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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
25:19-22:9
Pentateuchal 11.111..ti
Malachi I:1-2:7
Prophetical portion

November 17, 1933

Cheshvan 28, 5694

The Late Dr. Leon Motzkin.

Dr. Leon Motzkin's death is a severer
shock to Jewry than the recent riots against
the Mandatory Power in Palestine by the
Arabs. We will survive this riot as we
have the previous ones, and the Arabs will
undoubtedly be befriended when they
learn how they are misled. But the loss
of a leader as important to the Zionist
cause as was Dr. Motzkin is difficult to
replace.
Dr. 1Ilotzkin was great not only as a
leader in Zionism, as the presiding- officer
at Zionist Congresses and as chairman of
the World Zionist Actions Committee, but
also as the chairman of the Committee of
Jewish Delegations. It was in this capacity
that he has appeared before the League of
Nations on numerous occasions in defense
of Jewish rights. It was as a direct result
of his efforts that the League of Nations
Council took action in the petition of Franz
Bernheim, Upper Silesian Jews, in demand-
ing that Germany should honor the minor-
ity rights of Upper Silesian Jewry.
At the recent World Zionist Congress he
was elected chairman of the administrative
committee of the Jewish Agency, this
honor indicating recognition by non-Zion-
ists as well as Zionists.
The Jewish cause has lost a great leader,
and our people has good cause to mourn
the death of Dr. Leon Motzkin.

Detroit Must Help Hillel Foundation.

In a recent issue of The Detroit Jewish
Chronicle, our Ann Arbor correspondent
described the activities of the Billet Foun-
dation of the University of Michigan and
pointed to the deplorable financial condi-
tion in which this student movement finds
itself at our state university.
Our correspondent quoted Dr. Bernard
Heller, director of Ilillel Foundation at
Ann Arbor, who stated with reference to
the financial problem facing this important
student institution:

This is a very distressing question. Last year
the 11'nai Writh made drastic reductions in the
budget of every foundation. I am not refer-
ring to the cut in salary of the directors, which
in some cases was more than 60 per cent. The
willingness with which directors accepted the
decision is to me a testimony of their idealism
and devotion to the work. I am rather refer-
ring to that drastic slashing of allowances for
important religious and cultural activities. Ef-
fects of the meager allowance, it is true, were
not visible in the activities and attainments
of the llillel Foundation at Michigan.

Education Rather Than Preaching.

A place of supremacy for education over
preaching was urged for rabbis in the ad-
dress delivered at the opening of the
twelfth academic year of the Jewish In-
stitute of Religion by Dr. Alexander Dush-
kin, director of the Bureau of Jewish Edu-
cation of Chicago.
It is possible that this admonition comes
a bit too late. The great opportunities for
education that existed several years ago
have been dwarfed by the economic crisis
which limited the economic means at the
disposal of our congregations. Neverthe-
less, Dr. Dushkin's plea deserves serious
consideration for whatever remedies may
be effected in the future.
Said Dr. Dushkin:

Jewish education has been able to with,:tand
the
forces of the oleproos,ion.
Despite the destruction of standards in so
many of our schools, 111,11ao the short-sighted
attempts at discrimination against educational
w or k by sofa, Of our Jewish eommunal agen-
cies, our school work has been maintained
without los s of vital factors. We shall
emerge from this period of testing more keenly ,
aware than ever that our world "exists on the
breath of school children." Indeed, we should
be unworthy of our past, and unworthy of
any future, if out of our difficulties and out
of the terribly disillusioning spectacle of Ger-
man .lewry, we did not draw the simple lesson
that our inner life as Jews must be deepened
and strengthened, and that Torah,—education
in all its ,(,wish phases,- -continue to be the
tree of everlasting life to which we needs
must cling in prosperity and in adversity.
The rabbinate itself exalts Jewish education,
On the one hand, as the sine qua non of Jewish
life and, on the other, does comparatively little
in preparing the rabbi fur his function as
teacher. What training does the rabbi get for
the important practical art of education? If
we examine the catalogues of the four great
rabbinical seminaries of the country, we find
that the rabbinical students are expected to
spend from one to five per cent of their train-
ing time to prepare themselves for a task
which they must perform weekly, if not daily;
-a task which requires not only considerable
knowledge, but also experience and skill. There
must be more adequate and more practical
preparation for the rabbi's function as teacher.
The seminaries and students must become more
education-minded. Beyond the education
courses offered in the rabbinic curriculum,
students should be required to study •duca-
tional psychology and methods in the local uni-
versities, and that such courses be supervised
by the seminary authorities so that practical
application might be pointed out to Jewish
school work. It is necessary, too, that the
seminary authorities concern themselves with
the securing of practice teaching positions for
the students whom they train, and that personal
supervision be given to these students while
in teaching, service. '('he students should be
encouraged to read educational journals, to
attend education conferences, to visit out-
standing schools--both public and Jewish,__
and to do all such other things as will focus
their minds on the problem and the field of
education.

