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September 2, 1932
Judaism.
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
A First Book in French on the
Question of Transjordania
By I. SCHECHTMAN.
(Copyright, 1932, Jewish TelegraPhir Agency. Inc.)
Our Film Folk
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1931. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. lea)
By HELEN ZIGMOND
HOLLYWOOD. — This item
might well be captioned "The Fall
and Rise of Miriam Jordan." She
fell from a trapeze .. broke her
nose . . . and after the bone had
been reset, she was able to pass
screen tests which had been for-
merly rejected. Presto! S h e
signed a Fox contract. It looks
like a new Joosh star on the cin-
ema horizon . . . She's blond and
easy on the eyes. Her first star-
ring vehicle will be "Six Hours
To Live." •
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Tidbits and News
By- the-Way
THE SUBWAY
Speaking of conditions there is the story of Alphonse Robins. Two
Jews, it appears, were seated side by side in the express going to
Flatbush. They rode on and on silently—each seeminly indifferent
to the other—each staring fixedly in front of him.
Finally, one of them emitted the deep Jewish groan, "oi."
"You're telling me," exclaimed the other.
ON
One of the principal subjects
dania is the natural frontier for
of discussion at the recently con-
Palestine.
cluded sessions in London of the
The Manchester Guardian of
CHESS AND JEWS
actions committee of the World
Feb. 24,-1920, declared that from
The newspaper stories of the recent chess master, tournament
Zionist Organization was that of
a historical and economic stand-
held at Pasadena reads much like an account of some synagogue
Transjordania as a possibility for
point, Transjordania is an or-
meeting.
Jewish names, one after the other. Chess continues, it ap-
future Jewish colonization.
ganic part of Palestine.
pears, to remain the Jewish game par excellence. Not a little stir-
Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff pointed
On March of 1921, the influen-
prising, too, when one remembers that we are supposed to be such a
out with justice that Transjor-
tial French journal The French-
commercial people. And yet our official Fame is perhaps the only
dania has now become quite mod-
Asian wrote, that the English
one that hasn't and probably can't be capitalized.
ern while George Halpern stated
are endeavoring to revise the
How would Hitler explain this fact of Jews sticking to a game
Sam Mint. of "Skippy" fame
that Transjordania has now be-
frontier question in order "to
money?
is to write the original for the in which there is absolutely no
come "koshered."
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guarantee complete success for
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Chaplin
youngsters.
something which is not English
There was a time, however, as
AND BOXING
CHESS
in
the
ordinary
sense
of
the
M. Grossman declared, when the
I think boxing next to chess might be classified as something of
Herman Mankiewicz, one of
term, but truly international,
question of Transjordania was a
viz. the forthcoming Zionist gov- Hollywood's higher-priced scribes, a Jewish sport. Of course, there is far from the Jewish predominance
forbidden topic of discussion in
in
pugilism
that there is in chess, but in another sense, it is perhaps
received a jolt ;'other eve . . .
ernment."
Zionist ranks. Only in recent
even more Jewish—perhaps the most Jewish sport there is. I refer
months has it become clear in the
The English demanded Trans- Stepping out of an elegant lim- to the devoted Jewishness of its Jewish participants. Thus, I read
50 Years of Jewish Farming.
leadership of the Zionist move-
jordania in the name of Jewish ousine to attend a preview, he in the papers that, Kid Berg always wears "tzizith." Now, I don't
A most interesting anniversary was just
"A Man of Tragedy."
ment that Transjordania is
government to be established, but was pestered by a young auto- think that Dr. Lashe
r, the chess man, wears "tzizith" and it is prob-
graph-hound. Obligingly he poised
observed at Norma, N. J., marking the
idge expert, does not. Another
A tablet has been set up by the League bound up with the whole future the very first step England took his fountain pen when another ably also true that Sidney Lenz, the br
was contrary to the independence
of the delicate question of land
fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of for the Rights of Man at the very spot for colonization.
youngster, also a name-collector, Jewish characteristic of pugilism is the tendency to emphasize Jew-
of Palestine.
