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May 25, 1934
EWI ORONICLE
LTROFKEALI
Our Film Folk
By HELEN ZIGMOND
HOLLYWOOD.—Must be on•ac
count of their Yiddish "sensay
uma" . . . but comedians choose
Jewish jokesters for their gags.
Bert Levine and Milton Raison
assist Schnozzle Durante to wit
. . . Marxes' lunatics are con-
cocted by the Nat Perrin-Arthur
Sheekman duo • . . David Freed-
man is the source of Cantor bad-
inage.
•
• •
BIRO-BIDJAN AND THE JEWS
BY-THE-WAY
Tidbits and- News
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
By DAVID GOLDBERG
(Copyright, 1131, J. T. A./
1Copyricht, GM Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 100.1
EDITOR'S NOTE: The author of the following article, ■ well.
known writer and lecturer, recently returned from his third visit
to Soviet Russia, where he made an exhaustive study of the Biro-
Bldjan project. His analysis of the underlying factors behind the
autonomous Jewish States, and his estimation of the possibilities of
it. success are particularly timely in view of the present efforts to
cultivate Biro-Bidjan as • partial "solution" for the refugee problem.
Imagine hi. embarrassment !
Louis B. Mayer, in hi. most
regal manner, wined and dined
H. H. Sir Ibribins, the Sultan of
Jehore . . . topped it off with
■ an escort through the Em-Gee-
Em film factory . .. then asked
if there was anything else the
royal guest would like to see.
"Mae West," was the reply.
Louise looked slightly stunned
. . . he has Garbos and Cr•w•
fords, but no West.... so they
had to "come up and see her"
■ at the Paramount patch.
• 4, •
THINGS NOT NECESSARY
TO KNOW:
Leon Trotzky is related to the
late Daniel Webster of "Union
and Liberty, forever and insepar-
able" fame. How come? Well,
the Trotzky and Max Eastman
families intermarried, and Max
Eastman, you may recall, is a re-
mote relative of Daniel Webster.
Sink or swim, live or die, Ws
strange, but Trotzky and Webster
are remote cousins.
• • •
There has been a 30 per cent
increase in the sale of Palestine
wine since the United States went
off the water wagon. Drinking
Palestine wine makes you both a
good American and good Zionist,
for the high tariff helps Uncle
Sam balance his budget, and the
price of the wine aids Jewish set-
tlement in Palestine.
• • •
BIRO-BIDJAN, a territory of 15,500 square hope that it could change in their old setting and
environment.
.
miles included between the rivers Biro and
Bidjan, East Siberia, on the border of Man-
Majority Left As Fast As They Could
churia, has been recently raised to the status of
For these people had shown on several pre-
an autonomous Jewish Province, which is the first
vious occasions that they could transport them-
step towards declaring it, as soon as the size of
selves
bodily to the kolkhoz (collective farm), but
the population will warrant, a Jewish Soviet Re-
member of the Soviet Union. A project a remain ptually and mentally in the city. And
launched
hed several years ago and derided by most they have also shown, during the respite known
Paunc
Jews outside Russia as chimerical has thus been as NEP (New Economic Policy), that they were
The 800th anniversary of the birth of
given new impetus and direction, and conditions in capable, at the slightest provocation, of abandon-
ing lock, stock and barrel, so to speak, to rush
world
Jewry
being what with
they are
today, will
no to their
If you are a solicitor for the Allied Jew- Moses ben Maimon, whose name is re-
longer
be dismissed
a sneer.
back
trading occupations. Naturally, the
ish Campaign, in the drive for $175,000 corded in history as Maimonides, will be
There is much, however, on the "surface of the leaders of the Revolution felt they couldn't be
trusted to remain in their old environment:
commencing on May 27, and your close
Harry Hershfield has a new
(Ray Wise, to the wise)
Male
Biro-Bidjan
project
that
will
puzzle
the
uninitiated
name for newspapermen. He
large territory now pro- The distant territory of Biro-Bidjan then
friends will refuse to make contributions observed in March of next year—to be is authoring two books ... a nove l reader even now. The "Jewish"
province is as loomed up as a possible way of redeeming this re-
calls them "gentlemen of the
on
the
exact,
on
March
30,
1935,
the
14th
day
of
and
an
autobiography
...
claimed an autonomous
to the very worthy and exceedingly im-
far away, once
fres.," •s they have to "fres."
far North. After they reach print yet practically without Jews. Of a total popula- calcitrant class. Because it is
at so many public dinners.
portant causes, what will be your reaction? Nisan.
he'll metamorphose them into tion of 50,000, the Jewish portion is estimated ex- there the Jew could not readily flee back. His
• . •
travagantly at 12,000 and conservatively at only reluctance to go so far from his homeland could
It is not the intention of this brief ed- celluloid.