From educational training the rabbi can
greatly benefit in the other phases of his work
as well, beyond the actual school work in which
he must engage. If he becomes educationally
trained and experienced, his preaching will be
less bombastic and more informative, his schol-
arship less dry-as-dust and more fructifyingly
alive. His work with the adults of his congre-
gation, whether it he in the arranging of
classes, study circle's, lecture courses or in his
routine contacts with his congregational
brotherhood or sisterhood, will be more
systematic and more nwaningful, Only if the
rabbis of the United States take their tasks
as teachers in all earnestness, and are ready
to prepare themselves adequately for i it, will
it be possible to hope for the elimination of
some of the other forms of hiatus between
belief and practice that so tragically retard the
progress of American Jewish education.

We doubt whether it is possible to refute
Dr. Dushkin's argument. The manner in
which educational facilities were minim-
ized, the fervor with which American con-
gregations and their rabbis extolled a pol-
Making a definite claim for support icy of Sunday School education which
from Detroit Jews, Rabbi Heller made this gave to our children a maximum one-hour-
challenge to our community:
a-week knowledge of Judaism, is One of
the saddest commentaries on the short-
I feel confident that the Jewry of Detroit,
comings of American Jewry and the Ameri-
knowing the importance of the presence of
I can Rabbinate.
!fillet Foundation for the religious and cultural
life of the community, will respond to the
With the constant pressure of anti-
appeal which will be made by them within
Semitisai, with abhorrent discriminations
the next few weeks by the Ilillel league,
formed last year in May, led by Dr. Leo M.
everywhere opressing the Jew, education
Franklin. I refuse to believe that the Jews of
may be one of the first ideals for which
Detroit will ignore the unique responsibility
which they have to this institution. All that
Jews will sacrifice in defiance of the hor-
is asked of Detroit Jewry is that they become
rors that are being visited upon Jews.
members of the league and contribute what
they can to the support of the Foundation.
Regardless of the results of Dr. Dush-
It is unsportsmanlike on the part of a com-
kin's criticisms, they are always in place.
munity which derives unusual benefits from an
A rabbinate that was capable of making
institution to shove its financial responsibilities
to other sections and communities. The Jews
learning secondary to sermonizing is de-
of Detroit that I know have impressed me as
serving of the severest condemnation. This
being too fine and noble to tie put in the above
rabbinate must now make amends for the
category.
errors of its ways in the past generation,
Dr. Heller is justified in his demand.
As Ann Arbor's big neighbor and as the
Communists Thrive on Riots.
Jewish community which derives the great-
Palestine reports that proof has been
est benefits from the activities of lintel
Foundation at the University of Michigan, found that Communists have instigated the
we have an obligation to this movement riot of Arabs against the British regime.
And in this country, too, Communist
which we dare not forget or ignore.
It appears to us that the most practical newspapers—the Freiheit and the Daily
way of aiding Michigan's Hillel movement Worker—are instigating Arabs not only
would be to include this cause in the bud- against Great Britain but also against the
get of the forthcoming Allied Jewish Cam- JCNVS.
How these Communists thrive' on po-
paign of the Jewish Welfare Federation.
This is a communal responsibility, and the groms, because it gives them an excellent
community's federated social service move- opportunity to make political capital for
ment should be made responsible for it. themselves!
But in Palestine proper the Arab strike
We suggest this to the Jewish Welfare
Federation's governing board for serious has been called off because it was propa-
gated primarily by youngsters in the larger
consideration.
cities. and was completely ignored by
Arabs in the Jewish colonies and in most
Canine Psychology.
For the first time since Adolf Hitler of Palestine, because they know who
assumed power, we find a bit of consistency brought happiness and prosperity to Pales-
tine.
in Nazi actions.
There is nothing new in this experience.
From Leipzig we get the information that
this German municipality "imposed a In 1929 Communists also found joy in the
heavy tax upon the owners of' dogs of murders instigated by irresponsible agi-
mixed breeds in order to force racial purity t at ors for their own benefit and by spread-
even among German dogs. The munici- ing false rumors that Jews were attacking
pality was encouraged to do this by the the Moslem holy places. But the Arab
recent government order against all inter- masses learned to know better. The time
marriages between Aryans and non- will come when they will rebel against
Aryans."
their self-appointed leaders who mislead
This is true canine racial policy, and is them. And when the complete story will
consistent with Germany's Aryan theories. be written, it will be to the disgrace of
The great Ilitlerite revolution has in reality some Jews who, in order to make capital
given birth to this great principle of racial for Communism, betrayed their people and
purity. Heil Hitler and his canine psy- their people's only hope in the present
chology I
tragic hours of oppression and bigotry.

