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Tamuz 25, 5692
World Jewry Is Divided
Regardless of whether a World Jewish
Congress is desirable or undesirable, one
point of absolute certainty is revealed in
the controversy that has arisen over the
proposal, and that is that world Jewry is
hopelessly divided.
And what is, perhaps of even greater
interest is that the division is assuming pre-
war lines of demarcation, with the ele-
ment represented by the American Jewish
Committee in the ranks of one party and
those represented by the American Jewish
Congress in the opposing ranks.
It is tragically unfortunate that the old
boundary lines of group differences should
be re-created at this time. Nevertheless
it is true that we are going a few steps
backwards instead of uniting in behalf of
Jewry's interests. Whatever one may think
of Dr. Stephen Wise's leadership, we be-
lieve that there will be general agreement
on the second portion of the following
statement he made at a reception held at
the Waldo rf-Astoria in New York for the
American delegation to the Geneva con-
ference: " fewries from 1S countries have
already designated their representatives
to attend the world Jewish conference in
Geneva, and were it not for the attack upon
the conference by Dr. Cyrus Adler, presi-
dent of the American Jewish Committee,
the Board of Deputies of London would
have agreed to send a delegate to the con-
ference."
There is a sharp dividing line on the
question, and the fact that outstanding
Jewish personalities are to be found in both
camps merely aggravates the situation to
a point of extreme soreness. While Dr.
Adler is to be found in the ranks of the
opponents, Dr. Albert Einstein favors the
world conference. Although a leader as
eminent as Dr. Samuel Daiches of London
led the op msition at the meeting of the
Board of Jewish Deputies of London,equal-
ly as great, if not a greater, Jewish leader,
Prof. Simon Dubnon, the outstanding
Jewish historian, wrote to Dr. Wise: "In
the present difficult situation the forthcom-
ing conference is most assuredly necessary
and I should be happy to participate."
We repeat what we have stated on a
previous orcasion,' that we fail to see
wherein any harm could possibly come to
Jewish interests from a gathering of Jews
who are to meet for a discussion of the
merits or d ;merits of a World Jewish Con-
gress. In the event that a representative
gathering of Jewish spokesmen from every
portion of the globe should decide in favor
of such a Congress, it should be convened
without further discussion. Only at a gath-
ering of the type that is to be held on
August 14 in Geneva will it be fairly
judged whether world Jewry really desires
to see the formation of a World Jewish
Congress.
Je ws in the Limelight
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Prague, thus being recognized for his aid
in Czechoslovakian civic affairs through
three of his books which have been trans-
lated into the Czech language. Another
Jew to be honored is Phillip Forman, who
was just appointed to a Federal Judgeship
by President Hoover and who, at the age
of 36, is the youngest man on the Federal
Bench.
These are just a few of the honors be-
stowed upon Jews, indicating that we have
reason to be proud of our record in art,
science, literature and politics.
Mah Yofis Judaism
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Dr. Herman Kaufman, a Hamburg Jew-
ish physician, while on a visit in New
York, granted an interview to the Staats
Zeitung, in which lie made comparison be-
tween the older settlers in Germany and
the "Jewish immigrant element" whom he
described as "Ost Judentum." The latter
element, he said, has "especially during
the inflation period, invaded our large
cities, principally Berlin, Leipzig and
others. Our respected German citizens of
the Jewish faith have nothing in common
with them but religion. The Hitler party
opposes infesting of the German nation
with these elements."
As if this Mah-Yofis attitude was not
sufficient to insult the feelings of every
self-respecting Jew, this German gentle-
man proceeded to give the Ilitlerites a
clean bill of health in the following man-
ner:
"As to the latest reports from abroad, in
connection with fights between National So-
cialists on one hand, and Communists and So-
cialists on the other,—controversies which, in
those reports, were described as anti-Semitic
outbursts on the part of National Socialists-
!, as a Jew, with to emphasize that they were
purely political demonstrations.
