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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 6 :9-11:32
Prophetical portion—Is. 54:1-155:5
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October 12, 1934
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Harvard Rebuke
For those who were disappointed be-
cause our government would not bar Dr.
Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler's piano-playing
right-hand man, the news that Harvard
College rejected this Nazi leader's offer
of an annual $1,000 traveling scnolarship
to Germany to a Harvard student comes
as great news.
The statement of Dr. James Bryant Con-
ant, president of Harvard, is a remarkable
reproach to the Nazi terrorists. It is a
great defense of academic freedom and a'
powerful condemnation of Nazi efforts
to strike at fundamental principles of the
universities of the world. Dr. Conant said
in his letter to Hanfstaengl, rejecting his
offer:
"We are unwilling to accept a gift from
one who has been so closely associated
with the leadership of a political party
which has inflicted damage on the univer-
sities of Germany through measures which
have struck at principles we believe to be
fundamental to universities throughout
the world."
The rebuke to the present German re-
gime assumes added importance in view
of another occurrence during the week
affecting academic freedom in Germany.
The Nazi Commisar for the Judiciary,
Hans Frank, has issued a warning to the
professors in universities in the Reich that
they must coincide their views with the
new order or lose their positions. The so-
called Einstein "cult" was condemned and
Herr Frank has asserted thar academic
freedom will be preserved only If it is not
misused to promulgate theories and
thoughts inimical to the life of the na-
tion."
These views of Merl' Frank, who is the
leader of the Nazi jurists and president of
the German Law Academy, provides addi-
tional justification for the rejection of the
Hanfstaengl Nazi offer by Harvard.
Dr. Conant's rebuke of the Third Reich
is important also for the reason that it
strengthens the American ideal for justice
and for free speech and untrammeled ef-
fort for honest scholarship. We have here
two extremes: the terorrism of the Third
Reich and the freedom of the United
States.
A Calumny Condemned
Shocking allegations have been made
in the Revisionist daily Hayarden of Jeru-
salem, charging that the labor immigra-
tion permits allotted the Jewish Agency
for Palestine are distributed to "undesir-
ables." This article appeals to the Pales-
tine government to show the "strong arm"
and to safeguard the country against dan-
gerous immigrants.
Were it not a fact that these statements
are actually made in print, they would
have been unbelievable. How could one
possibly believe, even by the widest stretch
of the imagination, that such treachery is
possible, and that to attain their ends
members of a political party in Zionism
w:11 go as far as to undermine the Jewish
national cause by resorting to falsehoods?
Replying to these calumnies, the labor
daily Davar of Jerusalem published this
statement:
"These allegations are sheer falsehoods
directed against the Palestine Jewish
Labor Party and the Labor Federation, at
a time when scores of its members are
thrown into prison as a result of their
struggle for Jewish labor. At a time when
we have to conduct a political struggle
for every immigrant and for our rights in
connection with the constitutional plans.
an attempt is made to weaken the position
of the Jewish Agency with the government
by demanding government control of the
distribution of labor permits. These alle-
gations are a denunciation and a calumny
Bialik on Hitlei' and Hitleriam
Last December, A. B. Goldberg, Hebrew
and Yiddish publicist, visited Palestine and
interviewed Chaim Nachman Bialik, great
Iebrew poet and Jewish leader who died
on July 4.
Bialik, whose views on questions affect-
'ng the Jewish people have for more than
three decades been accepted as authorita-
tive expressions in behalf of his people,
made such absorbingly interesting com-
ments on the vital issues created by Nazism
that his views are worth quoting:
There is a distinction, said Bialik, between
Hitler and Ilitlerism. Ilitlerism which aims at
humiliating the Jewish people must be com-
bated by Jewry with all its force; the Jewish
instinct to resist the onslaught through all
means is a right instinct. The role of Hitler,
however, will be assessed differently in Jewish
history; despite his own intentions which are,
of course, malicious, the result of his designs
will not be merely negative from the Jewish
point of view. It has been apparently vouch.
sated to him to be the instrument of rescuing
a considerable section of the Jewish people
from decay. Jews have not yet fully realized
how deeply the poison of assimilation had pen.
etrated the Jewish body, humiliating and dis-
figuring the Jewish people. In Germany, as-
similation had reached its highest point. Men
and women of the better clam had without
shame gone over to Christianity for the cake
of convenience, merely to obtain admission to
certain positions, while the percentages of
mixed marriages had grown from day to day.
