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Sabbath Reading. of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 33:4-36:43.
Prophetical portion—Hosea 12:13-14:10; or 11:7-
12:12; or Obad. 1:1-21.
November 27, 1931
Kislev 17, 5692
The Polish Riots
The most serious indictment of the Polish
government in the present critical situation
which finds Jews throughout Poland at the,
mercy of hooligans is the letter addressed
by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, president of the
Good Will Committee Between Poles and
Jews, to Tytus Filipowicz, Polish ambassa-
dor to the United States, resigning the pres-
idency of this committee.
Charging thst there is open discrimina-
tion in government circles against the Jews,
that Jews are given little chance of employ-
ment and that it is futile to continue to
preach and strive for peace and good will
at a time when a policy of oppression and
suppression is practiced, Dr. Tenenbaum
closes his letter of resignation with the fol-
lowing charges and declarations:
"Wholesale suicides; mothers selling
their children for want of bread ; the des-
pair of a whole people crying to heaven for
mercy apparently has not reached the ears
of those who are responsible for the welfare
of the citizens of the Polish republic. And
as if all this were not sufficient punishment
visited upon an unfortunate people, the lat-
est anti-Semitic excesses in Poland, which
are spreading like wildfire, unabated and
unchecked, have topped the measure of
misfortune. In this, too, the government
has not shown sufficient vigor as it was wont
to do in cases of disagreement with its poli-
cies. The Jews in Poland live through a
veritable wave of horrors which could have
been nipped in the bud if the government
would have acted with its wonted vigor.
"Sir, under these circumstances, I feel
that it is not only futile to go on and preach
good will in vain, but that it Would reflect
on my sense of duty if .I were to remain the
head of an abortive movement which so
far has not served its purpose. Though
fully convinced of the soundness of the un-
derlying principles of the Good Will move-
ment in the interest of the good name, pros-
perity and greatness of the Polish republic,
I feel that under the present circumstances,
I have no right to lend my name and work
to this movement, and therefore, though
with great regret, tender my resignation as
President of the Good Will Committee be-
tween Poles and Jews in America."
Not only is this situation despairing, but
it shatters all hope that has hitherto been
entertained for an improvement in the con-
ditions of Eastern European Jewries, We
had thought that the time for protest meet-
ings had passed, and that we were enter-
ing an era of more humane treatment of
humans by humans. But such Utopia is
evidently too remote and too good to be
true.
In the meantime Jews are compelled once
again to cry out against outrages and to
convene protest meetings. Distasteful as
such meetings may be, they appear to be
the only weapons that Jewry possesses and
are the only means of calling the attention
of the Polish government and of the world
powers to the wrongs committed and to the
fact that all Israel feels the pain inflicted
on any one.of its branches.
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man, of Congregation Anshe Emet of Chi-
cago, to conduct a tour to Palestine for the
coming Passover. Rabbi Goldman, who
has been given a two months' leave for the
purpose of conducting this tour, knows Pal-
estine, loves the land and is attached with
all his heart and soul to the cause Tor the
upbuilding of the Jewish National Home.
The invitation extended to him by a non-
Jewish agency is a recognition of his high
standing as a leader in Israel. But it is
also more than that. It being the first time
that a non-Jewish tourist organization has
asked a Jew to lead a tour to Palestine it
is at the same time a recognition of Jewish
achievement and a realization of the need
to show the visitor to Palestine not only the
old and the religiously historic, but also the
new settlements which are making modern
history in the Near East,
Rabbi Goldman is to be congratulated
on the invitation extended to him. It is a
tribute to his standing as a Zionist leader
and as a teacher in Israel, And the recog-
nition girun him reflects in much greater
measur, the recognition by the non-Jewish
world of the achievements of Jews in Pales-
tine.
Tidbits and News of Jew-
ish Personalities.
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to plead the case of Tom Mooney before Gover-
WISE MEN AND PEACE
I have just been reading "A Cul-
tural history of the Modern Age"
by Egon Friedell, a German. The
hook has been widely praised, and
I think it is pas].
But even the most cultured of
Germans seem unable to think of
Jews without their thinking' cells
being poisoned and thrown out of
gea r.