"Hitler's assistant, Mr. Strasser, hiiiiself re-
cently stated in a radio speech, that his party
opposes all Jewish persecutions and that it
would sever permit Czaristic pogroms, or sim-
ilar riots in Germany. I can, with all truthful-
ness, state that the Jewish scholar, the physi-
cian, the artist, the businessman, the artisan,
in Germany and in Austria, can perform his
business undisturbed just as the Jewish stu-
dent, especially the American, can go about
his studies undisturbed.
"It seems that in the cabled reports to Amer-
ica, there was not sufficiently emphasized the
fact that the reported demonstrations were not
directed against the Jew as a believer of an-
other religion, but against his political views.
Look at the American Socialists and Com-
munists and you will Ben how many of them
are immigrant Jews, especially aliens. Con-
sider the American so-called radicals and you
will realize that also among them is a very
great percentage of those elements whom our
Notional Socialists oppose."
The worst anti-Semite would not dare so
to distort facts and thus to intrude upon
the American Jewish scene with accusa-
tions which are not only untrue but which
are highly damaging to our standing as
American citizens. But what an anti-
Semite will not dare to do a Mah-Yofis Jew
will. This is the price we pay for having
in our ranks men who believe that syna-
gogue worship provided them with the
power of speaking for the Jewish people
and of excommunicating from Jewish ranks
those who happen to have been born in a
land foreign to them. The truth of the
matter is that every vestige of decency in
Judaism is foreign to them, and as a result
Jewry suffers.
"A Living Interest"
Zalman Rubashow, leader of the His-
tadruth and editor of the Davar of Pales-
tine, on the eve of his return to Palestine,
expressed the view that Zionism has be-
come "a deeper, more personal, more ser-
ious interest with thousands of Jews."
In this brief statement is expressed a
great deal of truth which previously was
either not recognized or was ignored. Dur-
ing days of plenty and prosperity, funds
contributed to Zionist causes were consid-
ered in terms of philanthropy. In the pres-
ent days of depression, however, Jews—
especially those who plan to settle in Pales-
tine—are looking at the Jewish National
Home project through more practical
glasses. The movement is beginning to
affect them personally, insofar as thou-
sands of Jews are finding economic relief
by settling in Eretz Israel.
Perhaps, had the practical aspect been
properly emphasized, and had the true eco-
nomic angle been presented in its proper
terms, the Zionist situation might have
been considerably improved, and the
problems in Palestine alleviated. But, it
being too late to cry over spilt milk, it may
be well for Jews even at this late hour to
realize the importance of some of the prac-
tical Palestinian projects. Should Israel
will it, it is not too late to make of the
barren Palestine "a land flowing with
milk and honey."
Stemming the flood of unhappy Jewish
news from many portions of the globe are
a number of news reports about Jews
whose achi evements have broughf them
honors of ii nportance, and whose accom-
plishments in their varied fields reflect
glory upon the people of whom they are
a part.
From Ge rmany, the center of present
anti-Semitic activities, comes word of honors
given to two eminent Jews—the noted poet
and playwr ght Ludwig Fulda, and the
internationa Ily famed Jewish artist, Max
Liebermann, former president of the Prus-
sian Acaden ty of Art.
Herr Fuld a is celebrating his seventieth
birthday an I is being lauded on this occa-
sion by the German press and by individ-
uals. Frank fort-am-Main conferred honor-
ary citizens lip upon him, and President
Paul von Hi ndenburg bestowed upon him
the Goether Medal.
Herr Lieb =atm, who reached the age
Eggs from Palestine.
of 85 on Jul r 20, is the subject of congrat-
Lord de la Warr, in an address recently
- ulations fro i numerous quarters, and the delivered before poultry keepers at Nor-
recognition given him by the outstanding wich, stated that England imported yearly
men of affai rs serves to ridicule the man- from foreign countries eggs to the amount
ner in which the Jewish people generally of £20,000,000. His address suggested the
has been ab used by the Nazis.
great possibilities of this egg market.
