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REVIEW OF THE YEAR 5691
=, (Continued from Page One) I Jews of Eastern Europe, held a na-
pointed out that changes which are' tional conference on Nov. 30, at
rapidly taking place in the econ- I which it was agreed that efforts
= omy of Poland have resulted in would be concentrated to supply
E - • the wide displacement of middle-
Jewish artisans in Eastern Europe
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men, a displacement which has had
O a disastrous effect especially upon with tools and machinery, and with
financial
assistance
for
the
con-
= 1 the Jews ,who, because of a his-
struction and operation of fac-
1 torical development, happen to be, tories.
to an overwhelming extent, mid-, The Hebrew Sheltering and Im-
dlemen, and that their suffering migrant Aid Society (Hias), an-
EI has been aggravated by restric- other organization which works
tions and by unfavorable discrim-
=1 ' ination. A plea was made for the for the economic recovery of East-
ern European Jewry, found itself
=:' repeal of the Tsaristic laws, for faced with a deficit in October,
= the opening up of state monopo- and was compelled to make a spe-
lies and state-owned enterprises, cial appeal for funds. In Decem-
to Jews, and for a change in the, ber, Dr. Myron Krenin, president
taxation system which now im- 1 of the United Jewish Emigration
poses a disproportionate burden Committees of Europe (Emigdi-
=I upon city dwellers.
rekt), arrived in the United States
=
Hitlerites Caused Anxiety.
to consult with the officers of the
ESTABLISIIED 1912
1
The phenomenal gain of the Ilias regarding the further prose-
= National Socialist party (Fascisti) cution of the emigration work
74.1 in the German Reichstag election which was being conducted jointly
E. in the middle of September, 1930, by the two organizations and the
E. 1 and the anti-Jewish riots which
Jewish Colonization Association
- occurred on the day the new
(Ica.). In Slay, llias announced
E1 Reichstag assembled,
violently that during the preceding four
drew the attention of American months its shelter department had
= Jewry to the situation of their served 45,132 free meals and pro-
German brethren, because the pro- vided 6,129 nights of shelter at!
' gram of this party, which is led its headquarters; during the Pass- 1
E 1 by Adolph Hitler, bristles with over the some department had j
ES1 threats against the Jews of Ger- served 7,026 meals.
a ; many. While several Jewish or-,
Crisis in Social Work.
ganizations in the United States
Several important Jewish insti- 1
I were deeply stirred by the results tutions were seriously affected by ]
I of the German elections, they took the business depression, especially
=I no action, knowing that the sister's those which had recently should-
22 community in Central Europe ia ered obligations because of new
=1 well able to deal with the situa-1 buildings. Partly as a result of
Er= tion, and feeling confident that the the hard times there were, during
- sober judgment of the mass of
the year, a number of mergers of
the German people would not per-1 Jewish social service agencies.
O mit German honor to b
i
e stainedd
Tw•o hospital s in Newark, N. J.,
by a recrudescence of medieval, three societies in Omaha, Neb.,
I persecution.
land two institutions in Jersey City,
Considerable interest and some N. J., were among those which
misgiving were aroused, however, combined.
by the disclosure of the fact that
Situation Not Entirely Black.
active Hitlerite cells exist in the While the situation was some-
United States, engaged in preach- what gloomy, it was not altogether
in g the philosophy and defending black. The Jewish Federation of
the policy of the German Fascist Boston, for example, reported in'
ES movement. Such groups were May that the preceding year had
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- found in a number of cities, in- been the most successful in its his-1
g 77.7v eluding New York, Chicago, Phila. tory. At the convention in June
•
delphia, Detroit, and Milwaukee. of the National Conference of
During the year, also National So- Jewish Social Service in Minne-1
E1cialist newspapers in Germany fee- apolis, Miss Frances Taussig,l
quently devoted space to attacks executive director of the Jewish 1
against American Jews—attacks Social Service Association of New
w hich were generally absurd and York City, which engages largely
fantastic.
in family relief work, reported
Meximin Agitation.
that the association and other (m-
in May, American Jewry was ily relief agencies had succeeded
compelled to turn its cries to A in maintaining their standards in
= foreign country much nearer home spite of the depression; and at the
- than Germany. Beginning in No- annual convention of the Natoinal
vember, 1930, somewhat disquiet- Association of Jewish Center
= ing reports had been coming from Executives held at Lake George,
= the neighbor republic, Mexico, in- New York, in June, its president,
— dicating that an anti-foreign agi- E. J. Londow, reported that the
lotion was afoot in that country, Jewish Centers had been able to
with the small Jewish trader as its continue functioning in a healthyi
chief target. On April 10 came I manner.
-- 'ports that the municipal authori- r
In October, the Jewish Theo- I
es of Mexico City had forcibly logical Seminary in New York
expelled several hundred of these dedicated a group of new build-1
e .
traders from one of the market. ings, including the Jacob II. Schiff °:#4
-
On the basis of these reports, Al- Memorial Library, given by mem-1
Fred 61. Cohen, president of the hers of the Schiff family; the Un-
B'nai B'rith, addressed a telegram terberg Memorial Building to
o the United States Department house the Teachers' Institute, the
of State, requesting our govern- gift of Israel Unterberg of New ,
ment to protest to Mexico against York in memory of his parents,
-
the action of the municipal au- and the Louis S. Brush Memorial
— thorities of the Mexican capital. Dormitory Building, provided
for]
= The department requested the in the will of the late Louis S.
