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FIERUIROITIEWIRI ORM ICLE

Jewish Book Week

Annual observance of Jewish Book
THE ORACLE
Week, May 19 to 26, deserves more than
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passing notice.
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The Omen, awned., ail questioner
general Jewish intermit. Quid.,
What we need more than anything else el
Metered .. Second-clam matter March I. 1118, at the Pent.
abosid be add/reined to The Orailb
at this time is a thinking Jewish constitu- I twee of The Detente riot
•dlee at Drimit. Mich, order tM At of March I, 1671.
Chroniele. sod Amid be amnia.
ency which will understand the problems puled
by • self-addressed, stamped
General Offices and Publication Building facing our people.
envelope.
Largest Number of Jewish Farmers in Middle West Are In
525 Woodward Avenue
Too
many
Jews
are
in
a
quandary.
They
Michigan, Samson Liph, Western Manager of Jew-
Tol•plios•t Cadillac 1040 Cable Addre..: Chronic'.
Q. How do Jews rank in mu-
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either hear of the terrible discriminatory sical
cirdles in this country?—
ish Agricultural Society, States in Interview
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
laws imposed upon their fellow-Jews, or Y. D. W.
Per Year are themselves subjected to economic
A. According to a study pub-
Subscription, in
prejudice and social ostracism. Many are fished last year, roughly about
ti beam publication. tU commpondene• sod mews matter
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
50 per cent of the violin virtuosi
_Am mach Mb office by Tuesday evening of each week.
embittered, some are driven to despair, and
h of t e paper only.
maestros and first violinists
Whim master[sakes, kladly me one eide
and unfortunately too many are bewil- of American
Symphony orchestras
(Copyright, 1535, Sewn Arts Feature S,ndicatc)
The Detroit Jewith fhroniele In•iteecorrespondence on sub- ' dered for lack of knowledge of the his-
are Jewish, as are from 25 to 50
De m
of latereet to the Mehl. people. but disclaims responst•
Miley fee an indomemeot of the vie. trammed by the writers
toric lessons that are taught to Jews as per cent of the piano virtuosi of
symphony and amusement or-
inheritors of a stigma that subjects them the
The desire on the part of the thousands of
Sabbath Reading. of the Torah
families in the Middle West, Ohio is second to
chestras. Tenaper cent of Amer-
to indignities.
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 25 :1-26 .2
ican composers are Jewish. Of Jews to leave the city and to join the back-to-the- Michigan as a Jewish farming community.
There is, naturally, only one way of the 12 leading symphony orches- soil movement suffered a setback as a result of
Prophetical portion- - ter. 32:6-27
According to Mr. Liph, no anti-Semitism has
tras in the country with a total
thus far been noticeable in farming communities,
lyar 14, 5695 solving this perplexing problem. What of 1048 players, 269 or 25.7 per the depression scares and the drought.
May 17, 1935
we need is more knowledge, a deeper un- cent were Jews.
It is the opinion of Sampson Liph, for 17
and he stated that to the Gentile neighbors it is
derstanding of Jewry's problems. Under-
years the assistant western manager of the Jew- a revelation that the Jew can do a hard day's
• • •
Two Clubs Set an Example standing can only be attained through a Q. Who was
ish Agricultural Society, that this scare was in a
Simon Wolf?-
work—that he can be a farmer. The non-Jew
Perhaps the most interesting announce- Jewish education which too many miss in 1. W.
large measure responsible for the prevention of is amazed at this phenomenon, and to him
the
ment in the 1935 Allied Jewish Campaign their youth.
A. Simon Wolf, author of
the settlement of many Jews on farms.
invasion by the Jew of the farm is a curiosity.
"The
American
Jew
as
Patriot,
was the one that came from the Standard
Jewish Book Week suggests the read- Soldier and Citizen," was born
Mr. Liph goes a step further in blaming Jew-
Most Jews Remain on Farms
Club and the Knollwood Country Club.
ing of Jewish books, the purchase of more in Bavaria in 1836 and came to ish leadership at present for failing to make
Mr. Liph also explained that there are no
The presidents of the two groups, in books dealing with Jewish historic and the United States in 1848. He Jews farm-minded. In the course of one of his
making public the total subscriptions of ethical questions. There are innumerable was appointed recorder of deeds periodic visits in Detroit last week, Mr. Liph wealthy Jewish farmers for the reason that most
their members, stated that among the classics published, many important Jewish for the District of Columbia, and deplored the fact that the Jewish press and Jew- of them start on a shoestring, immediately want
