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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 7 :12-11 :25
Prophetical portion—Is. 49:14-51:3
August 3, 1934
Ab 22, 5694
Be Sure to Vote on Sept. 11
Considerable agitation has been con-
ducted in the press, and in petitions to pub-
lic officials, in an effort to secure an exten-
sion of time on Primary Day, Sept. 11,
which is the second day of Rosh Hashonah,
in order to enable Orthodox Jewish voters
to cast their ballots without breaking tra-
ditional law against writing on a festival
day.
It is unfortunate that such a condition
should have given politicians—the Jewish
much more than the non-Jewish—an op-
portunity to attempt to capitalize on a
Jewish issue by proposing schemes where-
by Jews could gain extra time for casting
their ballots.
As a matter of fact, there will be ample
time, before the closing of the polls, for
Jews to cast their ballots on Sept. 11. At
7:30 p. m. on that day, writing will be
perthissible, and Orthodox Jews will not
be compelled to lose their franchise.
Under these circumstances we urge
Jewish voters to be in line at the polls at
the hour of 7:30 p. m. on Sept. 11 to cast
their ballots. If at all possible, not a sin-
gle Jew should sacrifice the right to vote,
and the occasion should be utilized for a
demonstration of Jewish loyalty and for
an expression of patriotism by the casting
of ballots.
Even if only 10 minutes were to remain
between the traditionally permissible time
for voting and the hour for the closing of
the polls, such time should be utilized for
voting purposes rather than that Jews
should ingratiate themselves with politi-
cians. In the present instance, there is
plenty of time left between the end of the
holiday and the closing of the polls for
Jews to reach the voters' line, and every
Jew should make it a point to cast his
ballot on Primary Day.
Gentiles Preferred
A correspondent sends us a sample of
the stationery of Gratiot Inn at Port Huron,
Mich., on the bottom of which appears the
following line: "The management prefers
to cater only to a Gentile cLientele."
Our correspondent makes the comment
that a number of Detroit Jews have un-
knowingly "tainted" this resort with their
Jewish money, and she feels that they
should be warned. She is right. Those
who do not know should be warned. As a
matter of act, however, the hotel itself
sounds the warning. Its management is
certainly much more honest about it than
those of other resorts who deny that they
discriminate but slyly manage to keep Jews
out.
This hotel, therefore, speaks for itself:
it prefers a Gentile clientele, lherefore it
does not want Jewish money. If, after this
warning, Jews will continue to patronize
this hostelry, it will be the disgrace of
individuals who have not learned the
meaning of self-respect.
The Late Max J. Kohler
An exceptionally able man is lost to
Jewry in the death of Max J. Kohler.
One of the few surviving members of
an unusually picturesque group of Amen-
can Jewish communal leaders whose activi-
ties in the interests of their people began
40 years ago, Mr. Kohler ranked high as a
profound student of Jewish problems and
as a man who always made a thorough job
of everything he undertook to do.
He ranked as the outstanding authority
on immigration problems and on questions
affecting minority rights of Jews, and the
literature on these subjects would be in-
complete without his views, opinions and
compilation of data.
When the Michigan alien registration
bill was fought here, it will be recalled
that it was Mr. Kohler who stepped in to
assist the Detroit attorneys. While he did
not personally appear in the Federal Court
to argue on the unconstitutionality of the
measure, he was one of the authors of the
important brief which was a decisive factor
in defeating the Michigan law.
A lot of space would be required to list
all the books written and edited by Mr.
Kohler. He was a prolific writer, and as a
student of Jewish history earned a ranking
0 position among American Jewish scholars.
One of his most important works was the
1
recent statement submitted to the State
Department in which he outlined the pre-
r.
cedents for action by the United §tates
against the persecution of Jews in foreign
countries. The Tydings anti-Nazi Resolu-
tion was based on this important statement
by Mr. Kohler.
It is said that Mr. Kohler's last illness,
which brought about his death. was due to
overwork on issues affecting German-
Jewish refugees. In the present crisis, Mr. I I
Kohler's services were urgently needed,
and his loss will therefore be especially
felt in view of his untimely death in a very •
tragic period in our history.
