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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 21:10.25:19
Propheti•al portion—h. 54:1.10

August 24, 1934

Elul 13, 5694

Significant Election Figures

Adolf Hitler's great "victory" at the
polls last Sunday reveals some very signifi-
cant figures which indicate that all is far
from being well with the Nazis in Ger-
many.
Last November Adolf received a total of
40,609,247 votes, or 93.5 per cent of the
total cast. Last Sunday he received 38,-
362,760 votes, a loss of 2,246,487.
Much more significant than this loss are
the following figures, which are perhaps
the biggest threat to Hitler's rule:
In November, 2,101,000 people, dared
vote against the Fuehrer; last Sunday,
against even greater dangers, every one
voting against Hitler being branded as a
traitor, 4,294,654 dared vote against him.
But these were not his only opponents:
1,943,925 failed to cast their ballots, and
it is safe to say that this was an anti-Hitler
vote. It is the only safe way of interpret.
ing their absence from the polls after the
strenuous propaganda drive which aimed
to GET,every voter out of his home to the
polls. Add to these figures the number of
876,299 disqualified votes — disqualified
again meaning without doubt anti-Hitler-
and combine them with the outright anti-
llitler ballots, and we have a total of
7,111,575 votes shouting their opposition
to the man who has dragged Germany to
the lowest depths of degradation.
Even the most powerful dictator should
tremble at the mere thought that so many
men and women dared to express their dis-
gust and opposition to the Nazi regime.
They are an encouraging factor in a very
discouragiqg situation. They seem to shout
to Hitler and his Nazis:
Beware of the hidden and true power of
the German people!

Bigotry and "Successful Jews"

Dr. Will H. Houghton, pastor of the
Calvary Baptist Church of New York, re-
turning from a seven weeks' study of youth
movements abroad, gave his views on the
rise of Nazism in European countries.
While he found Ilitlerism "losing caste,"
Dr. Houghton expressed fear that anti-
Semitism is gaining ground. Said Dr.
Houghton:

Hitler is still very popular, but his associates
are not. I think the Nazi party is losing caste.
I am afraid that anti-Semitism is gaining
ground in almost every country in Europe,
more in the Central European countries than
in others. I think this is mainly because of
economic reasons. The successful Jaws become
the objects of bitter envy of those who have
nothing.
Hitler used this condition to gain power,
the question is what is he going to use next?
Anti-Semitism in Germany is becoming a bit
outworn. The people of Germany do not really
hate the Jews. I am afraid he has nothing else
to turn to except gestures of war.

but

1

The most striking portion in Dr. Hough-
ton's statement is his reference to "success-
ful Jews." The New York pastor's dis-
covery is not a new revelation. It is the
old story of Jews being blamed because
they are succeeding professionally and in-
dustrially. But Dr. Houghton might have
added that sometimes Jews are the irri-
tating causes of anti-Semitism also because
they are on the opposite front of the suc-
cessful ones—as members of the extremely
radical wing,
Dr. Houghton's statement must set many
to thinking. Wherein lies the solution if
it is true that successful Jews are the cause
of anti-Semitism? Must Jews strive to be
failures rather than successes in order to
offset the dangers of Jew-baiting through-
out the world? Since the rise to power
of Adolf Hitler, Jews themselves have ad-
vocated that men like Morgenthau should
not accept high positions in our govern-
ment for fear that jealousy aroused by
such glaring examples of "success" will
cause the rise of the anti-Semitic tide in
this country.
The clear-thinking elements in Jewry
will, naturally, reject t4is proposal and
viewpoint. We can't iff6rd to resign our
position as human beings, as members of
society, simply because bigotry will arouse
jealousy and hatred. As a part of the
American people, it is natural for Ameri-
can Jews to strive for the highest positions
in our government. As a part of the med-
ical professions it is natural for Jewish
physicians' to strive for highest attain-
ments professionally. And so on. ad in-
finitum.
Nevertheless , Dr. Houghton's report of
conditions abroad will find Jews grateful
to this pastor for again calling to mind one
of the reasons for Jew-hatred abroad. In
refusing to yield our rights as human and
social beings, it is at least well to know
all the causes for the persecutions of Jews.