later made consul general to
to see results, expand, and accumulate indebted-
qualifications for membership is the re- histories have been written and there is a was
ish leadership does not bring to the attention of
Egypt. He arranged a Kishineff
quirement that every one affiliated with storehouse of Jewish knowledge in the protest meeting and negotiated the public the truth that Jews can adapt them- ness. As a result, in instances of large farming
communities it is not reasonable to state that they
these two clubs should contribute to the books that have been published in English. for the celebrated conferences selves to farming.
with Roosevelt and Hay regarding
are wealthy farmers because they are burdened
Allied Jewish Campaign.
Parents owe an obligation to their chil- American
"The initiative must come from the press
protests
of
Russian
with debts which they manage gradually to pay
In some quarters it has been advocated dren to purchase the more important Jew- atrocities. His other works
and from leaders in middle-class and rank and
in-
off
from their incomes.
that men and women who do not share in ish classics for them; and they owe an clude biographies of Mordecai file of Jewry," Mr. Liph said. "We must make
the obligations to their respective commu- obligation to themselves to study these Manuel Noah and Uriah P. Levy. Jews farm-minded, and then the fact will become
It is also of interest to quote Mr. Liph on
• • •
' nities should be socially ostracized. This works in order that they and their chil-
the fact that very few Jews have left the farms,
known that Jews can make good farmers and
Q.
When
was
the
Harvard
might be an excellent way of both procur- dren may have a common Jewish meeting
adapt themselves to outdoor work and can pro- and that fully 80 per cent remain as farmers.
Menorah Society formed?--F. M.
ing results and punishing the community's ground.
Approximately 37 per cent of the young folks
duce as well as non-Jews."
A. The Harvard Menorah So-
transgressors, provided that the proper
remain on the farms, and an additional 12 to
He Speaks Authoritatively
Honored with the title "Am-Ha-Sefer" ciety first came into existence
means is found for the enforcement of —"Thq People of the Book"—we have un- in 1907.
15 per cent enter professions. Some of them
Mr. Liph is well qualified to discuss the possi-
• • •
such a rule.
return to rural districts to practice their profes-
bility of the Jew as a farmer as a result of the
fortunately sacrificed this title in recent
sions.
Q. Is it true that there are
In the meantime, Harry Si Grant and years. Jewish books don't sell as much as
vast knowledge he has accumulated on the sub-
German Jews who favor Nazi
Maurice Aronsson, presidents of the Stand- they should. Only the sensational novels rule?—.W.
ject in the past 30 years. He is a graduate of the
There is no intermarriage among Jewish
H. U.
ard and Knollwoosl Clubs, and their re- have a market, but the classics are col-
Baron de Hirsch School of Woodbine, New Jer-
farmers, according to Mr. Liph, and he points
A. There is in Germany
spective memberships, are deserving of lecting dust on the publishers' shelves. group called The Union of Na- a sey, and in 1915 graduated from the Michigan out that most of the work is done by farmers
the community's laudations for paving the Jewish Book Week rebukes those who are tional German Jews, an ultra- State College, then known as the Michigan Agri- themselves, their farming enterprises being based
way for community cooperation. Rules betraying the Jewish tradition for learn- assimilationist organization, head- cultural College. Three years after his gradua- on the self-help proposition.
ed by Dr. Max Nauman. The
such as these two groups enforce must ing and calls the Jewish people back to latter
tion from AL A. C. he became the assistant west-
recently stated that "Our
Usually interpreted as centers of misinforma-
lead to the adoption of the prinicple that the fold—to study, to read and to encour- fatherland is dearer to us than ern manager of the Jewish Agricultural Society tion og completely, lacking in information, Mr.
one cannot consider himself a member of age the creators of Jewish thought.
our so-called co-religionists." The
with offices in Chicago, and has retained that Liph nevertheless pictures the Jewish farm as a
organization is opposed to the
the Jewish community unless he supports
position since. In the course of his 17 years of place of religiously minded Jews. He explained
boycott.
the community's causes and institutions.
service with the society he has become thoroughly that the religious atmosphere is strong in the
• • •
And this is as it should be.
Isserman and Coughlin
Q. Where is the Tower of familiar with every angle of Jewish farming in country, and that the