A Sign of the Times
Our Film Folk'
By HELEN ZIGMOND
HOLLYWOOD.—Eddie Cantor
' Louis B. Mayer and Harry War I
tier were among the principal
ro eu a .s l erd s in an t , the United Jewish Ap-
The hard-hearted are beginning to see
the error of their ways, and the reign of spirit and 'arinceTrihtey y tosrpot h i e cau se
i_di y v i i i n g T
Germany.
h a ib, r g. he
N r o h r u m Be
ruthless reaction is evidently approaching e s h / a f h net ad h ree ta. J ; ews
its end. flow else could one explain the
ir Gordon
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t
followingadver isement which appeared tended the aff.a a
marked the
in the Liberal newspaper, Prager Tagblatt, Jonah 1l' of \%;hisee
drive.
published in Prague, Czechoslovakia?
. . .
Moss Hart is no drone and he
"A refugee Nazi leader asks for immed-
things on a colossal scale.
iate hospitality without payment during d i t i o hes
. : t. rs.h..dpyp ife. h f a . sli t. w t o .produc•
the first week. Part of his maintenance
fo r
will be refunded later. Age 29, university ! one bit of "drabma; g'tlinagt . r.e.
quires 100 actors and nine
degree. Kind offers should be made to , changes
of scene .
the other,
'quarters," care of publisher."
2u5s i c n olo that i l w l i l o loa htav$ .20 /40,cast
of
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The reign of terror in Germany, first
h to . produce. Aside from these
launched upon Jew's. Socialists, Common-
ists and pacifists, has now been unleashed to excenptt much
f h o rewaTid
upon Hitler's own followers. The battle Irving Berlin are plotting.
They,„ 1/111:41; a Yiddish
for control within the Nazi party ranks is
as ruthless as was the campaign against , stork company for Hollywood
Hitler's opponents and the Jewish scape- j since a group of actors that were
f y oorr Vi y thlih se h t A tu i cic i us of the New
goats. The inevitable result is that Nazis
are beginnng to see the light of day, and !residents of . Talkie h l'o 'aw te nr. 'Ita euh ri' c w e
some of them are now themselves refugees, Schwartz's movie contract pre-
v t h ei t its his taking active part, but
Imagine the pitiful plight of Nazis who are
1 count on his moral support
now themselves seeking havens in Czecho- and advice.
slovakia, France and other European
x 0
From across the seas: War.
countries.
ners is the first motion picture
This is the beginning of the end. His- company
to close up shop in
tory will soon exact retribution from the Germany. Other companies find
it
impossible
to do business
Hitlerites for the crimes they committed
there . . . but haven't taken
against humanity.
final steps to clear
The Power of Ridicule
B. Chapman, editor of the London
Daily Express, upon his arrival in New
York for a brief stay, said that "hlosley's
Blackshirts are the laughing stock of Eng-
land." Said Mr. Chapman:
The England Fascist movement is not very
serious, and foreign correspondents in England
take a greater interest in the Blackshirts than
does the general English public.
So laughable does Britain think the move-
ment that Parliament is considering a bill ban-
ning colored shirts as uniforms.
The only time the Blackshirts are interesting
is when they meet with Communists. Then
there is something doing. Aside from that,
however, the English public keeps away from
Mosley's meetings.
I believe with the general English public
that Fascism in England is bound to die. It is
an outgrowth of the depression, and prosperity
is being rapidly restored in England. Mosley's
Fascism will fall of its own inherent fallacy
and from the laughs of the English public.
If these BlaCkshirted Mosleyites are
really the laughing stock Mr. Chapman
says, then it would be a mistake for Parlia-
ment to ban colored shirts as uniforms.
Why not make these uniforms the symbols
for ridicule?
The statement just quoted contains one
very interesting reference to the emphasis
placed in news by foreign correspondents
upon the activities of the Mosley group.
But there is no need of becoming too
alarmed over the rise of Fascism. The
obligation is to be on guard against a pe-
riod of danger from such growth of re-
actionary political groups. At the same
time, we must not forget the importance of
fighting such movements with ridicule.
Perhaps the best weapon against the stu-
pidity of Mosley's anti-Semitism was re-
sorted to by the New York Times which,
editorially, dissected the Mosley brand of
Jew-hatred in the following fashion:
out.
Did you know there's • Jew-
ish.owned flicker emporium in
York•ille, New York, which
strangled its established busi-
ness by showing Nazi pictures?
Jews and liberals will not enter
the theater on principle . . .
and Nazi-minded refuse to at-
tend because of the Jewish own•
ership.