From oth ?.r important world centers
Now we are informed that an egg ship-
comes word of other honors bestowed upon ment has just been made to England from
Jews. The Order of the Crown of Berlium Palestine, and that the Plaestinian Jewish
' and the title of Chevalier of the Legion farmers are directing a practical eye at
d'Honneur of France have been bestowed the British Isles, with a view of capitalizing
upon Sir Rob ert Mond, brother of the late on this economic chance. Put two and two
Lord Melchet t, in recognition of his thirty together and you readily realize that there
years of arch aeologic work as president of are possibilities in Palestine not only in the
the Egyptian Exploration Society. Edward orange market, but also in the egg business.
A. Filene of Boston was awarded the Or- A practical romance, indeed, is this effort
der of the L ion by the Government of for the rebuilding of the Jewish National
Czechoslovak a by President Masaryk, at Home.
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Lewin-Epstein•-•A Tribute
By JACOB do HAAS
(Copyright, 1232, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, inc.)
EDITOR'S NOTE: The late E. W. Lewin.Esptein, who
passed away last week, was one of the pioneer Choveve
Zionists and was among the founders of the Colony of
Rehoboth. He was the father of Mrs. A. M. Hershman of
Detroit.
A friendship that endured for
thirty-six years ended this Mon-
day with the death of E. W.
Lewin Epstein. It is doubtful
whether his name appeared in
print half a dozen times in the
last decade. The younger gen-
eration knew him not, for he
was neither orator nor self.
advertiser, but one of those de-
voted Zionists whose whole life
was given quietly and efficiently
to the cause.
Son of an old Warsaw family,
devoted to the publishing of
Hebrew books, the deceased was
an embodiment of the "beat
bnttim" of the best and finest
type. Definite, determined, con-
sequential, quiet and unob-
atrusive, the Jewish national
problem was as much part of
his life as breathing, eating and
sleeping.
Half a century ago or more
he set out to do his share to
its solution. Palestine was the
scene of his operations, and
loyal to his middle-class tradi-
ditions, he undertook to set a
new life in motion in a middle.
class way. He was one of the
four founders of the colony of
Rehoboth, and its first man.
ager. It was his boast that this
settlement borrowed no money
from public funds, that it never
sought public aid, that it solved
the individual human problem
of settlement in a proper way,
and that it was to be considered
a model for self-supporting self-
developme nt
Palestine.
A 'HE ZIONIST"
1'"
Although a supporter of the
Choveve Zion in the days when
that movement was the anti-
thesis of the political Zionist
movement, I found him, when I
met him in Vienna, no long ago,
an earnest political Zionist, a
nationalist in every sense of the
term, broad and interested in
every phase of Jewish life, and
equipped by his many contacts
to play the role of go-between
for all sorts of purposes and
groups. His name can be found
in the record of few congresses.
I believe his most conspicuous
public office was that of Treas-
urer of Zionist Provisional Com-
mittee, and then of the Z. 0. A.
during the World War. But of-
fice was of no great importance
to him. Through his work in
Rehoboth he came to know
everyone keenly interested in
Palestine and Zionism, and he
had a thoroughly practical out-
look on problems. Ile knew the
.'Baron" when the Baron was
an ogre to Jewish nationalists.
He agreed with many of the
Baron'a views, and he agreed,
too, with Herzl whom he met.
He attempted no synthesis of
conflicting ideas, he merely took
from each what be agreed with
—and what he agreed with was
mostly in the line of practical
action.
I recall Dr. Nahum Sokolow
calling Lewin-Epstein a "tithe
Zionist," in 1912, when we met
in conference with Brandeis to
plan practical development in
Palestine. Sokolow projected •
million dollar corporation. Lew-
in-Epstein shook his head. "If
we had a hundred thousand dol-
lars." Sokolow was willing to
accept that sum. Lewin-Epstein
continued, "with ten thousand
dollars one could." Sokolov.,
nodded approvingly, but Lewin-
Epstein had not finished. "The
thing is to get the first thousand
and experiment."
