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Will the Christians Remember?
Rev. Edgar DeWitt Jones of Detroit
heads the group of Christian ministers
and educators. now in Palestine, to whom
Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York directed !
a plea that Christians should make
amends for centuries of persecutions of !
the Jews and should aid in Palestine's re-1
construction as the Jewish National Home.
It will be interesting to watch whether
this plea fell on deaf ears or whether it
will be remembered when these Christians
return to their homes in this country.
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The Dutch Queen's Rebuke
A report from the Hague, as published
in the Haager Kurier, states that Queen
Salitiet1 ResmSsup of the Torah
Wilhelmina refused to pay: a visit to her
Pentateuchal portion--Deaf. 3:23-7:11
kinsman, Duke Von \Vied. because he is
Prophetic:3-1s. 40:1-26
an anti-Semite.
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August 9, 1935
According to the story. the Queen plan-
ned to visit the Duke of Germany and to
be the godmother at the baptism of his
Our Friends
new-born son. But shortly before she was
Non-Jewish Americans are emerging in o make her visit. the press reported that
the present worldwide crisis for our peo- • t he entire territory in the Duke's neigh-
pie as the staunchest champions of justice borhood was plastered with signs: "The
and decency.
Jews are Swindlers," "The Jews Are Our
We have reason to rejoice over the ex- Misfortune," etc. When informed that
prmions of sympathy that come to us these signs were posted at the Duke's ini-
in the present crisis, and we feel that our tiative, the Queen cancelled her visit.
people should know the names of our
Here is an example which all fair-
good friends.
minded and liberal people ought to copy.
Little doubt remains that President If we can have the anti-Semites ostracized
Roosevelt himself today stands at the head ! from human society, it will help the world
of this body of friends. The statement solve the Jewish problem.
of sympathy expressed by Acting Secre-
tary of State William Phillips is definitely
No Intercession for Jews
believed to have the sanction and endorse-
rnent of our Chief Executive. The attitude , Here is a cable, from London, which
of our President is explained, in no un- gruesomely tells the Story of the Jew's
a
certain terms, in a despatch from Wash- helplessness, even when he represents
ington to the New York Times. This cor- great world power:
respondent stated:
Signor Fierat Cerruti, Italian ambassador
President Roosevelt declined at a press con-
ference to comment on the Bremen case or
other controversial questions involving United
States relations' with Germany.
In parrying griCations on the subject, how-
ever, he let stand without denial assertions
'Mae by Representative Emanuel Celler in a
speech in New York concerning the Presi-
dent's attitude on religions persecution in
Germany.
Mr. Celler, who conferred with Mr. Roose-
velt at the White House, said in his speech that
the President had expressed sympathy with
protests by American Jews against the treat-
ment accorded their co-religionists in Germany
and was in sympathy with protest meetings
in this country. Mr. Celler added that he knew
that the President had in the past protested
the religious persecutions to Ilj•lmar Schacht,
of the Reichsbank, and to Hans Luther, the
German Ambassador, telling Mr. Luther that
Winter had better beware."
When asked about these assertions, Mr.
Roosevelt said he could not discuss the speech
unless he had 'ten a copy of it. Then, when
asked specifically about the reported inter-
view with Ambassador Luther, who is now in
Germany on leave of absence, be told the
correspondents that they already bad the an-
swer to Out This left the correspondents
groping as to just what the President meant.
There was no authoritative explanation at the
White Ilouse.•
It appears clear to diplomats that the Presi-
dent has resorted to the convenient expedient
of domestic utterances in various forms to
snake clear his sympathy with the Jews and
members of other faiths whose co-religionists
in Germany are being persecuted. A formal
protest through diplomatic channels might in-
vite a response that he was interfering with
domestic affairs of a friendly government.
This indirect but nevertheless definite tech-
nique has been resorted to by former Presi-
dents and notably by Theodore Roosevelt
when be supported • public petition for trans-
mission to Ramis protesting Jewish pogroms.
