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In these turbulent times of economic dis
tress tel uncertainty it would be well for
the disturbed mind , to turn for comfort to
the Jewish worker, in Palestine. There is
no doubt that from that source they would
derive great consolation that the men and
w omen who have turned to productive pur•
suits and who have :eleinebeimil everything
that may smack of the speculative and the
parasitic are conquering life in all its
beauty and naturalness.
Shlonio Bardin, hini<elf a pioneer in the
Jewish colonies in Palestine, flee W engaged
in vocational-education work in Haifa. has
written it book, under the title "Pioneer
1'oulh in Palsetine." just published by tin.
Bloch Publishing Co. Here is It volume.
replete , with revelation of an idealism deem
Germany Burns Our Books.
Next Wednesday, May lo, the followers
of Adolf Diller in Germany will give vent
to th e nr insane feelings and will stage bon-
fires into which they ‘Vili throw books and
manuscripts by Jewish ;tut hors.
The day on winch Gerniany will thus
give sanction to vandalism and destruction.
the name of this land, mice rated 11(11011tr.
Hutting the life of the Chaltilzini which has
the most cultured in the world, will be
It is
seldom been equalled in all history.
placed on a par with the most backward
the story eef "Kibliiish Ila-Avodah,• cf the
of the medieval nations.
conquest of labor. It is the tale of the man-
In this sitd hour for Jewry, there is great
ner in which the Jewish youth, deli coined
satisfaction for the Jewish people that we,
to redeem itself and its people, came to
now so tragically on the defensive, are in
Pale-dine and began a conquest of honor
reality the moral victors. Oppressed phys-
and of self-redemption.
ically, economically and spiritually, the
Ilardin's is a story worth reading and
Jew nevertheless emerges the conqueror
over Germany. Because the Jew does not re-reading, telling and re-telling. Espe-
cially in the present period of economic
burn books; the Jew does not destroy; the
uncertainty, there is it great lesson to be
Jew's spirit is not that of a vandal. It is
learned from the efforts of these youths
the German who is destroying, and there.
who are determined to redeem themselves
fore it is the German who must emerge the
and their people. With the motto eef "Af
defeated in the present crisis.
Al l'i ken"--"Despite Everything, Yes"—
When the complete chapter of present-
these young people permit nothing to stand
day occurrences is written for Germany, it
in the way eef their conquest, and theirs is
will be the German nation that will be
the task of making the fruit eef one's labors,
compelled to apologize and to seek to for-
and not the fruits eef one's speculations,
get. It will be Germany who will ask for
serve as, a criterion for an honest existence.
forgiveness, and for an opportunity to %vine
"Pioneer Youth in Palestine" is impor-
out the shame which has been brought
tant for the historic as well as the theoreti-
upon an entire people.
cal discussions eef the labor movement in
But the Jew must emerge the stronger
the Jewish Homeland. It is important for
and certainly the conqueror. True, the
its discussion of the life and work of Aaron
entire episode \vitt add tee the many trage-
David Gordon, the apostle of the "religion
dies which make of our history at record eef
eef labor," who saw the Jews its holding the
many rivers of tears and sorrows. But ours
solution to their problem in their own
will be the great satisfaction that the pages
hands, and echo therefore minimized anti-
of Jewish history will remain tin-marred
Semitism as secondary to Jewry's ONV11 lie-
and un-blemished. whereas Germany's will
glects of its own problems; who saw in
be stained with the blood of innocent vic-
labor the bridge to Arab-Jewish amity. It
tims.
is important for numerous other discus.
And if the Jewish people will learn the
But it is most I
lesson that the present crisis should teach sions on labor Zionism.
us, we may have reason for even greater important when it actually reveals the
workings of the labor principles and the
satisfaction. Th e l esson t h at Jewry should
learn from this crisis is that a people which iwhievements of the Jewish labor party.