Relative Degradation

Our Film Folk

On the eve of the plebiscite in Germany
last Sunday, the leading Berlin Nazi news-
By HELEN ZIG/AOND
paper, the Voelkischer Beobachter, let it
i
be known editorially that the election "is
HOLLYWOOD. --- Let's leok at •
By BORIS SMOLAR
not intended for the Jews" and stated that Hollywood through our own cam-
Chief European C
pendent, J. T. A.
era lens and take a few close-ups:
"Hitler's message is meant for real Ger-
Mervyn LeRoy has all-over car-
Wor)rlsht. 1134, Jowoob
Apt.),
laid in every room of his new
man citizens and completely disregards pet
home--so he can run around in his
foreigners in our midst." Lt speaking of bare feet!
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the third of three striking
Charlie Chaplin has a complete
Jews the Hitler mouthpiece did not differ- Encyclopedia
articles on the Polish-Jewish situation by one of the outstanding
Brittanica . . . in a
Jewish journalists of the day.
entiate between Galician and Polish Jews revolving table . . . in his bath-
. room!
He's that lit'ry.
and the holier-than-thou Germans. Nover-
Bud Filers ... brother of Sally
WARSkW.—llard days loom ahead for Polish
troubles?
theless, the League of National German . . . is a stand-in for Cary Grant.
Harry Ruby .. as one composer'
The Jewish leaders in Poland know full well
Jews, a numerically insignificant Berlin to another . . . invited Sig Rom-, Jewry. Days - of need and of uneasiness. Uneasi-
ness regarding possible anti-Jewish occurrences.
that danger to Polish Jewry is imminent. They
group, saw tit to issue a call to German berg to his house . .. forgot the I
Polish Jewry is not organized. It is split into
can do nothing, however. They are divided and
date ... and left Romberg stand-
Jewry to vote for Chancellor Hitler and to ing on the stoop i many factions. It can do nothing to prevent split into different faction and parties and can-
not find a solution on which they all can agree.
Reuben Manioulian and La', possible anti-Jewish outrages.
undo the damage (lone by "un-German
Garbo are still . . . VERY good'
however, the leaders of the various Jewish
At a recent conference called by an enterpris-
elements."
friends.
factions in Poland realize that these outrages
ing group in Warsaw to organize a strong repre-
Rinnie Barnes had a varied car-
While self-degradation is to be judged
are to be expected. They Iealize that even though
sentative Jewish body comprising the leaders of
eer as kennel-maid, milk-maid,
relatively, the statement issued by this ; nurse, chorus girl, dance hostess, the anti-Semitic Nara party is suppressed, there the several parties, one could hear such state-
before she took to histrionics.
is
no
safeguard
against
the
creation
of
another
ments as "Polish Jewry stonily on the brink of
group is of sufficient interest as proof of
It's not a weighty matter . . .
anti-Semitic organization which will be tolerated
martyrdom." Pessiolistic speeches by some made
the low depths to which some who lack but Irving Thalberg weighs 127 by the government as was the Nara group, and one's hair stand up. All the speakers—inipor-
pounds and the missus ... Norma
self-respect will sink. Imagine a proud ' Shearer
which will break loose with new anti-Jewish ex-
tent leaders of Polish Jewry—were in accord that
.. • weighs 120.
cesses, just as the Nara did.
within it few months severe and even bloody days
Aline Macalahon walks 10 miles
people writing a statement like this:

We members of the League of National Ger-
man Jews, founded in 1921, have always in
war or peace placed the good of the German
people and the German Fatherland above our
(rwn good. Accordingly, we greeted the na-
tional uprising of January, 1933, although it
brought rigors for us, for we saw it as the
only means to clear away the damage done in
14 unhappy years by un-German elements.
We agree fully with the political testament
rot Reich President and Field Marshal von }lin—.
denburg, who called the accomplishment of
Reich Chancellor Hitler and his movement a
decisive step of major historical Importance
and stated that reconciliation which will in-
clude the whole German fatherland must fol-
low the national awakening and unification of
the German people.

To the German fatherland belongs body and
soul that portion of the Jews who, like our-
selves, know no other fatherland than Ger-
many. In the spirit of the dead Reich Presi-
dent's testament we support the unification of
the offices of Reich leader and Reich Chan-
cellor,

We urge all Jews who feel themselves Ger-
mans to vote "Yes" on Aug. 19.

