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Jacob de Haas at Sixty

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The sixtieth birthday of Jacob de Haas,
pioneer Zionist leader, observed on August
13, should not be permitted to go by un-
noticed. A friend of the late Dr. Theodor
Ilerzl, whose secretary he was for a time,
he must therefore be classed among the
first Zionists. Author, • lecturer, editor,
Zionist organizer, he has made numerous
contributions to American-Jewish life for
which he deserves the gratitude and good
wishes of his people. For arousing the
interest of Louis D. Brandeis in Zionism,
for writing the noteworthy biography of
Theodor Herzl and for the strength he
brought to the Zionist movement in this
country, he especially has earned the grati-
tude of Zionists.

The Treatment of Poland's
Jewish Minorities

Our Film Folk

By HELEN ZIGMOND

By-the-Wa y Tidbits and News

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1932. Jewish Telegraph'. Agency. Inc.)

CANNING THUNDER

A Jewish physician has discovered a use for thunder. This Dr.
HOLLYWOOD.—We read tha
the Nazis have a definite and con Prager makes records of thunder and then lets deaf patients listen
cise film program all in readiness in. His theory is that the vibration tends to arouse the sluggish blood
. . . if and when they get into circulation in the hearing zones and restores them.
By MAX J. KOHLER
I cannot speak as to the theory or its efficacy, except as a layman
power ... according to statements
Telephones Cadillac 1040 Cable Addreed Chronicle
Lend. OffIc•l
given out by Herr Raether, chief to welcome any practical use that old man thunder can be put to.
(Copyright. 1882. Jewleh Telegraphic Agency. Inc)
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
of the Hitler film department. For A thing which makes so much noise ought to be made to do some
instance, "pictures like 'All Quiet' work.
Subscription, in Advance..._ ........__..-{3.00 Per Year
I trust that Dr. Prager will follow this up by finding some use
About a year and a half ago
rights of men, and treated them and 'Hell's Angels,' insulting to
fever and Gertrude Stein's poetry.
when Polish conditions were dis-
as a kind of serf, and they tried the German nation, will not be for earthquakes, tornadoes, hay
To Ware publkation, all eorrespondence and sews natter
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gavel 'Inch fhb *Mee by Tuesday ...lag of esolt
tolerated."
This
is
significant
to
cussed in New York City at a
to remain neutral during the
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only.
Who wellies notice., kindly ego oars side of the P.M
meeting of the Conference on
War, as between the Germans Hollywood . . or will be if the
Immigration Policy, a well-in-
vs. Poles, and Poles vs. Russians Nazis gain control. Lsemmle is PLAYS AND SKIRTS
Tb. Detroit Jewish Chink!, invites correspondence ea se,.
If you want to write a play, your opportunity is now. There is
• to the Jewish people, but disclaim reePeeeh
formed Polish-American editor,
and Ukranians, with the result already making Remarque's "Road
inete of latrine
batty for an laden.. .neat of the view. erpressed by the wettest
a Catholic, stated publicly that
that all these combatants treated Back," and is planning "The a producer out looking for a play. He'll produce it—all you have to
do is to conform to one condition.
the
condition
of
Poland's
Jews
Rebel,"
a
story
of
the
Tyrol's
them
as
enemies.
In
war,
the
Sabbath Reedits, of the Torah.
The gentleman I am referring to is S. Klein. If you've ever
is not merely lamentable, but in
saying is, of course, particularly fight for independence.
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 7:12-11:25
visited New York you probably have heard of him—I mean the Four-
his opinion absolutely hopeless.
true that "whoever is not with
And concerning the race ques- teenth street Klein. There are grosse Kleins and kleine Kleins in New
Prophetical portion—Is. 49:14-61:3
Fortunately, since then a ray or
me, is against me." During the tion, specifically the report that
has
two of hope for the ultimate solu-
Peace Conference this hospital. black-lists, containing the names York, but there is only one Fourteenth street Klein. This Klein
Ab 17, 5692
Imagination of Anti - Semites
lie Is the
August 19, 1932
tion
of
the
problem
has
emerged,
ity led to occasional massacres of of non-Aryan actors, were being the biggest women's dress store probably in the world.
