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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 30:2-30:13.
Prophetical portion—Jer. 2:4-28; 3:4.
Rosh Chodesh Ab Reading of the Torah, Wednes-
day, July 15—Num. 28:1-15.
July 10, 1931
Tammuz 25, 5691
Lessons of Registration Bill Fight.
urinating Engineering Society of the United
States.
This far from exhausts the list, and is
merely typical of the honors conferred upon
hundreds of Jews for their distinguished
services in their respective professions. To
add to the list of American-honored Jews
those who have been recognized and have
distinguished themselves in other lands
would make a volume lending pride to the
Jewish name.
The names of three noted Jews who have
been chosen for honors overseas are de-
serving of particular mention. In Vienna,
the city council took steps to rename the
Berg-Gasse, one of Vienna's leading thor-
oughfares, and henceforth to call it Sig-
mund Freud Gasse, in honor of the famous
Jewish psychoanalyst. In Czernowitz,
Rumania, the city council voted, on the mo-
tion of Dr. Siegfried Rosenzweig, to re-
name two of the city streets after Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Or-
ganization, and the late Dr. Jacob Pistiner,
Jewish Socialist leader who represented
Czernowitz for a number of years in the
Rumanian parliament.
Because there are a few in Jewry who
are lending discredit to the Jewish name,
these honors are important because they
help to offset the damage done by the prod-
igal sons of Israel.
Thus shall it be done to the Jews whom
the world delights to honor.
Many and varied are the lessons of the
battle waged during the past six weeks
against the alien registration bill. We have
already referred to some of them, and par-
ticularly deplored the lack of organized
vigilance force that should be on the guard
against the smuggling through legislative
bodies of bills which not only are intended
to curb the rights of human beings who
happen to be foreign-born, but which in
the long run would undermine the tradition-
al principles of true American liberty.
But an even more serious lesson is sug-
gested in this battle by the attitude of the
masses of the people of the state who blind-
ly and unreasoningly favor any sort of leg-
islation directed against aliens. There is
no sense in trying to deny the truth, that
there exists a general feeling of hatred
against the immigrant, and that the coun-
try at large is now imbued with an anti-
alien spirit. At times we are inclined to
feel that the cause of the immigrant is a
hopeless one. In the instance of legisla-
tion of the type adopted in Michigan, the
only recourse remaining is to the courts,
and we feel grateful at least that liberal
opinion is again gaining a foothold in the
higher courts in this country.
The closing statement in the argument
of Kit F. Clardy, in defense of the alien
registration bill, was particularly indicative
of the spirit of hatred of the alien now dom-
inating this land. Aside from all its ill-
advised features, Mr. Clardy's attack on all
opposition to the measure as being inspired
by Communists and Communism was not
only a public insult to the conservative ele-
ments aligned in the fight against the bill,
but was evidence of misformation and of ig-
norance in many ranks, tending to classify
everything and everyone not born on Amer-
ican soil as being Communist.
In a similarly misinformed class belongs
the brief submitted to the court by Louis
M. Hopping, assistant United States attor-
ney. Mr. Hopping, by assuming to tell the
court that aliens, numbering 20.2 per cent
of the population, commit 46.2 per cent of
the crimes revealed an evident attempt to
prejudice the minds of the judges.
In the final analysis, the community owes
a vote of thanks and gratitude to Theodore
Levin, chief of counsel for the opposition
to the bill, and to his associates, Fred M.
Butzel, former Judge Patrick H. O'Brien
and Nathan Milstein of this city and Max
J. Kohler of New York. Mr. Levin's argu-
ment to the court was a convincing, impres-
sive and dignified resume of the act. His
efforts in this important legal battle in de-
fense of honored American traditions pro-
tecting the right of all men to "life. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness," will not be
forgotten.
Honors for Jews.
A distinguished list of Jews figures
among the men and women who have re-
ceived signal honors in this country.
The appointment to the Detroit bench
of Charles Rubiner by Governor Brucker
is a source of local satisfaction.
H. L. Meites, editor of the Chicago Jew-
ish Chronicle and a veteran Zionist, was
named superintendent of the Chicago water
department by Mayor Anton J. Cermak
and simultaneously received the degree of
doctor of laws for his history of the Jews of
Chicago.