It is in co-operation :old in collective ac-
it; flIWOYS placed 011 tile defensive, Whose
tomorrow is as uncertain as is ours, must tivity that we lind actual achievement in
' be prepared for the uncertainties and Jewish living by Jews. NVith faith as a
tragedies which continually threaten us. root for its activities, the Palestine labor
The Jewish people must prepare itself on movement has conquered more than the
to solve the problem eef soil: it has conquered the heart and mind
a national basis
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A Young Poet
Makes Her Mark
German Nationalism and the Jew
A Detroit Non-Jew, Now in Germany, Writes His
Views on the Nazi Anti-Semitism.
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B y DR. WILLIAM A EVANS, JR.
Editor's Note: This article
by Dr. Evans of MOO Edison
avenue, Detroit, son of Dr.
William A. Evan. of 110 Pro.
fessional building, this city,
was written from Warburg,
Germany, en April 5. We are
pleased to recommend it to
our readers as an interesting
slew of anon-Jewish eye-
witnes s to the present anti•
Jewish tmorrani of the Ger-
man government. The laps e of
Fin e between the date under
whiell the letter W. written
and the present w i ll explain
flee premature optimism of the
writer.
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The people
Which is
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Wee
tele - elf
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A .
Ill,
halo
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Ile is eel
,
, 000entry's inter-
. •
eio, ]ootely o.oemeounist
vcio de dee I sts of prodigious
lohowiteg up
I, nett( :led plan. is
all
public
boololinos.
Ile
is
,00m•how to lelaree fio. the Ver•-
•ieilles l'reetty, the as-timietion
•tioe guilt, and the humiliation
of the German nation, TM. , new
;Jot ernment is nationalistic. The
Jew is international. Therefore
th e Jew is an e'ne'my of the new
K 1 1 , 1,111111 . 111.
is 1,111111 1 'Ogle
of the
''f
of the
eot land.
t he air
Lik e all
preachers
the soul
ooes. and say
eat panelist eel-
heard Oil the'
I Iv
were Suppressed.
c I/ la: of the Reichstag
oc climax of th e first act
Ira ma. 'fie devil had
co. ol in person.
Ile had
•:,. •••.1 the rest of the gov-
u Frit. if the people tel not
' •
immediate warning, t h e ail-
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II W011111 he 1/V01111,1,1.
It
liceirled to hold cue elrrliu n.
people must choosy between
Hitler and amochy. The
tion was held.
!Br. Hitler
his brown shirts had almost
a majority. Together with his
r, cently acquired allies, the Na-
itenal Domiscrats, ho had a clear
cot majority.
child can u n derstand
Were it not for NIT:. , THE NEW GERMANY
the Jew would at this
new Germany was bring
Disorient have cell Ger:marl f'hris-
born. The Bastille Day and
tendoin in merciless subjection.
Fourth
of .luly in Germany had
Mr. Ililicr waged War against
arrived. The Reichstag con-
the Jew and won. Sixty million
soled
and
granted NIr. Hitler
Germans have conquered six
full power. Tee an outsider the
hundred tbousanol Jews and we
Of
coed
ice
events
heed been nat-
are fleecy' witnessing the joy's of
ural and regular. There had
that victory. There is no doubt
that the German people are s, been a respectable election and
a reo,pectalele voting of the
elated (over the conquest.
In
Reichstag. A new government
every city important streets he-
had come in and its leader had
,.sitne. Adolf Hitler St•asse amid
been granted some unusual
the waving of Hags, the blare of
powers in view of seriousness of
trumpets and the parade of
the economic and political sit-
brown
uation. It was nothing but what
Hitler has long nourished his
might have happened in any re-
anti-Semitism. It is :toe secret
spectable dentocratic country.
that there has been no love
But here the lust for power and
between hint and the Jew. Mr.
the thirst for victory are. not
Feurlitwanger since made hint
It must be
so easily satisfied.
look rather ridiculous in one of
The old
milled a revolution.
his books. The realization of
order must be. eje.cleal with a
et . Ilitler's dreams of Jewish
solos:Ince. Brown shirts ap-
persecution and ats . eisition of
pearing like. overgrown boy
political power is stage play of
scouts must parade their newly-
the first ureter. Since the war
iiequireul importance. NIotor-
the political situation in Ger-
eycles inust start through the
many has been unstable and un-
street on missions of great im-
;et loo(1. While nominally social-
portance.. The people are im-
istic. the government was handi-
pressed. Mr. !litter declares he
caappod by the profusion
con
si ill control the press, the radio,
•
and the theater in the interest
isles1e, Of e dozen or so p o litical
cot' the new order. Jazz will be
{serum's, Iloilo With a majority,
forbidden as nigger music un-
prevented
i
any clear-cut politi-
becoming tee the German people.
