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Mt/LEW' EJLT11011 EMMA,
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

WIEDEFROIrldEWISH el.RONIGLE

an THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Publiehed Weekly by The Jewish Cbrenkle Publishina Co.. 44

reports, we quote here for the benefit of our
readers from a statement by Dr. Elwood
Mead, United States Commissioner of Re-
clamation. Dr. Mead, a Californian and
an authority on agricultural colonization
projects, especially in a land with a climate
akin to that of California, has visited Pal-
estine and has made a study of conditions
there. In a letter addressed to Prof. Felix
Frankfurter of the Harvard Law School,
Dr. Mead writes:
"I have finished reading all the Minutes
of the Mandates Commission for 1930,
which relate to Palestine, and enjoyed the
statements and inquiries of Van Rees. Eng-
land is hopelessly wrong in her position as
to what has happened to the Arab as a
result of Jewish development, and what
can be made of the fellah through dealing
with him as though he had the ambition
and capacity of the people who have done
so much to transform the country. The
English government either does not under-
stand or continues to misrepresent the ef-
fect of land purchases by the Jews. It says
nothing about the reclamation work which
has enabled the Jews and Arabs to live in
places that a few years ago were pestilen-
tial centers of malaria. A very large per.

Jews Settled in Oxford at the
Time of Norman Conquest

Our Film Folk

By-the-Way Tidbits and News

By HELEN ZIGMOND

(Copyright, 1032. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Ina.)

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

WHEN WATTENBERG ANSWERED
The most distinguishing personal trait of the late Philip Watten-
HOLLYWOOD. — Everyone's
Intend as Second•elese platter March 1. tell, at the Peet.
Detroit,
Mich.,
under
the
Act
of
March
I,
WE
quoting Eddie Cantor's booklet on berg, donor of Wattenberg Hall to the Ilebrew University, was his.
elle. at
Interesting Facts Made Public by Jewish Tele-
his candidacy for president called keen sense of humor.
General Offices and Publication Building
I remember some years ago attending a Zionist meeting—a rather
"Your Next President." We pick
graphic Agency.
525 Woodward Avenue
this line from our—ahem—auto- solemn meeting. After a long series of speeches there arose some
graphed copy (bet he keeps his one in the audience who said that while Zionism was a good thing,
Yelephon it Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
Lend. Office,
secretary busy signing these and Palestine was being built up, too much money was going for
LONDON.—(J. T. A.)—The . tween the Jewry and the town things): "Wilson made the world expenses of the Zionist campaign.
14 St ratford Place, London, W. 1, England
is furnished by a history of the
Jews are said to have settled in
Then I saw Wattenberg rise—and I knew we were in for a story,
43.00 Per Year
activities of several prominent safe for democracy. 1" make it
Oxford soon after the Norman
-
Subscription, in Advance.
and this was the story that Wattenberg told:
Jews in Oxford. Jewish clients safe for depositors."
conquest, Miss Sarah Cohen told



• •
Ts Ware publication, all comet:sonde.eo and wore matter
fall broadly into two groups;
the members of the Jewish His-
oust reach this Oleo by Tuesday evening of each week.
HERE'S
THE
STORY
Playboy Harry Richman has had SO
one group is formed by those
torical Society to whom she pre-
Wises milling notices, kindly elle one We of the pew mar.
Once upon a time a teacher of geography was telling his class of
who belonged to Ecclesiasti picture offers, but will probably
tented a paper recently on Ox-
the trivial things that sometimes lead to great occurrences—even in
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle in•Res correspondence on subs
"revue" in London.
houses
and
important
Oxford
ford
Jewry
in
the
reign
of
lecte of Interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims reeponsi-
the
field of economic geography.



