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importance of learning in Jewish life, and
especially the need for providing Jewish
youth with an effective weapon against the
P ublialsed Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing C.. but.
j By DAVID SCHWARTZ
enemies of our people—in the form of in-
ntered .. Second-class matter March a 1916, at the Pal-
By Julian L. Meltzer, F.R.G.S.
formation which should not keep young
ate. at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 6. 1619.
A STORY OF NIPPON
Israel blind to the grave conditions of our
General Offices and Publication Building
I don't know whether I have ever told it—I mean that story about
Jerusalem, Jan. 15.
day—is
being
given
so
much
emphasis
that
By
M.
A.
TENENBLATT
the Russian polkovnik during the Russo-Japanese war. Anyway,
525 Woodward Avenue
READING
during these days when Japan is again on the front page, it bears
Telephoner Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle we wish to believe that it is unnecessary
(Copyright, 1932, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc./
! Rarely has Jewish enthusiasm retelling.
London Office.
further to comment upon it. We neverthe-
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
in Eretz Israel been as pronounced
The polkovnik was sitting in a cafe during the Rus.so-Japanese
From
a
Jewish
population
of
less wish that every Jew and Jewess could
service for even the most unim? as during the recent visit to this war, drinking his corn liquor, or whatever it is that polkovniks were
S ubecription, in Advance.
$3.00 Per Year have heard the pleas for Jewish education two and a half million in the
portant job. This has not only country of the Marquis of Read- wont to drink.
old Austro-Hungarian mon-
Amid the sips, he was boasting to his fellows at the table of
had the effect of depriving Jews ing, former viceroy of India and
To Insure publication, an eommpondence and new. matter
by the eminent participants in the sympos- archy, there suddenly, through of
an important source of liveli- ex-lord chief justice of England, Russian victories.
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each meek.
When mailing notices, kindly am one eld• of the paper mgr.
ium, and more especially the plea made by a stroke of the pen at the peace hood, but has also deprived the who has been described as "Eng-
"We have taken Tsitsihar and Yokomo and Yakula and so on and
conference of Versailles, re
Rabbi Solomon Goldman of Chicago, when mained only a tenth of this Jews of any possibility of mak- land's greatest living Jew." Lord so," went on the polkovnik.
The Detroit Jeedsh Chroolcle in•Ites correspondence on nth.
A Jew sat at a table, listening in: "Tell me, polkovnik, have the
ing a political career for them- Reading said with humility at a
kets of Inmrest to the Jewieh people, but disclaims responel•
he condemned a Jewish and Hebraically number in ti.e new, shrunken selves.
W ily for • Indorsemtnt
it
of the •Iewe expressed by the writer.
civic reception in Tel Aviv, where Russians taken Misen-meshuneh?"
Austria. The Vienna Jewish
A BRAVE FIGHT
he was honored with the freedom
uninformed young Jewry as illiterate.
"No, but we'll take it yet, we'll take it yet," grimly returned the
community, which was formerly
Sabbath Reading, of the Law.
tragedy of this consists of the city, that "I have come as polkovnik.
Aside from the analysis made during the the head of a Jewish population in The
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•
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 25:1-27-19.
the fact that Vienna Jewry a Jew to the city of Jews." More
in
an
empire
of
60,000,000
peos
Prophetical portion—I Kings 6:26-6:13.
symposium of the international Jewish pie, was suddenly torn away is overflowing with people of than any other statement in the SAVED BY NO BIRTH CONTROL
course
of
his
various
addresses,
in
Today,
the
pinching
shoe
is
on
the
other foot. I have an idea
the
highest
education
and
intel-
problem, a problemof greatest importance
from its body. Nevertheless
February 12, 1932
ligence. Part of them, seeking which he reaffirmed Great Brit- that the Japs will take the "mishenmeshuneh."
I Mar 5, 5692 unfortunately only` ghtly touched upon
this amputated head has shown
ain's
intention
to
stick
by
the
Bal-
Of
course,
Japan
is
making
a
great
big
flourish, but in the end
political, social and journalistic
enough vitality to create its own
was that of prejudice against the Jews in body
work, have been forced to ally four Declaration, this simple what can its rattling of the sword mean against the immense sea of
and to assure itself a
600,000,000
Chinese?
made a profound and last-
employment. Dr. I. M. Rubinow discussed means of existence in crippled themselves with the Social phrase
The Arab Proposal.
