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concluded, we proceed to a brief ish National .Home constitute an
What 10 books that were writ- summation of each of the 10 "books important departure from what
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ten by Jews and that were pub-
has appeared hitherto in English.
lished in America during the 1934- of the year."
"The Forty Days of Musa Dagh" It is for that language what books
35 book erases will outlast the
transitory life of the circulating by Franz Werfel should be read by such men as Dr. Hugo Herr.;
library? There are occasions when a century from now with the same mann and Dr. Alfred Bonne are in
there might be sharp differences absorption and emotional enthrall- the German.
SEASON'S
Other Books Mentionable
of opinion; but this year there is, ment which mark its reader today.
with two or three exceptions, a It is not merely the account of the
In the field of the novel a num-
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reverent
self-assertion
of
t
h
e
clean breach between permanent
ber of volumes appeared that de-
additions to our body of literature American people against fate and serve listing. These include "Only
and those books which fail, either particularly against the Turks. It the Fear" by Lenore Marshall, the
I extend sincere wishes to
in theme or execution, to embody sympolizes the seemingly endless extremely well done "Camberwell
struggle of the minority to free Beauty" by Louis Golding, "Tara- I
the Jewish people for a
lasting qualities.
itself from the physical and spirit.
Ilappy and Prosper-
This reviewer's choices of the ual oppression of the majority. The bas" by Joseph Roth, "Three Men i
year's best books are as follows: greatness of Werfel's theme has Die" by Sarah G. Millin, "City of I
ous New Year!
Friends"
by
Elias
Tobenkin,
"The
I
In Fictioat
been matched by the beauty with
"The Forty Days of Musa which he had etched it in words. Life and Death of David Markand"
Dash" by Fran. Worfel
Not since "Power" of several years by Waldo Frank, "Florian" by
The Foundry," by Albert ago has there been a novel of equal Felix Salten, "Salvation" by Sho-
magnitude in conception and ex- lom Asch, "Honour Come Back" by
Helper.
Naomi Jacob. "Beyond Woman,"
"Coed of Promise" by Leo ecution.
the greatest achievement of Maur-
Lani ■ •
Henry 1 Albert Helper is the most com- ice Samuel, was an extraordinary
"Call Is Sleep" by
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I petent Jewish writer of the "pr o- study of the mechanism of a be-
h e F o a u n n d i r s y:: wildered mind against the back-
g ef t . a u ri p an'w. he nr oeveh l.. "The
MARSHAL
Ra 't'h ierkheven's Third Exist. I pialated
heerffourleffirgounrte.ofThhiiss ground of other minds equally con-
cenahnidmainpotw
once" by Jakob Wassermann.
fused. From the point of psycho-
In Non-Fiction:
logical craftsmanship it would de-
y ,, an bd .
da rm
nu. S. t. ate of in RofT fe hr eo
7 Ehe
novel of industrial life, as ob-
Practice" by Harold J. Laski. , served in an engraving plant, gives serve inclusion among the five best
fiction books of the year. Its pow-
Helper the opportunity to present er!' of perception bespeak not
Stefan Zweig.
not only men and women but the
"Autobiography of Michel de conditions which mold them. Hal- merely the noveliest but the pro- Best Wishes for a Happy,
Montaigne" edited by Marvin per is the one Jew who can right- found student of modern culture. Prosperous and Healthy New
Books in the non-fiction field
Lowenthal.
fully and fully take his place
Year to All Our Friends and
"Jesus" by Edmond Flag.
among the younger Americans who which the reader may want to re-
Patrons
"Jews in Palestine" by Abr.. are revolutionizing the American call for possiblle reference in se-
ham Revusky.
literary outlook. He still lacks the lecting books that may be readable
In the field of fiction there is a mature understanding which richer more than six months from now
much richer fare this year than experience will probably bring him. include: "A Panorama of German
there was last year. Preferences But at the present moment he Literature" by Felix Bertaux,
in these matters are, of course, seems to have the fight for pen- "Men and Woman," Magnus
Hirschfeld's last book, Emil Lud-
subjective. Last year the choices etrating the curtain of life.