But perhaps the authors of this state-
ment should be excused. 'They have suf-
fered too long spiritually to be their honest
selves. Rejecting Jewish affiliations, not
wanted by the Germans, they are a tragic
element who find themselves between the
devil and the deep sea, and they choose to
trust the devil in the hope that they, at
least, will be tolerated even if all Jewry
be damned.
However, this small group is merely to
be pitied. The vast majority of German
Jews evidently feel and speak differently,
judging by the following letter signed "A
New Jew" which appeared in the C. V.
Zeitung, organ of the Central Union of
German Citizens of the Jewish Faith:

We may be termed "new Jews," we may be
ironically described as "March victims." We
may justly be reproached with never having
taken heed of Jewish things until the occur-
rences in 1933 drove us in that direction. But
now we want to join in rebuilding German
Jewry. And in this work everyone of good
will should be welcome.

The reproach against the "new Jews" with
its implication that they have no right yet to
express an opinion in a Jewish community of
which they have previously known nothing,
would not be so important if it affected only a
few people.

But it is hardly necessary to explain that
more than half of the 500,1100 or so Jews of
Germany lived their lives in a way that was
only slightly related to things Jewish exter-
nally and even leas so internally. And there
are hundreds of thousands of us, who have
come now with an earnest desire not only to
learn, but actively to help Jewry. Have they
no right?

What is the use of embarking now on a
moral probe of our past when every effort is
needed to shape the future?
This is the only sensible attitude to adopt
towards those who are now returning to Juda-
ism.

• What a pity that a national tragedy
should have been necessary to create a
feeling of loyalty among many who now
style themselves, in Marrano fashion, New
Jews!

The Maimonides Celebration

The Maimonides octocentennial celebra-
tion. plans for which are being made
throughout the world, should, primarily.
have for its purpose the encouraging of
the study, by Jews, of the works of the
great Jewish philosopher of the 12th cen-
tury.
During the eight months intervening be-
fore the date of the celebration, in April
of 1935. a strong effort should be made by
Maimonides celebration committees to en-
courage the publication and sale of the
works of Maimonides, and in every way
possible to secure a larger audience for the
great work , of one of the greatest figures
in Jewish history.
At the same time, celebrations honoring
the 800th anniversary of the birth of Maim-
onides should , assume a most dignified
character. Each community should form
an united committee to sponsor the observ-
ance of this anniversary, and under no cir-
cumstances should a division in our ranks
be permitted to mar the occasion. An im-
pressive celebration should be sponsored
by a group representing all elements, and
the name of Moses ben Majmon should be
honored in a spirit of dignity befitting the
great contributions made to Jewish culture
and history by this great philosopher.

Wilbur Glenn Voliva of Zion City. Ill..
predict9 that on the first day of Rosh
Hashonah, on Sept. 10, the wolid will come
to an end. It's been pretty shaky for a
long time, so you needn't worry—reserve
your seat for Holy Day services without
fear.

What is Happening in Poland?

