Jews, a resolution was
laration by the Vatican, published
congress, which was addressed by adopted again calling attention to
Feb. 9, 1930, appealing to all United States Senator Simeon D. the discriminations in Poland
creeds to raise their voices in pro-
Fess and Representative Ilamilton against Jews in the political and
test.
Fish, Jr.
economic field, and expressing re-
The perilous state of the Jew-
In some of the many speeches Bret that the l'olish government
ish religion in Russia was referred delivered at these meetings, state- had not yet called the conference
to and discussed by the executive menu were made derogatory to suggested.
committee of the American Jewish the enterprise of settling Jews on
In the meantime, in April, there
Committee in the report submitted the land in Russia, especially to was a meeting of seven Jews and
by it to the twenty-third annual the effect that the agricultural col- seven non-Jews of Polish birth in
alerting of that organization, on lectivization program of the So- New York City, at which the rela-
Nov. 1, 1929, us in many preceding viet government would be harmful tions of the respective groups both
reports. The American Jewish to the work already accomplished in the United States and Poland
Congress called a conference on by Jewish agencies.
Because of were discussed, and at which it
the subject early in December in such remarks, James N. Rosenberg was agreed that a permanent corn-
mittee on good-will between Polish
Jews and Christians be established.
This committee was actually insti-
tuted toward the end of May.
New Outbreaks in Rumania Cause
Worry.
As was not the case in the pre-
ceding year, when the situation of
the Jews in Rumania was a com-
paratively peaceful one, the Amer-
ican Jewish community was com-
pelled, during the past year, to
watch with considerable concern
the progress of Jewish life in that
country. It will be recalled that
toward the end of the spring 1929
him the Jewish situation in Ru-
mania. Mr. Davilla stated that if
was his desire on behalf of the
legation to renew and continue
useful contact with the American
Jewish Committee, which had
existed during the lifetime of its
late president, Louis Marshall. Mr.
Adler expressed the hope that the
minister would be in a position in
the near future to give assurance
that a congress of Jewish com-
munities in Rumania would be
called for the purpose of giving
the Jews an opportunity for ex-
pressing their views on the sub-
ject of the new communities law.
Mr Davilla stated that the govern-
ment had taken strong measures to
re-establish order after the recent
outbreaks and had punished those
found guilty of complicity in
them.
In May cane reports of new
outbreaks, following the election
to the Rumanian parliament of
Professor Cuza, notorious prophet
of anti-Semitism. Protests were
voiced by the United Rumanian
Jews of America, the American
Jewish Congress, and the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee. In the
absence from the country of Mr.
Davila, the charge d'affaires of the
legation gave assurances that the
reports of excesses were, in a great
many cases, exaggerated; the
I charge supplemented this inferma-
tion with the gratuitou s
(oh ice to
the Jews of America that "it would
be to the ultimate interet s of the
Jews to ignore the undoubtedly
regrettable excesses in which some
few Jews have been beaten or
their shops looted, in order to in.
sure for the vast majority the pos-
sibility of earning a good thi ng,
instead of doing everything to per.
petuate the misery of the great
mass of Jews." As this article is
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the Rumanian government intro-
duced a law providing fur reorgan-
ization of the Jewish communities
on lines which met with the con-
demnation of most of the sections
of the Rumanian community.
Their protest was seconded by that
of the United Rumanian Jews of
America, who were informed by
.the Rumanian legation at Washing-
ton that objections to the new
law are untenable because it mere-
ly places the J('W:4 of Rumania in
the same position, insofar as their
religious organization is con-
' evened, as the Jews of the United
I States and other western coun-
tries. This explanation, however,
satisfied neither the Jewish organ-
izations in Rumania nor those in
the United States, and the com-
munities law remains one of the
sources of dissatisfaction on the
part of Jew's with conditions in
Rumania.
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National Peasant party. headed by
Dr. Julia Mania, had been in
power for almost a year, reports
began corning from Rumania that
all was nut well there and that
sporadic outbreaks against Jews
were taking place. These reports
of these incidents were called to
the attention of the Rumanian le
ration at Washington by the
United Rumanian Jews of Amer-
ica. On Dec. 19, Charles A. Da-
vila, the Rumanian minister, called
upon I/r. Cyrus Adler, the presi-
dent of the American Jewish Com-
mittee, and discussed with him the
Jewish situation in Rumania. SIr.
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