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Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 25:19-28:9
Prophetical portion--Mal. 1:1-2:7
November 9, 1934
Kislev 2, 5695
Jewry's Great Loss
In speaking of the late Baron Edmond
de Rothschild, too many individuals and
newspapers have placed emphasis on the
man's banking connections. Insufficient
credit is given to the great contributions
the Baron made to Jewish life, and partic-
ularly to Palestine.
The greatest tribute that can possibly
be given any man was accorded him in
bia lifetime when Jewry gave him the
title "Nadib Hayeduah," the famous phil-
anthropist. It was not an exaggerated
title because of the deep interest he took
in every Jewish cause and because of the
devotion he displayed in Palestine and in
Zionism.
Long before Theodor Herzl appeared
on the scene of Jewish life, Baron Edmond
established the fouvlation for the Jewish
Homeland by making it possible for the
first settlers in Palestine to build their
initial settlements and to survive the hard-
ships which faced them in a barren and
malaria-infested country. When he visited
Palestine for the fifth time in his eightieth
year in 1925, he was partially rewarded
for his efforts at the sight of the tremen-
dous progress that had been made in a
period of more than 50 years since he•be-
gan to finance Palestinian enterprises.
In Zionist history, a complete chapter is
dominated by Baron Edmond's personal-
ity. It is safe to state that the very begin-
ning of .the movement is due entirely to
his efforts, that without the foundation
built by him the present achievements
would have been impossible.
More than any other individual, Baron
Edmond de Rothschild was the greatest
contributor to Palestine's reconstruction,
and was an agency in himself in his ef-
forts to create the first Palestinian colonies.
The eminent philanthropist lias built his
own monument in his own lifetime. In
speaking of Palestine and of Zionism it
will be impossible to divorce the country
and the Jewish national movement from
the, name of this great Jewish benefactor.
Tragedy of Jewish Wanderer
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British flag, 318 young Jews in their early
twenties are anxiously traveling from port
to port, knocking at many gates but every-
where being refused admittance. They
have not been permitted to Find in Solin-
iki, in Istanbul, at Syra. Everywhere they
have been turned away as strangers. And
the tragedy of it is that Palestine also in-
voked immigration restrictions to bar
them.
Hailing from East European countries,
where the very air has become polluted
with bigotry and hatred, and where all
doors to economic opportunity have been
shut tight to Jews, this valiant group of
young Jews set out to find a new home.
In spite of the hardships to which they
have been subjected, they are in quest for
life and for a chance to work and to live
like free men. But all doors are shut to
them—they .are wanderers to whom no
one has as yet extended a welcome.
4 is in a situation like this that Pales-
tine should have stepped in to greet and
to receive warmly. But British restrictive
rules rule otherwise. Palestine is suffering
from a shortage of labor, nevertheless
young men who are pleading for a chance
to live a normal life are turned away.
This is the tragedy of the Jewish wan-
derer. It is to be hoped that the new
Zionist national effort to influence Great
Britain to be more human in the interpre-
tation of her immigration policies, and to
live up to the pledge contained in the Bal-
four Declaration, the 17th anniversary of
which is being observed today, will bring
about a change which will make it pos-
sible for Jewish wanderers to find haven
of refuge at least in the Jewish Homeland.
Poincare as Dreyfus Defender
The death of Raymond Poincare, former
president of France who served several
terms as premier of his country, serves to
recall his friendship for the Jewish people.
But it is as a defender of Captain Al-
fred Dreyfus that Poincare ' will be re-
membered especially. lie was one of the
group of Dreyfusards who early in the
famous case sounded appeals in behalf
of the innocently accused Jewish officer.
He spoke in defense of Dreyfus on the
floor of the French parliament and lined
up with Clemenceau and Zola against the
reactionaries.
M. Poincare will also be remembered by
Jewry as a friend of the Zionist cause and
AS a defender of minorities in countries
of oppression.
Pay Your Pledge at Once
An immediate obligation facing Detroit
Jews is to honor the pledges made by this
community in the last Allied Jewish Cam-
paign.
