7i1EDLTROITIEWISfl CtIt01VIGLE and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE Federation Can Avoid an Error. and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE WmiW y 17 The J..ei.h aw•sOgle Publishing Co, la. P eed u asses-slue matter March a, 1919, at the Pat- io. et Detroit, Mich. coder the Act of March I. 1179. General Offices and Publication Building 525 Woodward Avenue Tolo ► konsi Cadillac 1040 Cable Addresai Chronicle Lead. OfAm 14 Stratford Plum, London, W. 1, EngIasi Sabocription, in Advance 4100 Per Year to• Masse publication, all correspondence and mews stetter sent each this efts. by Tuesday evening of each yak. MI. walling notice*, kindly as• one side of the paper only. •the Detroit Jeivish Chronicle Invites cortespondence on sub. of intermit is the Jewish people. but disclaims seasonal- 111lity fee an indorsement of the •Iews ea-preened by the waters sm. Eighth Day of Chanukah Readings of the Torah Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 41:1-44:47; Num. 7:54-8:4. Prophetical portion—I Kings 7:40-50. December 30, 1932 Tebeth 1, 5693 Orthodox Youth and Palestine. The convention of the mid-western or- ganization of the Mizrachi Youth of Amer- ica, taking place in Detroit this week-end, draws the attention of the Jews of this community to an unusually interesting phenomenon in Jewish life. Through this movement of American boys and girls, a certain definite contribu- tion is being made to the effort for the reconstruction of Palestine as the Jewish National Home. In spite of difficulties and obstacles in their way, these Jewish young people are conducting their work in a spirit of observance and of adherence to Jewish traditions. They honor the Sabbath and aim to build in Palestine centers in which Jewish traditions should be observed to the letter of the law. Mizrachi Youth combines in its program the constructive and practical with the traditional and religious. It lends roman- tic touches to the efforts in behalf of the Zionist movement, and its devotional spirit acts as a leavening element in Palestinian work. Certainly, the movement of the Mizrachi Youth helps to add interest to and to complete the picture of the Zionist cause. • Outstanding personalities are here to join in the deliberations of this convention. Rabbi Meyer Berlin, as head of the world Mizrachi movement; Rabbi Wolf Gold, head of the American Mizrachi, as well as other American and Palestinian leaders, are distinguished guests of Detroit Jewry on this occasion. To them we extend greetings of welcome; and to the conven- tion we express the wish that it may be successful in its deliberations, The Jewish Welfare Federation of De- troit announces that the annual meeting of its 16 or more constituencies, as well as the yearly get-together of the Detroit Ser- vice Group, will be held on Sunday, Jan. 29. In view of the importance that is an- nually ascribed to this event, it is well that the community's important agencies should deliberate in advance before they definitely determine again to repeat the cut-and- dried routine of a yearly meeting in the form in which it was previously held. It is one thing to have a social get-together of the Detroit Service Group at a dinner, followed by a program of entertainment. It is an entirely different and far more serious matter to attempt to dispose of the community's important business in the rou- tine manner in which it was previously done. Following the annual Federation meet- ing last year, we expressed the belief that such form of annual conference for the purpose of deliberating on the efforts of our important communal agencies is "a bundle of errors." We again express this view, far enough, in advance for the Fed- eration's leaders to be able to deliberate on their plans before such errors are re- peated. In our issue of Feb. 5, 1932, immediately following yast year's annual meeting, we expressed our views in the following ed- itorial: A Comparison in Nationalisms. Outlining his views on the Ireland of the future, and describing the vision he has for the future betterment of his people, Eamon de Valera expressed views to an inter- viewer which served to remind Jewish nationalists of comparisons that were made a decade ago of Zionist and Irish aspira- tions. To this very day, the views of de Valera might, with the substitution of "Jewish" for Irish," be used in propagating the Jewish cause. To quote Mr. de Valera: For a long time to come we must devote our efforts to the recovery of the ancient Irish culture, which we came to within a