ish
nomenclature—by
adding
a
"sky"
or a "witz"—something that
shouted to the first one, "Don't
the first Jewish farms in the United States. where Alfred Dreyfus first touched the soil
In 1920, the first high commis-
In Jewish circles' and even in
.. , he's nobody!" will make the name of the fighter strikingly Jewish. That again, you
never see in any other fields. You would be surprised to hear that
A gathering of about 600 descendants of of France upon his return from Devil's Zionist circles the history of sioner for Palestine, Sir Herbert fool with him
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Samuel, established in Transjor-
Transjordania's separation from
Barney Baruch, for instance, had changed his name to Baruchkowsky,
the first settlers in Alliance, Norma and Island. A writer in the New York Times, Palestine
Al Jolson stole the show, as or that Franklin P. Adams, the Jewish columnist has changed Ma
is not very well known—
dania local autonomous councils.
Brotmanville reminisced about the events commenting upon this honor to the French- its juridical aspects, and the po- When it was discovered that this usual, at • that testimonial din- name to Chayim Aronson. And yet things like that are constantly
given to George M. Cohan.
done in pugilism.
of the past half-century when they gath- Jewish martyr, speaks of the man Dreyfus litical combinations which resul- form was unfortunate and that ner
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He sang the Yiddish song about
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ted in Emir Abdullah'a operetta , anarchy reigned, Emir Abdullah
ered to observe this anniversary.
and the affair Dreyfus in the following, government.
the cantor . . . "Hot er Cede- HOOVER'S TRUMPS
was approached in March of
vend."
1921. The latter took over Am-
Well, we have now another supplementary edition of "merry-go-
For years it was impossible to
In reality, this celebration was one of under the caption "A Man of Tragedy":
Many of our Jewish song- round" with more gossip about officialdom. This latest work speak-
man whence he sought to march
find in any language a single
more than passing interest, because in a
writers attended the affair. A. ing of the justices of the supreme court is rather lavish in praise to
on Syria to recover that country
Forty-three years ago he was a humble
work devoted to this question.'
Jolson said, "Lots of Goldberg. Brandeis and Cardozo.
from the French.
captain of artillery in the French Army, 37
period of 50 years, the number of Jewish
"A GOOD FRONTIER"
were there under different
The English asked Emir Ab-
And as to Eugene Meyer, it regards Meyer and Ogden Mills as
years ago he was one of the living dead on
farmers in the country has grown from a
names." Some of those who "the two trumps of President Hoover. Eugene Meyer's brother has,
dullah
to
take
over
the
adminis-
It
was
only
In
1925,
just
prior
Devil's Island, 33 years ago he was the central
took bow. for song-hits, old and I believe, indicated some interest in Jewish matters—at least in some
tration of the country and re-
handful to the vast number of 100,000 far-
to the sixteenth Zionist Congress,
figure in an "affaire" that shook the French
new, were Sam Coslow, Harry of the economical aspects of Palestine, but Eugene Meyer himself
store order for a period of six
that a brochure appeared, in Ger-
Republic to its foundation. Today, at 73 years
mers today. This number is about five-
months. However, Abdullah's
Ruby, Charles Reimer, Al Du- appears to be completely estranged. go I don't know that we can
man, entitled "The Jewish Irri-
of age, he has just been honored by a tablet
fold that of the beginning of this century.
tenure of office continued for a
bin, and Rodgers and Hart.
dente." This brochure contained
"kleib much nachath," if you are out "klcibing" this morning from
set up by the League for the Rights of Man
longer
period
and
England
began
in
brief
and
concise
form
impor-
Those who were among the early pioneers
Meyer's career.
at the spot where he first touched the soil of
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to think on a basis for further
By the way, did you hear the
tant material relating to these
France after his return from his tragic and
in the Jewish back-to-the-soil movement
separating
Transjordania
from
questions.
Recently
a
young
Jew-
latest
laugh
on
Jolson?
