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Sabbath Reeding. of the Torah

Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 32:4-36:43
Prophetical portion—Hos 12:13-14:10 or 11:7-
12:12; or Obad. 1:1-21

December 13, 1935

Kislev 17, 5696

Shaarey Zedek's Library

Congregation Shaarey Zedek is making
another progressive step by dedicating its
excellently equipped library for use by its
members and the community at large.
The ceremony this Sunday, which will
mark the official opening of the library,
which has been provided with the most
important available books in English on
Jewish subjects, as well as large collec-
tions of Hebrew and Yiddish books, de-
serves the interest of the entire commu-
nity because the Shaarey Zedek Library
Board had the vision to rule that the entire
community is to be free to make use of
the library's facilities.
By making it its object to secure every
available Jewish publication, regardless of
where it is published or what its cost,
Shaarey Zedek's Library Board displays
determination to build up a worthy collec-
tion of books. It is to be congratulated on
its efforts, and on its service to the com-
munity.

Honoring Henrietta Szold

Very few women in Jewish history have
had the privilege of as spontaneous an ex-
pression of gratitude for their efforts in
behalf of their people as is being accorded
Miss Henrietta Szold.
On the occasion of her 75th birthday, on
Dec. 21, Jews throughout the world, re-
gardless of their differences of political
opinion, will join in paying tribute to this
great woman.
Miss Szold is, in a sense, America's
greatest contribution to Palestine. The
founding of Hadassah was not her only
creation, and in no sense her greatest con-
tribution to Jewish life—although it is,
in itself, an achievement sufficient to give
a person undying fame in Jewish history.
Currently she is being honored especially
for her great efforts in behalf of settling
German-Jewish children in Palestine. Fur-
thermore, as head of the department of
education of the Palestine Zionist Execu-
tive she not only displayed great executive
ability but also helped greatly in solving
numerous educational problems of the Pal-
estine Jewish communities.
It will be recalled that as head of the
educational department of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America Miss Szold rendered
yeoman service in educating the youth and
in creating an informed Zionist constitu-
ency. It was during her term as head of
the Zionist educational department that
Young Judaea had its most active years
of service among the Zionist youth in this
country.
American Jewry can feel justly proud
that Miss Szold is cur contribution to Pal-
estine. For us the occasion of the present
birthday anniversary of this great woman
is a true holiday and an occasion for re-
joicing.

Youth and Palestine

On more than one occasion, emphasis
has already been placed on the need for
greater participation in the work for Pal-
estine's redemption on the part of our
youth.
At a very important conference held in
New York an effort was made to draw the
youth into the work of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, the agency which redeems
the soil of Palestine upon which large
numbers of refugees from lands of oppres-
sion are now being settled.
It is gratifying to note that as a result
of this conference, it was agreed to form a
national council of Zionist and non-Zion-
ist youth groups to further the needs of
the National Fund. This conference has
already issued a call to the Jewish youth
of America urging them that their organ-
izations should accept National Fund
quotas, should distribute the popular white
and blue JNF boxes and should use Na-
tional Fund stamps on their correspon-
dence. Among the groups which partici-
pated in the conference were Aleph Zadek
Aleph, Young Folks League of the United
Synagogue, Masada, Avukah, Junior Ha-
dassah, Young Israel, Young Judaea, Ha-
poel Hamizrachi, Hashomer Hatzair, He-
chalutz.
The crying need for land upon which to
continue to build Jewish settlements de-
mands that the youth should heed the new
call of the Jewish National Fund. It is to
be hoped that all youth groups through-
out the country will respond loyally to
the call that has been issued by the con-
ference in New York.

Interesting Journalistic Venture

Israel Goldberg, author, with Dr. Sam-
son Benderly, of "Outlines of Jewish
Knowledge" of which three volumes have
already appeared, has long been a favor-
ite with us. Both under his own name as
well as under his pseudonym "Rufus
Learsi," he has written and published
some fine plays, poems and short stories.
For years his contributions to Jewish youth
magazines ranked among the finest pub-
lished works for boys and girls. His prize
plays are being produced by Jewish Cen-
ters throughout the country and his trans-
lations are among the best.
We pay this personal tribute to Rufus
Learsi as an introductory comment to his
new publication, The Issue. The first copy
of this interesting periodical is unique in
that it is a personal testament of this able
writer and educator who is today the di-
rector of the public relations department
of the Jewish Education Association of
New York. In his introductory explana-
tory note, for instance, he tells the read-
ers that the most important objective of
The Issue will be "to illumine our beset-
ting problems in the light of Torah." He
continues to state:

We enter the lists at a moment when many
of the finest minds and most earnest spirits in
American Jewry have surrendered completely
to the intellectual juggernaut of "modernism"
and are making sincere but mistaken efforts to
adjust the Jewish way of life to the march'
of the monster. The analyzers and dissectors
are upon us. Nothing is too sacred for their
scalpel. They have analyzed human and Jew-
ish destiny; they have analyzed God. They
have dissected Torah out of existence.
At such a time we will dare to speak to
all men, especially to Jews, whose minds are
still sensitive to what Is unanalyzable and
indissectible.
We are not aware of the immensity and,
perhaps, the immodesty, of the venture. But
we feel the time ripe for a new assertion
of an old and ineluctable truth; and may the
good cause prosper.

