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November 15, 1935 - Image 12

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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1935-11-15

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PIEPerRorrintisn(iutornaz

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Emek Habkcha and the Shevet
Schwarz' "Caravan" read and pond - I Schwarz' skilled hand, any critic- I the
ered in every Jewish household. It ism to offer it is this: the book Yeruidn and in the modern sections

is difficult to do justice to the could have been pitched in a higher something from Heine's Rabbi von
and from Wasserman's
(CONCLUDED FROM PACI ■ ONE)
book's wealth and variety, for these key. There is too much homeliness Baeharaeh
(CONCLUDED FROM PAGE ONE)
I and too little majesty. In brief: It Juden von Zirndorf and Beer-Hof-
tionless
writers
had
returned
to
mirror
the
wealth
and
variety
of
is possible to see our history and
Traum and
ecoNctutiefi }lis( PACE ONE/
CONCLUDED FROM EDITOnIA"' PAGE every child has the opportunity
be held at the Dexter branch of their Jewish tradition and drew Israel's tragic yet triumphant life the history of our expression from mann's Ja'acob's
at.
Schnitzler's Der Weil ins Freie or
----
I of doing each type of work
the Sholom Aleichem Scheele, their deepest inspiration therefrom
ee-
a
slightly
different
angle,
or,
rath-
The
key would
throughout
the
ages.
I
am
epee-,
Professor
Bernhardi.
was
head
of
the
Jewish
edu-
least
once
during
the
year.
In
from
a
mass
pogrom.
He
cope-
who
. 11718 Dexter Blvd., at 3 p. m.
I
ially grateful for the section headed er upon a slightly different t p plane.
at once be raised. And majesty and
rational system in Palestine. New addition, the work in the kitchen d a il y condemred so-called ere this Sunday. Besides Mr. Berco- before their middle years.
In
brief:
what
we
have
here
is
And
that
fact
is
really
no
valid
"Mediaeval
Times"
since
it
con-
high
tenseness
and
stringency
of
conceptions in education that have and dining room is divided among spectable Jews" who say that rich, officers of the conference
been rapidly introduced in Amer- the children for weekly periods. everything the goy does is right are: I. Korman, secretary; Max an anthology selected from a litera- tains much precious and otherwise criticism of Mr. Schwarz who is literary structure are also among
The children are paid for their and everything that the Jew does Nussbaum and M. Dricker, chair- ture thoroughly homogeneous be- inaccessible material. But all the far more learned than I can ever the notes of Jewish creativity. And
lea, were Implements at Meier
Shfeyah from the very beginning, work and with the money buy is wrong.
men of the ticket committee. Or- neath its superficial and transitory sections are precious and the whole hope to be. But I do hope that sonic I suppose I should not even say
This
in 1925, when Junior Hadassah clothing for themselves.
Quoting a number of people
• ations represented in the variations and produced with un- is, of course, as in all vital phe- day he will find it in his heart to that I grieve to see the products of
took over the institution.
teaches them good buying methods who came to him and asked wheth- gm
include the Icor, failing vitality by the members of nomena, infinitely greater and more drop the dreadful American trans- the shabbiest of all assimilatory
conferenc
and
habits
of
thrift.
Each
class
er
he
thinks
the
anti-Olympic
Poale
Zion, Chalitzos, Arbeite; the same historic group and socio- significant than the sum of its lation of the scripture and to use experiments called the tales of
la Ages from 10 to 14
I
an English version of the Buber- a "new frontier." It remains true
' Gesel- h logical organism. Do I hear some parts.