wig's excellent "Ilindenburg," Jo-
were: "Three Cities" by Sholom
The
highly
prized
quality
of
ob-
Asch: "The Oppermanns" by Lion jec tivity, which is always demand- seph Roth's "Anti-Christ," Avra-
ham Yarmolinsky's "Dostoevsky"
Feuchtwanger: "Last Pioneers" by
critics who hate to be stirred
Melvin P. Levy; "One Happy Jew" emotionally by facts which they which practically deserves inclu-
sion in the first five non-fiction
by Nat J. Ferber; and "Long Ile- ed
■
wou b l y d rather avoid, is to be found books, "The World as I See . It" by
member" by Mackinlay Kantor.
in Leo Lania's "Land of Promise." Albert Einstein and "The Curse
In non-fiction the choices last After a brief introduction to Jew-
year were "How Odd of God" by fah life in Poland during the war of Bigness," a collection of the
papers of Mr. Justice Louis D.
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y,
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ICApyrighl. 1935, by a. A. P. a.1
Kaplan; "Illstory of Palestine" by invited by General Ludendorff and
Jacob de liaas; "I Was a German" where they could begin a new life,
by Ernst Toiler; and "The Quest as the Yiddish posters along the
for Security" by Dr. I. M. Rubi- countryside promised them.
now.
Te hrough the personalities of a
The selection of what this writer Jewish
j
girl and her father on one
A Ilappy New Year to You
regards as the "ten foremost"
The Hebrew Sheltering and im-
books of an arbitrary publishing the other, Lenin synthesizes the migrant Aid Society (HIAS) with
All From
season illuminates a topic that Sik
and
an
Aryan
professor
on
headquarters
at
425
Lafayette
St.,
can Germany, insofar as a novel
lends itself to special treatment at c n surpass the daily news dis- New York City, has issued an
this time in view of the situation patches in summarizing a present urgent call for funds with which
in Germany, where for more than historical event.
to carry on its work. The plea is
two years the Nazis have been up-
The moaning and wailing heard signed by Abraham Herman, the
rooting the alleged and actual a few paragraphs back must sub- president of the society. The call
dominance of Jews in important side into a respectful silence in reads as follows:
German literature.
of presence of Henry Roth, author "To the Jews of America:
Out of the 10 books mentioned f "Call It Sleep." Ile knows the
"It is unnecessary for us to tell
above only two are by native Amer- life of. Jews, the life of the poor, what is happening to the Jewish
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lean writers. These are Albert the alarms and the hopes which people across the seas. The news-
Helper and Henry Roth. Marvin :ace through the average mind. papers are full of the accounts of
Lowenthal is, of course, an Amer- His dissection of the personality of the persecution to which the Jews
Scan, but in view of the eclectic she
y.e Jewish youngster of New of Germany are being subjected.
character of the book for which he
East Side is a first novel These conditions have thrown upon
is responsible, he is eliminated which needs no patronizing because IIIAS added responsibilities and
from the tabulation. Year after It is a first. Hope which flickered burdens. Together with its asso-
year this same proportion prevails, out is rekindled into enthusiasm elate, the ICA, IIIAS has under-
revealing either the incompetence by Henry Roth. If he can maintain taken the great and impelling task
In All Listed and Unlisted
or the indifferent quality of the the pace he has net for himself he of finding new homes for German-
Childhood Correspondence average American Jewish, writer. will be a major person on the Jewish refugees who are spread
During the past year there were American literary scene.
Through Young Israel
over the 28 countries in which the
books byWaldo Frank and Ed-
Brings Friendship
proportion of two Euro- Society is functioning and of those
ward Dahlberg, although the novel pein The
Jews and two American Jews Jews who will still have to leave
by the latter deserves only the most
More than a quarter of a cen- glancing consideration. There Is a is again unbalanced by the fifth Germany. HIAS must be prepared
selection among the five most im- to render to our brethren who
tury ago, a little girl's letter ap- magnificent stylist like Robert Na- portant novels. It is the posthum- must go to new lands every pos-
peared in the children's corres- than and a developing novelist like ous "Kerkhoven's Third Exist- sible help. HIAS and its affiliate
Benjamin Appel. The name of Lud- ence" — the most impressive of is the organization in charge of
pondence column of the maga.