You would think that education
would tend to make a man fair-
minded —to -make a man catholic
and appreciative of all sides. Our
Jewish sages said "Talmiday cho-
chomin marbim sholom baolam."
" ,1;riise. men increase peace in the
w o rld."
It should be so but I am afraid
its not always true.
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Education
merely enables some to distort
things all the more.
THE MALTHUS THEORY
Listen to Herr Friedell. Ile is
speaking of the Malthusian theory.
Ile thinks it's a horrible theory, and
I agree with him. The theory in
short, as you know, is that food
supply tends to increase in arith-
metical progression whereas the
population tends to increase in geo-
metrical ratio.
Famine, destitution and death,
Malthus therefore held, were in-
evitable for the great mass. There
was no hope for the multitudes, said
Malthus, and the attempt of charity
to relieve the pains was unwise. Let
the people starve in peace. The
quicker, the better.
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AHA, THE VILLIAN MUST BE
A JEW
"And this was taught by a Chris-
tian priest," say Friedell indigent-
ly. But this is not after all, so
•trange in Malthus 's case, when we
remember that English I'uritanism
is really a Jewish religion."
Herr Friedell, as you will notice,
is rather hot against Malthusian-
ism, for which I applaud hint, and
he is wrought up over the fact that
a Christian clergyman should have
evolved this theory.
But he gets balm from the fact
that at the time, England was
dominantly Puritan, and Puritan-
ism he holds, is nothing but Ju-
daism.
BAD PURITANS AND JEWS, OF
COURSE
Cromwell was a Puritan and I
just wonder when Friedell thinks
of Cromwell, whether he regards
him as a Jew. John Milton was a
Puritan and I ditto the same won-
der about John. Roger Williams
was a Puritan 1111(1 I wonder wheth-
er Friedell would credit him with
being a Jew. I have a feeling that
he would not be so quick to include
these among the Jews.
But Friedell's absurdity reaches
its apex in another line. He goes
on trying to prove the Malthusian
theory false. He begins one sen-
tence as follows: "The absurdity
of Malthusianism issrleverly illus-
trated by Franz Oppenheimer, etc."
Conversion—Its Futility and Irony.
REDUCTION AD ABSURDAM
Now can you match that?
Malthus, a Christian priest, by
Friedell's logic, become a Jew. Be-
cause why? Because he was a Pur-
itan.
But does Friedell say anything
of the race of Oppenheimer whom
he quotes as demonstrating the ab-
surdity of Malthus. Would you ever
suspect from Friedell that Oppen-
heimer might be a Jew. You never
would.
And yet Oppenheimer was a Jew,
and a very emphatic one Profes-
sor Oppenheimer was one of the
first to take an interest in the Zion-
ist movement.
Now the question arises, why did
Friedell not mention the fact that
the opponent of Malthus was Jew?
Aid the sanswer to that is—be-
cause if he had said that, it would
explode his ',hole theory.
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ARE ALL JEWS EQUAL?
The city of Baltimore, as this is
being written, has just concluded
its drive for the Jewish charities.
They raised something like $650,-
000 for that purpose, and accom-
plished the feat in a couple of
week s.
I believe there are between 60,000
and 80,000 Jews in Baltimore. The
city of New York has about 25
times the Jewish population of Bal-
timore. If New York were to sup-
port its Jewish charities, by the
Baltimore ratio, it would need to
raise something like $15,000,000.
Manifestly, it does not do this. I
have not the figures about me, but
I should imagine, it raises just
about a third of that amount.
In other words, for Jewish pur-
poses, one Baltimore Jew is equal
to three New York Jews.
LAW OF DIMINISHING
RETURNS
Baltimore is perhaps a mite more
loyally Jewish than the average
Jewish community, yet en the
whole, the showing of Baltimore
may be taken as representative of
the response of the smaller town,
and statistics would probably show
that the average out-of-Ne• York
Jew is worth for Jewish purposes
between two and a half and three
New York Jews.
The cause of this is of course,
not that the New York Jew is made
of any different meat than the Jew
of Baltimore or Detroit or Kalama-
zoo. It is simply a case of the law
of diminishing returns.