If you are deeply concerned over the
Ludwig Lewisohn will be one
• • •
8,000. If several years of planned colonization be overcome only by the realization that it was
wish
autonomy
has
sue-
his
only
way
to
salvation,
and
by
the
lure
of
an
status of our local agencies, and are anx- itorial to comment upon the works of the
•
of the speakers at the next Zion•
It is rumored that WWI
on adefini te p
meets June
to Biro-Bidjan no more Jews eventual
autonomous
Republic,
True Jewish
enough,
there was Soviet
no certainty
that, nor- ist 30 convention,
ious to see the coming drive a success, but great Jewish scholar and physician who Winchell will demand ■ one ceeded in attracting
City.
at t Atlantic which
will
attract
them
now?
And
if
hundred
per
cent
increase
in
sal-
than that, what
your friends choose to remain "outside the lived in the 12th century. Much will be
malty,
these
declassed
dyed-in-the-wool
bourgeoisie
•
.
•
reasons
the
of definite from
ary on the expiration of his con•
why Soviet
Jews government
should flock knows
to Biro-Bidjdn
now were all nationalistically minded. Indeed, most
pale" and will not be among the donors, said in the coming months about his schol- tract with the New York Daily
Alexander • Hamilton, greatest
on, why shouldn't it wait with the proclamation of of them weren't so minded under the old Czarist of America's secretaries of the
arship, his philosophic works which en- Mirror. If refused, he plans to
what will be your reaction to them?
autonomy, at least until their numbers there be- regime. But since the Revolution had singled them treasury, had a half - brother
out for special treatment as a class, a "declassed
If you are among the great masses of riched Judaism, his eminence-as a doctor. wander westward and write for
come formidable?
class" as it were, it was assumed that their con- named Peter Levin, who lived in
the- screamie:.
•
• ons acing
Charleston, S. C., and who left
The purpose of these lines is to urge the
Jews who are saddened by events in Ger-
The reply is that, under con 1i
powerful
dition
was likely to create in them a somewhat na- Alexander some of his estate.
a
ridden as countries,
Among the beau monde of Jews
many, and are therefore anxious that suffi- leaders in this community, and the out-
token in of Fascist
good-will
a pledge such
to autonomous tionalistic esprit de corps, so that the goal of a
But this does not prove, as some
rights, and civic and political prottection, may it- Jewish republic would lure them. In short, they
ciently large funds be raised for the relief standing organizations, especially the syna- flickerville:
Patricia Ellis accidentally put self prove of sufficient incentive to start a Jewish would be both compelled and impelled to start life seem to think, that Hamilton him-
of German-Jewish refugees, and for their gogues, to form a central committee to her dress on backwards the other mass migration to Biro-Bidjan, even though for anew on virgin soil, and in the effort they would self was half-Jewish. For the
mother who bore Ilamilton is sup-
day .. . and started a new fad. the moment there be no other incentive. For the regenerate themselves.
settlement in Palestine, or in other coun- plan the observance of this anniversary.
Indeed, at the beginning it seemed as though posed to have left her Jewish hus-
Jack Warner radioed the other
tries where they may be welcomed, how
band before Alexander was born;
bid
implied
in
the
proclamation
is
directed,
though
This octocentennial celebration will no sundown ... and his best friends
so specifically stated, not so much to the Rus- the plan had all the earmarks of success,
for tens
said.
would you feel about the member of your doubt be observed throughout the world. advise him to stick to polo for not
up to migrate to at least no 'tis
• • •
sian Jews, as.to the Jews outside the Soviet Un- of thousands of Jews had signed
club, or your bridge team, or your syna- The Jewish Theological Seminary of Amer- amusement . . . or pictures for ion. Between Germany and Austria and Rumania Biro-Bidjan, and thousands upon thousands ac-
0 hell in Hebrew simply means
there are three quarters of a million Jews whose tually did migrate there. But only about one- tent. So if anyone "chas va chat-
gogue, who refuses to be "the merciful ica and the organization of Conservative business.