families—the Stockwells, Fete-
Henry Ill.
bait, for no Inderserntat of the view. mrnsed by the writers
"There is the city of Carlsbad, for instance," said the teacher.
The youngest actor in "Strange "Carlsbad—the famous city to whose waters thousands of invalids
places and Kepeharms; the other
The Norman conquest, she
is made up of great landown- Interlude" is a Jew. Out of • from all parts of the world come for healing. Do you know how
Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
said, was no doubt responsible
ers, tenants in chief of the king stack of pictures, Norma Shearer Carlsbad became what it is today? I will tell you. It was all because
for the first Jewish settlements
Pentat euchal portion—Lev. 16:1-18:30.
in Oxfordshire and of knights picked little 5-months.old Bobby
tical
portion—Ezek.
22:1-19
(or
16);
or
in England and particularly
Prophe
dog.
holding direct from the manors Carl to play the baby part—'cause of a "Yes,
those along the Thames valley.
Amos 9: 7.15.
it was all because of a dog, and it was this way. Once upon
which lay within the county he had big brown eyes.
Thodesh
Iyar
Readings
of
the
Torah,
Fri-
Wood, stated, fixes the date
Rosh
a time a hunter, accompanied by his dog, was going through the terri-



boundary. Amongst important
at 1076 and the inclusion of a
day, Ma , 6—Num. 28:1-15.
tory
on
which
Carlsbad stands looking for game.
members of Jewry there were
George Sidney is a sunshine
possible Jewish name in the
"The dog was following him to the rear. Of a sudden he stopped,
Nisan
23,
5692
David
of
Oxford,
the
Copin
of
philosopher.
Ile
says,
"On
our
Doomsday
Survey
for
Oxford.
to let the dog catch up with him. When it came near he saw the
April 2 9, 1932
Worcester. The late Dr. Stokes climb up the hill of prosperity, may
shire points to that year or
legs all wet. It wasn't raining. There was no river or brook
wrote of the family history of we never meet an old friend corn- dog's
that he knew of in the vicinity. Indeed, he had been wanting to find
therabouts.
David the story of his divorce ing down." Them's my sentiments,
A
synagogue
was
acquired
in
place where he could quench his thirst, but could find no
Mother's Day.
from his first wife, 51urielle, and too—the difficulty is finding the some
water. But here his dog was wet. It obviously pointed to some
1227 at the east end of Penny-
the history of his second wife, hill.
Henrietta Szold, founder of the Hadas-
water
in the vicinity. So the hunter looked and discovered the
farthing street, and in the in-
• • •
Licoricia, who became famous
springs, whose renown for their curative values is today so estab-
ventory of Jewish property
sah Women's Zionist Organization and one
as a wealthy financier and who
Anna
Appel
tells
of
her
first
made after the Expulsion in
of the most brilliant women leaders of our
contributed large sums towards day in the studio: An Ent Side lished."
As the teacher finished this story, there was a pause for a minute ,
1290 a house was identified,
generation, paid the finest tribute to the centage of the Zionist homes are in places "which was held by the com- the building of Westminster street scene . . . a group of long. or two. All were silent. Then a little boy raised his hand. "Teacher,"
Abbey.
bearded Jews were sitting about he asked, "what became of the dog?"
and was worth 20s
Jewish mother when she stated:
where no one could live or was living when monality
And so, said Wattenberg, answering the Zionist who saw only the
After the middle of the cen- reading their papers. Suddenly
a year and the Jews paid 15
someone shouted, "Lock 'em up!" expenses, "you ask what of the dog, forgetting the bigger thing."
tury,
Gamliel,
lumbard
of
they
faced
death
and
disaster
to
build
the
"Jewish custom bids the Jewish mother,
pence for all services, making a
She turned pale. Then a cry, "Kill
Cricklade,
Jacob,
son
of
Master
clear
value
of
18c
9d."
Proc-
after her preparations for the Sabbath have needed drains, and certainly the British
Moses of London, were inti- 'OM all!" A pogrom . , . For SHREWDNESS IS FUTILE
lamations concerning Christians
