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Sabbath Reading. of the Torah.
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10-25:19.
Prophetical portion—Is. 54:1-10.
August 21, 1931
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An Appeal to Employers of Jews.
With the High Holy Days only three
weeks off Jews concerned with their mani-
fold problems must give thought, and press
for action, not for synagogue problems
alone but for another at the present much
more vital and more pressing issue.
We speak of the problem of the employ-
ed Jews who, faced by the threat of un-
employment now additionally co-mingled
with the threat of prejudice, fearfully
await the coming of Rosh Hashonah and
Yom Kippur, dreading the possibility of be-
ing discharged in the event they choose to
adhere to the tenets of their faith and to
stay away from their jobs on these three
holiest Jewish days of the year.
It has been charged against the Jews, in
defense of prejudice against them in em-
ployment, that they take off too many days
from work on account of Jewish holidays.
It is an untruthful charge because very few
Jews observe all the Jewish holidays, and
while it is painful for the observant Jew to
admit the truth that a very small percentage
of Jews observe either the holidays or the
Sabbath, it is a thousand times more painful
to accept the fact that non-Jews magnify
the observance by Jews of two or three days
a year and threaten the very economic ex-
istence of thousands because they will take
time off to observe the Jewish New Year
and the Day of Atonement.
At this time, because of the exceedingly
trying conditions, we do not plead with em-
ployers in a spirit of malice or even resent-
ment at the unfair practices in employment,
but we appeal to them in quest for the in-
jection of a bit of humanitarianism.
We appeal to the non-Jews to offer the
Jewish man and woman, to the Jewish boy
and girl, a just chance to observe the holiest
days in the year as they choose to honor
them, without interfering with their rights
to a fair economic existence.
We plead with Jewish employers to
guarantee such a fair chance for their fel-
low-Jews who are in their employ, by
guaranteeing that their employment mana-
gers who may be non-Jews my not inject
bigotry in their places of business.
We plead with Americans to be fair in
practicing the traditional rules of Ameri-
canism in adhering to their preachments
for tolerance, fairness and justice to all.
This is not an idle appeal, but is the echo
of a fear that is now entertained in the
hearts of thousands of employed Jews who
dread the coming of the High Holy Days in
their despair lest they be robbed of the few
hours they choose to honor in Jewish obser-
vance.
Our immediate hope is that we may help
to prevent the creation of a new type of
Marrano Jew who will work on Rosh Ha-
shonah and Yom Kippur, secretly hiding
his Jewishness, but suffering a thousand liv-
ing deaths for the privilege of being loyal to
his faith and his people only in the deepest
regions of his heart.
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Immigrants No Longer Wanted.
Figures published last week, revealing
practically the complete closing of the pro-
verbial "haven of refuge" gates to this
country, indicate the end of a great era in
the history of this country. Even the most
optimistic must now admit that the day of
more liberal policies towards immigrants is
gone, perhaps never to return.
Under the heading "Immigration Ebb"
the New York Times describes in interest-
ing fashion the various immigration per-
iods. The Times editorial, worth reprint-
ing in view of the interesting data it con-
tains on the immigration periods in this
country's history, reads:
Immigration in the fiscal year ending July 1
tell below the 100,000 mark for the first time
since the Civil War. Actually, it was only a
single Civil War year that witnessed to low an
ebb. To come down to a permanent immigra-
tion level under 100,000 annually, we should
have to go back to about the beginning of the
Mexican War. The definite upward surge
came still another dozen years back, in the
year of Andrew Jackson's reelection. In 1832
the number of alien arrivals, which had aver-
aged for some time about 25,000 annually,
shot up to 60,000. Then came famine years in
Ireland, political discontent in Germany, eco-
nomic pressure in Central and Southern Eu-
rope, and religious persecution in Russia to
propel upon our shores ever-mounting waves of
European migration. In the years immediately
before the World War the arrivals from all
countries more than once topped the million
mark. In the 20 years after 1910, the net con-
tribution of immigration to the growth of the
people of the United States—that is to say,
the excess of immigrant arrivals over depar-
tures—amounted to about 8,000,000. With
this annual increment of about 400,000 we
must compare a net gain of about 36,000 in
the last fiscal year. There were slightly over
97,000 arrivals and nearly 62,000 departures.