LESS FROM MORE
a /t r‘ t ain.
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;C;iintn ttl , the community feet-
ing grows increasingly less instead
of more.
The community machinery can
be geared to • point in a smaller
city where the individual can
scarcely
c harit y
'come; imp ,asible.
In New York. there are tos, many
for anything like this surveillance
to he p7saible. and those who hare
any desire of being counted out,
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Charles fie Joseph
I SEE that Aaron Sapiro is going out to the Coast
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Hadassah and Her Efforts.
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BY-THE-WAY
Iladassah's aspirations are to prepare the
Jewish communities of Palestine to take
over the hospitals and to assume responsi-
bility over their budgets. It is the hope of
all Zionists that this will become possible
not only in the turning over of the health
agencies to the communities themselves, but
of the schools as well.
• But in the meantime the health of the
Jewish settlers in Palestine must be pro-
tected, and the hospitals must continue to
function. To guarantee the budget of the
Hadassah medical organization is as im-
portant an obligation as the support of the
educational institutions of Jewish commun-
ities throughout the world.
Locally, IIadassah's efforts are encour-
aged by the Donor's Luncheon which has
now become a tradition in the community
for service as well as for its social attractions.
To guarantee the continuation of the local
tradition for service, and the world-wide
Jewish tradition of responsible efforts by
individual groups in Israel for the good of
all Jewry, this year's Donor Luncheon, to
take place on December 15 at Hotel Statler,
must be as successful as the preceeding
ones. Our public-spirited Jewish women
owe this to their people and to their cradle-
land. We desire to entertain the confident
feeling that they will not be found wanting
even in times of depression,
Officials of the Lasell Seminary of Boston
are urging Jews to intermarry, thereby
speeding the possibility of the disappear-
ance of the Jewish race. Jews who inter-
marry, one of the officials stated, will have
their children welcorhed at this seminary.
This is one example of what an American
educator said was intended as discrimina-
tion not against the Jewish religion but
against the Jewish race.
And here is an instance of discrimination
against the Jewish religion, Premier Jorge
of Rumania is reported to have encountered
a Jewish merchant, following a visit to a
church in the Rumanian city of Ramnicu
Sarat, with the following retreks: "Are
not our festivals- more impressive than
yours? •11 is quite time for you, Jews, to dis-
card your old dresses and adopt our new
forms." Rumanian newspapers criticize M.
Jorge and declare that even if the sugges-
tion for Jews to adopt Christianity was
made jocularly it was ill becoming to one in
his position.
Compare these attacks on Jews and Ju-
daism by Christians with the manner in
which converted Jews are treated after be-
traying, their religion and people, and you
have a remarkable display of the irony and
futility of the position of the converts. Thus,
Tourists to Palestine.
in Warsaw, the converts, finding themselves
A record tourist season is expected in cut off from both Jewish and Christian so-
Palestine. The usual magnetic attractions ciety, neither of whom are willing to ac-
to the Holy Land are this year supple- cept them, with the result that their chil-
mented by the Levant Fair of 1932. This dren must even marry within their own
fifth Palestine and Near East exhibition ranks, have formed a Union of Christians
and fair, to be held in Tel Aviv from April of Jewsih Origin "for mutual consolation."
7 to 30, is under the patronage of the High Sholom Aleichem coined the phrase "Ks is
Commissioner, Lieutenant Commander Sir shyer zu stir a yid,"—"it is hard to be a
Arthur, Grenfell Wauchope. who, by this Jew." Now it may safely be said that it is
time, must have arrived in Palestine to as- much more difficult to"be even a convert.
sume his new duties, having left London for
And another proof of Christian hospital-
the Orient on Nov. 12.
ity to the Jew after he had embraced the
. In view of the complicated Palestinian Christian faith is to be found in the resigna-
cOnditions. tours through Palestine have al- tion of Professor Joseph Redlich, well-
ways presented a serious problem from the knownauthority on economics, from his
viewpoint of the Jewish interests at stake. post as finance minister of Austria, who has
When a tourist falls into the hands of Arab been attacked for being a converted Jew,
guides, he sees naught but the old. and is and who has frequently been assailed on
taken on a sufficiently round-about trip to the ground of being "a Semite by race."