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

The Trend Towards Farming

Pilsudski's Death

•

the Middle West and has made the acquaintance

Jewish youth is therefore
compelled to think in religious and nationalistic
terms, thus becoming nationally and religiously
conscious. Mr. Liph pointed out that while in a

Tidbits from Everywh ere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

LIFE AND PLAY
We think its time to mention
by
name some of the firms, who
obliv

ious of the anti-Nazi boycott, go
on selling German goods . .
Among the better known conma
companies
es
are S. S. Kresge Co., S. H. Kress

& Co., Julius Kayser Co., the glove
I people, and quite a number of Jew-
ish importers whom we will men-
tion by name at a later date ..
Harry Moses, producer of "The Old
('Maid," which gut th
Fawned, and Herman Shumlin, p Zer
ro-
ducer of "Children's Hour," which
deserved it, were partners and pro-
duced jointly several year, ao
"Grand Hotel" . . . When Sh u n .
lin was asked what he thought
of
the 1035 Pulitzer prize award to
•"The Old Maid" he panned his for-
mer partner pitilessly ... He said
that the prize-winning play was a
piece
. of old lace with no relation-
s tp to the modern progressive the-
ater and should never have been
taken out from the dusty closet

Unofficial figures reaching our desk
tell the gruesome story that the

J ewish Daily Forward lost 30,000

circulation because of the Harry
Lang-Ab Cahan escapade in the
Hearst publications . . Dimitri

Marlene, son-in-low of Professor

Enstein, has written a play deal.

ing with war hysteria in Europe,
which the Theater Guild is consid.
ering for production next season
... Dr. A. J. Rongy is busy writing
a play on social medicine which, if
produced, will blow the lid off medi-
cal racketeering ...

ZIONIST GOSSIP
This is the month of May and
the Zionist convention is less than
two months away . . , But there

is an ominous silence in official cir-
cles, although those in the know
understand that this convention
will be a hectic one ... The cla-
mor for a new deal is getting

stronger and stronger
The glor -
ious and ambitious plans for Jew-
ish education through the Zionist
Organization, cultural activity,
mass membership campaigns have

all evaported ... There is a defin-
ite split in the leadership, with the
Wise-Lipsky alliance, which worked
so well in American Jewish Con.
gress matters, becoming the domin-
ating factor in Zionist affairs....
Now that Jacob de Haas is all
wrapped up with Revisionism, and
now that Robert Szold has lost all
his ambition to play a role in the
ZOA, the nine narrows down to
a show-down between two parties
ostensibly united in the present ad-
ministration ... There will be, of
course, an attempt by the peren-
nial peace-seekers to create a uni-
ted front, but we're telling you that
the forthcoming convention will
see some hot doings ...

Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman spoiled a
of practically every Jewish farmer in Michigan,
good case for himself with his follow-up
Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and other states.
interview with Rev. Charles Coughlin, the
It is interesting to note in connection with city like Chicago, for instance, only 10 per cent
famous "Radio Father."
Mr. Liph's career that upon his graduation from
of the children get any sort of Jewish education,
While he would ordinarily have been
the Michigan State College he was called to Chi-
on the farms they become much more religiously
justified in appearing at the Detroit rally
cago to direct a backyard beautifying project at minded because they are more inquisitive about
of Father Coughlin's National Union for
the instigation of the Jewish People's Institute. their history and hertage. He admits, however,
Social Justice, the fact that his appearance
H undreds of people joined his classes, planted that on the farm the parents are compelled to be
was made on a Passover day subjects him
small gardens in back of their homes and beauti-
their own childrena' teachers, and that only in
to rebuke. His explanation of the reason
fied their front yards.
some instances are arrangements made for
for leaving his congregation on a holiday
Michigan Has Many Jewish Farmers
teachers to conic to the farm to train the youth
was weak. If it was important for a Jew-
A most interesting fact revealed by Mr. Liph
Agricultural Society's Achievements
ish spokesman to be on the platform with
is that the largest number of Jewish farmers in
Mr. Liph speaks with a great deal of enthu- PRODIGIES
Father Coughlin, and if such an appear-
the Middle West are to be found in Michigan. siasm about the achievements of
"Sonny Boy," the seven-week-old
the Jewish Agri-
ance was justified by political conditions
This state has the fourth largest number of
baby that the Al Jolsons have
cultural Society .
and present-day economic forces, then
adopted, is Jewish, and had a real
Jewish farmers in the country. New Jersey,
"The society has risen to the test of serving ceremonial birth only
perhaps it should have been a local person
a few weeks
New York and Connecticut precede Michigan in the Jewish farmer during the crisis and
has saved ago . .. We told you that Waal,
who should have appeared without neces-
importance in Jewish farming enterprises. many farmers," he declared. "We have secured
li'rith convention decided last week
sitating a rabbi's leaving his congregation
Roughly estimated, there are about 250 Jewish loans for the farmers, and we have interceded
. B'nai B'rith now becomes the
A. In 1654 there were wily 25
on a holiday.
Jews in New York; in 1826 there
first national Jewish organization
farming families in Michigan. About 75 families
in
their
behalf
with
the
government,
and
the
But if this is a matter for the clergy to were 950; by 1841 the number are located in the Benton Harbor district and
with its main office in Washington
decide, and if Rabbi Isserman's synagogue of Jews had risen to 10,000; in most of them are engaged in fruit farming. Federal Land Banks. In many instances we suc- . . . The latest boy piano prodigy
is Henry Albert, seven years old
ceeded in securing reductions on primary obli-
1880, 60,000; between 1884 and
prefers to condone his absence from serv- 1904,
Another 75 families are to be found in the South
604,000 Jewish immigrants
. He has studied piano only 18
ices on Passover, then there is a better rea- arrived in the city and settled Haven district. These are engaged in poultry gations while refinancing went on."
months,
but has already given a
Mr. Liph is an ideal spokesman for the farmer.
son for criticism in his statement in which there permanently; 1905, 700,- and general farming. An additional 40 families
public concert and written 17 com-
He
understands
his
case
and
sympathizes
with
positions . , Henry doesn't want
he quotes Coughlin on the type of Jews 000; 1918, 1,500,000; 1927, are located in the Detroit area in Romeo, Roose-
him and is therefore his natural representative
to be a virtuoso when he grows up
1,765,000, The latest 1934 figure
who are our own public enemies. If, as places
velt and other villages, and these are engaged
—he wants to be a doctor . . .
the number of Jews in New
with the powers that be. As spokesman for the
Coughlin would have us believe, he selects York in excess of 2,000,000.
You remember Samuel Reshevsky,
in truck and poultry farming. The rest of the Jewish Agricultural Society he has made his
the chess prodigy, who is now