The important institutions, the United
Hebrew Schools, the Old Folks Home, the
Hebrew Free Loan Association, the House
of Shelter, and many others, depend for
immediate sustenance upon the collection
of these funds.
At the same time it must be emphasized
that there is a pressing need for funds to
carry on the relief work in Germany and
the settlement of refugees in friendly
countries, particularly Palestine.
Isidor Coons, national campaign director
of the Joint Distribution Committee, in a
report on the work of the German relief
agencies submitted at a meeting of Detroit
leaders last Monday, painted a tragic pic-
ture of existing conditions, and told of the
manner in which the budget of the relief
agencies had to be halved because of lack
of funds.
To guarantee the continuation of a
minimum of effort by the local institutions
and by the German-Jewish relief agencies,
the immediate payment of the amount
pledged here in the last drive is impera-
tive. It is to be hoped that the collection
appeal sounded this week will be given the
response it deserves.
The Stupid Protocols
After claiming a circulation larger than
the Bible, the so-called "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion," the most imposing forgery
in history, now claim the attention of the
world, with Jewish leaders determined
again to prove how false are the contents
of this document.
Once before, about 12 years ago, the
London Times proved what a hoax it has
been.. Novertheless, the anti-Semites of
the world made this document their Bible,
had it translated in every conceivable lan-
guage—including Arabic for distribution
in Palestine and neighboring countries—
and it is now admitted by Nazis that the
entire Hitler anti-Semitic .movement is
based upon this huge fake.
The fact that the Nazis are basing their
anti-Jewish program on these protocols be-
comes all the more humorous as a result
of the revelations that the "Protocols" are
actual plagiarisms of an old French docu-
ment. In this connection the New York
Times published the following editorial
note:
One of the Nazi defendants in the Berne
trial admitted that certain passages in the
celebrated "Protocols of the Elders of Zion"
bear a close resemblance to an essay by a
French author published as far back as 1864,
"A Dialogue in Hades Between Michiavelli
and Montesquieu." An expert testifying at
Berne maintained that it is something more
than a few passages and a resemblance. He
said that in no fewer than 170 instances the
"Protocols" are a verbatim copy of the French
book.
It seems like hard luck that Nazism should
lean is heavily, of all foreigners, on French-
men. The whole business of the blond Nordic
and his exalted destiny was begun by Count
Gobineau almost a hundred years ago. Now
it apparently turns out that the "Protocols
of Zion," which Nazis cite against the Jews,
is a Czarist Russian forgery based on a French
original. Nazi truths supposed to be rooted
in the primitive Teutonic life actually trace
back to a Paris library.
When the famous trial comes to a close
in Berne, it is to be hoped not only that
the entire world will once and for all he
impressed with the falsehood of the "Pro-
tocols," but that the efforts of anti-Semites
circulating these forgeries will similarly
be condemned. The latter is much more
important than the former. In 1927 Henry
Ford made public his famous apology in
which he recognized the falsehood of the
"Protocols" upon which he based his en-
tire anti-Semitic drive. Nevertheless, other
anti-Semites took up the cudgels against
the Jews, basing their attacks on these
same discredited documents. When the
"Protocols" are condemned, therefore,
their distributors and circulators must
share in the disgrace.
Death of Herzl Associate
In the death of Julius M. Kremenetzky,
one of Dr. Theodor lierzl's first associates
in the founding of the modern Zionist
movement, Jewry loses a picturesque fig-
ure who has been a great contributor to
national efforts, although his name has
been publicized very little.
First president of the Jewish National
Fund, M. Kremenetzky instituted numer-
ous fund-raising efforts, and to his credit
goes the creation of the Golden Book,
which has been a source of fund-raising
and of recording in modern Jewish annals
the names of Jews and non-Jews who have
helped in the movement for the rebuilding
of Palestine or in securing just rights for
Jews in lands of oppression.
In the past few years our people lost a
number of eminent leaders, and gradu-
ally the front lines of leadership are being
thinned down. In the death of M. Krem-
enetzky another pioneer leader in Israel
is gone. In mourning his loss we must not
forget that it is not enough to shed tears
and to pay tribute: we must also remem-
ber that the places made vacant by death
most be filled by younger men who must
be -trained for leadership, and who must
be taught to be as unselfish and as devoted
as the pioneers who preceded them.
