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unfortunate choice of being born in an un-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
American country of Jewish parents."
Raising the racial issue worked, because he
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
(Coorright, 1951. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, hie.)
was re-elected to the national chairman-
By HELEN ZIGMOND
PubWiden C.a.,
Published Weekly by TM Jewish Clreetick ∎
POETIC INSPIRATION
ship, when he received 108 votes against
Now that summer has passed around the corner and is with us, it
HOLLYWOOD.—Richard Rod
By DR. 0. BRACHFELD
ewe matter March 11, 1911, at the Peet -
yard as se
a song of
81 for Mayor Hoan,
ell. at Detroit, Mich., under the Mt of Much 1579.
gem and Larry Hart, that cham is time for the poets to write their winter ballads. Sing
snow
and bitter cold. It has frequently been commented on that
The entire incident was unfortunate for
pion
song-brewing
pair,
put
in
an
center of world Jewry of that
The tall, silver-haired gentle-
the spring-time poet industry reached its boom in winter and the
General Offices and Publication Building many reasons. In the first place, it created
time, Arisba, the Jewish Cicero, appearance at the Writers' Club singers of winter grow lyrical in the summer.
mars with the affable eyes who
525 Woodward Avenue
as people called him, the Tal- the other p. m. Rodgers, the
showed me the sights of Cirona,
a
sad
issue
in
the
midst
of
a
major
political
How can this be, you may ask?
Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
•
•
mudist Ruben ben Todros, Caspi, "musiker," played some of his •
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is one of the finest among the
campaign. In the second place, it involved the
London MCC
whose works are preserved in popular tunes . . . Hart, the
Catalonian
intellectuals.
Don
14 Stratford Plant, London, W. 1, England
TO ROTHENSTEIN
names of men whose friendship we have no Carlos Rahola published recent- the Vatican Library, the astron- "lyricist," a little dark chap, sang LISTEN
Well, I'll ask you a better question. Why is it that poets, who
omer Rahola, Xija, and many his "Ten Cents a Dance" with lit- write
Subscription, in Advance— ....... _-_-$3.00 Per Year reason to doubt. Heywood Broun ought to
ly a most i n t e r est i n g book
of Nature so much, are so little observant of nature? And if
others; and these were all in one tle voice but much feeling. . . .
about
the
Jews
of
Catalonia,
en-
They
are
here
to
write
the
tunes
have as much right to oppose a Socialist titled "Els Jueus a Catalunya," city, in Barcelona.
you ask me in turn, whence I deduce this generalization, I point to no
ssue publication, all cost...pond.. and news matter
To Inure
by Tuday
eening
v
of each week .
less
an
authority than Sir William Rothenstein, the famous painter
for
Chevalier's
"Love
Me
To-
es
mt reach this ofil
who happens to have been born a Jew, as he and when I found myself in this GREATEST FRIEND
, kindly u se one e ide of OW IMPS? oaly•
When matting notice..
and writer, whose reminiscences are pow being published.
night."
most poetic of all Catalonian
has
to
oppose
to
Republicans
or
Democrats
Groucho
was
also
invited
to
en
Listen
to what Rothenstein says:
"The
greatest
friend
of
the
TM Detroit Jewish Chronkle in•Ites correspondence on silo.
first call was on the
Wet. of intent to the Just.k people, but disclaims responst.
Jews in Catalonia was Jacob L., tertain . . he wired from Lake
who fire Jews. But that is no reason why towns,my
"The poets in the country puzzled and amused me. I would
author
of
this
very
engrossing
ility
for
an
indors•rnant
of
the
views
topsail
by
the
writer.
Arrowhead
in
the
mountains
that
take
them
to
the remote valleys. through flowing orchards and hang-
protected
the
Conqueror.
Ile
►
we should suspect him of Jew-hatred — book.
them, gave them'; documents he made the wrong turn some- ing beech woods, yet they never seemed to notice anything. Yeats
Sabbath Readings of the Torah.
We walked up step, narrow
especially when we have so many reasons
would
keep
his
eyes on the ground, and while Davies was with us, he
where
and
got
off
the
road
...
guaranteeing their rights, and
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 1:1-4:20.
had once been the
• • •
would talk literary gossip and ask my opinion of this or that poet,
devoted to them is private time
to feel grateful to him for his many acts streets—what
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 20:18-42.