Edna Ferber, noted novelist, and Solo-
mon M. Stroock, chairman of the board of
directors of the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America, were honored at the corn-
mencement exercises of Columbia Univer-
sity. Miss Ferber received the honorary
degree of doctor of letters and Mr. Stroock,
a graduate of Columbia, class of 1892, was
awarded one of the seven university medals
given annually to alumni in recognition of
their achievements since graduation.
Meier Hershtenkorn of Jaffa, Palestine,
a student at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Boston, was awarded the Dr.
Stratton first prize of $50 for the best stu-
dent paper presented under the sponsorship
of the campus professional societies. His
paper was "An Introduction to the Quan-
tum Theory."
The noted German-Jewish author, Emil
Cohn Ludwig, was awarded the honorary
degree of doctor of laws at the commence-
ment exercises of Rutgers University.
Julius Daniels, assistant superintendent
of the promotion department of the Edison
Electric Illuminating Co. of Boston, has
been chosen for the presidency of the Illu-
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Dr. Franklin's Bereavement.
Comforters to thousands during Temple
Beth El's rabbi's service to this community
for more than a generation, Dr. and Mrs.
Leo M. Franklin are now themselves re-
ceivers of words of comfort and condolence
on the untimely death of their daughter.
A host of friends will mourn this sad loss
with the family of the deceased, who had
endeared herself to the thousands affiliated
with Temple Beth El. The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle joins the community in an ex-
pression of sympathy to Dr. and Mrs.
Franklin.
BY-THE-WAY
Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
HEADS AND SUPERIORITY
Dr. lsidor Lhevine, author of
that transiently suppressed
work, "Ariadne" has turned an-
thropologist. Lhevine has left
for some savage island, where
they practice shrinking heads.
Folks of that island, it seems, may
start out needing a hat, size seven,
and end up with a bonnet an inch
less.
I have read somewhere that
Hippocrates, the father of medi-
cine, gives some prescriptions for
achieving variations in the size of
the head. But some first hand ac-
counts of whole people doing it
should prove interesting. Per-
haps Dr. Lhevine will introduce a
new vogue in civilization. Maybe,
the women folk of the future when
they visit the beautician will be
asked: "Would you care to have
your head done over? Wouldn't
you like a topper just a little
more dolchiocephalic than your
present noodle?"
HEADS DON'T ALWAYS WIN
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The Cry for a Jewish State.
Charles H. Joseph
I
KNOW the genuine sympathy of thousands who
know Rabbi and Mrs. Leo M. Franklin of Detroit
is tendered them in the loss of their daughter, Ruth
Franklin Einstein, who died in Pittsburgh after a
brief illness this week. Dr. Franklin is one of the
most beloved men in the American rabbinate and
he has a veritable host of friends. And I am sure
that the readers of this column will want me to con-
vey to Dr. and Mrs. Franklin their expression of
sorrow at the overwhelming loss they have sus-
tained in the death of their daughter.
I am in accord with the formation of a
W HILE
committee to study the racial and religious
influences in employment, I confess that I am pessi-
mistic as to the results. James Marshall, son of the
late Louis Marshall, is chairman of the group which
will study the Jewish phase of the situation, that is,
the discrimination against the Jew in the employ-
ment field. There are so many personal reasons
why some do not care to employ our co-religionists
that it seems difficult to correct the situation. It is
true, of course, that in institutions that are public
or semi-public in character such as hospitals, public
schools, city employment and the like, that evi-
dences of discrimination may serve to improve con-
ditions for the Jewish applicant. All of us recall
the trouble at the Kings County, New York, llos•
pilot a year or so ago when Jewish doctors com-
plained of the treatment accorded them, and I have
received several complaints in the past of other hos-
pitals which showed themselves unfriendly toward
the Jews. In the public schools the problem is more
acute and perhaps the committee in New York may
work out a solution that will be helpful to the large
number of Jewish teachers who are unable to find
employment because of their religion.
Up to now the dolchiocephalic
(long-headed) people have been
doing a lot of boasting at the ex-
pense of she brachiacephalic
(broad-headed). The long head is
one of the greatest sources of
pride to the Nordic braggarts. The
T THE time this paragraph is written Dr. Weiz-
long head, they tell us, is the sign
man has resigned as the head of the Zionist
of superiority. Broad and round
movement.