Lewisohn too may be included
tt for World Jew-
Wassermann's latter novels. migrat ion matters
zine, Young Israel, which is the wig
even though he is not a native. Jakob
In this autobiographical dirge ry. It has undertaken to bear the
monthly juvenile publication of But when one has mentioned these Wassermann unburdens himself of cost of transportation of victims
Members:
the Union of American Hebrew names one has virtually exhausted the agonies, the doubts, the bitter of Nazism to their new homes
the list of .those who may be con- disillusionment which have been whenever necessary. All this, is in
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Congregations.
sidered anywhere near the van-
It was answered by another lit- guard of native American litera- the lot of his major literary char- addition to the Society's general
acters. His portrait of a woman activities of aiding Jewish mig-
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is the most devastating study of rants wherever they may be.
followed between the two. A ture.
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With but the exceptions noted
"HIAS needs funds and these
warm friendship resulted and, abve, the Jew as • writer has done the feminine sex that we know.
Wassermann's last testament to immediately, with which to do this
through their letters, the two
enrich the literary creativ- the world is an explanation of his
saving work. This is a plea to the,
girls came to be devoted to each little
ity of America. Ile has been en-
other. Last week, their friend- gaged in writing popularly success- career and an introduction to his Jews of America• to come to the
literary
spirit.
aid of IIIAS so that IIIAS may be
ship had its happy culmination in ful novels, such as those of Edna-
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The pre-eminent international in a position to care for the thous-
Buffalo, N. Y., when, for the first Ferber and Fannie Hurst. There
time in the 26 years they have is the acidy talent of Tess Slesin- position of Harold J. Laski as a ands of our unfortunate brothers
I
and
sisters
who
are
the
hapless
synthesizer
of
academic
politico-
been corresponding, they met in ger, the sprawling volubility of
person.
Michael Gold. Whether it be the economic theories with the facts of victims of oppression and of in-
One of the little girls is now literature of the beaten path, of modern life is further strengthened tolerable conditions. Let the re-
Mrs. Maurice Rivo of Buffalo and which Thomas Wolfe is the current by his "The State in Theory and sponse to this appeal be commen-
her guest is Mrs. Louis G. Fein- best representative, or the liters- Practice." Notable for its persu- suratewith the greatness of the
stein of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Can- tore of a new outlook upon life, as asive prose and the clarity which need."
ada.
mirrored in Robert Cantwell or it introduces into even the most
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Six of last year's major radio
In 1909, Mrs. Feinstein, then John Dos Passos—the Jew takes Laski's book is an unparalleled in-
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Emelia Selker of Toledo, saw the secondary rank. it cannot be said troduction to a
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Israel. She wrote her a letter, work in American literature. It is Laski stops abruptly after having Lou Holtz, all Jews.
was promptly answered, and the merely that the so-called genius for been pushed forward headlong by
has
run
pretty
thin
in
correspondence continued through writing
the force of his views. He becomes
school days, from one section of American Jews.
hesitant to affirm vigorously the
Streicher's Stupidity
the country to another, in times
This may be due to two factors, only conclusion to which his prem-
Season's Greetings and B•-t
of happiness and sorrow, through both springing from the same ises can arrive.
of
The Pester Lloyd of Budapest all the experiences of their lives. source. The American writer
W ishes
"Erasmus"
is
treated
with
ten-
rule,
been
carries the following story: They exchanged snapshots fre- Jewish origin has, as a
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der care by Stefan Zweig, because
the . scene
•Campaign of the provincial quently and knew just how the
he regards the humanist as an
he is void farm le an d
leader Streicher against 'Jewish other one looked. Their lives careful
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which to amost
"on he can c ontribute exemplar after whom the liberal
Medicine, we hear from Berlin: have run along the same channels.
for tar:: of today must model his own life.
Including Tax
recre
The attacks of the national social- Death, births, and weddings have whose
most. He
has gone looking t
The
conflict
between
Erasmus
and
o
neemeenspsi
irh
d to occur simultaneously.
enev,a
istic leader Julius Streicher against a m er e s meRi
spirit he Luther, and the entire background
"Jewish" medical science continue.
itair°encateraisn;dics
the Protestant Reformation are
gh- cdh
inhsteeirin
sons and a laugh-
except in the cold,
scient of
The latest issue of the periodical FeT
-
i is s a ten
1!
i-
treated with understanding and
ter.
i fic analytical approach. ndoubtedly
As a Jew, sympathy. For those who enjoy the
German People's Hygiene of blood
inter- Ludwig Lewisohn is u
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and Soil, edited by Streicher, con-
children,
reatest representative of his interpretation of history through
tains an artiele by his substitute, rated in newspaper correspon- the greatest
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analysis of the molders of that his-
Karl Holz, under the title "Conspi- dente columns and they write to race American literature. His tory, Zweig's biography is an es-
" failure to reach the supreme height sential book to read.
racy Against the Blood,' in which other children in several foreign
to which his unrivaled human corn-
the author tries to prove that Jews countriea.
e sh sc o e u n Id e
In his portrait of Michel de Mon-
wi sh
only cultivate medical science in
lin a g nd w eix th quits hi e te jp eros
that taigne, as assembled in "The
p bring
. as d sioan him
is due to the fact
order to kill non-Jewish people.
