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January 11, 1935

Shevat 7, 5694

"Jews Thoroughly Dealt With"

I

A recent issue of the Detroit daily Ger-
man newspaper, the Abendpost, carried a
statement made by a visitor to Germany
and to Hitler, under the headline "Theo.
S. Hoffman besucht Hitler."
Aside from the fact that this story is a
complete whitewashing of occurrences in
Germany, the returned visitor from Nazi-
land takes occasion to discuss "Die Rassen-
frage," in the course of which he quotes
the appeal to the Jews of Germany by the
arch-assimilator, Dr. Max Naumann, who
urged all Jews to be loyal to the present
regime and to vote "Ja" in the election of
Aug. 19, 1939.
In order that the readers of the De-
troiter Abendpost should not be misled,
the true facts must be stated. In the first
place, Dr. Naumann's League of Jewish
National Jews is not a representative body
but is a group of extremists who will bow
down to almost anything, even the kissing
of the hands of those who rob them of all
human rights and reduce them to second-
class citizenship. Secondly, there are cer-
tain undisputed facts which speak for
themselves. Frederick T. Birchall, head
of the New York Times European Bureau,
writing from Berlin last week, gave the
following resume of the true state of Jew-
ish affairs in Germany:

No additional laws relating to Jews have
been decreed in the last year, but the Jews
had already been thoroughly dealt with in the
preceding year. They are barred from all
official positions. In law and medicine, the
small nucleus retained In the first general
clearance still remains in practice, but no
more can be admitted, because German Jews
can take university degrees only if they be-
come foreigners.
However, in respect to whatever political
rights remain in Germany—which means the
right to vote in national plebiscites—Jews are
on an equal footing with other Germans. The
Nazi party, of course, does not admit them to
membership.
The same is true In business. Economics
Minister Iljalmar Schacht had issued repeated
orders against surreptitious boycott discrimin-
ations. However, this is where extralegal
party action comes in. There are surreptitious
boycotts against Jews in many towns, and
open boycotting constantly crops out.
Jews are fair game for Nazi hotheads,
exemplified by Julius Streicher. In some towns
even high schools advertise themselves "free
of Jews." Other towns permit Jews to stay
only • short time within their precincts.
The official National Socialist organization
for retail trade recently issued a question-
naire to its Aryan members, asking "Must
you buy from Jews? If so, why and what
goods?"
Yet no objection was raised when Dr. Fried-
rich Bergius recently accepted the Melchett
medal, bestowed by the Duke of Kent.

It is an unfortunate fact that "Jews have
been thoroughly dealt with" in Germany,
and no misinformation to the contrary
must be permitted to mislead world pub-
lic opinion.

Anti-Semitism in U. S.

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Rev. Dr. Lars W. Hoe, president of St.
Olaf College of Northfield, Minn., return-
ing from Germany, expressed the view
that there is more anti-Semitism in the
United States than there is in Germany
and that it would be "far worse than in
Germany if it ever breaks out here; pub-
lic opinion in the United States cannot be
easily controlled."
While Jews in the United States are in-
clined to take such warnings with a grain
of salt, there has been such a repetition of
these admonitions in the past few years
that we are compelled to sit up and take
notice.
Is it true that anti-Semitism is more
rampant now than at any other time? Is
it plausible that once the germ is injected
in the American body that it will become
more dangerous even than in the inferno
that is Nazi Germany?
We would be ignoring simple truth if
we were to deny that anti-Semitism al-
ready exists in this country; that it has,
in fact, existed at all times even on this
continent in one form or another.
It is a simple truth,also, that hatred of
the Jew grows with an increase of eco-
nomic want. In time of depression, the
Jew is a suitable scapegoat. He is al-
ways branded either the banker or the
radical agitator. He is singled out for
blame and he is the football on the field
of contending factionalism.
Nevertheless, there is one danger which
is as serious as the threat of anti-Semitism.
It is the danger of exaggeration of the ac-
tual existence of anti-Semitism and of the
constant harping upon it which creates an
element of suggestion for the arousing of
hatred of the Jew where it does not exist.
Continually protest every time a shadow
appears on the horizon; constantly harp
on the phantom of anti-Semitism; speak
of it uninterruptedly as if we are hounded
by every moment of our lives, and we mere-
ly serve to call attention to something
which may exist only in such unimportant