unworthy people for attack not on the (The Oracle is now available
Jewish farmers are to be found mostly in south-
organization
a
force
here,
and
in
turn
renders
in book
a
young man and one of the out-
form ea • handy Jewish refnrence hook
basis of race or religion, then how does it Mee
west portions of the state.
standing adult chess masters ...
great individual service to the midwestern Jew-
your bookdealer or write this paper
happen that he is falling back on an age- for I:0001000n.)
In the point of numbers of Jewish farming
The
late Julius Rosenwald wan
ish farmers.
worn argument in selecting a banker who
((PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAdEl_
is a Jew, a radio performer who happens
The Arab and the
to be a Jew and the Jewish movie mag-
nates as a class? If it is the individual
Wonder Rabbi
"public enemy" he attacks, how does it
Author
of
Column
Published
in
The
Chronicle
Publishes
happen that he groups all the movie mag-
A Lag b'Omer Story
About Theodor Herzl, the Writer
His Gems in New Volume
nates together, without extending credit
By
A.
SEPHARDI
to Hollywood for truly great contributions
By STEFAN ZWEIG
During the past few years
"The Oracle," with its subtitle,
to American life?
thousands of readers of the Anglo- "A Handy Jewish Reference Book,"
(('oPYrIght. 1155, J. T. A )
EDITOR'S NOTE. Theodor Herat, Immortal ZIonint leader,
the 'nil, anni-
Jewish press, including The De- is an invaluable contribution to
versary et whoa. birth saa celebrated on
Ma y t throughout the world, ann
Rabbi Isserman's interview with Father troit Jewish Chronicle, have been
of the beet lianas European men
of letter. during hi. lifetime. The sail., nf
literature, and should find
EDITOR'S NOTE: lag Widmer will
he this .01,10 Is owe of the world's leading writers. 111a bent know. m tbu
Coughlin has the element of kowtowing following with interest a question a factual
an Tuesday, May They , h country are "Marie Antoinette'
place on every home bookshelf. eelebrated
. and .. Knwmtt. of Retterekun."
widely obsened, the exact manor, I , ir
and apologetics. Surely, the radio priest and answer column called "The It is also admirably suited Co.. the
relehnntion le not basso. The ...-
• has been appearing gifts, and may be read and used
(Copyright. 1935. Seven Arta Feature Sindicate)
c e, " w !eh
should not have been permitted to get
Form
.
shiel7a'4'atige.
"
it.
'Zit?
41
7 Axiom during the period of -enter "1 I realize that the reminiscence
under the signature of Carl Al- with equal enjoyment by young ertt.
away with the charges he made. The fact pert.
This week there has come I and old.
reseed es that day.
slgraceful comedy for the Bure-
remains that while he chooses to select off the press a compilation of hun-
I am about to set down do no t I theater, it was just right. just
Baruch for attack--something he has a dreds of the questions, submitted •
Every year, on Lag b'Omer- reveal the Herz] whom peopl e what every one wanted, a dainty
perfect right to do—he also saw fit to pick by readers of the column, in the u Bourgeois Looks at Russia the spring holiday that comes 'remember today. For I sha In I morsel made of the finest in-
of • handy Jewish reference
on only Jewish names in making wholesale O form
on the 33rd of the 60 days be- speak primarily of a once ver gredients and artistically served.
bonalc,,le.rd(eGr . the
c mna
am
A
Review by Henry Montor
name
ntorne "The
strikingly
attacks on bankers as the public's enemies.
tween Passover and Pentecost famous and now almost forgot Y Moreover, the man was
' handsome —courteous, obliging,
oTrEl;.1.;.
But in the interview with Isserman, Cough- Boston. $1.50). Resulting as it has
—great numbers of Jews jour- ten writer whose image has bee " entertaining; indeed, none was
matte
Amesi an
completely
overshadowed
by
th
from the direct questions of innu-
Br Jacob II Rubin Robb-Merrill ey to Meson, to the grave of
lin is a saint and a protecting friend.
Incli•napolin, Ind. In II).
immortally great figure of Herz! "'more beloved, better known or
readers, the book presents
more celebrated than he among
Save us, 0 Lord, from our friends. We merable
Simeon ben Yochai, great spir- the leader of his people .
facts of a vastly diversified nature
th e entire bourgeoisie and also
believe that we already know how to pro- about which people actually want Robin's experiences in Russia itual guide of his people during
But—and I remember thi a
the
aristocracy, of old Au-tria.
to know.
tect ourselves against op enemies.
i n 1919-29 and again, briefly, in the days of Hadrian.
from my earliest youth—there