A Powerful Presentation of
Jewish History

Our Film Folk

Reviewer Calls Josef Kastein's "History and Des-
tiny of the Jews" Next in Importance to Graetz.

HOLLYWOOD — Arthur Tracy
told his favorite story at a lunch
Coll tendered him by the producers
of his new picture, "Mating Time'
One night as he was hur•yint,
to the theater, he bumped into a
little street urchin, hands and knees
on the sidewalk, sobbing bitterly
Tracy, inquiring as to the cause
of the distress, was told that the
little fellow had lost a penny
Whereupon the "Street Singer'
joined the search, but to no avail
Finally he reached into his pocky
and handed the boy a penny. "Oh,'
cried the little skeptic, "you had i
all the time!"
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ABRAHAM CAPLAN

HISTORY AND DESTINY OF

THE
the Ger.. by Huntley Paterson
18 Ea,t Fort,-Elahth Street, New

The appearance of a history
of the Jews, in the very nature
of things, must he regarded as an
exciting event. Not every book
purporting to be a history of the
Jewish people, whether dourly
pedantic 01 1 written in the flip-
pant manner in vogue in recent
years, justifies the eclat of read-
ers of Israel's story. The man
who writes II Jewish history
worthy of the task has, indeed,
done something notable. A his-
tory which may be welcomed
into the I:harmed circle which in-
cludes Graetz, Weiss and Dub-
now needs must summand notice.
It may not go through more than
oneprinting, and a modest one
at that, but the importance of
its publication is none the less
intrinsic:. Such a history is Josef
Kastein's "Ilistory and Destiny
of the Jews."

Here is a powerful presenta-
tion of what all the world, cer-
tainly the thoughtful part there-
of, admits is the most tragically
moving story known to mankind.
Nast ein marshals the salient
facts of Jewish history like a
master, tells them graphically,
interprets them with amazing
keenness and understanding.
Here is a man to whom the his-
tory of his people is the most
absorbing fact in his intellectual
experience. Kastein is no mere
recorder of events. Ile approaches
his task in an avowedly sub-
jective attitude of mind, with-
(out sacrificing one jot of histori-
cal veracity. One may disagree
with Kastein's conclusions in oc-
casional instances, but one can-
not question the grandeur of
the spirit which guides his pen.
Did that supernal thing known
as Jewish prophecy give impetus
to the concept of a universal!
God, as Kastein would have it, on:
was it Amos and Isaiah and Jere-
miah who thrust the conscious-
ness of their A.:ontemieiraries the
principle that God was the God
of all nations? What matter?
But Kastein's iteration upon the
theocratic motif in Jewish his-
tory—the idea that what Judaism
sought, feebly and at the same
time heroically and not without
visible results, was to infuse into
the mind of man the principle
that the human race can final its
goal only in a Moral and social
order in which God is King--
in that iteration Kastein is on
strong ground. The ideal of
theocracy is what Judaism gave
to the world. But the world

Translated f ri, m
Inalished 0, the Viking Press.

Josef Kasteln.