Russia announced in advance that she would
not receive the petition and no it never was
presented, but the fart of its existence and
the President's intentions were sufficient to
emphasize his position.
Whether the President will decide that some-
thing farther 'should be done to make clear
his attitude on the religious question may
depend on future event&
Next to the President, a place of honor
in the list of Jewry's friends goes to Sen-
ator William King of Utah, whose out-
spoken condemnation of Nazi atrocities
was accompanied by a resolution urging
that the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee should investigate conditions in
Germany. This is not the first time that
Senator King has spoken in defense of
Jewish rights. Furthermore, he is an
avowed friend of the movement for the
upbuilding of Palestine. We value his
friendship and his name will be recorded
among the "Chassidei limos Ho-Olom"—
the benevolent among the nations of the
world.
Copgressman John D. Dingell of De-
troit, by taking the initiative to intercede
with Secretary of State Hull in protest
against the German outrages, and by join-
ing forces consistently with the enemies
of bigotry and persecutions, has proven
that he has earned the confidence placed
in him by the thousands of his Jewish
constituents.
But it is to the press of this country, and
to their correspondents in Germany, to
whom we feel particularly obligated in
the present tragedy. They have fearlessly
reported and recorded the brutalities that
are rampant in Germany. They are pre-
venting the bare facts for the consideration
of the public opinion of this country, with
the result that an emphatic voice is being
raised here in condemnation of the bru-
talities.
Special mention must be made of the
names of Frederick T. Birchall and Otto
D. Toliachus of the Berlin Bureau of the
New York Times. Not only are they,
together with their fellow-correspondents
of other American newspapers in Ger-
many, uncovering facts which the Nazi
regime is trying to hide from the world at !
large, but they are revealing the shame-
less manner in which Nazi periodicals are
fabricating news and distorting truth.
Messrs. Birchall and Tolischus are render-
ing the type of service which glorifies
American journalism.
We mention just a handful of our
friends. Their number is legion, and Ger-
rnan anti-Semites, by their insane and bar-
baric tactics, instead of gaining support
are building additional friendships. for
Jewry.
to Germany, has been transferred to the Ital-
ian embassy in Paris on his own request be-
cause he could no longer endure the Nazi
gibes and insults at himself and his wife be-
cause the latter is a Jewess, according to the
Sunday Referee. For more than a year the
German foreign, office has been demanding
Cerruti's recall solely because of his wife's
Jewishness but Premier Mussollini ignored
this demand until Signor Cerruti himself asked
for a transfer.
THE ORACLE
By CARL ALPERT
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ameba be ailinound • The sears
la awe of lama. Mayan Jesubit
Cluenkie, sad sionold b. aeons,
main! by ■ weir addreesed, stamped
canape.
Q. What is the exact wording of
the phrase in which a writer re-
ferred to the fact that the Sabbath
kept the Jews alive?-0. I. M.
A. It was Ahad Ha-Am who
said , "More than Israel has kept
the Sabbath. the Sabbath has kept
Israel."
• •
•
Q. Have there over been in-
stances of nuns among the Jews?
—T. P.
A. In the history of the Jewish
people there has been but one in-
stance of a woman who devoted
her life to the services of the Lord.
That woman was the daughter of
Jephtha who was forced into the
life by her father (Judges, XI, 34-
40). The rabbis of the Midrash
have decided against this type of
devotion, maintaining that woman's
place is properly in the home as
wife and mother.
• • •
Q. How many Jews have been
entering this country in recent
years '—S. F.
. A. Since 1921 when the immigra-
, Lion quota became effective and un-
til the middle of 1934, 276,699 Jews
were admitted to the United States,
according to the Hiss. Of these
40,615 came as students or visi-
tors.
• • •
Q. What is • Takkanah?—D. S.
A. A Takkanah is a rabbinical
enactment concerning Jewish law,
either stating a new explanation of
; a Biblical passage, or revising an
ordinance that no longer satisfies
the requirements of the times or
circumstances.
