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Sabbath Readings of the Torah.

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 12 :1-17 :27.
Prophetical portion—Is. 40:27-41:16.

Cheshvan 12, 5692

October 23, 1931

Our New Features.

Immanuel di Roma—Friend of Dante.

A recent Jewish Telegraphic Agency re-
port from Rome stated that Giacomo Miele,
a Jewish shopkeeper of the Roman ghetto,
has aroused tremendous interest in Italian
literary circles by his new commentaries on
the works of the famous Italian poet Dante.
Miele's commentary on Dante's "Divine
Comedy" is creating particular interest and
is attracting notice to the author who, with
only an elementary school education, has
devoted many years to the study of Dante's
wo s. Now Italian scholars, who have been
lar with Miele's work for some time,
are planning to publish his commentaries.
This interesting bit of information not
only revives interest in Dante and his time,
but also focuses attention on one of the most
interesting Jewish personalities of Dante's
period—Immanuel of Rome, contemporary
and friend of the great Italian poet who
ranks among the few of the world's great-
eat poets of all time. Strong claim is also
made on Jewish interest in the work of
Dante Alighieri because of the poet's
friendship for Jews generally, proof of
which is especially found in one pasage in
his "Divine Comedy" where we read:
"Act ye as men, and not as stupid cattle,
Lest the Jew in your midst should scorn

It is a well known fact that Dante knew
the Bible well and used passages from the
Old Testament freely. He particularly
drew upon the Psalms of David. Of his
own admission, however, it is known that he
did not possess a knowledge of the Hebrew
language. But his friendship for the Jew-
ish writer Immanuel di Roma, better known
as Immanuel ben Shelomoh, emerges as of
greatest importance in a study of Dante's
attitude toward the Jewish people because
this comradeship had influenced the Floren-
tine poet's friendship for Jews generally.

Plight of Worthy Causes.

The most regrettable thing about the
present crisis is the danger with which it
threatens numerous worthy causes for
which many sources of income have been
shut off. The closing of the school system
lit 'Palestine, the plight of the hospitals in
Eretz Israel, the threatened closing of many
Hebrew schools and Yeshivas in this coun-
try and abroad, the plight in which the
Jewish press finds itself—these provide
cause for deep concern.
Jews who are concerned over the sur-
vival of the spirit of Israel must be grieved
over the plight of Palestine's Hebrew

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schools, and it is to be hoped that it will
not be long before they will be completely
re-opened and their maintenance assured.
Similarly, the schools which have shut their
doors in this country and in European lands
must be provided with necessary funds for
their future upkeep.
But there are institutions which have
managed to carry on, even though their
existence is a precarious one, and these
must not be permitted to suffer for want of
small sums necessary for their maintenance.
The most important of these which today
cries for help is the Iladoar, the only He-
brew periodical published in this country.
To permit this weekly magazine to perish
would mean the bringing to the brink of
bankruptcy an important adjunct of lie-
brew culture.
Similarly, other existing institutions must
be encouraged and strengthened. Locally,
the Hadassah chapter is sponsoring the an-
nual donors luncheon, to take place on De-
cember 15, this year's tax for this tradi-
tional event having been reduced to $20.
We urge the community's wholehearted
support of this event in order to guarantee
the continued existence of Palestine's
health system. Hadassah's work is too well
known to need repetition and emphasis. In
no event should it be permitted that this
work should be weakened in any way at all.

Commencing with this week's issue, The
Detroit Jewish Chronicle will present in its
columns two additional features, each ap-
pealing to an important group. The Chil-
dren's Corner" has for its objective our boys
and girls, and its aim will be to bring our
youth nearer to the vast storehouse of Jew-
ish historical facts and folklore. The sports
column, written by an able and well-infor-
med writer, will keep our readers informed
on the activities of prominent Jewish ath-
letes.
■ -... • e perusal of this issue will reveal a
wealth of material and information. The
gist of the most important news of the
week, our regular editorial features, includ-
ing Charles Joseph's "Random Thoughts"
and David Schwartz's "By The Way," as
well as special articles by writers of emin-
ence on the most important subjects of the
day, lead us to believe that we have im-
proved on the contents of the community's
only Anglo-Jewish newspaper.
But this being our own judgement on our
own work, we welcome also the opinions
and reactions of the readers themselves.
Our aim is to provide the community with
the best possible newspaper for Jewish
readers. Each additional feature entails
added expense, and its justification will de-
pend entirely on the reaction of the read-
ers. We urge The Chronicle family to
write us and describe these reactions that
we may have a cross-section of the subject
matters which appeal to a community as
large as Detroit's. By possessing such
knowledge we feel we will be in better posi-
tion to aid in moulding the public opinion of
Detroit's Jewish community.
At the same time we urge parents to en-
courage their children to rend "The Chil-
dren's Corner," to write us the impression
its contents make upon them and to partici-
pate in the contests to be conducted through
__this column. In this way we hope to be
able to exert a wholesome Jewish influence
upon our young readers.

