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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 44:18-47:27.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 37:15-28.
Fast of Telmth Readings of the
Law, Tuesday,
December 30.
Tebeth 6, 5691
Beth El's Eightieth Annviersary.
January 4 will be a banner day for the
Detroit Jewish community. The observ-
ance on that day of the eightieth anniver-
sary of Temple Beth El will assume a city-
wide aspect because it will mark the pass-
ing of eight decades from the time of the
first organized Jewish effort in Detroit, out
of which has developed the present large
Jewish community.
Greatly enhancing the occasion will be
the visit here of the Honorable Lily II. Mon-
tagu, J. P., who came to this country to
attend the thirty-second council of the Un-
ion of American Hebrew Congregations,
Daughter of the late Lord Swaythling and
member of a family that has long played a
leading role in Jewish life in England, Miss
Montagu has distinguished herself as social
worker and writer. As settlement worker,
as founder of the Jewish Religious Union.
as author of school books and short stories,
she has made for herself a position of prom-
inence in Jewry, especially Liberal Jewry.
To Temple Beth El will be extended the
greetings of all Detroit Jews, on the . oc-
casion of this congregation's eightieth anni-
versary. And an interested community
will await the message of the distinguished
gtest, Miss Montagu.
Henrietta Szold's Seventieth Birthday.
The seventieth birthday of Miss Henriet-
ta Szold, which was celebrated by many
Jewish communities last Sunday, ushered in
a holiday period for Jews, particularly
Jewish womanhood, throughout the world.
The occasion gives our people an oppor-
tunity to honor this modest and truly great
leader for accomplishments which are un-
rivaled in modern Jewish history.
As scholar and leader, Miss Szold has to
her credit achievements which have left an
indelible mark on Jewish life. As secre-
tary of the Jewish Publication Society of
America, as a Zionist, as a writer, but more
especially as founder of Iladassah, Miss
Szold has eartred a first rank position in
Jewry.
Another outstanding Jewess of our time,
Mrs. Rebekah Kohut, pays tribute to Miss
Szold elsewhere on this page, and we com-
mend it to our readers as an expression of
the feelings of many hundreds of thousands
of Jews and Jewesses. And it will be a
treat locally to hear the tribute to Miss
Szold over the Jewish Radio Forum this
Sunday, by Mrs. Kohut's daughter, Mrs.
Mayer B. Sulzberger.
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A Vicious Book.
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William Thomas Walsh's "Isabella of
Spain, the Last Crusader," is one of the
most vicious publications in years, and prob-
ably exceeds most anti-Semitic books in its
venomous contents in that it defends some-
thing which very few dared to back up in
many decades. It virtually justifies the
Spanish Inquisition and even labors to prove
the Jews guilty of the Blood Accusation,
In our issue of last week we were privi-
leged to publish an excellent criticism of
this volume by Dr. David de Sola Pool,
leading authority on the history of the Jews
in Spain and a leader of Sephardic Jewry,
Dr. Pool rightfully challenges the Catholic
Church in America to repudiate this biog-
raphy of Isabella. We await with interest
the reply from Catholic Church leaders.
Reviving Calendar Reform Issue.
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The donation of $10,000 by George East-
man of Rochester, N. Y., for the prepara-
tory work of the conference on calendar
reform, which is to be considered by the
League of Nations, is proof that Orthodox
Jews arejustified intheir constant warn-
ings against the dangers for Jewry in the
proposed reforms. Mr. Eastman, who is
the outstanding advocate of calendar re-
form in the world, evidently is determined
to force consideration of his plan, which
contains provisions that would make the
Sabbath migratory and would therefore
further endanger its observance by Jews.
Sabbath observers particularly are obli-
gated therefore to press the fight against
this reform measure, but all Jews have ob-
ligated themselves to fight against this dan-
ger, and nothing should be left undone to
prevent its becoming a reality.
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Another Christmas has passed, and again
we hear the old story about the Jewish
youngster who, peeping into the window of
a non-Jewish neighbor, exclaims: "Oh, dad-
dy, the Goyim are also celebrating Christ-
mas."