avoid seeing the accomplishments of the
Of course. these are not new phenomena,
Jewish pioneers. Similarly, when the tour- Christian Jews have for a long time been
ist is under the guidance of an unfriendly known to have been compelled to form
Englishman, he is taken to the mosques and their own churches, their own social groups,
the churches and the ruins of the land. but being unacceptable to and ostracized from
the blossoming colonies he fails to see. That both the Jewish and Christian socities. In
is why the Zionist spokesmen in Palestine spite of Christian missionary efforts, it is
have had to keep wa
over visitors to a fact that when too many Jews attempted
make certain that ailands will not be t join certain churches. by conversion.
poisoned against the twish settlers and t hese churches closed their doors for them.
Jewish aspirations.
So the irony of the situation, regardless
Because ”1 this condition, all lovers of o f the laugh it offers at the expense of those
Zion will welcome as good news, the an- who forsake Judaism, supplies cause for
nouncement just made that Raymond and e xtreme satisfaction for those Jews who re-
Whitcomb, internationally known tourist main loyal to their people. Happiness. after
agency, has invited Rabbi Solomon Gold- a II, is to be found in loyalty and faith. •
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nor Rolph. The mayor of New York, "Jimmie"
Walker, is also going to join in the plea for justice
for a man who, from all indications, was the victim
of a "frame-up." I am glad to see Sapiro in this
fight for justice because that role fits him. I
haven't heard of him very much since the Ford
trial, where he showed what courage and a keen
mind backed by the confidence of an innocent man
could do even against the richest man in the coun-
try. I recall that some of our co-religionists were
nervous over the thought that Sapiro fighting Ford,
fearing a favorable reaction upon their nervous
selves. Perhaps they may work over Sapiro's
going out to tight another case of injustice and
prejudice that is a blot upon decency in American
life. I wish him success.
I SALUTE Archbishop Edward J. Hanna of San
Francisco\ for his splendid activities in promoting
inter-racial tolerance and good will and likewise
good will and tolerance among religious groups. He
founded Berkeley Seminary, an educational institu-
tion devoted to inter-racial tolerance. As a result
of all his activities in trying to take the doctrine
of the Brotherhood of Man out of the prayer books
and putting it into practice he was awarded the
"American Hebrew" medal the other night at a
dinner in New York, at which were present distin-
guished representatives of Jews, I'rotestants, and
Catholics. The American Hebrew awards this
medal each year to the person who has clone most
to promote a better understanding between Chris-
tians and Jews in America. The dinner at which
the presentation was made was held under the SUS-
pines of e Permanent Commission on Better Un-
derst (in Between Christians and Jews in Amer-
ica, ors
' ii Rabbi Isaac Landman is the founder.
Let's keen up the good work.
MRS. WALTER FERGUSON is a syndicate writer
for the Scripps-Howard newspapers, and a good
one, too. But it seems that she wandered a trifle
afield in making this statement the other day in her
column:
It is a far cry indeed from those (lays when,
according to Jewish documents, a man's wife
was put in the same class with his ox and his
ass, and he could take his daughter to the
market place and sell her for a few pieces of
copper.
Rabbi Abraham Schechter of Houston, Texas,
• makes reply in the Houston Press. I haven't room
for it in its entirety but he points out that the
Jewish woman was ever held in highest esteem
among her people. While in ancient society woman
was treated with little or no respect and considered
much inferior to man, in Jewish life she occupied
an exalted position, not only in her own family
circle but in the community. It is so easy to preju-
dice the mind of a reading public by unfortunate
phrases and I am glad that Dr. Schechter has gone
to the trouble to deny the charges in detail.
SPEAKING of this recalls to mind that last week
in Pittsburgh, Pa., a prominent judge of the
Common Pleas Court spoke from the pulpit of a
church and said that he wanted to see a "Christian"
mayor and a "Christian government." He was
talking like many others who seem to think that
Christian charity and Christian love and Christian
mercy is some special kind of charity and love and
mercy whereas mercy is mercy, and charity is
charity and love is love and justice is justice, and
they are not by any manner of means the sole pos-
session of Christianity. Now the judge didn't
mean what he'said. lie didn't mean that ONLY a
Christian should be a judge, and so on. Rather
his thought was that those high ideals which he
apparently believed came to mankind only through
the teachings of Jesus should be observed.
