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Sabbath Readings of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 18:1-22:24
Prophetical portion—I Kings 1:1-31
Rosh Chodeth Kislev Readings of the Law
Tuesday and Wednesday: Num. 28:1-16
November 22, 1935
Heshvan 26, 5696
Holland and the Olympics
Since Nov. 8, 1619, when Holland
granted the Jews complete freedom to
practice their religion, this country, small
in size, began to loom on our horizon as
one of the very great nations and as the
staunchest defender of human rights. Even
before that year, when the Deputies of
the United Provinces threw off the yoke
of Spain and the Netherlands became a
land of refuge for the Marranos, Holland
was already one of the bright spots on a
very dark map of world Jewry's suffer-
ings. It is important also to note that Jews
are known to have settled in the Nether-
lands before the year 1339.
We list these facts in order to emphasize
the importance of the decision reached by
the Royal Netherlands Athletic Union,
representing 300 of the leading athletic
groups in that country, not to participate
in the 1936 games in Berlin. The over-
whelming majority in favor of this decis-
ion, revoking a previous resolution of this
Union in favor of sending Dutch teams to
Germany, is indicative of the spirit that
continues to dominate in Holland.
Unfortunately, Holland suffers from the
same division in its ranks, as affects ath-
letic circles in this country: between liber-
als who insist on defending democratic
rule and those for whom participation in
the games is more important than defense
of freedom of speech and human rights.
The Holland Olympic Committee appears
to have overruled the action of the Royal
Netherlands Athletic Union, and has de-
cided to participate in the Olympics. It
is equivalent to the threat made by the
United States Olympic Committee against
the Amateur Athletic Union. It smacks of
the same spirit which caused the movement
to be started to oust former Judge Jere-
miah T. Mahoney from the presidency of
the A. A. U. It is the spirit of the Sher-
rills and the Brundages against that of
justice.
We continue to place faith in the tra-
ditions which make Holland and the
United States great democratic nations.
There is still a semblence of hope that the
rank and file among athletes in both coun-
tries will overrule the efforts of bigots to
force their participation in games in Nazi
Germany.
Libraries as Memorials
It was gratifying to note the hearty
welcome that was given to the very com-
mendable gesture made by Mrs. Louis
Weiss in establishing the Louis Weiss Me-
morial Library at the B'nai B'rith Billet
Foundation at Ann Arbor.
The step taken to create this type of a
memorial is a worthy one not only because
of the excellent cultural service that will
thus be rendered to an important educa-
tional agency, but also because it indicates
the•rise of a new spirit to form deserving
memorials to honor the dead.
For a long time now Jewish commu-
nities have been advocating that men and
women should write wills during their life-
time, designating worthy institutions to
benefit from bequests they choose to make,
thus guaranteeing the unhindered func-
tioning of important agencies in whose
work they were vitally interested. The
community naturally expects that surviv-
ors of people with means should, of their
own accord, continue to show an interest
in the institutions in which the deceased
were active.
That the fine example shown by Mrs.
Weiss is already serving as an encourage-
ment to others is indicated by the an-
nouncement by another member of the
Weiss family that he plans to establish a
memorial library in Pontiac.
These are healthy indications of a live
interest in Jewish community affairs, and
those who display such concern deserve
to be complimented highly by their follow
Jews.
Arab-Jewish Contrasts
Unwillingness on the part of Palestine's
movie censors to accentuate the sharp
contrast between Arab and Jewish life in
modern Palestine is given as the reason for
the deleting of scenes of Arab life from the
new Palestine film, "The Land of Promise,"
which had its premiere simultaneously in
Jerusalem and in New York.
This, in itself, is a compliment to Jewish
achievement. Our people invaded a de-
nuded country which had been laid waste
by centuries of inactivity on the part of
the Arabs. Primitive vtethods of a thou-
sand years ago continued to be used in cul-
tivating the soil when Jews began to col-
onize their ancient homeland a generation
ago. Today, as a result of Jewish effort,
this desert land has been transformed into
a blooming garden spot. It has been in-
evitable and invariable for tourists to re-
turn from Palestine with amazing tales
depicting the difference between Arab
and Jewish communities.
Now come the censors and emphasize
this vast difference by deleting the parts
of the film, The Land of Promise," which
strikingly portray the primitiveness of the
Crushing Jews Economically
life of our neighbors whose standards we
In the past eight months there were 322 are raising in spite of the animosity to
Jewish emigrants from Cuba, as compared our cause on the part of Arab politicians.
with 302 Jewish settler in that country.