every day that she isn't working.
The air in Poland is permeated with anti-
Harry Cohn's yacht is cleped
Semitic hatred; with a thirst for Jewish blood
"Jobella" . . . in honor of his
and Jewish destruction. This feeling of hatred
father and mother, Joseph and
grown stronger from day to day. It is openly
Bella.
Max Rabinowitsch . . . former
stimulated by the strong Polish political party--
accompanist of Feodor Chaliapin
the National Democratic party, commonly called
. . . coaches Francis Lederer in
the "Endeks."
'voice culture.
The Endek party is not similar to the Nara
Max Baer ... coastward bound
. . . picked up expense money by. group. It does not consist of youngsters who
refereeing tights in mid-west
can be dispersed easily. It is strong and solid.
towns.
It is actually the terror of the ruling government
Though Mae West indiscrimin-
party. It possesses a great intelligence. It has
ately invites the public to "come-
at its service a rich and powerful press. This
' upin see me sum-m-time" ... she
rarely allows unaccompanied
party mates no secret of the fact that it is only
males to visit her . . . and then
waiting for Pilsudski's death to seize power easily
for business, not social, calls.
and without bloodshed.
Al Jolson doesn't permit wife
Ruby to expend her own salary
Fears Endeks
toward their mutual housekeeping.
The present Polish administration hates the
She maintains a separate account.
' strong Endek party but it must reckon with it.
Eddie Cantor is the sole source
The administration must listen to the demands of
of financial aid to a crippled girl,
the Endek organization. Of course, the govern-
the daughter of a Turkish-Jewish
flower vendor. In return, Eddie's
ment does not act always as the anti-government
dressing-room is kept pleasant
party would like it too, but it disregards some of
with fresh flowers.
the actions of the Endeks and deems it wise to
Ann Dvorak received six books
maintain silence.
from her husband as a birthday
gift ... three are on bacteriology
One of these actions is anti-Semitiepropaganda.
her special hobby) .. . two on
The Endek pirty carries on an intense and
farming . . . and one on how to
widely spread anti-Semitic propaganda campaign
raise rabbits.
which hints of possible pogroms, both in the press
Sylvia Sidney's most prized pos-
pos-
t
are a dressing table used
and in the open, at secret 'Meetings and at public
sessions Bernhardt, a 1647 edi-
gatherings. Never do the leaders of the Endeks
tion of Shakespeare, and a cos-
allow an opportunity to slip by without inciting
(In by Marguerite Clark.
tume worn
the public against the Jews. The spreading of
Ernst ubitsch's new house is
this anti-Semitic propaganda is one of the under-
Mexican own to the last tile ...
he had his decorator make a sties
lying principles of the party. The war on Jews
cial trip to Mexico to insure its
is one of the Endek's chief commandments.
authenticity.
Never before in the history of Poland has a
To overcome insomnia, Edward
Polish government been as strong as the present
' G. Robinson puts a few classical
'numbers on the phonograph.
one. It has the power as never before to sup-

Government

press disturbances and maintain order. Should

If you don't like "Gift 0'
Gab," you can blame Bias
James, that news into from
Brooklyn. He wrote the seen-
side . . . directed the dialogue
... was associate producer ...
and acted in it!
• • •

the present government so be determined, it

could remove the menace of Jewish attacks and
curb the anti-Semitic press overnight.

However, the Polish government, although bit-

terly opposed to the Endek party, does not at-

tempt to check its anti-Jewish agitation in the

John C. Moffit, screen critic,
calls Hitler "Der Furore" . . .
which we think is saying some-
thing.
We like the story about Mr.
Goodstein and Mr. Finkle, two
producers who were always at
"awords" points, but whose wives
were friendly and were kept busy
making peace. One night Mr. G.
happened to attend a theater
where Finkle's film was being
shown as a preview. After the
show, Goodstein accidentally ,
found himself face to face in the
lobby with his adversary. As was
his habit, he began to mutter im-
precations ... but then remember-
ing the admonitions of his wife,
he controlled his wrath and sput-
tered. "It's a fine picture—God
forbid!"
•
.
.
--All out! . . . end of the law

least. The Polish government never finds it nec-

essary to confiscate even one issue of the Jew-

baiting Endek press. The government is afraid

to wage a campaign against the Endeks because

of their anti-Semitism. It is afraid to appear in

the aid of other na-
tions Germany will not be
alb' to pull herself out of the
morass 4.1' economic ills. Observers
here are of the opinion that as soon
as the political atmosphere clears
in Germany, the Reich govern-
ment will begin a series of over.
tures to gain the sympathetic in-
terest of other countries.

The real leader in the drive will
he Dr. Iljalmar Schacht, Germany',
esonomic dictator. Intensive ef-
forts will he made to increase ex-
ports. Already the Hitler govern-
ment is rimming to the realization
that without increases! exports.
Germany will he forced on a self-
suttirisnt basis. For Germany this
means a low leiel of national exist-
ence.
• •
•
Dining the next three months,
important decisions are expected t o
he made in Germany concerning
her ■ atitude toward the world at
large. The present fight is to wipe
out arherse trade balances. To (Is
this Dr. Smharht has ruled that
I firms manufacuring for export
would mane preferential treat-
ment from the German Govern-
ment in filling ther needs for raw
materials. The degree of susses.
or failure that ta'falls Germany's
contemplated recosery efforts will
in a large measure determine her
future.
11r. Schacht freely admits Ger-
many's economic plight.
lie is
knoirn as a hard-headed conserva-
tive. Opinion to that lir. Schacht
will not repeat past mistake, of
oth ers ha putting up inflamed pub-
lic sentiment a. • substitute for
sound trade conditions.