been completed on Friday evening, to kin- ought to know that all statements of dis- and Jews of a particular town mately connected with Oxford, this she had to come to Hollywood.
However, I might add, in later year Wattenberg was himself very
looked for • n exit, but was concerned over the dog of expenses: As a member of the finance
dle the Sabbath lamp. That is symbolic of possessing the Arabs are exaggerations that were ordered to be made "in both by residence and the prop- She
mmand, "Shoot!" committee of the Zionist Organization, he was a veritable watchdog
std
oppe
Toe
l by the command,
erty
they
held
there.
Dr.
Stokes
all
the
synagogues
of
the
the Jewish women's influence on her own interfere with any sensible plan of aid to Jewry, both in Hebrew and in has published a photograph of
to see how of the treasury and fought stubbornly anything that he thought waste
ate. She
home, and through it upon larger circles. the Arabs.
Merton College deed of sale, her co-religionists were bearing of funds.
Latin," which seems to indicate
up.
Stoically
they
continued
to
Wattenberg was a shrewd man, in a business way. Yet how
the writing of Jacob
She is the inspirer of a pure, chaste, fam-
one seemed fright. futile even the best shrewdness sometimes may be, was evidenced by
"I was in Palestine in 1923, and when that several Jewries had more showing
mentioned above and his seals, re ad . . . no not
one
slumped
over,
ily life whose hallowing influences are in- th ere 'I watched the negotiations for pur- than one synagogue.
ened . . .
some recent happenings. Wattenberg was anything but the gambler
which
are
still
attached
to
the
MASSACRE
dead.
in business. When the stock exchange boom came, and everybody
calculable; she is the center of all spiritual ch ase of land in the Valley of Esdraelon, ESCAPED
document.
The beginning of Henry Ill's
' i
The scene recurred again and was sinking
their
i last penny in the stock market, and every day
i
endeavors, the confidante and fosterer of
WELL-BUILT
JEWISH
reign
found
the
Jews
as
firmly
en
being
carried
on
in
Galilee.
They
•n.
Then
she
began
to
under-
pointing to the wealth they were accumulating, Wattenberg was one
th
• s n. °Lock ,.
every undertaking. To her the Talmudic
in Oxford as in DWELLINGS
y away from the exchange
of
the
few
men
,
rich or po o r, who staed
ere carried on openly in a large room in established
P is "r""
" I U"
other important towns. Unlike
Knowledge of what other talk for "close all
doors"—"kill
as a good Jew would from a "trefa" butcher shop.
sentence applies: 'It is woman alone
th e hotel, with representatives of the land the Jews of other towns, notably Jews held in Oxford is not very ..m all" ....s "all light. out
But
when
the
market
began
to
crash,
there was another chapter
through whom God's blessings are vouch-
of London and York, those of
comprehensive as the details and "shoot" indicates action for • and quite a different one, to the story. Then Wattenberg confided to
ON vners and the representatives of the Zion-
Oxford esecaped massacre at
are
scanty,
but
from
the
num-
his
friends—he
would
enter
the
market.
"Now is the time to buy,"
camera,
not
a
run.
safed to a house..'"
is ts at one end of the room, and at least 20 Richard l's coronation and they ber of vacant houses after the
• . •
he said. He did. Put $300,000 in the market—and lost it.
Another noted Jewess, Fannie Hurst, p eople, attracted by curiosity and enjoying shared in the general belief Expulsion which were well suit-
Abe Simon, former Detroit at-
...
paid a similar tribute to the Jewish mother th e play of wit of the two bargainers. The when the Charter of Richard I, ed for use Wood has identified torney, has opened up his law of- WHY NOT A JEWISH PRESIDENT?
which defined and ameliorated
Rover-
few Jewish houses with early flees in Hollywood for exclusive
With the Democratic party nominating Henry Horner for gover-
in a message to the now defunct Jewish n egotiations for that particular project had the status of the Jewries was a university
"halls"; the house in movie trade.
nor of Illinois, and his election likely, and with the Democrats of New
een
going
on
for
several
days
and
I
was
reissued
in
1218.
During
the