His
wife,
A CHIP OF THE OLD BLOCK
undeserved exile.
were of such a determined and idealistic
Palestine.
ish jurist, S. Fishelev, submitted
Ruby Keeler, has finally won out
With all due respect to Mr. Meyer, I, myself, am just now more
An extraordinary wrong, Inflicted upon him
to the University of Toulouse, THE PACT OF 1928
against his better judgment . .
character that their devotion marks them
interested in the career of a Jew holding a less-notable position, that
largely because he belonged to a race and a
a thesis for his doctorate degree
she's going into pictures. And of Simon Lubin, who has just been appointed head of the State Bur-
The
first
draft
of
the
mandate
as a sterling element in American Jewry
class hated by the aristocratic and militar-
entitled "The International Stat-
for Palestine contained 27 para- here's the ironic part ... she was eau of Commerce of California. Lubin is the son of the late and
istic elements in French society, plucked Alfred
bent upon drawing Jews from the white
ute of Eastern Palestine (Trans-
graphs none of which mentioned signed Ay Warner's with whom famous David Lubin, and according to reports, inherits much of the
Dreyfus from obscurity and made his case a
jordania)"
Transjordania. The final text Jolson "long time no speskee."
collar and business elements to the more
idealism of his distinguished parent.
symbol both of the blackest reaction and of
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of the Mandate consisted of 28
The book, represents an impor-
Lubin haa evolved a plan of economic relief, which it appears to
the flaming passion for justice that sometimes
productive pursuit of farming.
paragraphs, paragraph 25 of
In a sentimental moment Paul me, has much common sense to it. It is no panacea, and is not in-
tant
and
useful
source
and
is
an
springs up beside it. If the Dreyfus case
which
empowered
the
mandatory
Muni bought himself some tended as such, but it is by steps as his that this depression may at
earnest
exposition
of
the
whole
At the celebration in Norma, Joseph
produced a Major Eaterhazy, for whose guilt
government, with the consent of
trouble in the shave of a small least be softened. California is confronted by a surplus of some of
complex problem with the excep-
the poor young captain had to suffer, and a
Perski, city solicitor of Atlantic City, son
the council of the League of Na-
terrier. He and his wife both her farm products, and at the same time, in other parts of the coun-
tion only of its economic as-
Colonel Henry, who tried to uphold the "honor"
tions "to withhold or set aside,
pects. .
like dogs, but this one objects try, there are potential consumers, but without the ability to meet
of one of the 93 original settlers in the New
of the French Army by forging evidence, it
in
the
territories
between
the
to the bathtub for • home and the prices of former years. So Lubin dispatched salesmen to thelre-
The writer has utilized all offi-
Jersey Jewish colonies, described the early
also inspired the splendid "J accuse" of Zola
Jordan river and the Eastern
keep. the other apartmentees lief agencies all over the country, who are offering these relief agen-
cial
English
documents,
proto-
and the withering irony of certain chapters in
boundary
of
Palestine,
the
em-
struggles of the pioneers and said that "the
awake at night. Furthermore cies, canned fruit, oranges, rice and other California products at
cols of the English Parliament
Anatole France's "Penguin Island."
ployment
of
such
mandate
agree-
Muni spends his wakeful hours bargain prices.
worst piece of land in New Jersey" was
and the Mandates Commission
ments which are found to be un-
What of the central figure in this national
If Lubin can show farmers that they don't have to burn their
worrying about what to do with
of
the
League
of
Nations,
the
chosen by the Jewish farmers who
applicable
because
of
local
con-
and even international tragedy? Perhaps it
it when they leave for the East. crops, he will have done something characteristically Lubinesque.
English and French press and le-
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ditions."
was the capacity to endure and the will to live
achieved success only as a result of the
gal sources. lie has written a
On the basis of this paragraph,
that stood out most in his character. In his
We just discovered that Dr. JEWS AND THE REVOLUTION
book which will be used as a
ideals which motivated their efforts. Thus
Great
Britain,
in
a
memorandum
old age he can remember when he was marched
Fink, ht. S. (Member of the Syna-
source by those who have a living
I have been glancing through a History of American Colonial
it has been in other sections which Jews
sent to the League of Nations on gogue) is the piano tinkles for
out to the parade ground to have his sword
interest in an understanding of
by Professor Oliver B. Chitwood of the University
Sept. 16, 1923, declared that Mickey Mouse cartoons. Between Life
broken and his insignia of rank torn off. Ile
undertook to cultivate. It is so in Russia
the Transjordanian problem.