I didn't think he would. Chaim Weiz-
heads are the characteristics of
mann is a great leader and had he invested his
inferior people.
political
talents
in a non-Jewish movement of an
1 have searched for reasons for
international character, he would have been ac-
their conclusion and can only
claimed
a
great
statesman. lie is a statesman of
find that the long heads have con-
the first rank but because of the fact that he was
cluded that they are superior by
identified
with
a
class project the world-at-large
the simple geometry of admitting
is not acquainted with his qualities of leadership. I
it. They admit they are superior.
haven't the opportunity at this moment to com-
Well, I don't know—maybe the
ment on the results which have been achieved at
long heads are superior. But all
the Zionist Congress now in session, but will have
I want them to do is to explain
the fact that the broad heads and . something to say at a later date. I think the New
York Evening World-Telegram has shown itself
round heads include such figures
enterprising by engaging Rabbi Wise to cable a
as Beethoven, Plato, Napoleon,
daily comment on the proceedings of the Congress.
Pascal. Shall I go and add to the
Our daily papers have been rather negligent in
list? No. Let them answer as to
this matter of using experts to convey their im-
these first, and then I'll give them
pressions of Jewish gatherings of outstanding na-
a few more.
tional and international importance.
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A
Jewish Mortality Rating.
The following Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
cy cable from Jerusalem tells one of the
most interesting stories that has come over
the wires in a long time:
Palestine Jewry has the lowest mortality
percentage in the world, being 9.6 per thou-
sand, according to a statement submitted to
the Jerusalem health secretariat by the Jew-
ish National Council In the last five years
infantile mortality among Palestine Jews fell
50 per cent, the statement points out.
Infantile mortality among Jews here is 69
per thousand, which is lower than the infan-
tile mortality in Germany and England. In-
fantile mortality in the Emek is 30 per thou-
sand, the lowest in the world.
It isn't necessary to comment on the
facts contained in this brief cable. It is a
story that speaks for itself and is a glor-
ious tribute to the manner in which the
Jews of Palestine are building up the health
of the community. It directly contrasts with
the increased mortality rate in the Dias-
pora, particularly the increased number of
deaths from heart disease. The fact that
the Jews of Palestine are reported to be as
happy as they are makes up a thousand-
fold for the numerous modern things they
are lacking in the primitive land they are
now rebuilding.
TaMiKk
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Amazing is the human effort to
prove one type superior to the
next. Our good friend, Arthur
Brisbane, was in the habit of
semi-annually, oracle-like issuing
a pronunciamento that superior
people have blue eyes. Havelock
Ellis once came forth with the
statement that the genius is either
short in stature or tall. A middle-
sized man could be no genius.
From which, all I can gather is
that Brisbane has blue eyes and
Ellis is not middle sized.
Lombroso was sure that the
genius was always a degenerate
Freud, that the genius is merely
the offshoot of an inferiority com-
plex. Dr. Watson, the behavior-
ist, says it all rests on the un-
striped viscera. Moreover, Wat-
son says at birth all stand on a
parity. Since the days of Rufus
Choate, we have been in the habit
of describing that phrase of the
Declaration of Independence, "all
men are created equal" as "glit-
tering generalities." But comes
Watson and says that it is the
cold, scientific truth.
All I've got to say in winding
up this discussion is, let us not as-
sume that it is the size of the
head, the pigment of the skin or
anything else that determines su-
periority, before we are sure that
there is such as thing as superior-
ity.
THE HOUSE OF THE RED
SHIELD
The Austrian house of Roths-
childs, so the papers say, is being
liquidated. The holdings depre-
ciated more than a score of mil-
lions, according to the same ac-
count.
The reason given by other bank-
ers for the fall of the famous
banking house, which at one time
held Europe in its palm, is the
friction that has developed be-
tween the various branches of the
Rothschilds.
The first Rothschild, you re-
member, is supposed on his dying
bed to have importuned the mem-
bers of his family to stick to-
gether. And the truth is that the
early greatness of Rothschild was
built on this cleaving together of
the members of the family. But
a new generation has arisen,
which "knows not Joseph."
