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Willy for an indor gement owthe
Sabbath Reading. of the Torah
Pcntateuchal portion—Ex. 18:1-20:23
Prophetical portion—Is 6:1-7:6; 9:5, 6
February 2, 1934
Shevat 17, 5694
Co-ordi nated Community Effort.
Linking America with Palestine.
American Jewry has linked its name on
numerous occasions with reconstruction ef-
forts in Palestine. Vast sums of money
have been sent to Palestine from this coun-
try. American Jewish pioneers have been
sponsored by American Jews.
Furthermore, this country has been
linked with Palestine in other ways. Amer-
ican presidents have been inscribed in the
Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund,
and a forest has been planted in honor of
George Washington.
The newest effort to link America with
Palestine is the project to plant a Franklin
D. Roosevelt Grove in the George Wash-
ington Forest in Palestine. This is an ex-
cellent way of honoring our President, and
is a commendable means of advancing the
reforestation program in Eretz Israel. This
project should be given wide support, and
non-Jews as well as Jews should be en-
couraged to plant trees in Palestine in
honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Two mo, t encouraging signs of com-
munity co-o peration are the results of ef-
forts of rec ent weeks to co-ordinate relief
work and Kashruth protection in the corn-
munity.
, The first movement is now an accom-
plished fact . The creation of a Co-operative
Council of Jewish Family Welfare Organi-
zations is one .of the most constructive
achievemen is of the Jewish Welfare Feder-
ation of De troit. Overlapping in relief and
family welt are work is inevitable in a corn-
munity wh ett there are so many agencies
for the di itribution of relief funds and
necessities of life. To avoid such unneces-
sary overt ,pping, the council just created
becomes a important agency in the coat-
munity an i the co-operating groups are to
be comma Lded for their readiness to join
with the J ewish Welfare Federation and
its agencie in sponsoring such a clearance
bureau.
The seco nd and equally as important at-
tempt at community co-ordination is the
effort to c reate a central bureau for the
clearing o f all problems affecting the oh-
servance o ' Kashruth ill Detroit. The fre-
quent abu t of the dietary laws, in spite
of the fact that Jews pay such high rates
for their meats, and the all-too-frequent
friction a nong Schochtim, butchers and
wholesaler 3 calls for action on the part of
the commu nity. The existence of the pro-
posed Kas iruth Council will not only serve
as a means of guaranteeing the observance
of the diet ary laws, and of serving as an
instrument for the solving of controversies
which may arise on the question, but will
also be th means of preventing the type
of scanda s which have arisen in other
communiti Is on the Kashruth question.
Dr. A. q. Hershman, as the person di-
rectly resp lonsible for the inauguration of
the Kashr nth-coordination movement, is to
be highly !ommended for his work. He is
making a sufficiently important contribu-
tion to th , community to earn the thanks
of all Det. 'oft Jewry.
Young Israel's Tenth Anniversary.
In the past 20 years, numerous Jewish
youth movements have sprung up. In
every instance each movement was hailed
as a new redeeming element in Jewish life.
Public speakers rejoiced, and newspapers
found new material for editorial comment
on the share
re of youth in Jewish life.
The test, of course, came years after-
wards. The strong and wholesome groups
survived; the weak fell by the wayside.
Young Israel is one of the movements
which has not only survived the test of a
10-year existence, but also justified its sur-
vival through its constructive efforts and
by adhering to a practical program of Jew-
ish endeavor.
Young Israel has refused to
make con .essions when Jewish principles
were involved. It has been firm and con-
sistent in its policies.
In congratulating Young Israel on its
tenth anniversary, it is our sincere hope
that its contributions to Jewish life will in-
crease as the movement gains in years, and
that it will ever remain a wholesome influ-
ence for J r.vs and Judaism.
Pag eant Starts Rehearsals.
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Support the Symphony Orchestra.
The Detroit Symphonoy Orchestra, as
one of the very important cultural institu-
tions of our city, deserves the widest pos-
sible support from all elements in the com-
munity.
Jewish night with the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, to be observed with a special
concert this Sunday evening, should be an
occasion for a demonstration on the part of
this Jewish community that Jewry is pre-
pared to share responsibilities with the rest
of Detroit towards our civic cultural
agencies.