Elections were held
cal RC/ 011.
the theater must be' cleared of
every few months, always svith
modern art and experiments
'the. people
inde.cisive. results.
which smell of Ilussia. There
Hindenburg
WCCI, ill despair.
shall be. no newspapers opposed
had given the I'remitorship to
to the new government. Six
Papton, who failed to, form a
!months ago a German would
cabinet; then to Schleicher, who
tell you Germany was a model
also failed.
Putally, 'as n 1451
socialistic state. There. was gov-
NO
result, Hitler was called.
root col of medicine,
ernment
one was very hopeful. but the.
transportation, schools, churches
people "Give him a
and what not. all without a traoe
chance. 'Things cannot be worse
of corruption or irregularity.
than they are now and they
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limy be. better." Ile had his op-
that Crecy
edict duos,
I
of
01,1' it
to their 111 , 1d1). and thee,
of beauty aoc not confined entire6
to lice teem uty lhuusaund per ammo,
and upu;ud class.
It is for these whip know and
appreciate that poets write poems'
iI,tw ilis fur these, in shah vet cls.
they may be, that this review i•
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"That, panting for thy land's sweet dust, sore
grip\ ed,
And sorro• in their souls,
And by the flaws of wasting lire bereaved,
Mourn for thy serous,
"That grope in shad.ew „t unbroken night,
Waiting the day to see
Which o'er them yet shall cast a radiance
bright,
And over thee ?"
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The "Protocols" in Spain.
A Jewish T e. legniphie Agency report
from Barcelona states that Spain has
bought out the first edition of "The Pro m-
Th e American Jewish Committs
developer along entirely slitTs.reri .
reels of the Elders of Zion," containing the
lines. 'the' Committee was brought
1 victims; lie of Jewish world domination.
into being through a small grouts.
and that a second edition has just been , The first fifty were appointed by
And if Germany's position is now cone- published.
Of interest in this J. T. A. report is the
parable with the most backward countries ,
in the middle ages, Israel's position in the ' statement that "while the first edition car-
world is elevated far above that eef bigotry, , ries a foreword that the authenticity of the
persecution and Sc anton murder. Ours is Protocols has not been proved. no such men-
a position of superiority and of honor. and tion is made in the second edition. Instead
if Israel WOUid further enhance this posi- there is a foreword by the Duke della Vic-
tion, let him seek to emancipate the people foria, a notorious anti-Semite. who utili-
that we may one day point to a productive zes the Protocols to agitate against the'
glory as well as tee the honor and dignity Jews whom he blames for the revolution
which belongs to a martyr people. in Spain and the overthrow eef the nton-
The answer can be made simple. Let archy."
Thus. the land of the Inquisition. tee which
Israel strive to emancipate himself rather
than to seek protection. In Germany. at many Jews looked for succor following the
best, there is now the remote hope for revolution. is now definitely on the side of
humiliating protection for the oppressed the reactionary peoples whose sadistic
Jews. It is high time that Jewry were hates and dislikes grab at the mere pro-
prepar•d for similar crises by planning a posal to make the Jewish people the scape-
national program which will be able to . gnat for all eef the world's troubles.
What have those who proposed the set-
offer a solution to the problem of the eter-
nal wanderer. Once and for all. let there tlement of Jews on a large scale in Spain
be created a center where Israel's body to say now? 1)0 they still propose tee speak
and soul will find nourishment in a natural of security under the new Spanish govern-
environment. Palestine today appears the ment. even if it is republican, at a time
only hope on the horizon, the only ray of I when the people's mind is so susceptible
light in a period of darkness, Let Israel to poisonous propaganda?