Metropolitan
Comment
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BY-THE -WAY
Balfour Declaration---17 Years Later
Tidbits and News
By HENRY W. LEVY
tn.
By MILTON BROWN
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
SWIM Corrnpandent)
HOLLYWOOD NEWS REEL
Hollywood, these days, is suf-
fering from the absence of its
producer-playboy, Carl Laemmle,
Jr. The Universal production
chief is now in Europe in search
of new starring material, prefer-
ably feminine . .. Samuel Gold-
wyn's two big contributions to
the fall movie schedule are now
being released nationally. They
are "We Live Again" with Anna
Sten and "Kid Millions" starring
Eddie Cantor. The former, which
was directed by Rouben Mamoul-
ian, opened at the Radio City
Music Hall last week, while the
latter is due to follow "Trans-
atlantic Me,rry.Go-Round" at New
York's Rivoli . . . This picture,
incidentally, one of the few speci-
mens of the rapidly diminishing
species, movie musicals, is Jack
Benny's first movie venture . . .
Also in the cast are Sid Silver
and Mitzi Green. It is Mitzi's
first appearance as Miss Green,
an adult film comedienne, and she
did very well.
The charming Patricia Ellis,
who gives as well as takes in the
new Jimmy Cagney picture, "St.
Louis Kid," is the daughter of
Alexander Leftwich, New York
musical comedy director ... Ernst
Lubitsch has scored again, this
time with the gay and witty
"Merry Widow" which stars
Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette
MacDonald ... Stark Ostrer, boss
of British-Gaumont Pictures, re-
ports from London that the Amer-
ican invision of the firm—which
sponsored "Power," "Chu Chin
Chow" and Nova Pilbeam in
"Little Friend" — is already on
velvet, though the company had
expected to sustain a loss in its
first year in America . . . Lawr-
ence Langner's delightful Broad-
way play of last season, "The
Pursuit of Happiness," is now a
charming bit of cinematic Amer-
icana starring Francis Lederer
and Joan Bennett . . . Edward
Chodorov, ex-press agent for Col-
umbia Pictures, csripted the War-
ner Royal Blus, "Du Barry."
UPS AND DOWNS OF BILL FOX
Sitting pretty these days is
William Fox, one of the movie
pioneers. Forced out of active
picture work a few years ago,
Bill may be on the verge of a
comeback that will place him on
top of the heap once again.
The story of William Fox starts
in 1906 when Sol Brill, the pro-
prietor of a cloth sponging busi-
ness, learned from an uncle em-
ployed in Brooklyn that there was
a penny arcade for sale at 700
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(Copyright, 1931, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
N a murky day in 1917, the gloomiest
period of the World War, when the British
heavy guns were pounding the Turkish
lines preparatory to the advance on Jerusalem,
world Jewry was electrified: Palestine, ancient
homeland of the Jews, was to become the national
Jewish home.
In simple, direct language, the late Lord Bal-
four, then British Foreign Secretary, wrote to
Lord Rothschild: "His Majesty's government view
with favor the establishment in Palestine of a
national home for the Jewish people and will
use their best endeavors to facilitate the achieve-
ment of this object."
Nov. 2 thus became a red-letter day in Jew-
ish ]story.
In every section of the world, wherever Jews
lived, the Balfour Declaration was hailed as an
epoch-making event, the righting of a great
wrong consummated with fire and sword in the
year 66 A. D. The Jewish people mattered far
and wide were to have a national home and the
Allied Powers were to be the prime movers.
Other governments also expressed their sympahhy
with age-old Jewish aspirations.
The Zionist ideal, sponsored by Dr. Theodor
Herzl, was no longer a fantastic dream, it was a
reality, perhaps even a terrifying one.
O
Messages of Redemption
In April, 1920, the European statesmen met
at San Remo and the Balfour Declaration was
implemented in the treaty with Turkey. Great
Britain assumed the mandate over Palestine. The
task of building Palestine could now begin.
Premier Lloyd George turned to Dr. Weizmann
and said: "We have given you a start. It is
now for you to make good." When Dr. Weis-
mann returned to London from San Remo, he
was given a triumphant reception at Victoria
station.