Tribune, in which she stated:
b
Little Jewry called Little Jewry
York most probably nominating Lieutenant-Governor Herbert Leh-
minority of Henry III (1216-
Hall came to Merton College.
Norman Krasna, a Columbia man of New York, and his election as likely, it appears that we Jews
"The Jewish mother embodies everything to Id that they would continue to go on until 1232) the number of Jews in Moses' Hall passed through scenarist
and
the
youthful
play-
soon will not be able to complain of political neglect.
many hands before Oriel re- vrright of "Louder, Please," h She
that is best in motherhood. She is the nuc- th ey ceased to be an entertainment. The Oxford increased. Some mi-
It may get so indeed that Jews will attain so normal a position in
wner
of
the
land
was
a
Syrian,
living,
I
grated, for example, Josce and
ceived
in
in
1362.
Wood
iden-
0
he
r
.
.
.
mothe
adoringm
an
jewelry
gifts
political
life that even we Jews will not think it worth while mention-
leus about which has grown a splendid tra-
Meyr of Oxford having paid for
tified the house of Moses with showers hi with
elieve,
in
Beirut,
and
the
owners
of
most
is
ins
when
a Jew is nominated for high political office.
b
dition that the family ties of the Jew are
that privilege. In 1231 Henry
Guildhall and David's house whenever he comes home. On h
But
what about a Jewish president? Have we any suitable ma-
holiest. The history of the race has been 0 f the land that was being purchased at gave to the Masters and Broth- with the lower Guildhall next last trip she faced a difficult
very- terial for that office?
almost
every-
of the Hospital of St. John
td it. The latter, at least, if
. . . Ile had
Personally, I think the United States could do worse than elect
so turbulent that the holding together of hat time were non-residents. The people, ers
a garden—exttra portam rot-
not Moses' house, had atone
she could decided
think of.
reluctantly
on Finally
a beau- as its president Walter Lippman, probably the best writer on political
the family has been accomplished in the w ho cultivated that land were just as land- entalum—in which to erect a vaults, so that the security of thing
she cigarette case. "But," she subjects that the country has. Lippman has been termed "the unoffi-
face of greatest difficulty. Through it all, le ss before the purchase as they were after- hospital saving the place suit- the tenement suggested how tiful
ounseled, "I hope you won't cial adviser of the American people."
able for a Jewish cemetery."
built were Jewish dwell- c
Of course, I do not expect my suggestion to be complied with.
the Jewish mother has carried her torch of w ards, and they had no security of tenure, It was also in the early part of well
ings.
smoke." Now Norman doesn't
We take advice from writers, but we
love and courage and fidelity unswervingly a nd those I talked with had no resentment Henry's reign that members of
know whether to carry it around Lippman is not a politician.
In
1290
the
king
gave
houses
t
the
prospective
transfer.


