The Tale of a Letter by the Rambam
(CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)
i Middle
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THE GERMAN GOD
THAETROfT
Lomax,
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
FATHER C OUGHLIN
Ages, whose 800th miniver -
AND THE RABBIS:
1 eery is celebrated this y ear, has CONCLUDED FROM EDITORIAL PAGE
unknown idol worshipper, who saw , been published by
COACLUDED F/1011 PAGE I /
in them his supreme being,
ew Jersey l earlier stage of civilization,
—„—
to winds'
whom! Ameri
Branch of the United Syna gogue of
national bankers" played such
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 11)
he whispered incantations to
a de-
view
an an nou nee- when the center of interest was delve role in the Nazi anti-Semit•lati
and spirits, but the very handwrit-1ment ca, according
of the organizations' work
the clan, in its own eyes ever
by the national
to
or
ga
I
nization.
on and only through the llos- and it brings you a fair ictur
ing of Maimonides, whose mind 1 Copies may be secure
p
e
ism,
the
conclusion
is jumped at I pitslization Fund of this Cani.
d fr tom the l an object of worship. Such
;
that
since
ce
F
a
ather
C
of
how
some of the ills of society
a
reached unto heaven, and who at ; United Synagogue of Ameri
er oug in rep de
!
0080
the same time was aware of
t myth , therefore also is a eats I paign is her operation made pros- Dare being remedied.
desire is the merest folly. It
the Broadway, New York City.
nee
abet
- sible.
needs of his people. The works of
anti-Semite,
However, I have dealt only with
ignores the advance of four or
The selections, which w
Maimonides are immortal creations.
It has long been recognized that I
In the Jewish Community Cen- the maintenance funds. May I re-
g by Rbi
ab Leon S. ere ar- five thousand years of hi story. reasoning by analogy is necessar-
Such a fragment written by that raned
r te o c za e tiall. v falities
of Yet this is the end desired by m
, Newark,
were
especially p Lang
y l
are far to an additional factor in our
laze
repared
Boose
reasoning The o
spiritual giant is , pricelm and I for
use at the
Maimonides
scio ns
campaign this year.
sacred. It is surrounded with
services the Germany of Hitler.
g impression that one received , of classes are in session.
are also
a I in the
synagogu
es on
bbo
at th e massmeeting
halo of radiant wisdom, and a love,
Sha th a Hag-
including a $100,000 • fund for ,
m
in
O
This
new
movem
lympia
ai,
the
Eve
of
movement
has
had
;
At
the
Hebrew
Free
Loan
Asso-
the erection of a new Home for
Pas
wan that Father Coughlin'
Passover,
for mankind. It is the autograph ; set aside baimonide
s
e date its precursor& The ground
mov e- !elation sonic worried soul is given the Aged. It is essential that
by the i
of the Second Moses,
s Octo-
was ment has as yet no definite shape.
Ian
to obtain a loan Jews of Detroit recognize the the
' It is for the present no
with opportunity
o uti n
Let us, therefore, learn about ! ! centennial Committee for special ' , prepared on the one hand, by Ian
Ira
in order to per- possible conditions which prevail
Maimonides from only one menu.! observance of the anniversa
an
excitin
voi
them radio.aN o mit h m t terest,
Nietzsche, with his separate one can a yep
o meet t he obligation
bligation in the
re,
as
g
t
h presen
t H
script, and a tragic tale will take 4 M•imonides Broch urea
r o vreerdicte with
crowded,
moralities for slaves and mss- confidence yet
h than that is his family's. And if it w
ill-ventillated, uncl
us back many centuries. We shall
us a• at dime- sum
The Maimonides Octocentennial
ean, unsafe
t ers, and his exaltation
you
would Camp,
have found
and in a poor neighborhood, with-
of lion the movement will take. It t at both er,
travel along with this manuscript Committee, 64 West 48th St., New
the
Council
a
s
and follow on its journey until we York City, announces the publica- physical force, and on the is absolutely gratuitous to say that las the Fresh Air
well
•
out
proper
surroundings.