It is to be hoped that an overflow audi-
ence will demonstrate its interest in the De-
troit Symphony Orchestra this Sunday
evening.
Jewish Scene Not One-Sided.
Those who insist upon placing emphasis
upon the German-Jewish tragedy should
have learned by this time that the Jewish
scene is not one-sided, and that Jewish
suffering is not limited to the Reich.
Austria, Rumania, Hungary, Greece and
Poland supply the answer for those sud-
denly awakened Jews whose information
is limited to Germany.
In Austria we are beginning to see a
repetition of early pre-Hitler occurrences
in Germany, in the fear that is gripping
Austrian Jewry, and in the efforts that are
being made by many of them to find refuge
from the threat of Hitlerism to Austria.
In Hungary, anti-Semitism continues to
be centered in the universities, and the gov-
ernment continues to Make concessions to
anti-Jewish leaders.
In Greece, former Premier Elutherios
Venizelos has made the demand upon
Greek Jewry that it should voluntarily re-
nounce its rights of franchise in return for
which he promises to stop the anti-Semitic
campaign of his Liberal party. Premier
Tsaldaris's statement in parliament that
Jews are entitled to rights as equal citizens
was merely a signal for an anti-Jewish
demonstration.
In Poland, all protestations to the con-
trary notwithstanding, economic discrimin-
ations continue to oppress the Jewish popu-
lation. The Warsaw correspondent of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in a recent dis-
patch, describes how the Polish govern-
ment continues to sanction the war against
the Jews, with disastrous results for Jew-
ish industrialists.
Perhaps the most serious danger lurks
in Rumania, where Zelea Codreanu, Ru-
mania's Hitler, founder of the Iron Guard,
has gained a following based on assurances
that the expulsion of Jews would create
vacancies for anti-Semitic adherents. A
commentator thus described Codreanu
to a correspondent of the New York Times;
M. Codreanu as a student ten years ago
began his career by murdering the prefect of
Jassy, alleging the latter had tolerated the
beating of students arrested for anti-Semitic
outrages. On his acquittal he left Professor
Cuza's old-fashioned anti-Semitic organization
to found the Iron Guard.
M. Codreanu codified violence as a means
of cleansing public life of corruption, Jewish
influences and the petrified democracy with
which youth was impatient. With the solgan,
"Jesus, King and nation," with a crucifix and a
revolver in his pocket and his student disciples
each clad in a green shirt with the Ilitlerite
belt and red brassard with blue swastika on
yellow ground (the Rumanian colors), M.
Codreanu launched a fanatical, mystical, chau-
vinistic crusade among the peasantry.
M. Codreanu is devoid of political sense and
incapable of making a passable speech. Never-
theless, he is a good organizer.
The Cuzists' relations with Hitlerism were
closer than those of the Iron Guard, which,
although anti-Semitic, was modeled rather on
Italian than on German fascism. Apparently
without funds, they labored with the peasants
in exchange for food. 51. Codreanu himself,
although a qualified lawyer, wore the peasant's
smock when not in uniform for the sake of its
effect on the peasantry.
JEWS IN THE ANTIPODES
Our Film Folk
By PERETZ HIRSCHBEIN
By HELEN ZIGMOND
EDITOR'S NOTE ., -Perett Hirothhein, diatinguished Yiddish playwright. poet and
traveller. has closely studINI Jewish life In communities in the remotest come.
what folios.Is • leaf Irma his recently published boot of travel.
of the globe.
"Around the World."
(Copyright. 1934. Jovial] Telegraphic ageerr,
1COPYright, 1933. Jewish
Tidbits and Nat'l
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Telegraphic Agency. Inc./
Oranges are not the only thing one can make a living on in
Palestine. Ida Flatou writes that some women she knows make a
THAT'S HARRY GREEN I
living
in Eretz Israel teaching bridge. Shadchones seems also to be
Meet Harry Green! — lawyer,
comedian and proud a good business.
globe-trotter,
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Amid resounding "Mazel toes!"