American ambassador to report on Brush.
•E- the situation, with the view to de-
In June, in connection with the
= termining if any American citi- commencement exercises of the
rens had been involved, indicating Hebrew Union College, in Cincin•
=, that unless this was the case it nati, a new library building was
=, could not make such represents- erected at a cost of $250,000, con-
pions an requested by Alfred M. tributions toward which had been
ES Cohen, president of the B'nai gathered several years earlier. In,
= B'rith.
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ei or
Paulin
au in e
this connection it is inter- April
esting to recall that in 1925 the tit le aged and orphaned a o t le
lous-
B'nai B'rith had established in ton Texas, endowed by a bequest
GULLIBLE
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Mexico City a bureau to aid refu- of Mrs. Wolff, who died in 1921,
YMP UME'
llow .prang..I thought, that ate should gee Jewish immigrants, for which was opened. In May the corner-
have
work it had received a substantial stone was laid of a new building
Just eight lives more than wet
subsidy from the emergency com- to house the Jewish Young Men's
I learnt thli when I Tess a tot,
mittee for Jewish refugees, which and Young Women's Associations
Perhape—when I wee three.
had been established in 1924 by a at Rochester, N. Y., for which a
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I had my doubts about one at
number of national Jewish organ- building fund of over a million
Encumbered with nine liven.
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All
izations
up on the initiative of the dollars had been pledged in 1929.
I couldn't comprehend it then—
My doubting still survives.
American Jewish Committee, the In the following month the
new
American Jewish Congress, and building of the Bialystokev Home
! But were it sn—what's there to that?
other bodies. The B'nai B'rith had for the Aged, which had cost
I know a thing more true!
a
NNWs faith tan die a thousand time.
withdrawn its representative in half-million dollars, was dedicated
And they crop up •new.
Mexico, J. L. Weinberger, only a in New York City.
—Lillian Ilerdow.
Phone Madison 6430
short time before the anti-foreign
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In the thirty-first annual report
outbreaks. A week after these of the Jewish Agricultural Society,
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r. Weinberger was re- issued in February, the general
Best Wishes For the
quested to return to Mexico to manager, Gabriel Davidson, ex-
investigate the situation. At the pressed the view that while they
New Year
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same time Mr. Cohen, the presi- were feeling the effects of the
dent of B'n ai B'rith, stated that general economic depression, the
he had been informed by the State Jewish farmers throughout the
Deparement that the investigation country were managing to main-
conducted by J. Reuben Clark, tain their position.
ambassador of the United States,
Slump Affected Jews.
indicated that the incidents which
Several special factors operated
had occurred in Mexico City were to increase the suffering among
Specialists in
the result of the economic depres-
Meats, Poultry, Sea Foods sion, which manifested itself in some sections of American Jewry
from the slump in business. Chief
demonstrations against non-Mexi- of these were the failure of banks
can elements, including Jews, but in which a very large proportion
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that there had been no violence. of the depositors and investors
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Early in June, the American Jew-
were Jews, strikes in trades em-
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ish Congress also sent a represen- ploying many Jews, and discrimi-
tative to investigate the Mexican nation as against Jews seeking
Twenty-eight Years of Courteous and Efficient Service
We Deliver
situation.
employment. Not only did Jews
Fund-Raising Efforts Unabated. participate in all civic efforts to
While the American Jewish com- relieve suffering in general, but
munity was preoccupied with these Jewish organizations also estab-
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matters of political concern in lished special agencies to help
various foreign countries, it did meet the crisis. The service of
Season's Greetings
not abate its efforts to ameliorate Hias in New York City in this
the economic situation of other direction was noteworthy.
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communities, although, because of
In Detroit a kosher kitchen was
the business depression and the opened; in San Francisco, Congre-
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consequent difficulty of raising gation Emanu-El decided in No-
adequate funds, work in this di- A■l e u mnib, e d r utroi n t g ratii, sef oernms. sintsg gwv m
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rection had to mark time during
the past year. In November, when into a dormitory for jobless,
Dr. Bernard Kahn, European di- less men, should the emergency
ARTISTIC DECORATING rector
IRA 11. GREENLEE, Mgr.
of the Joint Distribution warrant; in Baltimore, the Jewish
PAINTING
Committee, came to the United Educational Alliance established
States to confer with the leaders an employment bureau to supple-
of that organization, he stated ment the placement work of the
Horne, Office, Factory
that it had disbursed over 91,000,- Jewish Social Society Bureau; in
000 during the preceding year for New York, the Union of Orthodox
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reconstructive relief in Eastern Jewish Congregations organized a
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Europe.
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series of mass meetings and con-
During February, announcement certs to raise funds for the benefit
was made of the reorganization of of the unemployed, and the New
the Joint Distribution Committee York Board of Jewish Ministers
under a charter which provided appointed • special committee to
Rosh Ilashonah Greetings for ■ national council of 250, to organize the congregations of the
Rosh Hashonah Greetings
form the general body, which city to aid the workless; and in
would elect a board of directors of Los Angeles, • Jewish group de-
48 and an executive committee of cided to organize an employment
15. On Saturday evening, March bureau along semi-commercial
21, and Sunday, March 22, the re- lines.
organized Joint Distribution Com-
f:. COLEMAN
Educational Agencies Hard Hit.
mittee held a national conference
Distributors
One of the most tragic aspects
in New York City which inaugur- of the business depression was its
sted the campaign for $2,600,000 effect upon some Jewish educe-
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