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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 21 :1-24 :18 ; 30:11.16.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 12:1-17.
Rosh Chodesh Mar Readings of the Law, Tues-
day and Wednesday—Num. 28:1-15.
February 13, 1931
Shevat 26 5691
Prejudice in Employment.
The prejudice against Jews in employ-
ment, forming the most serious problem
which is facing our people in this country,
was the subject of an interesting address
by Joseph J. Cummins over Cantor's Jew-
ish Radio Forum last Sunday. We repro-
duce his address in full on the first page of
this issue, and we echo his appeal that first
steps to right this wrong should be taken
by the Jewish community.
One of the first steps to be taken ought
to be the formation of a central employ.
ment bureau to register the unemployed as
well as employers, for the purpose of plac-
ing those in the first group and of educat-
ing those in the second against the unfair-
ness of discrimination against members of
a single racial and religious denomination.
The Young Women's Hebrew Association
has such a bureau, and it has been able to
show excellent results in caring for the
needs of the unemployed girl. But the
clearing house that is needed for the un-
employed must care for the needs of both
sexes and of all ages.
Mr. Cummins' appeal was a timely one,
and delay in acting upon it may later prove
detrimental.
Great News for Palestine.
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As we go to press we look forward with
great interest to the publication of what
is promised us will be a paper rivalling
the Balfour Declaration in its importance
to the Zionist cause. The text of a paper
which is to revoke the drastic and discrim-
inating terms of the infamous Passfield
White Paper, as predicted in advance on
good authority, is to contain clauses re-
moving restrictions on Jewish labor immi-
gration, reducing to a minimum limitations
On land acquisitions by Jews, increasing the
share of Jewish employment on public
works and placing at the disposal of the
Jewish Agency free state lands.
This is a great triumph for the Zionist
cause and a deserved personal victory for
Dr. Chaim Weizmann who has been at the
head of the Jewish group that has been
carrying on negotiations with British gov-
ernment in the past ten weeks.
But the new victory revives an old ques-
tion: How are we to succeed in Palestine
unless Jews will it that Palestine should
become the Jewish National Home? In the
long run, the only check that can possibly
come to Jewish efforts in the homeland can
come only from within our ranks. If we will
it, it shall be no dream, but if we do not,
if we remain passive and indifferent, a doz-
en Balfour declarations will do us little
good. For the faithful the Passfield White
Paper was at no time a discouraging ele-
ment; on the contrary, it stimulated the
zealous to greater action.
The important lesson for the Jewish peo-
ple in the new British policy, to be pro-
claimed as we go to press, is that Jewish
aspirations cannot be defeated if Jews as-
pire devotedly and faithfully. Have faith
and the will to build, and Palestine shall
soon be Eretz Israel.
The Coming Federation Campaign.
Last May. an enthusiastic group of De-
troit Jews defied obstacles created by the
economic depression and triumphed in what
was considered the most inopportune time
for fund-raising. The success of the drive
of the Jewish Welfare Federation of De-
troit in 1930 was the outstanding, if not
the only complete, success in philanthropic
efforts.
We anticipate that this year this same
group;' faced by even more trying condi-
tions will again send out its challenge
to the community to continue to finance the
various local, national and international
causes to which our people have obligated
themselves. We refuse to believe that our
public spirited leaders feel differently about
the duties of Jews to Jewish institutions and
causes, and therefore we also believe that
even though unity has been disrupted
throughout the land by the division of the
two major national campaigns, in Detroit
at least the friendship that has been ce-
mented between all elements in the com-
munity will be further strengthened.
It is neither abuse of confidence nor rev-
elation of a secret to inform our readers
that the major appeal in the forthcoming
campaign, which will in all probability
be held in the early spring, will be in behalf
of bringing to realization the hope for the
construction of a Jewish Center. The other
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local items will again figure in the drive:
The Hebrew Free Loan Association, the
United Hebrew Schools, the House of Shel-
ter, and others. And if the leaders of the
Jewish Old Folks Home are wise enough to
come to an understanding for co-operation
with the Jewish Welfare Federation, this
sorely neglected institution may also, for
the first time, be included in a joint cam-
paign.