The time for scolding those Jews who
mock and imitate and celebrate Christmas
as if it were Yom Kippur has passed. Such
Jews are mere subjects for ridicule, and
because of that we ask our readers to share
with us the sentiments contained in the fol-
lowing stanzas, from Temple Tidings of
Newark, N. J.:
Jews merrily dressing Christmas trees—
Bubbling with "Christmas spirit" as they string
Sparkling lights and glistening tinsel
Through fragrant evergreen!
Pentateuchal portion—x. 32:11-14; 34:1-10.
Prophetical portion—I6.
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Jews making up like whiskered Santa Clauses
And putting Christmas gifts in stockings
Of children soon to be Bar Mitzvah!
Jews shaking each other's hands
And grinning with the silliness of it
Wishing each other "Merry Christmas!"
Jews apologizing lamely
"You see, it's for the children's sake
And after all, it's the spirit of the thing!"
Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
DID YOU KNOW THAT—
A Jew, by the name of Isaac
Greenwald, thrilled the intelligent-
sia of Boston in the early part of
the eighteenth century with lec-
tures on chemistry?
A grandsire of Dr. Solomon
Solis Cohen by the name of Reu-
ben Etting, who fought in the
American Revolutionary army,
was captured by the choice of eat-
ing pork or nothing—just because
he was a Jew, and that as
a result
of his refusal to eat the forbidden
meat and the malnutrition which
ensued, he developed tuberculosis,
from which he shortly after died?
Dr. Joshua Bloch, chief of the
Jewish division of the New York
Public Library, who has never had
anything to to with trade in his
life, is president of the Board of
Trade of the town of Hyde Park,
Long Island?
Stranger than fiction, Lewis
Browne now has a partner to share
his royalties?
Jews—Jews—Jew s
So wise anti silly—old and young!
So courageous and timid—rich and poor!
So religious and so indifferent!
So original and so imitative!
Walter Winchell, $200,000 a
year columnist, at one time sang
in the choir of Cantor Rosenblatt?
The name of the same Winchell
at the time was Lipschutz?
Some ancient Jewish mystics
believed, outchristian sciencing
Christian Science, that even the
weather reacted to tnan's think-
ing?
Graetz knew about this Jewish contradiction
And called it "Polarity!"
In Greek days the Jew decorated his house
With images of dryads and satyrs
And named himself Themistocies ben Sophocles!
In Roman (lays he wore a toga (tzitzis beneath)
And named himself Levinus and Benedictus!
Marcel Proust was of quasi-Jew-
ish descent?
A "goy," Henry George, penned
one of the most brilliant and read-
able essays on Moses which has
ever been done—and which you
should read?
In Russian days he wore a long beard
And put "off" or "sky" at the end of his
name!
It's all veil, silly—nothing more!
Down—deep in his Jewish being
Ile knows it's silly and childish!
For a moment he feels older—wiser-
Sees himself the prophet and pioneer people—
The Jew—the everlasting Jew.
A certain New York damsel,
once courted by Jed Harris, now
rues the night she said "no" to
the famous theater producer, and
that when she first heard of Jed's
great success, she couldn't believe
it was the same Jed?
Jews who do not know their places as
Jews deserve to be treated only with ridi-
cule and satire. It never pays to get
wrought up over them. Christians must
laugh at Jews who try to be holier than
Christianity itself in their efforts to observe
Christmas, And if Jews, too, will treat them
to laughter, they may learn the evil of their
ways.
Isaac M. Wise, father of Re-
form Judaism in America, was so
fed up by his early experiences in
America, to the general reactions
to his rabbinical views, that he
took up the study of the law, in-
tending to retire from the cloth?
A well-known "booklegger" who
was recently sentenced to prison
for publishing the forbidden is out
again and has just gotten out a so-
called expurgated edition of an ex-
tremely naughty but highly liter-
ary work?
Is the Jewish Home Declining?
The aforesaid individual was at
one time regarded as one of the
two or three most prominent poets
in America?
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the
Institute of Sexual Science of Berlin and
president of the World League for Sexual
Reform on a Scientific Basis, with which
Havelock Ellis and August Forel are offici-
ally affiliated, believes that the Jewish
idea of the family has been a tremendous
influence for good in modern life," In a
statement upon his arrival for a lecture
tour of this country, Dr. Hirschfeld said
that this Jewish idea "emphasizes the crea-
tion of normal relations. Father, mother
and child—that is the most important en-
tity in the world. It brings human satis-
faction, ethically, biologically, and physi-
cally."