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RELATIVITY AND ROTHS.
CHILDS
I don't know why it is, but blood
doesn't seem to be very thick. Abie
Kabibble perhaps expressed the
truth prety accurately when he
said: "Only a friend can be an
enemy, a relative already it."
Very few are the fortunes that
last for more than a couple of gen-
erations. It's the old story "from
shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves." And
perhaps, it is well that way. The
Torah seemed anxious to bring
about that very condition. The
year of jubilee, in which all lands
reverted to their original owners,
was designed for that purpose.
Mr. Rosenwald is following the
Jewish spirit in providing for the
distribution of all of his philan-
thropic funds within 25 years.
WASHINGTON A JEW?
The temperature is in the '90s.
Maybe that explains it. I am re-
ferring to a good lady genealogist,
who comes forth, under bold head-
lines, to announce that George
Washington was a descendant of
King Solomon. She doesn't say
which of Solomon's thousand wives
Was the mother, but just knowing
that Solomon is the father is re-
assuring. I think it is very fine.
George Washington was not a
Christian. That I long knew. No-
where in his writings, in his mili-
tary orders, does he ever mention
Christ, although he mentions
Providence quite frequently. But
I never knew till now that George
was a Semite. Ile was a man
whom any people could be proud
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SOME MORE THEORIZING
As these lines are being written, the re-
sults of the seventeenth World Zionist Con-
gress at Basle, Switzerland, are not known,
and it is impossible to judge at this time
the effect this important international gath-
ering will have on the Zionist movement.
Regardless of the outcome of the sessions,
however, it appears certain that the
Revisionist forces and policies have gained
strength and that the party headed by
Vladimir Jabotinsky is now next in impor-
tance to the Labor groups.
Because of this ascension to power of the
Revisionists, it becomes doubly a matter for
regret that the issue of prime importance
in the program of this militant element in
Zionism is the creation of a Jewish state and
the demand for the inclusion in such a state
of Transjordania. Not that such demands
are not justified. But it is difficult enough
for Jews to battle for their minutest rights,
without becoming ultra-chauvinistic at the
present critical time.
The serious mistakes that have been
made by Dr. Chaim Weizmann and his as-
sociates in the past decade must be righted
by a moderate policy and not by extreme
demands for a Jewish state or a Jewish
kingdom. The most serious error made
since the Balfour Declaration is perhaps
the fact that Jews did not understand the
Arab problem. To demand a state at this
time would mean to aggravate this prob-
lem.
Naturally, the Zionist ideal is more pow-
erful than any individual group in Zionism,
and no better evidence is needed than the
determination of the settlers in Palestine.
Therefore it is only natural to expect that
conditions should adjust themselves and
that the aspirations of the Jewish people
should triumph in the long run. Because,
or perhaps in spite of this, the tumults at
the Congress, particularly the ones which
marked the strife between Dr. Stephen S.
Wise and Dr. Weizmann and between the
Revisionist and Labor elements are matters
for sincere regret.
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comes a letter front a disturbed young
H ERE
man:
Dear Mr. Joseph:
I am thinking of entering the rabbinate. Do
you think there is an opportunity for a young
man in that profession? In reading one of
your articles recently I gained the idea that
there are more rabbis than pulpits and that it
is becoming increasingly difficult to find suit-
able positions. It means years of sacrifice if
I do decide to become a rabbi, and that is why
I am trying to get whatever information pos-
sible on the situation."
W ELL, I hardly know what to say to that young
Jew. One thing I am sure of, he has not been
"called." lie evidently is thinking more of getting
a good job than he is of his religious mission. I
scarcely believe that great ministers of any re-
ligion are made of that kind of material stuff. They
may later in life have obtained great, wealthy con-
gregations, but I cannot bring myself to think that
they started out with that purpose in mind. How-
ever I may be doing this young man an injustice. It
may be that after he takes up his studies in earn-
est that he will get on the right side of thought. He
will place his work on a higher plane than that of
just money-grubbing. From what I know and
what I read, I am sure that rabbis of fine spiritual
worth, and scholarship with the right "tempera-
ment" are always in demand. There are many men
in the Jewish pulpit, and for that matter in the
Christian pulpit, who don't belong there. The
Jewish boy may have passed his studies creditably,
received his diploma and become duly ordained,
yet he may be better equipped for a bond salesman.