the
newly-founded
Order
of

/'
a
for
show
or
to
keep
his
friends
don't
elect
them
to
offic
through the dark ages of her struggle. She
(in payment of fines) to bur-
Friars first visited
"The obstacles which confront the Zion- Preaching
AND THEY'RE BACHELORS
gesses as tenements, when the supplied with a cigarettes.
exists today in thousands in the Lower East
• •
England. In 1221 the Domini-
And perhaps it is worth pointing out to the host of young lady
opportunity occurred, and many
Side of New York City. Her eyelids are a is ts would be fatal to any private enter- cans came to Oxford and settled such
The trek to Malibu is beginning.
de of this illuminating column, that the Democratic nominee for
opportunities must have oc-
the very heart of the Jewry.
Malibu Beach is Hollywood's
readers
little weary but her purpose shines as stead- p rise. They would never be overcome if in
curred
when
the
Jewry
ceased
Leila
Hyams
governor
of Illinois is a bachelor. And of course, Justice Cardoso
Robert Grossetete, bishop of
Palm Springs . . . if you
it were not for the patriotic impinge that is Lincoln, became lecturer to the to exist and its inhabitants were summer
fastly as ever from under them.
get the drift.
Is
it
possible
that a man can be successful without the aid of a
dispersed
abroad
to
find
yet
an-
t the back of this movement, and the diffi- Franciscans. He was one of the
a bachelor.
helpful wife? It used to be said that it was the wives that
other home. The names and opened her beach house with a is loving,
"What Jewry has given to the world in a
ulties caused by this delay must make fi- Hebrew scholars in the Eng- tenements which they left be- gay party. • • •
c
made
the
men.
It
doesn't seem so, does it, girls?
art, in science, in letters, in industry, can n ancing of the work going on very difficult. land of his day.
hind were superseded by the in-
From the Jewish point of
be traced back to the love and sacrifice of
Fanny Brice had • little free THE BARON WRITES
evitable
changes
of
time,
until
sincerely hope that a satisfactory arrange- view, the work of conversion the Jews and their associations time one afternoon and suggested
Baron Philip Rothschild of the well known city of Paris has just
the callous-footed and callous-handed wo-
ent may be soon reached that will give to was very important. The out- in Medieval Oxford were almost to her hubby, Billy Rose, that written a book—about America—and he tells about everything from
episode in this respect
men out of Egypt.
they take in • movie. He asked night clubs to Adolph Zukor. At the same time, the young baron
forgotten.
he Zionists a free field for development." standing
was undoubtedly the martyr-
where she wanted to go. She an•
he can not understand America.
emancipated Jewish mother who is
About 600 years had to pass swered, "Let's go see 'Finkle. confesses
Thus speaks a disinterested third party dom of the priest, Robert of
" The
At the night clubs, he said, pretty young women surrounded him
stalking away from these fine old ideals on a nd an expert, and his verdict is: "Eng- Reading, who embraced Judaism before they returned to this pre- stein' " . . . and she wasn't kid. to the point of annihilation. He had all he could do to shoo them
settlement, and some ding!
the French heels of modern society; and is 1 and is hopelessly wrong in her position as and was condemned to death in Expulsion
off his lap.
progress made in the interven-
• • •
1222. Ile is said to have fallen
Yet the next morning, when his manicurist came to take care of
letting the flame of her torch bend to the t o what has happened to the Arab as a re- in love with a Jewess and as- ing centuries can be measured
When Sam Katz asked what pic- his nails, she was not permitted to enter his room.
by
their
altered
status,
for
this
winds of the newest generation, is sacrific- ult of Jewish development." Let Jews turned the name of Haggai the
"Is that a system?" asks the French-Jewish baron, in effect.
ture brought the most cash into


time they began to take their Publix theaters last year, '75 out

Proselyte, and was said to be
ing the finest quality in the history of her who are in the habit of speaking of the the
place amongst the modern heirs of a random 80 bookies replied GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDS
first martyr to be executed
of the burgesses and the clerks
race—the stern, relentless capacity for Arab problem when opposing the Zionist for conversion to Judaism.
The
baron
also
cannot
understand
the
precipitancy of American
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of the thirteenth century.
The business connections be-
reporters. As soon as he arrived, they asked him what he thought of
ause, and especially when in need of an
motherhood."
prohibition.
On the occasion of Mother's Day, these argument against giving money for Pales-
And when he got to Hollywood, the reporters immediately asked
him what type of beauty he preferred. And he answered: Tall
sentiments serve as proper tributes to the ine's reconstruction, take heed of this
blonds.
And for several days thereafter, writes the baron, he was
women in Israel who have valiantly strug- warning. Let such Jews stop giving com-
bombarded with letters and pictures from tall blonds.
. "Is that a system?" asks Baron Rothschild. But the baron, in his
gled with the men in Israel for the perpet- fort to their enemies with such arguments.
windup, remarks that he was thrilled by America, so we must presume
uation of Jewish ideals and traditions, for And let them join in the work for Pales-
that it is a system.