Even under unrestricted immigration before
the World War, the annual fluctuations were
considerable. They constituted one of the
surest indexes to economic conditions in the
United States. Hard times in this country were
reflected in a sharp decline of immigrant ar-
rivals and a notable increase of aliens return-
ing to their native land to await, thriftily, the
return of prosperity and renewed employment.
With the migration flood reduced to a mere
trickle, this index continues to operate in part.
The number of emigrants in the last official
twelve-month were 11,000 more than in the
preceding year. The decline in the number
of immigrants, from about 242,000 to 97,000,
lacked its usual significance, since it was not
the free play of forces but followed upon Presi-
dent Hoover's instructions of last summer to
our consul. abroad, ordering them to restrict
visas for would-be immigrants.
Good times and full employment will come
back, but the story of American immigration.
which in something more than a century
brought nearly 50,000,000 aliens into this
country, has been written. The 1930 census,
for 18 states studied up to last May, showed an
actual decline in the number of foreign-born
from the 1920 count. By 1940 the decrease
will be marked enough to register itself in
various social and economic changes. One eco-
nomic symptom we already find in the acute
distress of the shipping industry, to a very con-
siderable measure explained by the disappear-
ance of the once lucrative steerage traffic.
The shipping companies are now largely basing
their hopes on Americans going by "Tourist
Third" to visit the Europe from which many
of their forebears came over in steerage.
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BY•THE•WAY
WELCOME to the fold, Publisher David A. Brown!
Glad to hear that the aggressive leader of phi-
lanthropic drives has now been harnessed to the
Fourth Estate. The American Hebrew of New York,
which recently recalled Isaac Landman from the
Rabbinate to be again its editor, will have David A.
Brown as its publisher. It won't hurt New York
Jewish journalism to hove a little of the mid-west
aggressiveness injected into it and Mr. Brown is the
one to do it. I look for some radical and interesting
changes under his dynamic and restless leadership.
MILWAUKEE JEWRY
Parodying Shakespeare one
might say there are columns in
stones, and running brooks—and
even in running trains. This is be-
ing written in between train stops
in the city of Milwaukee, far from
the maddening Broadway.
Milwaukee, Nathan Gould, edi-
tor of the Milwaukee Jewish Chron-
icle boasted to me, feels itself par-
ticulariy fortunate in the seeming
almost total dbsence of anti-Semi-
tism.
As regards the current business
slump, a less onthuriastic note was
struck. Yet in Milwaukee, there
came to me a story, apropos of the
business slump, which ought to
cheer the spirit.
advertising doesn't get anyone any-
O FFENSIVE
where. And when some of our ignorant friends
resort to the Bible to help them out then they are
laying it on a bit thick. I happened on an item in
a trade journal reciting the story of two merchants
(?) in a little town in Wisconsin. One of them has
been in business there for many years when six
months ago a competitor opened a store across the
street. Dresses were priced in one store for a dol-
lar when his intelligent competitor immediately
marked his 69c; then the first merchant reduced his
to 39c and the neighbor promptly went him one
better by pricing his 19c. Not to be outdone in stu-
pidity, the first one marks his to 9c and his fool
competitor priced his 5c. In a burst of business in-
sanity one offered his dresses FREE and the other
one went him one insanity better by
' giving them
free and ALSO A NICKEL. That's a true story
which was reported only last week. But the part I
didn't like was that one of them, the pioneer mer-
chant, put a sign in his window asking whether the
public was content to be led by a six-month's old in-
fant (the newcomer), and the newcomer promptly
retaliated with a sign which read "And a little child
shall lead them." That is what I call offensive ad-
vertising and if this paragraph comes to the atten-
tion of the offending parties I hope that they will ap-
preciate that my reaction to those clownish tactics
is that of every sensible person.
ABLE DIPLOMACY
A wealthy Jew, followed the
good old Sabbath tradition of hav-
ing an "orach" (a guest) for the
Shabbeth meal. All of the food
was placed on a large platter, with
the larger quantity facing the host
while the slimmer portions were on
the side which faced the "orach."
How to get the better side to
himself was the problem of the
orach.
Very adroitly he began to tell a
tale. "I want you to understand,
Mr. Host," he began, "that I, too,
was once very rich, but all of a
sudden, things gave a turn—and I
became a poor man." As he said the
words "gave a turn," he illustrated
it by spinning the platter around
so that the better part was in front
of him.