What it is I don't know but I have always believed
that it takes something besides learning to make a
man a spiritual leader. And I am inclined to think
that the young man who writes to me may lack that
very thing but I do not wish to discourage him.
IF EVER there was an opportunity to use the radio
for a constructive purpose it is in the forthcom-
ing National Conference of Protestants, Catholics
and Jews in Washington on Feb. 2 and 3 of next
year. And I urge at this time that if at all pos-
sible that add the networks of the national broad-
casting companies be utilized in the ennobling and
much-needed service of having eminent men of all
denominations discuss and address the nation on the
Subject of "Religious Freedom and Mutual Under-
standing." I know of no better or more effective
medium of quickly creating good will and correct-
ing misunderstandings than over the radio. The
purpose of the conference is to seek a way to mod-
erate and finally eliminate a system of prejudices
which have in part been inherited and which dis-
figures and distorts our business, social and po-
litical relations. I notice that Roger Straus is a
member of the group having the arrangements
for the conference in hand. So I personally urge
Mr. Straus to have three outstanding laymen (I
would eliminate the clergy), a Protestant, a Cath-
olic and a Jew, address the nation on this subject
of prejudice with a plea to eliminate it. I think
that that would have a far more reaching effect
than merely to meet and have the proceedings re-
corded in a meager way in the daily press. As an
amendment I suggest that three laymen speak on
one day and three members of the clergy on the
second day.
I
GUESS Jews are no different than other folk.
According to an article in the B'nai B'rith Maga-
zine by Louis Minsky, there are thousands of Amer-
ican Jews who are spiritualists. In Brooklyn there
is the Annette Levy Memorial Spiritualist Center
where hundreds of Jews find a common meeting
place. We also have Theosophists with an Ameri-
can section of the Association of Hebrew Theoso-
phists. Mr. Minsky, by the way, is a spiritualist.
At least so I judge by the fact that he once resented
an attack I made on spiritualism. If Jews want to
be spiritualists, no one can object. If they can
believe all the hocus-pocus involved in the seances
that are held in this country they are welcome to
get whatever comfort they can get out of it. Hou-
dini "showed up" so many of them that it was just
too bad. But even his exposes could not discourage
the progress of the movement because after all
every one of us is eager to get in touch with our
beloved dead. But Houdini used to bitterly assail
the injury caused to trusting and highly emotional
men and women by fraudulent mediums. I have
been with Houdini when even the great Slater
refused to permit him the privilege of the floor to
prove that he could read any written message in a
sealed envelope. I have been with Houdini when
several spiritualists in a public meeting attempted
to read such messages and the results were pa-
thetic and ridiculous. If Jews want to believe in
astrology, fortune-telling, mind-reading, spiritual-
ism and all the rest, I feel sorry for them. But
then after all most of us are grown-up children
believing in rabbit's feet, horse-shoes, fear-leaf
clover for good luck and Friday, Number 13, broken
mirrors and spilling salt as tokens of ill-luck.
Some day we will get over being afraid of ghosts.
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H. WACHSMAN
Editor's Note.—There are Jews in the Saharr ■ D
. A
French journalist just returned from • trip in the interior of
the Sahara tells of Jewish settlements, of Moslem-marranos, and
of the legend of Jewish kin7doms in an interview especially
written for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Detroit
Jewish Chronicle.
In few spots on earth do the old
and the new meet as brazenly face
reverence, although no one among
them is left who understands the
script or the language. The Arabs
to face as on the stretches of North
Africa where the Sahara desert
are cool to these Moslems and so
are the few Jewish families in the
city. The number of these Mar-
ranos, Dr, Stahl reports, is rapid.
ly diminishing.
extends its transcontinental length.
The Westernized traveller, driving
in his automobile may meet a car-
avan of Bedouin tribes, and ex-
From Tungurt to the next large
Jewish settlements the road passes
by a small oasis known as Oarga.
There are not many Jews there but
their lodgings and businesses are
distinguishable by their superior
cleanliness.
change with them the refreshments
of the hot road, the precious drops
of water or the nutritious dates.