Palestine, while the statesmen sat around a
table at San Remo, was in the grip of rioting.
Arab nationalists were attacking Jewish colon-
ists. Jews were being killed in Palestine be-
cause the Arab could find no other way of pro-
testing against Zionism. The British military
administration, still in control of Palestine, was
hostile to the Jews. Jewish self-defense or-
ganizations were broken up and their members
sentenced to lengthy prison terms.
April 24, the day of the San Remo decision,
was a day of mourning in Jerusalem. Into this
atmosphere of sorrow came Menachem Ussishkin,
veteran Zionist leader, with a message.
"I an the bearer of a historic message today,"
he told the throng in the synagogue. "Rabbi
Kook just spoke to you of the Diaspora, of suf-
fering and distress, of all you have borne and
seen during the last few days—but I am bringing
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news of our redemption, of the future, of new
life, great hopes and our deep faith which has
been vindicated today."
Seventeen years have passed since the Balfour
Declaration was announced. The initial enthu-
siasm with which it was greeted is gone. Govern-
ments have come and gone in Great Britain.
Some have been hostile, others friendly, The
Zionist organization has passed through crisis
after crisis. Bit by bit the Balfour Declaration
has been whittled down. The Passfield Paper,
the MacDonald letter, the Simpson report, the
French report and decisions of the League Man-
date Commission all have contributed to vitiating
the intent of the declaration.
A Mighty Jewish Edifice Rises
The Palestine . administration itself has been
hostile. The Arabs have become more articulate
and better organized in their protests.
Anti-Semitism is once more rife in the world.
Jews are being persecuted in many sections of
the world. The need for a national Jewish home
is more acute than ever. Mass immigration into
Palestine is hamstrung by British regulations.
But despite these difficulties and despite ter-
rific obstacles, a mighty Jewish edifice has arisen
in Palestine. More than 305,000 Jews, the great-
est number since the exile, today make their
home in Palestine, on the farms and in the cities.
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been in-
vested in Palestine by Jews and the ancient
country is experiencing a rebirth, A Hebrew
University looks down from Mount Scopus upon
the city of Jerusalem. And over the length and
breadth of the land, from the Deep Sea to the
upper reaches of Galilee, Jews are at work
building.
In 1925 Lord Balfour, then retired, came to
Palestine for a well-earned triumph, to see for
himself the result of the historic declaration and
to lay the cornerstone for the Hebrew University.
He was received with tremendous enthusiasm,
and he, too, was enthused by Jewish accomplish-
ments in Palestine.
Speaking in London on April 24, 1930, on the
anniversary of the San Remo conference, Lord
Balfour said:
"For long I have been a convinced Zionist, and
it is in that character that I now speak, although
in my most sanguine moments I never foresaw,
never even conceived, that the great work of
Palestinian reconstruction would happen so soon,
or that indeed it was likely to happen in my own
lifetime."
Thus spoke the author of the Balfour Dec-
laration shortly before his death.
Since then much has happened, but the recon-
struction of Palestine, set in motion by the
Balfour Declaration, goes on.
Powerful Defense
Of a Free Press
T. A.)
A FOOTNOTE ON
IMMIGRATION
It is seldom that things are
properly noted in the process. It
is very difficult to appreciate a
process. Have you ever seen them
take two chemicals in a laboratory
and fuse then)? As one watches
the process, the appearance of
the chemicals while undergoin g
the chemical relationship seems
to bear no resemblance to the fin-
ished product. The same thing
is true except more so in the
study of social movements. What
am I getting at?
It is this: The figures show that
about 50,000 Jews will enter Pal-
estine this year. And about the
some number entered last year.
Ah, you say, that is quite a
number. You think it very im.
pressive, And yet with all our
appreciation of its impressiveness,
I don't believe we can truly krasp
what it means.
Consider this, that in the great-
est immigration current to be
noted in Jewish history—the im-
migration of Jews to the United
States from 1900 to I914—only
95,000 Jews entered the United
States annually. And yet Pales-
tine, so small in comparison, is
absorbing more than half that
number annually.