The rich man saw what had hap-
pened. "That's all right, Mr. Or-
ach," he said, "I understand how
that is—in fact, just the reverse
of that happened to me. You see,
once I was very poor, and then sud-
denly things gave a turn, and I be-
came rich." As he said, "gave a
turn," the rich man also illustrat-
ed by spinning around the platter
to its original position.
And so, the poor man was out
of luck again. But the moral of
the story, I suppose, it that "things
may suddenly give a turn" and let
us hope, for the better.
A
WRITER in a women's magazine comments on
the lack of knowledge mothers transfer to their
children on the subject of religion. Some of them
believe that when their children grow old enough to
"understand" things they can work out that problem
for themselves. One mother said that she wouldn't
send her child to Sunday School because they might
"pick up a lot of Ilebrew myths and Old Testament
ideology. I've been so afraid (she said) that they
might form a literal image in their minds of God as
an old man with a long beard sitting on a throne : "
Well, I am willing to confess that a great many mil-
lions of people believe in that type of a God. To
my mind if we attribute to God humanqualities it
is difficult to disassociate in our minds His HUMAN-
NESS. When we speak of the "average" man or
"average" woman we are inclined to assume a pat-
ronizing air: to adopt an intellectual snobishness
and a cultural superiority toward the "average" for-
getting that we are pretty much average ourselves.
So when I say that the average person who turns to
God in an appeal for mercy thinks of Him as a PER-
SON. If you question this statement test it your-
self with an open mind. You DO NOT pray to the
ether. You do not pray to somebody or something
INTANGIBLE. You turn your eyes to heaven and
put out your heart to SOMEONE whom you feel is
listening to you. He is fatherly. The very mother
that wants her child to avoid gaining the idea that
God is a man with a long beard sitting on a golden
throne, herself probably has a similiar idea of God.
I maintain that it is impossible for any human being
who believes in a God of mercy and love and justice
to think of God in any other but a PERSONALIZED
way. If you don't believe in a God but in a POWER,
that's different. But no person on this earth can
pray with any degree of satisfaction to ENERGY.
You must feel that you are speaking to some one who
has ears to hear, eyes to see, and mind and a heart
that are understanding and sympathetic.
JEWS AND THE CHICAGO
FAIR
Chicago is planning, as you
know, a world exposition in 1933.
And there is going to be a decided
Jewish angle to it, according to II.
L. Meites, the editor of the Chicago
Jewish Chronicle. Meites, has writ-
ten a book for the occasion—a vol-
uminous history of the Jewish pop-
ulation of Chicago.
One of the most interesting tales
of the book is the story of a Jewess,
to whom Meites credits much of
the early growth of the pineapple
city.
HISTORY OF —C IITICAGO JEWS
(Turn to Next Page).
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I
DISLIKE to differ with two such good friends as
Prof. Horace Kellen and Rabbi Tobias Schanfar-
ber on the subject of Jewish fraternities. Both of
them would like to see them abolished. They be-
lieve it creates snobs and that a boy's father's wealth
and social position rather than his worth are the
basis of his admission to a "fret," One of them says
(speaking of the "fret" man) that "he is turning
up his Jew-nose against his fellow-Jew whom he
think not quite so good or as rich as he is ... It is
not a question of character at all, nor even of intel-
lectual standing of the student. To my mind it is
more or less a question of Dun's rating. Now I hope
all those millions of college boys who write me let-
ters on all sorts of subjects will fly to their pens or
typewriters and tell me and the rest of the world
what they have to say of such severe criticism from
such responsible sources.
I NEVER went to college and I am not a Frat man,
although a couple of fraternities wanted me to be
an honorary member or something of that sort. But
I have set a rule against that sort of thing, so I re-
fused, but not because they were fraternities. My
experience with frats has been more or less casual.
Suppose I tell you something about it which may
throw a little light on the subject. I spoke a couple
of years ago at a Religious Teachers' Conference.
Many of the teachers were volunteers recruited from
the ranks of the Frat boys. And the Frat to which
these Jewish boys belonged presented (on the night
I was there) a loving cup to the Sabbath School
which had the best record for general excellence.