• • •
Q. What are Hertzian waves?
A. Rudolph Heinrich Hertz dis-
covered that light traveled in waves
; similar to electric waves, differing
' only in length and in rate of vi-
; bration. These light i waves were
named after their disco:toe:el.
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refereoro hook.
The "great" powers of Europe have
been consistent in one thing in their atti-
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On the Advantage of Being an Immortal
Tidbits from Everywhere
By AL SEGAL
By PH1NEA5 J. BIRON
I .
- Oh, oh," sighs my friend.
"And why this sighing no deep from your
abdomen?"
"Didn't you see the newspaper this morning?"
Yes, I saw it. Its first page was full of us..,
full about Jews. . . . In the big headlines. . . .
Nazis were demanding a rupture of diplomatic
Nazis were plot-
relations on account of us
Nazis were formenting a
ting new atrocities
world-wide anti-Semitism
"So what?" I asked him. "What difference
will it make in a hundred •years? Do you not
know what will be in a hundred years, my friend?
"In a hundred years you, the Jew, will be
walking one day on Einstein-strasse in Berlin in
the center of which will stand the majestic statue
of the great Jewish philosopher.
"Einstein-strass.e was to named because EM-
stein used to live on that street; the modest
house in which he resided will be a national shrine
and as you enter its door a uniformed attendant
will tell you that Einstein was God's greatest
. 'In
In this chair, sir, he ed
gift to
to sit among his books. This was his favorite
lead pencil. Here is his pipe which he so loved.
This is • lock of his hair.'
"You will remember that Einstein was an
exile from Germany in the Hitler time; this self-
same house was confiscated by the State. And
you will say to your wife, 'Ah, Isabelle, what
pain we suffered then but in a hundred years
it becomes good for the Jew again.'
"'That is the advantage of being people who
live forever,' Isabelle (who is far wiser than yon)
'We live to see everything always
will reply.
come out right in the end. We live and live and
in a hundred years we tee justice again.'"
"You, the Jew, will walk in the streets of
Berlin in a hundred years and your eye-lid will
pick up a grain of dust that has blown from
the grave of Hitler.
"This is all of Hitler. Ile had been olown
about here and there in swirls of dust and bad
been trampled underfoot and had lain in puddles
of gutters until the sun dried him and be went
flying again through the streets.
"His dust had rested awhile the flowing beard
An E ( or, and a Journaltst
ic•meet!,
Cpyorbt, 1 9 3S, recto A:t• Pea: ore r)nd, at I
tude toward Nazi tyranny: their "hush- I
•
hush" policy and their carefulness not to
antagonize Adolf Hitler.
Here is an instance of direct rebuke to
an accredited spokesman for the Italian
A Provocative Article by a Veteran English
government. But the only recourse this
Jewish Publicist
man had, in order to protect his own and
his wife's honor, was to ask for a trans-
By JACOB deHAAS
fer to another country.
Ile is an editor, and wields the lis a command of vocabulary, and
This does not speak honorably for the
tongue
v o
is my natie
tng
governments of Europe who are betraying blue pencil. I describe myself as English
alwar feel an assurancee in
their own citizens—if they happen to be l as a journalist, the more old) s t th e use o it that my friend the
fashioned would put me down sa l e d't
W ill never enjoy. The
I OT
Jews.
of a rabbi, had blown through the window of a
synagogue and had fallen for an instant on the
Scroll of the Law as it was being read, had been
swept out by the sexton, had gone into the streets
again, had come at length to your eye to irri-
tate it.
"'Oh, Isabelle,' you will say, 'I have caught
something in my eye.' And she, with a touch
of her handkerchief will rub it out.
"'It's just a speck of dust, Herman,' and
she will shake it from her handkerchief and
Hitler will go flying away again in the immortal.
ity that is for dust.
"Indeed, on that very day the Jews of Ber-
lin have their annual festival which is called
Hitler Purim and in all the synagogues the Hitler
Megillah is being read and the chief rabbi gives
his annual jubilee sermon.