That is
Camp,
n
are back again in the New York tion of a series of four brochures other hand by Chamberlain, plot s ialraelardeyFaseistand
that the
any num-I the Home that at present shelters
of f ba or ys a, nd t. girls and
Jewish Museum .
on Moses Mainionides, medieval with his view of Germany as I work already
ad laid . to seduce the I pee pi
young
our
aged
Jews
in
Detroit
I
le p ticil a ing in thefi
t
•
s with
promises of
It was 750 years ago. The Al- ;Jewish philosopher and commenta- the
purest type of superman, I reforms, and the n to sell the radical !type of camp experience; learning peal to you to make those moth.
tor
,
en
the
ion
mohade:i, the Berber tribes from an
of the 113
800 th destined to serve humanity.
out • to accept life with far better era and fathers, who no longer
niversary of
hi birth i
occass
to the industrialists and the mili-18race.
orthern Africa, were making
may live with their children for
tank s, as the ascste
The first of the four brochures
i of Europe
their raids, attacking and pillaging
Theories
of
this
type
consti-
have
done
At Philadelphia and Byron and various reasons, or who have none,
villages and towns which were ae- is "The Supremacy of Reason," l ute a direct challenge to Juda-
to
live with commu
ni
allied branches, a group of chit- upon
the , or who are dependent
Ached Ha'Am's scholarly critique
customed to the rule of kind)
It is quite gratuitous also to say : dren are
ty 's g
ism, with its basic principle of
receiving instruction in
princes • Death and slavery were
y lished
of Maimonides'
philosophy,
pub-
that
Father
Coughlin
has
in
planned 1Jewish tradition, which will make and finances, he ppy, comfortable
human unity. Indeed, the Nazi an anti- Semi
the prices Jews paid for
Hebrew i n 1904
and safe during tho
tic movement was
imr er - them understa nd why w
in
A
se good
last will
days , I
translated into English by Loon
Le, and
as Je
th eir beliefs. Islam, defending
Si. slogan of "Away with Moses," ica. What he has done
as other re- , c ad Ha Am was one
of
re . have been com pelled toe,make ws, st amongst us. It s our d uty
ad-
and
nd
sponsibly
to
repeat
the
familiar
is
a
war
cry
towards
robbing
our
ligions, could not understand why! the greatest modern Jewish phil=
obligation to i p rovid e for
justments throughout the can- them such quarters as will permit
the Jews did not want to be shel-1 osoph
the world not only of the figure myths about the Jewish people, turies;
why we have been schooled them to gather a few rays of
tered under the wings of those who The ers.
But the fact that he repeats cur. in adversity, why we
seco d of the series is "Hoses of Moses, but of all that is de- rent myths does not make a man
promised them earthly harems or ' n
have been sunshine as their last lingering
heavenly kingdoms. Too anxious hlaimonides," a biographical sketch
rived from the genius of Moses. an anti-Semite in the preeent-day I taught to fight our way through moments are spent with us.
and o over
v economic obstacles, and
were these religions to make the l by Prof. Alexander Marx of the Is it possible under Nazism to , definition of that
the term, namely, one
This is t
ort u nity that
I who has deliberately planned
Jews happy in other worlds. Fire Jewish Theological Seminary; this conceive of any soil as holy gain
why those lessons have values the Allied Jewish opp
Cam
to that no one can tak e
a•
'
and 'sword hastened to transfer, essay gives in popular form a sum- which is not German?
us.
y arousing a
ry
And,
at
to
the
Jews
of
Detroit
May Task
Is
it
to a united and murderouscount
the Home for the
to do
the souls of the stubborn nation to mary of our present knowledge
g Aeou
d ,
hatred many are facing
your part by
those Maims.
the twilight ho u r, I
ms. The Jews who man. shout Maimonides' life and works. possible even to retain a faith of Jews.
the means that
I
as well
aged to be saved from the sudden
It seems to me that as long as both men and women, with great- I as your time, soy ou have sharing
"Maimonides as Codifier," Prof. in such doctrines and remain a
contentment
that both you
kindness of those who cared for Chaim Tchernowitz's brief analy- hCristian, let alone a Jew?