hair's breadth of losing altogether, The endeavor to restore the Irish language is only one aspect of this cultural movement. Foreigners sometimes make the mistake of regarding the language movement as purely linguistic. It is not. It is cultural and eco- nomic as well. It is the starting point from which we move toward the restoration of the distinctive Irish State. We have no desire to perpetuate the imitation of a foreign social order which we have at present. Our task is the creation of a new social order which will have the distinction of its locality and of the race that uses it. We shall have to have our own industries, for no nation can survive in the modern strug- gle for exixatence without a healthier and more balanced internal economy than we possess at present. But the centralization of Industries on the English scale is wholly alien to us. It is not the Irish way to permit the man to be enslaved by the machine. What we aim at is the spiritualization of economics, the develop- ment of an economic freedom, through village industries in which every individual may re- ceive a portion of the national well-being. Our power resources are sufficient to provide energy for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses in our towns and villages and on our farms. With this, we hope to develsp a balanced agri- cultural and industrial economy which will enable us to keep our people on the land. This is our goal. Substitute "Jewish Ilidneland" for "Irish State" in this statement, and you have a nationalistic plea easily transportable from Ireland to Palestine. It will be recalled that shortly after the issuance of the Bal- four Declaration Zionist orators drew freely upon Irish examples to point out that Jews, too, have reason and right to aspire to a cultural and political individuality and to industrial freedom as a people. Naturally it is pleasing to note that Mr. de Valera's aspirations have a note of the prophetic in them; that his hopes are for social and economic justice. And this all the more strengthens our comparison. The Irish leader's and Jewish aspirations are identical in that they aim to lift people out of the rut of economic corruption into a new system of economic living which will "spiritualize economics" and which will cause governments to be ruled by a social justice that has for generations been strange to the political philosophies of the world's rulers. The Irish'are considerably more fortun- ate than the Jews. Their struggle for inde- pendence was in behalf of a people resid- ing on its own soil but ruled by others. The Jew is compelled to work from without, constantly overcoming obstacles and bat- tling for the right to bring an additional handful of settlers for colonization on ancient Jewish soil. Because of this, the Jew's glory of achievement when the battle k tinally won will be all the greater. Vachtangov and Habimah Our Filth Folk How an Armenian Influenced a Troupe of Hebrew Players. By HELEN ZIGMOND By BEN ARI tEditore NOW The author of this article one of the organisers of the original Ha- ah Troupe. Mr. wen-Art Is at present In Detroit together with An. Haiti!, another Hablmah star. Both sill appear here In con- cert on Jan. 9. at the Maccabew Auditorium. him Last Sunday, the Jewish Welfare Federa- tion of Detroit held its annual meeting. Con- vening simultaneously with it were 15 constitu- ent social service groups. And attending this joint meeting of 16 important communal agen- cies were less than a hundred people. Which inspires the question: Is such a meet- ing Worth while an4 profitable? Does it serve any purpose whatever that 16 spokesmen for as many very important community groups should rattle off facts and figures for a handful of men and women, most of whom are either social workers affiliated with these groups or officers of these agencies who are of necessity acquainted with the facts in advance? Such a system, it appears to us, is a bundle of errors. Not only is the number of people who evince an interest in this routine practice too insignificant to warrant the trouble taken to convene the meeting and to berAld its im- portance many weeks in advance, but the hasty manner in which figures of the North End Clinic are given one moment, and those of the Hebrew Free Loan the next, etc., cause such rapid blending of reports to lose the entire purpose of the meeting. In the event that last year's plan of con- ducting the annual meeting is repeated by the Federation, our Jewish leaders will merely be perpetuating a farce. For a hundred or less