• • •
George Breakstone, the boy won-
der, is also a marvel at sleight-of-
hand.
• • •
Tiny Sid Skolsky, the "col-
yumer," patronises the chil-
dren's department of • Holly-
wood sports store to buy golf
sticks ... is also taking lessons
in the kindergarten of • golf
school, getting half rates.
Harry Richman breezed over to
see his former flame, Clara Bow,
(other noonday. A pretty bru-
nette answered the door . . . he
grasped her in his arms exclaim-
ing, "Clara, you look marvelous!"
When he realized that she wasn't
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GERMANY'S ART EBBS AS CREATIVE
SPIRIT FLEES FROM THE THIRD REICH
By
EDITtilt'a
biome, a resist., of tin. famous Moose and I'lloteln
(cue,
ono of thfromn)'s Next known 'outfit, drenmxtlxex Mfd colored
le
•Ide reputation In the theater under the pen name of Peter Flamm.
In all this time, not a single work, not a single
voice has been heard which might even remotely
be compared with the artistic level of Germany
before 1933. What the German Jews actually
meant to German art is only now becoming evi-
dent, now when the German public no longer
reads its newspapers, and no longer visits the thea-
ter, where the wealth of a creative spirit no
longer is offered, but only a "trend" bearing the
stamp of approval of the ministry for propaganda,
which commanded it.
'
Destructive Jewry
A second thesis of National Socialism is that
relating to the destructive, injurious nature of
the Jews. "Aryan-ry" is constructive in ten-
dency, building of "Blood and the Soil." Jewry,
on the other hand, is destructively analytical,
working only with its brain and its nerves, said
the Nazi propagandist.
It might be worthwhile, perhaps, *et make a
special study some day of the psychology and
effectiveness of slogans. One need but reiterate
the same assertion over and over again and in
though
time it will, even
it be ever so far re-
moved from the truth, be believed by even the
most critical persons. In this case (that of the
essential spiritual differences ostensibly existing
between Germans and Jews) it may be said that
creative effort would scarcely succeed in shaping
a finished work without at least. some critical-
analytical filing. In the words of Henrik Ibsen,
greatest Scandinavian dramatist:
"To live means to 'fight the spectre of dark
powers within oneself. To write: to hold judg-
ment day over oneself."
The 'nature of art was never better formu-
lated. There can be no creation without criti-
cism. The decline of German art proves the
falseness of a theory which was nothing but an
GPM MEET
•
or NOVA* rrotriic
NCERTAINTY hounds East-
ern Europe. A growing fear
of insecurity is spreading from
Germany and contaminating near-
by nations.
The slaying of Chancellor Doll-
fuss in Austria, which has result.
ed in a muddled political situation
there, coupled with recent events
in Germany which have left the
Hitler power tottering, have cast
a black shadow over that portion of
the eastern hemisphere.
• • •
Official
•ashington views the
current situation in Eastern Eur-
"pc with considerable speculation
and with the fall knowledge of its
seriousness. How seriously condi-
Ilene abroad are regarded may be
gleaned from the fact that while
:ether high government officials are
taking vacations and making trips
to various parts of the country.
Secretary of State Hull is sticking
to his post in Washington. his
eyes are trained on conditions
across the Atlantic. The focal
. points are Germany and Austria.
With the slaying of Dollfuss new
Problems are exp. rte.(' to come up.
As long as he was in control. the
Nazi forces were resisted. What
part the Nazis will play from now
on is not certain. Indications are,
however, that they will he an im-
potent factor to reckon with. Now
that Dollfuss is out of the picture,
German Nazis may he expected to
do much more to aid their Austrian
cohorts.
Jeal.h Telegreplth Agenf
HE Judaization of Art and Press" has al-
ways been one of the most effective thesis
of German National Socialism. The argue
ment is that Jewish talent, through intrigue,
through artifice or through power,,has crowded
out existing "Aryan" talents. Now that the Jew-
ish artists, writers, journalists, actors and musi-
cians have been forcibly expelled from Germany,
it would seem that these previously "hindered"
great "Aryan" talents never existed. Theater,
cabaret, film and literature have sunk, in Ger-
many, to the lowest level.
' able balance of 290,900,000 for the
same period last year.
It is significant to note that im-
ports in Germany for the first half
of 1934 increased ten per cent,
while exports from that country
decreased as much as twelve per
cent.