The two national appeals that should
have positions of prominence in the coming
drive are the American Palestine Cam-
paign of the Jewish Agency and the 1931
Joint Distribution Committee drive. The
truly great news about Britain's modifica-
tion of its Palestine policy should renew
faith in the great experiment for the up-
building of the Jewish National Home.
From Palestine comes the happiest news in
the Jewish world. The Jewish settlements
in the Holy Land are perhaps the happiest
in all the world because Jews there are
building a great center,—national, politi-
cal, social and economic,—which may prove
a salvation for sorely-stricken Israel.
In the meantime the Jewish masses in
Eastern Europe continue to struggle under
the yoke of economic and political oppres-
sions, and here the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee steps in to offer relief. Rabbi Jonah
B. Wise, national chairman of the commit-
tee's 1931 fund, writes us:
"One phase of the problem in Eastern
Europe, which I think should be made clear,
is that American money is maintaining only
a skeleton structure to aid in the economic
existence of the 4,000,0000 Jews of that
part of the world and that a large percent-
age of the money used in the program of
reconstruction in Eastern Europe is sub-
scribed by the Jews of Poland, Rumania
and other countries. In short, the Jews
of Eastern Europe are endeavoring wher-
ever possible to help their own."
The point is that whatever funds are
needed to carry out the J. D. C. program
must come forth to aid an oppressed and
downtrodden group which is anxious to help
itself but which has been so beaten down
by the war and its aftermath that it must
continue for a long time to come to depend
for aid and succor upon American dollars.
These American Jewry must supply, and
we feel confident that the Detroit Federa-
tion will again be in the front ranks when
this city's obligations to Eastern Europe
are discharged in the forthcoming drive,
New Immigration Restrictions.
There is a group in the United States
Congress which appears to be determined
to make the lot of the immigrant as diffi-
cult as possible and altogteher to close the
doors of this country to immigration. The
latest restrictions are directed against nat-
uralized women citizens who have married
non-citizens and who desire to bring their
husbands to this country. Preference is
given husbands of American citizens un-
der the immigration laws of the land, but
American consuls have refused visas to
these husbands, using the economic depres-
sion as a reason for their action.
Evidence of such unfair action has come
to the office of The Detroit Jewish Chron-
icle from Detroit Jewish women who were
able to produce facts and figures in proof
of their ability to guarantee that their hus-
bands, when brought to this country, would
not become public charges. Many of the
women against whom the restrictions are
directed are in excellent financial circum-
stances. But a poor excuse is better than
none, and the American consuls overseas
are translating their prejudice in new terms
which are contrary to the laws of the land.
Such discrimination, keeping husbands
and wives apart, ought not to be permitted,
and we call upon our representatives in
Congress to use their best efforts to right
the wrong that is being put into practice
against their constituents.
Greetings to the Hadoar.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle joins with
the Hebrew press of Palestine and the Jew-
ish press throughout the world in greet-
ing the Iladoar, Hebrew weekly of New
York. on its tenth anniversary.
This is the first time in the history of ef-
forts for the revival of the Hebrew lan-
guage as a living tongue, in this country,
that a Hebrew periodical has survived a
decade of existence. Previously, Hebrew
publications were able to carry on for a
period of a year or two. and at the most
four. The success of the !Indoor there-
fore marks a landmark in the progress of
Hebrew on this continent, and is an event
worth observing by the American Jewish
community.
Professor Joseph Klausner of Jerusalem,
commenting on the Hadoar's tenth anniver-
sary, paid this Hebrew weekly the follow-
ing compliment :
"The Hadoar as a weekly journal ranks
very high. It will stand comparison with
the finest of similar periodicals in other lan-
guages. It contains enough literary and
scientific material to satisfy even the most
fastidious."
Not only, therefore. does the anniversary
of the magazine mark a landmark for the
Hebrew language movement, but its pro-
gress is a mark of distinction for Jewish
journalism. Which creates an additional
reason why all Jews should join in greet-
ing the Hadoar on its tenth anniversary.