They do say that a new agreement is brewing between the Pales-
and "Congratulations!" stood the tine government and the Zionists which will end all the disaffection
new father, Harry Green, slightly about immigration. It is said that the British government is ready
dazed but beaming. Two hundred to allow an immigration of 30,000 annually, with the condition that
had been invited to the Clover there be no illegal entry.
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Club to celebrate the birth of his
son . . . but the doorman stopped
It may interest you to know that at the most sacred shrine of
counting after a thousand arrived. Christendom, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestine,
The rooms were thick with film when the Christmas services were held this year, about half of the
celebs .. . and smoke. The din, people in the church were Jews. Came as spectators, of course.
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terrific! An interview was im-
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possible.
The New York Sun this week had an interesting article about
So-o-o, a few days later we hied
ourself to the Greens' English Jacob Hays, the only Jewish chief of police New York ever had. !lays
house in Beverly Hills. Here, too, was police chief of the metropolis around the 1820's. He had an inter-
was excitement. Mother, father national reputation as a crime detector. Funny thing about Hays was
and baby David were being photo- that he refused to go armed. Ile was a man of Max Baer 's propor-
tions and apparently also of his strength, for it is said that criminals
graphed for the newspapers.
was unarmed.
At last we pinned the comedian quaked before him, though he
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in a neutral corner. We wanted
He
said
he
didn't
like
to
go
armed, for fear of killing people.
to know about his life and his
Then, he said, you had to bury the killed, and that was a great
career.
He wasn't born in Russia, as nuisance. It is—come to think of it.
may have thought, but in New
Hays, by the way, was the son of Mrs. Hays, whose home in
York
York City. At the age of 10, well,
Westchester was burned down by the British during the Revolution.
let Harry tell it . . .
"I left home to sing songs The story goes that the British entered her home, when she was alone
in a medicine show. By the way, with her sick child, her husband being away with the American
that's how I got my name. I soldiers.
"Tell us where the Americans are," insisted the British. Mrs.
was born Harry Blazer . but
the handbills advertising the Ilays refused to play the traitor.
"Set fire to the house," said the British colonel.
show read, 'Dr. Green's Vaude
And it was done.
• ille Company, featuring Mr.
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Harry Green, Singer of Illus-
A
cousin of Chief of Police Hays, Reuben Etting, had a rather
they
I
figured
trated Songs.'
meant me . . . thereafter I was strange experience with the British troops.
He was captured at Charlestown, Mass., by the British.
Harry Green.
"Aha," they said, as they looked at him, "a Jew!"
"The manager was to pay me
They
decided to amuse themselves with a little interesting
$10 a week and cakes . . . but he
fired me at the first town ... and torture. He was given only pork to eat.
Etting
was a pious Jews—and he refused to eat the pork, but
sent me home. Lucky break for
me ... the company was stranded he managed to subsist in a semi-starved fashion from the leavings
given to him by the other prisoners.
at the next stop.
However, his bodily resistance suffered, and shortly after his
"The illustrated songs, however,
continued .. . I got a job in an release he died from tuberculosis.
The Solis-Cohens of Philadelphia are descendants of the Hays
East Side nickelodeon. I sang as
an accompaniment to the stereop- family.
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ticon slides on the screen. My
One of the most interesting persons of the faculty of the Uni-
salary was $10, but I managed to
versity
of
Exile
is
Max
Wertheimer.
Regarded
as the greatest theoreti-
make more . . . I convinced the
owner that I was better than the cian of the new Gestalt psychology.
Wertheimer
is
a
close
friend
of
Einstein
and, incidentally, the
painter he hired . . . Soon I was
doing the theater's signs at $3.50 Gestalt psychology has frequently been said to be to psychology what
relativity is to physics.
It week. I relieved the movie
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operator during supper hour .. .
Another interesting figure is Herman Kantorowicz, one of
was paid a dollar. I got the con-
cession for candy ... hired other the greatest living philosophers in the field of jurisprudence. Juris-
kids to sell peanut bars . . . and prudence covers the philosophical field of the law and you may take
made 49 cents for every 31 cents Dr. Alvin S. Johnson's word for it that the field of jurisprudence
has in America been sadly neglected. And Johnson, who founded
invested.