• •
•
The unfavorable trade balance in
Germany is continuing as a result
of the boycott. Preliminary fig-
ures for June show that Germany's
imports were valued at 377,100,000
marks and exports at 339,100,000
marks, leaving an unfavorable
Sir Oswald Mosley has furnished the latest
trade balance of 38,900,000 marks.
example of the queer antics to which the
Another significant sidelight is that
human mind will resort as soon as its owner
despite the present policy of re-
puts on a colored shirt. The British Fascist
stricted imports and compulsory
leader at the Olympia meeting on Thursday
exports, the trade for June showed
cast aside all pretense of neutrality on the
very little improvement compared
Jewish question. According to our dispatches,
with previous months.
he taunted the Conservatives for having Dis-
The United States has made a
raeli as their hero, the Liberals for following
sharp cut in the amount of goods
the leadership of Herbert Samuel, and the So-
bought from Germany. This has
cialists for worshiping at the shrine of Karl
resulted in a reduction in the quan-
Marx.
tity of goods Germany buys from
Now, the normal mind would reason that if
the United States. Gerptany has
Jews occur among Conservatives, Liberals and
also reduced imports from Austral-
Socialists, it proves that Jews divide in their
ia and British India. During the
political opinions like their Christian country.
month of June imports by Germany
men. It is a state of things which the vast
from Italy, Hungary, Switzerland,
majority of the American people take for
and the Netherlands advanced over
granted—that there should be Jews voting for
imports a month ago.
Roosevelt, Hoover, Thomas and a few even for
German exports to France and
the Communist candidates.
Soviet
Russia
declined during
But that is not the way the Mosley mind
June,
but those to the Netherlands,
works. If British Jews have played a prominent
Denmark,
Switzerland
and British
•
e
•
.
part in the history of the Conservative and
Indus in( reseed.
Liberal parties and if the labor party takes
• • •
At this particular time the fut-
its philosophy from Karl Marx, it proves—in
ur• of Jews in lath Austria and
While political and financial pots
the Mosley analysis—that the Jews are a con- '- Germany is more uncertain than are
boiling in Germany, the
spiracy. If you start out with the Ilitlerian
I it has leen in the last year. Hitler . drought continues to work its ruin.
race philosophy and employ the Julius Strei-
has not shown any indication of a ' An acute food famine such as
cher logic and conscience, it is all quite simple.
change in attitude. In Austria the threatens Germany now may mean
World Jewry knows how to infiltrate its secret
future is still mere uncertain. The the end of high-handed rule.
agents into every camp and how to use every
forces that will control the Aus-
That the Hitler government is
established organization for its own fell pur-
trian government are not clearly well aware of the critical food situ-
pose.
defined. The stage is well set for ation is seen from official reports
Thin makes the case against the Jews abso-
a fresh outbreak of anti-Semitism coming to Washington. These show
lutely copper-riveted and water-tight. If the
. in that country, particularly if the that virtually all focal trades in
British Jews were found all in one political
Nazis gain any sort of political rec- Germany have been placed under
• ■ Ifnition.
party, it would mean conspiracy. If the British
government control. Control of
• . •
Jew. are found scattered among all the politi-
agricultural production and trade
cal parties, it means conspiracy.
The United States and other is now in the hands of the Reichs-
Indeed, the possible variations in the Hitler-
leading nations of the world have nahretand, an organization creat-
Mosley gambit are endless. it has been the
•corned the persecution of Jews in ed last December to take over on
crime of the German Jews that they were
behalf of the state all existing agri-
Germany. Austria may have learn- cultural organizations.
"Marxists" and Liberals. Their "alien" char-
• • •
ed a lesson from this. In the event
acter is revealed in the fact that no few Jews
belonged to the conservative parties, who
she has not, she will, in case a pol- • One of the most recent orders is-
alone embody the spirit of true Deutschtum.
sued
because
of the drought in to
icy of racial and religious persecu-
But Mosley finds the Jews suspect because one
regulate the marketing of fruits
tion is adopted. It han been
tarn mad e and vegetables, to
of them became • great Conservative leader.
prohibit all
quite plain in recent months that a transactions in .fruits and veget-
On the other hand, if it nhould occur to any
strong weapon—the boycott—will ables except such as are approved
one that the Jews have not been very prom-
swing into play against any nation by the organization through the is-
inent in the British Labor party, the only
fostering inhuman practices on a suance of certificates, to fix prices
"subversive" political party in the country,
minority group because of racial end price spreads, to issue regula-
there is an easy way out. It is only neces-
ear ret ngurus di Rrrence' s.
tions regarding shipping and mar-
sary to recall that Karl Marx, the founder
The boycott has forced the Hit- keting, and to prescribe punish-
of socialism, was a Jew.
ler gel ernment into • corner and ment and fines for violations.