These boys were mostly in modest circumstances;
they must have been or they would not have been
interested in Jewish Sabbath School work, But I
happened to know them and can vouch for that. The
next time met a group of fraternity boys was when
I spoke at a banquet given at the close of a national
convention. Most of them were fine fellows, not a bit
snobbish, and from what I observed very few of
them came from wealthy families. As I understand
it the WEALTHY Jewish boys would prefer to be-
long to a CHRISTIAN fraternity rather than to one
of their own . ..too many Jews belong! Then the
third time I had an opportunity to judge Jewish fret
boys was at an informal dinner of about forty at
which I was asked to introduce a
subject for a dis-
cussion and to lead the discussion. Now I knew
some of this group and the majority were sons of
parents in humble circumstances. i merely start
the ball rolling with these statements in opposition to
the assertion that these frets create snobs. Now I
shall be glad to hear from the boys themselves and
if they don't write too
much, I shall promise to pub-
lish excerpts either for or against.
I
WAS INTERESTED ,he other day in reading
that an organized protest has been mad e
hy a
couple of hundred thousand negroes against "Amos
and Andy," who, as any intelligent and cultured per-
son will tell, are the radio toothpaste entertainers.
And I was more interested when i learned that the
same toothpaste and gargle
corporation had decided
on a companion feature to be
broadcast over another
chain. And this new feature was to be "The Gold-
bergs." So the other night I tuned in on the Gold-
bergs. The fun was innocent enough, but of course
there a-as present the "dialect" and the vocal man-
nerisms that are associated in the minds of most per-
sons with most Jews. I just wondered about the
whole business as I listened in. Whether it would
tend to further spread a misleading impression of
Jews as a whole. It's really something to think about
because the radio today reaches
hundreds of thous-
ands in small communities who have never seen
Jew, as well hundreds of thousands in larger com- a
munities who have never had personal contact with
a co-religionist. Now I am not going to commit my-
self adversely at the moment. I am thinking aloud,
and trying to make up my mind whether the cul-
tured, educated Jews of the country will not he
judged unfairly because of the Goldberg type to
which millions are being introduced every night. I
am just wondering, that's all
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Friends of an open-door policy for immi-
grants must become reconciled with facts
and with the situation as it exists today,
except for one thing: the spirit of reaction
and of hatred for everything foreign-born
already in this country. It is sad enough
that many families, divided by the barriers
set up against newcomers, have been bro-
ken up. It is tragic that honest and well-
meaning men and women who desire' to
make this land their home should be hound-
ed and watched, extremists desiring to
make laws that will farther oppress and
even brantlmark them with finger-prints
which are used today only against crimi-
nals. The traditional era of the founders
of this Republic is evidently over. Time
.
will tell what the new tendencies will bring.
The report of the Wickersham Commis-
sion on alien deportations is another reve-
lation of the hardships to which aliens are
exposed and of the inquisitory methods cago."
practiced to oppress foreigners and foreign-
And a son of this Mrs. Kohn,
born. What adds insult to injury, however, Abraham Kohn, was a personal
friend of Abraham Lincoln, and
it the even more oppressive methods pur- presented Lincoln with a flag, when
sued by various naturalization clerks when the President left in 1861 to assume
The Jewish Braille Magazine.
the duties of his post.
The first issue of the Jewish Braille Re- non-citizens apply for naturalization. If
EINSTEIN ON SALOONS
view has reached our desk. It is a tribute there were a way of putting an end to the
Einstein in an article
to the women's groups, particularly the roughness and insults of naturalization not Professor
so long ago in one of the Amer-
National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, clerks, that ought to be one of the first ican monthlies, after professing
for their devotion to the cause of the blind. movements to be begun by the liberals who himself to be a total abstainer, de-
plored one result of the disappear-
This magizine is an outgrowth of a prac- desire to protect the traditions of this land ance
of the saloon. Ile pointed out
tice of long standing which has distinguish- of welcoming the stranger in our midst and that the cafes where men gathered
of
treating
him
like
a
human
being.
to
drink
in Europe served also as
ed a group of conscientious women for their
public forums, where the topics of
efforts in braille work. The magazine is
the day were discussed, opinions
Angriff, Berlin organ of the National ventilated and clarified. Amer ca,
proof of their untiring devotion and of the
Socialists, was suspended for three days by said Einstein, had no such place.
vision which marks their efforts.