JEWS

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York

By HELEN ZIGMOND

ken ps on reje•ting it. The .le•
thus makes himself martyr. The
to maid o:onsistently sees to it that
thi.Ji.w pays for his divine folly.
.10o1 if the Jew suffers, if this
los destiny, what is the con-
clusion to which the searcher for
truth must come? Kastein is
no fatalist. He flings his charges
Francis Lederer always drives
against the western world and
his own car ... because its still
against Christianity. The prob-
a novelty to him . . . never
lem of the Jew is not a Jewish
prohlem. Its solution is the su-
owned one as a• also in Yoorup.
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preme task of all mankind.
"History and Destiny if the
Between the devil and the deep
Jetts" is divided in six parts. It
HOW sea are the big picture COM-
is not unlike a tragedy in six
()allies . . . they try to protect
vied acts, aith Kastein in the
their interests in Germany, yet
I. 'o: of expositor. One is tempt-
wish to avoid offending their po-
ed to quote Kastein, but to do
tential American audience. In a
"Uhl he almost like quot-
projection room recently a certain
ing from Proverbs or Shake-
picture was labeled UFA, but
speare. There is hardly a page
when released to the public it bore
in which the brilliance of his
no mark of the Vaterland.
thought and the power of his
st yle 410 ROt arrest attention and
Al Rosen, struggling to pro-
cause expression of delighted
duce the "Mad Dog of Europe,"
amazement. Written (originally
interviewed the press of New
in the German, the book gains in
York the other day. During the
charm in Huntley Paterson's
conference the rep
translation.
served by a German waiter w
who e
It is a memorable event to be
was slightly flustered to say
ills to record the publication of
the least.
a Jewish book of genuine worth, ;
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particularly a history of the Jews
So universal is Mae West's pop-
(or of Judaism (in Kas(ein's
' ularity that even the very aca-
work Jews and Judaism are ill-
demic Literary Digest takes notice
tercluttigenlilii terms), written
of her . . they announce that
with the fighting sincerity, the
she is 100 per cent Yiddish. So
intellectual gusto and the sus-
there, Mr. Winchelll•
tained regard for truth which
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loose( Kastein has packed into the
Lenore Ulric comes Hollywood-
III. pages of his hack, chr(in-
ward
for
"I
Love
an Actress,"
io ling the progress of the world's
a picture of, by and, of course,
.•,11'1,St pilgrim. Next to the
for Gregory Ratoff. He will
incomparable Graetz, Kastein
star in the story he wrote of his
has given us, in the opinion of
own life.
the present reviewer, the most
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or,live, the most soul-stirring
And further, Funk & Wagmalls
liowish history available in the
is adding a word to their latest
English language.. Would that a
tome because of this new Queen
host of readers came under the
of the Cinema. It'. "curvacious"'
of this man's inspired
. . and was coined by an enter-
mating.
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prising publicity staff to describe
her
NON-JEW'S FASCINATING
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STORY OF THE JEWS
HIE Jon& rH1/0000 Ti,! CENTURIES
Mania Mamoulian, the direc-
Herbert I, Willett Published by Willett
tor's
mother,
acted
as the star
Clark k en. South Dearborn street
Chtrago 113i
in an Armenian play. Only one
To a non-Je•, 11r. Herbert I..
Russian sneaked into the con,
Willett, for many years professor
pletely Armenian audience • • •
Semitic languages and litera-
that was Gregory Ratoff.
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goes the credit for writing, a fits-
einating history of the Jewish
people.
Practically all-inclusive,
•ell-
annotated, covering every import-

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A nd Eddie cantor relishes this
story . . . Once, as Hitler was
delivering a harangue, he was con-
tinually interrupted by muffled
taught en from the back of the

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by Charles
Joseph

RANDOM THOUGHTS H.

REGARDING MENCKEN

By-the-Way

Tidbits and Xets

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Coinri•ht. 1933. Jewish Telegraphic

WM), Inc

BREVITIES
Arnold Schoenberg., distinguished German comp.-.
the valuable exiles for whom America will have to thaes
,mfly
The best, or some of the best blood America has we mote
t'hrhV;
type of mind from the very beginning. Consider the
a. , ,; suth
a man, for instance, as Dr. Priestly, the discoverer of
was exiled from England in the beginning of the ninetio•non-" who
cantor
because of his sympathies with the French revolution.