•

• •

Among the Me Justice./ of the '
United Staters Supreme Court who I
are entitled to retire because of
their age is Justice Brandeis. who'
is 7s.

Justice Brandeis was appointed
to the bench in ISIS, by President

Jews

in Poland are to be expected.

Nevertheless, a strong united Jewish body was

not organized. The various factions found it

impossible to agree on a modus operandi.

Tragic Split in Ranks

This split in the ranks of Polish Jewry is at

present the most tragic episode in the lives of

the three million Jews in Poland. This disunity

is certainly not in the interest of these three,

million unprotected Jewish citizens. It plays right

into the hands of the anti-Semites and into the

hands of the government, which prefers a broken

and separated feint to a united Jewish front.

As a result, the great Jewish community in

Europe now stands in immediate physical danger.

The danger is made greater by the Nara party,

which is supposedly forbidden, but whose mem-

bers remain and carry out their infamous work

through legal channels. They have new means

with which to adhere to their old program of

Jew-baiting and of molesting and stabbing Jews

in the streets openly and without fear of either
police, the law or the government.

The Jews in Poland are accustomed to days of

terror. They have already gone through days

when their beards were pulled in the streets;

days when they were hurled off speeding trains;

days when they dared not go out into the streets;

(lays of pogroms when they had to hide themselves
in goorqts and cellars. The Jews in Poland have

already lived through a period of anti-Semitic

unrest such as is not known even in present-day
Germany.

These outrages occurred, however, in the prov-

inces. Never in Warsaw. Never had they oc-

curred in the city where the government sat.

Now—in the last Nara excesses—such outrages
have taken place openly even in Warsaw, before

the very eyes of Polish cabinet members in the

capital of the so-called Polish Democratic Re-
public.

Why They Will Recur

In this fact lies the chief danger should such

outrages ever occur again. When it comes to

pass that in the capital of Poland, under the eyes

of the police, in broad daylight, Jews are stabbed

in the streets, it is ample proof that the gov-

ernment policy of protection is inoperative with
respect to Poland's Jewish citizens.

People, who know conditions in Warsaw, and

the light as a government opposed to anti-Semit-
ism.

who know the sentiment in government circles,
realize that the Nara hooligans would never have

What to Be Expected

dared to come out into the main thoroughfares

Under these circumstances, when even the gov-

ernment fears to say a friendly word for the

Jews, what can be expected of the political par-
ties whose every program is unrelentingly anti-

Semitic? What can be expected of the

Endeks? What can be expected of those sport
organizations around whose banners the mem-

bers of the forbidden Nara party are now rally-

ing? What can be expected of the average Po-

lish citizen who is continually fed this anti-
Jewish propaganda, and who is really beginning

to believe that the Jews are the cause of his

Lc FI TEL ACORIENT

W ITItorT

for the

the tragic murder of Minister Pieracki there

would now be such pogroms in Poland as have

not been seen since the days of Bogdan Chmel-
nitzsky.

The murder of Pieracki put an end to the do-
ings of the Nara party. Members of the party

still live, hoWever. They are free and the Jews

live in fear lest they break out again. The danger

for the Jewish in Poland is, consequently, not yet
over. Nat at all over yet.

POrirays
German Tragedy !Assyrian

Tidbits and News

'By DAVID SCHWARTZ

.coym•Tt

1034. J T. A

, ,MISCELLANEOUS

Ur. Jacob G. Lipman, deal it
the College of Agriculture at
Rutgers University, has been
awarded the Chandler Medal by
Columbia University. Lipman, an
old Woodbine graduate, live feet
four and Semitic-looking, is re-
garded as the greatest soil author-
ity in the world.
And yet they say that Jews do
not 'sake good farmers.
A son of Dr. Lipman is not
very studious, however. lie very
frequently flunks his examina-
tions, the Rutgers boys say.
•
•
•
Dr. Lipman was one of the to-
perte who some years ago made It
survey of Paltstine's farm possi-
bilities for the Jewish Agency.
The case of Lipman recalls an-
other great Jewish agricultural
expert—Dr. Sosskin- -a Revision-
ist Zionist, I believe, but regarded
as England's greatest authority on
intensive agriculture.
S„-skin has all the ear-marks
of genius. Some of his plan,
are fantastic. Thus, he has writ-
ten a good deal on the industri•li-
cation of agriculture. Believes
that some day corn and wheat and
these other things you and I have
, for breakfast will be grown in-
' side—factory 0;,iieUltare, SO to
i speak.
• .