Judge Sulsloorger and a feW
others. There was considerable
outcry at the time about the fact
that it was not representative of
American Jewry and therefore i"
should not seek to speak for Ave'.
r
wan Jewry. As a result of a long
continued protest against t h e
"close corporation," as it was fre-
quently referred to, a broader
method of representation was
adopted. Despite this the general
opinion is that the American Com-
!move is still controlled and dom-
inated by a few Regardless of
this the fact remains that the type
of men at the head of the Com.
!Moue are accustomed to use dip-
1,ornatio methods in solving prob•
loins. They do not believe in mails
meetings to solve problems. They
prefer the small Conference plan
So whatever happens to create
situation calleng for protest or in-
ter\ ention to protect Jewish rights
the American Jewish Committee
110e1, it quietly.
REASON FOR FRICTION
There you have the reason for
the constant friction between the
groups represented by Rabbi Ste-
, phen Wise and Dr. Cyrus Adler.
I The same situation obtainisi when
Louis Marshall was living. Ile
II,' y
Until
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consoler the -so...tacle in this day and age "f
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niareh through the stmt-, es
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in
the
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Judenblut von !tenser
spritzt
tol .\\m'hi ,' r;il f‘tot'vi sn l' rth l onee' ol l .supt'Ilr:Lt'ts ..freetti the knife, ,,,,,,I
All will be well again''
A song, theiden' ally, written by a
Mall Who.
roe Nah
N000dietion broke out, made his living by serving as a srectierr.
yip e del-soli n and NItoyerbeer, according to the Nazis, coral'' oi erman
In
NI "Y: 1932 . the Avei
mid life' beet the barbaric songs of It man who dealt in 55, 1111
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Major
lloiool
piv
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Poetry .,.
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$.2.,,,,, was givenI,, ( nasto t nough for the pure .Nazi asoul..
Award
tot'
Anne Persov I,y the twit,'>cty of
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1,,SE,,5,T
,0121,AnwDEthing, disclosed by
,
GERMANY
N yLt0
Nlichigan for he t. eetieete, tn.,
thn. Nebo n'ich'e
,
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the
the title of "Sea-Swallows and
. t .1■■■•r is o l '
()thee r'enel'" this swipe e " Ilee- tt lfil: '
i n VOuln'adin'gsrli'S.rahi :Sn".. ed'I'el'w ".v‘i:::irt 'er 'i st'i )tie'.s inasc' Ss7i ' ti riS:ri It 'si 'll''.; ltdch'i'.
lion new being reviewed under th e , I diet' the statement of a Jew teetotal y discharged fe ow t ,,,. e.,,,,,,
,
published
Chamber o f ( "anomie, According to this man, order, for Berman
Reap."
goods are being cancelled wholesalefrom all part, of flu world.
One of Her Finest Poems.
I had a personal confirmation of this the other day esi vodka.
Anne Persoy, daughter sit' Mulch the Aquit,ania as it was ..,.; f,,,- E ur „pp. I was 0 ,1,1 I i,„, 01 ,, Ewiist
and Deborah Abramson of 2490 ship had an increased pa tree
m which a-a,
opi of about 25 per mod,
%Vest Philadelphia avenue, Detroit, attributed to Jew-. who fop isierly traveled on German 1111,.
«1'
for years
Another
Another evidence of this i- the fact that the French.lin., have
ggraduatedaft.: ■;slid(Ctt
no w e q uipped them-elves with kosher cuisine, tee make , are of a.tr
High School, the College of the . Ow the slew i,11 NO ,,,,,,.
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City of Detroit, Detroit Teachers
College and then entered the CM- PALESTINE'S BRIGHT SPOT
versity of Nlichigan and got her
The one bright spot in the Jewish world of late has been Pairtine
master's degree at the 'lime time ' Indeed. in a sense, it has been the one bright spot in the whole world.