"'We who live by ages,' says he, 'should
know to endure manfully today's pain; for in
a hundred years it will be well with us agaiii.
We live to walk upon the dust of our enemies,
to enjoy the vengeance which is not of our hands
but of history. So it has always been. So it is
on this day which we celebrate.'
Our gossiper,
i) 5 A
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ha•iny clth•
Bled out ■ week's vacation,
we are fortunate to be able
to present, through the con,
tesy of The New York Mir.
ror and with the CO-Operation
of Walter Winchell, Ben
Hecht, famous playwright and
author, as guest columnist.
• In the old days, when the Aorl,
I was pushing them around a hit. th
Jews knew why they were hater
It was the reward for being a Jell
I God loved. you but the goyim hate
you. And this seemed to them fai
' eno Buog th.t.day,
when it is omiou
that God loves nobody—least of a;
the Jews—the hatred of the mix
' is a little more complicated and in
finitely more difficult to bear.
• • •
Religious folk don't mind bait
■ hated. They, as a rule, embrace th
hatred of the infidel as a tisti
menial to their piety and a tea
: of their spiritual valor. And i
'need be they go singing, rathe
:smugly, to their death, leaving th
world to the devil and his myi
t ; mil do hn e s.dows today, alae. are not
"The speck of Hitler dust has blown on the
religious but a social folk. Th
stairway of the synagogue and is trampled by a
continuation of the old persecutio
thousand feet as the congregation departs. The
I finds them therefore unarmed. A
Jews are hurrying home for the feast of which
a religious folk, they were as spit
the center is Hitler sponge cake just as haman-
itually valorous on any 01
I Guard, and they held their heal
taschen is the festal dish of Haman's Purim.
i high against calumny and can
"Thus it will be in a hundred years, my
Imo. As a social folk, howevc
friend, for thus we have always in time walked tih nt
ei ere
r. a rather new phenorneno
upon the dust of our enemies; thus we have
and they haven't learned how 1
take a snub. Even when the snu
always enjoyed sweet holidays on their account.
is administered by so declasse
"Why should I get excited on account of the
human being as the androgynot
pain in today's newspaper. I, the Jew, shall be
• • •
here in a hundred years and I shall be going
On the other hand, I suppos
about my affairs, doing my part, riving what
that nobody could have hurt tl7
light I have, chuckling (but without insolence)
Jews as much as Germans. An
at the way of history which rolls me in the mud
the blame, sadly enough, Felons
to the Jews. When this tough an
in one century and sets me on the mountain
cantankerous religious sect begs
in the next.
to suffer its first great spiritui
"In one century it set the oppressor on my
dissolution in the early 19th Cei
tury, it learned to walk as a wort
back and in the next he is only a grain of
' citizen on German soil. It learnt
dust in my eye."
LIGHTS FROM
SHADOWLAND
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Reproduction In part or whole forbid-
den without pernilwnon of the Seven
Art. Feature S9ndicate. •opyrIghtera of
this feature
EDITOR'S NOTE: Louis
from
our
readers all of the serious and
fussy aspects of life in Hol-
lywood. Hollywood has be-
come the world's center of
sae of the greatest indus-
tries today. Among the lead-
ing figures in the artistic and
creative field are personal.
ices of
4 special iatermt to
you. Mr. Pekaraky s column
d eal
al with them.
Peknrsky's "Licht.
Saadowland" will tell
a publicist, because I discuss problem is not one of the choice
. ap-
problems.V) e met for a that o f words By the time this
about the world and its ways, ; P"" in print the editor will have
s a n ritt i vin of te rv ea er d a er
An interesting lesson is to be observed and being Jews the con versationi ww
ways
timen ,
erailwed
from the annual report of the Keren Kaye- turned upon the Jewish problem. ;that something was achieved in
meth le Israel (Jewish National Fund) ( Said he: "We are down and out.; Washington, that Mr. Phillips in '
just made public. It is stated that a total ! We just can't do a thing." Said diplomatic language rebuked Ger- I
"You mean that the routine many, and I have no doubt that'
of 1283,429 (approximately $1,400,000) i I: Pdproa
nt the organi , za-
eh t gove m nts h fa?. he will compliment
was contributed to this most important !a e us. '
rom wi ich
"react y non on th r effort.
fund for the redemption of the soil of ■ so • There i s nothing we
w can do You good reader will get a cer-
PROMPTITIS
impression.