People as a whole, as a result, he
The magazine itself contains a wealth of the Berlin chief of police for calling on the thought, were deprived of a great
information on a variety of topics. It con- Ilitlerites to kill Lion Feuchtwanger, Hein- educational influence.
tains an explanation of the workings of the rich Mann, Arnold Sweig, Alfred Kerr and
THE REVOLUTIONARY
TAVERNS
Jewish calendar. It has an interesting ar- other German-Jewish writers. It is the old
story
of
the
anti-Semite
propagating
des-
It would be very easy to furnish
ticle on the life, work and ideals of Profes-
number
illustrations
sor Albert Einstein, as well as an acrostic truction. But long after the Angriff, the a A ny
merican
n umbe history
of
s ubstantiating
sonnet in tribute to Dr. Einstein. Dr. Elias Beobachter and other anti-Semitic organs the truth of this idea. In fact,
twenty years ago, Henry
L. Solomon writes on good-will movements will have been forgotten the world will some
Adams,
mos s ignificant
between Jews and Christians. An article read and proclaim as great works the of American
aAmmsc: one historians t pointed
writings
of
the
men for whom the Nazis in- that the American Revolution
was
on the Marranos is an interesting feature
largely born in the colonial taverns.
from the pen of Dr. David de Sola Pool, an vite death.
A nd even Professor Beard points
authority on the subject. "The Jews in the
out that it was at the taverns,
Jerusalem's largest cafe and dance hall where men gathered for their liq-
Revolution" is another interesting feature.
uor, that King George of England,
is
owned
jointly
by
an
Arab
and
a
Jew.
And the Jewish Telegraphic Agency con-
first was denounced as tyrant. All
Business partnerships are said to be indi- of
tributes interesting news items.
the early American Revolution-
Here is an interesting effort interestingly cating the trend for peace in Zion. it re- ary organizations generally held
their
meetings in the taverns. In
done, and the Jewish Braille Institute of minds the American Jew of the amicable fact, Raleigh
in Virginia
relations between the Jews and the Irish became almost Tavern
America has earned commendation for it.
as much of a patri-
who were said to form the best set of part- otic synonym as Faneuil Hall of
Boston.
The Junior Department of nine Protest- ners. With reports of impending riots be-
ing
intermingled
with
such
good
news,
mir-
TRAINS AND SALOONS
ant churches in Albany, N. Y., have collec-
acles appear never to cease in Palestine.
The only thing that is left us to-
ted $100 for the school luncheons fund of
day that serves as a substitute for
Iladassah in Palestine. Here is one instance
these puhlic forums is the smoking
The entire staff of the United Hebrew compartment of the trains.
'here a good piece of work in Palestine
Schools
of
Detroit
is
on
A train ride like liquor seems in
a month's vacation
will not be handicapped by religious pre-
some mystic fashion to make men
without pay. The depression has finally drop the
judice.
ordinary inhibitions and
made the spirit kin to the stomach.
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Tidal; and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.
This woman was a Mrs. Kohn,
who came to Chicago from Bavaria
somewhere in the decade of 1830.
When she arrived, there was no
schochet in Chicago, so her son
harnessed his horse and set off for
the east and brought back a who-
schet.
Then the High Holy Days came
around, and there was na syna-
gogue in town. The pious woman
sobbed. But we only have eight
Jews in town. How can we have
a synagogue? asked the son. "We
have no Minyan."
As you might guess, he harne s-
sed his horse again and was off to
the east, picking up two peddlers
and brought them to Chicago and
established a synagogue.
It was this'nucleus of small Jew-
ish business men who gave much of
the first decided commercial im-
pulse to Chicago, writes Meats in
his history
This synagogue by the way, stood
at the site of the present post office
in Chicago. There is a tablet on
the postoffice, which reads to the
effect: "Here stood the first Jew-
ish synagogue in the city of Chi-
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The Jewish Founder of a
World Language
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By SIDNEY WALLACH
fEditur's Note, rear after year the
Stature of the founder of Esperantoin-
crease+ in the public estimation. The
growth of international interdependence
is contributing no little to extending the
usefulness of the language. It safe to
ear that in time Dr. Lazarus Ludwig
Zamenhoff, the Polish, Jew who fathered
Esperanto. will be hailed • prophet of
world amity. This •rticle is written en•
perially for the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and The Detroit Jewish Chron-
icle./
In Cracow, Poland, 1,000 men
and women gathered from 40
countries all over the world to
honor the name of Dr. Lazarus
Ludwig Zamenhoff,
In Warsaw the city authorities
agreed to change the name of
Dzika street to that of Zamenhoff
street in remembrance of Dr. Lud-
wig Zamenhoff.