This is what a colored shirt does to the hu-
is crowding it there. Statistin
The objective of the Hitler rev-
man mited.
made evadable by the l'nited ernment is to obtain • complete
State, Department of Commerce in monopoly over all foes! sources
The trouble with many of us is that we Washington prove this.
Present
and food e u p p I i e s.
bechme too panicky. To be an alarmist is During the first half of this year plans, it is indicated, are for an
developed an unfavorable extension of then monopolistic ten-
as dangerous as it is to be blind to the Germany
balance of trade, while during the
in Germany. These will
political happenings of the day. But re- me period a year ago, the trade dencies,
be developed largely along lines de-
gardless of the course we pursue we must balance was in her favor. Import% signed to strengthen Hitler's con-
in Germany for the fleet NIX Months trol on the people. Government
never lose our sense of humor. Ridicule Of
1911 amounted to 2,302,500,000
of food is a strong power
will do more to kill a ridiculous "shirt" mark• and export amounted to 2,-, control
with which to keep a people in line
movement than a parliamentary act to Oa st 100,000 marks Thin repre- This is true even though • totter-
gent, an 'decree trade balance of ing power wield this control.
make such a movement illegal.
215,900,000 mark*, against a favor-
It'opyrisht. MS /TS
Tidbits and News
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(CoPYright 1934, J. T. a.)
DR. ERIC MOSSE
4Con) right. 1531,
BY-THE -WAY
economic maneuver against the enviously alb-
Heated "superiority" of their Jewish partners.
Artist Suffered in Flight
Those Jewish artists who within the year have
been torn from their German soil went to France,
to Switzerland, to Scandinavia, Holland, Czecho-
slovakia. Only a few went to the United States.
They suffered inconceivably, both economically
and spiritually. If they were writers, their works
were snatched up by emigrant publishing houses
in Rolland. Translations of their works, which
have no nationalistic limitations, had their effect
upon the world, which had broken from Hitler
Germany.
They struggle, but there is some hope for them.
Language, their instrument, has been torn from
their hands. They learn that of their new en-
vironment. And in 10 years, perhaps, they will
write so well in this new language that the stamp
of their style will be recognizable in it.
But the others,—the actors! Of course there
are cases like that of Elizabeth Bergner, who
worked day and night for a year to learn the
tones, rhythms and phonetics of English, and
has thus now become a most successful English
actress. Or Peter Loire, one of the most im-
portant of the younger actors, who has been
given a contract in Hollywood. The Zurich thea-
ter has taken in Gustav Hartung, Germany's most
talented director besides Max Reinhardt, and a
staff of the best of German actors.
Products of Necessity
But the rest? Almost a year passed before
they found themselves in groups again, groups
which could not act in the theater because there
was no economic basis for that. So they de-
cided to set up cabarets. Erika Mann (daughter
of the Nobel prize winner, Thomas Mann), who
is a talented and gifted actress, is heading such
an ensemble at Zurich. And in Paris, an estab-
lishment called "Paris-Vienna" was opened near
the Place de la Concorde. There Kurt Gerron,
talented and popular German actor, and Peter
Bach, Germany's most famous lute-player, fill
the stage.
MIDSUMMER MISCELLANY
The economic situation in'Ger-
many growing steadily worse and
facing a shortage of many . ' the
necessities of life, Herr Hitler calls
upon the German people to resort
to "ersatz' . or substitute commodi-
ties. Will it be long before they
find a substitute for Hitler him-
self?
• • •
Haman, according to Scripture,
first became provoked by Monte-
, cal because the latter refused to
do obeisance to him. He just
wouldn't say "hell Haman."
It ended up with Haman having
to lead Mordecai on a horse, while
everybody shouted "Pfui Haman!"
And before next Purim, it will
be "Pfui Hitler!" or maybe "Hiss
Hitler!"