Max Warburg's Farewell

"Love" From Germany: Transplanted To Palestine

Metropolitan
Comment

By HENRY W. LEVY

(no

By A. ASHKENASI

Special Correspondent)

A FIRST PLAYWRIGHT
S N. Behrman, to my way of
thinking, is one of the most neg-

lected of modern playwrights. Not
that his plays cry of loneliness in
an attic trunk, not that his pro-
duced plays do not attract custom-
ers and not that he isn't highly re-
garded by the critics, but that he
hasn't received the universal high
approbation of the critics of the
theater, that is his due And too
few critics, so far, have recog-
nized him for penetrating, sincere
theatrical thinker that he is. A
master of dialogue, he is America's
greatest, they all say. 'But that
is not enough. Instead of casting
aspersions on his art by talking
about a too-thin story the critics
might well show greater insight
by discouraging on the depths and
subtleties of his writings. If El-
mer Rice was right about critical
shortcomings, no better case could
be presented than that of S. N.
Behrman.
These thoughts are prompted by
a recent attendance at his latest
and best play, "Rain •From Hea-
ven," which the Theater Guild is
currently presenting with Jane
Cowl and John Ilalliday in the
leads. But they are thoughts that
have long been latent in my mind.
To come right out about it, I think
Mr. Behrman is the finest living
American playwright. I think, that
both by reason of what he has al-
ready written and by reason of
what we have a right to expect a
still young man to write in the
future, that he has a greater
chance of enduring that almost any
other contemporary American
playwright, as good a chance as
any.
I contend, that with few except-
ions, Behrman has been viewed as
a writer of light, parlor froth. I
believe that the grace of his wit
and the charm with which he turns
a phrase has obscured the depth
of feeling and the weight of
thought expressed in his plays.

Max Warburg, senior director of the
Hamburg-American line until his recent
removal by the Nazis, and head of a Ham-
burg banking house, recently aroused the
ire of Hitlerites who condemned him as an
accomplice to the boycott.
Perhaps the anger of the Nazis can be
attributed to an interesting lesson taught
by Herr Warburg to the stupid extremists
in Germany who are undermining every-
thing that has been rebuilt in the decade
which followed the war.
It was Max Warburg who, together with
the late Albert Bailin, built the Hamburg-
American Line into a powerful mercantile
fleet. It went against the grain of arch
anti Semites that a Jew should remain as
the head of so important an agency as the
Hamburg-American Line. Word there-
fore came from Hitler that Warburg be
removed. But his co-directors felt the
pangs of conscience, and therefore de-
cided to give a banquet in Warburg's
honor, thus to honor him for his services.
The heads of the great German shipping
industry assembled at the dinner were dis-
mayed by surprise when Max Warburg,
as the banquet was about to commence,
arose to ask for permission to say a few "RAIN FROM HEAVEN"
words, and then unburdened himself of
Take his latest play as a case
in point. "Rain From (leaven" is
the following farewell:

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Gentlemen, when I look about me, I find,
kindly excuse my frankness, not a single man
who has done anything of importance for
the German_Shipping Industry. The great and
mighty shipping industry is primarily the work
of two Jews. The one is the deceased Albert
Bailin, the other is this man who has the
honor of standing before you.
It is not my habit to speak about myself,
but as I know that you want to tell me some-
thing and are perhaps ashamed to say it, I
shall allow myself to help you.
If you were here in my place and I in yours,
I would say: "My dear Mr. Warburg, it is
difficult for us to part from a man who to-
gether with Albert Bailin created and made
great our corporation, the Hamburg-American
Line. It is difficult for us to lose in you a
citizen who, in the War, .made such great sac-
rifices and rendered such service. And in
addition we cannot forget that at the end of
the war it was you and you alone who, out of
only ruins, recreated with your energy and
your money the German shipping industry.
And if we,—new people here,—must separate
ourselves from our old co-worker, then it is
our fault and not yours."
This is what I would say if I were in your
place. However, the situation being what it
is, you must now permit me to withdraw and
bid you farewell, until such time when you
will once again need me.