Palestine to become the inalienable prop- to relieve the tension," and he tain
into a simple but very co- : Now the truth is that this
HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—Rube
erty of the entire Jewish people. A com- went
argument, relating his ex- editor does not believe a word of Goldberg, who has turned au-
parison in amounts collected in the five gent
penences. Said I: "You neither •
shock
nor
amaze
me.
This
has
such
statements.
In
fact
he
feels
thor, says he is slightly cuckoo
leading contributing countries is of im-
from always being on time for
been obvious to me 'since April, more hurt than I do at Mr. Phil-
portance. To quote the report:
1933, I told you so at that time. lips let down of the Jews, perhaps appointments. He suffers sev-
and that is why I have retired because he regards himself as an
The first place among the receipts of the
erely
ere y from this disease known
from all the organizations that advocate who has the ungracious
Keren Kayemeth le Israel belongs to Eng-
keep up the pretense of moving and unpleasant duty to defend a as promptitis on opening nights
land. The amount of 1934 receipts exceed by
mountains." He turned swiftly. cause in which obviously he has at theaters. He tells us: "I have
150 per cent those of 1933. This is a record
a bad case. Yet he not only en- gone to first night
"What are we to do?"
opening for
unprecedented ever before.
1 lit my pipe and slowly blew gages in that defense but I am over a score of years and have
Second to England comes the United States
a
cloud
of
smoke
in
his
direction.
certain
that
in
a
polemic
he
will
of America, ordinary receipts and donations
read the legend, 'Starts at
He eyed me keenly. "T ell the take his side with heat and vehe.
of land. The ordinary contributions in that
truth." lie shook his head. "It menee because he feels the truth 8:40,' hundreds of times. Yet
country have increased from $124,000 in
can't be done, we cannot afford to mutt be kept from the public, I have not learned my lesson.•
1933 to $180,000 in 1934 (including $32,000
tell the Jewish pu bl ic the truth. and institutions must be protected Only the other night I received
for the Kfar Ussishkin campaign).
It would hurt too much." I smiled. from criticism. 1 am not enquir-
The third place occupies Poland with all its
two tickets for a premiere that
"I think the public suspects it a ing into the ethics of the problem
provinces—LP 35,00.
The fourth place belongs to Palestine, where
long while. Anyway 1 have no because there is no hypocrisy in- promised to be the hit of the
hesitation about telling the truth. tended. It is merely a view as to . year. I tried to take things
the total amount of contributions reached
I think it helps, or it will help what the public can digest, or calmly and cooly. But when I
LP30.700, including LP3.331 from the Arks-
even if it puts half the existing what is the "public interest."
oroff Campaign, LP 1.950 from the German
started to dress the hands of
organisations out of business as . The same problem presented
Relief Fund and LP. 6.667 from the Kfar
Ussishkin Campaign. It is noteworthy that
I useless and inept in this great itself at i the time of President ' my little watch wrapped them-
emergency."
He
hammered
on
Roosevelt
s
inauguration.
F
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r
selves around my neck and
the small Palestinian population has contrib-
uted such a large amount; it constitutes the
his desk.
