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Is Judaism Dying?
DEPRESSION OR
NO DEPRESSION
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ALLIED JEWISH CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES
CAPTAINS AND KEYMEN FOR GENERAL
DIVISION CANVASS MAY 27 TO JUNE 7
Tenth Musicale of
Music Study Club
Advance Warning
Will Take Place at Hotel Steller
Tuesday Afternoon.
simple and interesting manner,
to show how the Chuetas, for
instance, although they had em-
braced Catholicism and were
anxious to appear at all times
as the holiest among the holy
in Spain, were nevertheless kept
in a state of seclusiveness by
virtue of outward discrimina-
The Music Study Club will hold n
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LEWIS BROWNE
tion. Now, he states, the effort
to bring them back to Judaism
is failing because the freedom
of the republican state is in-
stead enticing them toward as-
similation.
Thus, in fascinating style, he
proceeds from chapter to chap-
ter to prove that while seclu-
sion wanes exclusion continues,
and this former Hebrew Union
College student comes to the
conclusion that: "As historians,
not theologians, we find one
fact incontrovertible: Judaism
as a determining factor in the
everyday life of the Jews seems
doomed."
But Browne believes differ-
ently about Jewry. Ile believes
the people will live on no mat-
ter what happens to our reli-
gion, because the power of Gen-
tile hatred is strong enough to
keep us together. Onlysin Rus-
sia have the Gentiles ceased to
exclude the Jews, says Browne,
and Jews everywhere else, re-
pulsed socially and economically
are thus forced to remain a
separate people.
To prove the disintegration of
Judaism, Browne quotes Dr.
Arthur Ruppin's The Jews of
Today," in which the eminent
scholar maintained that there
were only 6,000,000 devoutly
orthodox Jews in the world in
1911 . Browne goes a step fur-
ther: he says that with an in-
creased population in 1934 there
are probably not more than
4,000,000 observing orthodox
Jews today, the rest being div-
ided between the Reform, Con-
servative, radical nationalist.,
assimilated and communist
groups.
Browne's great plea is that
the Gentiles should become more
urban and the Jews more rural.
Emphasizing that conversion is
futile, he advocates a conscious
effort to de-urbanize Jewish life,
as it is being done in Russia and
in Palestine. And he adds that
no final solution can come until
there is as profound a de-rurali-
zation of Gentile thought.
"How Odd of God" is an ex-
ceedingly interesting and
thought-provoking book. It will
undoubtedly be questioned
whether there is justification for
maintaining that Judaism will
die while Jewry lives. Isn't it,
after all, true that if Jewry
survives it. retains with it its
culture, its language, certain
ethical truths and ideals — all
spelling Judaism? But the book
has a great appeal and is of value
just because it provokes thought.
It is safe to predict for it a
very large circulation—and it
is still safer to predict for it
a very heated argument.
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Kesler, who will sing three arias
by Lille, von Weber and Tschai-
kowsky; Ida Divinoff Rothberg,
violinist, accompanied by Rebecca
Katzman Frohman, who will play
"Hebrew Melody" by Achron and
Zigeunerweisen by Sarasate; Lil-
lian Rabinowitz Sarnoff and Ethel
Goldman Mendlesohn who will of-
fer a two-piano arrangement. of
Mendelssohn's "Capriccio Bril-
linnte"; the Music Study Club
Choral, under the direction of
George Galvani, whose group of
songs include Wagner's "Dreams";
and Mrs. Jack Agins, Mrs, Walter
Lichtenfeld and Mrs. Rose Trigg
of the Liberal Arts Group, who
will present a one-act play under
the direction of Kathryn Vincent
Mayer. Mrs. Samuel Schaflander
will be chairman of the day.
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would get revenge and make a
lesson of the province which had
so long and defiantly challenged
Roman power?
. • •
MAURICE ARONSSON
ROY R. FISHER
PEACE AND SOCRATES
I am for fighting--not that I
like it, but principally, I should
esteem it on occasion as a
say,
matter of great educational util-
ity. Like Socrates, for instance.
You remember how one of the
youths that followed Socrates—I
can't recall his name now—fol-
lowed him, mocking at him.
Well, one day Socrates, instead
of delivering a philosophical dis-
course with him mouth, took the
young gent by his hands and made
succotash out of him. The youth
lived to be grateful for that les-
son. He learned to be appreri-
ative not only of the hands of
Socrates, but through the hands
of the mind. And he became one
of the chief lieutenants of the
Greek philosopher.