Compliments
Autobiography of Montaigne,"
" " • N.lion
The whole modern medical science D'ilrseli
ee je of
Judaism" (Lon-
In his "Genius
has failed to co-relate it to t he Marvin Lowenthal has recreated
is said to be only fraud, whether don: E. Moxon, 1833) Isaac 1.) Is-
of
one of the outstanding personali-
it is carried en by Jews or in their . j mall maintains that "The Jewish EW world conditions. Ludwig
- ties of modern history and given
Lewisohn
has
assumed
lspirit by non-Jews.
' people are not a nation, for they
mala- him a glowing human quality that
Medicine which should be recog- consist of many nations. They . . live in a vacuum, that their
makes his views and characteristics
I nixed and trusted must emanate reflect the colors of the spot they dies are indigenous d and their
isola- of immediate interest.
from German blood. Only he is rest on. The people of Israel are problems can be solve i thin" ranks The subject of Jesus is always
"The Island W
German who keeps away from like water running through vast with
tion. some
of the best novels Amer- beclouded by the controversial ele-
!Jews instinctively.
countries, tinged in their course
o
bf historicity
and creed.
produced. And yet its great-
meet.oth
I The article turns against Rudolf with all the varieties of the soil In ic ♦ has restricted greatness, fail- Edmon
Flees biography has taken
a
Virchow who looked like a Jew, which they deposit themselves . nees Is the
. which is Jesus' life for granted and is
universal
glow
against the discovered of the tuber- Every native Jew, as a politica l the mark of all enduring literature. cerned not with the new religious
mark Frank has understood to founder but with the intrinsic man.
de bacillus, Robert Koch, who is being, becomes distinct from other the Waldo
said to have been married to a Jews. The Hebrew adopts the hos- a greater extent the interdepend - The incomparable poetry of Fleg's
Jewess, against the Jew Paul Ehr- tilities and alliances of the land, once of the modern world, but mysticism is peculiarly adapted to
lich, who invented Salvarsan and where he was born. He calls him- Frank is primarily an essayist and I a study of the men and women who
introduced chemotherapy which self by the name of his country."
has a less pen- surrounded Jesus and gave his life
not a novelist. He
Wishing All My Jewish Friends and Patrons A Bayer
meaning.
brought the Jews many billions
etrading intuition than Le
German
and Prosperous New Year
The only book among the 10 that
and condemned millions of
There in a custom of repairing into the motives and aspirations
is of primary importance to con-
people to suffering and death," to • river or to other running wa-
men and women.
of
temporary
Jews
as
such
is
Abra-
against Emil von Behring, the hus- ter on the first day of the New
The ability to burnish words un- ham Revosky's "Jews in Pales-
band of a Jewess, against the Jew Year when it does not fall on ■
they glitter Is not always the
A scholar of wide cultural
Wassermann and the Jew Neisser. Saturday and saying certain pray- til
chief requirement of a novelist. tine."
The efforts of these greatest can be ers of repentance. The ceremony is This was demonstrated by Robert background, Mr. Revusky is dis-
wiped out without exception. There known as "Tashlich" — literary, Nathan in "Road of Ages". A writ- tinguished by his modesty — both
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himself and toward his
is no good in them. They are "Thou shalt cast"—that word be-
of persuasive charm and whim- toward
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farts. He refuses to accept as valid
methods, disguised in the cloak of ing the opening word of the chief er
Nathan became lost in the the hearsay and the circumstantial.
Exact Science' and tend only to- prayer that is said upon the oc- sicality,
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of the theme which he Ile declines to be bound by what is
ward unpunished Jewish robbery casion. The origin of the custom is immensity
had chosen. He had neither the un-
and murder."
probably the superstitiows belief in derstanding of Jewish life nor the traditional and accepted. As a re-
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