-And then there' is llulzman
the Burbank of Palestine. Ile h
introduced more than a hundr
new species of flora in Palestin e re

Flowers, like girls, mature very
easily in Palestine. Young girl,-
under the tropic sun of Palestine-
become womanly much earlier
than in the Occident —and, of
course, senility sets earlier, too.

Robert Nathan has authored a
book which depicts the story of
, march of the Jews of the wor Id
across Europe and Asia.
Nathan calls his picture fanci-
ful. Ile does not know that it IS
taking place today. Forty tho
sand Jesvo marched across Europe
into Palestine in Asia last year- -
and 40,000 will do it again Mi.
year.
And if the immigration rastr,
lions on Palestine entry were re-
moved, 30,000 Jews fromAiner,iso
would leave this year for Pat h:_
tine. That many are registsre
with the Palestine bureau.
• •
•

And speaking about the removi1.
of those immigration restriction•.
there will soon begin the biggest
display on this matter that Jew-v
has ever seen. After the hot.-
days—look out!
•
.
•

American public opinion will br
mobilized as never since the day,
when President Wilsoetid Con-
gress were brought to lend their
support to the Balfour Declara-
tion. It is hoped to make such a
great noise in America that his
excellency, the High Commission-
er in Palestine, will be forced tr
heed—and allow 100,000 Jews V-
enter Palestine yearly.
•
• •

You remember that poem:
"We are coming, Father
Abraham,
One hundred thousand strong •
That will be the refrain.
And when that happens, there
will be something "diding"—you
may believe it. That is almost as
much as the Jewish immigration
to America amounted in the flow-
ery days of the Jewish exodus
from Russia to the United States.
• • •

And when they march 100,000
strong, the world will wake
The tom-tools will sound around
the world. It will be perhaps the
greatest event in the eyes of Or
world that has come out of this
era of the depresaion.
So put it down in your note-

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With Justice Brandeis on the
bench is Justice Cardozo, who is
64 years old. Justice Canton, was
appointed in 1932 by President
Hoover.
• • •

With the summer nearly over
and election time only a few months
off, members of Congress are lay-
ing their lines for re-election. A
number of them are really putting

onRaepa'a
res'ed show. Florence P. Kahn
of San Francisco lays claim to
some oppraition for re-election.
Those who know Mrs, Kahn are I
inclined to discount her fears. She
has served in the House for five
ronae•utive terms ■ and the folks,
expect to See her hack again.
• • •

Representative Dickstein of New
York, has his hands full with the I
investigation of Nazi and other
subversist propaganda activities '
now under way by • Congressional
committee of which he is vice-
chairman. Since the scene of the
investigation shifted to the West
Coast, tickstein has been somewhat
out of the picture. This, however,
will sot be for long.
IC•inewal WU. J T •

erate that. Reliable persons say that if not for

Drama

Wilson. Ile became eligible for
'retirement in 1926. Under the law
a justice is entitled to retire, but
is not required to do so when he
is 70 and has served 10 years on
the bench. None of the five has
given any indication of being ready
. to retire.

With his nomination already in
his pocket, Representative Adolph
J. Sabath of Chicago is much in
the limelight these days. Heading !
• house committee investigating;
real estate bondholders reorganiza-
tion., Representative Sabath has
been making the frort pages of
newspaper with his committee's ae-;
tivitim. All of this should stand
him in good stead when election
time rolls by.
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of Warsaw with knives in their hands, had they
not felt certain that the government would tol-

BY-THE-WAY

A Review by Philip Stemmata

The tragedy of the Jew in

Nazified Germany is recorded

in an unusually powerful drama.

"Races," produced by the Thea-
ter Guild.

Dealing with the months of

March and April of 1933, this

play sets down in swiftly mov-

ing action the most important

events affecting the status of
the Jews under Hitler.