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BY•THE•WAY
"OLLERITE," SAID THE RABB
Joseph J. Cummins, publisher o
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle ant
the B'nai B'rith Messenger of Lo
Angeles, tells this one.
In Salt Lake City, the Orthodox
rabbi was in the habit of taking
long walks on which he would, to
quote Tennyson, be "wrapt in
nameless reverie," dreaming away
about the problems of his people
and the affairs of theology,
On Christmas morning, as he
wended his way on his daily walk,
he was interrupted in his dream-
ing by a Reform Jewish leader of
the city, who saluted him with:
"Good morning, rabbi, a Merry
Christmas."
The rabbi,
(lazed,
stopped,
looked at his co-religionist, shook
his head and said "ollerite." And
his daily reverie continued.
NOW WOULD YOU?
What would you do if, say, your
employer called you in tomorrow
morning and told you he would
triple your salary? Or if you had
no employer, say your wealthy
uncle in Africa expired from pneu-
mokonis or poleomelitis and left
you an income of several hundred
dollars a week?
What would you do?
Would you buKa trunk?
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CHARLIE DID
Well, anyway, that is what 1 am
told Charlie Chaplin did, and since
by a general concensus of opinion
he is a scion of the House of
Israel, I suppose it is kosher for
me to dwell on him.
Charlie Chaplin was playing in
the legitimate, when out of a clear
sky he was approached by the
movie people with one of their
bigger and better checks.
He was very happy—and he
went out and bought a trunk.
IN EVERY "WEIGH"
Ah, you say, of course. That's
just what you would do. You
would buy a trunk, to put the new
dresses you always wanted to buy,
the new suits, all the new thinga-
majigs, that water your mouth as
you go window shopping.
And so, Chaplin's associates
thought. But they raised the
trunk and it was too heavy. It
couldn't have been just clothes.
And every day in every "weigh"
it became heavier and heavier.
BOOKS
What was the trunk for?
Books.
All his life Chaplin had looked
with greedy eyes at the book-
stalls. He had a real taste for the
best in literature — Aeschylus,
Plato, Schopenhauer.
And since, he has gone on add-
ing to his possessions of this na-
ture until, today, he has one of the
largest private libraries on the
coast.
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INGRATITUDE
A true story, this, although it
has no love angle. It happened in
the small-to-middling town of
Y—. The Jewish congregation
there advertised for a rabbi,
stressing the fact that they par-
ticularly wanted one who was a
good speaker.
A very personable young fellow
by the name of C— applied.
Ile was invited to deliver a trial
sermon.
He came--he spoke—he con-
quered and got the contract. For
12 years he stayed on the job.
Then the war broke out—and
the president of the congregation,
happening to be in England at
the time, cabled to his congrega-
tion asking that they initiate ef-
forts to secure his release.
The rabbi cabled back that he
had a brother in England, and he
felt sure his brother could explain
matters to the authorities and ob-
tain the president's freedom.
Sure enough, the brother came
to see the president—and secured
his release. But the president
found out that the brother was
neither of the Jewish race nor of
the Jewish persuasion.
Result—the rabbi lost his posi-
tion.
PERILS OF PROPHECY
Fourteen years ago, a young
chap by the name of Louis Sobol
worked for a time on a New
Haven newspeper.
The city editor of that paper
Was a man by the name of H. I..
Philips.
One day Philips called in Sobol
and told him he was wasting his
time—"you'll never make a news-
paperman," he told him.
So Sohol left for New York.
And about the same time l'hilips
left for New York.
Philips soon achieved no little
prominence with a column called
"The Sun Dial." And Sohol, too.
graduated into a columnist on an-
other sheet.
Last week they met for the first
time.
"Do you remember, Ily," said
Soho]. "you told me I would never
make a newspaperman?"
"Certainly,"
replied
Philips,
"and it has taken you 14 years to
find that out."
—.—
NOT THAT IT MATTERS, BUT—
Louis Weizenkorn, aortae!. of
"Five Star Final," is married to
the ex-fiance of Rabbi Cantor, who
was killed in the Ukraine, along
with Dr. Israel Friedlander.