Jewish quarter. There is hard-
Sidney
has
•
new
yearn-
Sylvia
while cuckoos sang and rainbows arched the valley."
and friendship. There were
•
•
ly anything left here to recall
Rosh Chodesh Sivan Readings of the Law, Sun- of friendship, notable among which was the
•
many Jews at his court. His ing . • . would like to study medi-
day, June 5—Num. 28:1-15.
writing, in collaboration with George Britt, the Jewish residents of old, Don chamberlain was a Jew, Yehuda cine . . . her library has many EINSTEIN AND MATHEMATICS
Readings of the Law for the First Day of Shabuoth
Rahola told me. The Jewish
Rothenstein, too, met Professor Einstein, and here again he was
de Cavalleria. In 1293 and 1294 books of medical
of his important book, "Christians Only." quarter,
(Feast of Weeks), Friday, June 10.
the most ancient part
surprised. Einstein in his studies always had with him a queer look-
King Jacob L. sent Jews as am- and she actually reads them!
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 19:1-20:23; Num.
But another incident to regret is the one of the town, has been thorough-
ing
man who, Rothenstein adds, resembled an old tortoise.
bassadors to the Moors. His
bassadors
during the centuries.
Irving Cummings (Kominsky, if
28:26-31.
This man would sit and listen as Einstein theorized.
private doctor was a Jew. It
which made a martyr, on the ground of It is rebuilt
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 1:1.28; 3:12.
difficult to determine now
,
your
must
know)
received
a
long
From
time to time the stranger shook his head, whereupon Einstein
was he also who gave the per-
Readings of the Law for Second Day of Shabuoth, racial discrimination, of a man whose only
where the Aljama stood, or
mit to Bonananse Salomon to (term ticket for his spendid direc- paused, reflected and started another train of thought.
Saturday, Jun. 11.
where
the
synagogue
was
situ-
I
work
in
"Attorney
for
the
link with his people, insofar as actual serv-
Einstein subsequently explained: "He is my mathematician. llo
build a synagogue in Barcelona.
Pentateuchal portion—Dent. 14:22-16:17; Num.
ated. There are old documents
examins problems which I put before him and checks their validity.
ice is concerned, is the accident of birth. still extant that enable us to In 1268 he confirmed the right Defense." • • •
28:26-31.
good mathematician."
of
the
Jews
to
their
synagogue.
see I am not myself a very
You
•
So that even if there is a vast amount of fix the site of the Jewish ceme- Ile did not even hesitate to op-
•
•
Prophetical portion—Mb. 3:1-19.
Did you know that Samson Re-
tery. (Historians claim that
phaelson, se ...... ist, has had A LITTLE ANALYSIS
truth
in
the
age-old
saying
that
"where
the
papal
Curie
for
the
pose
28,
5692
lyar
when
the
Catholic
rulers
of
more
than
90
short
stories
Pub-
When
you
ponder
these
phenomena
a little more deeply, they of
3,
1932
June
there is smoke there is fire:" even if the Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, sake of his beloved Jews.
from course lose their surprise element.
son, Peter the Great, fished in magazines ranging
charge of anti-Semitic prejudice in Social- who financed Christopher Co- was "His
Snappy
Stories
to
the
Century?
If
niece
observance
of
nature
would
make
a poet, then naturalists,
no less a friend of the Jews.
Our Graduates and Confirmants.
. • •
voyage of discovery of
bacteriologists and the like would make the greatest poets. The truth
ist ranks is based on facts—and we do not lumbus'
We still have documents show-
America,
expelled
the
Jews
in
Thousands of Jewish boys and girls doubt that Socialists are not immune from
Monte Carter, a Jewish actor, of the matter is, that they generally make very poor poets—if they
ing how he tried to stop the per-
1492, the decree was not so rig-
secution of the Jews. There is had to repeat some Hebrew in can be made into poets at all. For the essence of poety is n
throughout the land will in June be grad- hatred and prejudiced discrimination—it orously enforced in Catalonia.)