Mike Levee, the press agent ... life has become untenable in their countries, but third "stuck it out" and remained there to the
should catch you saying it,
son of a merciful people?"
Rabbis spoke of a monster country-wide pandon, ahem . . . the artist's who have nowhere to go. And between Poland present day, while the majority returned as fast illah"
just tell them that you are speak-
- We turn to a contemporary, the Jewish celebration three years ago. When these manager, gave a fishless fishing and Rumania there are at least four million Jews as they could..
ing Hebrew.
party . . . fishers didn't cast for
The Meaning of a Motherland
•
•
are being rapidly proletarianized without hav-
Exponent of Philadelphia, to borrow from plans materialize, they should find every fish . . . but scored when their who
ing a proletarian state to protect them. Palestine,
I have spoken with many of them during my
Bernard G. Richards and A.
important
community
prepared,
with
well-
the
bells
bobbing
in
it an interesting thought which is expressed
hooks rang
at this stage of universal Jewish tragedy, as even
first, second and third visits to Russia in an en- II. Fromenson are having a little
in an advertisement signed "A Contribu- organized committees, to honor the mem- the water. What fun! supporting a ardent Zionists are bound to admit, is not in a deavor to find out why people would abandon, af- run-in on the lively question:
Junior Laemmle is
position
to
offer
those
harassed
millions
even
a
ter
two and more years of hard effort, a land Who was the first Jewish colum-
ory of the great Maimonides.
tor." This advertistment reads:
"moostachia" ... and it's quite a decent palliative, having in mind the ridiculous which they entered with great promise. It wasn't nist? Richard says he was—with
We have been forced by circumstances weighty matter.
minimum to which immigration to Palestine has the hardship of plowing up virgin soil that drove the American Hebrew in the days
I decline: To Uteri the party given by a
Producer B. P. Schulberg spent been reduced just at this time. Who can tell that
them away, it wasn't the oversized mosquitoes, of Joseph Jacobs—and A. H. F.
constantly to form committees either for
gentleman who has not paid his modest con-
a sociable week in San Quentin Biro-Bidjan, though unhallowed in Jewish his- and it wasn't the fear of bordering on troublesome
to a column that he used to
the purpose of conducting campaigns for prison ... picking up atmosphere tory, may not yet exercise upon the distraught Manchuria. These were only contributing factors points
tribution to the Federation of Jewish Cheri•
conduct on the old Tageblatt.
ties for two yearn and spent more than $1,000
Jewish masses the attraction of the ancient cities to a cause which lay far beyond them.
relief funds, or to protest against anti- for "One Way Ticket."
Well, they are both wrong.
What happened was that, while these people had Samson was the first Jewish col-
of refuge?
for one party.
Jewish indignities. Here is an opportunity
Theda Bare is returning to
been battling with the elements of a far away umnist. lie took a column and
decline: To play golf with a man who has
Intended To Counteract Zionism
to make a joyous communal event of an histrionic. after an absence of
not paid his subscription to the Federation for
The whole seemingly fantastic project of Biro- territory lying on the fringe of their country, de- got the whole house shaking
historic anniversary. It offers the oppor- eight years . . . will take part
Bidjan, its rise and fall and rise again, will be velopments in Soviet proper had in the meantime over it. ,
three years and plays for $1 a hole.
s . •
play.
I decline: To play poker or bridge with a
better understood if viewed in the light of the taken the kind of turn which destroyed, in effect,
tunity of popularizing the great works of in ■ Community Theater
Perhaps she'll be "discovered"
man who has not paid his Federation subscrip-
motives which started it several years ago. There the second and major motive for the very project
A physician tells me that the
one
of
our
very
great
Jews,
and
to
be
able
of
Biro-Bidjan.
For
in
the
wake
of
the
activities
game
which
a
for
the
screen.
were then a minor and a major motive. The minor
Orthodox practice of swaying
tion for three years and plays
• • •
motive was political and universal, to counteract of the Five Year Plan, hundreds of thousands of during prayers is a splendid exer-
to herald to the world happy news about
results in a gain or loss of $100 an evening.
disfranchised Jews were absorbed by the cise, especially beneficial for the
Do as I am doing and then all of us would
Overheard in the dressing room: the influence of the Zionist movement which com- erstwhile
a happy, event, instead of the constantly
industries, and in the wake of their absorption
realize that our communal responsibility is
1st Xtra: "Is he smart/ I'll munists characterize as bourgeois. Not that it was they were integrated and reinstated. The "De- abdominal regions. Now will you
recurring tragedies and protests.