:hear
she received the if"I'''''1
I. The acrid has been suffering from economic depression. Tie. world-
She is now still in attendance at with the t.„.,,,, t p,„ o f ii„1„0„,..
the University of Michigan, study •
Writing in Harper's !Monthly, Wm. Zukerman is ec - .1(0,1.,y r i g ht
ing for her Ph.D.
! in saying that if what has taken place . in Palestine had oroirem1 on
The Hopwood Award is the 1 , 41.11 - ' as larger scale, the eyes of the world would be turned to ii, to find
. -,..t literary' Prize of its kind given the way of escape from economic collapse.
in this country and it was a signal
For l'alestine, without inflation, without reconstructioon c lipvra•
honor for Miss Persov that the lion, and farmers' loans, and in time of international dm,rs...ion.
judges ruled her the full major has been prospering.
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111:1•I' was
i fi s‘ s ' raenithe i'sf :-$.i.2.
In 1932, how- I
two contestants.
Yet hopeful as this appears to b e , Zuke.rnian has alianshinsal hope
ever, although it was stated by I The Palestine dream, he. believes, i s over, and principally because
the judges that the caliber of all the land speculator has come in.
'the entries was generally far .41- •
l ' CiCr, Of and are note so high in Palestine by rea s on o f the
prior to that of the year liefore.s fact that the speculators, seeing the rush to Palestine, are holding
Miss l'ef`o , 's l'i.c 111 ` were dis- - the land for a raise, that few of the settlers min meet the terms
duct's. of soul, excellence as to• Arid When they do meet them, they have little left for their work.
merit the full award,
or else they ,cast resort to money lenders charging usurion. interests.
Certainly the task of the judo,.
By reason :11 , 0 of the fact that the land is being held tier a ,pecu.
must have been made easy when liaise rise, little new land is going into are
Those settlers who are
they read ' Se's - Swallow's " :
miming in ;tic' thus forced to COI111100 with the existing lalicrerS, and
'
thus
the
wages
of
leaner
in
general
ac'
being
forced
down. The union,
- Wvrid slth11111 end
r1 , 111 1er and eler xitho.tt eml
arc' being forced into a bitter struggle. Wages are coming down and
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In other words, Zukerman sees a crash all around, Th e one
wish, lista ••tio•shed.
w
m
faint candle in this world of darkness threatens to be dimmed, at g
Figs a storms. Sind-grey sl,
I time when its need was the greatest.
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Ihr 11. 111d me, harshly. the TAM
A SIMPLE REMEDY
nr ■ Aka nsaget fain agh sullei1 N11111111111,
S1...111
bri.hr explosuals
It is heartrending to think of this taking place, when the remedy
wt....e a toss irir maker
i.. , i, silllnle.
And mad arcs saalloa,..
nanities
I le thos ■ thts Iii air ,,sane brain
All that really: needs to be done is for the Jewish roin
,.. dsrtina mei,. chg..
• Winch, like governments all over the world, derive most ,.f 'heir
I, germ of frenzied fret
. revenues from buildings and other improvements, tel place the full
I radro tinder pran•cred.
i Ike biood.rks, and biltersa l ie;.1 , ;• two ,„51. , butl.n
o s of the taxes on the land.
Tiles(' ar t: only the
fax the land so heavily that 110 StiCulatlir will dare held it out
RANDOM THOUGHTS
Committe e and the ll'ffai Itirith
have issued a statement regarding
what, in their opinion, is its in-
advisability. 'they think that noth-
ing is to le e gained by further mass
action of such a character and
that we should continue more con:
sistent and constructive methods.
Of course so far as the American
Jewish Committee is concerned
you have a school of thought dif-
ferent from the American Jewish
Congress, and it's really interest-
ing to consider it for a moment.
but it gives you a picture of the
two camps in American Jewry.
'the Atnerican Jewish Congres,
believes in ITISLIC action; it
Hants the people at large to liar-
ticipate ice action where Jewish is•
sues are involved. That's why the
representatives are elected; that's
Why they want as World Jewish
Congress to discuss anti-SemitiFin;
whatever is showe is what might
loosely be called "mass action."