Do the Chinese have red or green hair? and that, notwithstanding the Jews
champion
cut
rate
dress
seller.
even, the scope of which prepared and would be handed to
Its an institution in New York—like the Automat, and Klein has
How many feathers has a goose?
greatly increased world economic
the Jews naturally often erron- producers with the threat of boy-
Hoover and Immigration
a cue from the fact that the Automat has been getting a lot of
Do young chickens have blue or yellow depression, the resulting practi- eously exaggerated, calling them cott. Herr Raether denies that take
President Herbert Hoover speaking, at
cal cessation of pecuniary aid
"pogroms," and during the con- such lists exist or would exist, but free advertisements in the musical play "Face the Music.'
If
that play can have a scene depicting the Automat, why can't
feet?
Washington, D. C., in the course of his
from American Jews, and the
ference, President Wilson ap-
that "we will not tolerate some play advertise Klein's dress establishment?
These are samples of questions which, substantial stoppage of emigra- pointed the Morgenthau Investi- states
speech accepting the Republican re-nom-
any
longer
certain
actors
who
So
he is out looking for the dramatist, who'll do the stunt. If
tion to America. Unfortunately,
gation Commission, which suc- have played parts in which they
it is reported, would-be emigrants from most
pun in this hot weather—the opportunity Is too
ination for the Presidency:
of the distress of Poland's
ceeded in preventing bloodshed. ridicule the ideals for which we you will permit a
Poland
are
asked
by
American
examiners.
good
to
de-dine.
Jewish minorities, amounting to
Able account of its investigations stand." A little hazy, don't you
•
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I favor rigidly restricted immigration. I
•
About 600 husbands and wives of Ameri- about a quarter of all the Jews and Polish-Jewish conditions of think? But then we never could
have by executive direction, in order to re-
PHILOSOPHICAL FOOLS
in
the
world,
is
due
to
direct
vio-
the
time
are
to
be
found
in
Am-
lieve us of added unemployment, already re-
ccan citizens are among those who are lation of specific provisions of the bassador Morgenthau's "All in understand their. formula for de-
Dr. M. Leon, author of The Comedy of Human Philosophy, who
duced the inward movement to less than the
awaiting their visas in Warsaw, and the Polish Minorities treaty, which a Lifetime," a book entitled "Po- marcation since we heard that when not a historian of philosophy, is a medical practitoner in Mis-
outward movement. I shall adhere to that
Hitler's first assistant has a Jew- souri, sends me a copy of his opus, which I find very interesting read-
had,
on
paper,
safeguarded
prac-
land
and
her
Minority
Races,"
delay is.ascribed to the unfairness of ex-
policy.
ing.
tically all the rights involved and
by Arthus Goodhart of New ish wife.
There is one quotation from Ludwig Borne, the famed contem-
Further, in historical films made
While it was not necessary-for the Presi- aminers who inject the type of assininity had anticipated such prospective York, secretary of the commis-
infractions.
sion and now professor of Judis. by non-German producers, the porary of Heine, which I think is worth requoting namely: "Every-
dent thus to emphasize the fact that his quoted above in their tests.
body
has a right to be a blockhead: nothing can be said against it. But
great
figures
of
German
history
prudence at Oxford and in Luz-
Poland has about three million
Congressman Samuel Dickstein of New
administration is definitely pledged to the
it."
zati's "God in Freedom." The must be portrayed by German ac- even a right should be used with moderation. Some people abuse
Jews, about 10 per cent of her
It
seems
to me that Borne was being very conservative. To my
York,
now
in
Warsaw
on
his
honeymoon
tors.
And
foreign
actors
will
be
persecutions of the Jews in Po-
severest curtailment of immigration, this
entire population, but while 80
mind, it appears that we all abuse that right. Professor Pitkin has
allowed
to
work
in
German
stu-
land
and
Rumania
were
brought
trip,
is
exercising
his
powers
as
chairman
per
cent
of
Poland's
population
statement serves further to dishearten those
The History
before the Peace Conference and dios, but only for other-than- just now finished a volume of some five hundred pages on me
in the rural district, only
that such
of Stupidity, and to me he abuses it—for it seems to
friends of the immigrant elements who are of the Congressional Committee on Immi- reside
primarily induced the drafting of German-language versions.
about 20 per cent of her Jews
a
history
is
a
piece
of
stupidity—of
blockheadednesa
itself.
gration
to
investigate
the
charges
against
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the minorities treaties in gen-
anxiously hoping for a word of comfort in
do, the rest being city dwellers.