Father
Coughlin
chose
to
open
his
care
that
is
being
given
them.
because
of
the
,
and I may be enabled to say,
or
Father) c onvent ion in the conven-
their future lives, were sold as sis of the method and scope of Mai-
The very concept of God tiona l A
Such is part of the panoramic I"The D etro it Jewish h Community
merican style of inv
slaves. For the glitter of gold was monides' work as codifier of Jewish
a
has met its obligati
too tempting even to people who law, is the third of the series. Dr. takes on a Germanic complex- Protestant, a Catolic and a iting
Jew
aspired to be servants of God. The Tchernowitz is on the faculty of ion, and is inextricably associ- to participate, it was the part of I ITALIAN ALLIANCE
markets were full of Jewish cap- the Jewish Institute of Religion, ated with p
that the 'Tel Aviv' is German
u and
rely local and na- wisdom for a rabbi to be present I
DENIED BY MUFTI not Jewish is entirel
tives. The point of the sword std. and is considered one of the fore-
and thus help establish the s
unfod.
y
led the cry of agony. Children who most Talmudic scholars in the tive history of Germany. The
The whole capital of th e 'Tel unvi
ism of a non-sectarian move-
A de v,'
(CONCLUDED
FROM
PAGE
I)
clung.bewilderingly to the tattered I world. His essay was translated idea of "pure blood" replaces ment, such as all social and political
amounting to £85,000, has been
covering of their trembling moth- from the Hebrew by Prof. Harry that of a Holy Spirit. The old movements in A merica ought to be ive, also lef
provided
by
German
Jews."
•
t Palestine and will
, were torn apart never to see S. Lewis.
Po
visit Rumania,
Christian "sin" against the Holy have i I serman s re miht
Mr. Rosenblueth, who is now
land rod
and Szec ho-
each other again. Men shook their
signified that wefusal
The fourth pamphlet is "The
Jews have' s ovaki a. Prof. Selig B
a of practicing law in Palestine, added:
fists helplessly when their bosom Philosophy of Maimonides," a suc- Ghost" becomes the sin against decided that the movement was! members and
"The Palestine Shipping Corn-
Berl
Locker,
the
two
members
Aryan
blood.
already
It is punished
companions were taken away to be cinct survey of the major elements
pon y and the steamer 'Tel Avi '
definitely aimed against us. the London Executive who h
sold. to the highest bidder.
Th•
eve a re
of the Maimonidean philosophy, by by sterilization.
ve been unfortunate. been here attending the
th registered in Palestine '.
sessions The
"Pidyon Shruyim" His Motto Prof. Isaac Ilusik of the Univer-
If we undertook to
ship campaign
is flying of
the libel
Palestinian
Morality consists in respecting absolutely
down aid ' of
the Zionist Actions Committee, flag. The
against
In this desert of barbarism, there sity of Pennsylvania.
anti-Semitic set ever
returned
y
per.-
L
race, in returning to the prim-
stilt were a few oasis of tolerance.
p eats the current myth
London.
Accompany- the company which, its sponsors
Each of these pamphlets can be
son
that
re
ling
them
was
Dr.
Chaim
Weizmann
ology
about
Egypt was one of them. There,
eval German woodland, in re-
' former president of the Jewish cotta'
hope, will result d inb y-
Jews, then we h
a Jewish bo
the heart of the Head of Egyptian secured from the committtee at a viving ancient costume
,
prom
charge of 25 cents a piece, except
pte n y a most
and wake up one fine day to is find the
A en for Palestine, who is going
Jewry, the Sultan's friend and phy- "The Supremacy of Reason," by primitive custom. Has not whole world
fair
competition
o the part of un-
ainst us. For the to London to attend the annual
con-
terested
shippin
i n-
sician, scholar and philosopher, Ached lia'Am, for which the
is only 200 years old.
g companie
charge Hitler himself declared that modern world is
Maimonides, bled for his people. is 35 cents.