Will the death of Marshal Pilsudski re-
move the obstacle which was placed in
the path of the Naras — the National
Radicals—in their attempts to spread anti-
Semitism in Poland.
This is the question which must plague
not only the Jews of Poland but Jewry
everywhere. Marshal Pilsudski realized
that the best interests of his government
demand that the existence of an official
anti-Semitic party should be checked. Al-
though he did not completely uproot anti-
Semitism, as is evidenced by tacit endorse-
ment he gave to the economic discrimina-
tions that declassed his Jewish citizens, he
nevertheless created an alliance with the
Jewish population against the official anti-
Semitic party. For this reason his death is
being mourned, and because there is no
successor in view who is known in advance
to be opposed'to Jew-baiting the future
in Poland must be watched with extreme
anxiety.

An Idol is Destroyed

Babel supposed to have stood?—
R. E.
A. The Tower of Babel, it is
generally agreed by scientists,
was located in lower Babylonia,
not far from the River Euphrates.
• • •
Q. What were the occupations
Of the foremost Zionist leaders?—
D. D. F.
A. Theodore Herzl was a news-
paperman, Wolffsohn a prosperous
merchant, Israel Zangwill a writ-
er, Max Nordau a critic, Ahad
Ha-Am essentially a scholar. Na-
hum Sokolow is a journalist,
Vladimir Jabotinsky a lawyer,
Brandeis a jurist, and Chains
Weizmann a scientist.
• • •
Q. Please trace the growth of
Jewish population in New York.
—D. L.

Strictly
Confidential

.