say he is ... he speaks five lan- ever believed that the unknown Far Eastern terri- classed Class," in other words, had found a measure "daven"?
serious matter.
s * • •-•
tory
of
the
Biro-Bidjan
could
ever
replace
Pales-
Let the Maimonides Medical Society guages."
of peace and hope at home, and as a natural con-
2nd Xtra: "Yeah . . . but he tine in the consciousness of the nationalist Jew. sequence Biro-Bidjan was left without a hinter-
Jabotinsky, Revisionist leader,
This is a novel, but not a new idea. On and Congregations Shaarey Zedek and
The
sponsors
of
the
project
never
believed
that
for
comments on a little incident that
several other occasions, the suggestion has Beth El take the lead in calling for the must be hard • to • understand!"
a moment. But in those days Russia still be- land upon which to feed itself. .
•
"When I learned," one of those who returned occurred during the war, when he
lieved that a world Communist revolution was im-
been advanced that Jews who refuse to formation of a Maimonides Octocentennial
"Napoleon" has been laid to
was talking with some English-
minent, and that the Jews the world over, being told me, "that many of my chums who had been man about the revival of the He-
contribute to the community's important Committee. Every synagogue and impor- rest. After all that prepara-
preponderantly bourgeois, would be everywhere as in the same boat with me all their lives, were hold-
tion they've decided the Emil
language.
funds should be ostracized from society, tant organization, with the Jewish Welfare Ludwig tome is too expensive to
thoroughly uprooted as they had bien by the Rus- ing regular jobs, and that their children were at- brew
The Englishman said the pro-
sian revolution and would be flocking, consequently, tending school like the rest, I grew violently home-
that they should be boycotted by their Federation, the Zionist groups and the produce just now.
ject
was
nonsense. "How," he
to a Jewish republic under the aegis of the Soviets, sick, and I knew I wasn't going to stick it out
•
if it were only offered them. But as the world there. One never knows the meaning of a mother- asked, "could you say the wont
friends.
youth movements as participants, should
Ernst Lubitsch at work: His di- Communist revolution has been slow in coming, land until one believes himself to be away from it
aero-dynamic, for instance, in Ile-
In some communities in Europe, many be enrolled in planning the forthcoming
brew?"
the political motive in the meantime vanished of forever. How could I compare Biro with the
rection is smooth, soft-spoken .
years- ago, the burial societies refused to celebration.
Jabotinsky pointed out that you
Dniepr, or Bidjan with the Volga? And the Mon-
with few words, no show of tem-
second motive for Biro-Bidjan, however, gol faces of my neighbors, the natives, could not couldn't say the word in English
take charge of the interment of dead
second
perament, none of the tricks and was The
not political and universal, but social-eco- take the place of the mouzhik faces I had been either, for "aero" is Latin and
misers, and even today such societies take
mannerisms of his profession .
is • Greek.
nomic and local. The Soviet government, it will accustomed to all my life. Well, I am here now, "dynamic"
And I should have said to the
advantage of deaths to exact from the
be remembered, had at the outset made clear its and am mighty glad that I am not there."
the gleam that darts from his
The daily flood of reports from Germany heavy-browed eyes commands ac- intention to deal with the declassed Jewish boor•
No other reason need be given for the failure Englishman also: How could you
families of deceased contributions for com-
geoisie with some consideration for the fact that of Biro-Bidjan so far to attract to itself more
say the words "hallelujah" and
munal causes—taking from the possessioni not only provides proof that the hatred of tion. During and between "shots"
practically barred them from Russian Jews than it did until now. The pro- "amen" and "selah" in English?
had
the
old
regime
of the dead what they refused to give in the Jew continues, but even suggests an he either chews gum or puffs on farm and factory. They realized the Jews were ject, however, was not a "failure" in the sense that Seems to me they are Hebrew.