people, most of them of- ficers of our agencies or office-holders, to convene for the purpose• of hearing the rattling, off of a mass of facts which are never thereafter made public to the com- munity is nothing more than a farce. The more sensible, and certainly the more prac- tical method, would be for each constitu- ent agency to meet individually, enabling it thereby to deivote an entire afternoon for a discussion of its particular problems. But when the work of the Hebrew Schools is jumbled with that of the Jewish Social Service Bureau, and the figures of the United Jewish Charities building fund with those of the North End Clinic, within a period of less than two hours, the event becomes an uninteresting joke. Let the Federation avoid such an error in advance. Israel Querido's Burial. The recent article in our columns about the late Israel Querido, great Dutch- Jewish writer, may now be supplemented by rather scandalizing news about the manner in which this author was buried in a Christian cemetery, the interment thus resulting in heated controversy in Holland. Jewry was outraged by the burial of this Jewish writer in a non-Jewish fashion, ac- cording to reports now reaching Us, and the London Jewish World, commenting on these incidents, states: The significance of the biblical phrase and he was gathered unto his people" has sunk deeply into the Jewish organism. Which ex- plains in some measure the shock to Jews if ■ member of the race, whatever his relation to his people during his life, has not, in the very end, "gathered unto his people." We can, therefore, appreciate the keen annoyance of the Jews in Holland that the late Israel Querido was buried outside the pale of lasting Jewish settlement. The distinguished writer, it is true, held himself aloof from immediate Jewish affairs, but his works leave no doubt that he was fully Jew-conscious. One recalls the Spanish-Jewish grandmother, in one of Querido', powerful dramatic works, who, proud of her glorious Jewish past, stands Immovably firm at the Jewish gate barring the way of her offspring, who, haunted by the call of the present lures, desire to cross the barrier. It is not merely a family tragedy; it is symbolical of the Jewish people, and reveals Querido's spiritual contact with his fellow-Jews. There is also sufficient evidence on record that he was opposed to the avowed assimilationist ten- dencies of that other Dutch-Jewish dramatist, Heijermans, who, being of German-Jewish descent, had not that innate pride possessed by the Sephardic Querido. But, apart from the spiritual and moral contact with his fellow- people, it is pointed out that the deceased author was even a member of the Amsterdam Spanish Congregation. Yet, without much ado, a gentleman who made himself responsible for the funeral, with or without the consent of the family—there Is some controversy on this point—separated him from his people. Of particular significance in this contro. l. vergy, of course, is the craving for Jewish burial even among irreligious Jews. For ages, the threat of a possible refusal of burial in a Jewish cemetery and under JeW- ish auspices has served to secure the sup- port for Jewish committees from men who were otherwise antagonistic. It is proof of the existence of a bond between Jew and Jew which is not to be broken even by death.' The controversy over Querido's burial koves it. Books have been written about Vachtangov. His name, life and works are now a symbol of the theater that is slowly displacing the old conceptions of the tradi- tional Russian theater. Even now there is a playhouse in Rus- in& bearing Vachtangov's name, and working in the [spirit of the deceased teacher. His followers are legion, and his influence is almost legendary, however, his work in connection with Habim- ah has not as yet been adequate- ly discussed. While it is true that Ilabinia has carried Vachtangov's name to all corners of its wide tour, it has not had the °cession to sufficiently impress its admirers with the tremendous influence wielded by this Armenian regis- seur of the Dybbuk. It would not be exaggerating to state that if it weren't for Vachtangov, there would be no Habime. Of course, the group might have been in existence, but it would never have reached that high levs el of artistic attainment for which it is now noted. It is only Vachtsngov's indefatigable labor which made Habima what it is, and now as a student and follow- er of Vachtangov, will relate a few episodes concerning his con- nection with Habimah. COMES TO HABIMAU. The years 1918-1920 