Gossip has it that the central
character of lieches "A Jew in
Love" was drawn with certain
modifications from life, to be more
detailed from the life of a well-
known publisher—who is also in-
terested in theatricals.
Rabbi Abraham Burnstein,
rabbi-poet-wit, is planning to have
Frank Adams of the World. Fan-
nie Hurst and Ilarry Hershfield no
his guests at the Passover Seder.
Louis Resnick, big publicity and
press agent man from St. Louis, is
in charge of the publicity of the
major efforts to relieve unem-
ployed distress.
And Brother David, of the same
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STREETS NAMED FOR JEWS
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Charles H. Joseph
Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities,
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
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By BERNARD POSTAL
IT WAS with a feeling of personal loss that I read
of the death of Rabbi Louis Kopald, of the North
Shore Congregation, Glencoe, Ill. I met Dr. Ko-
pald only once, and yet I always cherished for him
a high and affectionate regard. Letters were occa-
sionally exchanged. lie was one of the "civic.
minded" rabbis who interested himself in a diversi-
fied group of activities in his city and state. While
he was rabbi of a congregation in Buffalo he be-
came president of the New York State Society for
Charities and Correction. There was scarcely any
worth-while public activity that did not invite his
interest. At the same time he was ever the inspira-
tional leader of his congregation and of the Jewish
community. Though he had been in ill health for
the past 10 years he was unceasing in his attention
to his duties. Dr. Kopald was only 45 years of
age, and had been in the rabbinate for 22 years, Ile
entered the University of Cincinnati at the age of
16. lie was a man of charming personality and was
a favorite among his colleagues.
Editor's Note: The recent renaming of
Rutgers Square in New York to Nathan
Straus Square set Bernard Postal to
examining • map of New York to find
other streets that wemed
for Jew.
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Henst found • number of
na them and tel l s
how they happened to he so christened
mid why more streets in the largest cal'
in the world are not named (or Jews.
NATHAN STRAUS, in his will, said that when a
man gives during his lifetime, it is gold; when
he gives during sickness it is silver; but when he
gives after death it is lead. And he very ironically
added: "Sonic rich men do not even give lead." He
also urged that his children adhere to their faith
and marry within their faith. It was just such a
will as one would expect from such a man. His
estate was valued at less than a million dollars, and
it developed that he had given the greatest portion
of his fortune during his lifetime.
I WAS interested in a statement made by the for-
mer president of a B'nai B'rith lodge in Shang-
hai, China, that "the establishment of a lodge of
the B'nai B'rith in Shanghai has done much to bring
together the Sephardic and Askenazic elements in
the Shanghai Jewish community." It seems that
prejudice even among Jews dies hard. in referring
to a new book written by Rabbi Israel Goldstein
under the title, "A Century of Judaism in New
York," I find that when Jewish migration began
extensively to Holland, beginning in 1591, that
"They (the Sephardic Jews of Spain and Portugal)
maintained toward the Germans and Polish Jews
(Ashkenazim) who settled in the new community,
an attitude of aloofness, refusing even to inter-
marry with them. Their schools, charities and so-
cial contacts were conducted apart from the Ger-
man and Polish Jews. They established their own
synagogues, where the distinction between these
two groups of Jewry was conspicuously in evi-
dence."
I RECALL that this "feeling" was carried to Amer-
ica and it is a well known fact that the Portuguese
Jews living in the eastern part of the country
would never have anything to do with the German
Jew. And as in Holland they would not inter-
marry. One would imagine, however, after the pas-
sage of so many centuries, that a better understand.
ing would have developed, but apparently our Span-
ish and Portuguese co-religionists still adhere to
their aristocratic pose. One is reminded of the sim-
ilar attitude on the part of the German Jew toward
his Russian co-religionists. Well, apparently, the
only way to discover that we are superior to them is
to find some one whom we think is inferior. But
judging from the signs of the times our Jews in the
United States are getting bravely over their divi-
sion. By the way, before I forget it, I want to call
the attention of our readers to Dr. Goldstein's book,
which deals not alone with the development of Jew-
ish religious, philanthropic and educational institu-
tions in America, particularly in New York, begin-
ning with the early nineteenth century, but it also
treats in a most interesting fashion of the earliest
Jewish settlements on the American continent. It
is published by the Bloch Publishing Co., New York
City.