"Hollywood Speaks." Not know- I tual observation, but a certain indefinable dimensional process, one
evidence
that
in
1279,
when
the
"The Jews have played a
uated from numerous schools or will be con- is to be regretted that the incident should
soldiers out for blood and plun- aig the mother tongue, he left the of whose chief characteristics is retrospective musing.
important part in Catalon-
And the genius of an Einstein, too, is not in the mastery of
firmed in Reform Temples. 'Thouiands of on the one hand have caused to be ques- very
der broke into The Jewish quar- set, called up his tailor and asked
ian history," Don Rahola went
to translate the words into mathematical formulae, but rather in the possession of a synthetic
others are to receive diplomas and degrees tioned the friendship of tried friends of the on. "They were much more ter, and at the risk of his own him
Hebrew.
Back
on
the
set
he
reeled
faculty,
quick to perceive relationships.
sword in hand, forced the
•
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•
from high schools and colleges. What Jewish people, and on the other hand made prominent in Aragon and Cata- life,
invaders back. It was here, on off the newly-learned translation.
as a cultural and civilizing
An
elderly
electrician
interrupted
A
COURSE
IN YIDDISH
about the future of these young men and a martyr of a man to whose Jewish loyal- lonia
this very spot," Don Rahola
element than in other parts of
The Jewish Morning Journal is now running in its columns a
to criticize his accent. While the
said, "that it happened.
women? How secure, economically, are ties Jews are in no way indebted.
the Spanish peninsula. Not only
was thus demonstrating course for those desiring to learn Yiddish. Its managing editor, Jacob
"We know," he pursued, "that electrician
did our kings derive financial as-
those who completed professional training?
correct
Hebrew,
the
director
sig-
Fishman,
a most interesting figure of Jewish journalistic life, be-
where these houses now stood,
sistance from them, but they
What may the Jewish people expect from
the Jewish quarter of Girona naled, the camera turned, and the lieves that if Yiddish has any future, it is in America.
also contributed largely to our
Ile
will
tell you, as he told me, that these stories that you hear
Jewish
technician
is
still
unaware
Greetings to the Free Press.
once stood, the home of many
them, in the form of active participation in
scientific advancement, princi-
about the survival and revival of Yiddish in Russia are claptrap. You
men, such as Bonastruc that he's an actor
•
•
Jewish affairs and in supplying their share
We take pleasure in congratulating the pally in the direction of medi- famous
hear
stories,
says Fishman, that in parts of Russia, where Jews pre-
de Porta, who was born about
cine.
become dominate, it has become the court language. "Well, maybe, when they
. na
of leaders in communal undertakings?
re m
Detroit Free Press and its staff on its jour- CAME
lfriyteo jancia..bistiiotis
1194. He engaged in public a sa
IN TENTH CENTURY
sentence
a
Jew
to prison in Russia, they do him the courtesy of pro-
writer in
dispute with a baptized Jew,
These are some of the questions that are nalistic triumph achieved in the winning of
"Whereupon people think of
Christianus, at Barcelona bed to be deaf, dumb, and bl— nouncing his sentence in Yiddish, but that is about all. Yiddish will
now undoubtedly entertained by many the Pulitzer Prize in reporting for 1931. the Jew as a usurper, a Shy- Paul
not
survive
in
Russia
in the present tempo of things."
A new
in 1263, and because he won his well, anyway—dumb.
it is not in Catalonia,
•
•
•
Jews. Most of us are puzzled over the William C. Richards, Douglas D. Martin, lock,
case the Pope ordered him to be clause in writer's contracts says,
where we have retained an alto-
NO DELUSIONS
economic problems. But there is also the James S. Pooler, Frank D. Webb and John gether different picture of the expelled from the country. He in effect, "Thou shalt not talk ■ HAS
Despite the course in his paper, Mr. Fishman is by no means
nearly 80 at the time and about the studio outside of its s -
distinctly Jewish problem. What may the N. W. Sloan not only won glory for them- Jew. As I have put it in my was
he went to Palestine and he is cred precincts, thou shalt not joke d eluded as to the future of Yiddish in America. He realizes that in
book, the Jew in the midst of his
another
generation or two, the curtain over it will have been wrung
,
Jewish community look forward to in the selves, but shed honor on the newspaper racial tragedy is a good mer- buried at Jaffa. David Kimhi about ye ...Bed film business
(1160-1235) and Jonah ben and above all, thou shalt not flip- down as far as its being a primary language is concerned.
contribution of service from these young they are associated with by winning this chant, a wise doctor, a scholarly
But
he belies-es that the present rising generation would do well
about
thine
employers!"