Jews were dwindling away, which was, indeed,
the Inevitable end of every human group of
degenerates. All the signs of decay, suicide,
childlessness and other symptoms in German
Jewry were strikingly in evidence. And this
danger of decay was not confined to Germany;
it extended to other Western countries and
there were signs that the same process was
beginning in Eastern European Jewry, though .
of course not to rapidly. In Germnay, the
mortality among Jews had exceeded the birth-
rate, and the position was not much better in
other countries.
At such a moment, Bialik proceeded, Hitler
came on the scene and administered the neces-
nary injection. This uneducated demagogue
was destined to become the healer of the sick
Jewish people. His intentions were and are
evil; but the wive of history, of a people's
destiny are hidden. And paradoxical as it may
seem, Jewish history will be able to record
some positive achievements through Hitler.
Through him, large sections of Jewry will have
been lifted from the spiritual mire in which
they had sunk and will have been saved from
the danger of degeneracy. The midrash ys
that the policy of Haman to exterminate the
Jews eventually had a far greater influence
in bringing about the re-building of the Second
Temple than the warnings by the Prophets.
The present situation is similar. Hitler has
reached quarters which were inaccessible to
Zionists. The Jews throughout the world are
taking stock. Hitler has not put the Jewish
Question on a religious basis, but on a basis
of blood. Once a Jew, he says, always a Jew.
In that he shows himself more ruthless than
any enemy of the Jewish people history is
able to record. But Hitler is right, insofar as
he does not wish to spare the mean souls who
for material consideration would be pre-
pared to give up their nationality and religion.
One need only contemplate what the result
would have been had Hitler made a distinction
between religious Jews and those who em-
braced Christianity. Why, there would have
been unparalleled mass conversion. During
the persecution of Jews in Hungary, 10,000
Jews embraced Christianity, among them the
most cultured and the wealthiest. In Germany,
this would have assumed unprecedented dimen-
sions.
In conclusion, Bialik said that the Jews are
faced with the tremendous struggle for their
existence. It is a heroic struggle; and even
if they lose, history will at least note that
they lost heroically, and that they were not
guilty of giving up the fight without resistance.
But the poet is filled with conviction and hope
that Jews will not stray from out of the strug-
gle. Indeed, he is less worried abut the
German Jews than the Jews in Soviet Husain
where anti-Semitism is a crime, but where
Jews are being destroyed as a class.
Metropolitan
Comment
By HENRY W. LEVY
1.ITA Special Correspondent)
undermine all sensible attempts at co-
operation that stamps the Revisionist party
as a menace to Palestine.
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(CopyrWilt, BM. J. T. Ar
WISE AND CONTRARY-WISE
I SARAH ISAAC'S BOY
For an understanding of the
Listening to the radio the other
American Jewish Congress, and
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
day, I heard a story concerning
the World Congress idea
it
Mr. Ripley of Believe It Or Not
espouses, you must know Rabbi
fame. It appears that he had
Stephen S. Wise, the honorary pres-
HE striking characteristic about Jewish
drawn "Believe It Or Not" car-
been the Cheder, the Talmud Torah, the
alent of the organization.
toons for 10 years before any-
What we are set about doing is
education is that it had never been talked
Yeshiva. Without these the Hebrew Uni-
to repeat on anecdote about Rabbi
one took any real notice of him.