Indeed, after reading Dr. Leon's volume, I am convinced that there
eral, which owe their adoption
fact, the congestion of Jews
Little seven-pound Jeffrey is four or five times more stupidity indulged by philosophers than by
behalf of those from whom they are separ- prejudiced examiners. Non-Jews as well In
chiefly to Louis Marshall of New
in large Polish cities is much
Seltnick won't have to worry
average so-called stupid person. What theories have these philos-
ated and with whom they hope to be re- as Jews, who are on the waiting list for greater than these figures indi- York aided by Judge Mack and about his career , . . between the
visas, join in charging unfairness. Refer- cate, Jews constituting about 34 Cyrus Adled and Lucien Wolf Daddy David Selsnick a n d ophers not broached—how repugnant to all the simple rules of common
united.
sent,!
Pythagszrua with his philosophy of numbers, the Gnostics
of
London
on
one
hand,
and
per cent of Warsaw's entire pop-
Louis B. Mayer, how with their idealization of Cain and Judas and their veneration of
All parties now appear to be united on ring to the complaints, in a statement in ulation, namely about 325,000 President W 11 so n, Colonel Grandpa
can he escape the movie busi-
Warsaw
to
the
New
York
Times
corres-
the
serpent.
House, David Hunter Miller,
Jews, Lodz containing about 37
a similar platform calling not only for the
ness?
There is no fool like a philosophical fool.
Manley 0. Hudson and Lord
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cent Jews, Lemberg 35 per
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curtailment of immigration, but for the pondent, Representative Dickstein stated: per
Robert Cecil on the other. The
cent, Vilna 43 per cent and Cra-
Few remember that Ernst Lu-
I have heard all this said, but I can't agree
practical shutting of the doors of this coun-
privately printed Miller "Diary" bitsch's first American directorial THE BLUSH OF YESTERYEAR
cow 24 6/10 per cent.
George Gershmin still blushes occasionally, being one of the few
with those who say that either the American
contains representations pro opus was "Rosita," starring Mary
try tight to all newcomers. Granting even
THE BOYCOTT
people, so far as I know, who has managed to retain that good old
Consuls or the doctors to whom this respon-
and con from the minorities and Pickford.
A sharp distinction should be
custom,
which today is as rare as the short skirt.
that there is unquestioned wisdom to such
sible work is entrusted are anti-Semitic. I
their governments as to the
• • •
drawn between the so-called Jew-
Mr. Ernest, that stout exponent of free and uncensored literature,
have picked a dozen cases from 100 complaints
need for proper scope of the
a policy, a word might be said by those in
Did
you
know
that
Edward
G.
ish
"assimilationists,"
who
are
has
an
article
in the current Nation, declaring that sex has won In
and I shall have them investigated.
minority treaties. Articles II Robinson took his name from •
power in behalf of close relatives who seek
Polish speaking in language and
that court decisions of late have all been on the side of the
For instance, I find that a visa has been
of the Polish Treaty deals spe- character in • play which he liked. America,
everything
except
religion,
and
full
and
untrammelled
publication of robust sex literature, and I
reunion with those in this country. Some-
refused to one woman for years because the
cifically with the right of Jews That he hates getting up early, suppose the absence of the blush is part of that sex victory, which the
the overwhelming majority of
American examining physician here found her
thing might have been said about knitting
to observe Saturday as their and he never takes exercises? That nation has gained. Only the innocent, to whom everything about sex
Poland's
Jews,
who
are
Yiddish
suffering from tuberculosis. I am a bit of a
Sabbath.
closer the ties of friendship and kinship
speaking, and except in the new-
he playa the hero?
was wrapped in a haze could blush. The present age is too knowing,
doctor myself and I find it strange that a person
• • •
ly acquired Vilna and Upper Si- TREATY VIOLATED
and ergo too blase to blush. The burlesque housese in New York,
between the newcomers in this country
suffering from this terrible disease should live
Unfortunately for Poland in
lesian sections, were forced by
Eddie Cantor is preparing, in I am told, are in a great quandary over this callousness. They have
so
long
after
the
examining
doctor
found
her
particular, economic considera- collaboration with David Freed- shed clothes to that irreducible minimum never before attempted on
and the natives; a word of 'encoragement
Russia
during
the
four
decades
condition dangerous three years ago.
tions were not sufficiently con- man, a serial for a national maga-
preceding the War westward
might have been spoken to those among
I am going to assemble a board of inquiry
sidered in fixing her boundaries, zine . . recording his sixteen the American stage, but the houses are empty.