This is a great compliment to Zionist
The reason given for this balance in achievements.
favor of emigration is that the country's
new law makes it mandatory for 50 per
cent of employees in all business and
Tragedy of Homeless
manufacturing establishments to be na-
Refugees and homeless people are find-
tive Cubans.
This is not the only instance of difficul- ing their lot becoming increasingly more
ties encountered by Jews as a result of a tragic.
This applies to homeless and decitizen-
lack of economic opportunities. It is, in
fact, the great obstacle in the path of ized everywhere. It is the plight of the
settling the large number of refugees from refugees in France and Belgium, as well
Germany. Many countries are willing to as of the unnaturalized citizens in this
receive them and to give them a haven of country who are in danger of being de-
refuge, but only as guests who are not de- ported in the event certain inhuman legis-
lation is adopted.
pendent on their hosts for employment.
The welcome that is thus extended to
M. Francois Mauriac of the Academic
refugees by France, Czechoslovakia, Bel- Francaise recently described the sad posi-
gium and other countries in no sense solves tion of the refugee as follows:
the problem of the Jewish wanderer. As
To expel from France, a man who has
a matter of fact, Jews, as strangers, are
nowhere else to go, and to whom access to
being crushed economically, and the only
his own country is forbidden under pain of
avenues of escape are Palestine and the
death is to sin doubly—against justice and
other limited opportunities offered by Biro
reason. A Russian refugee is expelled from
Bidjan, which still remains an uncertain
France upon often insignificant pretexts
.... A simple breach of the law, the lightest
quantity as a colonization center.
sentence, even when it is suspended, auto-
It is natural to conclude that the Pales-
matically entails a decree of expulsion. Then
tinian efforts must be advanced as speed-
this is what happens: The man does not go.
ily as possible in order to create greater
Where could he? To Russia? Ile would be
condemned to death. To some other country?
opportunities for Jews who are stranded.
Impossible to secure a visa for a foreign
But the Palestinian solution must be car-
country, without having from the country of
tied on not on the present miserly basis
his last residence a visa for a return. Such
but on a large scale. Only large scale
a viva being always lacking, authorization
is always refused him. So, as he does not
immigration will save Jews from being
leave, he is lodged in gaol. Hardly in he
crushed economically.
Honoring Dr. Ratnoff
No greater honor could possibly have
een accorded Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, on the
casion of his 60th birthday, than the
resentation of a $310,000 check for dis-
'bution among charitable enterprises.
The 830 leaders in the professional,
ientific and business life of New York, in
aking this presentation, respected Dr.
tnoff's wish in shunning a personal
birthday gift, for which purpose the $310,-
00 was originally raised. These men and
omen took into consideration the yeoman
rk achieved by Dr. Ratnoff, who is the
edical director of the Beth Israel and
ewish Maternity Hospitals in New York,
n organizing both the Loan and Relief
ommittee of the Medical Society of the
ounty of New York and the American
wish Physician's Committee. As presi-
nt of the latter, which he organized in
921 for the purpose of erecting the medi-
I department at the Hebrew University
Jerusalem, he has made a permanent
ntribution to the Jewish people. The
liberated, when he is again brought to jus-
tice, and again condemned. Some have ex-
perienced this more than 15 times.
The wretched people try to cross a fron-
tier by fraud. They are seized and bundled
back into France, there to live a hunted exis-
tence, which ends fatally in despair and hat-
red, suicide or crime. And many of these un-
fortunates were educated men, honored and
beloved, who in some cases fought on the
French front!
The tragedy of these refugees is all the
more appalling by virtue of the failure of
the leading government in the world either
to welcome them or to create new havens
of refuge for them. Instead of alleviat-
ing the plight of these people condemned
to the status of homelessness; instead of
branding persecutions against them in
their native lands as inhuman and unjust,
the leading powers are flirting with each
other and are continually renewing trade
and political pacts in spite of the bestial-
ities which emanate from certain lands.
Tragedy stalks in Europe at the ex-
pense of profits and ambitions which, in
spite of the price paid for them, are
placed above honor and humanity.
newspaperman in Hollywood. "You
know, I'm really a hypochondriac,"
said Eddie. "When I go traveling,
I take two suitcases—one for
clothes and the other for pills. Well,
Norman Taurog is just as bad and
no is this certain newspaperman.