We can see what the process
did to the United States. Can
we visualize it, however, after 10
years more in Palestine? Do we
visualize it? I believe the most
acute "visualizers" do not.
It boils down to this: Some-
thing enormous is happening in
Palestine. Not only comparable
to the coming of Jews to Amer.
ice, but most likely surpassing it
even.
• • •
A GREAT JEWISH GENERAL
Well, well, well, it seems that
we Jews can produce great gen-
erals, too. Who would have
"thunked" it. But no less a per-
son than Lloyd George implies as
much.
Did you read Lloyd George's
statement that Marshal Haig, the
British generalissimo during the
war, cost the British a needless
waste of 400,000 lives? And did
you read that Lloyd George said
that another person whom he de-
scribed without mentioning should
have been made commander-in-
chief of the British armies.
And now they say that this
other person was none other than
Sir John Monash, the Jew who
was the commander of the Aus-
tralian armies during the war.
• • •
COFFEE IN JERUSALEM
Getting fosse serious, you have
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Thy Oracle
A
M'IONS of the Hitler govern- trucks, and the Department of
ment which are crippling ef- Commerce reports that American
forts for improved world trade re- trucks predominate, those of
lations are arousing the anger of smaller capacities finding ready
those in Washington who are en- ; sale. American small-sized and
g'aged in these efforts. On a num- I medium-sized buses are also being
ber of occasions high government used because they are well-suited
officials, including Secretary of , for the mountainous roads of Pal-
State Hull and Secretary of Agri- estine.
estine. These buses account for
culture Wallace, have expressed 87 per cent of those in use
• • •
extreme displeasure at the atti-
tude of the German government
Republican Representative
toward international trade.
Hamilton Fish of New York just
The Hitler government's most simply hates Communists, Fas-
cists,
Nazis and — New Dealers.
recent attempt to exercise rigid
However, he is extremely fond of
control not only over its exchange football and while a student at
but also aver its imports through, Harvard was a grid star.
a huge bureaucracy is expected to I This year football apparently
develop into one of the major !holds more than the usual amount
reasons why a trade agreement lof interest for Rep. Fish. This is
between the United States and indicated by the fact that he has
taken time out to develop his own
Germany will not be consummated !team, which he calls the All-Amer-
no soon.
' Iran New Deal football team.
Here is his line-up: Right end,
In the meantime, Germany is Upton Sinclair; right tackle, Dr.
making a desperate effort toward
!Frederick
C. Howe, A. A. A •
self-sufficiency. Desperate gov-
ernmental attempt, are being right guard, Sidney Hillman, N.
made to increase employment. , R. A.; center, Prof. Paul H.
The contrast/ between satisfactory [ Douglas, N. R. A.; left guard,
development of government-stim- William L. Leiserson, Notional
ulated industrial activities and the
difficult foreign exchange situa- !Labor Board; left tackle, Henry
tion was never more marked than Hunt, P. W. A.; left end, Jerome
at present, according to official Frank A. A. A.; quarterback,
information received 'in Washing. , Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Harvard
ton. German government statis-
tics claim that industrial produc- "brain truster"; right halfback,
tion has now recovered about two. !David Lilienthal, T. V. A.; left
thirds since 1929. The role which halfback, Rexfiord G. Tugwell;
employment schemes play in the fullback, Donald R. Richberg.
present drive toward recovery is
Fish named Santa Claus as the
evidenced by the fact that, ac- team's coach. For assistant
cording to private German esti- coaches he named Raymond Mo-
mates, only two-thirds of total ley, Bernard Baruch and Rudolph
activities are traceable to normal Hecht, recently elected president
factors and government stimula- of the American Bankers Asso-
tion is responsible for the re- ciation. Cheer leaders are Fran-
mainder.
ces Perkins and Rose Schneidee.
Because of the government's man. Fish's choice for band leader
desperate e c on o m i c condition, is Huey Long.
Germany has in effect a foreign
It looks as if Rep. Fish has
economic and financial policy de- elected himself publicity agent
signed to strictly adjust imports for the team. Anyhow, it was
to the means available for pay- he who announced the line-up.