The idol of the mass of people is usually
like clay in their hands. As long as he is
popular he is acclaimed; the moment he
loses part of his popularity, he is relegated
to oblivion.
Those who have followed the career of
Abraham Cahan, founder of the Jewish
• Daily Forward and its editor for more than
a generation, will note with a sense of
deep regret the incident that took place
at the annual convention of the Arbeiter
Ring (Workmen's Circle) in New York
last week.
When this eminent editor, once the idol
of his people and the man who could dic-
tate almost anything to the organized
Jewish workers, rose to greet the conven-
tion, he was booed and hooted down by
the vast audience that filled Madison
Square Garden. It was a tragic demon-
stration by the very movement which he
had helped to build and to which he had
given his entire life.
The reason ascribed for this demonstra-
tion is the sanction which Mr. Cahan sup-
posedly gave to the publication of a series
of anti-Communist articles on the Hearst
newspapers by Harry Lang. These articles
aroused so much indignation that Socialist
Named "King 40 Zion"
ranks split on the question and the man
"What is the Jewish law against 1931, are seen in terms of his
Most of those who come an- used to be a Theodor lterzl wh
shaving?"
This popularity, however. sad
most severely punished is Abraham Cahan,
personal contacts and not at all nually to Heron to attend the was an author, a man who we a
the object of enthusiastic affec . denly received . a terrible blow As
"Why does Germany boycott u pon the plane of a State in be-
great editor and eminent Jewish labor
Dr Wise Leads Peace Effort Mickey
celebration at the grave of tion and of secret or open es
Mouse"
leader.
c oming. Despite a number of Rabbi Simeon also go to Tiber- , teem throughout Austria; and I the century approached its does
there gradually penetrated a ru-
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, eminent as a leader
Whether or not Mr. Cahan deserves
writers in this country - ' painful incidents which befell ias to visit the grave of Rabbi ; knew him when Zionism had mor (for no one ever dreamed of
barely appeared as a misty cloud
such punishment, those who have followed among his own people, has won his spurs ink "Is women
reading
his pamphlet) that this
there
any
historical
basis
for
•.
him,
including
a
long
period
in
Heir,
the
miracle
worker.
upon t h e intellectual horizon of
his career and have learned to admire in numerous non-Jewish and civic enter- the legend of the Jewish pope"
prison when he expected to be
graceful, aristocratic, masterly
Last year, when the railway the world. Theodor Herzl was, "causeur" had, without warning,
the man will be moved to a sense of deep , prises, and particularly in peace efforts.
"Who are some of the prominent 'sho t any moment, the reader officials offered a reduction to at that time, the leading feuille-
The current anti-war effort especially Jewish
written an obstruse treatise which
regret that the idol of the Jewish workers
movie stars?"
I
pneveyr seems to acquire any sym-
e N eue Freie Pressse; ot demanded
s: n hr a o ot u
those going to Tiberias and
r h t n h tm
or less
groups should have been destroyed so enlists him as an unquestioned leader in
"Who was the Jew who rescued
•
and the powerful influence of that than that the Jews
should lease
efforts to guarantee peace in the world. the famous lost battalion in the righteous Socialism is dissolved Sated, I determined to run over 'paper over all the cultured circles
cruelly, so heartlessly.
i
ho mes
%Vas?"
and take part in both these of old Austria and Germany in villas,
not only has he called upon his congrega-
in his self-pity. Even his very
their businessest a e ay n nill the r r
in the origin
swaying
celebrations which attract as those days can now hardly be
Soviet Punishes Anti-Semites tion to join in the anti-war parade, but he the "What
i
n
th
they
at
!entry
into
Russia
in
1919,
when
body s a tin prayer.
many Jews from all over the conceived. Let us only remem- emigrate, bag and baggage. to
Anti-Semitism continues to be a crime in and his associates participated in it by
These are but a few of the in- , he returned to a country which
ber that a single music critic like
lPicolne.ctinTeh,
toreeascttaibolnishn a f n ha Ls -
country and from the neighbor.
Soviet Russia, as is indicated by the fol- joining the ranks of the paraders in the triguing questions answered in the
Hanslik—an insignificant lever in
The first
pages of "The Oracle." The book he had left with the memory of
ing lands.
thin mechanism—wu for decades f d •
lowing special cable published in the New ministers' section.
oms
and
Czarist•c
viole
ogr
nt",
the questions and p
York Times:
Dr. W ise thus practices what he has retained
Armed with a railroad ticket a serious menace to the position at this "indiscretion" on the 'h p " a u rt
id
form of the newspaper fea• reveals • facet of Robin's char-
of Wagner and Hugo Wolff, and
preaches. As an anti-war crusader he answer
. Three workmen in Kalinin tool-making plant
tore so that its amazingly compre- aster that is displayed through- and carrying a small basket, that S peidel's word was no mere of an extraordinarily clever and