A
Abraham, born in 1180, were crack
philologist, a profound thinker.
coveted award.
people?
other famous sons of Girona, more effective measure would be to learn a little Yiddish—to be better able to interpret the current of
Sometimes also. like the famous
blindfold writers at the en- Jewish life the world over.
Rabbi Leon Fram, addressing a group of
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By winning, earlier in the year, the N. Rabbi of Toledo, he is a great who brought fame and honor to tow
trance gate, handcuff them to pa-
graduates from Temple Beth El recently, W. Ayer & Son certificate of merit for the poet in close touch with God, our city.
Seamen, and lead them to a UNIVERSAL YIDDISH
in
praising divine love
THE PERSECUTIONS
adequately worded the challenge to these most beautifully printed newspaper in the and
Yiddish, after all, is as near a universal language as perhaps can
sound-proof cell.
phrases equal to the utterances
•
• 4, Stern,
"Then came the persecutions.
Abe and Julius
brothers- be found. I mean by that, with the possession of Yiddish one today
young men and women when he stated to country and for the finest layout, and by of the best of our Spanish mys-
About 100 years before the
can travel about in most any land.
Here and there people speak it everywhere—except in Palestine.
them:
acquiring a similar honor for its rotogra- tics. "It appears that the Jews set- Jews were expelled from Spain, in-law• of "Uncle" Carl (Laem-
August, 1391, all the Jewish mle), used to produce comedies. There, I am told, it is largely taboo. Hebrew and English seem to be
vure
section, The Detroit Free Press has tled in Catalonia about the tenth in
you
quarters in the towns of Cata- On e day an out-of-town exhibitor the principal mediums of expression in Palestine.
I propose to make a test to see whether
earned the congratulations of the entire century. They spread all over Ionia were plundered, Jewish came in to compliment them on .
•
have really achieved the•objectives of the school.
country, and were found at
women were ravished, and Jew- their productions. "Where do you THE CAREER OF AN EDITOR
If on leaving the Temple High School you still
Detroit community and of all in the the
Barcelona, Emporda, Girona,
Fishman's career has been along the lines of the Horatio Alger
men were slain. It must be conic from?" they inquired.
find yourselves interested in Jewish problems,
journalistic fraternity. The Detroit Jewish Vic, Manresa, Cerra, Tortosa, ish
borne in mind that it was "From Australia." And how pattern. From office boy to editor. Starting some 35 years ago on
still seek out Jewish papers and Jewish books
Chronicle joins its contemporaries in greet- and Terrossa. The Roman town only the peasant population that how long have you been here?" the old Taireblatt, he is now managing editor of the Morning Journal
read,
still
avail
yourselves
of
such
oppor-
Terragona was for a long time
to
ing the Free Press, and in extending greet- known on account of its large town folks protected them as "'Three weeks," was the answer. and Tageblatt.
tunities as Beth El College of Jewish Studies
•
•
•
well as they could. Only those One of the brothers turned to the
for further enrichment,sin Jewish culture—if
ings to the winners of the Pulitzer award Jewish population as 'Cintat del who
were baptized were allowed other, "Only three weeks in this IN AN INFORMAL WAY
you continue coming to Temple Beth El for wor-
Jueus'
('the
Jewish
town').
and to the paper's editorial staff, which
Mrs. Irma Lindheim, former Hadassah chief, will shortly settle in
to live. If you are interested country, and see what a good Eng-
"In Barcelona, there were
ship, if those of you who will go to the university
Palestine.
strives to elevate the standards of that many famous Jews. There was in the subject," Don Rahola lish he speaks!"
will peek out the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation,
•• •
David Brown has been ill of late.
said,
"I
can
show
you
docu-
Schetchet, who lived about
newspaper.
Despite all the ballyhoo, a complete edition of Maurice Samuel's
Joan Blondell never celebrated
silents in the episcopal archives
if those of you who are talented in that direction

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Jews in Spanish Province
of Catalonia

Our Film Folk

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will prepare youselves to teach in our School
of Religion, if, when a campaign for community
funds is in process I find you among the leaders,
the workers and the givers, then I shall know
that our experiment has been successfql.