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A Tribute to a Great Jew.

Now, more than ever, with obstacles be-
setting the path of every worthy Jewish
effort, with anti-Semitism increasing in
Europe and raising its ugly head in this
country, our people everywhere misses the
aggressive leadership and the dynamic per-
sonality of the late Louis Marshall.
Louis Marshall, the great Jew and pow-
erful leader, is missed in efforts for the de-
fense of the Jew in this country as well as
abroad. He is missed as that strong per-
sonality which always inspired Israel and
gave our people courage to carry on our
difficult battles.
Those of our readers who have read the
first installments of his biography, which
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is happy to
be privileged to publish with the consent of
its author, Dr. Cyrus Adler, who succeeded
Mr. Marshall as president of the American
Jewish Committee, and of the Jewish Pub-
lication Society which first published it in
the American Jewish Year Book, must have
been inspired anew by the genius of Ameri-
can Jewry's departed leader.
But Jews are not alone in admiring the
genius and personality of the late Louis
Marshall. "Delectus," an anonymous
writer, in an article in "Heavy Stuff," a
monthly published by the United American
Metals Corporation of Brooklyn, N. Y., anti
Chicago, Ill.,-tells the following story about
Mr. Marshall:

The late Louis Marshall, who was one of
the greatest constitutional lawyers in his day,
first appeared before the Court of Appeals at
Albany, N. Y., before he had achieved more
than a local reputation in the then small town
of Syracuse, N. Y. Although I can not vouch
for the whole truth of the story of his first
appearance before the high court, I had heard
the story told so often in my youth, that I had
almost come to believe I was present at the
time.
Young Marshall was slight of build, diffi-
dent and walked as though in a dream. To
his attire he gave little or no thought. Well
do I remember him in his overlarge derby hat
that always seemed to rest upon his ears, and
his "high water" trousers that ended where his
gaiters began. In winter, especially when the
snow was deep, Marshall, like others in our
town, wore leather boots into which were
crammed as much of the trousers as they
would hold.

The case in which he was to appear in court
was an important one. Sauntering about the
hotel in Albany, the night before the hearing,
the young lawyer suddenly found himself in a
room in which several guests were gathered
about a table drinking wine. The men, evi-
dently lawyers from New York who were to
oppose him on the morrow, were in dinner
attire, as were the women of the party, when
one of the men called out, "Come in, stranger,
and join us." Marshall moved toward the table
and seated himself. "llaow's crops daown
your way?" asked one of the men in what he
believed was the native dialect. The young
upstate lawyer sensed that these people mis-
took him for a country boob and were going
to have some fun at his expense. Ile would not
disappoint them. "Fair to middlin'," he re-
plied with an apparently innocent simplicity.
"Any' haow's the caows?" inquired another.
The women were giggling behind their gloved
hands. "They're milkin' fair," replied Mar-
shall. More smart questions were asked and
all were answered to the evident delight of
the party, when one of the men asked the
stranger whether he would not care for a glass
of wine. "Don't mind if I do," replied the
pseudo simpleton. The wine was poured out
and one of the party called for a toast from
the stranger. Marshall rose, raised his glass.
stood for a moment in thought, and then, in
a quiet, even voice which in later years com-
mended rapt attention from his hearers, spoke.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he said, "I wish you
health, happiness and more wisdom as your
years advance, bearing ever in mind that out-
ward appearances may be deceiving. You took
me for a boob because of my clothes; for the
same reason, I took you to be gentlemen and
ladies. We were both mistaken."
The dismay to the party, however, was noth-
ing compared to the shock that the New York
lawyers received the following day when, ap-
pearing in court, they found that their guest
of yestereve was the lawyer who was to oppose
them.