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Schoenberg likes hissing, Ile used to worry
,teal
when
was hissed, but later came to the conclusion that utile- a music
,
work was hissed at its beginning, there was something to
A great musical composition always shocks the people at first
argues.
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Queen Esther of the Bible only set a preceolent. it you
n.„
helieve Dr. Alelained, famous Chicago editor. There I , ;t h.,cish lady
behind King Carol—there is a Jewess arounil Nlusmolin, :here 'ha
Jewess around---but we can't remember all of them, tt
, to Dr. t
Melained for the full list.
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Walter Winchell is on the sick list, and Paul Viet sd,
iii;,
"tired" from a St. Louis paper (the editor telling hint lio• xeuld wan
make good in the newspaper game), is taking, Winchell.
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Every good columnist was one time told he would too,' snake
good as a newspaperman. If you don't believe it, ii-k
Hearst columnist, who had the same experience as
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Morris Margulies, secretary of the Zionist Organisation ,
exactly oone dozen cigars every day. Like II. L. Mencken. he prefers
the nickel brand.

Spinoza, like Thomas Jefferson, was fond of wine
"quota" was a minimum of a pint a (lay.
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this daily

According to the New York Sun, it was the Jewish ■■
de which
was responsible for the election of La Guartha as Mayor of New York,
Nazi papers please copy,
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Two of the better known actresses of the Yiddish -drive in New
York are "shicksehs" (Aryans to you).
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'flu , first work in English to plead for Zionism wa- written by
a Christian woman—a well .known authoress. Try ;aid sues; %e h,.

Jacob Fishman, editor of the Jewish Morning .liournal, is prob.
ably the handsomest scribe in the Yiddish field. Fishman 1- s bache lor.
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No country in the world has ever hall a class of immigrants who
brought as much capital with them as Palestine,
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Eliash, Jewish scribe of New York, has seven nom olio plume•.
That is why, he explains, he always says "we" instead of "I"

They (la, say that Dr. Goelibels, the so-called "brain*" , or Nazid o n
who looks anything else but the typical "blood least" of \ (yanisn-
ifi trying to supplant Hitler.
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Will Herbert Bayard Swope, who found himself on:1,14:10d e for
the post of minister to Germany because of his Jewish descent, h e t he
first ambassador to Russia? There is some talk to that ctIo - o• , , anyway,
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Louis Lipsky's son is doing newspaper work.
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Jews entering Palestine arefinding Hebrew a strange language.
Consider some of the oddities: The Hebrew word "dog" mean, l e as
while "he" means she and "who." means he.
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Madison Grant, who professes to be an historian, lea- just pub.
fished it book on the racial strains composing America. Mr, tirart
belongs to the 100 per cent Nordic school, who believe that no good
whatsoever can count out of Nazareth sir anywhere else outside of
the Nordic strongholds. Mr. Grant is particularly antagonistic to
Italians and Jews. Jews, he says, are non-European, and moreover
he doubts whether they have any of the old Hebrew blood. Not
Europeans—not Americans—not Hebrew. The Jews niu•t not hate
been born. Like Topsy, just Krowedo
We hope Mr. Grant lives long. He'll have to live lone to learn
anything much.
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The Zionist Organization is slowly losing a largo percentage of
its workers to Palestine. Last to go was Miss Ida Elation, who has
been secretary to all of the big guns of Zionism—Weilmann, Bran.
leis, Lipsky, Rothenberg and Szold,
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There is some talk in Jewish circles in Cuba anent the ereco:`
(of a monument to Luis de Torres, the first white man to step s,
The Yiddish lauguage is d. , ,, ,tand.
The explanation is ti Cuban soil. Ile was the interpreter of Columbus and la.ei
permitted and encouraged for the he found in one of the basic prin-
the first governor of Cuba. He was a Jew.
Jewish masses in Russia simply be- ciples of Soviet strategy, put in
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VIM.- that is in line with Soviet
operation front the very beginning
Lewis Browne, author, has made fourtrips to
i. Ifs
policy relative to minorities. The by Lenin, which -oaks to win over
writes that he's afraid, if he makes another, he's lialilo
Jewish status in this respect is ex- and gain the loyalty of the various
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actly the same, no better and no racial and national groups by ap-
Will Durant of Story of Philosophy fame is mail,
w,oh
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worse, than that of the Ukranians, pealing to them in their accus-
girl who used to sell papers on the East Side,
the White Russians or the Tartars tomed language and granting them
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of Crimea.
a so:1111)1(.1)4e of cultural autonomy.
The people of Palestine have exceptionally good
"Why the Bolsheviks, whose It is a matter of expediency.
said, due to the ever-present sunshine and maybe the
ideology is diametrically opposed to
"At any rate, it would he well yet one of the leading false teeth factories in the i'''-!,,
all the established concepts of na- for a man of Mencken's high repu- there, but it sells mostly to Europe,
tionalism, should be willing to tol- tation to post himself on the facts
erate and even encourage this con- before allowing his fancy to run
dition of linguistic and cultural atvay with him.
multiplicity, is nut difficult to un-
"Very cordially yours,
"1.1:11 M. GLASSMAN."
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tens.