Already, according to the for-
eign correspondents, many people
in Germany are carrying parcels
under their arms to avoid doing
the "Healing" to Mr. Hitler.
• I .
Lacking coal, it is expected that
soon the Nazis will be forced to
resort to Hitler's speeches for the
hot air for their house-heating
and, instead of meat, they will
substitute Alfred Rosenberg ;s bo-
'1oney about Aryanism.
Hitler shot the president of the
Catholic Action Society, cremated
the body and sent an urn with
his ashes to the widow. in fact,
according to the papers, some 200
I German families have received an
urn apiece. How long before Hit-
ler "earns" one for himself?
• •-•
It has gotten so that, it is said,
the favorite word of the Nazis will
be changed from Aryanism to
Urn-yanism.
• • •
According to Hitler, a veritable
' epidemic of homo-sexuality raged
among the Storm Troops. And
' now it is admitted that Goering
I and Frick are those kind of boys,
too. But it is denied that it is
absolutely required to be that way
in order to be a Nazi.
• • •
Hitler says frankly he knows
nothing about diplomacy or eco-
nomics but he knows the German
' people. And the German people,
Unelaborated truth demands that it be said it would seem, are beginning to
know him.
that none of these are ideal solutions, but rather
• •
the product of necessity, and will never com-
Well, anyway, it must he ad-
pensate for that which has been lost in values.
mitted that Hitler has a chance
A world lies in ruins and will never rise again. at winning the Bullet-sir prize.
• • •
Unless Germany awakens. But even ih that
Charles Angoff, whom II. i..
event she has been having anti-Semitic dreams
Mencken some years ago got out
too long. There are dreams s which do not
leave of prison, has now been promoted
one's blood even on awakenin g.
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NEW BOOKS FOR
THE VERY YOUNG
Interesting Publications Issued
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations
by
Scientist Hits Nazi Race Myth
By FRANZ BOAS
(Copyright, 1934, Jesich Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
iiitiTE:—Another scholar, this
Among the latest books pub- EDITOR'S
time Professor Frans Boas of Colum- short heads in the South; broad
bia Unlveralty, Perhaps the foremost faces here, narrow ones there; nos-
lished by the Department of
living anthropoloshil, hex punched
holes Into the Nazi theory of .. Art- , es turned up and aquiline, the gen-
Synagogue and School Exten-
an" eupre mar y. in an article In the eral build tall and short, broad and
sion of the Union of American
ref ent American Mercury
, he ex-
plain. the reaoons why there Is no pure I slight. There is no "German race";
Hebrew Congregations are
tlerman ''As yen' . rare, nor, Indeed. there are only local types which are
any pure re, that has not adopted very different one from another,
"When the Jewish People Was
many of Re rectal tharactertetica
fro.nt grographlf al environment. Fot- each of which comprises indivi-
Young" by Mordecai I. Soloff
losins Ie an extract from the Amer- I duals of different characteristics,
, an Nier , UrY
and "Bible Tales for Very
I so that representatives of all these
Young Children" by Lenore
types may be found in any part of
The present policies of the Ger- Germany and of the neighboring
Cohen.
The first book was prepared man government as based on the countries. The East German is
assumption that an "Aryan" has closer to his Polish neighbor than
to fulfill the need for a history certain biologically determined to the Frisian; the Tyrolese shows
course in the lower grades. qualities which are entirely foreign more similarity to the East Alpine
Slav than to the North German,
Many religious schools include to every "non-Aryan."
There are said to be 6,000,000 the Rhinelander more to the neigh-
in their curricula the teaching
boring Frenchman than to the Ger-
non-Aryans
in
Germany,
but
since
of Jewish history to children in
according to the prescribed defini- man in more distant parts.
the intermediate grades. How- tion a fourth part of non-Aryan
Since the Jews are considered as
ever, meet books available for blood is enough to stamp the indi- a thoroughly different element, we
teaching Jewish history are vidual as non-Aryan, the actual must define their racial position.
number may well be close to 10,000, There is no more a Semitic than
intended for older pupils.