China's lack of birth ebntrol means her ultimate victory.• -
Democratic party, which does ing impression in the minds of his
.
Under ordinary circumstances, people are it. Rabbi Goldman referred to it in the Austria.
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•
not discriminate against Jews. co-religionists in Palestine. Lord
Formerly Vienna Jewry rep-
But this fact in turn has served Reading promised that he would DR. DUBLIN WORRIED
ready to accept half of a loaf of bread when following paragraph:
resented in itself a colorful
I see, by the way, that Dr. Lewis I. Dublin, the Jewish vice-presi-
strengthen the anti-Semitism now work more intensely on be-
the whole loaf is not to be gotten. Arab
"Take for instance, Jewish unemploy- amalgamation of Bohemian, to
of the Christian bourgeois par- half of the Jewish nationalist dent of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, has become
leaders, intent on depriving the Jewish peo- ment and the prejudice against the Jewish Alpine, Slovak, Dalmatian, Mag- ties, especially of
• the Ileim- cause.
greatly exercised over birth control. He fears that the inroads of
Galician, Bukowinian, Car-
wehrs. The fact that the Social
ple of the small loaf to which it is justly worker. It is well known that it is impos- yar,
Lord Reading visited the Jordan birth control will produce a civilization in which there will be little
pathian and Sephardic Jews.
party is opposed to hydro-electric works of the Pales- of youth. A bunch of old bewhiskered men and wrinkled women.
entitled, now sensationally present an offer sible for the Jewish young woman to find Jewish immigrants from Poland, Democratic
Zionism and Jewish nationalism tine Electric Corporation, as well
And what, intimates Dr. Dublin, can you expect of such a world?
Russia
and
Rumania
also
en-
of something which has the appearance of a position as stenographer or secretary even
has served to make Zionism as its other power houses (Haifa, It must become a second-rate affair.
into the picture of Vienna
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•
•
powerless as a factor in Aus- Tiberias and Tel Aviv), and the
half of this loaf, but which, in reality, is with a Jewish concern. In New , York only tered
Jewry. Vienna assimilated
trian Jewry. The need for mak- Palestine potash works at the NOT A PANACEA
not even a slice of dried bread.
them
all
into
a
unified
Jewish
5 percent of the stenographers and secre-
ing a living among Vienna Jews Dead Sea. In Jerusalem, Lord and
Though I do not share Dr. Dublin's fears, neither do I share all
Sometimes acting
is more powerful than any Zion- Lady Reading were the guests of the hyperbole of praise of birth control that one hears all about.
In the course of the past decade, Jewish taries of the city are Jewish, whereas the community.
as the head, sometimes as the
ist
or
nationalist
ideal.
Talk
to some and you will be led to believe that the whole salvation
the
high
commissioner
at
Govern-
claims to Palestine have dwindled, with Jewish lawyers number 11,000 out of 25, heart, Vienna Jewry absorbed
of the world rests in forwarding birth control.
With all these dangers and
the result that what is the real Palestine, 000. That is actually true of the Jewish the Judaism of the Eastern crises in front of it and behind ment House.
We
had occasion only the other day to talk to a Jewish woman,
Thousands lined the streets of hailing from
and in its turn fed
the West, who came to New York to attend some birth
it, Austrian Jewry has neverthe-
including Transjordania, and the historical physicians, and of the Jewish business man. provinces
that Judaism to the Jews of
Tel Aviv during the visit to the control conclave. She was a well-to-do woman, and not having
less
fought
bravely
and
has
strip of land from Dan to Beer-Sheba, has I have spoken to the heads of the employ- the Western part of the Austro- managed to create strong Jew- Jewish township, which was gaily enough children needed something to occupy her mind, so the birth
been cut to the very marow with the result ment agencies, some of whom admitted Hungarian monarchy, At the ish institutions during the past befogged and decorated for the control movement at least served some purpose with her. But we
time Vienna brought Went
occasion.