the advancement of the spiritual, moral and ine's reconstruction. If they are so much
thing
of
THE
SPIRIT
of
JUDA-
leader's
cause,
is
obliged
to
create
nterested in the Arabs, they will benefit EINSTEIN, MENUHIN AND
ethical values of Jewish teachings.
ISM that Dr. Goldstein has men- sentiment against the Jew. I have JESSELL WRITES A WILL
MOONEY
George Jessell is a young man, but he has written his will. In it
hem a whole lot more through a recon-
Judge Sullivan of California, tioned. As a layman who is not received reports concerning meet- he leaves some $75,000,000 in bequests. Of course, he hasn't got
Miss Hurst's tribute is a warning to the
particularly competent to hold his
few who fail to recognize their mission; structed Palestine, redeemed as the Jewish commenting on the Mooney case, own against the Central Confer- ing held by these impertinent agi- the 75 millions, but there is no law against leaving it. The head
said that Professor Einstein and
at some cabaret, by the testament, receives $100,000. All of
whose "flapperisms" have been advan ed National Home, than they will by aligning Yehudi 51enuhin have protested ence of American Rabbis I humbly tators and find that the Jew is in- waiter
themselves
with
the
Effendis,
the
Arab
against further imprisonment of venture the suggestion that some veriably presented in a light which Eddie Cantor's daughters receive large fortunes, too, on condition
beyond reason; whose duties to th ' peo-
that
they
do not marry, etc.
Mooney and Billings. Judge Sul- day the Reform rabbis of this must prejudice him in the minds
Eddie Cantor himself has apparently seen the will, for he says:
ple and to mankind have been neglected. land owners, who are the real enemies of liven remarked (speaking of Ein- country will BE FORCED TO of those who hear these inflamma.
"The
thing
is to funny that everybody will laugh for a week after
the
Arab
Fellaheen,
the
Arab
peasants,
stein) that "unfortunately this TAKE DRASTIC ACTION TO tory speeches.' We have enough
But in the long run, the Mother emerges
dies."
man and great scientist. OUTBACK THAT SOMETHING troubles of our own in this coun- George
In other words, Jessell proposes that his taking off shall be as
supremely beautiful and the embodiment whom they aim to keep oppressed by check- good
ing the uplifting and benefiting Jewish knows as much about Mooney and THAT WAS LOST WHEN ISAAC try, and when I say that I mean humorous as his living gags. There is an idea In that.
of the finest we possess.
Billings and the case against each M. WISE introduced Reform in everybody in the United States
But for odd wills, the most interesting that I have ever encoun-
without permitting a lot of irres•
as they know about Einstein's in- this country.
"Every day a Mother's Day" should be- efforts.
ponsible demogagues going about tered is one in the Jewish division of the New York Public Library.
explicable
theory
of
relativity."
And
it is not intended to be funny. It is, on the contrary, very seri-
come the motto of all who observe this new-
X•RAY OF HITLER
stirring up more hatred and chscon-
And he indicated that young Menu-
Hitler books seem to be the` tent. DRIVE TIIE HITLERITES ous—and in it the deceased, who was a rabbi, leaves a part of any
est of American holidays. Thus it has al-
The Late Sir Patrick Geddes.
hin, who was born several years
credits
that may come to him in the Olam Ilabah (future world) to
the Mooney case opened, was fashion these days. And a re- OUT OF THIS COUNTRY! Let
ways been in Jewish tradition.
An interesting non-Jewish personality, after
also not competent to pass on the viewer in commenting on a new them take their miserable propa- his wife. There is genuine devotion to you.
On the occasion of this year's obser- whose name promises for a long time to be issue. Judge Sullivan is right to a book titled "Hitler," written by ganda elsewhere.
--e-
vance it is fitting that we again compli- linked with Jewish history, is gone. Sir Pat- certain extent. Prestige as a scien- Emil Langyel, a student of Central
tist does not give one authority tolEurope affairs, says that:
THE D. A. R. AGAIN!
ment that group of Jewish mothers who
"Hitler
emerges
in
this
book
as
rick Geddes, who was chosen by Zionist speak with authority on other sub- a combination of a medieval Ital- The Daughters of the American
have proclaimed their desire to give up the
jects however, Einstein happens
Revolution want jobless aliens de-
condotieri and an American ported. They want immigration