•
into Poland, in connection with
the 15,000,000 foreign-born who have not
here and I shall be present at a few examina-
and
she has had an extremely years of close association with
an attempted "Russification" of
CENSORS OF THE FUTURE
tions myself. If I am dissatisfied with the
difficult
economic
struggle
ever
yet been naturalized. Instead, the spirit
Poland, and who are quite unas-
In brief, they have discovered, what theorists have long told them,
Glorifier Ziegfeld.
methods of the examinations I shall ask to
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similated and accustomed to con- . since, especially as she lost her
that people are never excited about a thing itself so much, as about
is one of hostility.
have the general medical officer controlling
former Russian and German mar-
aiderable self-autonomy over mat-
There is a building on the the idea, and this idea is created by concealment. Or ss Spinosa
the
United
States
service
in
Europe
sent
to
kets,
on
which
her
Jews
also
By this time, the foreign-born are recon-
ters other than their religion. In
Warner lot in which there are would say it: Analyse a passion and it ceases to exist. In that future
Warsaw. I shall also probably invite some
largely depended. In addition to
ciled to the fact that their battle for an
1921 only about 736,000 Polish
more than two thousand doors, age of Utopianism, I imagine those Sumners and Comstock!' of that
this fact and the anti-Jewish ani-
local speciallats to inspect the most doubtful
Jews
registered
as
professing
yet the building has neither sides day, will, instead of trying to suppress all risque matters, try to force
open-door policy is a hopeless one. But
mosities referred to, Poland had
cases.
Jews of other than Jewish na-
nor end. . . . It's a scene dock through a law, making it necessary for all people to be glutted with
not' been accustomed to self-
this spirit of constant emphasis upon re-
where the studio's collection of them instead. You can never tell.
It is to be hoped that as a result of Mr. tionality, chiefly Polish, so that
for over a century,
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•
striction might have been toned down to Dickstein's investigation the existing situa- we can see that less than 20 per government
doors is stored. The average
and is not adept at statesman-
cent of Poland's Jews are really
"set" calls for three doors, and BLUSHES AND BEARDS
eliminate the element of hostility.
ship,
as
witnesses
the
fact
which
tion will be remedied. We are not pre- non-Yiddish speaking. For prac- Ambassador Morgenthau has the go picture has at least
And speaking of the disappearance of the blush, there is the
the
judging when we accept many of the tical'purposes, we may disregard noted, that her constitutional con- twenty "sets . . . hence the beard. It too has gone to that limbo of the past, though I see by
these
hereafter,
except
to
say
papers,
our good friend, Mr. Borrah Minnevich, the Jewish vaude-
need
for
thousands
of
doors.
Max Liebermann at 85
charges for truth, particularly in view of that one, Ashkenazi, is perhaps vention was in session about a There are palace doors, office villian is that
suing
Loew's
to
restrain
them
from
cancelling
his
contract.
"I, Max Liebermann, was born on July the fact that similar charges were corro- Poland's most distinguished his- year before the preliminary pre-
doors, elevator doors, doors for Loewe's according to the story, objects to the beard Mr. Minnevich has
to the constitution was
20, 1847, in Berlin. My father, Louis borated on other occasions. Being perhaps torian today and has represented amble
the hospital, the shower bath, grown.
completed.