AN INTERESTING statement appears in a recent
issue of the Jewish Transcript, written by a
reader of that paper, in which he attempts to ex-
plain why the Jews of Seattle and the remainder of
the State of Washington failed ignominiously in
their Allied Jewish Campaigns last fall. The Jews
of Seattle were asked to accept a quota of $80,000.
They accepted $45,000; received $22,500 in pledges,
and $10,000 has been paid. The commentator, who
is a well-known communal worker, criticizes the
community of Seattle on the ground that the idea
has crept in that too much money has been going
out for foreign relief. In other words, the Ameri-
can Jew has been "too good" to his European
brethren. And the time is at hand when local needs
should be considered paramount and if there is any-
thing left over or if more than the local situation
requires, can be raised why send surplus. He does
not attribute the collapse of the drive so much to
hard times because he shows that three or four
years prior, with a much fewer Jewish population,
the state contributed $200,000, payable in three
years. And with more Jews and a very small quota,
only half was pledged and a fourth paid. So he
arrives at the conclusion that the Jews are becoming
too "localized" and are considering that their giv-
ing should end largely at the boundaries of their
own communities. An illuminating statement is
that a well-known citizen sent a check for a thou-
sand dollars for the Palestine Emergency Fund last
year and only $200 was accepted by the local com-
mittee on the ground that he was "giving too much,"
meaning propably that it was better to keep the
balance for "home use." Is that the general atti-
tude of American Jewry?
Dr. Weizmann resigned after the British
W HEN
White Paper made its appearance 1 predicted
immediately that he would reconsider his decision
and continue to work for Palestine. At the recent
meet'ng of the Zionist Actions Committee in Lon-
don he said that if the criticism to which he had
been subjected by those wthin the Zionist ranks
would cease that he would be willing to continue to
direct the work for Palestine. I pointed out that if
all the influential leaders of the movement resigned
it would weaken Zionism and the whole Palestine
project, and in no other way affect the British gov-
ernment. Apparently that view is being accepted.
WALTER DURANTY,the Russian correspondent
of the New York Times, knows his Russia.
And he asserts in a recent dispatch to the Times
that in a few years Russia will witness a flood of
immigration that will rival that of America when
immigration was at its height to this country. Citi-
zenship is immediate and easy to obtain. There are
unlimited jobs and no lay-offs. Wouldn't it be a
Peculiar twist of fate if a great many Jews who left
Russia under the lash of persecution to find a haven
in the United States should suddenly discover that
Russia was in fact the place they were really seek.
big? But it is well to advise that the only kind of
immigration that the Soviets would he likely to
welcome is of the proletarian class. Workers and
none else are welcome.
IN OUR smaller commuunities, where Jew and
gentile are brought into closer relationships, the
opportunity for proper evaluation of each other is
greater. So when such an outstanding tribute is
Paid to the memory of a co-religionist as described
by the Altoona, Pa., newspapers on the passing of
Malcolm Neuwahl, a merchant of that city, it indi-
cates that his life was a good-will factor in the com-
munity. A great many of the stores closed for one
hour during the funeral services. Every trade body
wan represented. The Boy Scouts assisted at the
services. The mayor of the city and others, Jews
and Gentiles, occupying the highest positions in
civic life were the honorary pallbearers. It was the
largest funeral in the history of Altoona. Malcolm
Neuwahl must have lived in harmony with the high.
eat principles of his faith to have earned such an
overwhelming measure of esteem and affection.
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Few decisions by the New York
City board of aldermen will elicit
such widespread commendation as
its action last week in voting to
change the name of Rutgers
Square to Nathan Straus Square in
honor of the late Jewish philan-
thropist whose munificence has
done so much for the health and
well-being of the metropolis' popu-
lace. It is particularly fitting that
the name of Nathan Straus should
be given to a street in the heart of
the lower East Side for it is this
section of the city which has held
the name of Straus in the greatest
veneration. His famous milk sta-
tions have done as much as any
one thing to improve the health of
at least two generations of East
Side youngsters,
The naming of a street for Na-
than Straus has recalled that New
York, the largest Jewish city in
the world, has a number of other
streets named for Jews. As in
every town and city in the world,
the street names of New York's
five boroughs perpetuate the
names of hundreds of men and
women of more or less renown.