In the days of the fury of
"Pinsk versus Washington" this
Warsaw Jew, with a keen relish
for bookkeeping, elected to hail
from Washington, and proceed.
ed to Palestine to put some of
his ideas into operation. Ile
first came to this country some
time in 1900 and started the
Carmel Wine Company. It was
a long difficult struggle, a great
strain on a quiet but persistent
person. But it did not over-
whelm him. He never pleaded
pre-occupation, and always had
time for all the cultural and
general Zionist interests he
loved to serve.
HIS WAR-TIME EFFORTS
His work during the World
War was a notable contribution
to Jewish life, though I doubt
whether he even received a reso-
slution in praise of it. As treas-
urer of the Provisional Commit.
tee he set in motion the machin-
ery of my pet theory for reliev-
ing war distress. When the
J. D. C. was erected I spoke
against the whole theory of re-
lief by charity. The best efforts
in my judgment could not
scratch the surface of the need
I foresaw. I therefore proposed
that the J. D. C. concentrate on
what afterwards became known
as the "transfer system," that is
of helping the American rela-
tives of European war victims
to come to their aid, on the
terms that Jewish families al-
ways aided each other. The ob-
stacle was the suspension of the
free movement of money across
the sea. The J. D. C. turned
me down. Mr. Brandeis listened
and accepted the idea for the
Zionist Provisional Committee.
E. W. Lewin-Epstein as treas-
urer and Robert D. Kesselman
as controller set this "transfer
account" in operation. At first
it was limited to Palestine, and
amounted to a few hundred dol-
lars a week. Within a few
months I was called in to aid my
own plan, it was leaping for-
ward day by day. It was found
possible to extend the system
throughout the World War zones
in every direction. One thou-
sand dollars a day, then two,
then three thousand a day. It
ran into million, ■ year. The
.1. D. C. copied it later.
Lewin-Epstein here brought
to bear his intimate knowledge
of Palestine, places and per-
sons. Then he undertook with
his trader's instinct to discover
who had gold, in Egypt or Con-
stantinople, for sale. Kesselman
established the system of check-
ing and co-ordinating the vast
mass of detail. We conferred
daily over maps seeking to reach
places unknown. But I am not
writing the history of the Trans-
fer Account, and the innumer-
able ingenious methods employed
to carry out the wishes of the
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By- the-Way
Our Film Folk
By HELEN ZIGMOND
Tidbits and News
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1932. leelah Telegraphic Agency. Ine.)
I
That fellow, Jack Schwartz, who is now fighting with John
HOLLYWOOD.
— Have
you Garner, Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is no relation of the
Kat,"
"Mickey Mouse,"
and the
Jewish
chuckled over the antics of "Krazy preerscehnathtworfiteTre,
pe eah te hr atofh
e sm
hprivate
d riv aa hold sle cu ro th ns y ionffo th rm
teheislIaoujseew
.
Taxes end
.
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others, and wondered, as we have, m
how they put those things togeth-
And speaking •bout the Democratic nominees, it so happens
er? Curious to know, we ambled that Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, who flew with Roosevelt to Chicago
down to Charles B. blintz's "Krazy for the convention, also hails from Texas, although he is now judging
Kat" studios and discovered some and residing in New York.
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surprising facts:
That Margaret J. Winkler, now
Well, we once lived in Texas ourselves. In fact, some day when
the wife of Charles Mintz, was our biography is written, the biographer will discover that we were
the original producer of animated once shot at down in Texas. It's a great state to live and get shot in.
cartoons . . . . That a cartoon
requires three Texas has some of the beg shooters in the country and if it were
which amuses you for six minutes
months to complete, which is con- u to us to choose a state in which to get shot, our first. choice would
in the theatre-
) Texas.