West
Virginia. On the whole, I think it a rather good work on
of
it would not employ in Trans- pictures he works at dentistry.
can remember the indignities of the convict
Dr. Fishelev points to the in-
the
subject,
but the Professor makes one statement there that I think
where some of the land upon which Jews
jordania all the stipulations of
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ship and of Devil's Island, the later years
teresting fact that Transjordania
is
founded
on inadequate premises. Most of the Jews in the 13 colon-
the mandate relating to the duty
have been settled is far from being alto-
when he was vindicated and again wore the
Director Kenneth MacKenna ies, he says, were loyalists.
was included in the British man-
assumed of helping to establish
uniform of the republic, the day in 1908 when
is forsaking the megaphone and
gether desirable; it was so in Palestine,
date for Palestine thanks largely
Now, that is a rather broad statement to make, and I can't see
a Jewish national homeland in
Gregori wounded him during the ceremonies
returning to his first love— how any such statement can be made, for there was, of course, noth-
to the fact that England desired
where Jews drained marshes and stamped
Palestine.
attending the removal of Zola's ashes to the
"a good Eastern frontier for the
acting.
ing
like a census of the loyalists, and no way by which even a rough
On
April
26,
1923,
Sir
Herbert
out malaria before their settlements be-
Pantheon.
Jewish government in Palestine."
Did you know that he has ■ numerical estimate can be made. What Professor Chitwood did was
Samuel, in the name of the Brit-
Following the temporary al-
came habitable. The New Jersey pioneer.
Lieut. Col. Dreyfus moves through these tre-
de:cling array of famous rel.• probably go by the noise made by a few Jewish loyalists, and since
ish
government,
declared
that
liance of Great Britain and
mendous episodes as a rather shadowy figure.
tires? Father, Leo Mielliner, the greater number of those who were better off financially were loyal-
ing effort is another project of this type
Great Britain is willing to recog-
France during the World War,
lie was and is simple, retiring, untheatrical.
a celebrated portrait painter) ists, and since Jews were among the merchants and financial classes
nize the independence of Trans-
which speaks in tribute to Jewish dealism
the
territory
now
known
as
Ile is small and slender, white-haired, blue-
mother, a journalist; Brother generally, ipso facto, they were also loyalists.
under Emir Abdullah.
Transjordania became part of . jordania
when it is bent upon overcoming obstacles
eyed. A Times correspondent who visited him
Joe, a distinguished scenic ar-
On
Feb.
20,
1928,
a
pact
was
I dare say that the most prominent person of Jewish persuasion
so-called occupied enemy terri-
some years ago said of his eyes that they
tist; Cousin Stephen MacKenn•, in the public eye was a Jewish girl, Rebecca Franks—and It happens
concluded
between
Great
Britain
and achieving a desired end for the ad-
tory administration. under the
seemed "to have been vitrified in tears."
• novelist; Great-aunt Charlotte, that she was a loyalist. She belonged to the aristocratic set— the
and
Emir
Abdullah
which
com-
vancement of the welfare of the people it
rule of King Feisal, who then
a well-known actress,
pleted the separation of Trans-
Penns and the Chews of Philadelphia. She was pretty, sparkling—
Perhaps as he sits in peaceful retirement,
occupied the throne of Syria.
seeks to aid.
jordania from Palestine, al-
one of the intellectual belles of the day. When that dashing, but
fingering his cross of the Legion of Honor, the
ORGANIC
PART
OF
PALESTINE
though
the
British
mandate
over
ill-fated English officer, Major Andre, staged his tournaments which
Alexander
Carr,
now
being
seen
Dreyfus Affair seems like an evil dream. And
A complicated situation de-
the new government remains in in "No Greater Love," tells this regaled the British Commander-in-Chief, General Howe, Rebecca was
perhaps he thinks of Zola in the Pantheon and
veloped,
however,
when
the
full
force.
one of the queens. Officers, too, on the "patriotic" side like to associate
one
on
himself.