• • •
increase in anti-Semitic venom.
enormous black cigars . . . sits really forced into their bourgeois occupations, in- the work wasn't properly organized or done, for
their lifetime.
of taking to them of choice. Accordingly, the it was simply that the need of it had gone out of
The lug volume covering the
The Trans-Atlantic Information Service on a backless stool, scorning the stead
Soviets offered to facilitate the integration of these existence. Integrated in his home environment and letter "U" of the National Dic-
The hold-up method suggested by the
brings some interesting cables from Ger- comfortable canvas chair provided
not discriminated against either politically or ceo- tionary of Biography contains
Jews on the farm and in the factory.
latter is not the honorable way of securing many to prove the continued existence of for directors. Subtly and quietly declassed
However, among the several hundred thousands nomically or socially, the Russian Jew could see among other biographies that of
he imbues self-confidence in the
funds, of course. But there is a great deal
declassed Jews there were several tens of thou- no reason at all why he should leave the birthplace David M. Mossessohn, the founder
the Nazi terror. The manner in which the actor ... smiles slyly when things of
sands who ifroved no recalcitrant that, in the opin• he loves for a country he knows not even in his
of force and the influence of public senti-
Jewish Tribune.
Hitlerites are enforcing an anti-Semitic go right .. . pulls ominously at ion of the party leaders, they were not entitled to dreams. Nor has he any reason to do so now. It of It the also
contains a biography of
the
cigar
when
they
don't.
In-
ment in the social pressure which would policy in the schools is revealed in the fol-
the leniency generally accorded to the rest of their is my opinion that if Biro-Bidjan were to depend Joshua Montefiore, a chap you
stead of the traditional signal of liquidated class. To put it in the polite language altogether upon the Russian Jew for settlement,
make a man an outcast from the Jewish
may
never
have heard of—since
shouting "Cut!" to end a scene, of the Communist dialectician, the class ideology of the project as a whole would stand no chance of
lowing cable from Dresden:
community if he refused to share in its
he snaps his fingers with a re-
(Turn to Next Page.
these
people
was
too
set
and
unbending
to
ever
fulfillment
whatsoever.
The director of the well-known Goethe
sounding crack.
important financial obligations. •
4chool for Girls at Leipzig. Dr. Behrends. and
Perhaps the Philadelphia contributor's
a women teacher, Miss Vorwerk, have been
reprimanded and summarily dismissed by
suggestion is worth experimenting with.
orders of the Municipal Nazi Council of Leip-
At any rate, it may be worth your while to
Eminent Author Uses Actual Volume Issued by Jewish Publication Soeiety,• Dr. Solomon Solis-
zig. The reabons given for the harsh proce-
Facts As Material for Novel,
Cohen's Translation, Is One of Schiff Series of Jewish Classics
clip the reprinted gem and to flash it be-
dure are characteristic for the Nazi regime.
"D Vriendt Goes Home"
Miss Vorwerk had refused • request of a Nazi
fore your friend when he refuses to con-
Lovers of poetry will find in Solis-Cohen both preserves the
girl pupil to recite a notorious anti-Semitic
DE VIIIENDT GOES HOME By Arnold
tribute to our all-important Allied Jewish
poem before her class on the ground that it
Zwelc The Viking Prom, New Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen's trans- thought of the author and gives
Campaign. His reaction to the threatened
I'
lation
of Moses Ibn Ezra—just a faithful idea of his language.
would unnecessarily hurt the sentiments of
/aria* irof/I/C
In the Excerpts from the Tar-
two Jewish pupils. The girl's father complained
social boycott will be worth studying.
Arnold Zweig has indeed off the press of the Jewish Pub-
lication
Society—a veritable treas- shish, a number of liberties were
to the director, who expressed his approval of
HERE is always a last straw things and is eager to move for-
be- ure house of beauty and inspira- necessary in order to retain a
gone
homeward!
Not
only
the teacher's decision. The city council stated
that breaks the camel's back. ward and strike hard.
that such conduct of German educators must
At least that is what Senator Wil- Yet with all his eagerness, Hard- cause, as a German-Jewish refu- tion. Himself a poet of rare poetic form. This volume con-
no longer permitted in the Nazi totalitarian
charm and a student of the Ile- tains the greatest number of Tar-
ham
H. King of Utah must have wick is cautious. lie is enforcing gee whose possessions have been brew word, Dr. Solis-Cohen has shish stanzas ever translated and
The American Nazis, with George Syl-
state.
thought of when he read a news- one rule rigidly. This rule is to
suceeded in giving English poetic will go far to correct the impres-
vester Viereck at the head, have spoken,
report of the May 11 speech get the facts and get them confiscated by the Nazi Reich, form to the verses of one of Is- sion that only poems of mourning
The same news service brings facts to paper
Then comes action.
of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Nazi straight.
and their call to hatred and bigotry should
he
was
expelled
from
the
Vater-
reel's foremost Hebrew poets.
and penitence were written by
show that Hitlerite anti-Semitic propa- minister of Propaganda.