At the
of birth control.
that only a minimum of Jewish claims has that in the past five years they did not ac- same
10 years of reconstruction. the
illustrious
Jew civic
was reception,
made the could not share her ecstasy about he fruits
European civilization to the east-
•
of thousands of Jews who subject of encomiums. "At my
been cut to the very marrow with the result cept a single application from a Jewess and ern Jews, and thus unified the Tens
entered Austria during and after age, I would never have believed POPULATION HAS ADVANTAGES
with the aid and approval of the Grand frankly told me that even Jewish concerns Jews in„all parts of the old mon- the war as refugees have man-
This good lady informed us that if we had had birth control, we
archy. Vienna was a unique
aged to obtain Austrian citizen- myself capable of such enthusiasm would not have the suffering that we witness in the present depres-
Mufti of Jerusalem, whose hands are stain- refuse to employ Jewish help."
as I have experienced this day," ,ion.
Jewish gathering place of the
ship rights after a long and bit- he
declared.
ed with Jewish blood—make a proposal
Here is a problem that has been discuss- Diaspora, the largest Jewish ter fight. The Kehillahs, the
As though there were not depressions 10 and 20 and 40 and 100
"England has extended her long years back when the population of the country was but a tithe of the
intended so to curb Jewish possibilities in ed in these columns on numerous occasions. community of Europe, shedding Jewish communal organizations
its rays of light upon Jewry
and
powerful
arm
to
Palestine
present
numbers.
which
are
recognized
by
the
gov-
Palestine as to make further progress im- Only last week we called for action from everywhere.
ernment, have been strength- and undertaken before all the na-
Not being married, perhaps we should not speak. But it seems to
possible.
TASK
our leaders. But it has been charged that A SUPERHUMAN
enedin the provincial towns, and tions to administer Palestine in Sc- us that the only sensible thing to be said in favor of birth control is
the Jewry of Aus-
the Vienna Kehillah has become cordance with the Balfour Decla- that the bearing and rearing of children is arduous—too arduous for
Whether or not the Revisionists are justi- the reason that Federations do not act in tria Overnight
proper, being concentrated
fortress of Jewish strength, ration," he ringingly announced, some women. But all other advantages, it seems to me, are on the
fied in charging that Great Britain is behind matters of prejudice in employment is be- mostly in Vienna, had to attempt a serving
Jewry as a social and in a speech that was remarkable side of the larger family. Each new child is in the nature of a new
to
put
itself
upon
its
own
feet
this proposal, and that British leaders are cause members of Federation boards are
cultural refuge.
oratory. "All who shelter beneath adventure, in which the parents participate. From the fundamental
and reconstruct its entire life,
this flag of Britain are justified in standpoint of society, too, each new addition means an increase to the
intent upon intimidating Jews into approv- among the guilty ones in such discrimin- its material as well as spiritual
Austrian Jewry still lives and expecting security in life and
shows a strong will to maintain property."
social wealth. Every person, with modern machinery, can produce
ing this project, the grave responsibility is ations. The best way of-refuting this charge foundation. This required tre- its old prestige as a mid-Euro-
today far more than he can consume. Of course, 1 know as well as
mendous, almost superhuman
In Jerusalem the ex-viceroy met the birth control advocates, that many of us do not, but that is
upon Jewry of acting wisely and of mobiliz- is for the Federations to take immediate effort.
pean Jewish center in the fu-
The new Austria, which
ing all the wise statesmanship at our dis- action to remedy such a cancerous situation. it takes only three hours by rail tore also. But the danger of communal and national leaders in merely the result of a bad economic system.
assimilation is great, and the in- the Jewish National Fund head-
posal to prevent this proposal from under-
But in one of the addresses we find cause to traverse from one end to flux of Eastern Jews to balance quarters, which he inspected. "GENT VON HALZ"
the other, was torn from its
the defection of Western Jews Lat er in the afternoon, he was
mining everything that has been achieved for criticism. It is immaterial whether vital
In other words, all of this hymning of birth control recalLs to me
economic nerves. Com-
who leave Jewry will for a long the guest of honor at a reception, a good Jewish story. A rabbi of great renown once paid a visit to a
in Palestine.