It
was
the
time
When Jews Go to Court in Poland
reflects that though the mills of God grind
Dr. Fishelev marshals a brill- when showy jewelry was class with her. One of her brothers, too, I believe, was a stout loyalist.
French drove King Feisal from
slowly yet they grind exceedingly small.
Anything is possible when a Jew goes
Damascus and the question of
iant array of facts to prove that among troupers. Carr, observing She probably contributed more to creating the general impression that
If Alfred Dreyfus "moves through these which country Transjordania England openly violated Article all the members of his company Jews were loyalists than a hundred Jews who fought in Washington's
to court in Poland. A Jew seeking justice
25 of the mandate in its memo- bedecked, decided that as leading army could offset.
was to belong to was abated. It
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in that land evidently may expect any rul- tremendous episodes as a rather shadowy is interesting to recall how the randum of September 22, 1923.
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man he should and would have the
It is also contrary to Article flashiest sparkler possible. A few SOME PATRIOTS
English
press
insisted
upon
the
figure,"
how
much
more
true
is
his
reserve
ing—ranging from justice to decisions most
5 of the Mandate, which makes days later, after what he thought
of Transjordania in the
We dare say that Prof. Chitwood knows very little, if anything,
in relation to the Jewish people? The inclusion
wild in their fancies.
the mandatory government re- was a particularly creditable per- about other Jews of the Revolutionary days as Salvador in South
British and not in the French
sponsible for the unity of Pales- formance, he called on his tailor, Carolina, one of the leaders in the patriot cause in that colony and
Here is an instance of Polish judgment. Dreyfus Affair affected the Jewish scene Mandate.
tine territory, declares Dr. Fish-
The London Times wrote on
incidentally, one of the first casualties of the war. Nor of David
A sentence of one month's imprisonment, much more than it did the international Sept.
(Turn to Next Page.)
elev.
19, 1920, that Transjor-
Emanuel, later to become governor of Georgia, who saved himself by
imposed upon a student, Jahn Milashewski, non-Jewish situation. The Zionist move-
flight just as he was about to be put to death by the British, or by
for participating in the anti-Jewish riots ment — and the subsequent material and
that other Jewish leader in Georgia, who when captured by the Brit-
ish, was forced, with deliberate irony, to live en a diet of pork, nor
last November, was reversed by the War- spiritual growth of Palestine—might never
of Seisms, the Jewish "parson" of the Spanish congregation in New
saw Court of Appeals. This higher court have grown to its present proportions had
York, who refused to hold services and swear fealty when the British
took New York and when thousands of non-Jews were swearing feal-
upheld the argument of Milashewski's it not been for the effect the Dreyfus trial
ty.
We could go on for some pages, but it is enough to say that we
had
on
the
Viennese
journalist
Theodor
counsel that the lower court's sentence
think Professor Chitwood, whose work as a whole we respect, is just
was under the law which prohibits incite- Herzl. Other Jews were similarly influ-
plain damp on this subject, to use a vernacularism.
Wilson until the day of his death MEDICAL CONGRESS
ment by one section of the population enced by the events which divided French BERNARD BARUCH
I read an interesting article on and that even today he is still a
I note in the Jewish Daily Bul-
against another, and the ruling was that public opinion on the question of Dreyfus's Bernard
close
and trusted friend and ad-1 letin that plans for a Jewish Medi-
Baruch
and
I'll
pass
a
the Jews are not one section of the popula- guilt. Non-Jews began to take a deep in- part of it along to the readers of vises of Mrs. Wilson. If I am not cal Congress are being formulated
terest in Jewish matters. Emile Zola this column. Just before I start mistaken he was at one time asso- in Paris by a group of Jewish
tion but a separate nation.