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siderably more time than is al- be For
one thing, there is as much space to get shot in there. It
toted to the average feature .. • h neen
s a b een
estimated that you could put every man in the world in
That these film comic strips cost Texas and give
him, I think, a half acre or so. You could put all
from ten to twelve thousand dot- Palestine in Texas end it would get lost. In fact, there is, as you
lars each, putting them in the
Palestine in Texas. But there are no Arabs.
price class of a western feature. know, •
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Miss Winkler founded this or-
But returning to this talk of the Democratic presidential nom-
twelve years ago in a
watch this fellow Rosenman. He
$50
$50 office in New York . . . To- inee, if Roosevelt is nominated, w
day the firm occupies a whole floor Texas has some of the best shooters in the country and if it were
will
get
an
important
appointment.
That's sure, whatever it may
of a Hollywood building, and em-
ployes about 100 people. Walt mean to you and me.
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Disney (not Jewish) was one of
And then there is Bernard Bunch. He will come into glory
their employee before he began
again. Did you know that Wilson offered him the Secretaryship of
"Mickey Mouse" for himself.
the
Treasury,
but that Baruch himself turned it down, telling the
THE MUSIC
The trick in making these mov-
ing "funnies" is not so much in
the drawing as in the synchroni•
nation . , . Every drawing must
have the action fitting the music
to the fractional part of a beat.
The artist, as well a. the compos-
er, works to the accurate pulsing
of • metronome. Special drawing
paper is used on which are music
staves, so that above each little
square of drawing are the steam.
panying notes of music. So t
is the system that the film may be
made in Hollywood, and the syn-
chronizing sound track in New
York, and when put together, they
will dovetail perfectly.
THE DRAFTING
president that there would be too much of an outcry because of his
speculative career on Wall Street?
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Roosevelt seems definitely behind Lieutenant Governor Lehman
as his successor in Albany. And did you know that the Lehman,
originally came from Alabama? These Southern Jews seem to get
all the gravy. Figure it out for yourself. Rosenman, Lehman,
Baruch (he's from South Carolina), even Brandeis was born in
Kentucky.
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And speaking about Brandeis. Did you know that he has an
almost forget-proof memory? Well, it's so. Brandeis has one of the
toast remarkable memories in the country. At Harvard, it was the
marvel. And by the way, according to Dean Pound, Brandeis's record
in scholarship at the H d Law School has never been surpassed.
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Speaking about the Harvard Law School, they do say that
the reason that Frankfurter turned down the Supreme Court appoint-
ment is, that there is a general understanding that when the time
Ben Harrison and Manny Gould comes for Pound to retire as Dean, that Frankfurter will succeed him.
I find it hard to believe myself, knowing President's Lowell's
write the stories and are the mas-
ter artists for "Krazy Kat." Hun- attitude to Jews on the Harvard faculty, but there is the rumor—
dreds of drawings are reproduced accept or reject it.
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from their originals by assistants,
Talking about memory, as we were a few p
since every animated bit is de-
h. back, two
picted through a separate series other Jew. whom I had the privileg e of having at lent seen, pos-
of drawings. For example, the sessed most remarkable memories. One was Louis Marshall. Few
curling Kat's tail is drawn in dif- bad better memories than Marshall. And the other is Emma Goldman,
ferent positions and then super- the anarchist leader. Emma can read over a couple of stanzas of
imposed on a single drawing of poetry one time—and then recite them to you. Try that in your
the Kat's body ... This eliminates parlor, if you think that is easy.
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much repetitious work. When the
Speaking about something else altogether, did you know that
paper drawings are completed,
Harry
Weill,
stockbroker,
was
the
first
partner that Whelan, United
each is traced onto large single
sheets of celluloid and painted in Cigar owner, had, but Weill dropped out, because his lawyer told him
the
United
Cigars
would
never
amount
to much?
white, gray, and black, which ren-
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ders them clearer for photograph.