In the more than 300 years since
the city was founded many streets
have become obliterated in the
march of progress. Others have
had their names changed with the
passing of time and the decline in
the fame for whom they were
named. Some, as a matter of fact,
most of them, still retain the
names they had when they were
first laid out.
In Eighteenth Century.
Comparatively few new streets
have been opened since 1900 ex-
cept in the newer sections of the
Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, and
the renaming of streets has been
limited to commemorating war
heroes and events. Despite this,
there have been a few streets and
thoroughfares named for Jews.
In the latter part of the eigh-
teenth century that part of Wil-
liams street which ran from
Broad street to Mill street alley
was commonly known as Jews
street. This appelation was due
to the presence in that block of the
old Mill Street Synagogue and of
the homes of a few Jewish citizens.
The same name was later given to
a narrow street that traversed
Madison street between Oliver and
James streets in a northeasterly di-
rection to about the center of the
block towards Chatham street.
This name was doubtless due to
the proximity of the earliest Jew-
ish cemetery in that neighborhood.
There was also a Jew street which
later became South Catherine
street.
It is interesting to surmise just
why these streets or alley. had
their cognomens changed. Was it
the result of a feeling on the part
of the Jews of New York that the
names are used jeeringly? Was it
the result of some bigoted map-
maker's aversion to a name with
"Jew" attached to it? Perhaps the
city fathers in their topographical
wisdom decided that other names
might be more appropriate. But
whatever was responsible for the
changes, old maps of New York
City quite plainly show these
three streets.
Of recent years a number of
other streets have been named for
Jews. What was formerly Amos
street in Brooklyn became Herzl
street some time around 1910
through the intercession of influ-
ential Zionists. Herzl street,
named for the founder of political
Zionism, is, aptly enough, in the
center of Brownsville, one of the
most populous Jewish sections of
the city.
Honor, Schiff, Straus.
Belmont avenue, in the Bronx,
keeps fresh the memory of the el-
der August Belmont, nee Schoen-
burg, the founder of the promi-
nent Belmont family, which has
now severed all its Jewish connec-
tions. August Belmont was one
of the early American agents of
the Rothschilds. He dabbled in
politics and in 1868 was chairman
of the Democratic National Com-
mittee. Many of New York's
present street traction lines were
financed by Belmont.
Delancey street, that picturesque
thoroughfare of the lower East
Side that leads from the Bowery
to Williamsburg bridge, is known
as Schiff Parkway for several
blocks of its length in memory of
the benevolent philanthropist and
financier, the late Jacob H. Schiff,
The site of the Isidor Straus me-
morial at the intersection of
Broadway and West End avenue in
upper Manhattan is called Straus
Square. This memorial was elect-
ed as a tribute to the marvelous
heroism of Isidor and Sarah Straus,
who died hand in hand when the
Titanic went down.
In the recently developed see-
tion of the Bronx near Pelham
Bay ('ark, there is Halperin ave-
nue, named for an enterprising
Jewish realtor who opened up this
part of that growing borough to
settlement. The late Marcus
Loew, founder of the Loew Thea-
ters circuit and pioneer in the mo-
tion picture business, has Loew
Square named for him. Loew
Square is at the intersection of
Pitkin avenue and Barrett street
in the Brownsville section of
Brooklyn. It was in this neigh.
borhood that he began his SUCCeSa-
tut career as a showman. The
square was dedicated simultane-
ously with the opening of a new
Loew's theater in that section. A
heroic Jew by the name of Isaac
Fradkin, who died during the
World War, has Fradkin Square
in the Bronx to keep his exploits
fresh.
Honor Bible Character..