I want to say that quite a number ciated with the other great finan- physicians who were present at
If the gods are ruling against Poland's planned to write a novel with a Zionist of years ago I received a letter cier whose name has become syn- the Geneva Jewish Conference. How Soto, Jewish Women Exerted an Important Influence
theme, and before his death already be- from Mr. Baruch in which he said onymous with the present rise of What's the sense of that? We will
Upon Cultural Thought in Germany; The Story
happiness, they are certainly leading up
came an avowed friend of the movement "for the past five years I have securities, Eugene Meyer, Jr.
soon be holding conventions of
of One of These Women,
to it by first driving to madness this un-
Jewish bookkeepers, Jewish ad-
for Palestine's reconstruction as a Jewish not been engaged in any occupa-
happy country's judges. We are reminded
vertising writers, Jewish bakers, ONE WHO LOVED. Thestory of Jean Paul Richter, and numerous
tion for gain." But apparently, PREJUDICE IN SUPREME
commonwealth.
Rebel Lenin. Hy D. L. Adler Hobman,
within recent years he has re- COURT
Jewish stenographers, Jewish law-
of the story that is told about the Jew
Published by Edgard Gold•tan, Ltd.. others.
turned
to
his
first
love,
the
stock
yers, and no on and so forth.
I
haven't
had
time
to
read
the
Don Raphael D'Urquljo, Span-
21 Museum street, W. C. 1, London,
who passed a Russian courthouse in the
Only one man remained silent: Alfred market. However, here are some
Sometimes
we
do
stupid
things,
England.
n e w "Washington Merry - Go-
iard, exerts an influence upon thin
days of the Czar. He stopped before a Dreyfus himself. Not a word did he ever sidelights on this colorful financial Round," but I was surprised to don't we? And one of these stu-
Jewess, as her lover with when
At the beginning of the last cen- she later breaks. There are other
read in an excerpt published in pid things is to call JEWISII doc-
statue outside the courthouse and asked an utter on matters affecting the Jewish peo- figure:
tury, the salon as a center of cul- love affairs, but the most beautifO
"Eugene Meyer, Jr., general- one of the dailies that opposition tors in a medical conference.
officer what sort of monument it was. ple. True, the charge against him was the issimo
tural
and political thought was at
of the Government's busi- to Cardozo's appointment came
with Varnhagen, wham
"Don't you know?" replied the officer. result of an anti-Semitic maneuver. • Per- ness reconstruction forces, may be from the SUI'REME COURT ZION POPULATION
its height in Germany. Henrietta she later marries, after formal co t.
Babel Levin, a daughter of version.
"It is a monument to 'Justice.' " The Jew haps his aim was to emphasize how as- the 'father' of the current bull BENCH itself! And guess upon But in the meantime this in- Herz,
market, but credit as the en- what grounds? Racial! Yes, we quiry regarding the various popu- Moses Mendelssohn and a host of
The introduction of Beethow
The
shook his head pityingly, arousing the in- similated he really was. But it is stock
other Jewish women were among
gineering genius behind the rise are told that some of the staid
of Palestine is waiting for those who resided over these fash- to the reader makes interestint
terest of the officer as to his action, which true also that the Jewish people stuck is placed by Wall Street on the old gentlemen didn't like to see lations
reading. But perhaps the most fa-
an immediate answer. So I use
cinating portion of the book is that
he explained by saying: "Unhappy coun- by him to the very last, battling for his doorstep of Barnard Mannes Ba- Cardozo appointed because he is the March issue of Current His- ionable salons.
While each, in her own way, ex- dealing with Heine. When she
ruch ... Barney—as he is known a Jew. How's that for news from tory for my authority and it gays:
try! Where Justice is to be found only honor—which was also their honor—and downtown—is the Street's No. 1 the highest judicial body in the
erted a great influence upon the first hm
. e w t him, !heti:
fuy
o k of
mobilizing public opinion throughout the market operator who works in the United States? And they call one "The Palestine census of 1931 oustanding men of letters, artists advantages of my race."
outside the courtroom!"
shows that instead of 590,890 and statesmen of their time, their
theory,
If
you're
right
61
per
of
the
Catholic
justices
"the
papal
•
You are entirely not
In Poland there have been Instances to world in his behalf.