Waco-Gent 1934 J T. • )
ment. This is the job of twenty-
five import control hoards. Offi-
The
Life
of a Rabbi's Wife
cial Washington regards this set-
up as a major obstacle in the way
"I Am a Rabbi's Wife" by
of loosening up international
Esther Bengis (Bloch, $2) gives
trade barriers.
• • •
the reader an introduction to the
Palestine is growing to be mo- activities of the wife of a Jewish
tor minded. At least that is the spiritual leader.
That the author is thrilled with
impression gained from a report
by the Department of Commerce her status is evident from the
in Washington, which points out dedication of the volume, "To my
that "the general prosperity of husband, who has taught me that
Palestine continues to make it life may be made happier by eery-'
the best Near East market for ice and sacrifice."
Mrs. Bengis speaks in this vol-
automotive products. Imports of
automobiles in Palestine are ex- . ume of her activities in the home
petted to be considerably In ex- and the r•iagogue, in visiting the
cess of 1933 imports. There is sick and the mourners as well as
• large demand for trucks as well greeting those who are rejoicing
as passenger cars, buses and even in happy eventa.
The volume is a tribute to Rab-
motorcycles.
This is the reason why: The bi Bengis and his activities in the
maturity of many acres of orange varied phases of communal life.
A glossary of Hebrew and Yid-
groves has led to an urgent de-
mand for rapid tnnsportation, , dish words need in the text is
which can be met only by motor I appended to the volume.
.
Mr. Weinberger makes his
plea for liberty, in the following
terms:
"Like Ihreadr of gold and direr
running through the history of the
human race are the Morin or the
draggle, for itherly—Ilherly which
Ion lifted the human ran from in
linen to It. feel, fr o mite feet to
II, .Ihra and made themat time.
Cu nature Intended them to he--free
turn and free women.•
.111%,11 all queetion• of
general Jewirh intern). Querten
should
he addrened to "The Oracles" In care
of The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and
dumbd be accompanied hy a eele
deemed, stamped envelope,
The only older synagogue of
which We have record that was
built and consecrated before the
Touro Synagogue is the Mill
Street Synagogue of the Congre-
gation Shearith Israel of New
York, which was built in 1733.
However, the last services were
held in this building on April 13,
1833, before it was sold to give
place to a number of other edi-
fices. Thus the Mill Street Syna-
gogue is no longer functioning.
Q. Who was Jonas Phillips?
D. D. H.
Q. Who wrote "The City With-
out Jews"? Does the book refer
to an actual city? W. I. G.
A. "The City Without Jews"
was written by a Christian novel-
This quotation is a sample of ist, Hugo Bettauer, who was shot
the passion for justice which sInd killed by an anti-Semitic
permeates the 38 pages of this fanatic for having written it. The
city meant is Vienna, which ',d-
small but highly interesting vol- ieted economic setbacks upon the
ume.
expulsion of the Jews.
Published on the occasion of
Q. How many Jews are there
A. Jonas Phillips was one of
the bicentennial of the arrest in Jerusalem? H. U. I.
A. The city of Jerusalem has the patriots who supported Wash-
of John Peter Zenger for daring
p
a
population
of
90,047,
of
which
ington during the Revolutionary
to criticize the colonial govern- 51,
416 are Jews, while the Arabs War. In 1776 he used his influ-
ment of his day, Mr. Weinber- and Christians number 33,991.
ence
to close the New York syna-
ger's two addresses hail the first
Q. How many students are ad-
and lasting test of freedom of mitted annually to the National gogue and move the congregation
to Philadelphia, rather than con-
speech and press in this coun- Farm School? T. H. C.
A. The usual freshman class tinue under British rule. Ile also
try.
The first address of the two admittance numbers about 60, al- joined the Revolutionary army
though recently the number was and served in the Philadelphia
published in this volume was raised to 80.
militia.
delivered on March 9, 1934, on
Q. Are there any public monu-
Q. Is there a very high per-
the occasion of the unveiling centage of Jewish prisoners at ment, erected to the memory of
Jews
in Germany? G. T.