It has not yet fully outgrown the ference of the Zionist Federation trust that Jewish leaders in s. I
A
mer-
Hindenburg
has
now
entered
The cry of his brethren re-echoed
mediaeval condition in which every of Great Britain, of which he is ica will use their influenoe in o
The entire aeries is being pub-
r-
in his ears. It gave him no rest. lished under the supervision of an Valhalla—the pagan heaven?
power of church and state was con- president. It is expected that Dr. der to protect this young Jewish
Weizmann will also make a tour shipping undertaking."
"The captives 'must be saved from advisory council headed by Prof.
centrated upon a continuous inci• of
Poland some time prior to the
slavery and shameful life," was his Salo W. Baron of Columbia Uni-
tation of the populace against the
How
valuable
convening of the World Zionist ping
trade
has be the Pai ne ship-
Jews.
decision. Redepmtlon was the only versity.
Congress.
Z. 0. A., HADASSAH
come is shown
way, Although rich in spirit, Mai-
The hatreds, superstitions and
Dr. Zeitlin's "Maimondies"
by the fact that in 1934, a total
moni es was poor in means. "Pid- The 800th anniversary' of the
UNITED ON SLATE! 11000
deliberately fostered for Charge) Large Shippin
8
g
Oye
Yoh ShTUYilTi. " redemption of the i birth of Maimonides is marked by
easrs could not possibly be
Com. with a gross tonnage
ponies Underminin g New
of 5,928,000.
captives, became his motto. Emig- I the publication of a new book on 5 (CONCLUDED room PAGE I)
altogether eliminated in the last
In 1931, th enumber of ships was
Jewish Line
----
200 years, with the result th at )
aeries with letters from Maimoni- this great Jewish philosopher of the
806, and the tonnage, 1,8210,000.
person s essentia lye innocent
des were sent to different rn coers Middle Ages, by Prof Solomon
E L AVIV (WNS — Palcor The "Tel Aviv" is a 10,000-ton
"We cannot build up a healthy systematic
of the world to collect money for Zeitlin of Dropsie College, Phila.
plot lar
steamer,
shipping companies
the redemption of the captives. In
of "libel"
are in
order to
engagepd
in
delphia, entitled: "Maimonides: A Palestine on the profit motive. The these malicious mediaeval myths , a campaign
the synagogues and streets, "Pid- Biography."
great
influx
of
a
record
number
of
without
knowing
what
they
are
do-
make
it
apmss
(Bloch Publishing Jews into Palestine has brought ; ing •
Lamports Give $8,100 for He-
a that the com any
yon Shvuyim" were the words of- Co., N. Y., $2). This book is the about
We who are sensitive not only opera
brew University Fund
extraordinary em- i to the meaning of every word that , auspices
ting "Tel Aviv," first
ten heard. When the messengers first original work in any language phasis such
on pr an
ivate
ti ative
h
in-
is
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A fund
steamship, is under Hiller
said of us, but even to t he
read the Rambam's appeal in the on Maimonides to be published in d ustry that we must do all an
in d our and
synagogues, and described the tor. 23 years.
tone I auspices and is not Jewish, was of $8,400, to be distributed among
power to stimulate agricultural
over-tone of the voice in which
! ma de here by Felix Rosenblueth, students who distinguish themsel-
l it is said, see
of
interpretation
pr ati
of
a malicious conspirac
y pro minent J ewish
brethren, the people visualized their the presents
settlement growth
to keep
and
exile from G er- ves in their work at the Hebrew
life and works of Maim onides industrial
of pace with the where there is only an irresponsible; many,
the country." use of words.
member of the Boa rd University was announced here
own relatives and friends in chains, baed on hitherto unknown facts.