about, never been campaigned for. It was
versity would today have been ■
an impossi-
One day, Ripley just couldn't
Wise that has been making the
a thing to be taken for granted. It was an
bility.
rounds. It defines one phase of
think of a subject for one of these
inseparable part of Jewish life, as much an es-
In this fortress, in the Jewish school, we found
Rabbi W'ise's many sided character.
portrayals. It happened to be
This story concerns the demise of
sential need for the existence of our people as
the timi when Lindbergh made
refuge in tithe of danger. In the Cheder we
Rabbi Wise (an event of the very
his solo flight across the Atlantic.
food is for the individual. But today we talk
found courage to carry on a battle for our sur-
distant future we all hope) and his
At last Ripley, somewhat in
about it are compelled to plead for it, are
vival as a people. There we sharpened the one
appearance at the gates of St.
desperation, drew a cartoon, in
placed in the unfortunate position of campaign-
Peter. The rabbi was seeking ad.
weapon which has caused us to emerge as victors
which he said that Lindbergh was
mission to the heavenly paradise
ing for our educational institutions. It is to be
over persecutors and oppressors—the weapon of the 67th person to have crossed
that certainly was the due of so
the Atlantic by air. He arrived
hoped, therefore, that a large number of people
learning and scholarship.
worthy a citizen of the earth.
at this figure by showing that two
will feel indignant that the observance of Edu-
We find ourselves today learning a new les-
St. Peter greeted him and bade
dirigibles had crossed, each carry-
cation Month should become a necessity: that
son in world experience. There was a time when
him to make himself comfortable
ing some 30 persons.
the People of the Book--the Am Ha.Sefer-
while the routine of checking his
we were hounded and persecuted because we
That cartoon attracted the at-
credentials was observed. This pro-
should have to set aside a special month for
tention
of Hearst, and immedi-
differed, because we dressed unlike the Gentiles,
cess seemed a long and involved
ately
Ripley became a journalistic.
the purpose of propagating the cause of Hebrew
because we went to different houses of worship
one to the Rabbi and he so told
sensation.
learning.
and spoke a different tongue. But we have
St. Peter.
The career of Ripley recalls the
assimilated. We speak the same language that
It stands to reason that a decline in interest
"What you need," he said, "is
old Talmud maxim: There are
system."
our
neighbor
uses,
we
dress
as
he
does,
we
don't
those who make their world in
in Jewish learning is in no sense a condemna-
"That may be," said St. Peter.
one hour. But generally that
observe Jewish traditions—such as wearing phil-
tion of the school or the tradition. It merely
"Suppose you prepare a plan for
hour comes after many years of
acteries
(Tephilin),
building
the
Succah,
carry-
reveals a sad condition existing in a very sad
us. Go back to earth, hold a meet-
travail.
ing the Esrog and the Lulab, wearing the Talith
ing of the American Jewish Con-
time for Israel. And because this condition per-
But what I was getting to, was
gress and then come hack and sub-
Koton—yet we are persecuted. This time it
sists in forcing itself to the fore in a tragic
that the case of Ripley reminds
mit your plans."
is because, as is charged, we are "aggressive,"
me of the story of Sarah Isaac's
period in our history, there is additional justifi-
So it came to pass that a miracle
boy.
we "push" ourselves, we insist on going where
cation for an effort to press for a restoration of
happened. Rabbi Wise took leave
Sarah Isaac was an American
we are not wanted.
of St. Peter, went back to earth, at-
the ideal of learning to a status of reality and
Jewess who lived in the early days
tended another special meeting of
The new persecution is more dangerous than
domination on the entire panorama of Jewish
of
the republic. Her boy was
the Congress, and then hastened
the old because it carries with it the germs of , born about 1795, I believe. Sarah
life.
back to the heavenly kingdom. He
graver disappointment,
of deeper des air. It is
p
herself
was a beautiful woman,
One of the very great luminaries on the Jew-
presented his plan to St. Peter who
es ecially dangerous when the p young and unpre-
and had married a non-Jew, a
glanced at it and then informed
ish scene, Albert Einstein, recently reluctantly
man
by
the name of Mr. Payne.