Te
i olO m Aleichem
Since the c ildren range be-. has a clothing co-operative in fight will be successful and why Ring, Sh
frightened die-hard assimilationist
If I have, in all friendliness and Rosenzweig recreation of it and to that the "Caravan" is unique and
tween the ages of 10 to 14 years, 1 , charge of these purchases and he follows it up if there is a
man y other groups.
and
still say that the Jews are not a in the hope of future editions or add (he is conscious of the onus- invaluable.
the school curriculum is similar ' affiliated with the Central Cloth- chance of failure, Dr. Wise de- shaft
Mr. Lavic is being given this people? For the most authentic as
(Copyright. 1535. 8 A F. El )
even added volumes from Mr. sion) some majestic passages from
to that studied in the last four I hi,/ Co-operative of the village. dared: "This is what they call
After the boys and girls are sportsmanship—that we ought not reception in honor of his return well as the finest proof that a given
years of the Palestinian demon-
historic
group
is
indeed
a
people
is
from the Denver
tary schools. The pupils are in graduated from Meier Shfeyah to fight for the honor of our peo•
rated Sanitarium
from ohis
where he recuperated
this continuous ability to produce
the classrooms for four hours and, th ey either go to higher schools pie unless we win."
cent illness. T proceeds f this as record and symbol, as self-justi-
work four more. Climatic condi-. while supporting themselves by
o
Wise
s
oke
with
j
Dr.
about event will be turned over to him fleation and communication, litera-
toms , in semi-tropical Palestine the trade taught them at Shfeyah, his ' Dr
in P Palestine In d the toorhkelp him carry on his literary ture essentially homogeneous and
call for early rising, since mid- r the work at jobs which the achievements there. lie compared w
undeviatingly characteristic of it-
day is too hot during most o village directors help to secure his first visit in 1913, when there
Mr. Lavic has recently com- self from age to age. We are a peo-
the year for concentrated study for them, or else they remain a were 40,000 Chalukah Jews there,
feted
his
second
portion
of
his
ple and by the noblest and severest
or labor. The children rise at year or more longer at the vil- with his present visit, and he p
Y. "The Golem." The test a living people.
5 in the morning in the summer lage for more intensive training pointed out that by the end of famous p la
• • •
and at 6 in the winter, breaking in agriculture. A special citrus Pnext year there will be about tile of the new play is "Die Geu-
lie lob Comedic." He has also com-
Nor is this all. I dislike bragging
the twb divisions of their activi- farm is owned by Meier Shfeyah 500,000 Jews in Palestine.
recreation-
for
graduates
who
wish
to
spec-
ties with a three-hour
ialize in this branch of fruit cal- said that not since 1898, when he Meted
a volume
of poems It about
Sanitarium.
is an- Jews intensely. They whisper to
the Denver
first met Dr. Theodor Herz!, Max nounced that before long there each other: "So and So is a Jew.
al period.
Oh yes, I've got it straight." In
From 7 until 11 o'clock is the ture. The graduates work a full Nordau and the other great Zion-
morning period, and from2 to eight hours a day, with the ex- ist lenders at the first Zionist will be staged one of his most the first place the So and So in
6, the afternoon session. The ception of two afternoons a week Congress has he had such joy as important and newest dramas.
question is usually not a Jew at all.
lowest and highest classes are in when they receive further in- on the present Palestinian visit.
In the second place if he is a Jew
school in the morning, while the struction in Hebrew, English, phy-
and keeps the tact so carefully hid-
Dr. Wise said that the work in SECOND JEW ELECTED
have
den that it has to be whispered
two Intermediate classes work in Bien and agriculture. They
TO
SWISS
PARLIAMENT
w
c
to
settling
German
Jewish
children
inhi
h
t
special
clubhouse
a
about, he's a pretty rotten kind of
the ' fields or on the village pend their evenings, where they in Palestine is primarily due to
GENEVA
(WNS)

Complete
Jew
and a source of shame rather
grounds. After lunch and the s
the efforts of "the greatest living
rest period the, intermediate read or hear occasional lectures Jewish woman in the world, Hen- returns from Switzerland's par- than of pride. Nor do I like any
classes study and 'the other two and concerts.
rietta Szold." He said that com- liamentary election show that in better the Jews who go about apol-
work. There is no homework for . ecoerrivii, 1935. 0. A. F. s.)