"I was really the first person the Exile College, believes that the coming of the German Jews will
this phase of the law.
in the world to do talking pic- have a marked effect in developing
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tures. When they had a feature
But it is in economics that Dr. Johnson thinks the effect of the
—two reels in those days—I stood
behind the screen and took every University in Exile will be most effective. Most of the refugee pro-
part, the women's high voices and fessors in this field represent the school of economics which empha-
sizes the importance of the factor of structure of the economic
the men's low ones.
"One day I found out that the machine.
What does this mean in practical terms? Dr. Johnson explains
police lieutenant, who owned the
theater, kept. it only as a blind it as follows:
In Germany, the problem of the great land estates is one of the
for the gambling joint he had up-
stairs. Reform hit the town .. . critical problems. About 40 per cent of East Prussia is owned by
a raid was ordered. The police- Junkers—virtually landlords. Now in the feudal state, the landlord
man took out the gambling fix- is everything, and the rest of the people are virtually serfs. The
tures and installed a stock of feudal idea was carried over by Germany to her military machine,
candy. The cops battered down and the officer in Germany has become the equivalent of the landlord.
the door and found only Harry Everyone kowtows before him.
Bruening, when he was Chancellor, sought to dethrone the big
Green counting candy bars. The
theater was of no use to the po- lords of these vast estates, but their power was so great that he
liceman after that . . . he turned himself was forced to resign. •
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it over to me, lock and key.
Incidentally, the University in Exile will soon begin the publica-
"That was the proudest mo-
tion
of
an
economic
and
sociological
quarterly
to be called Social
ment of my life . . . 12 years old
Research. The German professors of the Exile College, says Dr.
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Johnson, are a most engaging lot, and completely contented here.
If anything, says Johnson, they suffer from a plethora of atten-
tion.
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A Column of
There has been of late much discussion in the New York press
Frank Speaking.
about slang, with particular attention to that classic gem of •language.
"nuts." And isn't it about time that someone projected a theory that
By ALFRED SEGAL
this classic phrase—nuts to you—is of Hebraic origin?
Consult the "siddur," and you will see that the phrase really
Comes from the prayer book. What else does "va-nislach lecha" mean?
International Jews are following capitalist Jews as well as Com- I ask.
TO A DEAR FRIEND:
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the plans of these Protocols. What munist Jews. Also, I may as well
ONE WHO SIGNS himself, "A difference does it make who wrote confess, there are wet Jews and
The trouble with people, says Dr. Beiren Wolfe, psycho-analyst,
Sympathetic Non-Jew" sends them? Again your race errs in dry Jews, Republican Jews and is that they don't make enough mistakes. Why not start an organi-
"An Open Letter to the Jews of trying to convince the world that Democratic Jews. Their varieties zation with the slogan: "Have you made your mistake today?"
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Cincinnati.
they are forgeries and the Inter- are no less than among the Anglo-
Why is it that 75 per cent of those who want to write for papers
He says: "As a race, you re- national Jews have no such plans. Saxons among whom one finds the
capitalist Morgan and the Com- want to be columnists? Harold Berman explains it with a story of
mind one of the mother who al- You only become more involved.
"Communism is the problem of munist, William Z. Foster, the cap- a man who came to the owner of a night club, who was his friend.
ways defends her children regard-
"Say, Mr. Owner," he said, "can't you give my son a job in
less of what they say or do. And the nations of the world. The Proc- italist Mellon and the late Com-
what a problem the mother has to tocols describe the details of Com- munist Bill Ileywood who sleeps your orchestra?"
"Well, yes; can your son play the violin?" replied the owner,
explain the actions of her bad munism. Have you not found it with Lenin in the Kremlin.
You ask: "Ilave you not found
"No," replied the papa.
children! The American Jew, as difficult to defend the International
"Can he play the piccolo?"
a race, has done much to enrich Jews who advocate Communism?" difficulty to defend the Jews who
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advocate Communism?"
"No," replied the papa.
the life of our country . . . But
"Well, what instrument can he play?"