Judging by the hours the commit-
be recorded as the most disgraceful dem-
The student of Hebrew will I Ibn Ezra.
Goebbels' speech aroused the tee as a whole has been spending land, and has since settled in
ganda is proven by figures published by
There are suggestions of Omar
onstration of un-Americanism in this coun-
in executive sessions during the Palestine with his family. 'There marvel at the degree of perfec-
the Nazis themselves. Here is an interest- ire of the Senator from Utah to past week, hearing testimony from
tion attained by the translator.
i 5 a better reason: his latest One not familiar with Hebrew will Khayyam in the Tarahish. Ibn
try.
ing cable from Munich to show the contra- such an extent that he threatened witnesses whose names are kept novel,
"De Vriendt Goes Home." find no evidence of translation, Ezra and Omar were contempor-
The Hitlerites in America have used ex- diction in Nazi propaganda:
to force the Senate into action on secret, there will be action. Com-
Probably they knew of
It is a story which deals with the English version reading as ?ries.
the Tydings resolution calling for mittee members say that when the
actly the same language in which Goeb-
the committee the murder of an anti-Zionist, smoothly as though the poems each other's writing although of
Another big Nazi bubble has burst, this time
the lid blows off and
a
protest
by
the
Senate
on
this
there
is no conclusive evi-
were
original
compositions.
bels, in his May Day speech, called for a
facts it has uncovered, the —and immediately the reader
the one concerning the prominence of Jews in
German Reich's treatment of Jews reveals
country will have something to surmises that the author must
The Ilebrew text in this volume dence. There is, however, a coup-
public administration and free professions.
and certain groups of Christians.
renewal of atrocities against the Jews, vir-
has been critically established by let of Ibn Ezra's which may be
Reports of the Federal Office for Racial En-
At the same time Senator King talk about • s s
mean Dr. Jacob dellaan, who the well-known scholar, Dr. Hein- accepted as intimation of their
tually advocating pogroms. It is the lan-
lightenment and Population Policy—a pure
had printed in the Congressional
killed,
eight
years
ago,
pre-
was
rich Brody, an eminent authority acquaintance.
simple
Nazi
creation—fix
the
former
Jew-
and
Apparently there is a well or-
record, along with his remarks, a
guage of Streicher who pleads for hatred
ish participation in administration activities
the East he minglee the
report on Goebbel's speech as ganized movement afoot to corn- sumably by an ardent Zionist on the Ilebrew poetry of the mid- Far In sple•Hos
of Me eons,
ages. Dr. Brody was for
and prejudiced feelings by reviving the
and free professions at 5.94 per cent, and not,
I Inhale thoir Ira -
printed In the New York Times on bine what are now independent who objected to his anti-Zionist die
many years chief rabbi of the Far
as Hitler and his agents have consistently
stupid medieval ritual murder lie.
12.
May
outpourings,
even
though,
as
an
Century,
Persia was
claimed. at more than 70 per cent. The nor-
Jewish Community of Prague, and
In the 11th
Senator
King
said
indications
groups
into
one
major
organize-
These Nazis resorted to flattery in ad-
r pw ae n s i t o .n
mal ratio of the German-Jewish populace as
purpose of spreading extreme pietist, he loved Zion some three or four years ago was
0. G kra daa cfo am
are
that
"there
will
be
no
abate-
tion
for
the
vol-
compared to the general populace is only ex-
Judaism. De Haan, it will called to Berlin to become the far Th ee ut b,
dressing themselves ti. the Congressional
ment of the persecution to which subversive propaganda and kind- and
ceeded by 1.09 per cent.
head of the Shocken Institute of ume to those on Gabirol and Je-
Investigation Committee. They fell back,
the Jews have been subjected, but li n g the fires of political, racial be recalled, was one of the Hebrew poetry. In recent months, hudah Halevi already published in
Unfortunately, Jews, if they are not mis- on the contrary, that they are to and religious hatred and bitter- world leaders in the Agudath however, he was compelled to the Schiff Series of Jewish Class-
with honeyed words, upon a weapon which
the victims of further discrim- nets. The McCormack Commit- Israel movement, the organize- leave Berlin, and has found refuge ics. Like the other volumes, it
is unusual for a mob led by George Sylves- led by an unjustified spirit of optimism, are be
inations,
persecutions, and op-
'
contains the original Ilebrew text,
tee is following several angles tion of Orthodox extremists. In Palestine.