The Pariser Tagleblatt, which reported
this incident, stated that a deadly silence
prevailed as Mr. Warburg folded his nap-
kin, bowed coldly and left the banquet
hall upon the conclusion of this little
speech.
It is natural that the Nazis should dis-
like this man. In the first place he is a
Jew and the Nazis can't stomach his di-
recting a great industry. Secondly, he has
unleashed a stinging rebuke for which
they can not possibly forgive him. What-
ever reports of vengeance wreaked upon
him may come to us will therefore be
easily explained upon reading his master-
ful farewell address.

A Streicher Discovery

Franconia's notorious Nazi leader, the
irrepressible Julius Streicher, again spoke
his mind on the Jewish question, and this
time he is the discoverer and the pro-
pounder of a new theory.
Declaring that "if here and there a Jew
has had a bad time, we can have no pity
for him, because our people are closer to
us than the Jewish people," Herr Streicher
proclaimed his new "biological discov-
ery":

The blood corpuscles of Jews are quite dif-
ferent in form from those of Nordics. Hitherto
the establishment of this fact by microscopic
investigation has been deliberately prevented.
Anybody who understands race questions
knows it is no coincidence that many crimin-
als, traitors and other immortal persons have
certain characteristics in external appearance
which can be traced back to a former mixture
with the Jewish race."

Here is not only a new interpretation
of the race theory, but the novel revelation
that the ascertaining of blood corpuscle
discoveries is being "deliberately pre-
vented."
Hitherto we were merely the interna-
tional bankers, or the international labor
agitators, who were ruling the world. But
Herr Streicher now has a new view of the
Jew: as a suppressor of biological facts
which would reveal the Jew as an entirely
different being from the Aryan.
What a great discovery! And what a
rebuke to the writers of the American
Declaration of Independence who adhered
to the view that "all men are created
equal."

"Courage to talk" were the three words
prominently displayed last week on a sign
on Berlin kiosks. A close scrutiny re-
vealed that this did not proclaim the be-
ginning of a new era, but rather adver-
tised th e classes of an elocution teacher.
In Germany the only courage one is per-
mitted to have in speech is to proclaim
"Ja" to anything Hitler demands.

the best play that has yet been
written about the Jewish problem
in general and the Hitler question
in specific instance. And it is a
play that isn't set in Germany,
that doesn't as much as once men-
tion Hitler and in which not a sin-
gle storm trooper molests a re-
spectable Jewish family, long root-
ed in Germany—even to the extent
of an inter-marriage or so.
Such are the elements of the
typical Hitler play; they were the
grist from such playwrighting mills
turned out "Birthright," "The
Shattered Lamp," "Kultur" and
"Races." But they are not the
stuff of which "Rain From Hea-
ven" is written
The reason is that Behrman did
not set out to write a polemic
against Hitlerism; that his play
was born in his mind around a per-
sonality and a specific instance that
had the stuff of which great plays
are written. In the writing, de-
spite the maintenance of a com-
plete netrality, a protest against
tyranny, race prejudice, class stu-
pidity came about.
Behrman is not a propagandist.

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EDITOR'S NOTE; The following sketch which appeared in "Haarcta," the Hebrew
daily of Tel Aviv, describes one of the institutions for which the Je w ish

National Fund has provided land in the Emek Zebulun in the Haifa Bay area.

For sonic months past, telephone subscribers
in Haifa have been amused, from time to time,
by an unusual form of entertainment. The tele-
phone rings, and the caller at the other end of
the line announces:
"Love speaking!"
The listener, of course, regaled by this di-
verting announcement, will, if he is inclined to
jouclarity, bandy sarcasms and jests, until the
caller, after patiently repeating "Love! Love!
Ahava!" explains:
"This is the Young People's House, 'Ahava
in Neve Shaanan calling."
But this joke cannot be kept up forever. The
institution "Ahava" is on the lookout for a new
name, a more "serious" name. However, even
before the change takes place, a "Love" is con-
verted into the "Sons of Zebulun," or some such
smooth sounding title, some facts about this in-
stitution and what it seeks to accomplish in Pal-
estine, will be of interest.