000 or even more. According to the there is an Aryan race, since both
The teaching procedure of policy adopted by Germany these terms define linguistic groups, not
Mr. Soloff's book is that known are practically excluded from all human beings, We can only speak
Near Eastern types. There are
as the "supervised study meth- participation in German economic, of
at least two or three very indif-
social, and intellectual life.
od." It provides in a more sim-
ferent
Near Eastern types: dark
What is an Aryan? Aryan is a
ple procedure than the labora- linguistic term and nothing else. I Armenians, lighter Kurds, and the
tory method for a period of It means that there was once one long-headed Southern type. As long
"supervised" study of the text language, nowadays called the as we have known Jews at all,
all three—and perhaps even other
by all the pupils, 'as well as for Aryan language, which gradually European strains—have been
re-
spread over a large part of Europe
a series of related readings and and Asia, and developed into all presented among them. The Jews
activities intended for the 'the different "Aryan" languages are not a uniform race. The Arme-
nob! q r e is very closely related
brighter pupils. For this reason, spoken today. In this sense an Ary-
an is anyone who speaks an Aryan to that of the Dinarie peoples, the
a teachers' book to guide the
language, Swede as well as Amer- I inhabitants of the region east of
procedure of the teacher and a ican Negro or Hindu.
the Adriatic Sea, so much so that
pupils' wordbook to guide the
It is a fiction to speak of a Ger- ; in some cases the Tyrolese and the
lArmenoid
can hardly be distin-
activity of the pupils have been man race. We should rather ask
guished with certainty. Similarly,
prepared. The text is intended what types of physical build are a relationship exists between the
represented among the Germans.'
for children in the fourth grade Here we encounter a complete lack Syrian and Mediterranean types.
of the religious school who are of unity. Blonds with long heads The contrast between the blond
in the North, darker people with Northwest European and the dark
approximately nine years old.
Southeast German is just as great
COVERS 1,500 YEARS
as the difference between the latter
and
the Armenoid Jew.
"When the Jewish People was
This statement does not mean
Young" is a history of the
that there are no finer distinctions
Jewish people from the time of Rest in glory, free from Eat , :
in physical build between most
Rest from labor come Is you,
Abraham to the Babylonian
Jews
and most non-Jewish Europe-
Ere your dreaming did abate,
Exile. In scope, the book cov-
ans; the differences, however, are
While your light of genius grew
not fundamental. It is well known
en approximately 1,500 years.
that dark Syroid Jews are often
It stresses the life of the Jew- Rest from Israers endless woe,
taken for Spaniards or Italians,
Which like hemlock galled your Armenoids for
ish people and the changes
South Slays or other
heart;
which took place in its social,
Alpines, and blond blue-eyed Jews
Rest from fires within that glow
for Northwest Europeans . . .
economic and spiritual life.
In the artist, for hi. art.
An attempt is being made by
Special care was taken to
those who are in power in Germany
connect the present with the Those volcano's, heart and mind, to justify on scientific rrounds
Leave as halcyon hours too;
past The origins of Pesach,
their attitude towards the Jews:
While erupting, aka, find,
but the science upon which they
Shevuoth and Sukkoth, for ex-
Silence is their Magi( RM
.
are
building their policies is a
ample, are explained in con-
pseudo - science.
No one has ever
nection with the Exodus and the So. the Motif- Mind designed,
proved
that a human being,
Off, for souls to hide their beams,
wanderings in the Wilderness; Ere their rarest gems were mined. through his descent from • certain
group of people, must of necessity
the "Cup of Elijah" is used as
Peace descendin g on
their have certain mental characteris-
dreams.
the method of motivating the
tics. A nation is not to be defined
by its descent but by its language
children to study the life and
Rest; for all whose debts unpard,
1 and eustoms. Otherwise Germans,
works of that ancient prophet;
In the day of bottles nen%
Frenchmen, and Italians would not
and the establishment of the Will awake the harp you played,
nationalities. Languages, and
When your songs like bugles be
Synagogue is emphasized in dis-
customs are determined far more
blew.
by the environment in which the
cussing the Babylonian period.
child snows up than by its descent,
Mr. Soloff, who is educational Brother—spirits bring yo u
pea,. because the physical attributes,
so
director of Temple Beth El of
Poet-Seers, peace ',try bring;
they have any influence at
Hark?
they ring; "Song's golden far aa
Providence, R. I., is • teacher
oc
wictu hr inwe l v te h ryirmp.
extraordinary
inary
fleece
and supervisor of many years'
Gained the bard life taught to
Just an the Germanized Slays
experience. Ile brought to his
and French have become German
task the knowledge and the ex-
in their culture, as the Frenchified
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