NOW all those Jewish journalists who slapped II.
I,. Mencken in the face a year or so ago when
he slammed the Jews will probably slap him on the
back because he wrote this in the Spectator, Colum-
bia University undergraduate newspaper:
The average 'American student is even
more narrow-minded than his father. If there
is any liberal thought among students it comes
from "foreigners." Take out the Jews
and
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nothing would be left. The normal American
is opposed to any rational dealing with political
problems.
Well, that ought to put Mencken hack in his old
place in the Jewirh fold. Mencken has no preju-
dices unless they are against the 100 per cent
American.
I NOTICED this letter in Time, written by L. R.
Gignilliat, of the famous Culver Military Acad-
emy at Culver, Indiana. lie is writing of deBois.
the Italian flier, who met a tragic death:
I last saw deBois some five years ago in his
studio in the old wall of Rome. He had in-
herited the studio from Sir Moses Ezekiel, an
American sculptor. Sir Moses, he told me
had been a second father to him after the
loath of his own sire, who was a well known
Italian poet. Sir Moses as a very young cadet
at the Virginia Military Institute had fought
against the established order. In the battle of
New Market he had borne kms, a rifle rather
taller than himself, against a flag that both
North and South today revere. Ile had seen
his young comrades the around him with the
fine fearlessness of youth, and with equal gal-
lantry he would have died himself for the cause
in which he believed. Today his masterpiece,
"Virginia Mourning Iler Dead," broods over
the "Hill" at V. M, I.
Sir Moses Ezekiel was one or the greatest Jew-
ish sculptors this country ever produced. In later
life he took up his residence in Rome and became a
close friend of the Italian royal family. it is inter-
esting to recall that when he died his remains were
brought to this country and buried in the Na-
tional Arlington Cemetery, an unusual distinction
awarded to few civilians.
RABBI CALISCII of Richmond, Vt., thinks all of
us make too much fuss about Jews who are
outstanding ball players, movie magnates, actors,
politicians, bankers, and all the rest who happen to
enjoy the spotlight. In other words, he believes
that we worship Vanity. Perhaps he's right. Even
the Jewish columnist gets in the habit of glorifying
some swimmer or football players. And how jeal-
ous we are to see to it that credit goes where credit
belongs. It took must of us six months before we
finally and reluctantly yielded Schwartz of the
Notre Dame team to the Catholics where he be-
longed. But we are still hanging on to 'Columbus.
Of course our hold is rather frail, but we are not
yet convinced that he didn't belong to us. Chaplin
slipped away from us and there is a note of disap-
pointment. For a time some thought that Arthur
Brisbane was a Jew, but unfortunately he turned
out to be a Protestant. So we go about chasing
celebrities and apparently trying to build up a case
of what the Jew has done for civilization by mar-
shalling the list of the great, starting with Eddie
Cantor and winding up with Einstein. I think that
-Dr. Calisch is right about this sort of thing. I
agree with him that the Jew', attention as a JEW
should confine itself largely to the field of RE-
i.IGION. But materialism with all its more or less
shoddy glory has gripped us and the Jewish press
encourages it with "playing up" of the Jewish
celebrity. The only excuse the Jew has for living
is a RELIGIOUS one. If that Lent true, then I
would like to know for what other reason God has
kept him alive for as many thousands of years.
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The End of a Jewish Era in
Soviet Russia
(Continued from Page One)
wager on a Moscow-Tiflis train,
who dressed after the fashion of
a Caucasian mountaineer, upon
closer acquaintance turned out to
be a former Talmudist of the city
of Vitebsk. The stationmaster in
a White Russian city looked very
smart and business-like in his of-
ficial uniform. Ile gave orders to
subordinates in the White Russian
language. There seemed no doubt
that he was White Russian, that
his ancestors before him had been
White Russian for generations,
until a passing acquaintance greet-
ed hint in Yiddish and received a
reply in the same language with
such fluency as to leave no doubt
about the origin of the station-
master. lie was Jewish.