"The thing is abso- some days prior the bank panic Chocked me until I screamed
greatest financial achievement of the Keren
lutely impossible. Thousands of was in full swing. The news- to my wife, 'Come on, come-on,
Kayemeth le Israel in the country( in 1933
men are scared as to the situa- papers "in the public interest"
the receipts in Palestine amounted to about
Lion arising in this countr•," he took that news off the front page let's go.' My temperature, pulse
LP 13.000).
gave me some instances, and then and buried it in their financial and blood pressure—all went
reports where the general public up to
The fifth place occupies Germany, where
continued, "I can't preach despair w
8:40. When we reached
as not apt to look
i t. My
the Keren Kayemeth le Israel receipts show
and impotence. We may be bluf-
judgment at the time was that the theater it was empty. A
an increase of 150 per cent as compared with
fing as you say, but it is bluffing
in the common interest." the press blundered, and that the young woman ushered us down
the receipts of 1933. The total amount of
For a time I puffed leisurely at rumors which spread did,infinitely , the aisle and left us alone in
receipts in Germany was RM. 441.000, a rec-
more harm than the worst of a boundless wilderness of emp-
ord unknown in that country up till now.
my Pipe, then I resumed the con-
versation:
"I do not despair in news would have done if squarely
RM 71.000 out of the above total represent
ty seats. I memorized the pro-
seas..
What worries me and honorable presented.
:
the contributions made by the "Werkleute"
your
people for the purpose of their settlement on
Another instance has happened gram, the names of the play's
mostly is this. You intentionally
land to be purchased by the K. K. L
mislead the public—you do it in within the last few days with re- writer, business staff and cast
The fact that a much larger sum was the public's interest—I think the spect to the German situation. No I read and reread several times
collected from the 350,000 Jews in Eng- +misleading is the greatest harm, sooner had the news as to the over the little biographies in
and against the public interest treatment of the Jews reached a the back of the program. I
land than from the 4,000,000 Jews in the I The
crisis
a disah
t e a
p-
at
avenge man is busy with his certain c
United States, that impoverished Poland private
counted the cracks in the
he a c onf e rence
affairs. He wants to do peered tellingtofn
was a close second to this country, with what is right, help as fay as he which Hitler and his aides had asbestos curtain, the creases in
the 300,000 Jews in Palestine coming ! can. You tell him in effect to cooled down the attack. Within the drapes It was four min-
you know, it is; 48 hours the story that con- Mei; after 9 when the actors
fourth and Germany fifth is proof of one back • horse that
no longer a matter ofastilittg ference was denied with the added
'poke their first lines and hordes
thing: the closer one is to the scene of ; , with
you—will never run. If this information that all active signs
Jewish troubles the more liberal one must were • real horse race he would pointed in the opposite direction. of people swarmed down the
become. It is an unfortunate fact that the know you were • bad tipster in The motive no doubt was the ; aisles.... I misted every word
few minutes, and then he would same. To decrease the tension.
that was spoken during the
most blessed community in the world, • distrust
you thereafter. It is The result was something else. I
American Jewry, failed to respond to the however the reverse of a race. believe it created an impression first 15 minutes of the show!"
• • •
plea of millions of oppressed who are It spins itself out over the years. which is part of the impression
clamoring for a haven in Palestine. The I The average man will not even re- which his persisted since April, JESSEL—AN AUTHOR
George Jessel, (the fellah
in
that you advised him to 1933, the hope that may be, per-,
more nationally-owned land there is avail- 'ember
faith in this or that. haps, by this or that circumstance', who always calls op his
able the more Jews will be settled in Pal- . have
the
German
policy
will
change.!
e will come to the KMe
mother on the telephone while
estine, and the limited possessions must tion as the German Jews who pool-
un- In so far as such • view persisted I
force the limiting of Jewish colonization. derstand nothing of what has there is created that see-saw judg- be's on the stage) whose popu-
ment that forbids and prevents; larity with Southern California
Unfortunately, these comparative fig- happened to them, don't even concentration
and the discovery
ures correspond also with the collections understand it when they are forc- of a possible policy that with all stage and radio audiences) is at
ed to flee. I know it is unpopular
for German-Jewish relief and for the a but I have been nailing your odds against it may prove helpful. great height now, has just been
Let me cite another instance. signed as • writer. not a come-
funds for major Palestine's upbuilding. EMI god Blah for
Or SISO years.