in Mos- cow were years of hunger, po- grom, revolutions—and in a cor- ner of this stricken city, a group of youths from all parts of Rus- sia gathered to study theater. Everybody • was in search of something-something that would keep the human from spiritual decay. With energy and love, we betook ourselves to our difficult task, but we soon discovered that it was next to impossible to work without a leader. Around us there 'were companies boasting great artistic accomplishments, institu- tions with years of tradition, ac- tors with world-wide reputations, leaders whose achievement grac- ed the pages of theatrical his- tory, And we? We were with- out tradition, without a policy, and without a leader. However this condition was soon remedied. Upon the recommendation of Stanislaysky, his pupil Vachtan- gov was accepted as regisseur of Habimah, so that our lot was completely cast into the hands of this man. At the time that Vachtangov came to Habimah, he was a de- voted disciple of the Stanislav- sky system. It was the system spiritualized experiences and one hundred per cent realism. Dur- ing his apprenticehip in the Mos- cow Art Theater, he absorbed all the teachings of his master, even as a member of the studio of the Moscow Art Theater, he played and directed performances ac- cording to the Stanislaysky meth- od, but he felt that something was lacking. It was only natur- al, therefore, that upon chance observance of Meyerhold's exper- imental work in Petrograd, he was impressed so deeply, that it reacted upon his manner of act- ing and directing. He formed a group, experimented, sought and created. Vachtangov was not yet aware of the object of his researches, but his intuition led him to be- lieve that somewhere there must be another way. It was then that he came to Habimah, whose mem- bers listened with breathless at- tention to the explanation of his theories. All of them, the old, who were more or less grounded in the study of the theater, and the younger ones who had to start at the very beginning via- ioned a new world before them and a new leader. All the mem- bers of Ilabimah were then ad- herents of Stanislaysky, and they could not conceive of a style or method superior to his. Vachtan- gov was aware of this fact, and he tactfully prepared a concert with Habimah, arranged in the Stanislaysky style. WORKS ON DYBBUK Vachtangov soon got to work on the Dybbuk, and Habimah will never forget those days and nights spent on rehearsing this play. They were truly the pleas- antest and most beautiful times of our lives. Work would last for hours at a stretch and final rehearsals extended to early morning. Every rehearsal was a distinct performance. It was interesting in the sense that Vachtengov never came to the rehearsals with a definite plan, or with a previously conceived opening and closing of acts. He groped about for new ways, and these extemporaneous gropings were breathtaking and fraught with the greatest suspense. We had to rehearse the first act over and over. Even when the act seemed perfectly com- plete and in the best of shape, Vachtangov found fault with it. As was Usual, after the lowering of the curtain we gathered around him and listen to his crit- icism. Ile would not utter a word, but order us to go on the stage and begin to act again. Immediately the whole act was radically changed. Scenes created over night were immediately dis- placed. Some parts were elim- inated, and new ones were cre- ated. The whole act soon as- sumed an entirely different color. Ilia imagination was no great, that he used to play with the scenes. We were like putty in his hands. After a night of study and strained creation, when the rays of dawn crept through the crevices of the narrow windows, we gathered around Vachtangov fatigued and hungry. He then sang his favorite Armenian song, a song replete with sad- ness and subdued ecstasy. Vach- tangov sat at the piano and we grouped around him. Louder and louder and louder became the tones of this lugubrious melody, stronger and stronger became our echo through the confines of the vacant little theater. When dawn had finally come, we left refreshed by this melody. At night we gathered once more. There was more groping, more singing, and again creating .. . It was then that Vachtangov became ill. He could not sleep nights because of his suffering. Ile could not eat. His only relief was soda. As soon as he entered the theater, he took his custom- ary seat, drank some soda, and celled out "begin." We were im- patiently awating the signal. We began with