him that he would have to take the
pared are affected by it. It bits them unawares.
consented to the publication of a book containing
The child's beauty was com-
matter up with God. Rabbi Wise
It is a poisonous drive which threatens to strike
his views on Judaism, Palestine, Zionism, politics,
mented upon by all. He seemed
found himself waiting outside the
at the very heart of our existence. German and
to combine in him that placidness
Gates again. In an hour or so St.
pacifism, Germany of 1933, science, et cetera.
Austrian assimilated Jewries are already exper- which is the inheritance of the
Peter returned.
This book originally appeared under the title
Anglo-Saxon plus that color which
iencing these dangers. Some of the young peo-
"Your plan," he told Rabbi Wise,
"Mein Weltbild" and is now off the press in an
is a Jewish heritage. East and
"is quite admirable in many re-
ple among these two Jewries are now beginning
English
garb
under
the
name
"The
World
As
I
West may never meet, wrote Kip-
spects. In fact, it might have been
to embrace that spark of Jewish learning which
ling,
but in Sarah Isaac's boy.
See
It."
There
is
a
brief
comment
in
this
book
adopted except that God feels it
had been neglected by their forefathers for gen- they had met.
wouldn't be quite right for Him to
containing Dr. Einatein's view on Jewish ideals,
erations.
Some
of
them
are
assuming
their
serve as vice-president."
There was a tradition of the
in the course of which he says:
•, • •
newly-discovered responsibilities with commends
stage in the Isaac family, and
"The pursuit of knowledge for it. own
MORE WISE-CRACKS
Sarah Isaac's boy early took to
able and heroic zeal, others fall victims to des-
sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and
acting and was heralded as a pre-
This little story indicates what
pair. They have discovered their tragedy too
cocious star. Critics generally
a certain faction of Jewry's leaders
the desire for personal independence—these
late.
agreed that he was, so to speak,
think of Rabbi Wise's leadership.
are the features of the Jewish tradition
It
is
not
too
alarmist
an
attitude
to
say
to
the
the
coming John Barrymore of
They admire his sincerity but they
which make me thank my stars that I be-
parents of American children that Germany offers his day.
are afraid of his Messianic corn-
I
bong
to
it."
plex. They believe that the rabbi,
But like so many of the preco-
too costly a lesson to be ignored by us. We can't
with his great gifts for the dra- ;
cious, the promise never seemed
Few will dare contradict Professor Einstein's
afford to let our children sink to a position of
matic, very often over-dramatizes
to
be performed. Yes, Sarah
i statement because the tradition he speaks of is
ignorance of Jewish facts and conditions which
an idea and fails to see it with the
Isaac's boy was not so bad—but
a fact: "The pursuit of knowledge for its own should find them unprepared for life's battles as
proper perspective.
somehow he didn't click.
sake" remains a passionate Jewish ideal. But
Jews and as human beings.
The strength of Rabbi Wise lies,
But the boy, now grown to
however, in this power of drama-
the pursuit of JEWISII knowledge for its own
manhood, was versatile. If he
There is also a positive appeal which must
tization. In the eye" of the Gentile
could
not make good as an ac-
sake is regrettably the ideal of a decreasing
urge every Jewish parent on to the ideal of giv-
world, and in the eyes of many Jew-
tor—he was gifted in writing.
ing his child the very best Jewish education.
ish laymen, he is the voice of Jud- I number of Jeveitsm ,Therein, perhaps, lies the
He wrote plays. They showed
justification for our campaigns, for conducting
Here are a few Jewish sentiments which illus-
aism. Honored thus from afar, it
promise, too. So much so that
is to his credit that his own con-
a special Hebrew Education Month, for trying to
trate the dominant Jewish ideals which demand
Washington Irving was willing to
gregation, the Free Synagogue,
perpetuation:
collaborate with him. Together
enlighten Jews to appreciate their responsibilities
loves and worships him personally
the two wrote eight plays. They
to the youth and to provide them with that
"No one is free unless he studies the
and rabbinically. Very few rabbis
were generally voted good, but
weapon which alone has been the sustaining
Torah."