There are also a number of
streets named for Old Testament
characters. For example, there
are Jacob street and Rachel lane in
Manhattan, and Isaac street, Sam.
uel street and Ruth place in the
Bronx.
The paucity of streets named
for Jews in the city with the
largest Jewish population in the
world is rather curious at first but
when we examine what determined
the names of most of the streets
it does not appear so strange after
all. The majority of street names
in New York are of three kinds:
those named for persons promi-
nent in American or local history,
those named fur places and events
of significance in American his-
tory; and most important of all,
those named for persons who once
owned the land out of which streets
were later cut. The Jews who
played roles in American history
important enough to have streets
named for them are rare. The
Jews connected with significant
events in American or local history
are not plentiful. And until the
early part of this century the New
York Jews were not conspicuous
land-owners. New York was once
owned by a handful of wealthy
patrons or their descendants: As-
tors, Vanderbilts, Philipses, Van
Cortlandts, Van Nests, Cortelyous,
Dyckmans, and such. And these
names are perpetuated in street
names. The Jewish realtors of
the twentieth century did not name
streets for themselves nor even for
their famous co-religionists. They
utilized existing names or created
fanciful ones. hence the com-
parative lack of Jewish street
names in the largest Jewish city
in the world.
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Recommend Congress Be in Rome.
130111E.--(J. T. A.)—The Zion-
ist Federation of Italy decided to
urge the Zionist Executive in Lon-
don to hold the seventeenth World
Zionist Congress in the Adriatic
summer resort, Abbazia. The
congress, originally scheduled to
convene at Carlsbad, Feb. 24, was
postponed by the Zionist Actions
Committee to a date no later than
June 15.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Judge Nathan Clayton of the Washington Municipal Court, has
been nominated by President Hoover for another four-year term, his
present term being about to expire. The president has sent his nomi-
nation to the Senate for approval. The Department of Justice. in rec-
ommending his appointment to President Hoover, pointed nut that with
40 appeals there were only two reversals of his decisions by the appel-
late court. The local Bar Association hail also endorsed his reappoint-
ment.
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Henry B. Haines, published of the Paterson Evening News, was
named Paterson'a most outstanding citizen of 1930 by the vote of
Service Club delegates, and he will be presented with a loving cup.
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Arturo Bodanzky, famous New York Jewish conductor, has had the
Order of the Lion, fourth class, conferred upon him by President
Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. A number of other great Americans,
including Giulio Gatti-Casazza, director of the Nletropolitan Opera Corn-
pony, have been decorated with his order.
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Maurice Hirsch, prominent Houston attorney, was
appointed by
Governor Sterling as Texas delegate to th e
thirty-fifth annual meeting
of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The academy
has requested each governor to appoint a delegate.
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Dr. Simon Rothenberg, Brooklyn physician, has been appointed
clinical professor of medicine at the Long Island Medical College in
Brooklyn. Dr. Rothenberg was also recently elected president of the
medical board of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, where he is visiting
neurologist. lie is a brother of Morris Rothenberg, lawyer and Jewish
leader.
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Appointment of Louis M.
Lasky as registrar of the University of
Baltimore has been announced by the board of trustees of the univer-
sity. Ile has been associated with the university since 1925. Last year,
when the executive dean became ill, Mr. Lasky served as acting dean
for three months.
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Philip 1.. Semen, executive director of the Jewish People's Institue
of Chicago, has been appointed chairman of the committee on inspec-
tion of social service institutions that are benefic
. ari, of Governor
Louis L. Emmerson's Commission on Unemployment and Relief.
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Three prominent Jews were granted high honors by the Italian
government. Umberto Pugliese, long noted as a military officer, has
been promoted to major-general. Si. Pontremoli, an officer in the
Italian navy, has been named as admiral. Admiral Pontremoli
is
related to the late Prof. Aldo Pontremoli, who lost his life as a mem-
ber of the Nobile polar expedition. The third
Jew honored is Giacomo
Cepilli, president of the Jewish community of Trieste, has been deco-
rated with the officer's order of
the Italian Legion of Honor. Cepilli,
who is prominently identified with all Jewish affairs, is vice-president
of the Fascist chamber of commerce in Trieste.
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