The following letter received
from Leo M. Glassman, editor-in-
chief of the Biographical Encyclo-
pedia of America is Of sufficient
general interest to be given the
greater part of this week's column:
"Dear 91r. Joseph:
"I am glad that you took II. I..
M•ncken to task for his ions-state-
ments on the subject of the Jews
in Soviet Russia. As a former
Moscow correspondent (I spent
nearly a year in the land of the
Soviets), I am here in it position to
say that Mr. Mencken's remarks
contain a curious mixture of fact
and fancy and the resulting cried
of his picture of Jewish conditions
in Russia is utterly faLse.
By J. T. A. Staff Correspondent.
RABBI GOLDENSON
"It is a fact, for example, that
The acceptance by Rabbi Samuel
the Jewish religion, along with all
Editor's Note: This is a report based on • survey of the Jewish peti-
II. Goldenson of the call too Temple
other religions, is circumscribed by
tion in the Third Reich undertaken by a special investigator for
I:menu-El, New York, will be of
and discouraged by the Soviet gov-
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency since the Ministry of 1 rOnOinir,
nation-wide interest. For sometime
ernment, but it is not correct to
i ssued
t g hn
e aga
widely -publicized orders to ease up in the economic
past it has been pretty well known
say, es Nfencken does, that the Jew-
c ampa i gn
i n s t the J e s.
in Pittsburgh that Dr. Goldenson
Sulamith lsh• Kishor's Ne
ish religion in Russia is 'under the
was considering overtures made to
Presentation in Three
ban.' The official Soviet code on
A minority in the II itler cabinet their front page wilier- a - article
hint by the New York congrega-
Short Volumes.
religion permits Jews and others
tion That he has finally decided composed of those ministers fan:
the
to practice their faith and attend
to fare with the major problems of Ih1Tianngd kort.tita"n;'sfuruination.
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heA
to
go
will
he
of
no
surprise
to
those
houses of worship, though Com-
Children's Book Week, being, who believe that his qualifications foreign relations and economics is
The 26-year-old Textil Arbeiter,
munist propagandists and Soviet
correctly observed, is given specie entitle hint to the largest possible strongly in favor of relaxation of read by members 14 t he tegnle
public opinion generally are cer-
significance for young Jews by the field in American Jewry. Col- the discriminator tactics employed workers' union throughout the
tainly hostile to religious elements.
appearance of an exceedingly fas leagues of 1/r. Goldenson will ap- against the Jews. Their motives country, devotes a grind deal of
On the other hand, it is sheer flight
cinating set of three small vol
plaud the selection because of the are a desire to appease disapprov- • its space to articles and cartoon!
of fancy on Mencken's part when
times by Sulamith Ish-Kishor, tin
high regard in which he is held be- ing world opinion and diminish in the style of those in Julius
he states that 'it is dangerous for
er
and
der the title "Children's History cause of his outstanding ability hostility to the Reich in interna- .k
St„
reosichne: isi
v iit,eurm
r'sead
notorious Ini erS
a Jew: to be heard speaking Yiddish
of Israel."
and sincerity. His influence in New tional affairs and to revive the and informs its readers that "The
on the streets of Moscow.' There
country's
badly
stricken
commerce
The first volume, containing 191 York will, we are sure, be widely
is nod an iota of truth in this. In
and industry.
they "use German blood" and that
pages, deals with the eras "From felt not alone in New York proper,
fact, the exact (opposite is true.
'et, despite their stand and the they are an international menace.
"The Soviet government press the • ( reation to the Passing of but throughout the nation. There
frequent
orders
of
the
ministry
of
In many of the pub) , idioms, this
is
not
the
slightest
doubt
but
that
Moses."
The
second
volume,
hav-
publishes Yiddish books, pamphlets