This story is as characteristic as the many
tales of the life of Louis Marshall retold
by Dr. Adler in the biography now appear-
ing in our columns. The Chronicle is not
only pleased to open its columns for the
publication of this noteworthy biography,
but considers it an ever-deserved tribute to
a great Jew not to forget his memory. and
continually to pay honor to his name for
the great contributions he has made to his
Jewish people and to the American nation.

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HISTORY OF ANTI-SEMITISM

Charles D. Isaacson, former mu.
sic critic of the defunct New York
Globe, the man who was largely
responsible for much of the mu-
nicipally sponsored concerts, is
writing a book.
The theme has nothing to do
with music. It is our old friend,
Anti-Semitism, again. The book
is to be a history of the various
movements against the Jews. the
blood libels, tne concoctions of the
Elders of Zion conspiracy, Hitler-
ism and the like.
A variation, in other words, of
the motif recently elaborated by
Heywood Broun and George Britt
in "Christiana Only."

EVEN CHIEF RABBIS

Anti-Semitism is a long story,
but it really is capable of great
condensation, and the best conden-
sation that I ever heard is the old
wheeze. You remember it? I
think it ran something like this:
"The condition of the Jews is bad
in Germany. In Hungary, it is
even worse. But in Rumania, it
is not so bad. In Rumania, a Jew
can even become chief rabbi."
am not, of course, referring
particularly to Rumania. I am not
posted on the day to day barom-
eter of anti-Semitism.

Eminent Writer Predicts Winter of Misery in Germany,
Where "Hitler Thrives on Misery"

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press dispatches broadcast the tidings that
Ilymie Levin, an "astute cocky Jew," will suc-
ceed Scarface Al, if and when he does his "stretch."
I have swept off my desk ready for the protests I
shall receive from some of my eternally vigilant
readers who do not relish such a Jewish reference
to a racketeer. For a moment I felt the same way.
Then I dropped into a philosophical frame of mind.
I recalled that only a few days prior sonic one had
asked me to protest because some papers failed to
mention the fact that an outstanding musician was
a Jew! So I says to myself if our people want the
good, they must also take the bad. It is illogical to
single out the Jew ONLY when something nice can
be said about him and remain silent when something
bad is to be said. I don't like these undesirable
references but if I am to be consistent I must not
protest. All this confusion results because we our-
selves don't know what we are. Some day we will
make up our minds if we are a religion or a race;
then we shall live more comfortably.