pa red with the 34,000 Jews who addition to Dr. David Farbstein, ogizing for our existence by tell-
the children of. Meier Shfeyah,
settled in Palestine in the last who was re-elected from Zurich, lag all and sundry how moral we I
per annum is all you pay at the Industrial Morris Plan
since it was found some time 1,000 ENROLLMENT
year and a half, only a fifth of Dr. Dicker was also elected. The are and how favorable our crime-
Bank on the balance of the purchase price of your new
ago that the assignment of home-
AT SHAAREY ZEDEK that number of Jews settled in fascist abet anti-Semitic canals- statistics are. If we are moral it's
car. Monthly payments. No other charges! No co-signers.
work, in addition to no long a
the United States and England. dates were beaten everywhere ex- because that's our character and
day of classroom and outside
, ,LuDED FROM PAGE ONE)
Only fire and theft insurance is required and you may
Quoting from an address by a cept in Zurich where one of them not as a show on the world's hostile
work, was too burdensome. Now
J. D. C. leader, delivered last managed to squeeze in, although stage. And as a people of sixteen
choose your own agency.
the free hours after lunch and in Those attending the class last week in Baltimore, in which the his vote was reduced by 42 per millions we have, being human, a
the evening are spent in play, Sunday morning, its first session statement was made that "nei- cent.
perfect right to a proportion of
crooks. No American finds it neces-
of the new season, numbered they we nor our children nor our
music, reading or handwork.
Many branches of agriculture, ear 50.
sary to apologize for the American
children's children will ever see
husbandry, home economics, and n The class, which is devoted to anything concrete in Palestine," offifficial Nazi delegate at the in- in penitentiaries. Let us have
the manual crafts comprise most a discussion of current events, Dr. Wise said that such men ternational congress of surgeons sense! We have something better
NEW LOW RATES!

. of the work of the village. In considers many problems and con- should be ostracized from Jewish now being held here, all the Jew- to be justly and serenely proud of.
cases where children show a spec- ditione of interest that arise in leadership. Dr. Wise said that he ish delegates left the congress hall We are the aristocrat among the
'TO BUY NEW OR USED CARS *TO REDUCE MONTHLY PAYMENTS
Jai apitute toward some particu- the world today. Each week, fol. could not mention this leader's In a body as the Nazi spokesman living peoples. The oldest and most
*F OR ANY WORTHY PURPOSE
lar kind of work or art they are lowing the address by Mr. Slomo- name because it might be "mis- arose to deliver his greetings. glorious of the living Western lit-
NO CO-SIGNERS
trained by experts in the special- vitz, the members of the class are taken for his own."
eratures
is
that
of
the
English-
This demonstrative gesture cre-
ty of their choosing. It s i signi- invited to partake in the discus-
Simplicity, speed and satisfaction characterize the Auto-
During the question and ans- ated a tremendous impression. speaking peoples. If we agree, as
Scant that most of the children sion. Mr. Slomovitz announces wer period Dr. Wise said that Half the delegates being Jews, I am heartily willing to do, that
mobile Loan Department of the Industrial Bank. Thousands
prefer some branch of agriculture, that plans are being made for "American Israel is better off now the Nazi delegate was left speak- the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is,
of Detroiter. bay* availed themselves of this service ... many
in keeping with the Ideal of the the presentation of visiting speak- because we are beginning to have ing to a half empty hall.
within any strict meaning of the
more thousands will take advantage of these lowered rates.
Jewish rebuilding of Palestine to ers at specified sessions through-
strongly organized Orthodox New Polish Degree is Blow to Cir• term an English poem, then Eng-
a
root the people in the soil.
lish literature is twelve-hundred
out the year. "The Jewish Situa- and conservative community." Ile
cumcision Rites
When you decide to buy • new car—whether it be • FORD
EXAMPLE
Semi-Annual Excursion
tion in America" is the subject stated that one of the greatest
Orthodox Jewry in Poland is years old compared to our three
Malone.. or
or • PACKARD . . . • CHEVROLET or • CHRYSLER, a
$100.00
The subject of study In the chosen for consideration by Mr.