and newspapers. In those terri- ing 230 pages, covers the periods Dr. Samuel Goldenson ranks with economics to cease the anti-Jewish anti-Jewish agitation is nothing
less
than incitement to programs.
the
greatest
rabbis
in
the
history
tmycott
in
Germany
and
permit
the
tories where the Jewish population "From Joshua to the Second Tem-
this incitement.
the effect
is especially numerous, as in the ple." The last volume, in 315 of American Jewry. The New York Jews to retain their positions in the
I
through
h
co
repe nt ten on the
l'kraine and in White Russia, some pages, covers the periods "From congregation is most fortunate in business and industrial worlds, the
may loo- I- not di g-
Nazi regime continues to foster a German lab
of the Soviet government schools the Second Temple to the Present gaining his acceptance.
new front in its war of extermin- al: Ihta tot
to understand.
d eft'
.
use Yiddish as the language of in- Time."
ation of the Jews—the so-called
struction.
Each chapter in each volume , JEWISH FARMERS
Deliberately or by coincidence.
Deliberately
In Minsk, the capital of
"anti-Jewish labor front."
the White Russian Soviet Repub- closes with a group of students'j
the
orders
of
the ministry of to -
I ant appreciative of the follow-
lic, I attended the sessions of a questions. The set is illustrated ing hotter received from Gabriel
Every labor paper appearing in mimics to cease boycott activities
resulted
Jewish court. The judge, the law- and has an index. It was pub- 1 Davidson, general manager of the ' the country has received its orders a gawion,s e h
It
yers. the defendants and the wit- lished toy the Jordan Publishing Jewish Agricultural Society, and to devote (tart of its columns to
t tafe terrorism.
nesses all spoke Yiddish and the Co., a subsidiary of the Hebrew it will be, I am sure., of interest to anti-Semitic agitation. This is known t h at the vete' an Nazis lea.
proceedings were recorded in that Publishing Co., 632 Broadway, my readers;
partly to distract the unemployed
Of he
s'av'
Mhza
o t }inve flo'crenyema (r.sn .11 1.'ra[ kwtith
language by the court clerk. This New: York.
workers and to provide them with : r.rg
'October 31,
court has the same standing as
The author, Sulamith Ish-Kishor,
"I read with interest your com- the convenient scapegoat, the Jew:, disfavor and contempt at such
Nazis as In: Kurt
the (other Soviet courts in the sty has on numerous occasions, made ment on 'Jewish Farmers' in your on whom to vent their dissatisfac-
a ( d :::,•,• nos one l a icr e . •
and its rulings are equally Official herself liked and known for her 'Random Thoughts' column.
it ota
tion and unrest. It is partly also
and binding.
"You will permit me to set you in line with the Nazi program of unit Barran Constantin
stories and poems for Jewish chil-
isetresr.''r
foreign
affairs,
"On the newsstands in Moscow
t
T
‘
s
i'a
t
,
h
.
h
'
h
i
l
,s
i
t
'ihttft't:
the
imbuing
all
parts
of
the
population,
11"ing
may
dren. In her present effort —the right as to The .lewish Agricultur-
y well explain 0
one can see displayed side by side
crowning work of her literary , al Society. That society in not, as including the radicals, with the
spirit
of
anti-Semitism.
wave
flourdig
Pr.
with the Pravda and the lzvestya, a career—she accomplishes her task a casual reading of your item would
terroristic
Xiddish Communist sheet. the
'smaionrd
These (slot publications do not
ably and presents us with a chil- lead one to believe, a thing of the
Entre ss. It is the official organ of
In
It is a living, functioning, go abroad. They are not sold on
dren's history which should prove past.
ll
the Jewish Coinunists in Russia.
est:n(11(.1 'a' ;il l Y.et te g
The newsstands but reach their mil- werehiariPl7m li !h
of value in use in the schools as active organization today.
Jews were made the objects of man'
And there is a Yiddish theater in
organization
to
which
you
refer,
lions
of
subscribers
through
the
well as privately in the home.
, as, for
Moscow, The Jewish State little
hunts
through
the
street
Written simply enough for an and with which Dr. A. R. Levi was mails. While a certain amount of
1'_'