SAN1UEL LEVY, president of the borough of Man-
hattan, is a candidate to succeed himself. Mr.
Levy, from what I hear, is quite a person. He, like
Rabbi Stephen Wise, was born on St. Patrick's Day,
and like another Jew who was president of Man-
hattan, Marcus M, Marks, he has achieved an extra-
ordinary record. The only thing I don't like about
Samuel Levy is that he prides himself on the fact
that he never took a vacation in his life. That's
going to make it hard for us to "bone" our boss
for a vacation next summer. It is said that a few
SHE WAS A COMMUNIST
Anti-Semitism is, of course, a years ago he agreed to act as chairman of the Fen-
horrid spectre—and yet some- nimore Country Club and he laid down an unusual
times, when I think of what a pe- set of requirements for admission. No man would
culiar sort of people we Jews are
be admitted who did not contribute to the Jewish
—well, I begin to lose some of my
Federation of Charities and support a religious
severity toward the anti-Semite.
The other day the writer of organization. Nor would Mr. Levy admit Any busi-
these lines passed that Hyde Park
ness man who had gone bankrupt and tailed to pay
of New York—Columbus Circle.
100 cents on the dollar. "Membership," he said,
You have been there—if you
"costs 52,000 and we don't want anybody here who
have been to New York. You
have heard the soap boxers there' will pay that much of somebody else's money for
pleasure." Yes, Mr. Levy is quite a person and I
—the atheists, Socialists, Com-
munists, single taxers, health cul- wouldn't be surprised to see him re-elected.
turists and what not.
HEYWOOD BROUN has a brainy "pinch-hitter"
There was a young woman
who is writing his column in the New York
speaking, on the occasion to which
World-Telegram when the portly Broun is vacation-
I refer. She spoke with a distinct
foreign accent. She was a Com- ing. This writer utters a protest in a most inter-
munist. She was shouting "We esting way about the desire on the part of so many
Communists" in ever y A.her well-meaning folk to standardize the world. Ile
breath. And she was continually could have gone on at considerable length discuss-
ing the efforts of Ku Kluxers, Prohibitionists, A.
harping on "What this country
P A 's Lord's Day Alliance, Daughters of the
needs." She was a Jewess.
American Revolution, Fundamentalists, and other
like
standardizers to make men and women the
PROPHECY AND DIGNITY
Now, I have no objection to world over look alike, think alike, dress alike, eat
Jews or Jewesses being Commun- alike because these groups in their wisdom appar-
ists. The truth is, that I am rather ently are reconciled to the fact that the Creator
glad to see what the radical move- has given to them the TRUTH, the whole truth con-
ments, irrespective of what they cerning ways of life. But the writer in question
are, contain so large a percentage has different and more sensible views on the sub-
of Jews. I think it shows intel- ject. It will be interestinig to turn over a couple
lectual vitality. I think it shows of paragraphs to him and to read what he has to
the prophetic spark. Our ances- say on the subject.
tors were the greatest prophets of
Up to a hundred years ago everybody looked
the world. A Jew should be a
exactly like what he was. A Chinaman was a
prophet. Should be a Utopian.
Chinaman with a purple silken robe and an
Should dream of the end of social
interesting pigtail dangling behind, and an
• injustice and the coming of world
Eskimo wore furs and smelled of blubber, and
harmony. That's all right.
a Russian wore his shirt outside his pants and
Yet at the same time, does it
called it a blouse, and a Turk took his shoes
not seem a little queer for • per-
off and washed his feet when he went to his
son whose own accent is foreign
mosque. and a Christian took his hat off when
to be telling a mob of natives what
he went to his church and did not wash his
this country needs?
feet, and doctors did not disguise themselves
Wasn't it possible for this Jew-
as successful brokers, and brokers did not try
len Communist to give her message
to disguise themselves as successful doctors,
without phrasing it in so objec-
and kings wore crowns and did not ask Jimmie
tionable a way? Isn't it possible,
Walker for the address of his tailor, and ladies
too, for even a Communist to con-
did not dress like etc., etc., and vice versa.
vey his or her message without
All this diversity made for a charming
getting hysterical? Can't one be
world full of tolerance and forbearance for
a prophet while practicing a little
nobody traveled under false colors. When
restraint?
you met a fellow in a turban you knew what
to expect of him, and you were not annoyed
TWO ATHEISTS
because he liked to eat stewed puppies for
Reference was made in this eru-
breakfast. That was his customary morning
dite column last week to Dr. Isi-
meal, and it was perfectly right for him be-
dore Singer's desire to put religion
cause he wore a turban. You yourself pre-
on a non-sectarian basis. Dr.