Did you know that the custom of wearing one's hat at prayers
ing. The cameraman then assem-
bles these thousands of celluloid does not stem of Palestinian, but of Babylonian origin? At least,
squares in chronological order and there is no record of the practice having originated in Palestine.
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"shoots" the picture one frame
Speaking about Jack Schwartz, as we did at the beginning of
or scene at a time . . . a long,
tedious job .. . as a movie car- this dissertation, did you know there are more Schwartzes in the New
toon comprises about 9600 com- York telephone directory than Levy.?
As a Schwartz myself, I fail to see why so many chose such a
ponent scenes!
moniker, but then why did so many select Goldberg? Right now, I
should think Iceberg would have been much better. Or think of •
person
choosing • name like Slomovitz.
in the Mintz studio and use the
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A YIDDISH KAT
So many of our brethren work
racial lingo while working that,
Did you know that a very orthodox theological seminary recently
one of these days, the Kat may
warble "Eli, Eli" or execute a was surprised to receive from one of its graduates the "semicha" it
. Kazotski. had conferred? The graduate has accepted a Reform pulpit in
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Chicago. Why he had to send back his "semicha" we don't know—
but anyway he did.
Sue Carol is lullabying a baby
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girl she named it Carol Lee
after herself and her best
friend, Dixie Lee ... The baby
seems headed for • camera car-
eer ... It was "looking pretty"
for newspaper photographers •
few hours after its arrival.
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Did you know that the oldest sports writer in the country is a
Jew? None other than Si Goodfriend. He stems back to the days
of Charles A. Dana. Known as the historian of baseball.
He tells one about the Jew who joined St. Thoma
s church.
Shortly after he met his friend, Mr. Cohen.
"Well," said Mr. Cohen to Mr. Finkle, "I hear you joined the
church."
"Yes, sad it's fine," replied Mr. Finkle.
How much life insurance do you
"Yes—you like it?" asked Mr. Cohen.
suppose some of the "big shots"
"Yes, it's great," replied Mr. Finkle, "and I wish you would
carry? Here are a few eye-pop- join, too."
ping policies: B. P. Schulberg,
"Why do you want me to join?" queried Mr. Cohen.
"So I would have someon e to talk to."
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Another one he tells me is about the little boy who used to get
very high marks in his classes, when all of a sudden, there was
a
precipitous decline.
"What's the matter?" asked his papa.
"Well," replied the youngster, "the boy who sat next to me has
been moved."
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And did you know:
IN GERMANY
CHRISTIAN KAP4INSKY
MONEY CAN FLY
That the son of Roxy is writing for the movies?
The situation in Germany Is
A reader living in Brow•n svill
A paragrapher speaks of the
That William Fox will soon become president of Paramount
changing hourly. So it is impos- Pa. 's sends me a clipping referring money of the late Baron De
Hirsch Pictures?
Bible to forecast what conditions to t h e visit to that town of Alexan-
which has taken wings and flown
That the chairman of the Democratic State Committee
will be when this paragraph is
Massa-
away. He says that next Decem- chusetts and Magistrate Jonah Goldstein of New York are in
cousins?
written. The Junket party seems known
der Kaminsky
"internationally
violinist" of
Czar Nicholas, ber will be the hundredth anni-
That a
delegation of Jewish orange growers from Palestine are
to be in control at the moment and
versary of this great philanthropist due for British Imperial Conference at Ottawa?
it favors apparently the Ilitlerites and asks if I can give some infor-
mation concerning him. I think the who left an enormous income to be
That tennis courts are being
as against the Communists. But article in question contains all the devoted to the
built at the Hebrew University in
relief of his down- Jerusalem?
even this is better than to have information necessary. Mr. Kamin- trodden people. But due to con-
Hitler the supreme authority. it sky was born and lived a Jew. servative investments in securities
is evident that the Nazis by them- When the Czar was overthrown he of various European countries the I.