Poland
before
the
League
of
Na-
My own story is that this is naught but one of those good new
Liebermann; brought me up loyal to the the best informed man on immigration mat-
and the log cabin. There are en-
As to political and social in.
tions, though in Poland too,
fashioned publicity stunts. If you will remember, not no long ago,
faith of my fathers, in the Jewish religion." ters, by virtue of his long affiliation with these non-Yiddish speaking Jews fractions of the Polish Minori- trances to vaults, telephone the newspapers were full of the kidnapping of Mr. Minnevich in some
cellars, speakeasies, and
These are the words that were written the Committee on Immigration of the are commonly classed with the ties Treaty, the very first article booths,
airplanes. This collection is remote part of the world. The story as told by Mr. Minnevich was
prohibiting civil, political, re-
first
constantly repainted and remod- very good. In fact, so good, that the Hearst editor, when he
into the record of the Friedrich-Werder House of Representatives, Congressman large Jewish majority.
ligious
and
linguistic
discrimina-
a blank
Unfortunately for the Polish
eled to be us ed again and again. received a flash about the kidnapping wired: "Don't believe
tions
was
violated,
as
regards
High School in 1866 by Max Liebermann, Dickstein is well suited to deal with this Jews,
•
•
•
word
of
it,
but
wire
complete
story."
their troubles had begun
the Jews, until last year, the
at the time of his graduation. They were problem. His present visit in Poland sheds some years before the War, for a anti-Jewish
"Once in a Lifetime," the
Czaristic Laws being
sweeping anti-Jewish boycott, or-
at that time, and are to this day, typical of a ray of hope on the chosen path of the ganized
continued
in force till then, des- screemie that was oft and on for
by the well-known Polish
many months, was declared a
a loyalty to his people from which the Polish emigrants who aspire to adopt this politician Dmowski, and arising pite their insertion in her non- as
self executing constitution. Her roaring, rollicking riot at the pre-
from an election controversy, cut
internationally famed artist has not devi- country as their homeland.
legislature continued vehement- view. It's Hollywood at its fun-
off almost all Jewish commercial
ated or receded at any time.
ly to debate the bill to repeal niest Gregory Ratoff is Glogauer, Bankruptcy of Russian Five Year Plan Revealed in
intercourse with Christian Poles
these until last year, and the the producer . . . Sidney Fox is
It is natural that the Hitler elements in
Isaac Don Levine's "Red Smoke"; Says Solution
and had greatly impoverished
able German work on Prof. the movie-struck would-be star ...
Poland's Jews before the fatal
Immigration in Abraham's Days.
' Lies in Removal of Dictatorship.
Germany should resent the honors that are
Schmitt's bibligraphp edited by and Aline MacMahon re-creates
year, 1914, and this has raged
From
"Quidnunc's"
column
in
a
recent
Amende, entitled "Die National- her state part as the elocution
being showered upon him by the German
substantially ever since. In addi-
itaten
in
der
Staten
Europas."
teacher.
A Review by Philip Slomovits.
press on the occasion of this anniversary. issue of the Palestine Bulletin we cull, for tion, during the War the Jews published last year, describes
• • •
His family has for a long time been among the pleasure of our readers, the following of I'oland in general remembered these grevious legal disabilities
What a scare Sid Skolsky, N.Y. RED SMOKE. BY 1.41. Don Levine. Published by Robert M. McBride & C..
that Czaristic Russia had per-
as still in force. Article 7, pro- "colyumniat," had on that week-
West Sixteenth street, New York 1571•
those who suffered from anti-Semitism. His interesting paragraphs:
secuted them most bitterly and
There was a highly amusing passage of arms
(Turn to Page Eight.)
cousin, the noted Walter Rathenau, was
deprived them of almost all the
(Turn to Next Page.)
Economic troubles throughout of the Soviet Union, including steal.
in the law courts yesterday. An immigration
murdered because he was a Jew.
officer was called to give evidence on a technical
of ;drirN
the world have caused people ev- to 475 billion ";'.71°
to be found M the Donets
Max Liebermann himself had his elec-
point, regarding an application for a passport.
erywhere to lend a ready ear to billion.•re
Basin. The total combined coal re-
Ile was asked who was the husband of the
Communist propaganda. Men and wources of all of Russia are ims than
tion to the presidency of the Berlin Acad-
Biblical Sarah. The unhappy man was stumped.
women whose mode of living, the coal depositsof the single Itato of
emy of Art vetoed by the Kaiser on ac-
Wyoming •net •re but • little in same.