A a another exhibit of my point,
I might animadvert to the case
a prominent Jew—Jesus. Ile
ZIONIST INTER-PARTY WARFARE MUST END of
preached non-resistance, but it is
(Continued from Preceding Page.) I We are confronted by a condition recorded that on occasion he
raised a whip in a very bellicose
—
and not by a theory.
intellectual plane, were it a war of I Assuming that the parties now gesture. He seemed to have lost
frequently.
ideas, ene could not find much fault !actually coincide with present-day his temper quite
• • •
with it. For it is not to he ex-1 Palestinian life, and reflect the
petted, nor is it desirable, that • I struggle for supremacy between IN TIME THEY WILL
great political movement, such as current economic or religious forces
Much as I like to see German
that Jews settling in Palestine, I should
1 satin-
our , comprised of heterogeneous i in Palestine, as many contend,
elements. bound together by a coin- I by no means constitutes s
be greatly disappointed if the en-
mon ideal, should reflect unanimity , factory answer to the Jewish Deo- tirRenyjewish population left Ger-
and took up residence in
of opinion. Such a state would be ■ le for what is occurring there..For lin
a
tantamount to stagnation. The I let it not e forgotten
Palestine. They must fight their
present situation, unfortunately, is! interests of the Jewish people with way out of this Ilitlerism—in
far worse. It is nothing abort of respect to Palestine is paramount Germany. And I believe that In
an inter-party brawl. Denunciation,: to the interests of the present Pal- time they will.
recrimination, assaults are almost estinian Jewish community. Nor
To say these things that I have
daily ocurrences in Palestine and are the present-day Zionist parties said is not, in my opinion, to be
in other lands. !co-extensive with the Jewish peo- an advocate of militancy. It is
As to organizational discipline, , Pie. Let it be remembered, too, merely not to make • fetish of the
that seems to be no longer of any , that the Balfour Declaration was idea of peace.
addressed to the Jewish people, and
importance. The Revisionists un-
dertake their own political work in not to the Jewish community in THEATRICAL JABOTINSKY
Palestine, or to the Zionist parties.
instructions
of
the
defiance of the
There is much that may be said
Agency Executive, they repudiate In our relations with the Mande- against Mr. Jabotinsky, the Re-
tory power in Palestine we have
ap-
the funds, they make their own
visionist leader. He is all too
had
again
and
again
to
stress,
the
lications for immigration certifi- point that the Jewish people as a theatrical, it will be said. They
cates to the government. The Miss whole have rights in Palestine. Pre- will point to the fact that two
rachi gives no support to the Keren cisely for that reason, the Jewish years ago he got up at the Zionist
Hayesod, the official financial in-
Agency was named to act in behalf Congrets and' tore up his Zionist
strument of the Jewish Agency.
Such a condition not only brings of the Jewish people as a whole. credentials.
, we must now drive ' At the Congress, this last sum-
HILLEL
discredit upon the Zionist move- Aaparently
ment, it will lead to its complete that fact home to the Zionists them- mar, he was equally theatrical.
destruction if permitted to con- selves—to remind the parties that, He arose and threw a bunch of
over and above their party interests penes
ni at the Labor group, say-
tinue.
the or the immediate i nterests of the e ing: "Here, all you want is money.
The ideology emanating from •
present is uv in a ohne, stands
the spirit do not
The
things
Monday evening, May 7, at Ho- founders of the modern Zionist the interest of the Jewish peop le in
terest
you of
• • •
tel Stotler, the Women's Auxili- movement was that it represented in Palestine, the largest part of
Lodge
No.
34 of
B'nai
creative will of the Jewish ro-
e. whom are not identified with either A MAXIMUM PROGRAM
my
of the
B'nai
B'rith
and B'rith,
Pisgah the pie
to reconstitute its national life.
Revisionists or Mix-
There can be valid objection
held a joint meeting at which As such, every Jew and Jewess who rachi.
hi
also to the Labor policy of the Re-
earnestly desired to participate in
It s i this larger concern of the visionists. I for one think that
members and guests were enter-
tained with an outstanding pro- the
of Jewish
regeneration
had work
a place
within its
ranks. The Jewish people in the development the Ilistadruth, the Jewish Federa-
of Palestine as the Jewish National lion of Labor in Palestine, has
gram.
pictures that present-day Zionism
as- done some remarkably effective
The greater part of this pro- offers is of • movement which is Home which must be vigorously war
gram was performed by talented rent asunder, which has no r,om serted against the destructive
work, and I object. to Revisionism
in
progress.
now
members of the Hillel Foundation for mutual understanding of the
on the score of its seeming lack
of the University of Michigan.
If
the
parties
reply,
as
they
do,
of
an economic program.
possibility of unity of action to
A one-act playlet, "The Mayor achieve its
■ then- is that the party system is the basis
But I must admit that I like the
of
all
modern
democratic
forms
of
and the Manicurist," had the
fop-
goal.