Dr. Charles Gordon Cumming, the Ilebrew hymns is tautological
Ian-, parallelism, where the second line
ro
Old T
repeats
fessor
th
ga age
o the
f e first
and literature of
at Bangor
I lin ought
e in almost th4
T heological College, in this volume
,i same words."
In his conclut '
hich he dedicates to Prof. Richard
chapter, Prof
. H. Gottheil, head of the Semitic* Cumming states that "Israel did
apartment of Columbia Univers I
undoubtedly
take
over
certain bash
i ty, at the outset declares:
I conceptions of God, but Ilebrew re.'
"The Book of Psalms is no long- ligious genius purified and exalt.
cc to be regarded by Old Testa- those cunceptiona.
meat s c holars as a
The Assyriar
n isolated phen- could conceive of one god as so-
omen not

is

found etic only in the narrative came to think of Yahwe as the
proph portions of the Old only God, the altogether Spiritual
Testament, in the Apocrypha, and Being, freed from the contaminn-

the New Testament, but also in lion of polytheism. The Assyrian
the literatures
of Egypt,
Baby- exalted his god to the high heav-
Ionia,
Persia, India
and Greece.
d, en.,
ed
whe
emancipated
Indeed,
wherever the
religion Hebrew
develops
beyond the P r imitive stage,
Yahwe from any possibility of Oen-
ish experiences; others are Se-
ger
it
en'
.
tification
with run, moon, or star
vere condemnations of Nazi stu-
presses itself in poetry and we get or any natural for. The A
ssyrian
pidity.
something
comparable to the He' attributed to his god great power
brew psalms."
, to bless or curse; the H eb rew at-
Perhaps the most striking dia-
Prof. Cumming reviews the Ile- tributed power to h •
Y
,
logue in the entire play takes
rew psalms of lamentation and sociated him from all magical pear •
titi on , psal ms o f faith, th e
place in the sixth scene,. when or.
He- tire.
The Assyrian does indesal
Helene Marx and her father , th ew sanctuary hymns of praise, I ascribe to his god righeteousness
e Ilebrew eschatological hymns,! and mercy, but the Hebrew makes
meet, the latter urging her to H threw hymns of nature
■ nd in , righteousness
r,ignhta
ti eo
i ih and mere
es -
leave Germany. Marx is the P raise of sacred institution..
utamiofYahyweIns
4 td n important
nA
Jewish industrialist who Bent
t cchapter it lthtin tst, word the Hymnists of Israel at
their highest •nd beat reflt the
out several thousand lettere de- pr
lose, including the Aasy rian influence of the prophets, to ec whirl'
flying that there is persecution by inns.] introduction to
prayers, there was nothing comparable ire
of Jews. Marx tells his daug
hymn.s, their self-lauda- ' Assyria."
h. an on. of the Gods.
ter that Jews are not being per-
ti
Appended to this interesting so
In both the di seription s and Cu. , ume is a bibliography of texts aro:
.cuted, and she replies:
*nation', of the Hebrew and As-
A.-translations,
translations, indexes., including •r .
y
HELENE: Every Jea i s being qu ran hymns, Prof. Cumming index of Byblical passages.
otes from the symns of the two
persecuted.
"e then pro.
r'''''P "
MARX: Every Jew!! The mo-
length.
reefs to at draw
a comparison be.
men! you open your mouth .'seen
the Assyrian and Hebrew
outcomes the same old talk
limns lie points out that the
that always used to irritate
first and most obvious, distinctive
me. Even as a school rirl
mark
atrhke (r;f,la
pt,..
a,
n toothliteratures
I W. Schlesel
k net hof A R.... by
rving
you babbled about fighting
relatively an
for the freedom of the indi-
the lines in each poem. A arconds
ifl:
t
h
j
a,•,:.
y
i.whok•
an if in eon-
vidual and all that rot. Dur-
mark is the falling of the line into, firTmhaitsioniatoeflit,o
st,,ittrleib,uitsi.a.vteorita
ing these last two years,
two
division.
division. i gift
whenever I'd ask myself why
The most maapomous feature of
I didn't mi. you more, all I
both
binie literature, emanating from
had to do was remember that
Dr.e Au7mri inag n and
say*
ife ist. poetry ! the facile Pi ento
o f N i"
.zi
bbirees.
lata; t S a '
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Te net of two parallel lines in the I

Some of the scenes are hor-
rifying portrayals of tragic Jew-

•

Rabbi Stollman's

_ Yitzchok
Minchas