"You know, do you not," he was asked, "that it
whose entire outlook on life has of
the mei wealth of the state of Colo-
was
Abraham?"
count of his Jewishness, but upon the
always been bourgeois, are feign- rado. And them are but three important
coal Reid. on the territory of the Soviet
"Well,
air,"
he
replied
with
a smile, "I was
ing
sympathy
with
the
present
creation of the Republic was again ac-
Union, an area CZ times the glee of
not an immigration officer in those days."
Soviet regime. An avalanche of Wyoming."
corded this honor and finally came to his
I asked myself whether Abraham would have
Mr. Levine uses the Izvestia and
has been bringing gruesome news less uneasy about our brethren books on the subject and in in-
GENTILE SEEKS FACTS
got into the country if the present immigration
due rights in the artistic circles of Ger-
vasion
of speakers in this country
Perhaps a reader can supply from Rumania. Is that all there abroad if efforts were made to are propagating to the glory of Pravda, leading organs of the Bol-
authorities had then been in power. It is doubt-
many. Although this office is limited to a
shevist
regime, as authorities for
I,
myself,.'
is
from
that
country?
show
us
some
of
the
happy
inci-
this
request
or
Mr.
Wesley
F.
ful whether he had L. P. 1000. He could scarcely
the following:
Taylor, 240 Wed 16th street, have read in a Rumanian Jewish dents that occur in the lives of the proletarian dictatorship.
three-year term, this law was repeatedly
have entered the country as one coming to em-
'The cost of carrying one ton of toe'
But
how
many
of
the
sympa-
newspaper
(I
come
from
that
our
people
over
there.
I
agree
Jacksonville,
Fla.,
as I am cer-
ployment. For there were enough shepherds in
from Kemerovo to the Magnetie Moun.
suspended in his honor by act of Parlia-
tainly eager to assist anyone who country) that the Jews thanked with my correspondent that there thizers with the Soviet scheme are taM is estimated at 17 60. In the United
those days and it would have been easy for the
actually acquainted with the true state. the cal...yin, of iron ore from the
ment, Herr Liebermann resigning recently
seems so much interested in our King Carol for the many wonder- MUST be SOME bright spots.
department to have shown that the absorptive
facts? How many are aware of mInn by rail to Lake Superior and then
ful things he has done for them.
people:
capacity of the country was such that one more
when he offered the excuse of old age, but
by water to the port. of Lake Erie
the tragedies that are being en- ins in
in accordance with existing freight
"Where may I secure a copy And the same thing is true, I am RELIGION IN RUSSIA
shepherd
and
one
more
sheep
would
have
brought
in reality due to the anti-Semitic abuses
acted in Russia, of the failures rater from {1.14 to site per ton."
ruin to the country.
of the pamphlet relating to the sure, everywhere . . . We are all
I have received a very inter- which mark the Five Year Plan,
The above is an actual quotation
from the ranks of the Hitlerites.
The flitite Executive would have sent a pro-
Jewish students and their record having our troubles, the Jews
test to the government, but it would have gladly
in Philadelphia, which you men- more than others . . . but why esting leaflet from the Jewish In- of the resentment in the ranks of from the two Soviet newspapers.
Herr Liebermann's loyalty was recently
Low Standard of Livia,.
sold land to him in Hebron at a profit. The Ca-
tioned in a recent article? I am keep on shouting only about the formation Bureau, 9 East Forty- the peasants and workers against
evidenced in a statement which appeared
But these are far from being
naanite Mandatory would have sent a commis-
studying Hebrew and Yiddish so tragedies until we get the impres- First Street, New York, contain- the government which is tolerating
the
most
staggering figures in dis-
sion to decide whether there was any room for
in the Central Verein Zeitung. Therein he
that I may be better able to enter sion that the Jews in every Euro- ing a reprint of an article written hunger and famine?
this Chaldean with Bolshevik and anti-idol ideas
Into and to sympathetically un- pean country are subjected to in- for the Hibbert Journal, London, Second-Rate Agricultural State. favor to the Soviet plan. Mr. Le-
said:
and would assurdiy have come to the conclusion
Isaac Don Levine's "Red vine states that "if Russia lacks
derstand the real problems which human inquisition ... and I think by Professor Norman Bentwich,
"I was born a Jew, and I shall die a Jew.