Coming from such a noted authority on
the sex question, this statement is a great
encouragement to those in Jewish life who
seek to strengthen the influence of the
home upon the child and upon the life of
Jews in general. But it is well to remember
that Dr. Hirschfeld, who is himself a Jew,
did not speak of a condition in Jewish life,
but rather endorsed the ideal of Jewish
living. Jews who fear not the truth will be
compelled to admit that the ideal itself is
declining in actual practice, and men con-
cerned over demoralizing influences have
for some time now pleaded for a revival of
beautiful customs in the home, in order
thereby to strengthen the Jewish home.
Jewish youths have not escaped the in-
fluences which are corrupting the young
generation. The economic conditions nat-
urally are reaping a deadly harvest in caus-
ing despair and in increasing the spirit of
materialism. But in the darkest days of
Jewish history, the pride of the Jew was
that he never made concessions in his home;
that he never deviated from principles. His
home life for that reason continued beauti-
ful and contributed to the Jew's power to
resist oppressions. A return to such prac-
tice is needed today. Restore the idealism
of the Jewish home, and you revive the
most beautiful and most powerful in life.
Give substance to the important entity of
the home by reviving the beautiful customs
and ideals of the Jew, and you restore to
the Jewish people a power which has made
it an undying race.
Send Anti-Semites to Denver.
From Denver, Colo., we have the infor-
schools are learning Chanukah songs in-
stead of Christmas carols. In one of the
schools the Jewish attendance is about 98
per cent of the total and in the other it is
equally divided between Jews and non-
Jews. In Denver at least true good will and
tolerance is reigning supreme during the
Christmas period. But in direct contrast to
this diplay of good will comes the news
from Vienna that Cardinal PHIL archbishop
of Vienna, joined the pre-Christmas cam-
paign of Austrian anti-Semites for an eco-
nomic boycott of Jewish firms. Denver is a
good place for the mentally tubercular of
Austria.
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BY-THE-WAY
Not that it matters. the Jewish
population of Philadelphia in 1857
was 5,000?
There would probably be a
wholesale slaughter of the staffs
of some of the Yiddish dailies to
meet hard times, but the Jewish
press union "no let?"
Babbette Deutsch, poetess, is
the wife of Avram Yarmolinsky,
chief of the Russian division of
the New York library?
The Henry Clay family was in-
termarried with the Gratz family
of Philadelphia?
Reflex Dr. Melammed is one
of the few contemporary Jews
whose books are officially listed as
forbidden on the index Expurga-
torus of Rome?
When Joseph Pulitzer, founder
of the New York World, came to
America he could not wait until
the ship docked, but jumped over-
board while the ship was some half
a mile distant, and swam to shore?
That one of the Rothschilds said
that if Pulitzer had not become
blind, he would have owned pretty
nearly everything else beside the
New York World, but that since
his death, the sheet has been lag-
ging financially, though its sister
papers, the Evening World and the
St. Louis Post Dispatch, are very
spry indeed?
Myron Weiss, associate editor
of Time, hails from Cleveland on
the Cuyahoga?
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Henrietta Szold, Septuagenarian
Charles H. Joseph
By REBEKAH KOHUT
PROF. NATHAN ISAACS of Harvard University
is uncompromisingly Orthodox. . . . Lewis
Browne, the author, erred when he said in a lecture
that Otto Kahn had left the Jewish faith. Mr. Kahn
is still a Jew and belongs to no congregation. .
The Jewish sports writers who insist in naming
Schwartz, of Notre Dame football team, on the All-
Jewish football team are behind the times. Schwartz
is not a Jew. . . The report that a certain to-
bacco company has discharged 20,000 Jews does
not appear to be true. . . . The Jewish Book Club
has selected the "Great Betrayal," by Rabbi Ste-
phen S. Wise and Jacob de Haas PS its third book.