You are today stepping out of the little Jew-
ish community which was your school into those
great communities—Detroit Jewry, American
Jewry, World Jewry—prepared to serve their
practical needs and cultivate their universal
ideals.

1162 and was doctor, philoso-
pher, and poet. Kin,. Alfonso
often intrusted to him impor-
tant diplomatic missions, and he
was the head of the Jewish
community of that time. Many
of our poets have sung his
praises. Others were Ilasdai
(1165-1216), known ns a man
of divine wisdom and full of
profound thought, Salomon ben
Adret (1245-1310), who made
Spanish Jewry the intellectual

which reveal that in this one two birthdays in the same locality
year, between the months of during the first 12 years of her
September and December, more life . . . She traveled over the
than 70 Jews were baptized with world with her parents in their
their families. Many, of course, vaudeville act, of which she was ■
refused to be baptized. I be- part from the time she was • few
lieve that it was the Jewish no- , months old.
• • •
man who put up the fiercest re-
Too bad . • . Guess you won't
aistance to the conversionist
movement, and many of these isee that blond Winchellian Psysiog-
His mas-
heroic Jewish women went to ' nomy in pantomimics
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"Jews on Approval" has not been sold. But that doesn't matter so
much to Samuel. If it sells half an edition, it is all right, too, for he
can turn them out quicker than the printer can set up the words.
Meyer Levin is an actor understudy in the case of "Councillor-at-
One of the most charming Jewish senti-
Law," hit play of Elmer Rice.
ments to come to the editor's desk in printed
William Lowenstein, head of a chain of restaurants and a staunch
Zionist, is back from a visit to Palestine. Won't say whether he will
form is the text of an address delivered by
establish a branch there or nit of his famous cafeterias.
Miss Henrietta Szold, founder and first
They say that Louis Lipsky has put a lot of new life into that
president of National Hadassah, the Ameri-
insurance company which he heads.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann has gone back to Germany. It is whispered
can Women's Zionist Organization, now
that he negotiated here for the publication of his Jewish Encyclo-
resident of Jerusalem. Miss Szold was a
pedia.
Here is a challenege that is as applicable speaker at a reception which was given to
Ripley it or not, it is my opinion that the city of Tel Aviv gets out
more papers than any other city of its size in the world.
to graduates in Chicago and Minneapolis the "Maccabiah" participants and visitors
Justice Brandeis sends all his communications to the Zionist organ-
as it is to Detroiters. What will be the ans- at the Beth Ha-Am (People's House) at Tel
mation—and he sends plenty of them—in his own handwriting.
wer of our young men? The answer will Aviv. Mayor Dizengoff presided. Profes-
Fifteen years ago this week I blew into Texas—with a dollar in
by
my pocket. I've still got that dollar. Well, not exactly that dollar.
either help to solve the sad Jewish prob- sor Selig Brodetsky was among the speak-
But it's really funny. How near to ruination one may come and
lems, or, if negatively given, will further ers. We have the vision of a thrilled audi-
escape. With but that dollar, I landed a job anthe Fort Worth Rec-
aggravate a sorry plight.
of State Frederick Cook. Th ord. The city editor said to me, "You're hlred. But better watch
HITLER "CELLS"
NON-JEWISH
ence.
COHEN I was very much interested in Advocate says that this is the firs out for Paxon. lie doesn't like Jews."
Miss Szold was speaking. It was an SENATOR
But I had only one dollar in my pocket. And they wanted 81.25
"Time," the newsweekly, found the message sent out by th e C om . official blow to the "Hitler oppor
Socialists and Race Prejudice.
address full of feeling for the ideal to which out something I missed the other mittee on Good Will between Jews tunists who seek advantage fo for a room for the night. So what could I do? So I went up to Paxon
themselves
and
their
party
by
and
borrowed five dollars. And we lived happy ever after.
It simply had to come. Someone just she had devoted her life. She hailed the day in looking up Senator Cohen's and Christians warning against preying upon the hatreds and th
I was in Boston for the week-end and dropped in to see my friend
I discovered that he was receptivity of the Hitler "cells" or
had to make an issue of race prejudice in youth who understood the value of "re- record.
prejudice
of
various
groups."