Why do we need to defend them?
there are those in your ranks in- I ANSWER HIM: Are you not a
"Well, you know that fellow who stands up in front with a
bit mixed? In one paragraph Their right to be Communists is
terested in money and power, who
hold first allegiance to your race, you point to Jews who by money as good as the right of the major- stick? My son could do that."
and plot the destruction of the and power plot to destroy the na- ity of Jews to be Republicans. Do
country of which they are citizens. tion ... capitalists , and in the we require you, the Anglo-Saxon,
Asa mother how your race errs next Jews are Communists about to defend or denounce your blood-
in trying to defend and protect to consume the capitalist system. brother Communist Foster or to
There should be safety for you exculpate your kinsmen Capital-
them simply because they are
in this. These two groups of Jews, ists Morgan and Mellon?
HEINE A LIFE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE. By Ludwig Marcum. Translated from the
Jews."
German by Louise M. Slevelkingend its P. D. Morrow. Published by hoar a Rine-
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I am saddened to see such a
plotting to opposite purposes, may
hart, 331 Madison venue. New York 183).
good, true and sympathetic friend
I ANSWER HIM: The Anglo- devour each other.
bringing
up
the
evil
gossip
of
the
But
I
guess
there
really
are
An unusually interesting bio- present German-Jewish situation.
Saxon American is of a noble
Proctocols against me, digging up graphy of Heinrich Heine is added Mr. Marcuse writes:
breed that, like the Jew, has en-
condemn
nd
omr ei to the rich literature dealing with
ni
velem antl.amellims of Ike greets
riched civilization. Even as you LAUGHTER-PROVOKING v3ruotv ewn e forgeries
pushed Its way Into literals... In • pemeh
for
m a y s till
the life and poetry of Germany's lel caned 'The Mirror of tbe Jew." whieb -
esteem the Jews as a race I es
have
forgiveness
for
one
who
NOVEL
BY
BERNSTEIN
very eminent and very abused poet. appeared toward the end et 1119, the noble
teem the Anglo-Saxons, of whom
nows no what e s a y s .
Marcuse's biography assumes im- •Ike tans of a Jew /o be
you appear to be one.
7:1 141 4
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bet 00Th • ease fee the anise..
portance not only because of the • be erase
Indeed, so much do I respect the "L'Affaire Jones" Is One of the THE
hail ,h• matter of feet a better recipe
SYMPATHETIC
FRIEND
.y.:
Funniest
Books
of
the
Year.
interesting
manner in which he re- ...lint
qualities of Anglo-Saxons that it
DI. OWN—that Iaa many Jen as
—
view's lleine's likes and dislikes, Possible 1111.11I be geld to tortoni. sibs migbt
does not occur to me to say, "These
rt-
EZ
"Roosevelt has honored your race his eccentricities and ideals, but be- am them ea their India. elantatiews lasteed
are Anglo-Saxon crooks," when I L.A.PITE.307,e.
Co .,
e men hoe Le
ea.
.
by placing many Jews in promi- cause of the numerous important their emcees.
mem aue ..... tem
1•41.1 1w
' New Yuri 111
read of Anglo-Saxon thieves in
Fourth :venu
vent positions. The nation is keen- historical incidents covered as side-
high places, of Anglo-Saxon trait-
b"
r'
le
kfne's
affliations
with
the
So-
It is one of the funniest books ly watching their every move. How lights to explain the political tur-
ors selling the public domain for
for Jewish Culture and Schol-
$100,000 in a black bag, of Anglo- written, and portions of it cause many times they appear to act as moil of the time in which Heine ciety
arship and his relations with Jews
Saxon banksters swindling the pub- the reader to hold his sides to pre- Jews and not as Americans. Why liv ed .
receives
considerable consideration
do
they
continually
attempt
to
do.
lie, of an Anglo-Saxon Ohio gang vent laughter from splitting them.
Marcuse introduces us to Ileine's from the author. Of interest is the
carrying corruption almost to the "L'Affaire Jones" is the type of things by force and disregard the numerous friends, to Rebel's salon explanation
of the failure of reform
Constitution?
Why
do
their
sug-
door of the White House in the story which makes you forget the
enchanted the poet, to the Judaism of that time. Marcuse
e , gestions and actions always have which
ti dmed
n gs
i t h omf uoc u h -rn ee
Harding years.
amnadn p y rosey oesu sy otuh iw
friends, relatvies and enemies of says that what was wanted was
the
taint
of
Communism?