. . . Rabbi Samuel Goldenson, of Roder Shalom,
Pittsburgh, has been ill for several weeks and is
not occupying his pulpit. . . . Sol Levitan, state
treasurer of Wisconsin, and Jacob Epstein, philan-
thropist, of Baltimore, were both peddlers in their
early days and have remained steadfast friends all
through the years. . . . For the third time in four
years a Yonkers, N. Y., synagogue was burglarized,
12 prayer shawls and $6 in cash being stolen
A new million dollar hotel has been opened in
Jerusalem. Its name is the "King," and it is adver-
tised as the best hostelry in the Near Fast
Walter Winchell, the famous columnist, is a Jew
. . . Marvin Rothstein of New York, aged only 15
years, is a member of the freshman class of Brown
University. . . , Abolition in the near future of
the restrictions, dating from the Czarist days,
against the Jews of Poland was predicted by the
Polish ambassador to the United States in a con-
ference with the American Jewish Committee. .. .
Charles Michelson, who is the head and front of
the Democrat artillery which has been bombarding
the Hoover administration, is a Jew. . . A travel
expert suggests that if you want to see New York's
East Side ghetto to go down to Fourteenth street,
take an east bound car marked Clinton street.
This will take you through the heart of the ghetto
anti bring you back to where you started, if you
stay on. . . . Keep this in mind when you go to
New York.. . , A lot of folk think Max Eastman,
the radical, is a Jew. lie isn't. Both his father
and mother were Congregational ministers.
I LUNCHED the other (lay with Lewis Browne and
his bride, Mrs. Myna Lissner. He told me that
his new book of Christianity, "Since Calvary," will
soon be published, and it is interesting to note that
the illustrations have been done by his wife. After
a brief lecture tour Mr. and Mrs. Browne will go
abroad, for a five months' tour. They will include
Palestine in their itinerary. Lewis Browne has
withdrawn completely from the Jewish pulpit and
is devoting himself exclusively to writing and lec-
turing. Ile started to write for the Nation when
he was scarcely more than 20 years old, and today,
at the age of 33 years, he has several successful
books to his credit.
I N THE Catholic Commonweal I find an interest.
ing article on the Soviet Religion referring spe-
cifically to atheism. Of interest to every one is
this statement:
The Association of Atheists, which in 1925
developed into the Association of Militant
Atheists, has its center in Moscow. Its activity
stretches out over the whole Soviet Union. The
statistics show lately a rapid rise in the num-
ber of its members, which at present is over
2,500,000. Toward the end of the five-year
plan the number is to be brought to 17,000,000.
To judge rightly of the number of members
one must keep in mind that the purpose of
the association is not merely fostering anti-
religious sentiment, but in the first place, the
formation of each member for active warfare
in behalf of atheism.
I agree. I have tried to do something to corerct
Jacob Leichtman, treasurer o f the situation, but it seems like dipping the ocean
the American Jewish Congress, es-
with a spoon. .. , Perhaps the survey may find a
remedy.
tablished the second largest indus
trial bank in the country whil
e I AM in receipt of a letter from Charles Jacobson,
still in the early 30's?
United States commissioner in Little Rock, Ark.,
Joseph Goldmark, father-in-law
of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, wa
who throws some light on how the treaty with Rua-
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sia
was
abrogated. Ile says:
the inventor of the safety match
Adolph S. Ochs is a brother-in-
In
1913 this matter was before the Senate
law of Rabbi Jonah B. Wise?
Judiciary Committee. This committee was ap-
Judah P. Benjamin was once
parently taking no action in the matter despite
offered a place on the Supreme
repeated efforts to get a favorable report....
Court of the United States but de-
dined?
About this time Dr. Cyrus Adler called on me.
The early Americans christened
. . .Dr. Adler was a native of Arkansas .. .
their children more frequently
and while here on private business sought me
after the Old Testament names
out.... He said he would like to meet Sena-
than after the newer addition?
tor James C. Clarke, at that time a member of
Many of the Yankees thought
the Senate Judiciary Committee... The sena-
that the Indians were of the lost
tribes of Israel because the Red
tor and the writer being on intimate terms ...
Men didn't like pigs?
I arranged a
meeting between him and Dr.