customary gifts so that the money may be leaders to design the Hebrew University to possess a fine social vision, as ian
supersalesman. Spiritually Hitler still further restricted. They want
"The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln" is an Out-
evidenced
by
his
theories
on
war.
used for worthy Jewish causes. We refer Building in Jerusalem, was not only a noted In the particular case of Mooney is the successor of Kaiser Wilhelm bigger navy. They do not want
standing Jewish Work of the Year.
a
to the movement to honor mothers by plant- town planner, but was also a biologist, an it is quite true that he may not II, sharing with him a belief in the recognition of the Soviet govern-
possess
all
the
facts.
Neverthe-
supernatural
origin
of
his
mission
ment.
They
are
opposed
to
lib-
ing trees in Palestine through the Jewish educator of note, a publisher and a play- less, in view of the protests on and in the supremacy of the Ger-
"THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF IIAMELN." Translated
eral movements in this country.
with introduction and notes by Marvin Lowenthal. Pub-
part of the ablest leaders of man race. Ile has managed to Here you have an organization
National Fund. It is a beautiful custom, wright.
lished by Harper & Brothers, 49 East Thirty-third street,
machine
by
American
a
thought in all walks of life per- build up
and it is enhanced by the beauty of the day
that should be labeled Daughters
New York ($3.60).
Four years ago he spoke at the Sorbonne, haps Einstein's protest is not out advertising methods and an un- of American Reactionaries because
on th e occasion of which the trees are being
of order. If Judge Sullivan will tutored but great knowledge of they are untrue to their title of
planted. The women who are sponsoring in Paris, and in referring to the Hebrew take time to look over the list of mass psychology."
Harper
& Brothers announce a excellent translation and an un
Daughters of the American Revo-
That's what I call a remarkable lution. These "daughters" would new venture in publishing. "In- usually fine printing. Another fen-
men and women who have be-
this movement are deserving of your sup- University then stated:
analysis
of
Adolf
Hitler.
It
is
an
lieved Mooney to be the victim o
have been Tories of the worst type creasingly aware of the growing in- ture seldom duplicated are the
"The equivalent of rebuilding the temple a frame-up he might be inclined to X-ray of his entire makeup.
port.
had they lived in the time of their terest among American readers in individual headings on the pages
few
ancestors. They are illiberal, and Jewish literature," these publishers of this volume. Here are a
consists in the marvelous progress of the view more leniently Einstein's at- DRIVE HITLERITES OUT
titude. In the case of Menuhin
I shouldn't wonder if they had had "are embarking upon the system- samples: "Alarms and Excursions
Hebrew University. The grand dome of he is correct. Because after all OF 1.1. SI
England Hopelessly Wrong.
anything to do with drafting the atic publication of substantial books of Childhood," 'Wicked Plot and
Drive Hitlerites and Ilitlerism be Constitution of the United States on Jewish subjects." Happy Ending," "Gluckel Paints
just because a boy happens to be
To hurt the Jewish cause in Palestine, the university has been designed so that it a musical prodigy hardly qualifies out of America! That should that
we would have had very little
This announcement came with the Family Portraits" "The Hap-
biased and unfriendly Englishmen have en- wlil be in complete harmony with the two him to approach with a mature a slogan for all the Jewish groups religious liberty in this country. the publication of Marvin Lowers- Piest Couple In All the World,"
mind the justice or injustice of the people
who want
a good
job for their
and
for
the
country.
Et.
No
one
by
the
wildest
stretch
of
that's
translation of the famous "Sabbatai Zevi Sets the Jews
couraged the drumming up of the so-called daughter religions—the Christian and Mos-
Mooney case.
forts should be made to prevent imagination could possibly believe classic "The Memoirs of Gluckel of Agog, —and thus ad Infinitum,
Arab problem and have emboldened the lem—and with the characteristic domes of
into this country of any that such a group of women har- Hameln," and if we are to judge by page after page, fascinating title
ORTHODOXY
the entry
Here we AND
are back
to the long Hitler
propagandist, who in the in-, boring their intolerant and illib- the first sample in the new liar- reveals fascinating story..