THE COMMITTEE
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and then thi11,1
1111 down aga ,1 1
.11. I, I o , ute dty, and then howl ssith delight
:101 fall. Sc, you s, . they do know lows to I.,
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the millions of oppressed and persecuted. of the people and has created a happiness
Unless the voice of the civilized world is which seems to defy the anxieties of the
raised in powerful fashion in behalf of Giduth. 11'1.: are introduced as a result
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the persecuted in Germany, the entire to the man who "subdues both earth and
11.11(i "we find men to whom riches,
problem may be condensed into the one heaven,"
success or personal advancement. as it is
pressing issue of saving our fellow Jews
who are trapped like helpless animals and generally understood, mean nothing. Men
hard manual
for whom there is no other way out of who find their greatest joy in •
the existing dangers except emigration labor, in humble work ; their deepest ful-
from the land they loved and called their lillment in their close active contact with
own. O n l y if our people will be united on nature; and in her soil and ever-renewed
was «posed to
action, belie',- the sentiment in this cou nty
PROTEST PARADE
a common platform will we he able to ao. life a continual wellspring of creative: in-
I am not sure Whether I like Mg that it In' i laCatiN. aggravate,' :Thee,. have been countless evi
proach a solution to this problem. ' spiration; the very means to their own that protest parade scheduled for rather than healed the wound. SO riclire , of the displeasure with
SO Whether it i
When Germany begins tee burn our books creativeness in cultivation eef her infinite May In. The American Jewish he' was always writing letters to Ilitler's acts.
we will be able 10 !Mint tee 111811Y similar , resutiree '• .
It is impossible to do justice to Mr.
sequels in our history.. It was in Paris, in
the year 1 .-•.
9 1•1.
i
, I that
a public bonfire was Itardin's story 111 these f ete paragraphs.
built fo r th e destruction o f a ll H e b rew Judge Julian Mack has said eef "Pioneer
works that could be gathered up for the Youth in Palestine:" "This book has given
spiritual at of arson. A French rabbi : nip a very much clearer and better insight
then wrote to the famous Itabbi Meir of I t h a n I have ever haul before into the whole
Rothenburg: "I have no book for study.' Pinneel. labor movement in Palestine."
The persecutor has taken from us our treas. I Even this compliment is mild. This vol-
ures." And in reply Rabbi Heir wrote one time is much more than a description of
• of his most important poems, the following the Palestine labor movement: it is an ad-
monition and an inspiration to the non-
dirge on the destructive , bonfire at Paris:
creators and tee the economically-disturbed.
"A.A, is it well, it thou consumed of fir,
VI ith those that mourn for thee,
It deserves a very wide audience, for its
That yearn to tread t hy courts, that sic.
"
r lessons may hold the key to the solution of
desire
our economic problem.
Thy sanctuary,
Tbm,
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Jewi h Telegraphic Agency. Ise
MUSEUMS OF TORTURE
You have seen those museum torture chamber, tee wee
admission to See the relics of the mode of torture olurifig
Inquisition.
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Some future clay, perhaps, our descendants will r 1,,i
e usewee
exposing Hiatt- horrors.
Judging by two accounts appearing in the Need
By RACHEL NORBER
the Nation, written by writers who witnessed the tee, ,
bath of the writers, incidentally, vouched for by tho ••
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laudatory introduction tee the
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By DAVID SCHWARTZ
A Review of Anne Persov's
Prize-Winning Poems.
o"wily' and he mode illt. most
Fourteen long years of
•otopointment and ridicule had
whetted his appetite for
r and revenge'. Th e prophet
do o with a IleW menage.
ippointed by !linden-
iced -,111- 1 . 1 1 •1 1tertable
1.1 .
Tidbits and
By-the-Way
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Protest infringement of the civil justified tee continue along tho
and religious rights of the Jew-, sam e lines is something that i
And it must be said that he rem- open to debate.
dered great service. to his people.
.