Philip L. Seman of Chicago was justifified in merce and industry were ruined time
remain an impossibility be- when his name was inscribed in small Russian town, and the people of the town were very much
At least one Jewish leader, the eminent heralding the scare that unless the centers, by the high tariffs imposed by
cause of the economic crisis in the Golden Book of the Jewish excited and very eager to pay him every honor and please his every
the neighboring countries which
Lord Reading, is said to be favorably im- synagogues, schools and public buildings had torn themselves loose from Austria. It is possible that this National Fund as a perpetual me- whim.
problem will soon become the mento of his visit to Eretz Israel.
The first day of his stay he was to stop at the home of A, and
pressed by this proposal, according to the are opened for use by the unemployed, the Austria. The first periods of most difficult one for Austrian
Mrs. A. A very naturally inquired what was the rabbi's favorite dish.
INDUSTRY
"Beblach" (beans to you), replied the great rabbi,
story wirelessed from London to the New disgruntled among the latter will take them influliep and deflation following Jewry.
the war had a ruinous effect
And so the rabbi had a great meal, and believe me, there were
If certain plans projected by
York Times by William Zukerman, There by force, The point to be criticized is that upon Austrian money, which
plenty of beans. On the next day, the rabbi stopped at the home of
Songs
of
Yemen.
Thomas
Bata,
the
multi-millionaire
'Pi no doubt that other Jews, particularly Mr. Seman suggested a drug instead of a was followed by the destruction
Czechoslovakian shoe manufac- B, and Mrs. B inquired of Mrs. A as to the rabbi's favorite dish.
Under
the
joint
editorship
of
of all industrial and banking Prof. A. Z. Idelsohn and N.11. Tur- furor, comes to be
And as you might expect, Mrs. B also prepared a great meal, in
those of the anti-Zionist class who are anx- cure for the problems created by the de- transactions.
realized, a
A majority of
r appears an unusual publi- " shoe-town"
n smaller scale which there were baked beans, cooked beans, broiled beans and
ious to grab at anything which might un- pression. And to propose a drug for eco- Austrian Jews lost heavily in tchine,
cation, the Hebrew "Shirei Tei- though similar i on form to his giant beans a Is naturel.
favorably affect Zionist effort in Palestine, nomic ills and evils from a Jewish forum is cash and bonds, many industrial men," or "Song of Yemen." The works at Zlin (in Czechoslovakia)
The third day, the rabbi stopped at the home of Mr. C, and Mrs.
undertakings were closed down, volume, printed in Palestine, was will be built here in order to fur- C of course inquired of Mrs, A, and of course the same thing hap-
will probably endorse this absurd proposal. inexcusable. This is a time for clear think- large,
well-established firms copyrighted by the Ilebrew Union nish the Near East trade with pened—beans to the right of him, beans to the left of him, as the
It is to be hoped that the report of Lord ing and right acting in solving terrific po- liquidated their business and College of Cincinnati and is distri- home products. This move has poets might say.
But the rabbi didn't eat.
Reading's approval of this plan is greatly litical and economic problems. To drug smaller firms disappeared alto- bitted by United Hebrew Book been dictated by customs tariff
Factory buildings and Stores,
Mrs C looked on anxiously. "Why, rabbi, why don't you eat?"
considerations as well as business
exaggerated, because it may serve to in- the mind will merely postpone the solution. gether.
dwelling houses lost all their
40
Canal
street,
New
York.
shrewdness.
In
having
a.
factory
"Oh,
that's all right, don't just want to right now."
The Yemenites are perhaps the l
fluence Jewish opinion in its favor. Jewry And postponement is not desired by even value as the result of the eco- most
"'But why don't you eat?"
in Pa estine, Bata willovercome
colorful Jewish group in the most
nomic crisis and the special Aus- Orient,
o
"Well,
I'll tell you, Mrs. C. I really would eat, but I don't know
as a whole, however, should be careful not the oldest living people.
f the prejudice that now
and their traditional He-
trian rent laws. And thus, too, brew songs
have. since the modern exists against imported shoes by what blessing to make."
to be too hasty in approving the proposal
the Jewish producer and mer-
"What
do
you mean—you don't know what brocha to make?"
having them made as a home-
chant found themselves unable effort at Palestine's reconstruct- product. M
which must be accepted as a dangerous one
For the Palestine Workers.