Further along the fringe of the Sa-
hara and even in its mysterious in-
terior, the traveller will find relics
of ancient peoples and ancient civi-
lizations. Sometimes those relics
are stone sympols that convey their
mute testimony to a people that is
no more. Sometimes these relics
are living flesh and blood that dif-
fer in many ways from their an-
cient ancestors but which carry a
thread of continuity binding the
present to the remote past.
At a military outpost El Galiah
there is a hotel owned by three
Jews. It was there that Dr. Stahl
witnessed an unusual scene: a
l'assover celebration in the heart of
the Sahara. The bitter herbs, hard
and heavy matzos, haggadah read-
ings, they were all there in that
unique memorial to the Jewish hol-
iday of redemption.
Several such finds of Jewish in-
terest were discovered by Dr. Leo
Stahl well-known German-Jewish
journalist, and Paris corespondent
of the Vossiche Zeitung, who re-
cently returned from an extended
trip to the Sahara desert of North
Africa. Dr. Stahl brought beck
with him reports of Jewish settle-
ments in the heart of the desert it-
self. lie reported findings that in-
dicate a Jewish kingdom of the
tenth century. He tells of groups
who have been forcibly converted
to Mohammedanism and who have
as a result become crypto-Jews, the
Marranos of the Moslem. Ile tells
of descendants of Berber tribes who
ages ago adopted the Jewish relig-
ion but who are even today looked
down upon by the other Jews whose
line of descent contains no such
sudden transformation.
Dr. Stahl found a large Jewish
settlement of 2,000 souls in the
oasis-city of Gadaiah, 1,000 miles
southwest of Algeria. Most of the
Jews of this town are artisans in
gold and silver. Many of them are
merchants, doing a large-scale bus-
iness over the length and breadth
of the desert, The men, Dr. Stahl
reports, are all slender brunettes,
with fiery eyes and coal-black
beards and the women have a rare
exotic beauty. On Sabbath after-
noons the women gather in one of
the patios of the richer Jews, where
they sit on swings and sing old
Spanish-Jewish love songs, while
refreshments are served. From
time to time fragrant rose-water is
poured over the guests to keep
them cool.
a division between "Jews" and "Is-
raelites." The "Israelites" are the
descendants of several Berber
tribes who in the seventh century
adopted Judaism, when a number
of Jewish kingdoms began to be
formed in this region. The other
Jews regard themselves as some-
what superior to them, claiming to
be descended from Jews who came
to the Sahara desert even before
the destruction of the First Tem-
ple in Jerusalem.
The country is a rich source book
of Jewish life. In Algeria he found
settlements with thousands of Jews.
In all Algeria Jews engage in
trade, chiefly in textiles, while
many of them are skilled artisans.
As a rule they live at peace with
their Arab neighbors although , of
late some friction has appeared be-
cause the Jews rank as French cit-
izens while the Arabs are counted
as natives. Most of the Jews live
in European quarters. The larg-
est Jewish community is in the
capital city, also called Algeria;
the second largest community is in
Constantine. Even the poorest Jew
of Constantine sits down to a Sab-
bath table decked with flowers,
The Jewish youth of Gadaiah is
very well organized. It is interest-
ed in everything that is going on in
the Jewish world everywhere.
Everybody subscribes to a Jewish
publication which apears in the
Orient, either in French or in
Arabic. They would all be willing
to pack up and go to Palestine at
any moment. This year they are
sending their rabbi to Palestine to
report to them on the situation in
the Jewish homeland and to find
ways and meas for establishing
themselves there.
Dr. Stahl brought back fascinat-
ing stories of the Jewish settle-
ments further inland.
In Tungurt, an oasis In the Sa-
hara desert, there are about 800
Jews. Among them and among
the non-Jewish population as well,
a legend is current about the ex-
istence of several Jewish kingdoms
in the tenth century of the present
era. The most important of them
is reputed to have been ruled by a
woman, Queen Kahane. Bedouin
shepherds to this day include in
their ballads and chants the story
of the "sultana it yahud,' the great
and noble Queen Kahane. At sev-
eral adjoining oasis settlements,
stone monument are found with Ile-
brew inscription. One such mon-
ument gives a (late in Hebrew:
"in the year of the rule of Ka-
hane."