Ah, my dear friend, you have
"And if some of them have the Heine. We are told of the hatred either a ghetto Jew or a baptised
your crooks and we have ours; but humorous reading. In it are re-
that was entertained for Heine by
"But they resisted a revival
I do not say to you, "Anglo-Saxon, corded the experiences of Henry 'Proctocols' plan in mind, do you Dietrich Grabbe, who "made fun of Jew.
Judaism along its own lines," hi
you are responsible for your Jones of Windfall, Ga., who goes realize the consequences the Amer. • the ugly 'Jew poet,"' of the Jewish of
writes.
He further explains:
thieves. These are Anglo-Saxon to Paris to write a cook-book. He ican Jews must suffer when they writer whom he attacked as the so he ananeestable
SWAM
Asada ham been eiretereol Its lefermest Jews
thieves. Aye, these are Christian had stolen his mother s famous rec- are exposed? Is this not a far " Miserable
foot
,
ten
a
nd
a
re•.. was that Ike hem Met wood
p nl e - found; pwo ht ickhk riniasnedd more important problem than the half inch manikin, who had never Tim
fr m
thieves."
be estie•etell are safer •40% 0.7b•We i
of
Jews
in
foreign
lands?
It
plight
Why, then, do you say to me c iPe
reaf to ed r ea°
whew they are beef gh•mted-
had a woman, and that was why •p than
tbe abolition of tbe ONO... the Cade-
"Jew, you have scroundrels among him to want to redeemhimself by is up to you American Jews to stop he thought such a lot about it; after
Ilea state desired that every Jew lobe re-
You. You are responsible for your ; writing a book on the foods and the headstrong members of your whose verses were not poetry, but fused baptism shou Id drag hie IrlsetM
race who are leading you into a
trills bin aa
Null dew Ile
i‘ se c r n oundrels. These are Jewish' wines of France. A card he gave dangerous
• jingling rhymes." And Alarmse
position."
to • friend who puts it in his poc-
This and eirniler ref eron,o. f
undrels."
tells us that "no doubt Grabbe
the
reactions
of Germans to Jew..
You say there are rich Jews "who ket and in a slightly intoxicated
would hear with fiendish laughter
plot the destruction of the coon- state exchanges coats in a restau- I ANSWER 11151: I can not get s the report of their mutual friends , in Heine's time help explain the
angry
at
a
sympathetic
friend,
the
arrest
of
Jones.
It
conditions
of
our
own time.
causes
which
they
are
citizens"'
rant,
w r_h r o ot
how Heine longed for the moment'
are they, my dear friend? leads to his being charged with so in answering this, I must ad- when his 'Tragedies' should be dis-
Explaining the baptism of
dress
you
as
a
dangerous
citizen'
b-
kin!.
the
enemy
of
the
state
and
What Jew has pillaged any
in the shop windows, and Heine, Borne and Gana, the latter
who attempts by vile innuendo to played
b
hat Jaw has robbed
the farce begins at that point.
s ir treasury What
how, when they were, he walked being the founder of the Society
Seldom does one come across su ch poison pu b lic
the nation by dishonesty of pub-
up and down before the booksel- for Jewish Culture and Scholarship.
lie contracts? What Jew's greed remarkable satire on nationalism. works of the President.
in the linter den Linden, in Marcuse says that it was not done
You dare not charge treason lers,
has devastated the well-being and Jones' jail experiences, the after-
order to enjoy the sight of his new- because they agreed with Christ-
the hope of thousands of his fellow- math, the love affair with Mme. against the president but you point ly published work."
ianity. lie says that they did not
citizens? What Jew carries the Lanerre—all these incidents pro- at him through Jews who have
Thus, it is one bitter experience go over to Christianity but to Eur-
execration that is on an !mull? • coke much laughter and help to come to serve his policies. This is after another that plagued the life ope—"they bought the right of en.