Educational Work Among Youth

In the minds of us who come front Ger-
many, the name "Ahava" arouses no thought of
derision or amusement. When we hear this
word again here in our country, we are re-
minded of an important educational movement,
the transfer to Palestine of which may justly
be considered as the laying of one more brick
in the reconstruction of the Land of Israel.
"Ahava," has been, and is still today, a model
institution in the German Jewish community
for educational work among the youth. It may
be said with full confidence that no other edu-
cational movement in Germany has embodied
the principles of modern education with greater
earnestness and sincerity that "Ahava," and in
no other place was it more firmly believed that
the power which impels every educational activ-
ity is that force which is called love. And it
was indeed love—the name by which this Young
People's House is known—which served as the
foundation and .inspired the program for its
work. It is a far cry from the little kitchen for
Jewish children founded during the Great War,
and opened in Berlin in August, 1914, for three
young pupils—to the "Home for Refugees"
which sheltered 500 children of Jewish families
who had fled from the horrors of the War in
Poland, Russia, and the Ukraine—and to the
model Young People's House established in a
proletarian quarter in Berlin, which served as
a sort of sanctuary for the communal life of the
Jews of the metropolis. The road which led to
this achievement was long indeed, and paved
with a multitude of sacrifices, of which only true
"love" could have been capable of making.
The work of this institution has now come
to .light as a result of its transfer, in part, to
Palestine. Here, in its casual station in' Neve
Shaanan, it is awaiting the completion of its new
home in Emek Zebulun, between Kiriyat Hann
and Kiriyat Bialik, on a site of several acres
provided by the Jewish National Fund.

The Right to Be Human Beings and Jews

Anyone who has had occasion to visit its
former building in August Street in Berlin, is
familiar with the fine spirit prevailing there.

CORM

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NOTIIER YEAR has rolled , gines and airplane equipment had
A
around-1935. And so has been bought by Germany "for com-
another session of Congress. The mercial purposes" from the United

74th Congress is now in action. States and other countries, the in-
The boys and girls are just getting quiry revealed.
•• •
started. Soon things on Capitol
Hill will be going full blast. This
The McCormack committee in-
session promises to be an extremely vestigating un-American activities
interesting one.
uncovered various "plots" which
Very few indeed are the new sought the overthrow of this coun-
faces on Capitol Hill. The last try's form of government. The
election, it will be recalled, was a committee's investigation delved
Democratic landslide with but few into the activities of Nazis, Com-
changes The 74th Congress has munists, Fascists and other groups.
11 Jewish members. These are Rep- A considerable amount of the pro-
resentatives Adolph J. Sabath of paganda disseminated by these
Illinois; Florence P. Kahn of Cali- bodies is of foreign origin, the
fornia; Herman P. Kopplemann of investigation revealed.
The State Department was quite
Connecticut; William M. Citron, of
Connecticut; William I. Sirovich occupied in handling delicate situa-
of New York; Emanuel Celler of tions. A large number of the
New York; Samuel Dickstein of State Department's activities con-
New York; Isaac Bacharach of cerned relationships with the Ger-
New Jersey; Henry Ellenbogen of man government.
• • •
Pennsylvania; Sol Bloom of New
York, and Theodore A. Peyser of
Secretary of State Hull, in a
New York.
note to the German government
• •
on June 28, blamed Nazi policies
Of all the Jewish members of for Germany's financial plight
Congress, Representative Citron is which culminated in suspension of
a new comer. He is serving as foreign debt service on July 1. An-
representative-at-large from Con- other communication on July 16
necticut. His interest is along demanded that the German govern-
lines of social legislation, favor- ment give American holders of
ing old-age pensions and unemploy- German bonds the same treatment
ment insurance.
accorded to bondholders in other
Representative Sabath is dean of countries. Secretary Hull said the
the (louse, having served for 28 United States refused to permit
consecutive years. Ile was a can- this treatment to be made contin-
didate for majority leader of the gent upon "trade concessions,
House, received the unanimous clearing arrangements or similar
support of the Illinois delegation Measures.
• • •
and a few other votes, but was de-
feated for the post by Representa-
Secretary Hull continued his
tive Bankhead of Alabama. Sabath drive against discrimination by the
enjoyed the distinctive honor, how- German government. On Nov. 24
ever, of swearing into the office of he sent a note to that government
Speaker, Representative Joe Byrns protesting the Reich's treatment of
of Tennessee. The honor went to American creditors and asked for
him by virtue of his long service an early end of this discrimination.
as a House member.
• •
• • •
Members of the McCormack
A total of 198 days elapsed from Committee are considering the pos-
the adjournment of the 73rd Con- sibility of asking the new Congress
gress on June 18 to the assembling for additional funds with which to
of the 74th Congress of January 3. continue the investigation. Indica-
During this interval the Federal tions are that the committee would
Government held the spotlight like to dig deeper into Communistic
through its drive for economic re- propaganda activities.
covery and social security.
Congressional sanction will be
Congressional investigations re- sought by the committee for en.
ceived their share of public atten- largement of the Justice Depart-
tion, however. The Senate muni- ment's division of investigation so
tions inquiry on Sept. 6, disclosed that the department's agents can
documentfry charges that Ger- devote more time to investigat-
many had honeycombed small ing and exposing subversive groups
European nations with camou- and individuals who plot against
flaged plants to maintain Ger. the government. The report which
many 's position as a submarine the committee is writing for early
power, in spite of the Versailles submission to Congress is expected
Treaty Eleven days later, the to include definite recommendations
committee obtained evidence that to amend interstate commerce laws
Germany was proceeding to build to prohibit transportation of pub-
up • military air force and increas- lications and circulars which ad-
ing home production of planes in vocate revolutionary activities.
spite of treaty restrictions. En-
(Copyright. MI. J. T. A , Inc