One day on the movie set, we were
all feeling pretty low and figured
we had every kind of illness in the
book. Finally I couldn't stand the
looks of anguish on the other two's
faces and suggested that we all
three go to a doctor and be exam-
ined. And Norman popped up with:
"Okay—we'll all go to the doctor
together for an examination—and
the one who has the lowest blood
pressure pays the bill."
If Eddie Cantor were quadrup-
lets he would be a happier man.
For the banjo-eyed comedian must
divide his time each day between
four sets which are widely separa-
ted. Ordinarily only one net at a
time is used in a production, but in
order to finish on schedule the corn-
pany has found it necessary to
work in four places at once and
Cantor is required in all the scenes.
"Ilollywood does strange things
to people. It has made me a one-
man relay team," Cantor told us.
JESSEL GETS RAPPED
George Jessel's choice as a re-
presentative of the Jewish people
invited to the annual banquet of
the University Religious Confer-
ence this week was criticized in a
news item on the affair written by
Leilah Kauffman, society news edi-
tor of the B'nai B'rith Messenger,
Los Angeles weekly, edited by Jo-
seph J. Cummins of Detroit. The
University Religious Conference is
composed of Catholics, Protestants
and Jews interested in promoting
"co-operation without compromise"
throughout all phases of religious
activity in campus life, developing
tolerance, mutual respect and un-
derstanding between various reli-
gious groups through educational
and social contacts during college
years. Representatives from the
Religious Conference at University
of California at Los Angeles, the
University of Southern California
and Los Angeles Junior College,
and religious and lay leaders of
the Jewish, Protestant and Catholic
faith were present at the banquet.
Miss Kauffman stated in the
B'nai B'rith Messenger:
- While no one mob! quemtion Mr .
Jemmel m ability ao a 1•01111.11i11/1, him ibid.,
am a representative of Si,, , Jewimh people
befo re II Sele ■ t group of Gentile. wam
dioldedly a poor one. Such 0 jokem
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of
better undermtanding end mutual respect
between religion') faction.,
"We shall dim..., Mr. Jetewl•m die-
roUrteaY to 111"hon Baker. the anenter
of the evening, by walking out without
a ord
w of eiteme. with much grinning
and benignant bowing of hie head to
the audience, as being due to the font
that he ninthly did not know any better .
Our only regret I. that the 1.11i11.11CP
NPR unnwnre that Gilbert Raffle., who
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HE BUYS TABLECLOTHS
Gus Kahn signed a new long-
term contract with M. G. M. as a
lyric writer and went to the studio
commissary for lunch, and wrote
the lyrics for a number—on a table-
cloth. Kahn claims that he has had
to buy more tablecloths from res-
taurants than any other song
writer, because he gets his ideas
at meal times and always lacks
writing paper.
WINS OPERA GOAL
Music critics of Southern Cali-
fornia are acclaiming the talent of
a youth from Rochester, N. Y., who
was one of the featured performers
in the Los Angeles Opera Company
presentations in Los Angeles last
week. Ile is. Nathan Emanuel and
he is another contribution to oper-
atic ranks from the Eastman
School of Music of the University
of Rochester in Rochester, N. Y.
For several years Emanuel was a
member of the school opera depart-
ment. During his final years in the
Eastman School he sang important
roles in the Kilbourn Hall produc-
tions and was also in the Rochester
Civic Opera Co. He made his Los
Angeles debut in "Pagliacci."
s A F. a. 191:)
Ile Made Einstein a Zionist
Hugo Bergmann, The New Rector Of The Hebrew University
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyright, 1136, by Et A. r.
In this timely biographical study of Dr. Hugo Bergmann, the new rector of the Hebrew Uni-
•ersity, Mr.' Finkel, director of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, not
only introduces us to the man wh o is now responsible for the administration of the
University but
Is that it was Dr Bergmann who converted Albert Einstein to
Zionism.
By SAMUEL B. FINKEL
(Copyright, 1135. Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
A new and deserved honor has just been
conferred upon Dr. Hugo Bergmann, for the
past 15 yearn director of the Jewish National
and University Library of Jerusalem, when he
was elected to the office of Rector of the Hebrew
University at a meeting of the Senate, held on
Nov. 8. This office was established at a meeting
of the Board of Governors of Ilebrew Univer-
sity at Lucerne, Switzerland, early in September,
to take over the major portion of the adminis-
trative duties of the chancellor, which position
was relinquished by Dr. Judah L. Magnes when
he became president of the University.