Ah, my dear sir, a good and sym- make a story that should prove a cowardice of which, were I of the of Heine. Often he was the butt try into European culture and Eur-
pathetic friend of Jews should tonic for many an aching head. ' mind of anti-Semites,
. . I might most
attacks because of his Jewish opean intercourse with the certi-
Jones in released when he sue- uniustly say. "This Is of t ec er- of
point specifically to every Jew who
descent. The Jewish angle is fre- ficate cf baptism. "
plots the destruction of this coun- credo in preparing the very same ecter of Anglo-Saxons." But I quently covered by the biographer
Marcum tells us that "Heine
credit
this
vice
singly
to
yourself.
try; in order that Jews themselves', eornpone-and-potlikker recipe for a
Ah, my dear sir, through ten of Heine. He devotes some pages was • Jew—on the side of the hunt-
may know who they are and drive cabinet minister. Furthermore he
to
■
ed,
therefore, and in opposition to
rsume
of
the
salon
of
Rahel
is decorated by France as a means paragraphs of your letter, ysu, as Levin Varnhagen, and he speaks the hunters" lie comes to the de-
them from the house,
• • •
the sympathetic friend, embraced
of amending
of
Rahel'a
estrangement
from
Jud-
fense
of Heine when he states that
American h ji o rn ur- me; but in the eleventh paragraph
HilleenldBireg the wrong
OUR GOOD FRIEND says: "The
aism "until she lay on her death- he "became neither • Protestant
action of the International Jew nalist, who has spent five years in I caught you raising this knife to
nor
•
Catholic
nor any other kind
are the real problem of the Amer- France, has written an excellent plunge into my back.
An interesting paragraph, de- of renegade ... he had always pre-
I break in two, sir. 's rathe r
can Jew. Millions of American story and has deserved the selection
served
'his
respect
for the true
the Jewish situation , pro-
citizens have read the Protocols. of his book as the January offer- • a dangerous weapon for a Christ- scribing
' ian and a patriot to be handling. vide interesting comment on the
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The y find much evidence that the ing of the Literary Guild.
The wind was blowing hard.
Wellington was living up to its
reputation of a windy city. It is
young and modern, and counts a
population of some seventy thou-
sand inhabitants. And before I
as much as had a good look at
the four walls of my room in the
hotel where I had put up-1 was
filled with an irresistible desire
to meet the Jews of this antipo-
dean city.
I had the telephone directory
brought in and began perusing it,
letter by letter, in quest of Jew-
ish sounding names. Sure
enough, they were to be found
practically on every page—fami-
liar surnames of my people. And
then I came across a Dutch name
prefaced by the title of Rever-
end. "Wonder if this is Rabbi," I
said to myself. I picked up the
receiver and gave his number to
the operator. A sonorous youth-
ful voice inquired:
"Who's calling, please?"
"Pardon me, are you the local
rabbi?"
"Yes, I ant the rabbi of Wel-
lington. And you?"
"A Yiddish write! from Amer-
ica—just arrived and impatient
to get acquainted with a fel-
low-Jew."
"Good! I'll he over in a short
while."
It seemed certain it was a
young man who spoke over the
telephone—for his voice was vi-
brant with energy, not to men-
tion his readiness to come to see
me at once. It was, therefore,
the surprise of my life when,
half an hour later, a gray-headed
gentleman of venerable appear-
ance entered my room. Seventy
years old, if a day, exceptionally
neat and trim, in formal dress
and silk hat, he looked more like
a recently converted aged Gen-
tile than a rabbi.
LOSES HIS TONGUE
He greeted me very warmly
with a cordial handshake and a
Hebrew sentence or two. But
when I began asking him ques-
tions about the Jews in New
Zealand, about their number,
their mode of living, their place
in the scheme of things, he grew
visibly alarmed, lost his tongue
for a moment and surveyed me
with his keen eyes. Finally he
inquired in a rather severe tone
of voice:
"What makes you so inquisi-
I tive about our brethren here?"
"My interest in the situation
of the Jews in distant lands. I'm
a Jew. What is the number of
Jews in New Zealand?"
"One must not mention their
number out loud!" •
"Why? Will it bring an 'evil
eye' upon them?"
"Our neighbors must not sus-
pect our number. Right here in
Wellington we are about seven
hundred strong, but the Gentiles
think there are not more than
two or three hundred Jews here,
all told."