Purchuno Prior
up in arms over a sudden govern- thousand. We began to produce
TERRAPLANE or a STUDEBAKER . . . a NASH or ■
24.00
classrooms are similar to those Slomovitz and discussion by the disasters in American Israel for ment decree which permits Jewish great literature when the unwrit-
IY Months' Foot
HUPMOBILE . . . Or ANY MAKE OF CAR — remember,
in European and American attendance this Sunday morning, nearly 60 years has been that there parents to register the birth of ten Homeric poems were being
2124.00
Total
was
no
strong
organized
Orthodox
you
can
pay
for
it
out
of
income
through
this
Bank.
schools. Special stress, however, Nov. 17. The class meets from
their sons without presenting a sung to the Ionian islanders and
Monthly Pnynient•
is put upon close association be- 10:30 to 11:45 a. m. Parents of Jewry.
colonists on the Asian shore. We
II a 235.049
Whether you wish to "Save or to Borrow," you
In answer to a question what certificate attesting that they are doing so still. And it is our own
I a 235.00
tween the studies and the prac- Sunday School students and oth-
have
been
circumcized
in
accord-
longer tens, If denired.
will find the services of this bank moat helpful.
tical agricultural or artisan work ers interested are Invited to join American Jews can do to fight ance with Orthodox precepts. literature; it bears upon its line-
the Nazi menace here and
done by the pupils.
aments
and
therefore
on
its
soul
this group.
abroad, Dr. Wise said that the Hitherto such a certificate has the same eternal stamp of Israel
A special feature of their edu-
Hebrew Class for Girls
first and foremost weapon is been mandatory before a male
cation is the semi-annual excur-
In answer to the growing need the boycott, and that Ameri• child's birth could be registered. from those poets (unknown and
mythic like Homer) who wrote the
sion, which usually lasts from five for the Hebrew education, how-
cans should be informed and Eight years ago Victor Atler, Jew-
days to a week and occurs in the ever elementary, of the older made to understand , ;what a ish Socialist leader, made a test books of the Torah to Shalom Asch
early spring and early summer, girls of the synagogue, classes challenge Hitlerism is to Amer. case of the certificate requisite and Franz Werfel and Chaim
The children visit many places are being organized for girls in icanism. He said that the only by refusing to have his son dr- Nachman Bialik and the youngest
that are of historical and topo- grades seven through twelve of excuse for any Jew's going to cumcized but the courts ruled novelists and lyrists of the rebirth
graphics( interest, and spend their the Sunday School.
Germany is to help another Jew against him. Now the government in Eretz Yisrael.
• • •
nights in nearby agricultural col-
has suddenly adopted this decree.
Girl students In these classes to leave Germany.
onies They climb mountains to will
It is from this point of view, an
The rabbinate has called an emer-
be
expected
to
attend
these
Pointing
out
that
he
had
not
get a bird's-eye view of the en-
imensely pertinent and central one,
newly organized IIebrew reading
in Detroit for about 15 gency session to consider the mat- that I should truly like to see Mr.
tire country; they visit the sources classes which will meet each Sun- spoken
years, Dr. Wise said he was espe- ter.
of the Jordan, watch archeological
excavations, visit electrical works, day morning, beginning Nov. 17, cially pleased to address an au-
factories, the vast forests being at 9 a. m. The first session of dience in Shaarey Zedek because
planted by the Jewish National this class, according to Mr. Ro- of the high esteem in which he
Fund to reafforeot waste lands, senthal, will meet in the chapel of held Dr. A. M. Hershman with
the synagogue under the direc- whose father-in-law, the late E.
a number of co-operative agricul- tion of Theodore Baruch. The Lewin-Epstein, he had worked for
tural colonies, visit large cities
like Tel Aviv and observe the organization of these classes, for years in behalf of Palestine's re-
machinery of government. Dif- which there has long been a de- construction.