have had the good fortune of being
somehow they did not exactly
in this enviable position.
force of Jewry's survival: the weapon of learn-
click, either. Not that Sarah
"The Torah is higher than the Priesthood
The following is a story that ' lig and of an understanding of the conflicts
Isaac's boy was particularly a
or Kingship."
comes; from a member of his con-
failure. He was living in Paris
which involve us in our every-day life.
"The study of the Torah is greater than
gregation. It concerns the wed-
and eking out a normal existence.
In spite of the decreasing number of Jews who
the erection of the Temple."
ding of a member's daughter at
But so much had been expected
"The Torah elevates man above all things."
are devoting themselves to Jewish learning, it
which the rabbi was to officiate. It
of him. Everybody had predicted
no happens that this particular
must be emphasized that Jewish learning per se
that the world would hear of him.
"Even an idol-worshiper who studies the
family did not know the rabbi in-
Sarah Isaac's boy now had
is advancing and Jewish scholarship is finding
Torah is equal to the High Priest."
timately.
about given up hope of fame. He
It is this idealism of learning and scholarship
new Sources of inspiration, new champions, new
i The bride was an artist who had
turned out plays as part of his
encouragement. The progress made by the He-
given up her Greenwich Village
which must be perpetuated if we are to be honest
regular work. One day he sat
studio but who had moved a part , brew University on the Mount of Olives in Jeru-
to that Jewish ideal which stamps us as pursuing
down in his attic with his goose
of it to her home. In one room
knowledge
salem is the best proof of such advancement.
Quill to do another one.
for its own sake. A parent who fails
Sarah
was a collection of nudes that the
Isaac's boy was not very enthusi-
But the Hebrew University is the labora-
to give his child a Jewish training commits
bride's family hoped the rabbi
astic about it. When he got
tory
for
the
remnant,
while
the
man
of
treason to a time-honored tradition.
wouldn't see. They, in fact, wanted
through with it, he called it
our people is slowly forsaking the most pow-
to cover up the pictures but could'.
THIS almost
"Clara, or the Maid of Milan."
Itt BASED ON A RADIO ADDRE,,n
1 1
not without causing a row with the
erful fortress which shielded our people.
E1,1bERED
HY THE 11IIITER ON IHT, 7, OVER
It was an operetta and one of
eTsT1110,
WJISK,
i
ON THE JEWISH RADIO FORUM,
Our national citadel for 18 centuries has
ON THE OIVASI
(Turn to Nest Pagel
the lyrics which he wrote for it
Op TUE CU
•
MRICIeT IIEBREN
EIJI( ATOP% MONTH,
CtP1
C O I' M E E T
activity.
•
•
.
All of this happened since Sec-
retary Hull indicated that he had
turned thumbs down on a trade
agreement with Germany, at least
for the time being. This was lees
than three weeks ago. Appar-
ently it had the German govern-
ment worried, for since that time,
representatives sent here, espe-
cially from Germany, have been
doing considerable conferring with
United States government officials
and business leaders.
New York business interests
have been paving the way for
these gentlemen to meet with
Washington officials. The long
distance telephone has been work-
ing overtime. Telegrams have
been fired freely. It's • grand
old race. The stakes are the big-
gent ever folght for.
According to estimates reported by Pal-
estine Correspondence, the number of
Jewish workers immediately needed for
industrial enterprises in the Jewish Home-
land is net at approximately 4,000 to 5,000.