,

"Co-operation," the keynote of all modern educa-
tion, and often put to malevolent use, at at
"Ahava" a conception practiced in daily life.
Children, adults and calling themselves neither
teachers nor students, possessing equal rights and
equal obligations, worked with their combined
forces to one end—the right to be human beings
and Jews, and the privilege of doing productive
work. The children and the boys and girls who
grew up in this atmosphere, the majority of them
children of Eastern European Jews, are the
leading spirits in the Young People's house, and
its assistants and supporters are increasing from
day to day. • Nearly all of them have come from
the German Jewish community. The Berlin as-
sociation, "Ahava," devoted 10 years to the weld-
ing together of these two Jewish groups.
The decision to transfer the older members
of "Ahava" to Palestine definitely culminated
at the outbreak of the persecutions against the
Jews in Germany; but although it was Crystal-
lized by this event, and its realization was has-
tened by it, it was not originated thereby. In
April of the past year about 30 young people
of this organization migrated to Palestine. An-
other 20 are due to arrive within the next few
weeks. About 20 new members within the Pal-
estine community have joined the Association—
all of them recent immigrants from Germany
who have settled here.
The institution is directed by the "Head
Nurse," Miss Berger, who administered its af-
fairs in Berlin for many years. Its program has
not changed since that time. The children of
school age attend the schools in Haifa and Neve
Sharman. The young boys are all engaged in
some sort of craftsmanship, and are appren-
ticed to various skilled artisans in the city or
in the workshop of the Young People's House
itself; and the young girls conduct the house-
hold and domestic affairs. Studies in various
branches of learning (that Hebrew language,
Jewish history, the geography and chronicles of
the country), supplement, their manual labors.
After the completion of their own building in
Emek Zebulun, agricultural training on their
own land will be added to their curriculum. Noth-
ing so annoys the young pupils in Neve Shaanan
as the generalization, too hastily arrived at,
that all the difficulties with which they have to
contend are a peculiarly "Germatt" problem.
More than anything else, they look forward to
the day when they will be joined by members
of the older, established community in Palestine,
in large numbers. With all their hearts they
desire to take root in the soil of Jew sh Pales-
tine and to be absorbed in its atmosp ere. Nor
are any so ready as they to acknowle ge thanks.
for whatever assistance is rendered to them with
this object in view, and to justify s ch aid by
their own achievements.
By the transfer of "Ahava" to Haifa, a
young plant has been set in the soil of Palestine,
a plant possessing an experience gained through
decades of activity in co-operative education.
This institution was, before 1933, a model of its
kind in Germany, and its peculiar value is not of
less importance here in Palestine.