"Well," said the rabbi in Yiddish, "ob es geht von der erd, macht
r,
t•on, fascinated all who heard them• the sav
be
to obtain credit,.
in view of the support given it by the arch-
man boray pri edema, and ob es geht von baum, macht man boray
Two distinguished visitors will jointly
ing on freight and
There is in the collection of Yemen-
The number of Jewish "loft- ite folksongs, a traditional beauty once, mport duties, and a certain pri ha-atz, aber as es geht von halz, was macht man?"
villain of Zion, who is losing the support of grace a local Jewish platform this Sunday menschen,"
who in former times unlike the traditions of any other economy
my in gettin'ss, hides locally.
his own people, the Grand Mufti of Jerus- night. Zalman Rubashow, Palestine labor hardly existed in Vienna, has living Jewish group.
lie prefers Jerusalem, it is report- HIS ONLY PLEASURE
alem,
Have you heard the one, writes Editor Slomovitz of Detroit, "of
"Shirei Te•mon" is such an tin- ed • because of the atpactiveness
leader and editor, and Mrs. Irma L. Lind- grown tremendously and large
. a business-getter!
numbers of former Jewish ar• usually important work, and is so of the name
and complaining?
me al;
It is well to remember that the Mufti heim, former national president of Hadas- tisans and clerks are becoming definite a contribution to Hebrew
friend
inquired
If this industry is brought to the Jew A who
was
always abouthis business, and was informed that in
epression,
he
was
sah,
will
be
here
to
plead
for
the
cause
of
doi
has been effectively discredited by the Is-
there is
you complain?' ng askedthe friend.
the open and secret, of- missed with the ordinary review. first great undertakings in the spite of the d why
lamic savant, Prof. Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje the Jewish workers in Palestine, on the
" 'Oh, I wear a size 7 shoe and have a size 11 foot," the krechtzer
country promoted by a foreign replied.
of the University of Amsterdam, in the in- occasion of the annual campaign of the tism, which outwardly is not s•dered as merely a preliminary capitalist
for commercial rather
," 'Well, why don't you buy yourself larger shoes?'
brutal, which commits no yin- statement, informing our readers than sentimental reasons. About
terview he granted The Detroit Jewish Gewerkschaften.
lence upon the persons of Jews of the importance of the volume. A
te you, came the explanation. 'My wife is a spendthrift.
The cause of Jewish labor in Palestine on
Chronicle correspondent, Pierre Van Pans-
600 or 700 skilled artisans will be My son is a good-for-nothing who runs after all the girls in town.
the streets, but which will not lengthy review will appear in an re
i re a ew in the government early issue.
sen, published in our issue of Jan, 29, as is considerably enhanced in the local ap-
required, so that most of the in- My daughter is falling in love with a gangster. The only pleasure
(Turn to Next Page.)
I get out of life is when I get home and take my shoes off.'"
well as by other leading Moslems. This dis- peal by two such eminent visitors, and it is
-
_
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credited Mufti, in approving the new pro- to be hoped that the campaign this year will
HE WAS MOSTLY ENGLISH
posal, took advantage of a situation unfav- be a complete success in defiance of the
"But my real purpose in writing you," continues the Detroit news-
by Charles paper man, "is to tell you a peach of a story about a Detroiter who
orable to Jewry to pour out his characteris- crisis. The labor element in Palestine is
went to Palestine and brought back a charming little maiden as his
tic venom, when he stated: "We recognize the backbone of the Jewish reconstruction
spouse. His wife brought with her a pair of glasses. The glasses
H.
Joseph
needed some repairing, and the little Palestinian went to a jeweler on
_ _ _ _ ___ _ ___ _
the fact that the Jews are already in this work, and this group must be provided with
r
_,
Dexter
boulevard. The jeweler took one glance at the glasses, and
country and it will be difficult to get rid of the means for carrying on its important BARNEY DREYFUSS
I
owner of the Pirates, my standing something to say on the lack o then turned his gaze upon the Palestinian.
them. It is for this reason that we must task of establishing a just order for all
" 'These are not Amercian glasses,' said he.
Barney Dreyfuss, whose death in the household will be greatly thought given by Jews in making
last week shocked the world of increased."