These provisional estimates are based on
questionnaires sent to factory owners. •
In addition, it is pointed out that Jewish
not only against the Jewish Agency, the
Palestine Jewish Labor Party but primar- agriculture is especially affected by the
ily against the lialutzim, the Jewish im- labor shortage, and it is believed that
migrants to Palestine, who are blackened about 8,000 Jewish workers are needed in
in the.eyes of the government and of the Jewish agricultural enterprises.
whole world."
These may or may not be exaggerated
The Davar is justified in its statement figures. But the fact remains that Pales-
which, however, does not go far enough. tine is the only country in the world regis-
The Hebrew term "Moser" — an informer tering activity and reporting a shortage of
That Germany is frantic in its
and a squealer—in this case an informer labor. In view of the additional fact that efforts to engage in trade with
of falsehoods—more nearly describes the the number of Jews who settled in Pales- the United States is seen from
sr o ens+ e used
uisre b
shamelessness of Hayarden's allegations. tine last year is almost certain to be ex- these emreetphroed,, n o t f .
representatives
talkys
To the discredit of the Revisionists of ceeded this year, this condition assumes with gosernment executives and
Palestine it must also be stated at this time added importance and provides a serious business men. They emphasize
f tr a t rif tieerm lia nni y ted wSit thtes
a
awiltizet
that they acted against the interests of the challenge to the Mandatory Power on the
Jewish settlement when they proposed question of a more widely open door to agreement, it will be impossible
that Jews boycott the city elections in Jewish immigrants. It is to be hoped that for Germany to buy goods from
this country.
Jerusalem. When a united Jewish slate the Jewish Agency for Palestine will suc-
Then they go • step farther and
was decided upon, the Revisionists pre- ceed in its efforts to'secure the rights to try to strike a blow at • very
• rented a slate of their own, naturally Buf-
feting a decisive defeat. It is such prac-
tice and their irresponsible attempts to
Tidbits and News
A Jewish Tradition Interpreted in the Light of the Present-
Day Status of Jewish Education — on the Occasion
of Annual Hebrew Education Month
We doubt whether there will be a differ-
ence of opinion on these views, so feelingly
expressed. It is now generally accepted
as an historic truth that Jew-baiters have
accomplished the enact opposite end they
Iff itI71/,4* /f0E706'
set out to achieve. Instead of destroying
Israel, they merely drew renegade Jews (-NNE of the most significant 50 per cent by such action. In
developments in recent view of the fact that cotton is
closer to their people.
months is taking place here at the this nation's leading export crop
But what is especially interesting in present time. Representatives of and is the major money crop of
Bialik's statements is his devotion, the an economically hard-up foreign the south, this threat tends to
nation are making desperate ef- strengthen the argument of the
pains he suffers whenever any one section forts among government and bus- German representatives. Addi-
of Jewry suffers, the agonies he experi- Mess leaders to gain for that na- tional strength is given to the
ences over the sorrows of his people. And tion a more favorable trading po- threat by the wild rumors that
sition with the United States.
the United States is losing its
even more important is his desire for an
Employing what to all practical cotton export market/ as a result
heroic Jewish effort at survival. His con- purposes is amounting to high of the New Deal policies.
• • •
stant appeals for brave and courageous pressure tactics, these representa-
tives are running around the cor-
In addition to the unemploy-
struggles for an honorable Jewish exist- ridors of Washington offices in an ment problem, Germany is faced
ence place him in the ranks of the great almost panicky fashion. Never with the problem of getting raw
before has Washington seen such materials. Her financial condition
prophetic figures in Jewish history.
Labor Shortage in Palestine
BY-THE-WAY
"Knowledge For ItslOwn Sake "
which world Jewry is entitled: the free- sensitive spot. They say that if
with
dom to settle in Palestine at least such a there is no trade agreement
the United States. the German
number of Jews which is now being guar- government will get more of her
anteed with immediate employment in the cotton from other countries.
threat
prospering industrial and agricultural !There
the
that in the
, next year, exports of American
enterprises.