PERSONALITIES
IN THE NEWS

Melvin

P. Levy, the Au-
thor of "Gold Eagle

Guy"

The Group Theater — that
enterprising and youthful thea-
trical group that is almost com-
pletely Jewish in complexion—
has followed its Pulitzer prize-
winning play of last season,
"Men in White," with "Gold
Eagle Guy." And in the pro-
cess of introducing an un-
known to Broadway, it hat
made him a figure of no small
dimensions. Melvin Levy, for
that is the name of the author
of "Gold Eagle Guy," is follow-
ing in the footsteps of the
Group's new playwright of last
year, the youthful and Jewish
Sidney Kingsley. And while
"Gold Eagle Guy" may or may
not win the Pulitzer Prize, it
-certainly has revealed Mr. Levy
as a sensitive and theater-wise
playwright, most emphatically
one of the happier discoveries
of the present theatrical sea-
son.
The author of three novels
and innumerable newspaper
and magazine articles, Mr. Levy
has written a play that dashes
boldly through 40 years of West
Coast history. Concerning it-
self with an ever-changing per-
sonnel of characters, it revolves
principally about an empire
builder who added the seven
seas to Uncle Sam's newly ac-
quired West Coast. The "Gold
Eagle Guy" of Mr. Levy's is a
blustering, bombastic and un-
scrupulous shipping magnate.
Some have identified him as the
Robert Dollar of the steamship
line bearing that name; but
whether this is true or not, his
composite character bears some
resemblance to that noted ship-
ping king.
But to return to Mr. Levy.
Ile is a big, quiet, gentle-voiced
young man, with a genuine pas-
sion for American history and a
profound knowledge of it. He
was born in Salt Lake City,
lived for a time in Colorado,
and finally settled in Seattle.
He attended the University of
Washington, received a Master's

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Q. What is the Jewish I
against shaving?—S. 0.
A. The Bible says (Lev. xix, 2'
"Ye shall not round the corners
your heads ,neither shalt thou n
the corners of thy beard." T
prohibition was intended to prev
the Israelites from following
customs of the heathens who w
wont to trim their beards as of
ings to their gods. The prohibit
of shaving applies only to the or
ation with a razor, but not to
removal of hair with scissors or
means of chemical depilatories.

Q. Who was Ludwig Frank
A. T. W.
A. Ludwig Frank was a mom
of the German Parliament, and
leader of the German Soda
party. He was the first Cern
soldier to fall in the World Vi
A monument has been erected
him at Mannheim.
• • •
Q. Who was Pfefferkorn? —
A. E.
A. Pfefferkorn was a conver
Jew who in the sixteenth cent
turned against his former co-re
ionists and charged that the 1
mud was filled with calumnies
blasphemies against the found
of Christianity. Ile urged that
copies of the hook be burned.
Kann von Reuchlin, a Hebrew scl
ar, was appointed by Empe
Maximilian to make a report
the charges. He proved the cm
plete f a Is it y of Pfefferkol
charges.
• • •
Q. What cities in the Uni
States have the largest Jew
populations?—F. R. L.
A. The cities having the lar)
Jewish populations in this coup
are as follows: First, New I'm
followed in order by Chicago, P
adelphia, Boston, Cleveland,
troit, Baltimore, Los Angeles, N
ark, Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
•
Q. Please give a biograph
sketch of Walter Lipmann.-
R. S.
A. Walter Lipmann was bore
New York in 1889. While a
dent at Harvard he associated
George Santayana and Will:
James. An the inception of '
New Republic in 1914, he was m
an associate editor. Lipmann
several government posts due
the war and at the close of his 1
services entered newspaper wt
He is known as an expert pat.
reviewer.
Q. Is Mussolini openly in fa
of Zionism?—C. T.
A. II Popolo D'Italia, the r
sonal organ of Premier Musso
in Italy not long ago expressed
belief that the only permanent sm
tion to the Jewish problem wo
be the establishment of a cm
Itletely autonomous Jewish state
Palestine with 8,000,000 Jews. '
paper urged that Palestine she
have a Jewish government, as
and navy, and provisions should
made for a speedy mass immig
tion of the Arabs out of the co
try in return for some kind of cm
pensation. No suggestions w
made as to how these things co
be brought about.
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The Threat of a Social Ghetto