" 'No,' said she.
consider the possibility of reaching an un- peoples in Palestine.
their wills to snago
y
spor
gues. The
" 'Where do they come from?'
an extreme individual.' Years ago when Mr. Dreyfuss former seems to think that his
This year's Gewerkschaften campaign . t, was per
derstanding with the Jews."
spas that was what
" 'From Palestine.'
first
began
to
attract
national
at-
comments
had
nothing
to
do
with
mad
always such interesting
" 'You come from Palestine?'
Moslems concerned with the continued deserves increased support as an encour- "cop e y" hint
to receive occasional the increased number lately. Per-
for sports writers. Mr. tendon I used
" 'Yes, I come from Palestine.'
as to whether Barney haps not, but I find that drawing
progress of reconstruction work in Palestine agement for its chairman, Joseph Haggai, Dre yfuss could not be approached inquiries
t he same manner as most men Dreyfuss was a Jew, and if so
ration to such matters some- tine? " ' 'Tell me the truth, where do you like it better, here or in Pales-
conducted by Jews with Jewish money but who, although a veteran worker for and in
whether
he
was interested in Jew- times does produce results. After
enga
" 'Well,'
for the benefit of the entire Palestinian pop- leader in all important Jewish cultural and lie ged in professional baseball. ish life. . . This was a natural mentioning some of the bequests, from
'a es, said
'if the charming lady from Zion, who originally hailed
first of all, a business man question because so often some of
n
you are a verbrenter Americaner,
I'll say that I like
ulation, are no doubt anxious to retain the communal causes, now for the first time ap- of st was,
rictest integrity and the high- our co-religionist s who may be in De. Schanfarber remarks that of America better, but if you want the truth, I like it better in Pales-
pears
at
the
helm
of
an
outstanding
cause.
est sense of honor. . . Ile was th e
the 13 bequests to congregations, tine.'
good will of the creative Jewish people in
public eye are indifferentists, only two were left to Conservative
not
'You like it better in Palestine!' the jeweler resumed, getting
Palestine, and even this venomous state- To Mr. Haggai and his co-workers we ex- and interested in political favors Jewishly speaking. . . . But for or Orthodox congregations , . . hot. " 'How
can you? What do you have in Palestine? A mixture,
was willing to pay for what the benefit of some who may not
ment may be aimed to appease some Jews. tend wishes for success; and to the two he g ot,
and he continues, "one would that's all. Rumanian Jews, Hungarian Jews, Russian Jews, Turkish
and
in
turn
he
demanded
know
I
would
repeat
at
this
time
that
think
that
just
the
reverse
would
Jews.
Just
a mixture.'
We retain confidence that responsible Arab visiting speakers we say : Welcome.
others pay for what he had. that Mr. Dreyfuss was an active be the case—that the Conserve-
that Ford's paid mud- member of the Jewish community
"Tell me, mister,' inquired the lady, 'what do you have here?'
leaders will not be misled by the notorious
sling I er recall
in
the
late
unlamented
five
and
Orthodox
Jews
would
re-
•
"
'Here,'
London Daily Sketch, demanding the Dear born Independent took a fling o f with
Pittsburgh: he was affiliated member the synagogue in their English.'" the jeweler snapped back. 'Why, here, we're mostly
Mufti into preventing further advancement
11 worth •11 .
• h wills more often than the Reform
resignation
of
Sir
Herbert
Samuel,
brands
at
NI
r.
Dreyfuss,
b
ut
try
as
of Palestine's future by limiting Jewish pos-
, causes. lie frequently gave of his Jews. It seems, therefore, that
woul d he could find nothing he
to
him
as
a
political
Shylock
because
he
insis-
sibilities in Israel's rightful homeland. Un-
crit• size worthy of the name. ... time to further Jewish activities. the synagogue has an appeal to
And he held a high and hon. the Reform Jews, even though the
der any circumstances, however, all pro- ted that the Conservative Party keep its I to ok occasion to point out at ored position
in the Jewish corn- Conservative and Orthodox,
5
time that Mr. Dreyfuss
and
posals become invalidated when they are bargain concerning the tariff, to which he that
wool d lint at any price deface the munity... . The cosmopolitanship sometimes even the Reform Jew,
of his contracts were evidenced in does not think so." It might be ■
made over the treacherous signature of the is opposed. By labeling Sir Herbert's stand boar
in his outfield with adver- the nation-wide tributes paid to good idea for Orthodox rabbis to Dr. Jacob Mann's Monumen. out as a rule from
Grand Mufti. When his blood-stained hand as a political version of the Merchant of tisin g ds signs,
a minimum of
and because he be- his memory by persons in every remind their congregations (and
i
available
data a new type of 'mak-
tal "Texts and Studies in
writes a missile to the Jews, it should be Venice, the Conservative paper proves how lieve
d
it
was the wrong
thing
to walk of life from the highest to they do have many wealthy mem-
do, he sacrificed
a great
many
ing
bricks
...,5
without
straw,' or of
easy
it
is
to
make
capital
against
Jewish
Jewish History and
the lowest. .. Catholics, Protest- hers) of these facts.