Brin
of the Jewish Advocate. He was out Then called on Dr. Roback
a Presbyterian so decided that I agencies in this country. Of
Socialist ranks, thus definitely placing the storing stunted faculties." Thus she saluted would have to eliminate him from course our readers are quite aware would call the attention of th and he was out. And another person—and he was out. It'll be it
long
time before I visit Boston again. If the people of a town don't
my record of Jewish affiliation. of the deliberately planned cam- readers of this column to the fac
Socialist Party on a par with the two major the heroic Jewish youths:
But it appears that h e does have paign in the United States to gain that in times like these any racke stay home—if they are not a home-loving people, are they any good?
American political parties insofar as mean-
can
be
put
over
because
of
th
I
know.
I go home regularly—once a year.
Jewish ancestry dating back to sympathy for the Nazi cause and
You who have come hither to celebrate on
condition of so many
I tried Maurice Schwartz's plan of sleeping only three hours the
ness and selfishness plays a part behind
the Revolutionary period, but his at the same time to fan the flames desperate
the holy soil the first Maccabiah, you have
people.
Therefore,
the
closes
other
night—but
it didn't make me an actor.
father married out of the faith of anti-Semitism. Therefore it is
demonstrated that you understand the need and
every political curtain.
should be exercised in
Albert Ottinger, former Republican candidate for the governor-
and he did likewise. Ile became the most encouraging step, to my vigilance
the value of restoring stunted faculties. Your
Morris Hillquit of New York, opposed
your
states
to
see
that
whereve
ship of New York, is heading a group which proposes to erect a build-
a Presbyterian. His at or y is mind, thus far taken by the Good
slogans, your aims, and your achievements pro-
for re-election to the chairmanship of the
something like that of the Pulitzer Will Committee to put itself on possible Hitler organizations can ing similar to Madison Square Garden in New Jersey.
claim that you have discovered in Israel's store-
James H. Becker is • name to be conjured with in the banking
boys
and
to
class
them
as
Jews
,
record
as
opposed
to
such
props-
not
legally
obtain
a
foothold.
Le
house,
a
neglected
truth:
that
the
soul
that
national executive committee of the Social-
world of America, but to Felix Warburg, he is just "Jimmy." It
would rather be absurd. Likewise ganda. When • movement of such us keep this in mind, otherwis
would be strong, sane and noble, must be housed
ist Party by Norman Thomas, the party's
with United States Senato r Cohen a type is on foot it is indeed before we know we shall have a happened the other day at the Palestine Campaign meeting in Chicago.
in a body that is vigorous and healthy and well-
Becker presided and introduced Warburg.
Presidential candidate, Heywood Broun
of Georgia. So far as they are I heartening to know that we have full-fledged Hitler anti-Semiti
proportioned and. upstanding. You express with
Warburg, arising, was a bit nonplussed. Said Warburg: "I can't
peculiar emphasis the truth we all accept, that
concerned Judaism is nothing moreh
wit us some o f th e mos r epre. party in this country Again
and others, made the charge on the con-
call
my dear friend Jimmy, honorable Toastmaster. Ile is just Jimmy
than a name and Jewish life has sentative leaders of the nation. gay, DRIVE OUT THESE TRAIT
the return to the land is the opportunity for re-
vention floor that he was opposed by the
turn to normal humanity, and that normal hu-
no significance for them. How- Thirty or forty years ago the Jews ORS TO THE PRINCIPLES OF to me." Well, it's joke with us, too.
AMERICANISM.
ever. I am glad that the Cohens could not have marshalled such a
group that supported his opponent, Mayor
manity is not a disembodied spirit, but an as-
didn't change their name, which force to fight with him and for
piring spirit encased in solid flesh and vivified
Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, because he
should be encouraging to those, him. These Hitler "cells" should HEBREW-CHRISTIANS
by fast-coursing blood. We salute you as the
I note with interest that Boston
is a Jew. The issue was pressed by a num-
who seem to think that a Jewish be scotched and driven out of had
aspostles of the normal.
the distinction of being host
--*— ' existence. They have no place
ber of his non-Jewish supporters. But it was
name is a handicap.
to
the Hebrew-Christian Alliance
They
are
un-American.
Miss Szold went a step further in inter-
here.
denied by Thomas, Broun and other of
convention a couple of weeks ago.
HELP DRIVE THEM OUT!
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
And I saw many familiar names
Hillquit's opponents. It was denied by B. preting the achievements during this new
—*—
A bill has been introduced in ,
among the leaders, some with
era
in
Jewish
life.