An Analysis of the Problem Created by Sinister Fort
in Our Universities and the Assimilationist

Attitude of Jewish Students

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
On the occasion of the presen- to enter Christian fraternit
tation by the Pi Lambda I'hi formed exclusive societies of th
Fraternity of a medal to Refuge own, which in turn became
High Commissioner James G. Mc- ters for cliques. Undoubte
Donald, "in recognition of the fact the most serious accusation tl
that in theyear 1934 he has can be made against the Jew
proved to be the outstanding fig- fraternities is that while they
ure in the age-old battle for tol- banded into Jewish cliques its
erance, understanding and human is nothing in their program wh
brotherhood," Joseph C. Hyman, would indicate that they are us
secretary of the American Jewish than merely Jews by birth. They
Joint Distribution Committee, nothing which would serve to
warned that a social ghetto is form their Gentile fellow s
emerging upon the academic scene dents of the-existence of a Jew
in this country.
culture, of the Jewish contril
Pointing to the fears that exist tions to the world's civilizati
of the possible rise of Commu- and to the welfare of this col
nism or Fascism and to the warn- try.
ings that "we stand on the thresh-
The National Conference
old of new systems or on the Jews and Christians, in its Ii
brink of new abysses," Mr. Hy-
man pointed out that in Fascist ited fashion, accomplishes a t
Italy in Bolshevist Russia and in mendous amount of good
Nazi Germany it is the university eliminating prejudices and in c
men who carry their devotion to sting good will. But the effo
these ideas to the farthest ex-
of this agency are limited, a
tremes.
"In the fellowship of the the practically fail to rea
university in these United the large student bodi
States," Mr. Hyman continued where the rise of a social ghel
to warn, "sinister force. have is especially noticeable. The fai
played upon prejudice and pan- does not lie with this conferen,
dered to bigotry. The acd• but it can rather be placed
dental difference. of race or the door of the students the
creed have been seised upon to selves, who become so thorougt
man from man and group divorced from Jews and Jewim
from group. Already a social ness during their collegiate da
ghetto hsia commenced to that they do nothing at all
emerge upon the academic ward off the possible dangers.
scene. Foreign to the very
The First Shock
Under the title "Training Ch
concept of • university, hostile
to the underlying tenets of fair dren to Face the Word as Jew:,
play, incongruous in the very Rabbi Lawrence W. Schwartz
meaning of the word American, White Plains, N. Y., has just pm
• sense of separatism has devel- pared an outline of an education
oped as between Jew and non. program for the Bureau of Syn
Jew."
gogue Activities of the Union
Mr. Hyman supplemented his American Hebrew Congregatior
warning with the declaration that One point especially impressed
such a condition "must not be," when he suggested that in teac
that "if we are to forefend here ing how to counteract undesi
against the spirit that has been able reactions to prejudice tl
let loose in the German universi- Jewish school should attempt
ties, the doctrine of hatred and prepare against "hysterical r
spurious race superiorities, if we actions of those experiencing tl
are to guard vigilantly the very first shock of discrimination."
Here is a problem which v
principles of freedom in the uni-
versities, we have a task to per- dare not ignore. Too many eh,
form, worthy of our own highest dren never overcome that fir
shock which places the brand
impulse and devotion."
How is this task to be per- bigotry and hatred upon them h
formed? How are Jews and cause they are Jews. Too man
Christians to be brought closer also, find their way back to the
together in universities, in order people only when they are cs
that genuine good-will and under- pressed by the hate and prejudic
of their uninformed neighbors.
standing be achieved?
Mrs. Arthur Brin, president m
In reality, Mr. Hyman's fear
the National Council of Jewim
could have been expressed
quarter of a century ago, when Women, describing the manner
Jewish students began to ape the which the German situation is
Gentiles by forming Greek-letter by her organization, tells a a
societies. The truth of the mat- ber of stories based on e el
in the present tragedy, cr
ter is that Jews who were unable ences
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