read and acted upon with extreme care and
thou
of dollars .. . Another ants and Jews—white and colored
Jewish so
L ihtoel r o tit uhroev.: reason to rearing castles in the air."
statesmen who, not unlike their people, are thing sands
---,—
caution.
that he detested was the
The
"Texts
and
Studies"
include
. business men and lovers of HELP YOUR RELATIVES
prole
gambling element
the following:
In discounting whatever is being attempt- damned if they do and damned if they don't whir h ss•onal
. po s . . . pro essional men and , Speaking
eaakom
g g cabomutttheed
rejoice over the appearance, in the
en
is
without
loyalty
or
con-
influence
ao
of
n
Section
I,
"Documents
Concern
ed to the detriment of the Jewish cause in adhere to certain political principles.
ate, and is interested in a ball artisans . . . everybody who was an article, I remember that a few p st few months, of monumental ing European Jewry," dealing wit
scien,
in clean sports and in year
game only to the ext
commented on h m an volumes which speak favorably for Hisdai ion Shaprut and his dipl h
Palestine, Jews should also take into con-
o it. fine sportsmanship
o-
won of on hw
sensed the
avend s liberally
h rally
much money could beent
Rochester,
N.
Y.,
has
been
added
to
is a toicom
nnod
in h l the scholarship of contemporary matic intervention on behalf of th e
rmiunitiy
the
sideration the injustice of claims made by
teachers.
IN. causes
causes and
When he caught Jewish gamb- TEGRITY of Barney Dreyfuse and
Jews in Christian Europe. Thi
list
of
progressive
cities
which
have
elimi-
m
appreciated
the
value
of
such
g
io
v
r
i
n
ksrt
t
ont
tars at his park he would be unre-
Arab agitators. The statement by Prof.
of
dollars ' is The latest volume of great worth 'ection includes a document con
rag in his efforts to have them character in Professional baseball. marked that i knew
"Texts and Studies in Jewish serving a member of the family o
me who
George L. Scherger, president of the Pro- nated the study of Shakespeare's "The Mer- lenti
• Barney Dreyfuss, gentleman- gave tens of thousands of
sever sly punished. To him that ; fls
chant
of
Venice"
from
the
public
schools.
History and Literature" by Dr. R. Tedros, Nasi of Narbonne; a
it,,,,,,
n.
Palestine Federation of America, which we
kind of Jew had no claim b on his — . tine. would to have
the public.
but
whose
poor
rein-
professor of Jewish Messianic excitement in Sicily and
to bend and 1
Jaco
publish elsewhere in this issue, throws con- Perhaps we may also hope that some day Jewis h affiliation.
hundred history and literature at Hebrew documents bearing on Byzantine
BEQUESTS TO SYNAGOGUES cringe and
plead for a
Mr . Dreyfuss was unusually
Union College in Cincinnati. The Jewry.
siderable light on the unfairness of Arab Sunday Schools in all Christian churches
I was interested in an article dollars to help
them out of
a bad i hook is procurable at $10 from
read and well versed on at- written by Rabbi Schanfarber, of situation.
Section II, "Geonica," including
claims as compared with the justice of Jew- will be honest to their creeds by eliminating well
fairs far beyond the horizon of Chicago. commenting on the in- thought as This is not a new' Rabbi Louis I. Egelson, assistant , letters of Babylonian Geonim, Se'.