d eserves the commendation of all who ' hensive accumulation of facts is out his narrative. "Decidedly I managed, not without great
highly gifted author who, for that
outskirts of Moscow have been sen-
criticism, but the final pronounce-
tenced to ten years in prison for a heinous
compactly presented. The acres- better, therefore. not to disclose difficulty, to push my way into ; ment that decided the fate of any :matter, held an excellent position.
abhor war and crave for peace.
demonstration of anti-Semitism.
and surely had no cause for com-
aibility of these widely diverse that I was a Jew," Rubin mom- the coach and find a place drasm
ucahticwaws.ortk h.
What
is
even
more
encouraging,
how-
They caught • young Jewish fellow-worker,
plaint. Soon, however, they adopt-
is completed by an excellent ments in relating how he sailed
e position achieved
ever, is the fact that every denomination items
where
I
might
stand.
poured wood alcohol over him and net his
ed the invariable attitude to any
to Russia in the company of
by Theodor Herzl after his early 'event—facetious
deems it important to protest against war, index.
clothing afire. The blazing man rushed out-
resignation.
Although the author points out many White Russians who were
Almost all the travelers
from the post of I in :atr Kraus
draws and would have died had not a fellow-
braubs let fly a pamphlet —
to demonstrate for peace and to condemn in his forward that the book is not hostile to what he ostensibly were Ashkenazi Jews. Dressed advancement
Paris correspondent; and his lite title "Der
INA er--a Tartar whom the anti-Semitic
Konig von Zion"--
armed conflicts between nations. While intended as a game nor as • test stood for. At another time, in long coats and fur-edged readers were fascinated by his
group had also persecuted—caught him and
i m b e dded
reader knowledge, it can and when in Russia itself, he listened
essays,
now
faintly
tinged
with
extinguished the flames.
Dr. Wise was among the leaders in moving of
hats,
Chassidim
from
the
Old
in Herbl's skin for the rest ofd
b his
probably will serve admirably in to a most vicious attack upon
melancholy, now brilliantly spark.' life. When he entered the thea-
The management of the plant was criticized
for a mass demonstration for peace on the •these entertainment capacities, sups Jews in a home of White Russians Jerusalem City sat on their ling,
full
of
profound
pathos,
and
for permitting the development of • spirit
part of his congregation, other rabbis sim- plementary to its more serious office without doing anything more than bundles, their wives and chil- yet as lucid as crystal. When he ter, a handsome, bearded person-
that could lead to such a result.
age, grave and compellingly aris-
as a reference book. There is ter- to indicate in his diary that he
This is additional proof of a well-known ilarly followed the dictates of their con- tainly as much pleasure as profit thought he was the victim of per- dren beside them. The noise wrote he made trifles seem sig- tocratic in his demeanor, a Oils-
sciences.
Dr.
David
de
Sola
Pool,
Rabbi
nificant,
and
presented
important
and
commotion
was
deafening.
to
be
derived
from
"The
Oracle"
secution.
The
story
of
personal
tion arose on all sides: "Der
fact: that anti-Semitism is not only pros-
whatever use it may be put.
encounters, of personal impres-
I stood in a corner and looked matters most charmingly and Konig von Zion" or "His Majesty
cribed in Russia, but it is made a severely- Aaron L. Weinstein and other spiritual to Carl
Alpert, the author of "The lions. is supposed to be a vivid o ut upon fields lying waste for comprehensibly; the legeance of has arrived." This ironic title
leaders
were
in
the
lead
in
the
ministers'
punishable crime. Compared with the
his aphorisms, as well as his ironic
rule," though still • young Mall, commentary on the larger facts
peered at him through every con-
Russia of the czars, Soviet Russia is a para- unit in the anti-war parade. Perhaps this j; g been for
of history. But in the case of want of hands to till them. skepticism, revealed how much he versation, through every glance.
dise. If only the state's discrimination is an indication of what we may expect frail/tin to the AngTo-}Jewish press. Rubin, his narrative is so obnox- Now and then I caught a d had learned in Paris from hie: The papers vied with . one another
eeply beloved Anatole France.' in ridiculing the new idea—that
against Hebrew and the Jewish religion in the event of another war danger in this A member of the National Govern- s suely smug that he seems the I g limpse of Arab men and wom- None
was better able to give on-
ing Board of Young Judaea, he typical representative of the very, e n working and singing in fields
could possibly be eliminated from the country. It is well to know that the forces has
consciously what the Viennese; hi
for some time served that or- bourgeoisie whom the Soviet Karel 0
h die
for
peace
are
evidencing
courage
and
. aisn itwhwith
as iitn wHaser:t1°'st awn
f ripe grain. In the distance wanted. When, in collaboration! * bitteo
Communist program!
ganization
in
•
supervisory
capac-
been
trying
to
uproot.
Neue Freie Prense, to mention
I strength.
It
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