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In this oasis, where the "musaf-
ites," a Moslem sect which refuses
Li have anything to do with the
other Arabs, lives, Jews and Mos-
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lems get along very well. But in
another oasis, LaGuat, Dr. Stahl
found great hostility on the part
of the Arabs toward the Jews. In
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LaGuat there are about 100 Jew-
ish families, mostly artisans. Be-
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in a separate street, and do not
conduct business with the Aral,
townspeople. Nevertheless, they
are quite prosperous, from trade
with the nomadic Bedouins, who
are very good customers. One
Jew told Dr. Stahl that for 45 years
he has been doing business with
several chiefs of these wandering
tribes and he has during all this
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would a European merchant doing
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business with people who have
fixed homes.
Last of Moslem Mmranos.
Further on in his desert trek
Dr. Stahl came to Tungurt where
there is a sect of Moslem marranos.
In 1610 a tyrannical pasha imposed
his will upon the Jewish population
and forced them to accept Moham-
medanism. Today the descendants
of those unwilling apostates are a
group apart. They do not wish to
return to Judaism but they cling
to recognizable Jewish customs.
They marry among themselves and
live apart from the other Moslems.
Because of their separatist life they
have retained their early Oriental
appearance and are frequently mis-
taken for Jews. Many of them
have among their possessions age-
old heirlooms that mark their an-
cient kinship with the Jews. Pray-
er books and other Hebrew books
are handed down from child to
child. They are kept with special
In the big oasis-city of Busada
(which means "lucky place"), the
last station in the desert, only a
few hundred miles from Algiers,
Dr. Stahl found a large Jewish
settlement of about 2,000 people.
All the banks and coffee houses in
this town are in Jewish hands and
many Jews are gold and silver
smiths. They have a beautiful syn-
agogue and a remarkably well or-
ganized congregation.
(Copyright. 1931. J. T. A./
VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS
TAAMARAT EMANUEL, Director of the Falasha School
at Addi.
Abeba, Abyssinia: "There is no race prejudice in Abyssinia and we
are treated as brothers. Our emperor is a n enlighened mn, mos
t
a
humane and understanding, who is anxious
to make reforms for the
good of his people, without taking revolutionary means to do so."
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HON. IIERBERT H. LEIIM
AN , •Lieutenant-Govern
or of New York:
"Good
government
after all depends on the mass of the population of
the
state
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RABBI HERBERT S. GOLDSTEIN, International Syna,
gogue New
York: "Judaism has a distinctive message in regard t e state
c
ques-
tion. It begins, first of all, with the notion that the o the social
monwealth, and that every generation must redistribute s i a com-
its wealth
through the system of the jubilee year. This brings to the fore a
divine arbitration between the notion of capitalism on the one hand
and communism on the other."
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RABBI SOLOMON GOLDMAN, Congregation Anshe Emeth, Chi-
cago: "It is painful to reflect, heart-breaking to record that
a goodly
part of this community is in the grip of a small, unscrupulous band
of
men and women who hive converted Judaism into n racket. Philan-
thropic organizations, educational institutions, congregations, ritual
customs are invaded by these parasites who suck at the vitals of Jewish
life. Devoid of conscience or scruple, they are all things to every
bidder. Unrestrained by the decent they pursue the expedient. They
corrupt all that they support; support all that pays. Ambitious, un-
fledged youths are theiy prey; naive, old folks are their victims. Hon-
est men shun public activity to escape contact with charlatans and
while ingenious spirits retire, coggers contrive to debase the public.
And these men steadily invoke the name of God, don the cloak of piety
and plead the cause of Judaism."
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DR. CHAIM WEIZMANN: "Arabs must be made to feel, must
be convinced, by deed as well as by word, that, whvever the future
numerical relationship of the two nations in Palestine, we on our part
contemplate no political domination. But they must also remember
that
WS on our side shall never submit to
Provided that the mandate is both recognized any political domination.
and respected, we would
welcome parity."
an agreement between the two kindred races on the basis of
political
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"Jews" and "Israelites."
It is here that Dr. Stahl found
Many Are Skilled Artisans.
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