cent of the time you'll make mil- delegate" which also indicates that Moslems, 83,794 Jews and 73,024 Jewishness was accidental. Prac- not .4.1
r
as in 1922, there are tically every one had intermarried 15. . baptized
. ie . rh .. et re still waterproof. t do no
Nevertheless, insofar as Alfred Dreyfus's lions . . . and then he gives out the justices are quite human in Christians
prove that neither in nor out of the court-
now
759,952
Moslems,
175.006
want
to
tease a religion which has /mei
and became converted to Christian-
this advice on playing inside tips: their prejudices even though they
excellent cooking. 1 ean remember beim
room has the Jew been able to secure jus- Jewishness is concerned, he belongs today 'In my entire business career I appear to us laymen as supermen. Jews and 90,607 Christians. While ity.
threshed as • boy st school, becalm.
that the French for faith was'
tice. But this latest ruling, writing the to the same obscurity from which mili- have never received or given or I never dreamt that feeling of that the total number of Jews has One of these women, Rahel Lev- mid
credit
doubled,
it
still
was
only
17
per
os“yr.a,theel n t bitter
people who have lived in Poland for more tarism and anti-Semitism plucked him acted upon any inside information sort could find • place in such an cent of the population, and its in- in, is the subject of a biography
tt, : e hhr atIt thine r.
sf a ont r eha e rtn ti n h4 7,
by D. L. Adler Holman, under the
on any subject connected with august and such • JUDICIAL
than a thousand years outside the pale of more than 90 years ago. Is it because his financial matters. Inside infor- bodyl Then, too, I thought that crease of 92,000 was much less title "One Who Loved." It is a Or will
tell
o Msoul
bulk Some
Polish nationality, thus robbing of their eyes had been "vitrified in tears" that he mation and Credit would break when intellectual men arrived at than the Moslem increase of 169,- simple, almost a day by day ac- times it 'Is*
n out Into the Infini ,
000. The non-Jewish increase of
solo shrink• almost to nothIna
of the life of the heroine and soloit
just rights Jews whose kith and kin fought chooses to remain in obscurity? Is it his the Bank of England. A man who such a ripe age that time would 186,000 was, in fact more than count
who befriended Goethe, Heine, but 1 on penoltly• that t taco a mil'"
depends upon inside information mellow them and make them see
Heine's wit finds expression it
in Poland's battles for freedom and took a tragedy of four decades ago which has left loses his perspective."
their fellows in a more friendly the total number of Jews in 1931. Beethoven and others whose names ether
conversations with Rebel am
These figures (I am still quoting dominate the period under discus-
Baruch's father was the late Dr. light.
leading part in Polish revolutionary move- such a deeply saddened impression? Would
frequenters
of her salon. An un
from 'Current History') are dis- sion.
Baruch, who was ■ field
ments—this ruling is so insane that one he have been drawn closer to his people Simon
p !h e ant p e e e ri ,. e en nc eni , e a ts w
„.
r h e
a t result
couraging
to
the
Zionists,
but
surgeon in Lee's Confederate
The author quotes Thomas Car-
H
ei
n
e
begins to wonder whether the Poles who had not death interfered with Zola's plan Army. lie brought his wife and Memorial To Mark Spot should diminish the tension in lyle: "Travellers to Germany, now
at the hands of Rebel, is late
Palestine
by
showing
Arabs
that
a numerous sect with us, ask you
have just acquired independence are not to write a Zionist novel? Or has Alfred his son Barney to New York in
ni
c h :h e nse d t u mi a nr irat n t dh
p.
oa r lsou lastin
hi sma
es tin g friend
Where Dreyfus Landed. they need not fear displacement as
they return from aesthetic capi-
MI when the boy was only 12
drunk unto madness with their new power Dreyfus chosen to remain as aloof from years
the
by Jews. The total of 1,035,154, tals and circles, 'Do you know chip
old. His first job was with
PARIS.—(J. T. A.)—A com- which includes some other groups, Rahel?'" Such was the influence
his people as he was before the libel was A. A. Housman & Co., a broker.
of statehood.
he
an increase of 30 per cent of this Jewess, of whom Goethe
made against him, in order to emphasize age house, and from that vantage memorative slab, marking the shows
ei.n d e td eeno t eh : t
spot
where Colonel Alfred in nine years. Cities contain 387,- said after meeting her in the sum- Jewishness. But en her m
point Baruch sprang eventually
close
she
feels
as
if
she
is
drawn
how
little
he
actually
belongs
to
his
people?