the "batten" scene. Vachtangov listened, halted us, and commanded "once morel" The scene seemed to us to be in perfect shape, and we could not understand what was wrong. Once more, we sang the "Mipnai- mah" and again the cry "once more!" This repeated a few times. The rehearsal was stop- ped for a few moments and Vach- tangov pointed out that the first batten had ommitted the sigh "01" in passing from one phrase to another. This was nothing compared to the pyrotechnics when an actor ommitted a word. Nevertheless, our rehearsals were not mere exercises in diction or expression. It was a matter of finding a form for the Dybbuk, and the batianim had set the tone for the entire performance. None of us will forget his wild outcry of "Eureka" whenever he (Turn to Next Page) HOLLYWOOD. — How of t en G. B. S. has said, "No, a thousand times, nor Well, now England's obstreperous Georgie is actually coming over . . . and we are re- minded of his little set-to with our own Sammy Goldwyn. Sam wanted George to make a picture in Holly- wood. They discussed terms, con- ditions, contracts. Shaw was in- dependent . . . wanted full say on stories, cast, etc. They argued and argued. Finally the author spoke up, "You see, Mr. Goldwyn, we can't ever agree because you're interested only in art, and I'm in- terested in money." • • • By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright. 1952. Jewish Telegraohle Agency. het A The publishers are still wait- ing for Sam Hoffenstein's book which should have come out in the fall, but Sam is too much engrossed with a play. . • • The finest friendship in movie- town is that of George Sidney and Charlie Murray. In all their seven years of co-starring they have never quarreled. They go to panties and theaters together and even play golf without dis- cord. Sidney is a bachelor, so feels his real home is at the Mut- rays'. One time Charlie arrived in town before George , . but he wouldn't go to the studio till his pal could go along. After tell- ing us this, George Sidney sighs and says, "I'm a sentimentalist, I guess, but I wouldn't be other- wise." • Tidbits and News By-the-Way • • We've heard it said that Allen Jenkins, the mirth - provoking gangster in "Blessed Event," is really Allan Jacob. and one of the Brethren. He'. one of the most promis:ngof recent finds. CHAIN GANG FUGITIVE I have long wanted to comment on the case of Robert Burns, the chain gang fugitive from Georgia—because as a native of that state, I was privileged to see some of the workings of the chain gang system—but I was afraid 1 would be denied the opportunity for want of a Jewish angle. And yet it appears that there are all sorts of Jewish angles. In this place, I could have found a pretext in the fact that it is the Jewish actor, Paul Muni, who plays the stellar role in Burns' moving picturization of his experience. But there are better Jewish angles than that. There is the Jewish angle in the fact that Burns' leading lawyer at the extradition hearing is the Jewish lawyer, Arthur Garfield Hays. There is still another Jewish angle in that one of the principal witnesses was John Spivak, whose recent work, "Georgia Nigger," tells the story of the Georgia chain gangs very effectively and very dramatically. But best of all is the fact that the very man whom Burns is charged with having held up and for which he was sent to the chain gong was produced at the hearing and his name is Samuel Bernstein. So it may be safely assumed that he is a Jew. • • • JEWS PLEAD FOR BURNS It is an interesting fact while the State of Georgia so relentlessly pursues Burns, the Jew, Bernstein, whom Burns held up, urged before the state hearing that Burns be not returned to the Georgia chain gang. In my childhood in Georgia, I used to see these chain gang convicts working the roads. With their heavy shackles—with the man with the whip nearby—end the shot-gun. Most of them, of course, were negroes, and generally las they worked, from sunrise to sunset, you could hear them singing some melodies which, to my memory, sounded very much like the negro spirituals, It was a scene of horror, which left a terrible impression on my mind, and I am thankful that the State of New Jersey has not hon- ored the request of Georgia for the extradition of Burns. • • • THE QUALITY OF MERCY But is it not striking that here so many of the principal forces allied in this effort to save Burns from a return to the chain gang are Jews! Evhn the Jew was robbed. Strangely enough, we Jews immemorially have been lectured by our good Christian brothers