ferred oatmeal. but, then, you did not wear a
Singer would abolish the syna-
turban but a derby.
gogues, but confesses that he him-
Today the man dresses up like a shipping
self likes to go to "schul" occasion-
clerk or carries an umbrella to make believe
ally.
that he has something to do with the British
I should have told at the time,
consulate, and then when he orders stewed
apropos of this, one of my favorite
puppies for breakfast you are annoyed—and
stories.
justly so. For the disgusting creature looks
Two atheistic Jews were sitting
for all the world like everybody else, and it
discussing atheism.
is not fair that anyone who looks so absolutely
Said No. 1: "There is no God.
like an American should do quite such an un-
That is just a superstition." And
American thing as to eat puppies for break-
he went on into a long discourse,
fast.
essaying to prove the non-exist-
the Bolsheviks shall have built them-
ance of a Deity.
selves a dozen Detroits and two dozen Pitts-
"Sure," No. 2 agreed, "there is
burgh% and when the Japanese shall have
no God. Who believes in God?
broken down some more of their lovely tem-
Only fools, women and children."
ples to make room for gas tanks and filling
And so they talked. In the
stations, and when the French shall have
midst of the talk No. 1 drew an
changed all their best restaurants into dog
apple from his pocket and began
wagons and cafeterias, and when the streets of
to eat.
Munich shall flow with tomato juice instead
"What about making a 'broche'
of beer, then we shall at last be ready for the
before you eat?" asked No. 2.
worst war that has ever threatened poor hu-
"What are you—a goy?"
manity with absolute annihilation.
"But there is no God—you said
There is only one thing that can save us—
so yourself—why should I make e
diversity and the respect for our neighbors
broche?"
born out of the conviction that the Lord has
"That has nothing to do with it,"
made them different and that, therefore, we
replied the other—"whether there
should not expect them to be like ourselves.
is a God or there is no God, no Jew
In the matter of international relations one
will eat without making a broche."
ounce of honest respect is of much greater
value than 15 hogshead of a love and affection
JOURNALISTIC BOOM
which no one can really feel. And that is where
Whatever may be the situation
our ancestors were a great deal wiser than we
financially, there would seem to be
ourselves.
no literary depression in the House
of Israel.
comes a note from just such a standardizer
No less than two new journals
H ERE
as referred to in preceding paragraphs. It is
are shortly to make their appear-
ance. A weekly—sponsored by in form of a letter to the New York Times:
There never has been a time when a further
James Wise—to be called "Opin-
revision of American immigration laws has
ion" is expected to make its debut
been
more necessary or would be more wel-
in November. John Smertenko, I
come than now. I believe the permanent re-
am told, is to be managing editor,
striction
of immigration to a small selected
and Dr. Stephen S. %Vise will pen
group of people coming exclusively from the
the editorials.
nations
of
Northwestern Europe would re-
And during November, the Cur-
ceive the support of most thinking Americans.
rent Jewish Record, a digest of
(Signed) A. L. ESTABROOKE.
periodical Jewish literature, edited
by Sidney Wallach, is also sched- Hartford, Conn.
uled to make its appearance.
THERE, ladies and gentlemen, you have the 100
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per center in all his glory! Behind this state-
THE ADLERS EXPERIMENT
ment are such thoughts as these: (1) Protestant,
And even the Yiddish theatrical
white and preferably blondes; (2) Communists
world. whose demise has been so
long prognosticated, refuses to come from Eastern Europe and they are a menace
stay down. While Thomashefsky to the nation; Ill Racketeers, and gunmen are
has withdrawn from Broadway, mostly Eastern and Southern Europeans; (41 Im-
instead of attempting to give Yid- migrants from other parts of Europe except those
dish shows in English. they are designated will probably be drinkers and therefore
a menace to the eighteenth amendment; (5) they
proposing to take English shows
also favor a continental Sunday; (6) and they are
and translate them into Yiddish.
Their first venture will be a "foreigners" in all the hated meaning of the term.
I have revealed the type of mind that insists on
translation of "The Royal Family"
—the play dealing with the family the exclusive, selected Nordic immigrant, who we
are given to understand by inference, is free from
history of the Barry- mores.
The Adlers on the Yiddish guile and who does not contribute to crime in this
country. The Wickersham Commission said that
stage have a career not a little
paralleling that of the Barrymores more crimes are committed by NATIVE sons than
by the alien. It's the old standardizing mind in
action!
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Charles A. Joseph