The lecture by Dr. Wise 'was
ferent routes are taken by the mand, has been brought about
various classes, the tour being primarily that the older girls may arranged by the Sisterhood of
have
the
opportunity
of
at
leant
Shaarey
Zedek. The meeting was
arranged to co-ordinate closely
with the history, geography, geo- learning to read Hebrew, that opened by Mrs. Morris H. Blum-
they
may
not
find
themselves
at
berg,
chairman
of the Sisterhood
logy and Bible studies of the
such a loss during services. It committee in charge of the lec-
various classes.
is
also
hoped
that
this
elemen-
ture.
Mrs.
Blumberg
introduced
The 140 acres owned by the
,9
village Is devoted largely to the tary course will encourage the Judge Charles Rubiner as chair-
student
to
continue
further
into
man
of
the
evening.
growing of corn, potatoes, fruit
During
his
stay
in
Detroit,
Dr.
the
study
of
the
language.
It
is
trees and fodder. A small area is
was the guest of Mr. and
given over to a vegetable and the earnest desire of Rabbi Hersh- Wise
flower garden. Thirty-five heads man as well as the educational Mrs. Morton F. Ashner, his nep-
of cattle and 100 fowl are owned committee that all girls graduat- hew and niece.
i from the Shaarey Zedek Sun-
by the village. All of the work ing
in agriculture and husbandry, un- day School have at least a read- NEW ANTI-JEWISH
RIOTS MARK DATE
der
der the direction of special in- In knowledge of Hebrew that
structors, is done by the chit- I they may follow all prayers at
OF VILNA POGROM
dren, who also have charge of synagogue services.
(CONCLUDED FROM PAOE 1)
the village water supply, and as- Hebrew to Be Offered Among the
Adult CI
gist in the housework, cooking
and sewing. All types of work With enrollment and first w- Leo Smechow, a Jewish citizen
are done by both girls and boys. I sions of the adult classes which of Poland, who was sentenced to
I ere under the direction of Dr. nine months in prison by a Ilam.
Supreme G leg Body
The supreme governing body of ; A. M. Hershman now in the past, burg court on a charge of "ra-
the village is the general assem-1the semester is considered well cial defilement." Explaining its
bly, which meets semi-annually 1 under way and the members of failure to act, a spokesman for
THEN AS A SECOND STEP—
to discuss all the problems of the : the classes are looking forward the embassy declared that al-
village. During the intervals be-Ito a year of interesting and edu- though Smechow was born in
We blend this home-grown tobacco
1912 in what is now Poland he is
tween these meetings the General; rationally valuable meetings.
Assembly delegates its authority ' . These classes will be held in in fact a person "without citi-
with spicy, aromatic Turkish tobaccos
to the village council consisting of the small chapel of the sync- zenship," that is one of the so-
representatives of the four classes.! gogue on Wednesday evenings called stateless Jews. The con-
from across the seas. These Turkish
the graduates of Meier Shleyah i and Saturday afternoons. The viction of Smechow created a
living in the village and the adult ' first hour on Wednesday evenings, sensation in foreign circles here
tobaccos, you may know, have a flavor
workers The council meets once I meeting from 8 to 9 o'clock, will because it set a precedent which
a month. Executive power lies I be concerned with what is known leaves all foreign Jews in Ger-
and fragrance entirely different from
in the hands of the general ex-has the second period of Jewish many subject to Nazi anti-Semi-
our own.
ecutive committee, comprised of Ihistory—that period beginning tic legislation. It was expected
five members chosen by the gen- ' with the return of the Jews from that if Poland intervened in
eral assembly, from among the, the Babylonian exile. The sec- Smechow's behalf a test case
two upper classes and the grad-! and hour on the same evening, would be made to determine the
AS A THIRD STEP—
ages. The five members of the I meeting from 9 to 10 o'clock, legal status of foreign Jews in
These tobaccos are cross-blended-
executive each head a depart-, will discuss current events, to be Germany. The arrest of Rudolph
merits into which the life of theconsidered from various stand- Selz, a British Jew, on the same
charge,
also
failed
as
a
test
case
welded together—the best way we've
village falls. I points. The demand for a class
The health activities include In Hebrew, to be offered on al- when he was released, following
found to get a more pleasing flavor
protest
by
the
British
consul
in

gymnastics and sports. Saturday; ternate Wednesday evenings, has
the one full day that the children ' been great enough to warrant its Munich. lie is still unable to
and a better taste in a cigarette.