These figures tell a pathetic story of the , because in my judgment the first In all well informed circles there dian. for Joseph Schenck 's new
wss
common agreement that the
is
20th Century—Fox Films. Jes-
failure on the part of a fortunate corn- ' action towards a remedy
get the blab out of the way" appointment of James J. )(xenon- *el will now have an opportuni-
munity to hearken to the cries of the op- to Words,
as
the League High Commis-
ideas and information aid
noner for dealing with expatri- ty to put his wisecracks and hu-
pressed.
being the professional
mor for which he is famous into
trade I will not further detail this ate( from Germany was a mistake.
which
covered
•
wide
!This was not a reflection on Mr. scripts for someone else. Until
A Jewish detective was injured during conversation
Everyone had and now he has always been an
In writing abort it, I ! MacDonald.
the rioting on the S.S. Bremen, when the field.
merely seek to proves, • free- I has the highest opinion of him.
Nazi swastika emblem was hauled down for-all discussion on the merits! lie risked his reputation and de- actor. Of course, you recall
and trampled upon. Matthew Solomon's of the policy. We were for in- serves the highest praise and the that Georyie is married to his
thanks. But it was on new boss's former wife, Norma
name may be anathema to Nazis, but stance agreed as to the unquall. i greatest
in t the judgment . of cool Talmadge. The deal and sign-
fied
anfiri
aniludrn of thes.delegation ()t
to ; cards. eni
they are compelled to swallow down his %
ther e was j
e. 1 seed the more observes
devotion to duty when, as a Jew, he was picturesque language to describe chance in a hundred that the ing was handled by another
Nations
would do some- -Jewish film magnate. Darryl
prepared even to defend the rights of his Acting Secretary Phillips letter to League of
(TLEALE MAX TO MIXT PAGI)
(FLIASI TURN ro MET ?sari
the delegation. Language however
own enemies.
A Comparison in Figures
Strictly
Confidential
(PLEASE TORE TO NEXT PAGE)
Jews as Creative Musicians
Eminent Singer and Composer Says Belief to the
is Popularized by Anti-Semites
Contrar
By ALBERT RAPPAPORT
Formerly Tenor of Chicago Opera Company
Ever since higher Anti-Semit-
Neglect in Giving Credit
ism made its appearnce on the I What then, constitutes the cam
intellectual horizon in Germany, of the everlasting pondering ma
I
the Jews have been subjected to the achievement of the latter as
the negligent mention of the to
the reproach that they are devoid
' mei.? Personally I believe it is tl
of creative musical genius. This !universal neglect of the music
chord or discord has been harped I historians to investigate the so
upon in a single key. Even such I ject involved that is responsible
this gap. I feel that there is a va
fanatics as Wagner, Renan, Vol- I amount of material to be olataini
taire, etc., did not deny that the I relative to the Jews in treatises I
JEW))
played an important and ' music written both in the earli,
prominent part in the musical af- centuries and during our own tint
; before the great problem as '
fairs of the world, but of course
their contention was that they were I whether the latter was influence
! by the former or vice versa et
merely influential factors rather
. be solved. '
than leaders, and that at most they
But let us come back to the a
can be said to posses talent—crea-
tive genius toeing outside their founded 'statement of our 191
I century trio which has disturb
sphere.
The relation between the ordi- and yet influenced the minds I
some of our co-religionists. ili
nary Jew-baiting and the "scienti-
I the Jew established himelf as
fic" anti-Semitism of Wagner,
innovator in the realm of musil
Renan or Voltaire can scarcely be
Indeed "yes". A brief survey I
delineted.
several names from the long es
Deplorable as it is that the dis- lery
of Jewish musical genius
torted views of the cynic Voltaire,
will substantiate our statement
the renegade Renan and the highly
The first and foremost of the
gifted but just as highly conceited
innovators was Timothy of Mil
and egotistic Richard Wagner
tus, an ancient Jew and a confer
should enjoy such a wide vogue
porary of Plato. He not only rev
among the intellectuals with an lutionized the
musical form of tin
artistic bend of mind, it is nothing
period, but added four new strini
more than pathetic to find that to the cithara. With the advent I
even so many of our own people
Christianity we find that Jose Is
are carried away by the prestige
ea, • Jew living in the northei
of these men, and accept their pro- part of Spain,
has arranged tl
nouncements as "Sacrosanct."