!cotton to Germany will be cut
is such that she cannot buy from
other countries. Credit is scarce.
To overcome these handicaps,
Germany is engaged in a drive
to develop substitutes. The in-
creasing shortage of raw mater-
ials is forcing prices higher, add-
ing new problems to old ones.
O , PrOsht, 1901 , JTS
A Nebulous Work
THOSE wild
PERISH.
n.
Edward
Edward Dahlberg is • non-Jew,
and this fact makes the work pres-
ently under review all the more in-
teresting because "Those Who
Perish" just bristles with Jewish
and Hebrew words and phrases.
Dahlberg's new novel is impor-
tant for the one fact: that it ex-
pates those Jews who are afraid to
fight Hitler because it might af-
fect their business. ft also exposes
that group of so-called Jewish com-
munal leaders whose appalling ig-
norance dominates the ' levriah
scene. But while the author has
placed • finger on a sore spot in
the Jewish community make-up, he
has at the same time committed
the gravest error in the book by
condemning Jewish leaders as a
clam.
No matter how critical one may
be of Jewish leadership, it is not
all as sad as Mr. Dahlberg paints
it. There are, after all, a few
good men and women, some think-
ing individuals. There certainly
are many sincere people among
thaw who occupy positions on di-
rectorial boards of Jewish inatitu.
tions. But you fail to find a single
good character in Mr. Dahlberg's
Mira to Next Pare.
A Stimulating New
Volume by Lewisohn
TOP PERNA KENT HORIZON. He Lud-
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152.501.
It is as a literary critic and
as an observer of contemporary
affairs that Ludwig Lewisohn
first established a reputation as
■ great writer. It Was only in
the past ten years that he has
risen to the forefront as a Jew-
ish spokesman and as a writer
and authority on Jewish ques-
tions.
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Jewish Self-Government
A Review of an Important Work by Norman Bentwich,
Former Attorney General of Palestine
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Tux JEWS IN PALEHTINI. SINCE 1900. By Wet,
Itureteln, M. A., Ph. D. Published In Tel Ails, I••l.tIne. 1971,
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Dr. Burstein, who is a teacher I
It is of the institutions mentioned
in the Ilerzlia Gymnasium in Tel in this passage, the elected
aseem.
Aviv, has found an interesting bly, the National Jewish Council,
theme, and has made a genuinelthe Councils of the Towns, the Edu-
contribution to the history of Jew-I cation Council (Vaad Hahinuch),
tell Institutions in the Palestine of I and the Rabbinical Council, that
the Mandate. He has set out to Dr. Burstein writes the history. Ile
describe three phases of Jewish I deals first with the Agencies of
self-government in Palestine: (a) World Jewry in Palestine, which
the activities of the Agencies of 'are divided into two classes—(I
In his latest volume. "The
)
World Jewry; (b) the communal the philanthropic group, and (2)
Permanent Horizon: A New organization of Palestine Jewry as , the national organizations. In the
a
whole;
(c)
Search for Old Truths," Mr.
the autonomy ever- ' first he includes the Anglo-Jewish
dud by the local Communities
r A ' ' , and he Is not quite
Lewisohn examines the varied
this study he has carried out a re- I just to the Evelina de Rothschild
phases of present-day life, search in the abundant—almost too ISchool conducted by the Association
seeks the causes for discontent abundant—literature of the Jew- , when he says that English became
and offers a remedy. ish press of the world, and in the ; the language of instruction .in the
archives and records of Jewish 'school. For the last 15 years', any-
This is a
provocative book communities and institutions in ; how, the school has been genuinely
which will arouse discusaion Palestine. He has ken, too, in 1
hi-lingual, and Hebrew has an
and invite controversy.