leave
Germany,
however,
because
have, is generally devoted to I establishment, according to mem-
sports. One day each month is ben of the committee in charge. the police are holding his pass -
given over to a thorough and ; This class in Hebrew study will port. These two cases are be-
THAT'S 117HY CHESTERFIELDS
systematic cleaning of some part : meet from 9 p. m. to 10 p. m. lieved to presage a nation-wide
of the village. This is "Sanita-ion alternate Wednesdays with the drive to rid Germany of foreign
ARE
MILD AND YET
Jews.
Certain
Nazi
papers
have
tion Day" and every child and I current events group. The sub-
every adult must participate in I jects to be discussed in the cur- already urged hotels in resort
THEY
SATISFY
work, each doing his assigned! rent events group will be sug- town to refuse accommodations to
tank. I Rested by both Dr. Hershman and foreign Jews on the ground that
Many aspects of village life are, the members of the class. Next it would be offensive to Aryans.
The panicky liquidation of Jew-
covered by the term "culture," i Wednesday evening, Nov. 20, this
including the celebration of the class will consider the Jews of ish business enterprises, which is
rapidly
undermining the entire
Sabbath and Holy Days; the ar- Ethiopia.
angements of programs for six.' The fourth clam that is being German economy, was given a
dial festivals, assemblies and or-I offered is the class in Bible Study new twist designed to further im-
caoional evening entertainments; to be held on Saturday after- poverish Jews when the Deutsche
presenting educational or enter-I aeons at 3:45 p. m. All persons Wochenschau, a Nazi weekly ,
taming films once a week; super- interested in enrolling in any of urged prospective buyers of Jew -
wising the Graduate Club House, these dames are invited to at- ish firms not to be in a hurry
since by waiting they could force
the library, choir and orchestra. I tend the early sessions.
the price down to almost nothing.
and editing the community's'
weekly newspaper, "Our Village," i Hew Jerusalem Synagogue Bor. Since Jewish business men are
now disposing of their holdings
Needless to add, Hebrew is the
rowed Chairs from Catholic
at from 30 to 40 cents on the dol-
spoken and written language of f
School
piece of advice amounts
the village.
I NEW YORK (WNS)—Besause lar, this
Jewish
All internal disputes are hand- the Jewish community of Jerusa- to a suggestion to force the
led by the members of the ex- I tern wanted to observe Rosh Ha- to sell out at almost nothing. At
the
same
time
the
property
of the
*cativo in charge of internal af- ' shanah and Yom Kippur in the as
Jewish masonic lodges in
In a single day people from ten different
fain. He also welcomes new. yet unfinished Jewish Synagogue eight
German
was
officially
confiscated.
comrades and guests and keeps I and Center being built with funds
states visited our Chesterfield factories.
an eye generally on the smooth , raised in this country by the Property owned by the non-Jewish
8,200 visitors during the past year saw
aogial relations among the real- I United Synagogues of America and Masonic lodge To the Three
' largest in Ger-
Chesterfields made.
dents of the village. I its Women's league, the worship- World Globes,
In consultation with the direr-. pen Fat on chairs borrowed from many. has been restored.
tor of the village, the member a Catholic school and an Arab ho-
here by Rabbi Jew. Quit Surgical Congress
le (Large of labor plans the labor tel, it was revealed
Wh.. Neal Delegate Appears
LevInthal, chairman of
a pro-
Ithealle fur the entire village. 1 Israel H.
This -schedule is changed every the United Synagogue's committee WARSAW (WNS)—As
1913. tsccrrr & wms frosseco co.
test
against the presence of an
two nsenthe in such a way tint which is building the center.

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