handful of anti-Zionist Moslems in placing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the REFORM
From one of the quoted page
per venture, then we may well ex-
obstacles in the path of Zionist effort. Most
years of conflict between Reform terest of his racial and erratic eral
could I have
a pect an unusually great and excep- titles the readers will gather that
bill ideas
of rights.
think given
what us
the
Mosque
of
Omar,
better
known
as
Gluckel
not only lived in the days
and Orthodox Judaism in a state-
discouraging in the discussion of this Arab- so-callec •
tionally
worth-while
series
of
im-
D. A. R. needs as a steady diet is
of the famous Sabbatal Zevi aspira-
I find in the New York Eve-
to read the statements of the portant books.
Jewish problem has been the comfort which the Dome of the Rock, which is practically ment
tions to Messianism but describes
ning Journal by Dt. Israel Gold-
TOLERATION
founders of the country. Let them
Gluckel's memoirs, appearing for thi effects of the occurcnces on
Jews themselves have given to their the site of the ancient temple of the He- stein. Ile is reported to have said
study the sweep and broad under- the first time in English translation the Jews othe
f
time.
in commenting on the Passover:
standing of the HUMANITY ex- —there are also in existence two
brews."
By LOUIS I. NEWMAN
enemies.
Mr. Lowenthal and the publishers
"Those who are afraid of the
pressed by Washington, and Jef- German
and earned
one Hebrew transla-
--
On other occasions he revealed not only new
have
the
gratitude
of Eng-
So few Jews appear interested enough to
forces to which emancipation
tf, ..Ati nth ri of 411. ferson. What they need to be tions—is without doubt a classic lish-reading Jewries for this ex-
to
make a study of the true facts resulting genuine sympathy for the Jewish cause, but has exposed the Jew and desire
on out ter tent truly the DAUGHTERS of the of first magnitude. Born in 1646 cellent work. It is a classic which
dielst
thou
dri•:
from
the
walls
'Why
Isolate themselves within
to A.A,,, .A4 di... , AMERICAN REVOLUTION is to I (she died in 1724), Gliwicel wrote promises to live in English liter-
from the settlement of Jews in Palestine, also deep knowledge of Jewish traditions of
Orthodoxy which would drive AA sees loss
imbibe some of the spirit of their
Abraham ,aid: lie .0.1a not ' ,i,, fathers They are always com- of her children, following the death stare.
that a bit of additional light on this subject and aspirations.
them back into the ghetto ways Andra
ra
To relate even the most impor-
Occurring several days after the death of are not true to the spirit of Jude- rs Tee w . s the pyer
nee True Go . d without eon,- planng
ii about liberals and are of their father. Simply but beauti- tent elements in this volume would
is always in place. Such light is especially
IV ;
wonhips putting this person or that person t fully told, this interesting person- take much more apace than is here
appropriate in view of the unfairness of another great friend of the Hebrew Uni- Ism."
These are strong words. But H. corn nens Inn ass
,. beyond the pale because of too slay of more than two centuries available. Many of the stories told
thou to
t a ho
reports of so-called British experts who go versity, that of the noted Zionist, Philip words are not going to settle the Theo
relates her life ate, ry, and spices by the author are worth re-telling-

answered God:'Tie ..... tr year. radical ideas. Some of the great-
Wattenberg, Sir Patrick's demise adds to issue. To my mind, sneaking al a
est souls and finest spirits In her narrative with so many his- Gluckel, for instance, tells the fol-
lestine
to
"study"
conditions.
The
morT
thie
to Pa
Reform
Judaism
has
Jew,
Reform
mescals
and fascinating parrables lowing parable:
n
disapproved
of
the note of sorrow which thus mars the
That
harr. America have bee
1•1
1nr.
'"
failed somewhere somehow. In
report of Lewis French is a sample of such
Daughters who are pro and stores that the memoirs read
--w. atoold. 1 oar. Put
'''
seventh anniversary of the Hebrew n
. odoxy And e nsisi. shzt thou wise stekeet ion b- these i n their approach to na- like a novel.
.Orth
great pain. for 0,11. ebildrea; for on this.
the
transition
from
t
vinciai i
unfairness.
Icy, now being observed throughout the something was lost daring the w,
Added
I
Lionel
problems.
Added
to
the
good
qualities
is
an
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"al as?'
To counteract the dangers which may re-
journey. What it was, was some-1



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