Such
100 per cent spirit with which it
not only un-Zionistic—it is unstew-
government, then let them also ac- fights for Zionist aims. And
lowing cast of characters: Herbert
Fabrecant Sally Levitt, Ada Zola,
With wise foresight, Herzl be- cept the logical aequence of that think it is this—its attitude with
promise, namely, that minority par- respect to a maximum Zionist
Norman Sharf man.
lieved that Zionism could fulfill its
Mina June Warsaw, only woman aim if it stood clear of incidental ties submit to the government of
its rear-
the majority parties, even though , program—rather than
member of the Magicians' Society, entangling elements, and concentra- the
or attitude that is re-
. labor
had an enthusiastic audience at ted its thought and its energy upon they may continue in constitution-
great
growth.
ts
i
for
her command for her novel act of the larger and fundamental pro- al ways to oppose the existing gov- sponsible
magic.
gram of reconstituting • natisnal ernment
Polish Writer Honored
There mug be men within our
A vocal solo and a piano solo life, preparing the ground which
were rendered by Morris Isaacs would make possible the manifest- movement who may be relied upon
WARSAW.
(JTA) — The liter-
and Leon Kaye of Detroit and ing of various phases of the Jewish to be just and fair. If at the pres- ary award of the city of Warsaw
ent sessions of the Actions Commit-
Ann Arbor respectively.
spirit in Palestine.
for
the
past
year
has been award-
Dr. Otto A. Hirsch of the Jew-
But events willed it otherwise. tee the matter cannot be settled, let ed to Dr. Szymon Atkenazy. He
.ish Children's Home gave an M- First came the Poole Zion Party, them be constituted a Commission was acclaimed the best Polish styl-
growing out of the unfriendly at- to deal with the matte's Let them ist and historian.
I teresting and humorous talk.
Nathan D. Rosin, past president titude of the Russian Band toward be empowered to go deeply and ear-
Dr. Ashkenazy is a specialist in
Zionism. The Mizrachi followed nestly into the situation with the
Lodge,
was
presented
of Pisgah
the history of the thirteenth and
shortly thereafter, called into being aim of bringing order out of the
with a gavel by Aaron Droock.
'nineteenth centuries and widely
The group of young men and by the fears of the "Gezetzestreu- chaos, and of securing the loyal co- known for his monumental work,
ready
;women from Ann Arbor were en," that radical elements would operation of those elements
,"Napoleon and Poland." He is •
the
cause
and
and
willing
to
serve
their
stamp
so
strongly
upon
place
introduced by Miss D. Sudow, and
to obey the constitution of the prtfessor at the University of
a brief resume of Hillel'a activities the movement as to endanger tra- World Zionist Congress, and the Lwow and in 1921-22 was a dele-
par-
Whether
the
ditional Judaism.
was given by Miss Goldsmith.
teen other authoritative organs of the gate from Poland to the League
The Auxiliary's objective is to ties should or should not have
recognized in not of little moment. Jewish Agency. of Nations.
support Hillel Foundation.
helm and Max Gordon, Morris Ben-
ederet, Harry Schumer, Mrs. Rose
Grossman, Harry Barnett, Mr. and Goldberg, Charles K. Harris, Mrs.
Mrs. Samuel Decker, Mrs. Peter Jack Friedman and Mrs. Dimon
P. Gilbert, Mrs. Harry Barnett, Kaplan.
Division 1: Dr. Leon Katzin,
Aaron Weiswasser, David Gold-
berg, Isadore Friedman and harry ' Louis Handler, Emil Rose, Na-
than
R. Berke, Samuel L. Gurwin,
Robbins, Phil Funke and Frederick
Miss Molly Glint, Miss Birdie
B. Collier.
Friedgood,
David J. Cohen, Sam-
Division F . Sidney J. Karbel:
Dr. George Fineman, Lester S. uel S. Willis, Morris Magy, Sam-
uel
Brezner,
Samuel Stoller, John
Smith, Max D. Schuster, Abe A.
Schmier, Irving S. Wolfe, Lewis P. Ileavenrich, Arnold N. Brodie,
B. Daniels, Leon Zechman, Mrs. Bertram Friedman and Nathan Z.
Harvey H. Goldman and Mrs. Greenhouse.
Other workers who are mem-
Samuel Greenberg.
Division G: Abraham J. Lash- bers of the executive committee
over, Abe Kasle, Ilarry Cohen and are: Mrs. Charles Gitlin, Charlie
Aaron M. Pregerson, Mrs. Frank Wolok, Hoke Levin, James I. D.
Vass, Dr. Sol Q. Kesler, Dr. Ilenry Strauss, Herman Franzblau, Saul
J. Goodman, Maurice II. Zack- E. Jacob and Joseph Alter.
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