Sing
Sing?
of a tablet in Independence
A. There are five public monu-
Hall, Philadelphia, commemor-
A. Father John McCaffrey,
ating the services of Andrew Catholic chaplain at Sing Sing; ments honoring Jews in Germany.
Of these, three perpetuate the
Hamilton, who at the age of has given the following tables of memory of physicians, Ludwig
80 went to New York to defend t he 1931-1932 population of Sing Traube in Berlin, II e r m an n
Zenger after two other law- Sing by faiths: Catholics, 855; Ilirschteldt in Colber and Jacob
yers were disbarred for daring Protestants, 618, Jews, 177, Chris- Herz in Erlangen.
Q. Is it true that a Jew pre-
to plead for free speech.
tian Scientists, 20; Mohamme-
dicted the discovery of America
Mr. Weinberger bewails the dans, 2; Buddhists, 1; no religion, before Columbus? C. J.
fact that "the people are too 8. Thus the Jews contribute but
A. Moses De Leon, two and
busy with their economic prob- 11 per cent to a prison which a half centuries before America
a territory in which their was discovered, expressed the
lems or too indifferent, to pro- serves
percentage of the total popula-
opinion that a new and large con-
test and correct the invasion of tion is considerably higher.
tinent must exist on "the other-
their liberty." Ile speaks of
Q. How many Polish Jews go side" of the Atlantic. Ile is also
the present existing indifference to Palestine each year? R. D. L. the man who propounded the
A. In 1932, 3,721 Polish Jews principle that the revolution of
as he compares conditions to-
day with the valiant fight for went to Palestine, according to the earth about its axis causes
figures
revealed at Warsaw. This changes of day and night. He
liberty 200 years ago.
representa an increase of 2,682 advanced this theory 200 years
Eloquent to a degree that over the number, who emigrated before Copernicus.
holds the reader's attention, from Poland to Palestine in 1931.
Q. Why is the Talmud called
Q. When did the Jewish war "Sham"? 0. D. T.
Mr. Weinberger's little volume
veterans
of
this
country
organize?
serves as a powerful defense of
A. When the Talmud was first
T. M.
printed in 1564, the authorities
human rights, and is a remark-
A. In 1894, following a wave wished to curtail the influence
able contribution to the modern of anti-Semitism in America, Jew-
they thought it would have among
literary expressions for social ish veterans of the Civil War
the Jews, and so they had certain
and economic and political jus- bandejl together in an effort to passage!, eliminated and sup-
combat anti-Semitism. Later, elm-' pressed the name Talmud. The
tice.
filar groups were formed of vet- book therefore bore the title "The
In the second address, deliv-
of the Spanish-American Six Orders" or "Shishah Sedar-
reed in New York on Jan. 4, and World Wars. In 1923, at the im," thus giving
rise to the ab-
1934, on the occasion of the un- euggestion of Nathan Straus, the breviation "Sham"
veiling of a tablet to Andrew Civil, Spanish and World War
Q.Where was Roxy born?
veterans consolidated, forming
Hamilton in the "Home of their present oriranizatinn known What did he do before he entered
Law," Mr. Weinberger again as the Jewish War Veterans of the theatrical line?
I A. Samtlel I,. Rothafel
emphasizes his plea for a free the United State,.
, better
k nown as Rosy, was born in
Min-
press and untrammeled liberty.
Q. Is it true that private capi- nesota,
July
9,
1882.
For
seven
it flowing into Palestine at
-with shanot rte-half of the mield tal
years he was with the United
•
rapid
rate?
A.
C
.
ander the domination of diclaton.
State. Marine Corps, and then en-
he challenges. "with erneadIng
A. In 1932 there were new tered the field of exhibition and
(nen t. the 'left' and la the light'
In Own coned Mates, we maid
investments in 'the country total- theater management
aNa tholenalwe wirentee tinny and
ing $12,000,000.
deameney an chain of weak men
foonentinno of Mrea.lh, and ant h
Q. What is the oldest ayna- THE ORACLE /171.1, SOON FOX
the price of maintaining then,
AVAILARI.E IV moOR FORM An A
Referring again to the Zen- gogue in the country? G. C.
A. The Touro Synagogue in DANDY /16WIPIII REFFAr2O- R DOOR,
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