At the congress of the Ozet in
Moscow there were Jewish peas-
ants from every part of the So-
viet Union. I found a former can-
tor dressed like a Kirghize, to
which part of Russia fate had car-
ried him. Jewish women were
dressed in the homespun coats of
the Russian village and topped off
their attire with the wearing of
typical peasant shawls. The
young girls sported about in the
long thick strands of peasant
beads and short white peasant
aprons over their multi-colored
dresses. Their speech deliberately
affected the peasant's mauling of
words and his deviation from the
rules of grammar.
End of Tradesmen.
Of greater importance, how-
ever, than the changed, physical
appearance of the Jew is the spirit-
ual and psychologic metamorphosis
which he has undergone in the
past year. The Russian Jew in re-
cent months has taken summary
leave from a number of cherished
beliefs and traditions, from habits
that through the centuries had be-
come second nature with him.
are taught the rudiments of ne v
trades. The Ort organization has
a number of such shops where
aged declassed Jews are given the
opportunity to acquire an occu-
tion which would give them a live-
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lihood.
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In Simferopol, in other cities I
have seen aged Hebrews, former
merchants, some of them former
millionaires, working as assistants
to tailors, carpenters, bricklayers.
They took their situation philo-
sophically; they did not feel de-
graded. It was not a case of a
single individual suffering misfor-
tune; the entire community was in
the same plight. Besides there was
this redeeming feature to the situ-
•3
ation, the competent tailor or
bricklayer. now received the same
respect which the community for-
merly .lavished on the business
men and the millionaire.
Lose Interest in Synagogue.
The year just coming to a close
has been a transition year fur the
Jews of the Soviet Union in the
matter of religion. It is not yet
clear what form the Jewish re-
1-
ligion will take in Russia in the
near future, but there is no doubt
that it has departed from the old
form. 'the synagogue as the heart
and symbol of religion is a thing
of the past. Repeatedly during the
year synagogues were closed. But
it was not the government that
was closing them. The govern-
ment permits every church or
synagogue fur whose function
there is genuine need to exist. It
is only when a church or syna-
gogue loses its worshippers in such
large numbers as to make its up-
keep uncertain that the govern-
ment gives the necessary permis-
sion to transfer the building for
other than religious uses. The
places of worship that closed dur-
ing the year closed because of lack
of interest in these synagogues on
the part of the young generation
of Jews.
"I am not one of those who de-
spairs of the future of the Jewish
religion in Russia," a veteran
Jewish leader in Moscow told this
)
writer. "Jews are intermarrying
in large numbers, it is true, but
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their children are most often Jew-
ish. In all the intermarriages be-
tween Jew and Russian that I
have observed thus far it is the
Jewish partner to the marriage
who is the most vivid, the most
colorful. The consequence is that
the child most often takes after its
Jewish parent. Moreover there
are no special reasons why the
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offspring of intermarriage should
prefer to belong to the Russian
rather than the Jewish national-
ity. There is no discrimination
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against nationalities in the Soviet
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Union. The Jew has the seine
rights as all others. There is
therefore no special advantage in
denying one's Jewish ancestry.
A Most Religious Country,
"As far as religion is concerned."
the Jewish spokesman continued,
"I foresee changes coming for
Jewish as well as for the Christian
religion.
It is silly to say that
Russia will kill religion.
Russia
is today a most religious country.
Communism is spreading a new
gospel of ethics and justice be-
tween man and man. For the mo-
ment the preachings of commun-
ism are obscuring other religious
doctrines, but in time this will ad-
just itself. The Jewish ethics
have survived all sorts of crises '
and they will survive this one.
Jewish religion will live, but the
synagogue may die. Moreover the
teaching of religion to young will
have to take new forms. The
home will become the great propa-
gator of • seligion. There are
already thousands of homes in the
Soviet Union where religious serv-
ices are held regularly and unos-
J
tentatiously. The Jewish religion
is bound to change its form, but
its contents will remain largely
what • it was."