On the opposite side was and
200-YEAR-OLD • SYNAGOGUE
is Dr. Stephen A.
He he-
,
.iwo. hundred years is a Ions,
here's in going to Oro , peeat le; be
time for a congregation to func-
belieYe.s in fighting 1.-ties out in
tion without a break. Anel sen Sun-
public; he wants o odegresses and
\ May 7, Coagregation tricker
conventions, believing. that en the ' 1 "•'.
1-reel, of Savannah, (:a., will cede-
ight way to get a people arouseel
}irate
that
anniversary.
They
ii net interested in their roblons.
sys.re. brave Jews, those pioneers
Ile, too, has done more for the
the tYrannY of Spain.
dews than the Jews will ever he wt",
e'eaPed,
, col , crossed
the ocean to "me a
able to repay. See e11 1 1 . 01Ile to the
haven in this country. Tw
Twohun.
it hell-
parade eel flay
Wiii
i i 'led years ago! Imagine the hard-
Unless Dr. Adler
e'arhde
urtusN?
ships they must have undergone!
has information which leads him
I am interested in a comment of
0 believe that conditions are "
I: Ludwig ti sigelstein's, chairman of
way t
'he
"
1 ""' then
the F:xeeutire Board of the Union
doubt that the promt parade will
of A1110'41101 Hebrew Congrega-
of, much harm. Whether it will
their 1.o-operation in
sirs positive good I ju ,d don't know.
up this new colony, by
It seems to me that Germany by, .
their communal spirit and .upright
'his time should hr well aware of
,
ng they overcame the preju•
dice of the Christian settlers."
And it wasn't so easy to o•er-
PEACE AND THE JEW —me "the prejudicei
o• the Chris-
_
. .
tian
man settlers." This congregation
H ow h as peace been reflected has been
a credit to the Jewish
e
•11 the life and lore of the Jews people and its influence has been
\Vhat stories freest Jewish sources felt throughout the South.
At
emphasize retire? What are some this time when racial and religious
1 the Jewish sayings about war prejudice has been accentuated
and peace? How can children and through the policy of the German,
',dolts help brine about peace? leaders. this is a good time for
What are some of the evils of Hitler to remember that Spain and
war? What devotional peace ser. Portugal did what he is now trying
to do. This anniversary of Mickve
vices are available?
To answer these and many Israel congregation should give
...her questions, Dr. Abraham something to think about.
--: .--
I ronbach has written "The Jew-
.-h Peace Book," recently pub- LUDENDORFF'S CREED
',shed by the Department of Svna-
General Ludendorff in Mus:
(rogue and School Extension of the suggests that all is not well t, •.
Union of America n tTh nffre": Christian churches because 5 1 1 r
tions.
tianity is tainted with Judie , ••
Part I of the book has been I think the General is right, V
:Tinted separately for children pretty hard to remove Jewish in-
'old called " Pe a ce Storiesfor fluence entirely from Christianity
.l•wish Children.'
It is printed in when one recalls that the founder
:.urge type and its attractive hind- ratChristianity was a Jew!
It's
:rig in pastel colors is certain to
been a long time since I have
have a powerful appeal to young
heard of Ludendorff.
The last
The book can he used
....eiders.
tame there was some comment
, , T the teacher in the class room that he had beconse mentally de-
, r by the mother in the home.
ranged. Probably he has improved,
Part II of "The Jewish Peace
though one wouldn't believe it to
Book" is devoted to peace thoughhs e read d
he i,b
, :riiitner „ f . lial, „„ h. e .,,, h . e.%
what t he
w
for Je ish groups. It takes up
the horrors of war: the idea that
plenty of company, no I am told
war does not defend; the peaceful
by those
those' who write for foreign
stttlements of disputes. and how:
Ludendorff, Hitler. Goer-
see can help, giving such examples
inks. Goebbels
no wonder Fu-
as friendship with foreign cseun-
rope is nervous over the situation
tries, tisits to foreign lands, peace ling
... that is certainly some wreck-
crew!