Theater. The plays are based ion
eight-year-old child to understand, connected, was known as The Jew- restraint has been imposed on edi-
Jewish life and the actors speak
It can be used to great advantage ish Agriculturalists Aid Society of tors of the general newspapers .
.“: :: i .h,:l'hIm:7s.
Yiddish.
the two
P
iatiaarYtk: of w
were
'St-e
i
enpd:I
attacked,
which
come
to
th
America.
It
ceased
to
operate
awe
,-
e
attention of the
('p our children ranging in awes
,d ii
"I can assure Mr. Mencken that
oth aernda te hts, ojef w%sli hn ad dalitsm r o !... ...:m
20 years ago, and was absorbed foreign correspondents in Berlin m
there are no spies to detect and from 8 to 12.
into
our
society.
and which are frequently read,
Appropriately
enough.
the
first
..H,:ht
report persons speaking Yiddish or
ts during Ow
"Then- is a stable, active Je•- abroad, no restrictions are enforced thoe streets
any foreign language in Soviet vodunie is printed in bold-face ish farm population in the United in the labor papers which are dis- h
type. It commences with chap-
Russia. Rut there are plenty of
In many places, an uo •
Satre
at
the
present
time.
There
tributed
(only
to
members
of
the
un-
ters on "How the World Began,"
spies to detect and report pinions
ed ultimatum has been p •' '
Ilappy," are Jewish farmers in practically ions, to which Jews cannot now be-
tittering anti-Soviet sentiments in -When the World Was
Jewish population to 1.....: tc.n
every state in the Union, and good long.
- What Adam Did." and proceeds
any language whatsoever.
sized Jewish settlements in the
A collection of these publications or suffer the ronsequene. -
"Mencken seems to miss alto- with the Biblical stories up to the Eastern and Mid-Western States. reveals the utter lark of restraint
(The Jewish TelegrapE• ACO'
t:nie of Joshua.
z'i'ther the vital point that what
Every type of farming practiced in and the ferocity of the barbaric ey e on Nov. 5, reported /1,0 the
Throughout the three volumes th e United States has its Jewish
i•%er rights and privileges the Jew,
entire
Jewish population - f the
calls for Jewish blood to which the
in Jewish his- votaries. Jews are also creditably
in Russia have today are now due the salient poi To
German workingman is exposed
to the preserve among the Krem- tory. including :Set latest achieve- represented in the agricultural pro-
via,
when he reads the publication of
lin chiefs of .11 ,81, 'Who were badly ments in Palestine. are covered fessions.
ve
community b. f
e th
his union, the paper what' he has to leave
used to the days of the Czars
with marvelous simplicity.
ioat r aeds7le Jo "must
"We estimate the Jewish farm been accustomed ta. reading for trheembe
h. :.;:i':a7:1
a s'
lie Says that the .liouish Bolshevik
When chmeeng the books for population at around s0,000. II. S. years as the voice of his trade un- remain
den;:nrrgedb' yibnY.1 lt:r
ahian ifi it 'N'e
ti ln(eleoto
nrb(
leaders are Communists first and vour children's library• you should Linfield, head of the Jewish Statis-
mary::r. declared).
ion and its labor leaders whom he
l ithe"'
1, l t
Jew, only second. This, tae, Is a ra t overlook lsh-Kishor's "Chil- tical Bureau, in the Jewish Year
i onini.:1,i1;
j .e rm
.
. int ieysrhth
o p
a w osnp„ouhit.thatrn
tno always respected and obeyed o Tn hee, w
mis-statement. The Jewish It d- dren's History of Israel." And to Book, 192Q-1929, states that more
tie information to the eff.s t that
almost martial discipline.
eheviks are Communists first, last nrovide a fine textbook for your than 100,000 Jews in the United
tentire
Issues of the Deutsche Metalar-
and all the time. They are not child in Jewish history. you must Staten earn their living, in whole boiler Beitung, read by members of
interested in special rights nr fav- make it a point to secure this set or in part, from arrietiltueh.
country. Nor are these f - . 1,11'
the metal worker's union for 61
orite treatment for the Jewish citi- I of interesting books.
"GABRIEL DAVIDSON." • years, now regularly feature on
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