Tidbits and News of Jew-
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It is about time, it seems to me,
that we drop the word anti-Semi-
tism from our every-day vocabu-
lary and journalistic parlance. Not
because the thing it is supposed
to stand for has disappeared from
the face of the earth, or that it is
wearing away so fast that its ulti-
mate extinction seems certain
within a measurable space of time.
We seem as far away tram realiz-
ing the brotherhood of men as ever
we were. Why we should drop it,
or at least restrict its use to spe-
cial circumstances is that the word
anti-Semitism has an aloof, aca-
demic sound. Its meaning does
not come home to you. It has a
certain scientific tang. Its ter-
minology is as distinct to the lay-
man as antinomianism, for in-
stance, or transubstantiation.
With anti-Semitism it is as with
certain diseases of the human
body, whose medical nomenclature
fails to hold the slightest terror
for us, but which when translated
in the homely and expressive
every-day language of the man in
the street leaves as with a dis-
tinctly disagreeable sensation.
Anti-Semitism—the term, that is
—has too remote a bearing on
what it really is. It is a cloak that
makes a more or less distinguished
rustle as the wearers of it move
about, like the sensuous "frou-
frou" of silk, which also has been
known to hide putrid reality.
"Anti-Semitism" parades in the
company of names denoting scien-
tific, political, social and even hu•
manitarian movements. But in
reality it is the most ghastly thing
on earth. For after all it is a
It is "juden-
form of hatred.
hass"—Jew-hatred. And hatred
is hatred whatever its human ob-
ject and whether it hides itself un-
der a sonorous appelatiun or not.
Let us call things by their right
names, then. We may gain at
least something in clarity.
In supplanting the word anti-
Semite with Jew-hater let us pro-
ceed with care, however. The man
who says "I don't like Jews" is
nut necessarily an anti-Semite and
should not indiscriminately be
stamped a .2.4,W-hater. I can easily
enter into the frame of mind of
one who feels no attraction
towards Jews whatever. Another
may feel the same way about Poles
or Negroes, about Cockneys, Bap-
tists or Parisians. Of course, gen-
eralizations in judgment of this
kind are dangerous, the more since
they affect a mass of people com-
ing under a common denominator.
Jews are, moreover, apt to suffer a
whole lot more from this sort of
wholesale prejudice than any of
the other groups of the kind al-
luded to. When a man begins to
dislike groups, he becomes also an
easy convert to anti-Semitism.