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eel use. That will cheapen land 0e that Ow settler can buy it. 11,,
that and there will he no fat speculators living in luxury, while the
settler mortgages his land and the workingman starves.
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THE BIBLICAL CURSE
It seems that l'ale.Ftine. should be the one land to appres,1•0 this.
The Jewish National Fund's whole idea was that there shoal toe nil
private appropriation of the "unearned increment." I could coo hark
ven furthe•r to the Bible -which invoked a curs,' on the. lamp
later. "Cursed he hr who rolioveth his neighbor's landmark" -in
other words, curses] be he' %vbo tried to get all of his neirldmr , to
pay him rent for the land. Isaiah thundered against the 1•11.1
later: "Woe unto those svhis join land to land and livid to tr.:.!"
WHERE IS JABOTINSKY?
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'this is a good time, it seems to me, for our friend- tr ,
ists to get busy' and "holler." They are good at holl, rov..
is the tittle to holler.
c•en
.
Furthermore, how can they keep silent at the- hie
;
when the single. tax is definitely part of the Itesirliou
Where is •abotinsky, who has shown that he is thoroughly nisei
with the pernicious influence of the land speculator!! IV hi r*. ,• Dr.
Soskin, who has been known for his land reformist activity , in
England? And where is Mrs. Fels, whose husband financed the land
teform campaign of Lloyd George?
have
The World Zionist Congress, which meeta this summer, w
met fruitlessly if it does not take steps to meet this situ:dhoti. It Is
a problem far mort, important than that of the British goverrec id--
snore important than any Arab problem. Ilow can you e xpiso settle-
silent to take place in Palestinr en any considerable scale w•.1 -. land
selling, as Zuke.rman writes, at $.1111) an acre? Why. within miler
of New York this writer knows at least one 10-acre tract wir.li van
be bought for a third of that cunt. And this is America.
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THE GOLD STANDARD
Returning to lighter things, they are telling an intereseng
• loait Washington.
One day last week, Walter Lippman di tic,
Herold-Tribune wrote an article calling on the Administr si:..r to
abandon the. gold standard.
The next day President Roosevelt was asked by 111,1sIsii r r"1-
respondents in Washington why he had taken the country etf •!
standard.
"Read yesterday's Ilerald-Tribune," said the President
.
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HE WON'T SAY
Governor David Srholtz of Florida, I am told, has omen cern -
!Moult himself on the point of whether he is Jewish or not
If he isn't, he ran speak a splendid Yiddish for a man who - 11 ' 4
Jewish. So I am told.
Florida appears to specialize in politically-minded Jew. tit, do
not know whether they are Jews or not, The late David elms',
from Florida, originally bore the name of David Levy. But "decY ,
it appears, was a little too much of a burden to bear.
Proof of the Purity of the Jewish Race
IS THF ,
tee t,
RACE Print' A Sesggine Eaars..c • by Da,rd
Publ•hins Cs 316 Fast Foutteer., cow tees Y•.
That the purity of the Jewish) derstandable by and ay
race is a matter of fact and that I the average reader.
In proving his the-i- Mr
it is now removed from the realm
hlatt defends a claim fdr
cot (.pinion is the contention of 'superiority. Ile uses h:- fir
'. , -
Mr. Goldhlatt in this, one of the figures in an intern-t!
most interesting volumes to come lie disproves availabls •
, against the purity of the .1. :dill'
to our attentoen.
race. In advancing h,o el Fe
Seldom doe s a volume appear as glories in Fix distinctly Jewish
thickly documented with facts and traits: Sobriety, idealism. ,ntellect,
figures as is this book. The refer- adaptation. genius. charity.
are
ences alone present • mass of in-
Among the topics %IPA, .1
structive reading matter, and the the Mosaic pure food laws. the
appended notes provide access to trends of Jewish genius. the case
much scientific data
against assimilation, etc
The facts in the volume are his.
The volume stands highly rens
torical and scientific, geographical ommended as an excellently
and lingual. In a clear style, the formative book and as a fine re'
author makes his information un- I erence work.