on being lacking in mercy. Even our God, it is dinned into our ears continually, is a God of stern justice, of revenge and jealousy, not by any means as sweet and merciful as the Christian concept of God. And, yet, it seems to me, that if there is one thing in which the Jew stands above the Christian world, it is that he is more merciful. We have our weaknesses. Sometimes our manners are not as good as they might be. Some of us, it seems, speak too loudly, and so forth. But as for as mercy is concerned, it is the rankest kind of presumption for a non-Jew to attempt to lecture the hie on any lack of that quality. You know how proud Rosy is of the marvels in his Radio City? The other day he was showing a friend all its wonders . . . "You see this button," he explained. "That can make a complete change of scenery on the stage. And this one controls the entire heat- ing system. When I push this, the whole marquee is ablaze." . . . A GOMPERS ANECDOTE "Just a moment,!' interrupted the I heard a good story related the other day of the late Samuel friend, "which button do you press Gompers. Gompers, it seems, at the time was answering some con- to bring in the customers?" servative who insisted that labor should be content; that if a thing • • • had been good enough for the preceding generation, the later genera- John Herta, Chicago taxi mag- tion of labor ought to be content. nate and initiate film nabob, is Gompers told the story of a mule that protested to its master. eager to get back to his farm "My hours of work are terrible," said the mule, "and my rations far and forget the migraine of pic- from satisfactory." ture making. "What are you kicking about?" said the master. "I worked In ki ■ youthful days Heels your father all his life. His hours were no shorter than yours, and was • sports reporter on the I feed you just as I fed him, yet not once did I hear even so much Chicago Daily News. He kept as a syllable of protest." the job just long enough to sign up • fighter. Then be switched "That may be true," replied th'e mule, "but please remember to what he thought was his real my father was an ass." • • • career—that of • fight manager. • • • A SUCCESS STORY Movie misimpressions. Could It's a long time since we have heard the old kind of success you tell from their screen ap- pearance that: Ricardo Cortez is stories. They perished, of course, with that crash in the stock exchange of 1929. six feet one inch in height? It is the story of Harris Nevin, a real estate operator of Queens, Irving Fiche' is also six feet New York. He was well in the fifties when the crash came, so he tall? Harpo Marx weighs only 140 turned to other fields. He turned to bus operation. And today, the Nevins Bus Line extends almost over the whole country. This week pounds? • • • saw the announcement of Nevin's purchase of a great bus line through Sue Carol and hubby breesed the Middle West, which has been added to the Nevin chain. in from that vauda tour . . . they just had to see their two- month-old Carol Lee. The in- fant is left in care of • trained nurse while papa and mama earn living. • • • • • • • • • HUROK COMES BACK And talking about come-backs after the crash, it seems that So/ Ilurok refuses to give in to the depression. He leaped into promin- ence in the theatrical world by first bringing over Chaliapin and such stars. Josef von Sternberg flicked the Then came bad times for Hurok—even before the crash—and dust of Hollywood from his bi- Ilurok was forced into bankruptcy. But he's back again on Broad- zarre, though picturesque, attire way with an Italian novelty of which much is being written. and turned steadfastly to the east . He'll be sailing the open seas and doesn't know when he will BOXY'S CITY return. Since we've begun talking in this veil:, let's continue for a little a • • • spell. Radio City is at last being opened—a triumph for the Jewish "kop" of Rosy. The gorgeous city within a city is a triumph of the vision of the Jew who came from Minneapolis, and whose beginnings were no ill-starred that he was forced to borrow chairs for his first movie house from an undertaker. But today, Roxy is crowned king of the city that Rockefeller built. Great lights circle Radio City. Somehow I cannot help feeling, as I pass it this Chanukah, of simple little candle lights that were You heard Al Jolson's first burned 2,000 years ago in Judea. Little lights they were, but they broadcast only once, but Al has have shown for 2,000 years. Will these great, big gorgeous lights last that long? (Turn to Next Page.) • • • THE