"A Besieged Fortress"
into the field of Wall Street spec- Dreyfus, chief protagonist in 1 625 persons, about one-third of mer of 1795: "She is a girl of ex- to
expresses
Be the answer what it may, Dreyfus's ulation. During the war Presi- the Dreyfus cause celebre, the whole. Jerusalem has 90,626 traordinary intellect ... a beauti- hh eerpeo
Ludwig Fulda, German poet and play-
gs te ellsp he
Jepe
w l ish
. net,
Wilson made him a member landed upon his arrival from inhabitants, Jaffa 51,876, Tel-Aviv ful soul; the better one knows her, . husband she had been thinkici
wright, who just celebrated his seventieth natne will remain an important landmark dent
46,109
and
Haifa
50,689.
Males
incarceration
in
Devil's
Island
the more does one feel drawn to and 'h
of the National Defense Council
m
°
o
nuatry
J
esus.
su
j
us
d.a
sIm
yp:
of
t
i
h
a
kth
birthday, some years ago wrote to the di- in Jewish history. The events which ac- and later purchasing agent for the on July 1, 1899, will be placed outnumber females Int 17,000." delightfully held by her."
crops m01.5
That I think is exhaustive
"One Who Loves" introduces the dosing her final moments.
companied the famous "affaire" changed Government, having direct charge at Port llaliguen by the League enough
rector of philanthropies in Frankfurt:
to answer the most excit- reader to an array of important
expenditures amounting to ten for Human Rights.
While Rahel Levin Varnhagei
the course of Jewish thought, brought many of
Colonel Dreyfus landed at ing questioner. Frankly, I think men who influenced the life of and
billion dollars . . He went to
"I am a German of Jewish origin, and if
other Jewesses who demon
it
is
much
easier for the Arabs to Rahel, or who were in turn In- ated the
Port
Haliguen
enroute
to
re-
assimilated
sons
of
Israel
back
to
the
fold,
Paris to help negotiate the peace
I am as far from the Jewish Church as from
the salons of their period
treaty and the same authority trial at Rennes, where his in- increase their number because fluenced by her. Count Karl von contributed nothing to their ew'
made
great
friends
for
Israel
among
the
any other, I still describe myself of Mosaic
gives us the surprising informa- nocence of the charges of sell- they have such a vast reserve Finkenstein was one of them. people, their story is Interesting
religion, because one does not desert from non-Jews and stimulated the growth of the tion that Baruch WAS OFFERED ing French military secrets to nearby, than the Jews who have "Prince Louis Ferdinand called Re- as to the manner in which Jelger
movement as a result of which Palestine THE PORTFOLIO OP SECRE- Germany was established, af- to filter in through carefully scru- bel his spiritual midwife, his little sea build life around them ex
a besieged fortress."
fire years on Devil's Island. tinized immigration channels. So Levi, or simply his little one, as his cept their own. It is Interestien
is today the one spot on the globe from TARY OF THE TREASURY and ter 'Colonel
Dreyfus, now 71
I think the Arabs need have no fancy took him." Then there were also as the story of a period which
This statement is now recalled by the which emanates happy news about Jews refused it! Everybody knows that
years
old. Is living in retire-
fear of being dispossessed in a the brthera Schlegel. the poet von lin a mo edio atelypreced G e;Irm ta he nyemane
very
who
few
he was one of the
Berlin Juedisthe Rundschau, organ of the
hurry!
Humboldt, Countess Schlabrendorf, pul of Jewa In
remained in the good graces of ment in France.
and
for
Jews.
which joins
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RANDOM THOUGHTS
by Charles
H. Joseph
When the Salon Was in Fashion
German Zionist Federation,