"We
were
privileged,"
Charney Vladeck, manager of the Jewish
Congress which aims to prohibit ' HITLERISM IN
whom I have crossed pens quite a
"Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" la Enlarged and Revised on
Daily Forward—one of only about half a she said. "to see the destruction of the inner commercial advertising by means MASSACHUSETTS
number of times. There were our
the Buis of the Author's Material by Dr. Cecil Roth;
of radio on Sunday. "Liberty," a, No sooner had I written the good friends, Rev. E. S. Green-
ghetto
that
continued
to
stand,
though
the
Dr. Abrahams Had Intended to Prepare •
dozen New Yorkers who supported Mayor
magazine sponsored by the Se, I
l enroticed baum and Rev. Elias Newman,
w
z
hen
w
Completely New Text.
physical
ghettoes
had
crumbled."
And
Day Adventists. comments
I in
previous
paragraph
Hoan against Hillquit.
Th
the
Jewish
Advocate
of
Boston
Rev.
Jacob
Peitz
and
Rev.
Dan
•
Thus, while Mr. Hillquit and his friends poetically she described the bridal charm of introducer of the bill, Mr. Amlie,
e
ram , o sa y no thm g o of many
it 1 er or g ani ers
Hit
One of the most important refer- don, W. C. 1, England, is based on
sition fused a charter for their organize- other good Christian Jews or Jew- ence
charged that there was a "whispering cam- the hallowed land, sending. the visitors in of Wisconsin, takes the position
e dr. Roth
copy in
works—by some considered t he m
A b a trearhi found
aa tD
lion in Massachusetts by Secretary ish Christians seeking to bring the most
.
important—on questions
paign" emphasizing his Jewishness, Hey- the Holy Land back to their homes with the that business should respect the
their benighted brethren out of the dealing with life in Jewish com-
At
least
five
times
reprinted
in
Sabbath
on
the
air
as
well
as
in
wood Broun declared that "it is a shameful following thought:
darkness into the light. They want munities during the Middle Ages the United States and in England.
other ways. Whereupon "Lib-
to convert all the Jews in the is "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages" "Jewish Life in the Middle Ares"
and disgracefful thing to bring up the ques-
erty" has this answer to make:
The hallowed land is spread out before you
United States and it is said that I by the late Dr. Israel Abrahams. is now again available, and will un-
"The purpose of this proposed Quoting
tion of anti-Semitic prejudice." Anti while
in its bridal charm. It invites you to go forth
funds are being collected for that During the past 35 years, this work doubtedly be welcomed by scholar ,
Ludwig Lewisohn
federal legislation is therefore to
and view it after your peaceful contests have
purpose. With millions starving has assumed the importance of a everywhere. In his preface to the
Vladeck seconded Howl's nomination in
compel the radio stations 'to re-
been fought. Drink in? ts inspiration. Learn
all about us it would be terrible to
order to "recognize the practical work of
spect the Sabbath.'. . . Which
"It is proper and inevitable waste money in such a futile first-rate classic. It is the type of second edition Dr. Roth says of the
from its beauty as well as from its ruggedness
of course makes it religious legis- that Jewish merchants and in- cause. And am amazed that work that promises to survive for original work: "It was a monument
and its resistance, that the Jew worthy of living
the Milwaukee Socialists," he was sharply
of learning, of industry, and of
lation. But Congress is prohibited dustrialists should never ex- normal-minded Christian leaders centuries.
lation.
upon it must make himself a complete man,
rebuked by a non-Jewish supporter of Hill-
by the Constitution from enacting clude Christians from their em- can be made to believe that such a Evidently Dr. Abrahams was pre- that power of self-criticism which
forgetting no part of his people's heritage, and
paring to issue an even more im- is not the least ingredient of gen-
quit, Joseph Scharts of Ohio, who declared:
also rejecting nothing that is human. Note the
religious laws. If Congress can ployment, although many Chris. •fairy story can become a reality.
prohibit commercial advertising by, tions will not employ Jews. It
portant and a vastly annotated edi- ius."