that there was not.
confront your people, and the tre- the Jewish press should be more Hebrew University, Jerusalem, on Smoke" does a great service to the fuel resources necessary for
Abraham might have argued that he was im-
The other day I looked out at the Old Jew-
mendous odds against which, in careful and considerate in avoid- "Religion and Anti-Religion in those who desire to be informed the laying of the foundation of a
modern civilization.
proving the religion of the country, that he was
many parts of the world, particu- ing such a black picture ... There Russia." it is a most interesting on the truth of the Russian situa- challenging
ish cemetery in the Schoenhauser Allee,
enriching its literature and bettering the condi-
and illuminating article showing tion. Author of the monumental the is even worse off as regards
larly Central and Eastern Europe, must be some bright spots . .
the
basic
metals
indispensable to
tion
of
its
sheep,
goats
and
camels.
He
might
and as I looked out I said to myself: It is
why it was comparatively easy to biography of Stalin, Mr. Levine is
they are battling with a courage let us have them!"
the erection of a new industrial
have shown, Milton fashion, that if he were
a very fine thing to know that your grand-
passing understanding.
It is true that we are given a alienate the Russian people form today one of the best informed order.
The prevailing notion that
given a footing in the country there would one
"My interest in your people con- dark picture of the life of Euro- adherence to the Orthodox Church, men on Russian problems. His
parents and your parents lie there, and
day be Isaiahs and Jeremiahs, a Hillel, a Jesus,
stitutes my all-absorbing pursuit pean Jewry . but when I sug- and the methods by which it is newest work, just off the press, is Russia possesses rich stores of on-
in the land. That would not have availed him.
that you, too, will lie there.
as I strive to educate myself in gested that we were getting too done. Ile shows as I have pointed the revelation of a deep study of mined metals in her Immense ter-
ritory does not stand up under
Perhaps it was as well for humanity that the
the fields of Jewish history, lan- many shadows and not enough out repeatedly that RELIGIOUS facts and figures.
"Do you know how many years it is since
close examination."
Immigration Officer and his department was not
guage, literature and religion." highlights I was told that the shad- OBSERVANCE IS NOT PROM.
At the outset Mr. Levine ex-
I was offered a post as the head of an
in power in those days.
Numerous authorities are the
ITED. He says: "The vast major-
This is one of the most unusual
predominated. I think so, ity of the places of every com- plains that the Five Year Plan is sources used by Mr. Levine. Ac-
Academy, and the letter containing the
"Quidnunc" resorts to the most power- letters I ever received from • non- ows
an exhaustive study, in four vol-
too. But it would make all of us
to one, A. E. Fersman.
offer went on to say that I should go and ful weapon against injustice: ridicule. The Jewish writer. I am reminded by feel better and probably makes us munity, Christian, Jewish, Mos- umes, by hundreds of economists, cording
lem, are closed and turned to geologists and technologists of member of the Soviet Academy:
this communication of the late
be baptized at once? I replied to these late Georg Brandes used the same weapon Walter
Im o...non.
- Ascompered with the
utilitarian purposzs, clubs. hotels. Russian industrial possibilities. Ile male
Hurt, who devoted so great
of construction work In Siberls.
and even cinemas, BECAUSE then proceeds to prove, on the bey •oon.. of mineral. are insisoifi
people that if it will make me paint better, when he asked the Russia of the Czars—at • part of his life to writing on
those who used to attend them basis of this study, that "the nat- eallt. It Is sufficient to tar that In
I might consider being baptized."
the time when non-Russian Jews were pre- Jewish subjects. It is very inter- The Creed of
the known iron ore deomil"
were not prepared to maintain ural resources of Russia, in con- Riebria
to hear of Gentiles who are
amount of four ton. pee s•here••
Anzio
Yezierska.