Jacob Fishman, who was the ape-
•
sat week as having been established
sold in the markets as animals, saw He s s'
I of Directors of the Palestine Shi
We should
rms that the Mishna Torah, cial representative of the Zionist
b ythe Lampert family of New
against ping Company, which operates the York.
their miserable existence, their bro- the Code of Maimonides, was in- OrganiAnnivn
zatio of America at th e anti-Semitism, but we should be "Tel Aviv." Informed that Amer-
ken homes, families and lives. Then tended by him to be a new roost!.
t
ersary Celebration of vigilant also against confusing it icon newspapers had published re- sics,
A rare
manuscript
on metaphy.
the Jewish heart trembled, purses tution for a redeemed Jewish peo-
written
in Yemen,
on the
the birth of Maimonides, held at with mere vestigial prejudice,
ports from Ital y that t was r
opened wide, Jewels were stripped ple. Ile presents evidence that
h
Ms Cordova, Spain, rendered a report
first Jew. Arabian Peninsula, in the ea
steame r in histor Y he me
from fingers, wrists and necks to
,,
hr• Ni.ieri In :Dm . „r the l
r
monides was a forerunner of mod . of the proceeding and character- 1,,:T,1
i,Tem ,- .
be exchanged for the liberty of the ern Jewish nationalism. The au . ized the Cordova
"„"' 1,;'„;.,..1.'„.;;;
a subterfuge on the part of Ger- 1498 and believed to have been y stu-
celebration as I en•enies biter,. 0101,
ill-fated. For the Rambam's word
e "one of the most unique
"ere...rh ea 17 man shippinug interests trying to died by Maimonides, the Jewish
thor
traces
Maimonides'
influenc
events
in
I
was law, the word of a Moses.
Th. Uhrrich.• dacha we h
some of the lucrative busi- philosopher and physician, has been
lie:r
in history, both Jewish and Chris modern Jewish history."
ent at on the oppenrame h.4 here o obtain
acquired by the Hebrew Univer-
Palestin
M
ill' 14nerniall.
"" '" nese
e, to r.
Rosenblueth
In a wooden frame, between two tian, and his message for the Je w .-7 " 4
f 1 declard
—
glasses, is the wornout fragment today.
that such an allegation 1 stItes i "TT' an announcement here
---:
of a letter. Old are the characters.
There was also published in
They are peculiar to the handwrit- connection with the Maimonides
ing of the scribes of the 12th Cen- octocentenary a new juvenile by
tury, curved in the Arabic fashion. Abraham Burstein entitled "The
For, in truth, the letter though in Boy of Cordova" (Bock Publishing
Hebrew characters is really written Co., N. Y., $1.), in which the au-
in Arabic, the language of the Jews thor describes a thrilling episode
in the lands around the Mediter- in the boyhood of the great Jewish
ranean. The letter contains histor- teacher, the escape of his family
ic facts, sad and full of appeal.
from Spain during one of the many
At the end of this letter are four persecutions of the Jews in that
words. These four words, Rabbi country. The story relates adv
adven-
Moshe Ben Maimon, besides render. turesintrigues, disguises and
ing the content invaluable, add to armed conflicts, and presents a
the inestimable importance of it, wellstold tale of the mind and char-
for the signature dates the docu- acter of the youthful Maimonides.
ment—thus revealing to us history
in the making.
History-Making Manuscript
Strictly Confidential
The letter is an appeal for Pid-
yon Shvuyim, dictated by the Ram- , (CONCLUDED from EDITORIAL PAGE)
barn himself. When the letter left
Egyptian soil, it traveled with its
be arer to different countries. There the Chicago White Sox and Wash-
ington Senators, speaks seven lan-
it was read in synagogues before
guages, and is now special assist.
the holy Ark. Trembling hands ant to manager Joe Cronin of the
touched it; tears of sorrow and Bos
ton Red Sox . . . And still in
pain fell upon It.