health and buoyancy of its children. Listen to
—a—
"If I had-been a Jew instead of a Gentile,
Dr. Roth proceeds to quote from
tion of this great work. After his
means of radio on Sunday it ran is quite right that ,we should DR. ETTELSON
their Hebrew prattle, the new value they have
it seems to me that the merest intimation
with equal propriety prohibit com- contribute to Christian chari-
inherited. See their young, sturdy parents re-
Rabbi Harry W. Ettelson of death, on Oct. A, 1925, an inter- Dr. Abrahams' annotations and to
mercial advertising by means of ties, even though Christians do Memphis, Tenn., was awarded the leaved and annotated copy of this suggest that had the author him- ,
velling in a renewed value, in the labor from
that my birth would interfere with my lead-
dao it wouldhas
aisnuw
newspaper on Sunday. Nobody's not often contribute to ours. Joseph Newburger Memorial Cup work was found among his books,
which prejudice kept them throughout many
ership of a party would have brought me
centuries in alincet every country of the civilized
rights are invaded, nobody's health It is • foregone conclusion that as the citizen of Memphis who has and thus revealed the plans that
cse
rn
o
y atieonnr:kthhead,
mass
a
e
r
ie
o
iei
ds
de
a
d
ta
ahn
of the
is impaiied and nobody's safety is If we establish any educational rendered the most outstanding were entertained by the noted schol-
at once to the side of my people."
an
°wx:, ralsda.
"had the author lived to make u,
endangered by commercial adver- or learned institutions, Gentile, service during the year. The ar and author.
The latter was perhaps the most inter-
en every Make of end eavor durin g thedvee:resmgce
the
d
his
industry,
an
of
the
fruits
of
ysights
er the radio on Sunday. Of all creeds end races shall be points for which DT'. EtteLson was
the Balfour Declaration. Carry these
tising
a ng
Dr. Cecil Roth, Able Editor.
statement in the entire discussion,
sounds and new memories back with you to you r
If person does not want to listen admitted to these institutions chosen because "he nobly cham-
Originally published in 1896, result would have been a completely
new
text,
very
different
from
the
hi:
was in itself a most regrettable occur-
to it he has his own remedy in
homes here and in the Diaspora.
on an equal basis with our- pioned the cause of religion in his "Jewish Life in the Middle Ages"
can tune e off. selves. But these things must debate with Clarence Darrow:" in has been practically un-securable old"
pet.
receiving set.
rence. Perhaps it should have been re-
anation by Dr.
reatingqueaxtpaluan
very be understood to be not the re- I "fostering the unity and brother- in spite of its importance. When Rh interesting
One must thrill that in at least one cor- But o peopl e
ad
interpreted to Mr. Hillquit who appeared
ge p lny tr annot.'
1ep
T y e sim
sult of a facile good nature or hood of man" through definite con- Dr. Abrahams' plans were revealed, Roth
se.p
ready to capitalize on his Jewishness when ner of the globe the sun is shining for Israel. h just.ess.
"To attempt to fulfill the plans
themselves to the worlds
orld's e n- as the concessions of weakness.
in the field of social therefore, the efforts of one of the of any man after bis death is un-
olitically, but whose And when the picture is painted by so virronment and they want the Fed- They must be understood to be tributions
service, as well as promoting inter- ablest of preent-day scholars, Dr. fair to both the author and to the
the
issue
waa
raised
p
a
al
government
to
help
them
be
Cecil
Roth,
were
enlisted
as
edi-
part
of
the
positive
ideate
and
city good will relations between
interest. in matters affecting his Jewish charming an artist as Henrietta Szold, the
when they have not polities that belong to Israel ministers and congregations of all tor of a revised and enlarged edi- editor himself; the one inevitably
thrill that is imparted to whoever may read
by a stranger, amt
people makes his a nonentity Jewishly. Mr. her words becomes a thousand times more enough backbone to shut off their as • people of humanity and of creeds. I have never felt kindly tion of this work. The new edition, misinterpreted
own radio set to undesirable mat. peace."
just off the press of Edward Gold- the other faced with the &Kerne-
Hillquit satirized an "apology" when he
Morn to Next Pap).
ston, Ltd., 25 Museum street, Lon-
ter coming over the air."
(Turn to Nat Pap-)
electrified.

"Restoring Stunted Faculties."

RANDOM THOUGHTS

arles
Ch
H. Joseph

Abrahams' Classic Work in
Second Posthumous Edition

stated on the convention floor: "I made the