It is well to know that the illustrious in vented from entering that land—whether esting
the mall places of worship, nod junction with unalterable geo- In Sweden there •re 190 and in England
so acutely sympathetic to Jewish
100
tons
per pemon."
the will of the majority, who graphic factors, are such as to
Israel have not forsaken their traditions. Jesus would have been admitted. American problems. Sometimes I think that
And Mr. Levine proceeds to
"You write only what you voted for their closure, prevailed. condemn her to an existence of
In the case of Max Liebermann this loyalty hundred-percenters have similiarly been these not of Jewish faith can be have
lived," is the creed of But in every large town, some of relative poverty in the role of • state that "at the Pennsylvania
inspiration to those Jews who
provides added satisfaction to his fellow asked whether they would have admitted an
rate of production, the Magnetic
are so indifferent to the very Anzio Yesierska, whose new the chief churches, synagogues second-rate agricultural state."
Mountain would be exhausted in
Jews who join in felicitating him on his to this land, had they applied for passports, treasures our non-Jews are eager novel "All I Could Never Be," and mosques remain open as of
Lack of Natural Resources.
has just been published by old. And the service goes on in
Mr. Levine quotes at length to about four years."
men like Lafayette, Kosciusko, Ilaym Salo- to unlock.
eighty-fifth birthday.
Brewer, Warren & Putnam, the Orthodox Church with the old prove, by means of actual figures,
The author of "Red Smoke"
mon.
"Writing is with me a confes- pomp and circumstance and with that Russia is lacking in natural does not mince word, in his con-
PICTURE OF JEWISH LIFE
sion,
not
a
profession."
the
the
collections
for
the
priests
.
Another
letter
from
Rochester,
Wit against bigotry presents an interest-
resurces, that the claims that it demnation of the present Com-
Reform Jews and Zionism
is wrought with The chief synagogues of Lenin- had unlimited natural wealth are munist practices. lie states that
N. Y., which discusses a subject writes.
During the discussion on co-operation ing match in the fight for an international that I have touched upon:
travail." She came to this grad and Moscow remain in use not only exaggerated but are un- "the Five Year Plan in the hands
"Your department is the only country in the steerage, and but are attended by a small rem- true.
of Stalin is a political football."
between Zionists and Liberal Judaism, at open door policy for human migrants. It
one I know in a Jewish paper while working in sweatshops nant of the congregation, nearly
the meetings of the governing board of the is doubtful, however, whether even this that
"Red Smoke" is highly recom- and further on declares:
is not ALL tad and distress- felt a hunger for knowledge all of them older men. Elsewhere mended to readers Interested in
"Stalin's regime, liko that of
World Union for Progressive Judaism at weapon is sufficient to rouse the bigots to ful. As an editor and a writer which drove her to spend her smaller synagogues have been kept the great drama now being en- many
absolutist governments, I"
studying E n g l is IL in use, but the attendance is again
the Hague, the majority of speakers voiced an understanding of the injustice of their don't you think there is an excess evenings
drained the country of her vigils!.
acted
in
Russia
particularly
for
of this wailing going on? The When she writes, her publisher' principally of a generation which the sake of the important figures wealth and exposed her population
program.
But
that
the
closed-door
policy
opinions stressing their belief in the desir-
declare. she becomes wholly is passing away." These state-
news from Europe tells all about
in this volume—figures to ■ misery unparalleled is mod-
ability and compatbility of both move- should continue to dominate in Palestine the tragedies and the woes of the absorbed and retires to a room ments of Prof. Berewith Indicate contained
ern time., aad hreeght the Ros-
almost bare, away from the that the YOUNGER GENERA- which it is impossible to quote in ales standard of living below that
tells
as
very
little
of
but it
ments. In view of the antagonism to Zion- where Jews are creating elements of happi- Jews,
the
narrow
confines of this re-
beautiful things she loves. Her TION in Russia has been indoc-
their
happiness.
Surely
they
do
ism that has so long existed in Reform ness and of higher standards of living—this not go about In sackcloth all day new novel was written in Ar- trinated with "the villainy of tie view. A few facts mud, however, of Cline and India."
quoted. For instance:
Fundamentally, Mr. La•Ino
ranks, this is another triumph for the Jew- Is at once inconceivable and deserving of of every day In the year! Lately lington, VL, where she 'Peas Church and with the belief that be "Ateordiay
to Ike most sanyuhte
the better part of the year.
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
all religion was itoperstitution."
Weld estimates, the total teal depeelts
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Soviet Dictatorship in a Blind Alley

RANDOM THOUGHTS

by Charles
I H. Joseph