A profound scholar and author, a life-long
participant in Jewish nationalistic affairs, by rea-
son of his long and highly successful career in
administrative work and thorough knowledge of
the University's problems, Dr. Bergmann is emi-
nently fitted for his new duties as head of the
academic administration of Hebrew University.
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1883,
Dr. Bergmann received his education in the Uni-
versity of Prague, from which he obtained the
degree of Ph. D. in 1910. Deep interest in
mathematical as well as philosophical problems
prompted the writing of his first two books, in
1908 and 1909, on the subject of philosophical
mathematics. These were "Untersuchung zum
Problem der Evidenz der Inneren Wahrnehmung,"
published in 1908, and "Bolzanos Beitraege zur
Philosophischen Grundlegung der 5lathematik,"
published in 1909. About this time he became
librarian at the University Library in Prague. lie
continued to write throughout his career.
Of his "Philosophy of Emanuel Kant," writ-
ten in Ilebrew in 1927, a leading critic said:
"We have before us the first Ilebrew book in its
field of study that is really scientific and fit
to rank with the best books written on Kant in
foreign tongues." His latest book entitled
"Bogey Hadar," (Modern Thinker) was pub-
lished last July. It contains studies and essays
on the systems of Einstein, Ileidegger, Franz
Rosenzweig, Lenin, Bergson and others.
back at his post at the University of Prague,
but he did not remain there long. His active
interest in Zionism led to his appointment, to-
gether with Leo Hermann, secretary of the Pal-
estine Foundation Fund, in 1919 to represent
the Szechoslovakian Jews as a delegate to the
Council of Jewish Delegations in Paris. After
Zionist missions in Switzerland and Paris, he
was selected by the World Zionist Executive as
chief of its educational department in London.
Two of his co-workers in London were the late
Dr. Shmarya Levin and Solomon Ginzberg, son
of the famous Asher Ginzberg, who wrote under
the pseudonym of Ached Ila'am.
From London, he came to Palestine in 1920
at the instance of the Zionist Executive, to
take charge of the Jewish National Library in
Jerusalem. The story of Dr. Bergmann's career
in Jerusalem is the inspiring story of the great
Jewish National and University Library which
now resides within its own building on Mt. Sco-
pus, a handsome edifice which is one of the
striking landmarks on the Jerusalem landscape.
Starting with barely 20,000 volumes, in-
adequately housed, which he found when he
assumed the directorship of the Jewish National
Library, after 15 years of devoted service, the
number of volumes has been increased to ap-
proximately 325,000, with every branch of liter-
ature and science represented, and with organ-
ized catalogs and a trained staff. About one-
third of the collection is in Hebrew studies.
The library is now the largest in the Near
East. Some of its departments, such as Juda-
ice, Ilebraica, Orientala, Mathematics and Pedu
gogy, compare favorably with the great libraries
of Europe and America. Gifts of books have
been received from every corner of the globe.
During the last several years, due to events in
Europe, many departments have been greatly
enriched by notable collections from the private
libraries of Europe,
Dr. Bergmann's Zionist Career
Among the library's treasures are many rare
first editions of volumes on Judaica and Ile-
braica, on bibliography and philology, and a set
of Hebrew incunabula, the first Hebrew books
in Typography, which were published in the 15th
Century in Italy and Holland. There are also
many rare manuscripts in the library. In this
collection is Dr. Albert Einstein's original man-
uscript on the theory of relativity. The medi-
cal collection is an unusually fine one and is the
only one of note in the Near East. This de-
partment now has branches at Tel Aviv, 'Haifa
and Afuleh which have been net up with the
assistance of the local physicians.