In Bialystok the city turned out
en masse at the unveiling cere-
monies of a monument to the
memory of Dr. Lazarus Ludwig
Zamenhoff.
These three events following
each other in rapid succession in
the past few weeks combine to re-
vive among other than his own
disciples the name and fame of
Dr. Lazarus Ludwig Zamenhoff,
the Polish Jew who founded the
international language of Esper-
anto. But it is not far fetched to
suppose that the day will come
when all the world will join to pay
tribute to his memory. For, in his
own way, Dr. Zamenhoff was the
man of peace of his time; and by
his own methods he has encour-
aged the wider understanding
among peoples that is so essential
for a lasting friendship of races.
Were he alive today he would
surely stand with the advocates of
peace in the forefront of the elect
of the earth.
His Life'. Dream.
Dr. Zamenhoff began his work
on an international language more
than half a century ago. Ile was
born in 1859, the son of a family
of language experts. His gather
and his grandfather before him
were language instructors in the
schools of the Czars. Zamenhoff
therefore came to his facility in
languages through a natural in-
heritance. But he extended his
interest beyond the purely lingual
and into the wider field of inter-
national usefulness. What this
Polish Jew succeeded in doing was
TV:
to fashion a language which by its
simplicity as well as by its close
relationship with the important
existing languages bid fair to be-
come the speaking medium of all
the people and to undo the curse
of the Tower of Babel.
It is of historical interest that
at one time Dr. Zamenhooff had
the idea of converting Yiddish into
an international language. There
are many who maintain that Yid-
dish being the lingua franca of
the wandering Jews is, as a mat-
,
!it
Lay Cornerstone for
Monument to Zamenhoff
WARSAW.—(J. T. A.)—Over
200 delegates to the Internation-
al Esperantists' Congress travel.
led to the town of Bialystok,
Aug. 13 to attend the seremonies
in connection with the laying of
the cornerstone for the monu-
ment to Dr. Lazarus Ludwig
Zamenhoff, the founder of Es-
peranto, who was born in Maly-
atok in 1859.
A delegation of Jews brought
the bricks used in the corner-
atone while M. Koscialkowski,
the district governor, was one
of the twenty speakers.
ter of fact, an international Ian
gunge. Dr. Zamenhoff hoped for
a time to simplify it and to make
it acceptable first to those people
among whom the Yiddish-speaking
Jews lived.
He found many obstacles in the
way, chiefly, of course, the un-
willingness of a dominant people
to accept a subject language as its
own medium. Ile then set to work
on compiling the language of Es-
peranto, a work which ho corn.
pleted in 1878.
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An International Need,
There have been international
languages created before of which
the most important was Volspuk.
But it was clear that in every re. 1st
spect the new language compiled
by Dr. Zamenhoff was its superior a
and the superior of every other
artificial language designed by
man.
Pause for a moment to consider
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M. Londres' "The Jew Has
Come Home"
Albert Londres, Frenchman, has
made a tour of the ghettoes of Eu-
rope, and the result is a work by
a non-Jew the like of which has
not been equaled in the past dec-
ade.
Those who have read the vicious
works of the Tharauds Brothers
will be especially pleased to read
the work of another Frenchman.
This work is also cruel, but it is
true, and is one that must meet
with sincere satisfaction because
it is such a fair exposition of the
Jewish problem and Jewish condi-
tions.
"The Jew Has Come Home," by
M. Londres, is a sincere and excel-
lent work, well written, contain-
ing vivid descriptions of depress-
ing Jewish conditions. It is a hor-
rible picture but, as already said,
true and fair. William Staples is
the translator. It is published
by Richard R. Smith, Inc., 12 East
Forty-first street, New York ($2).