Mr, touch with the principal leaders of ; equal place with English. He
Lewisohn senses the danger of Jewish communal life in Palestine; breaks new ground when he turns
and his information about the de- to the development of the Central
the civilized world being torn velopment
of the national and com- , selfovernm
ent. Before the war ,
asunder by new fanaticisms, munal institutions is remarkably , re
IVIS s
ome enthusiastic but
te.ynT
ritie an
n•
In the present world unrest, Loi nt,{;elevi
work
watiwritten : there
very successful attempt to form
Mr.
Isewisohn describes
it bears dI in its ; representive
ta
ga for the whole
‘'d language
orns
the
American
stamp.'
It
'of
Palesti
sense that the earth has melted, noun s somewhat strange to Eng-
ne Jewry . Party differ-
that hence one must be, as it lish ears that Jewish communal ences and apprehensions of the
were, poised for flight. But life ". . . has demonstrated an Turkish government thwarted the
efforts. But immediately after the
there being no visible shore to amazing mature discipline, never British occupation, while, indeed,
stagnant, but persisting in a dy-
which to fly, one rests in that namic surge." As one reads pages
Allenby's campaign was still being
gesture of being poised, which full of the detailed account of the fought, the Jews, in the first flush
was never meant to be a static proceedings of the many assemblies of their enthusiasm for the Na.
tional Home, took tarns to organise
gesture, and both the soul and and conferences, one has the feel- an assembly of the Yishuv.
ing that the book would be twice as
the bones are attacked by an good if it were half
There were no less than three
as long.
intolerable ache."
In the statement of British pol- preparatory assemblies in the sec-
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, com- icy in Palestine which was issued ond half of the year 1918; and
menting on Lewisohn's "The as ■ White Paper by the British finally an assembly was elected by
adult suffrage in 1920, and re-
Permanent Horizon," in Opin. government in 1922, the idea of the
mained in being with intermittent
ion, pays the author of this vol. Jewish National Home was inter- sessions for five years. During this
preted as follow": "The Jewish time the assembly had no statutory
ume • great compliment when community in Palestine has its ow
authority; and no basis in the law
he stat •
political organs; an elected amen- of the land. But it was recognized
rel.
or
apart free, bly for the direction of its domestic
.
by the administration, and the Na-
ttntt
cable
beautnma.
y a n fl na
rn
cons-es;
lected councils in the tional Council (Weed Leumi) which
mr rnon al
, Iairo
ow thm
rwo
non t
Tan
a e r man towns; ande
,s r•.•lt again.
an organization for the it appointed was treated by the
the. dthas.c1 can...1m
of oar Orn• Intell«Inal and spirltaa!,
control of its schools. It has its government as the spokesman of
the!honest er tn.m who
a.
a 'Aunt" and tension an "punk" elected Chief Rabbinate and R bb' Palestinian Jewry. A second as-
a
nd
meal Council for the direction of sembly was elected in 1925, when
Is his
- Apolmrts o pro
n " 711a
" its religious affair's Its business
it war hoped that the regulations
perfeet pnem. •nd match's, se
.hest
thewas Do mom dorantat• is conducted in Hebrew as a ver- on which the government of Pal-
Mg to the Omra«11 ■ «, nor Paehrnanitm, nacular
language, and ■ Hebrew estine has been engaged in
nf his day Ow. to Lenient). t• Our
con-
stant discussion with the Jewish
onomk dodrooln!,.. and the rail., press serve, its needs „ . Thin
-.Ono mor
hanlys• of oars
In Lownr.ha community, then, with its to
repreaentatives
would
at
last
he
Mom ninesmoymrchs of snerkvIlls
and country mutation, its politi- enarted. It took some years more
1/1...1 their poor who •ahordewod by h
cal, religious and social organisms- before the Colonial Offise, not ar-
L
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s.. Ilse.
sal
b h.4"L"
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own language, its
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croun.t It Is royloryIn,
customed to re rrsentative Nation-
'e 01111
elyreS 50 CUStnIII ■ ,
own al institutiona
life, has, in fact,
Pwithin • British ad-
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1 'national'
n
characteristics.•
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