Mrs. Sholom Aleichem lives in
Adler. At this meeting Dr. Adler explained
the Bronx?
the Russian situation in detail . . . and sup-
The Vanguard, independent Jew-
plied information which convinced the senator
ish publication, has folded up?
that the State Department had not been giv-
Z. Tygel of the Haym Salomon
ing the committee correct information regard-
Memorial, has a suit forevery
day in the week, but sometimes
ing the situation.. . . The senator told Dr.
wears the Wednesday suit on Fri-
Adler that upon his return to Washington he
day?
would undertake to verify the information
Seligman, who financed the
given him; if correct, he would see to it that
northern aide in the Civil War
the committee report the results to the Senate
and the Erlanger firm of bankers
with a recommendation that it pass .... Sena-
of France, who did the same for
the Confederacy, were Jewish?
tor Clarke was one of the big men of the
The father of Bernard Baruch,
Senate . . . who later became president pro
Dr. Simon Baruch, was a surgeon
tem. and wielded a powerful influence. .
in the Confederate army and
It was through his efforts that the resolution
later became one of the first ex-
ponents of hydrotherapy?
was reported out of the committee and passed
The Mormons regard themselves
the Senate.... I am sure Dr. Adler will agree
as a branch of the House of Israel
with me that the credit for the abrogation of
sod th at Brigham Young once at-
the
treaty should Ro largely to Senator Clarke
tended a bar mitzvah party?
for his untiring efforts.
A well known figure in the New
York journalistic world, who not
I wish to thank Mr. Jacobson for his version of
so long ago was accounted as lean-
the matter, and at the same itme extend my thanks
ing to anti-Semitism, is now
to scores of others in all parts of the country who
wedded to a Jewess and can speak
took the time to bring me information on the sub-
more Yiddish than his Jewish ject. It has been impossible to publish their letters
wife?
or to even acknowledge them personally, so I take
(Copyright. 1930, J. T A.)
this means of expressing my appreciation.
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Henrietta Szold! How describe
this fine-drawn, gray-haired, inde-
fatigable champion of the faith?
The words indomitable, courage-
ous, unwavering, idealistic arise
only to be rejected She is all of
these things, but so much more
that the pitiful inadequacy of lan-
guage becomes an exasperating in-
strument of frustration. Words
alone, no matter how effusive, can
never pay her sufficient tribute .
Humanitarianism does not express
her profound humanity. Shall I
say of her work that it is hard,
merciless and unsparing? Brittle
description for the nerve-shatter-
ing crusade that has marked her
labors to project an ideal and pre-
serve a race.
Henrietta Szold was born in
Baltimore during the winter of
1860. Seventy years constitutes
longevity for most people but to
this flaming apostle of the Jewish
ideal the y ears are pitiably few
and the roa d ahead still long and
arduous. Zionismus Longus, Tem-
pus Fugit. Seventy years carries
with it the right for peace and
comfort rest and relaxation, but
for this redoubtable warrior in the
names of Jewish homogenity there
can be no peace or rest while so
much remains yet to be (lone.
The eldest daughter of Dr. Ben-
jamin Szold, renowned scholar,
teacher and rabbi, and Sophie
Szold, Henrietta was surrounded
from childhood with that type of
scholarly learning contemporane-
ously referred to as humanism.
She was always within intimate
and immediate reach of her
rather's library, an advantage that
afforded her a fine general cultural
training and a complete Jewish
education. To her house came the
leaders from all walks of life, the
finest intellects, the greatest men
of action. It was first and last an
environment that breathed and
created a deep Jewish sentiment
and respected the tradition of ra-
cial dignity. What stood out in
this well remembered home was it
reverence for the spiritual heritage
and a strict regard for all religious
observances. By birth and breed-
ing, by inclination and tempera-
ment, by example and discipline.
Henrietta Szold was thus equipped
to become the ideal Jewish leader.
Translated Will Into Action.
She early manifested a prefer-
ence for intellectual activity. She
was constantly at her father's side,
proving an apt and ardent pupil, a
painstaking and eager intellectual
companion.
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Zionist. When the May taws of
Russia, which placed the Jews of
that country beyond the pale, pro.
jected swarms of immigrants into
this country, those who came to
Baltimore were indeed fortunate
that a llenrietta Szold resided in
that city. With no facilities for
night school, Miss Scold, with the
aid of a few friends, organized
classes, brought order into the
lives of these expatriots, and
helped them to an adjustment that
made their lives infinitely happier.