selves are not strong enough to left the country and traveled money
of the Hirsch estate has
combat the Communists and there- throughout, the world, receiving been lost and hundreds of thous-
fore the Van Popes group repre- decorations galore. He came to ands of distressed Jews are the
senting to my mind, the royalists, this country and two years ago he sufferers as a result. It isn't neces-
are needed to boost Hitler into an was converted to Christianity in sary to select
the Baron De Hirsch
advantageous position and to keep Chicago! And it seems that Mr.
millions as an example of the way
him there. This means that there Kaminsky is now consecrating his money has vanished in recent years.
will not be unrestrained rioting by talents to Jesus, at least so we are
By A. ABRAHAM3OHN
There are other Jews who left vast
Nazis because it is already evident told in the article. One is inter-
fortunes but since the depression
at this writing that Von Papen is este.
-, to learn that "now that he these have been wiped out and funds
(Copyright, 1932, Jewish TelegraPhk Agency, Ine./
determined to put down disorders has become a follower of Christ, left for worthy
purposes are not
whether by Nazis or Communists and entered into the reality of life available. There are one or two
The Eastern provinces of the
or anybody else. It is pretty much which He imparts, the old qualities names that will
immediately occur Czecho-Slovakian republic contain They have lost all Jewish distinct-
of a scrambled egg situation and
have taken on a deeper and more to our readers, names associated a dense Jewish population, espe- iveness. Old Jewish communities
no one can possibly foretell what
tender meaning." In other words, with tens of millions of dollars, cially Carpatho-Russia and large in towns and villages are dying
the ultimate outcome will be. This I glean from the statements that whose estates have vanished, no to
out. There is not a minyan of
may possibly mean • serious threat the great violinist, as a side line, speak, in thin air. Yes, despite parts of Slovakia. The Jewish Jews left in them. Not even
three
to the Republic of Germany with has become a sort of musical mis- the fact that we think our fortunes population in these parts is not only Jews to say grace together at table.
the restoration of Hohenzollern in- sionary since his conversion. Which are impregnable, our money can numerically but also Jewishly The Orthodox Jewish newspapers
strong. They retain completely
fluence. But in any event the poai- is, indeed, a rare end interesting take wings and fly away.
published in Czecho-Slovakia are
the old Jewish distinctive religious
tion of our co-religionists is not a combination. I think there is no
a nd national culture. They carry full of letters from readers com-
happy one at the moment. There need to add anything further to
plaining that in this or the other
on a separat e Jewish communal
A GERMAN JEW'S VIEWS
is too much tension in the air to the biography of the C
famous ancient Jewish community
Czarist vio-
make the Jews in Germany feel
I was very much interested in life, imbued with deep religioua the synagogues and- the community
fee. liniat.
,
comfortable.
reading a statement made by Dr. feeling, with East European folk buildings have been turned into
—*—
Herman Kaufman, a Jewish phy- I ways and their own distinctive business houses, factories, even
HOSPITAL DEFICITS
sician, who arrived here a few days Jewish forms of life, not only in- stables for cattle. The last Jew-
My attention has been called to
ago from Hamburg, Germany. Ac- wardly, but also outwardly. The ish family in this town or in that
the ever-growing deficits of hospi-
cording to this authority, the only process of disintegration of Jewish has sold the Jewish communal pro-
tals including, of course, our Jew-
Jews who have anything to fear life in contact with Western civil- perty, and the new non-Jewish
ish hospitals. In some states ap-
Dislike of the unlike. — Israel from the Nazis or other anti-Semi- ization, and the dangers of assimi- owner is putting it to • different
propriations for hospital work have Zangwill.
tic groups are the so-called "new lation have hardly touched this use.