It traveled t he field of sport, may we introduce
carrying with it the magic power Abe Simon, 250-pounder, who is
of the initials of the four words, being heralded as a coming man
promising hope and comfort. At I and a rival for Max Baer's crown.
last the letter came to Egypt, and SHORT-WAVE GOSSIP
was returned to the Rambam. By' Ernest Toiler, the exiled Germa n
means
of money collected many playwright, is devoting all his time
h
undreds of captives regained their to the German Jewish refugee prob-
liberty, famiies were reunited, chit- lem in Paris . . . Zinoviev's sister
dren returned to their parents, and lives in Haifa, Palestine, and is
broken hearts were healed.
one of the best known Zionists in
T
ogether with other letters, it' .re z Israel . . . Her name is Dr.
was placed in the Library of the' Dina Verlinska.... When it'news-
Rambam. There it lay among the paperman tried to interview her I
manuscripts
which made new his- the other day on the private life
tory
in Je
wish life and thinking; of her famous revolutionary bro.;
among manuscripts which influ- ther, she got excited and is reported
enced Christian scholastics to turn to have declared in a
trembling
from their dogmatic conceptions voice: "I do not want to hear that
and to introduce reason inear eir name"
.
.
.
Dr.
Verlinska
might
religion. There it lay nto th the have
remembered that the brother
treatise on Ressurrection written of Chaim Nleizmann was at
R ambam
one
m in which he separ- time one of the big shots in the
aced the
soul from the body in the Lenin brain-trust, and that the
world
to come.
brother of the late Chaim Bialik is
An unknown hand placed this • high muck-a-muck In the Red
letter in the Cairo Genizah Ther e arm y
. Pierre van Paassen did
it met many more
friends, some go to Palestine after all and is
of them much older. It slumbered all ready to send in his latest im-
for centuries in that hiding place, pressions on the latest
develop-
covered with dust—forgotten by all, meats there . . . Which reminds
until a gentle hand touched it, us that Shalom Asch's next novel
shook off the dust, and carefully will deal with family life in the
brought it to light. This man, the Jewish National Homeland . . .
patriarchal and learned Solomon
And David Schwartz, the Arneri-
Schechter, carried it away. It man columnist now in Palestine,
Because
travelled over oceans and seas, writes in to tell us that most of the
and came to a new country, un- land speculation in Palestine is car-
known in former days, e rid
laers wo e
on by te
h
wy
h us
In the Museum of the Jewish the ir law shi
ngles merely as •
Theological Seminary, arrbng 0th- cover for respectability
.. Dave
er letters which bear the same gig- also observed that the improvement
nature,
and other books written by in the Palestine hotel service is pri-
hand of the works of the man who manly due to the influx of Ger-
signed this letter, it was placed. man waiters, maitree d'hotel and
For centuries separated, they are other German hotel experts . . .
here
reunited. The world waited Soviet Russia's Red army now has
almost
800 years to learn from this a special Jewish national company
fragment the tragedy that befell recruited exclusively from young
the Jews, and the miraculous seri.- Jews of the Jewish farming regions
ice that this ----
letter performed. in the Crimea . . . This company
11to.peasiv e
Readings from Works was formed upon the special re-
quest of the young Jewish
of Maimosi4os
farm-
A leaflet of responsive readings ers who have become no attached
from the works of Moses Naimoli. to each other that they want to
ides, greatest
Jewish use of the stick together through their mili-
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crops of 1931-32-33-34—mo st
of it for Chesterfield cigarettes.
Just as money accumulates
interest, two and a half years
of ageing makes these tobaccos
milder and naturally sweeter.
Think what this means—an
eighty-five million dollar reason
why men and women who
smoke Chesterfields will always
enjoy a milder, better-tasting
cigarette.
LIGGETT &
MYERS TOBACCO
Co.