To those of us who knew her in
those days, the display of execu-
tive genius which now distin-
guishes her, was only to be ex-
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When her father died, Henri-
etta, moved by her love for hint
and actuated by a devotion to his
ideals, entered the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary in New York
City. Upon her emergence she be-
came identified as a keen and
penetrating writer on things Ju-
daic.
When the Jewish Publication So-
ciety of America was organized
she was chosen secretary to the
publication committee, a post
which she held for 25 years. This
work demanded continuous corre-
spondence with writers in every
part of the habitable globe. It
meant translating foreign works
into English. It meant introduc-
ing to American Jewry the
thoughts, ideas and sentiments
that swayed the French, German
and ancient Ilebraists. Eventu-
ally it lead to the compiling and
editing of the organization year
book for a great number of years.
Couple this amazing activity with
the coincident position of execu-
tive secretary (without pay) to
the Federation of American Zion-
ists, and one gets an approximate
idea of the multitudinous labors
that descended upon her.
It was inevitable that Henrietta
Szold should soon find herself im-
mersed in Zionism. It was in-
evitable that she should be soon
plunged into the thick of the bat-
tle, into the raging frontline where
the action was thickest, where lb:
demands were greatest. At first
she merely wrote on Zionism and
addressed small groups on the sub-
ject. But her reputation grew,
her audiences became larger, her
readers more numerous.
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meditations became propaganda,
her dreams, acts and her scholar-
ship a vital factor in the move-
ment. From that period to this
has she been actuated by one prime
movement, by one dream, by ono
goal, to rehabilitate the Jewish
homeland, her lasting and inspiring
raison d'etre which she words as
"a center for the Jewish people
of Palestine, radically, funda-
mentally different from every
other Jewish center in the world."
For her Zionism became the great
uman adventure. She was in
those early days as she is today,
untiring in her efforts, zealous and
optimistic, brooking, no obstacles,
admitting no discouragement. By
this selfless devotion, a combina-
tion of quick understanding and
instinctive feeling for the highest
ideals of Zionism, was she enabled
to rescue and stabilize the entire
movement when it was in serious
straits some 15 years ago.
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But her intellect and will she
held to be valid only when trans-
lated into action, No idle dreamer
this dynamo of hope and effort,
content to sit in her chimney cor-
ner tracing whisp-images and
ideals that never penetrated be-
yond the library walls. She was
ever a dreamer, but also a doer,
built of the sinews of progress,
which is the hall-mark of her per-
sonality.
At the age of 16, after graduat-
ing from high school with high
honors, she became a teacher at
Organised Hadassah in 1912.
one of the foremost seminaries in
Baltimore, where she taught his-
In 1909 she visited Palestine for
tory, German and other subjects , he first time, accompanied by her
I n her youth, the age of pernicious
other. The actual sight was a
specialization had not yet secured , ransforming agent, which there-
its throttling hold upon the cosmic
a fter was to make Henrietta Szold
throat. She could play Beethoven
he world renowned figure that she
and other masters with the fine
1 as become. Her Jewish blood
touch of the discerning pianist. 21 eaped to the call of a Palestine
She could embroider exquisitely
egging, as a flower responds to
and paint china with artistic dis-
he sun. Her pulses hammered a
tinction. What was rare for her ' rophecy of a Jerusalem reborn.
generation, she was an avid botan-
The land was disease-ridden and
ist.
arren. The infant mortality rate
During this phase of her de- h as appalling. Hygiene was un-
eard of and sanitation was a word
velopment, she revealed those
om another world. Malaria, tra-
qualities of heart and mind that
later came to stamp her work as a
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In this connection it is interesting to note that
in 1926 there were less than 90,000 members. And
in the last six months of 1929 the membership
increased 1,000,000! The Soviet Union no longer
fights the religious element by physical means, such
as closing churches, confiscation, taking of bells,
etc., but by educational propaganda. Further, the
atheist movement is spreading throughout the world.
All of which makes for eternal vigilance on tho
part of the religious authorities.
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IN VIEW of the survey that is being made by lead
ing Jewish organizations in the field of unemploy
ment a comment by a reader may be of interest:
I contend that before we can criticize our
neighbors we should first take inventory of our-
selves, and we will frequently find that we
should start cleaning house at our own door.