been decreased which throws an
Jewry. The intense Jewish life
Merely pre-judgment. — Judge comers" who came to Germany in
This is happening not in two
interesting sidelight on the mental
large numbers immediately after in this reservoir of Jewish religious
processes of those who are our Moskowitz
the war. Ile says that the "old and national orthodoxy bids fair different countries, but in the same
That which intensifies ignorance line" Jews, the GERMAN Jew as to stand firm like an iron wall for Czecho-Slovakian republic—in one
law-makers. I find nothing said
anywhere of the depression of the into passion. — Harold Bowman. to speak, goes about his business many years to come against all the part of Czecho-Slovakia, in the
west, Jewishness is dying, crumb-
necessity for maintaining the pro-
Economic in origin. — Walter undisturbed and occupies an im- assaults from the West.
per standard of HEALTH. Every Hurt
portant position in the political,
The exact opposite obtains in the ling, as a result of former affluence
and
over-advanced emancipation,
effort is being made to give mater-
business
and
social
life
of
the
na-
Western parts of the republic. Ex-
The Jew's conspicuousness. —
ial relief to the unemployed but
tion. The new-comers have noth- cept for a few small orthodox while in the other, in the East,
Walter Lippman.
Jewish life is strong and virile,
what about assisting them to ob-
ing
in
common,
as
the
doctor
says,
'separatist communities, and • few
Primitive stupidity on the non-
tain the proper medical care? Is
with the native Jews of Germany Zionist efforts aiming at • revival culturally and religiously, while
it or isn't it of importance that the Jew's part, — Jacob Wasserman. except in the matter of religion. of Jewish national, political and materially, there is overcrowding
poor should be able to procure pro-
It is the daughter of Pride. — And the anti-Semitic groups do not cultural activity , the Jews in M or- and economic distress. In the one
too many Jews, in the other
per care in ease of serious illness? J. II. Cohen.
molest them because of their re- avia, Bohemia and Silesia are place
not enough Jew&
It surely cannot be achieved if
Its inspiration is emotional. — ligious, but because of their poli- rapidly assimilating, becoming ab-
hospitals are to struggle along and Joseph Jastrow.
sorbed.
Whatever
the end may be, it cer-
tical views. In other words, he
be forced because of lack of funds
tainly seems strange that there
Arises because, of the distinctly leads us to infer that a large
There are not many Jews, and
to decrease their free service, par-
number of the recent corners to they are scattered all over the coun should be such an artificial division
ticularly in the out-patient depart-I urban character of the Jew. — Germany are radicals and compares
try—a couple of dozen Jews in this of Jew and Jew living in the ume
ments where practically all the Louis Wirth.
them to radical elements among the town and in that among • tho
country, citizens of the same state,
Wounded vanity or discredited foreign-born Jews of this count ry.
service is free. What about pro-
that there should be no point of
tecting the HEALTHY portion of self-esteem is its genesis. — Jay I am not, of course, in a position to non-Jews, with all Jewish national contact between the dense Jewish
—cultural
distinctiveness,
or
tradi-
our communities by assuring pro- E. House.
agree or disagree with the learned tional religious Judaism
population of the Eastern provinces
gone. whose trouble is that there are too
Due to the belief that the Jew doctor's explanation of the situation, There is
pertreatment of those afflicted
complete lingual and cul-
with CONTAGIOUS diseases? Indulges in sharp practice. — but at least it is interesting coming
many
of them, and the decaying,
tural assimilation with the Ger-
Isn't that vital enough to receive! Henry W. Elson.
from one who should be in a posi- mans here, and the Czechs there, assimilating, dying Jewiah com-
consideration at the hands of the,
It Is a resurrection of Mediarv- tion to speak with some degree of and
munities
of the Western provinces,
these Jews are completely cut whose trouble
is that there are not
state?
aliens — G. F. Abbott.
authority.
off from Jewish life as a whole.
enough of them.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
by
H. Charles
Joseph
Too Many Jews---Yet Not
Enough Jews in Czecho-Slovakia
Opinions on Prejudice