then unknown harmonic pogre
Record of Jews in Music
s p ilo an in fso
ng
ora. Catholic church hym
This is due perhaps to the fact
borrowing some Rabbinical nob
that the musical theorists,encyclo- found in an ancient collection
pedists and historians have always
slurred and have treated in a nig-
In the study of the Rena,sne
gardly fashion the great genius of
the Jews in music, and it will be we find ■ long list of names
many decades before the place of Jewish composers, who were en
the Jews in the development of played in the court of Pope Leo I
music is even approximately such
as Jacopo Sansecondo at
established.
Let us turn a few pages of an- Gionini Maria. Also most not
cient history and note from the worthy mong them was the famot
was the co o
is
Rossi,
start a fact worthy of serious at- Saolnamo. ne oR
tention. The author of Genesis musician and composer to the Pal
names Juba), the son of Lemaeh, as Conagas of Mantau.
the inventor of music. Later on we
The Jewish Composers
see in the Biblical passages refer- h aTh
ai
va egt A vo r
map claim that
ence to the musical attainments of
the tires
Y
n at n o a tm
he a
Miriam, David, Deborah, and the eat three B composers, name).
cravings of Saul for musical ex- Bach, Beethoven and Brehm•, bl
pression. Still further, we find that cannot we Jews also boast oil
the musical services of the Temple pride of the same contributio
formed part and parcel of Israel's having given the three greatest I
ritual, and only a slight acquaint- composers such as Meyerheer, Met
ance with the Psalms is sufficient delesohn and Mahler, who havin
to convince even the most skeptical lived in three different contort.
I of the musical appreciation of the have created a specifically new as
, Ilebrews 3000 years ago and ear- distinct form in music?
Among the ultra modernists
; hier.
Contrary to the apologetic men-
the present musical era who hi
tion of some sympathetic histori- Schonberg, Korngold, Ravel, Tan:
ans as to the musical sense among man,
Tedesco, Florent Schmitt an
the ancient Jews, much about % erpnn can claim leadershij
Greek music has been written. The
Poor Wagner! flow his fulmiru
Greek modes and the tetrachords
tions to stem the tide of Jricil!
have been expatiated on the great-
influence in the world have cos
est of detail, but in spite of many
to naught Would he Tilt has
centuries of research in this field,
turned
in his grave if he kne
very little is known about the out-
Ravel, Duke
standing figures of Greek music. that the music of
Bloch and others have the supres
acy over his at present?
ON TEMPER
We have briefly indicated an
Four means of temper dominate all surveyed the creative music
minds
genius of the Jewish race since Ii
Who chooseth wrongly his own rea- , first pages of Genesis until It
r
. e
son blinds:
n s a n,f:m
present
e a a . t oehas
era.
nn cy,
j been r pe;v Or rik
thi
With ease provoked, with like ease on more than one
pacified,
we have
tendency to
(The fallacy within the virtue's many
lost)
But the matter of fact is that
With difficulty roused, yet hard to anything our ignorance leads v
calm,
to err in the opposite direction.
(He Lath • virtue at a soul's great hundred fold, becalm,' of the
p
cost.)
guised names of so manY ce .
Then eometh he who acts with bated
ted Jews and their no/I.-lona
wickedness,
associations. The genius of th
With labor calmed, whose anger Jew
creative
the realm
lacks restraint;
sic
ew is in not and must ofnot tieLp w:
th
Then he who angers not ; and ed. In the
Hall of Fame under
quickly calms,
golden canopy supported by •
(He reasonth, and liveth as • millions of Jewish pillars
mint.)
stands erect and proud. "