... It is true that in order for a Jewish boy or
girl to obtain employment nowadays he must
not only assure the employer that he belongs
to his church, but he must also give the name
of the church and the pastor. . . . However,
if Mr. Joseph would be kind enough to make a
survey of all the Jewish employers he would,
to his amazement, find that 90 per cent of them
employ non-Jewish help, particularly the Jew-
ish professional men.. . . I do not think that
Jewish employers should employ Jewish help
only but an average like the above . . . is far
too fatal.
lEditur's Note: (In Dee. 21, Henrietta
SZ0111, founderof liadssrlih. indefatigable
champion of Judaism. pioneer Zionist •nd
probably themust beloved Jewess in the
world eel tinted her seventieth birthday.
Despite her three-scoreand ten years,
she is still more active and more vigorous
than nooit women 20 years younger.)
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POETRY OF DAVID WEISSMAN
THROBS WITH HUMAN FEELING
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"Th's Cavalcade," by Managing Editor of Los Angeles B'nai B'rith
Messenger, Is a Worthy Collection of Well
Done Poems.
A Review by Philip Slomo•ite.
It'
One of the most interesting col-
Behold the clustering grape upon the
lections of poems that has come to
Cling fas
our desk in a long time is David
act
s tIllo its gnarled and rugged
Weissman's "This Cavalcade."
Managing editor of the Los An-
Yet graceful as the climbing hollyhock
geles B'nai B'rith Messenger, the 'Ti.. mellowed, sweetened by God's light
divine,
oldest Anglo-Jewish weekly in
Till soon
plucked, its life-sap crest.'
Southern California, of which Jos-
lin s
Is oohed
eph J. Cummins, formerly of De-
and flown as from the an-
dent rock
troit, is the publisher, Mr. Weiss- At
At Moses' word the water gushed, As
man has previously distinguished
himself in th
Their bitter burning thirst to quench.
So mine
fivee years he was owner
Own people, Israel, clinging to your own
and editor of the Arizona Gentle-
Are severed from your stock and ruth-
man and Farmer, the Southwestern
lessly
Record and the Tuscon Independ-
Are crushed and burdened so your own
life'. blood
ent. He has taught school, prac-
Mai, quench the thirst of nations, You
tised law and written for the mov-
alone,
Your body tot olde relentleols.
ing picture.~—and enviable combi-
Hare fed your enemy their greatest
nation of talent.
good.
But in "This Cavalcade," pub-
Lee Shipley of the Los Angeles
lished by the Primavera Press,
Times, writes a compliment to Mr.
7051/2 West Sixth street, Los An-
Weissman in the following fore-
geles, Cal., he has laid out for us
word:
a procession of perms and of hu-
"This book of poems le an interesting
man feelings which stamp this an
achievement. David Weissman has not
the best work of his career. He
fled the machine see •nd the Jags age.
has dedicated the volume to his
but has found emrnal harmonies still
singing through them -and eternal
mother, and the very first poem is
he stars
still shng •hoop them. The
so sincere and touching that it takes
philosophy of such poems II. 'Two
the reader back to the age of fair-
Pair. of Mon,' the understanding of
such Poems as 'The Music M. ter' •nd
ies. And the same touching spirit
"The Virtuoxo' the challenging strength
is revealed in his poem "A Song
to of (itch as 'The M•rhine Age and the
a Child," which we quote as a sam-
utter sincerity of all the poems make
this volume strikingly different from
ple of the truly human spirit of
those of poets who merely try to string
This Cavalcade:"
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prettywords
all in •
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If I were • sprite,
A teeny, weeny mite
So small you could hardly •ee,
rd stand on my heed
On a rose-leaf red,
And kirk my heels in lie..
I'd set my table
On a spider'. cable.
And mock the bussing bee.
Another excellent example of his
versatility as well as his Jewish
spirit is his following poem, Is-
rael:
row.
Th• •author
really ha s ometbing to gay and says it
well .'•
We highly recommend "This CAY_
alcade" as a worthwhile addition to
the best libraries.
The Primavera Press, which pub-
lished Mr. Weissman's volume, is
under the general direction of Jake
Zeitlin, who is well known as pub-
lisher and for his bookshop which
has long been a rendezvous for lit-
erary workers in Los Angeles.
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