The era, extending back for
nearly 2,000 years, in which the
Jew had lived by trade and trade
alone, has definitely passed out of
the Jews horizon in the Soviet
Union. The mention of business
today brings an annoying look into
the face of the Russian Jew. It is
as if the speaker were suggesting
something hazardous and tit for
an adventurer only. He looks in
the first instance to productive
labor for his livelihood. Taking a
position with one of the govern-
ment's commercial institutions is
what he thinks of next. And if
both of these for some reason
seem closed to him, he then begins
to consider the proposition of go-
ing to the land until time and tide
will be with him once mort4
What made the Russian Jew
break finally and irrevocably with
the thought of business, with the
hope of a returning Nep, was the
manner in which Stalin in the past
year and a half has dealt with the
peasantry and had put through his
collectivization program among
them.
Take Orders Seriously.
Thousands of Jews have been
arrested, tried and excited to Si-
beria in the past 18 months for
being Nepmen, for having engaged
in private commerce. These meas-
ures of oppression had left their
mark upon the Jews, but did not
completely kill their inclination for
the Nep. Very many of them be-
lieved that file government would
ultimately relent. Jewish mer-
chants had known restrictions at
other times; they had come and
passed. They hoped that these
Bolshevist restrictions would also
pass.
But when Stalin began his on-
slaughts upon the peasants, when
he ordered the Kulaks, or wealthy
penitents who resisted his collect-
ivization program arrested, .slis-
passed, a ■ exiled, the Jews learned
to take the government orders
seriously; in fact, too seriously.
Several times in recent months
Council of Commissars at Moscow
That the Jewish religion is not
had extended the privileges of
dying and that Jews in Russia
Kustars, or mechanics working on
are apparently determined to re-
a small scale in their home, also a
main Jews was strikingly shown in
form of private enterprise, but the
Moseow• in recent months when
Jews failed to respond to the gov-
the Jewish community of that city
ernment lure to engage once more
asked and obtained from the So-
fin private production. They fig-
viet government a 20-acre piece
ure that the government may
of ground which it added to its
change its mind in a few months
cemetery. In order to die as
and there will be new arrests, new
Jews,
as another Jewish leader in
deportations. The Jews of Rus-
Moscow expressed it, people will
sia have decided that the practical
also have to live as Jews.
thing for them to do is to enter
Jews Everywhere.
productive occupations and they
are not deviating from this re-
The past year has changed radi-
solve.
catty the position of the Jews in
Work and Study.
Soviet Russia with regard to colo-
Jewish boys today leave their
nization. There is no doubt any
homes and go thousands of miles
more that as the result of the for-
to enter factories as workers and
ward to the land movement fos-
students—for in Russia work and
tered in Russia Since the revolu-
education go hand in hand. Old
tion the Jew's of Russia will re-
main with
men, too, have lost their occupa-
number of represen-
tional rigidity. There are shops
tative colonies. But it is equally
and factories in Russia where
certain that the forward-to-the-
bearded patriarchs, who had been
land movement in Russia is
Talmud students all their lives,
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE
Aristide Blank, prominent Jewish financier, and Rumanian aero-
nautics pioneer, was awarded the highest state medal for aernnaut;cs.
The medal was presented by King Carol
on the occasion of the inter-
national aeronautic conference in recognition
of Mr. Blank's services
to aeronautics as the founder of the
Rumanian-French air service.
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Dr. Jacob H. Hollander, professor of political economy at the
Johns Hopkins University, has
been appointed a member of the Tax
Survey Commission to study the taxing system of Maryland by Gover-
nor Ritchie.
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Dr. Franz Oppenheimer, noted Jewish scientist and Zionist leader,
arrived in Palestine for a six months' visit. Dr. Oppenheimer, who
recently presented the bulk of his scientific library, consisting of more
than '2.000 volumes, to the Hebrew University, will lecture at that
institution on the subject "Against Capitalism and Communism," which
is the title of his latest book, soon to be published.
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Two Jews, David Farbstein of Zurich and Dr. Decker of Geneva,
were elected members of the Swiss Parliament.
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William Susman, a Jewish pathologist in the Manchester Jewish
Hospital, is sailed in the London Medical Journal and in the English
press as the discoverer of an important treatment for cancer. The
treatments, which are in connection with the pituitary gland, are
lauded as major discoveries.
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