1
ish aspirations for a Jewish National home untruths and venomous hate in teaching the the b aseball
am
sure
that
many
director of the Department of adya Gaon, Nehemiah of Pumbe-
field. . . . Ile was a creasing number of bequests made
story
of
Christ's
crucifixion.
man of culture who possessed a to synagogues within recent reading this statement are them- Synagogue and School Extension of dita—Bagdad, Sherira Gaon, Ha i
Palestine.
selves guilty of th
,
Ten Years of Austrian Jewish
Reconstruction
Palestine Letter
By-the-Wa,
Tidbits and News
---
RANDOM THOUGHTS
= Books and Authors
—
e earn , pro. the Union of American Hebrew Gaon, Semah Sedek b. Issas,
fine appreciation of fine thingy months. Some time ago both Dr. cedure. When a relative
writes,
Sam
Congregations, Merchants Building, uel b. Hof ni, Dosa b. Sa'adya Gaon
The disarmament petition from 50 coun: but as modes t and unassumi ng , Schanfarber and myself had, for a loan or • gift we make nasty I Cincinnati.
Lessons of the Symposium.
firm and insis-
Israel b Samuel b .
n y-
tries presented to the conf erence
comments and a long face. But. Dr.
tent nevertheless
it demanding justice in every
Mann's volume
pages) moon letters from Bab , yloni an
if some religionists are in Russia is supplemented by 27 (728
The interesting symposium, for the spon- carried 8,545 signatures from Palestine.
ip of life. I recall in-
r
facsim•lies
Gaonim
and
numerous
other
ma-
RACHAMA
and need help we contribute i from important and historic mons-
g Aaron Sapiro to Barney
coring of which the Jewish Welfare Fedora- is natural that the Land of Israel as well It undo oosh
renal on Geonica.
without ■ word.
Dreyfus
cin . . at that time &spit,
So I felt' scripts. The preface to the
Section III, "Palestinian Affairs
tion of Detroit deserves to be commended, as the People of Israel should make Peace had
vol-
By MOSES SHIFRIS
just won his trial against Ford
, that if we are so liberal with time explains its contents when it in the eleventh century," including
teaches a number of lessons which should jr., mission.
strangers, why shouldn't we have states that the material,
and was the talk of the county
y
Translated by Soot Keeney.
"culled letters from Solomon b. Yehudah,
be taken very seriously by every American-
a little more consideration for our from diverse sources scattered
.. Dreyfus..., among others, was
in Gaon of Palestine; the affairs of
—
pleased with the results of the lie
hirieit community.
own
closely
or
remotely
related.
several
libraries,
is
but
a kaleidos- Natoli b. Abraham as rival Gaon of
who did not behold Racham■
The rare spectacle of snow aroused un- trial and held
The week after the article lip- conic reflex
of
Jewish
life
in
the
it hi seedless to comment upon the almost usual interest
Sapiro in high re- Never beheld • palm tree proud.
peered I met a man who told me Middle Ages as it found expression Palestine to Solomon b. Yehudah
among the inhabitants of gird and was glad of the °prior- Who looked not into the eyes of that
and letters pertaining to Palestine
as soon no he read it,
edsoua emphasis placed by all of the
tity
un te meet him. ... But w hen
he sat chiefly in the countries under tae in the eleventh century.
Rach
Jerusalem
this
week.
What
a
glorious
sight
..
I
own
awn shook hand s with Dreyfus, Never s
Wore upon the necessity of strengthen-
and sent • thousand dollars sway of Islam" The author ee.
Section IV, "Egyptian Affairs
aw the great light of Allah. I to a needy
it
must
have
been
for
the
children
in
the
he
said:
relative
.
.
.
his
"When I get back to my Should the eyelids of
eon. presses the lu;pe that his studies
Jewish educational efforts. The prime City of Peace!
Personaliti e s," in tenth to flf-
Rachama . science pricked him.
kids and tell them that I sho
ok'
droop—
hands with Barney Dreyfuss, the I Then dies the sun for me.
ZsoMen
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Maybe some will be "appreciated by schol
teenth centur i es.
and and
ot h needy relative may
be helped students who, l ike
Section V, Documents Con cern-
ke the writer,
i la te er r this
ars are
parayraph appears.
averse w
theories spun
(Turn "
to Nest Pao).