Striking exhibits were shown by the Uni-
versity Library at the Levant Fair, which was
held in Tel Aviv recently. In addition to many
rare volumes, these included specimens from
Dr. Abraham Schwadron's great collection of
portraits and autographs of famous Jewish per-
sonalities of the last three hundred years, which
was presented by him to the Library, and a num-
ber of rare and valuable maps, some of them
being from the 14th, 15th and 18th Centuries,
both copper engravings and wood cuts, done by
celebrated cartographers. One of these was the
first Hebrew map drawn by the convert of
Judaism, Abraham bar Jacob, published in Am-
sterdam in 1795. "Kirjath Sepher," a quarterly
Hebrew bibliographical review, published by the
Library, is now entering on its 12th year. It is
the veteran survivor of Hebrew scholarly publi-
cations—others started before his own first pub-
lication have since been abandoned and it has
remained the only publication in the sphere of
Ilebrew bibliography. Readers and scholars of
all races and religions, from all over the world,
make constant use of the University Library;
it is open to everyone.
Dr. Bergmann has long worked toward peace
and mutual understanding between Jew and Arab,
and was one of the founders, in 1928, of the
organization of Brith Sholom whose aims are
social justice and peace. Both by written word
and by deed he has contributed much to a bet-
ter understanding between Jew and Arab who
must live and work side by side in Palestine.
Dr. Bergmann's Zionist career began in his
student (lays when he was one of the founders
of the Zionist student association known as the
Bar Kockba in Prague, which attracted many
prominent young Jews to its ranks. It was his
interest in and work for Zionist which was re-
sponsible for his appointment, in 1920, to the
directorship of the Library in Palestine. In that
year also he was one of the organizers of the
Prague Conference where the two Socialist Zion-
ist groups known as the Helmet Ilazair and Zeire
Zion of Russia were merged.
To Dr. Bergmann must go the credit for
winning Dr. Albert Einstein to the cause of
Zionism. Meeting the now world famous phy-
sicist when he was professor of mathematics at
the University of Prague, Dr. Bergmann suc-
ceeded in interesting Dr. Einstein deeply in the
movement to rebuild Palestine as the Jewish
National home, which was just then getting
under way.
An accomplished linguist, Dr. Bergmann
speaks Hebrew, German, English, Russian, Ital-
ian, French and Arabic. Ile was the first Jew
in Middle and estern Europe, not of Eastern
origin, to have learned • Hebrew thoroughly
enough to be able to speak and write it with
ease. In order to fit himself for a survey of the
conditions of Jews in Eastein Europe, made
several years before the World War, he made
a special study of Russian and Yiddish.
In 1914 the War interrupted his work at
the Prague University Library. He joined the
Austrian Army in which he served as an officer
with distinction and outstanding courage. One
of the acts of heroism for which he received
the Silver Cross was the capture of a machine
gun single-handed. He did not permit his active
military duties to hamper his literary career, how-
ever, for while at the front he somehow found
time to write essays on Hebrew literature which
appeared in the Judische Rundschau in Germany.
When he left the front it was to serve on the
General Staff in the Intelligence Department.
Selected for Zionist Position
The end of the War found Dr. Bergmann
The Origin of the Aryan Myth
Tracking Down A Cause of Race Hatred
By MARGARET SCHLAUCH
Professor of English at New York University
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that the Nerl• are
EDITOR ,. NoLE: Recent ollwiatche• from Kerlinport
pi ao
n ', to abalaion the .egun label eo. a ,srd. tirk of Genorin
and to rephae the Iron. Aryan end `,..n-Aryan with 1.erman wad Jr ,,.
reepeetheli. lliim article, havil . e‘rerpt• from • pamphlet celled! •• ■ %14..
tee 1h, "%flan.... nabli.1.1 by the iintl.Fewlet Liternture I ormnittre,
I. therefore parthuharly time!) law.v it de•l• with the origin of the
Loan myth.
During the last few years
Americans and Europeans have
been hearing a vast amount of
talk about race and "race purity."
At the same time, they have been
hearing of and witnessing ter-
rible and ugly deeds which are
perpetrated in the name of a
fierce passion know-n as race hat-
red. Newspapers have been full
of accounts of violence and blood-
shed, economic boycott, and even
threats of war, excused by the
pretext of racial differences. In
Germany, Jews have been perse-
cuted by economic boycott, by
cruel and sometimes murderous
attacks, by enforced exile, and by
confinement in concentration
camps, on the theory that they are
the natural enemies. the "conup-
tern," of their so-called Aryan fel-
low-citizens. In America, the per-
secution and lynching of Negroes
by members of the white race is
no new story. In the Orient., the
Janapese have been made to puf-
fer humiliation, both as • nation
and as a race, because of legisla-
tion by the United Staten designed
to keep them out of this country
on racial grounds; they make no
secret of their resentment at this
Strictly
Confidential
treatment, which is one of the
excuses for their war-like policy
today. From many quarters of
this distracted world the cry of
race hatred is raised. It serves
as an excuse for terrible deeds. It
divides people who should be able
to work together in peace and
amity. It makes enemies of those
who should be brothers; it kin-
dles the vilest and most brutal
passions by means of empty, of-
ten meaningless words; it is one
of the ugliest and most inhuman
of the hatreds which mar the re-
lationship of peoples today.