Anti.Semite or Scoundrel?

A citizen may object to a pre-
ponderating Jewish influence in
the intellectual life of his country.
Ile may be afraid that Jewish in-
fluence will end up in giving di-
rection to the spiritual evolution
of his own tribe. This doesn't
make him an anti-Semite yet. It
does not always involve hatred of
the Jews. There is no cause to
grow hysterical over such theories.
They permit of equally calm dis-
cussion, as does the desirability of
seeing the proletariat run the show
in certain countries, or the nobil-
ity in others, or a religious organ-
ization in still others. It may be
argued, without hating anybody,
that every people is entitled to de-
velop its own civilization untram-
meled in strict harmony with its
own character and nature. The
Jewish people should have this
right also, not on paper alone, but
in reality. And in their case the
past is ample guarantee of what
might be again.
Individuals are fully entitled to
criticize the moral value of Juda-
ism. But when a man goes so far
as to link himself with movements
that seek to curb Jewish influence
in a given country, he has already
crossed the border which divides
criticism from hostility. Let us be
generous about it. Let us con-
cede that he is in earnest about
the matter and think he is serving
his country. Let us not call him
an anti-Semite or a Jew-hater yet.
But when he goes to the extent
of inciting others to use physical

force, when he, as the editor 01
her Angrotf, Ilitler's Berlin sheet
has done repeatedly, declares that
Jews must be beaten up and mad,
to bleed, when he says that "Jo.
denknackerei" is inevitable (fol-
lowing months of Iletze and in
citenient by himself) then he
not proceeding along civilized
lines. As a matter of fact in that
case he is a scoundrel, pure and
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simple. There is no other word
for it. In this case also we gain
in clarity by calling a spade a
spade.
eel
Na Use Arguing With Hitler.
It must be clear by this tin,
that there is no use arguing with
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Ilitler and his clan. Appeals it,
human decency, to the principle:
of love, to justice have failed.
T
There is no use nailing their lie.
and exploding their foolish theor-
ies. Heaven knows it is easy
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enough. Only it makes not the
slightest impression on them. IL-
tied has simply blinded them h,
reason and common sense.
The Ilitlerites were told by J,
cob Wassermann and other libertil
German Jews that the Jews we',
not a nation, not a people, but
race. The answer was a whirlwind
of Jew-baiting in Thuringia under
Frick. Hitler was reminded over
and over again that the Jews want
ed to be no more than Germ,
citizens of the Hebraic profession
Ile screamed that it was a lie, a
piece of oriental cunning, deceit.
camouflage. Writers set about
parading before his eyes the con-
tributions made by Jews to cul-
ture in the Aeich, to their brilliant
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participation in science, in ple•
losophy, in art, in literature ant
the theater. He replied by throe-
lint obscene taunts at the head et
Freud and Adler and Wassermann.
His young bullies began to insult
a man like Einstein and Ilitler's
papers gloated over it.
A German-Jewish journual came
out recently, calling upon Hitler',
sense of patriotism by giving fig-
ures and names of Jews who died
fur the Fatherland in the mud of
Flanders and France. Hitler an-
swered with a brutal attack on
helpless Jewish men and women
leaving a place of worship. Ile in-
stituted a boycott against Jewish
merchants in small communities
and terrorizes those who feel die-
inclined to heed his barbaric de-
crees. He warns farmers to be on
the lookout for Jews wandering
around the countryside as they
might throw mysterious, cabalistic
spells over their crops.
An Economic Boycott.
"We are a Christian peopl•," se
ran the Hitlerite proclamation in :41
Thuringia, "we should only buy
from Christian folk. The Jew: :17:7
plan the wreck of our country. We
must love God and hate the Jews
and prevent the execution of their
nefarious designs." Herr Hitler
was told that the founder of the
religion he invoked said: "So any-
one says I love God and hates
brother, the same is a liar." Ile
paid no attention to it. Ile appeals
to superstition, to prejudice, to
greed, to hooliganism, to sadism,
to religion alike so long as the
effect might harp, the Jew's in some
way. Ile circulates the old blood-
libel, spreads the protocol-forgery,
befouls the memory of dead men,
such as Lord Melchett, and does
not hesitate to concoct the most
ludicrous yarns to gain his ends.
Ile tells the readers of his papers
the Comintern and Wall street are
in conspiracy to wreck the present itei
economic system, that sir Herbert
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Samuel and Lord Reading caused
the flight from sterling in England
as an act of Jewish vengeance over
England's non-fulfillment of
pledges in Palestine; he would
have his clientele believe that Jews
are behind the unrest in China;
Jews behind the movement for in-
dependence in South Africa; Jews
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manipulating the strings in the
American crime wave; Jews back-
4-
ing Gandhi; Jews running the Rio
De Janeiro white-slave traffic; Jew-
ish employers debauching Chris-
tian shop-girls in Berlin; Jews,
Jews, Jews! The Jews robbed
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Germany of her colonies. They
stole the Fatherland's merchant
fleet. They stabbed the imperial
army in the back. They inspired
the murder of Serajevo. They
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VIEWS OF LEADING JEWS

DR. MORDECAI M. KAPLAN: "Jewish education will commun -
crate to your child the soul of his people, the thoughts that breathe in
their great literature, and the strivings that mark their unique history
This knowledge of his people's past, together with the realization et
the promise that inheres in his people's present, will give your chit I
assurance and self-respect. Instead of being hopelessly adrift in an
alien world, he will be sure of his bearings and easily avoid dangerou
shoals upon which so many of our youth are wrecked morally an
spiritually."
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HERBERT D. ALLMAN, President of National Farm School: "Un-
employment conditions cause the city youth to look countrywards.
When leaving high school, he is confronted with the problem of seek.
ing a job, or learning a trade. Ile is aware of the thousands who want
work, yet cannot find it. He weighs the advantages of country living•
and its possibilities as a profitable vocation, for those scientifically
trained. Ile compares congested city life—its noises, smoke and nth''
nuisances with the great open country. Such sensible thinking eau-
an abnormal number of applications for our scholarships, from all purl ,
of the United States. Only a small percentage can be accepted—man '
must be turned away disappointed."
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DEPUTY M. LANDAU, Rumania: "We are living on a yokels ,
This can best be seen from the fact that notwithstanding the fierce ow- -
sition conducted against Codreanu by the Government party, the
Liberal Party and the National Peasant party, he was elected by 11,0"
peasant votes. This victory is due simply to the fact that Codreanu.
following Hitler's lead, promised to pare the misery of the peasants by
plundering the Jews."
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RABBI JULIUS A. LEIBERT, Temple Emanu-El, Los Angeles:
"The confessional has both a historic and a psychological basis, and if
ever the confessional was needed it is needed today when our economet
depression, our world-wide unrest has made of us an unstbale people
mentality. Only today I man approached by two of my congregati""
who wished to unburden themselves, and the cases are numerous where
such an unburdening to • rabbi would be of inestimable value—would
be the means of saving a wrecked or a losing life."

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