CITY OF SUPERLATIVES Harry Ruby, the tune-writing fellow, is a baseball addict ... he plays second base ... trains every year with which over m•- jor team is on the coast .. this year it'll be with the Pitts- burgh boys. • • • There is a good one being told these days of our Jewish brethren in Hollywood. As you know, the city of Hollywood is famous for its adjectives, which border on the superlative—or rather, transcend the superlative. Well the story goes, that the other day one of the Hollywood magnates was accosted by a friend. "How is busieess?" asked the friend. generally speaking, I think such "Colossal, but it's picking up," replied the magnate. strikes are rather stupid, to say the least. There must be a much more sensible way to correct the abuses in Poland than the one adopted by Mr. Kraus. • • • RANDOM THOUGHTS by Charles H. Joseph ' many things that he fails to ap- BOYD AND HIS VIEWS Ernest Boyd is a writer of parts. preciate in the problem which he He is quite a realist and very radi- attempts so casually to solve. The cal in his approach to every sub- Jew does not want to be assimilated ject. He writes in a magazine cal- and in certain situations there can- led the American Spectator in this not be a common meeting-ground between Jew and non-Jew, but fashion: "The Jews object to being accept- there are MANY from which the WHAT IS GREATNESS? ed, assimilated and received on a Jew is rebuffed. That is the bone I was asked the other day to footing of complete equality with of contention. The Children of Is- name the ten foremost living Amer- other citizens of the countries to rael can remain the Children of ican Jews. Now, that's some task. which they belong. They insist upon Israel without the necessity for After all, WHAT is greatness? Is having their anti-Semitic cake and ostracism of the KIND that the Mr. Warburg any more "foremost" eating it . . . If they wish to re- JEW RESENTS which is NOT the than, let us say, George Kaufmann, main Children of Israel then they kind Mr. Boyd has in mind. who wrote "Of Thee I Sing?" Is 4 • • need not be surprised if the world Salmon Levison of greater value to takes them at their word and treats KRAUS AND HIS FAST the human race, or rather we them accordingly. They should wel- The gentleman by the name of should say, is be more of a per- come ostracism and keep atricty Kraus who started on a hunger sonality than Jack Pearl with his to Mr. thmseves!" Boyd thinks Jews choose to strike as a protest against Poland ' s Baron Munchausen radio eccentric- oppression of the Jews, finished his ities? I confess I don't know. Da- be Separatists . . they want their fast, but not himself. It's one vid Sarnoff of radio fame is per- own land . . . they will not yie thing for a Ghandi to perform that haps as much a figure and is en- their customs or habits . . . they stunt but quite another for one not titled to as much consideration in will not yield much that will en- uite so well known. No if Chaim such a list as Judge Cardoso. But able them to live in complete har- ask any reader of this column to 1% many and on terms with their 'el:mann or undertaking Stephen Wise would name the ten foremost Jews and neighbors, yet equal they complain they essay such an it wouldd nine times out of ten will name the would are ostracized and discriminated mean something' stop, look It and listen. ma But, Brandeis, and the Lehmans and against. He says that it is pro the Cardoso. and the Warburgs, posterous to assume that ■ ew and all the rent of those in the us- ceases to be a Jew when he aban- order. The Warfields, the THE MESSIANIC HOPE ual dons Judaism . . . as preposterous, Mayor of Hollywood fame, Eddie says Mr. Boyd as to assume tha t Cantor and others off the beaten a German is not a German when "When the harp of Judah track of our thinking may in ef- he ceases to be • Lutheran. sounded, thrilled with the touch feet be entitled to the honors we It can't be settled so easily, Mr. of inspiration Divine, among the accord those in different and shall Boyd. It is true that the Jew is echoes it waked in the human we say, more conservative walks of willing to go lust so far and no heart were those sweet sounds life? ' • • • farther in meeting his neighbors on whose witcheries transport the • common ground ... it's quite true soul into realms of happiness. ATTACKS EVERYWHERE he doesn't want to be assimilated That melody has been our source I was very much interested in because if that happens then it will of courage, our solace and our be the case of the cat swallowing