M. Londres has gone to London
and Warsaw, Prague and Kishi-
nev, Lwow and Tel Aviv, and as
he trecked the roads of persecuted
Jews, enlightened Jews and Oman-
ciliated Jews, he has completed a
picture which deserves to be
studied and read.
"The
Spectre."
The vivid writing of M. Londres
is perhaps best exemplified in his
chapter "The Spectre." This spec-
tre's name is "pogrom." It is nat-
urally a horrible picture because
the complete story of the Jews'
spectral study is horrible. It
quotes figures and facts and re-
calls hair-raising atrocities.
The central theme of the book,
however, is the Zionist ideal and
the Jews' aspiration for the up-
building of Palestine. Wherever
Londres travels, he asks Jews if
they want to go to Palestine. Ile
finds Zionism the ideal of the
young Jews, with the old either
clinging to the hope for the com-
ing of the Messiah or reconciled to
their fate. In his quest for facts
about Zionism, he goes to Pales-
tine, sees what has happened be-
fore the riots of 1929, returns to
Paris before the massacres break
out and immediately rushes back
himself to witness what has hap-
pened. His final fact-finding visit
is a condemnation of the British
authorities and an indictment of
the Arab agitators.
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"The Price of Blood."
Ile quotes Regheb Bey Nash-
shibi, mayor of Jerusalem, as say-
ing that the price the Jew will
have to pay for Palestine will be
the price of blood. He quotes the
Arab battle cry during the riots:
"The religion of Mohammed
Defends its faith by the sword.
With the +word we defend
The prophet Mohammed.•
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He narrates the result of a con-
ference with 10 Arabs and their
contradictory and vicious answers.
His conclusions are that the Jew
must conquer and he warns the
Arabs that they will not so easily
defeat the Jews. He finds that the
young Jews have been a bit shaken
and a bit sobered, but their backs
remain straightened and unbent in
Palestine. He concludes by ask-
ing the question whether the
Wandering Jew has really come
home, and his own observation is
"Why Not?"
"The Jew Has Come Home" is
a volume worth while, impressive
and instructive insofar as it re-
veals the sentiments of a fair non-
Jewish writer. You may well rend
it for considerable constructive
information. P. S.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
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Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York and Rabbi Isaac Rubinstein of
Vilna, Poland, are the two Jewish representatives named to the execu-
tive committee of the World Conference for Peace Through Religion
which met in Geneva, Switzerland, to lay plans for its world congress
in Washington in November, 1932.
With the election of Mrs. Alida de Jong to the Dutch House of
Commons there are now five Jews in the lower house of the Dutch
parliament. Mrs. de Jong, who succeeded the venerable Socialist
eader, M. Gerhard, is a prominent figure in the Dutch Socialist party.
The an
other four Jews in the House of Commons are Dr. L 11. J. Vos, Dr.
G.
Bergh, D. J. Wynkoo p and Mrs, B. Bakker-Nort. In the
uppe v r den
house there are three Jews
, San van den Bergh, Mendels and
Henri Pollak. There is also one Jew on the privy council, which con-
sists of 14 persons. He is J. Limburg.
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The supervisors of San Diego, Cal., have appointed Philip Smith to
the office of judge of the
new municipal court to be opened in Septem-
ber. Mr. Smith is the first Jew to hold such an office here. Ile is also
the youngest jurist in the country. He is the son of Orthodox parents
who settled here late in the nineteenth cenury.
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Harry Sarher, former member of the Zionist Executive, is the
choice of the Jewish Agency Executive for the position of Jew!-h
adviser to Lewis French, director of the Palestine development scheme.
The London office of the Zionist Executive is now in communication
with Mr. Sucher, who is in France, to ascertain whether
he is disposed
to accept the post.
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Leonard Stein, former political secretary of the World Zionist
Organization and the honorary counsel of the Jewish Agency, has been
re-elected honorary counsel of .
the Council of the Jewish Agency.
Dr. Jacob Kohn, rabbi of Congregation Anshe Chesed, New York,
has been appointed spiritual leader of Temple Sinai, Los Angeles, ben
Platt, president of the latter congregation, announced. Rabbi Kohn has
occupied the Anshe Chesed pulpit for 20 years. He is
a former presi-
dent of the United Synagogue of America and vice•president of the
Ra b inical
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Assembly.
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