Gatheri tg momentum in a remarkably
speedy fas hien, the pageant "The Romance
of a Peopl e" has passed the first stages of
activities h ere in preparation for the great
spectacle's staging in Detroit beginning on
April 16.
With th e opening of offices, under the
direction )f. the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, and with the almost spontaneous
formation of a powerful organization of
youth gro ups for the mobilization of a
Codreanu thus appears on the scene
large cast )f 2,000 actors, this pageant now as a most dangerous proponent of a serious
occupies a position of prime importance on threat to Rumanian Jewry. His demagogic
the calend ar of Detroit activities.
methods are so much like Adolf Hitler's
Of grew ; importance in the preparations that the activities of the Iron Guardists pup - ,
for the at. Wing of the great spectacle is pear as a most disquieting sign upon an
the co-ope ration that is being given the already troubled field of Jewish suffering.
movement by the three Detroit daily news-
Jewry can little afford to place its trust
papers. I is one of the finest means of in princes; nor are we justified in dissipat-
creating g ood will, and the Detroit Free ing energy in concocting schemes for re-
Press, Det tit News and Detroit Times are taliation. We must think in terms of self-
to be con rratulated upon their readiness help and self-emancipation. Our solution
to co-oper ate.
can not possibly be achieved in any other
At the fi rst rehearsal next Wednesday, it form than through Jewish nationr1 rein-
is expecte I that at least 1,000 volunteer venation, with the supplementary effort for
actors will be present to enroll in the cast economic readjustment everywhere.
We.are attacked on every front, and we
of the pag cant, with an additional 1,000
to be recru ited at the follow-up rehearsals. must think of every branch of Jewry, with-
The Jewis t youth particularly should en- out limiting our attentions to only one
roll as part icipants in the pageant, for the group. And the solution should be sought
educationa and constructive values it has also in the terms of the national entity of
our people.
to offer to hem.
By-the-Way
"What's the idea?"
"Oh, they just don't know our
true number. If they did, trouble
would follow. "
"But the New Zealanders, I
understand, are a friendly and
liberal people. What does it
mean, then, that the true number
of Jews in the country should not
be mentioned in their hearing?"
"Young man," my visitor took
to admonishing me, "I assure
you, I know what I am talking
about. The most important thing
is that the New Zealanders do
not discover the true number of
Russian Jews among us. Their
number is larger than ours, and
from the time they began coming
here things have been changing
for the worse. I have been here
for over 35 years. It was I who
gathered the first 10 Jews to-
gether. Everything was going
nicely until the Russian Jews ar-
rived and brought dissensions
and criticism and what not along
with them."
"I would greatly appreciate it,
Rabbi, if you introduced me to
the local Russian Jews."
A STRAINED MOOD
Ile glanced at me, and such
hidden anger and disappointment
burned in his eyes that I could
not help feeling he was regret-
ting having humiliated himself
to the extent of calling on me. He
made no reply to my request,
rose abruptly, looked in the di-
rection of the door, as if pre-
paring to leave and, then, sud-
denly turned to me:
"We have a beautiful museum
here. If you like to see it, I'll
take you there."
I felt quite uncomfortable.
Nevertheless I decided to accept
the invitation. As I expected, the
museum proved rather disap-
pointing to one familiar with the
great natural treasures stored
in the capitals of the world. Com-
ing out of the museum we passed
through a park where mimosa
trees greeted us with their gold-
en-yellow radiance. I kept silent.
Nor did my companion utter a
word. It seemed, we had noth-
ing to talk about. A heavy,
strained mood was on us .. Fin-
ally we came to a store of ready
made clothing. He paused for an
instant:
"Now I am going to introduce
you to your own Jews, and if you
are actually leaving tomorrow—
farewell and bon voyage."
He entered the store with me,
introduced me to the Russian-
Jewish proprietor, and walked
out with a proud and dignified
mien on his face. The store-
keeper, a middle-aged man, with
rather refined features, showered
me with questions as to who I
was and where I came from.
When he discovered that we had
been born in the same province,
he burst out crying like a child,
and his grown-up son, a native
of New Zealand, seeing his fa-
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