• • •
Since there is so much wildly
irresponsible talk about superior
and inferior race!, and especially
about the Aryans, it is important
to discover what these words real-
ly mean. The word "Aryan" has
become hateful now by its assc.
nations. Anyone who under-
stands the real causes of race
hatred and race persecution must
wish to fight against them. But to
do set, he must know better than
thnae people who are deceived into
hatred. Ile must be able to re-
fute lies and misstatements; he
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IT'S TRUE
Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, the Nazi
economist whose murder by Frau-
lein Vera Stretz is the reigning
sensation of New York, was an in-
direct victim of Ilitlerism ... Frau
Gebhardt, who has been estranged
from her husband for six months,
is a Jewess . . . Rumors of a re-
conciliation between the Gebhardts
are said to have infuriated Frau-
lein Stretz, who is an Aryan .
Incidentally, Gebhardt was the
number one man in this country of
the Nazi counter-boycott organiza-
tion because his chief business was
the consummation of blocked mark
deals with importers of German
goods . . . The gentlemen who ar-
ranged that swell tribute to Judge
Mahoney, A. A. U. president, pulled
one boner that went unnoticed ...
Among those on the dais, one place
removed from the guest of honor
Was Dr. Frederick B. Robinson,
president of City College, who is
on record as favoring American
participation in the Berlin Olym-
pics ... Speaking of the Olympics
reminds us that Judge Aaron
Steuer, son of lawyer Max, will he
one of the Jewish Welfare Board's
representatives at the coming A. A.
U. convention .. .
WERFEL ARRIVES
Franz Werfel, the distinguished
dramatist and novelist, who arrived
at New York the other day, was
almost deported . . . lie was so
rushed by newspapermen and pho-
tographers that he forgot all about
the immigration officers, and so did
not have a landing card when the
ship docked . . . The immigration
authorities finally relented, but
gave him warning to be more care-
ful next time . . . Which reminds
us that Werfel's play "The Road
of Promise," which Meyer W. Weis-
gal will present in a Reinhardt
production, will most probably get
a new name ... It seems that the
l'alestine film "The Land of Prom-
ise is confusing a lot of people, and
although it is the film that plagiar-
ized the "Promise" from the 'Road'
it is the play that will make the
change Franz Werfel is a very
close friend of Chancellor Kurt
Schnuschnigg of Austria and is a
frequent visitor in his home ...
WE'RE TELLING YOU
People's l'ress, of which James
Waterman Wise is one of the edi-
tors, is not so hot ... It is trying
to become a large-circulation tab-
loid and at the same time maintain
an aggressive people's point of
view . . . So far the combination
hasn't worked out . . . There's a
definite lack of vitality and talent
. . . Harry Hershfield, cartoonist.
columnist and entertainer, has been
signed up by Joe Brainin for a reg-
ular Seven Arts feature ... Stan-
ley Bero, who hasn't been paid by
any communal organization for
many years, is doing. more Jewish
comunal work than most of the
high-priced professionals in the
field ... His latest achievement is
the reconstruction of the Schiff
Memorial Fountain in New York
by the city ... Don't be surprised
if the JDC will soon officially spon-
sor the Biro-Bidjan project . . .
JDC leaders have convinced them-
selves of the real possibilities this
Far East territory holds for Rus-
sian and foreign Jews ...
POLITICAL STUFF
Benjamin Golder, former Repub-
lican Congressman from Phila-
delphia, is considered the most
likely appointee as controller of the
city of brotherly love ... Maurice
L. Raphael is secretary to Mayor
Angelo Rossi of San Francisco ...
J. George Fredman, former com-
mander-in-chief of the Jewish War
Veterans, is now the boss of New
Jersey's beauty shops ... Governor
Hoffman named him chairman of
the state's beauty shop commission
. . . The Order of Black Shirts,
founded by a group of young Ita-
lian-Americans in Rome (New
York) as a semi-military Fascist
outfit to make propdganda for it
Duce, folded up after four days ...