strength, and in all our wander- looking over a copy of the Jewish the canary . . . in this case the Ines we have sung it. It is the Daily Bulletin on Christmas Eve Jew being the canary. Naturally, I music of the Messianic age, the when the whole Christian world he is opposed to intermarriage, he- triumph-hymn to be one day was preparing to celebrate the cause that would, if carried to its thundered by all humanity, the birth of the founder of their faith; logical eonclueion, wipe him out. It real psalm of life as mankind that one who taught love and mer- cy. From one end of that little it hardly a fair statement to place shall sing it when Israel's world- the Jew and the German religious- task of teaching it shall have journal to the other, in all parts ty speaking, on the same basis, as been accomplished. Its harmony of the world, I found attacks and Mr. Boyd has. There Is no GER- is the harmony of the families attacks on Jews. Mard-r, • and MAN religion in the same r.frise as of the earth, at last at peace. at pillage was the story! Isn't it there is • JEWISH religion. It is last united in brotherhood, at last strange that religious teachings unfortunate that space peevents happy in their return to the One seems Gmbh to Influence the daily life of people and that In most a enenplete discussion of the subject Great Father.' —H. PEREIRA MENDE& part they remain only lip worship? with Mr. Boyd because there are I MESSIANIC PERSONALITIES Cleveland Journalist Writes Interesting Volume on the Messiah Ideas of Leading Figures in Jewish History. MESSIANIC PERSONALITIES. He Joseph Ohs- Piro Published by the Reefer Printing Co. 10534 Soper. avenue. Cleveland. Ohio. Joseph Shapiro, member of the editorial staff of the Cleveland Jewish World, is eminently suited for the task of writing a volume on the Messiah ides and Messianic personalities in Jewry. A leader in the former Zeire Zion, and in the present Peale Zion-Zeire Zion movement, as one who has devoted himself whole-heartedly to the task for Palestine's reconstruction, he writes not only from the point of view of • scholar, a journalist and a man of research, but also as one who feels deeply the need for the upbuilding of ■ Jewish National Home, and for the realization of the Messianic dreams of hie people. "Messianic Personalities" thus becomes a fairly valuable work on Jewish nationalism and national- ists. Mr. Shapiro doe. not limit his work to a discussion of certain per- sonalities. His work approaches completeness from the point of view of his exhaustive study of the en- tire story of Messianic aspirations In Israel. In a chapter on "The Chief Foundations of the Messianic Ideal" he discusses the universal searching for a savior and the mys- tical powers in back of it. This learned discourse Is followed by chapter in which is discussed"T Messianic Ideal in the Bible a r l i the Talmud." and here we are taken back to the period of the Exodus and have the theme developed down to the age of the Talmudic period. The discussion is throughout sprin- kled with authoritative quotations. Guide Calculation.. A complete chapter Is devoted to a discussion of Bar Kochba, who was looked upon as the Messiah by Rabbi Akibah. Thereafter, Mr. Shapiro launches into • discussion of Messianic aspirants under hh- mael, of the false Messiahs Sharini, Abadya Abu-Issai, Yudgan of Ma- madan, Simeon ben Yochai. Another interesting chapter deals with the "Messianic Calculations of the Gaonim," and with the man- ner in which eminent rabbis fore- told the coming of the savior of Israel. Rabbi Saadi* Gaon, Rabbi Hai Gaon, Ilasdai Ibn Shaprut are among those quoted. A chapter is also devoted to a description of the Messianic move- bent in the days of the Crusades, and in this chapter references are made to the attitudes of Rashi, Maimonides and others. In another chapter Mr. Shapiro speaks of the ihfluence of the kab- balah on the Messianic ideal. Fels. Messiahs. False Messiahs to whom separ- ate chapters are devoted include David Alroy, Abraham Abulafia, Osher Laemmlein, Reuben Reubeni, Solomon Molcho, Sabbattal Zest, and Jacob Frank. Other chapters deal with the Kab- batiste In Safed, with the Messianic foundation In Chassidiern, and fin- ally with Zionism as a Messianic ideal. Mr. Shapiro's volume has great value in the study of false Mes- siah, and Messianic aspirations in Israel. It is • worthy contribution to the literature on the subject, and as such has earned the fine commendation given the book in art Introductory letter by Dr. Chaim Greenberg, noted Jewish scholar.