becoming
so
accustomed
to
the
horrors
ter Viereck of war-time fame: patriotism.
preasions."
line. There is evideste He turned pious after being an
The selections in this volume and an English metrical transla-
Senator
from Utah has along this Silver
emanating)
from
Germany
that
they
are
The
The Nazi meeting asked for an investi-
Shirts, headed by atheist. The introduction of are representative of the various tion. The Schiff Series of Jewish
that
the
tossed his hat into the ring and
ugbh.
to d tp h o e ss jib ew
leis t h hro pli
wv u en mae
styles and moods of the poet. To s Clf a u s s n id ca ri
gation of the Jewish boycott. Let there beginning to accept it as a matter of course. is prepared to fight for passage William Dudley Palley, are nego-
Pub-
titling an alliance with the this angle of • murder remain- aid the reader and student, Dr.
be such an investigation. Let the world It is a dangerous attitude deserving of of the Tydings Resolution
Friends of New Germany. A num- bored by very few has caused Brody has annotated the Ilebrew ligation Society by the late Jacob
• • •
know, through the medium of our Con- severest condemnation. The fact remains
Former Senator Thomas W. bar of other anti-Jewish and anti- more than one reviewer to tie 'text in a very thorough manner. H. Schiff, which is administered
gressional investigators, that Jews are not that the horrors exist and continue to op- Hardwick, head counsel for the Catholic organizations have been the plot up, instead, with the For lay readers the translator has by • committee, of which Dr.
.also appended comments on car- Cyrus Adler Is the chairman.
boycotting Germans in America, but Nazis press ou rpeople. We must remain on the McCormack Committee investigat- approached.
murder of Dr. Chaim Arlosoroff. 'fain features of the English ver-
alert in order that we may best be able to inc subversive propaganda activi-
in Germany.
ediswainthglth
e ete m
THE MOUTH AND THE EARS
sion.
Hotbeds of activity are in the comBpoatrth
ties-in the United States, is get-
the excellent
ll 7nrta
t dnet-
Shameless fellow that Viereck is, he serve the cause of justice and freedom as tine into the swing of the investi- South the mid-west and New
Dr. Brody has been very pains-
the Ilebrew of Palquera)
opposed
to
Ilitlerite
cruelty
and
slavery.
York.
One
member
of
the
Mc-
'
taking
in
comparing
mansacripts
(From
corn-
scription
of
events
in
Palestine;
Ration and is beginning to under-
dared to charge that the relief drive for
said
the
and
editions,
in
order
to
establish
speak always once, but
stand some of the motives behind Cormack Committee
My
friend,
use the services the masterful resume of the
German-Jewish refugees is a "racket"—
Ia correct text of the selections
listen twice.
could well
"Help Fight Human Misery" is the slo- iN ti aez.1 and similar propaganda loth,- of ittee
at least 20 investigators to fol- events which led up to the 1929
what an appropriate word for Viereck !—
ingleted, and his notes are • This, I would have you know, is
sound advice.
Those associated With the com- low up leads and obtain informa- riots, the historical and geo- mine of scholarly eomr.ent and
am; he wanted to know where this money gan which appeals at this time to every
graphical facts included in the esearch. Tire new biographical For Cori bath given you and all
uy Hardwick was shocked tion available in New York alone.
is to go for. Let the Congressional Corn- Detroit Jew. Be prepared to do your full mittee
the facts uncovered The committee's limited funds,
Dr.
Brody's
your
peers
some
of
material
given
hi
by
volume,
and
the
general
picture
after however, make such intensive in-
Introduction• is extremely inter- A single mouth, friend, but a pair
mittee also investigate that, so that the duty to the local Jewish causes and to the during the first week or two
counsel. vestigating work impossible.
German-Jewish
relief
movement,
by
mak-
as
head
of
ears.
ap,mintment
his
eating.
The
translation
by
Dr.
(Turn
to
Next
rags)
world may know the extent of the tragedy
(Comtsht, Int J T )
But now he is getting the feel of
ing your gift more liberal than ever.
When a Friend Refuses to Give
The Maimonides Octocentennial
Unrelenting _Nazis.
CtPITIL ME T
U. S. Nazis Have Spoken
Ibn Ezra's Poetry in English Garb
Zweig Goes Home!
T
r r
which demands the funds that are being