Protests from the American Le-
gion and financial troubles did the
trick . . . Informed of protests
against the use of the term "Shy-
locks" in his loan-shark investiga-
tion in New York, Prosecutor
Dewey revealed that he never uses
the term but his chief assistant,
Jacob J. Rosenbaum, does . . .
Friends of the Hebrew University
fear that Palestine's imposition of
sanctions against Italy may cost
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Franz Werfell Calls
Palestine Workers
"Soldiers of Bible"
I Revisit Germany
NEW YORK (INNS) — "My
drama, 'The Road of Promise',
is my answer to the world for all
its accusations against the Jew-
ish people," Franz Werfel, world-
famous poet, playwright and
novelist, told the Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate on his arrival
here for his first visit to the
United States. Emphasizing that
his forthcoming biblical spectacle,
which will be produced by Max
Reinhardt, will be the strongest
exposition of everything dealing
with Jewish problems, Werfel
said that he had recently steeped
himself in the lore of the Kab-
bala and the Talmud and had de-
voted a great deal of time to
studying Jewish theology. On the
basis of the inspiration drawn
from these sources the "Road of
Promise" will show what the
Jews have contributed to the
world and how the world reacts
to these achievements. Describ-
ing the "Road of Promise" as a
"Jewish Passion Play", Werfel
explained that it is based on the
Old Testament, that its heroes
are figures from the Bible who
will use biblical language.
Recalling that he had visited
Palestine in 1924 and 1929, Wer-
fel said that his visits to Pal-
estine brought him close to the
Jewish people and their tradi-
tions and convinced him that it is
God's wish that the Jews shall
build Palestine as a Jewish home-
land. lie expressed the opinion
,
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by the GermanF.nstavwy in thlm country Anranme 4,1 the whirr. he made
in lad.. elite. In behalf of the Joint PhIrlhollon t'ommiltre al s o hi .
morn from Itlo final trip to lInd land two 5eitro ago. Illoot ,, r.oh , n h e
retwhed l'ar). he notnnxrd to obtain • Ihrrnton flew then. The folloolnK
a re ettract• fmm a lengthy statement be ramie on him return from Ger -
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By FERDINAND M. ISSERMAN
Rabbi of Temple Israel, St. Louis, Mo,
Two years ago, six months af- on aprice. it goes on as planned,
ter Hitler had become chancellor, with one exception, and that is
I visited and spent one month in that it is not humane.
The laws on the statute hooks
Nazi Germany. This summer,
though refused a visa in St. Louis of the Third Reich are sufficient
and Washington, I secured one in to bring about the uprooting of
Paris, and revisited Nazi Ger- the Jews by strangling them eco-
many. Two years ago, a speaker nomically. These laws have served
addressing a group of Americans to drive Jews from the great pro-
at Die llochschule for Politik, and fessions, have practically made it
representing the official Nazi impossible for them to secure em-
point of view, stated that one of ployment, and have terminated
of the aims of the National So- the career of most Jewish stu-
cialist party is "the humane ex- dents in German universities. But
tirpation of the Jews in Ger- the tempo of the execution of
many." My observations then, these laws is slow, so slow that
plus my confidential contacts with they tax the patience of anti-
hundreds of persons in Germany Semitic leaders, so slow that they
convinced me that the Nazis were become undramatic, and fail to
deadly sincere about their Jewish furnish the diversion made man-
policies, and that, therefore, the datory by a drastic economic sit-
Jews of Germany were condemned uation and a continuous lowering
to death.
of the level of living.
The Fuehrer Call. Streicher
Today, after another stay in
So der Feuhrer whistled for his
Nazi Germany, it is my belief that
the sentence of death has not faithful lieutenant, Julius Streich-
been suspended, but is slowly and er, to make it interesting for the
with ruthless efficiency being ex- German populace, to let loose his
ecuted. Even if the brave men furious anti-S e m i t i c blasts
of the foreign press, hamstrung throughout the land, and to post
and fettered, can not longer re- his foul and filthy sheet in every
cord many of the dramatic acts rnarget place. From Nuremberg
of brutality that still continue, the to Berlin was Streicher promoted.
world must know that process of to that the anti-Semitic policies
the
extirpation of the Jews goes
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