There is an interesting comment in the
first issue of this new monthly publication
in which an old man compares the German
masters with the Jewish, and there is this
conclusion:

The other day I had a flash of realization.

Learning Hebrew in a Play-Way

For the third consecutive time we have
the pleasure of recommending a fine book
designed for the teaching of Hebrew
through the play-way method.
"Gilenu Primer" is a companion volume
to the first two volumes of "Gilenu" by
Dr. Emanuel Gamoran, education direc-
tor of the Commission on Jewish Educa-
tion of Cincinnati and of the Department
of Synagogue and School Extension of the
,Union of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, and Abraham H. Friedland, direc-
tor of the Bureau of Jewish Education of
Cleveland and superintendent of the Cleve-
land Hebrew Schools.
By introducing a method of games and
recitatons for the study of Hebrew, Dr.
Gamoran and Mr. Friedland have made
a real contribution to modern Hebrew-
teaching methods with their three volumes
of "Gilenu." In a short time the pupil, by
following this method, is certain to ac-
quire a fair Hebrew vocabulary sufficient
to prepare him for higher Hebrew study.
What makes this textbook-playbook par-
ticularly valuable is that it can be used
in the home as easily as in the classroom. I
The Union of American Hebrew Con-
gregations is to be commended forpub-
lishing this fine set of books by Dr. Gamo-
ran and Mr. Friedland.

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I was thinking of Billet and Akibah, of Rashi
and the Rambam. Then I thought of Goethe

and Schiller and Kant. And the following ap-
peared to me plain: Whatever the respective
merits of these two groups of worthies may be,
it is still possible for those steeped in Goethe
and Kant to make pogroms, but for those
steeped in Akibah and in Rashi—unthinkable!

These paragraphs are indications of
what may be expected from Israel Gold-
berg's The Issue.
Knowing and liking the author Israel
Goldberg (Rufus Learsi), we will watch
with interest his new venture as pub-
lisher of The Issue. And knowing Editor
Goldberg's ability to dissect Jewish issues,
we recommend his Issue to 'others as a
publication worth watching and reading.

Judge Mahoney and the A. A. U.

Never before has an issue involving prin-
ciple in sports been fought as valiantly as
was the question of American participation
in the Olympic Games to be held in 1936
in Berlin.
But it is just this fact which provides
comfort in the sorrow of defeat. The fight
conducted by Judge Mahoney, Dr. Henry
Smith Leiper, George Gordon Battle and
the hundreds of noble Christians against
bigotry and persecutions will not be for-
gotten. Their efforts against permitting
Americans to go to Germany at a time
when the worst persecutions in history are
Polish Jewry's Comfort
being enacted there will be engraved in
In the midst of horror and tragedy Jewish history as one of the most import-
threatened by riotous and pogromist ant chapters in the battle for justice and
bands, the Jews of Poland were stirred righteousness.

to their very depths by the broadcast of
an address in Hebrew by Leib Jaffe, di-
rector of the Keren Hayesod in Jerusalem,
who reviewed the progress in the upbuild-
ing of Eretz Israel,
Not only did the broadcast strike a
note of joy because of the revivification
of Hebrew as the living tongue of our
people, but it served to arouse new hopes
in Jewish hearts that an opportunity will
be created for the settlement of many
more Polish Jews in Palestine.
In their hour of trial, Polish Jewry, like
the Jews of other lands of oppression, de-
rives comfort from the redemption of the
Land of Israel and the rebirth of the lan-
guage of brad.

Jr. Hadassah's 15th Birthday

After 15 years of activities Junior Ha-
dassah has earned the title of being the
leading Jewish young women's organiza-
tion in America.
She is that, unquestionably. Having
adopted several important projects in
Palestine, Junior Hadassah carried them
out loyally and with dignity. Supporting
Meyer Shfeyah, colony for orphans, a
nurses' training school and the Jewish
National Fund, this organization also did
excellent educational work in this country.
Junior Hadassah's efforts have earned
for her the greetings of American Jewry
on her 15th anniversary.

Lights from
Shadowland

By LOUIS

PALESTINE'S BROADWAY

PEKARSKY

By ERICH GOTTGETREU

Reproduction in pert or whole forbid.
den, without perodxsion of the Seven
Arts •enture Synditate, Cupyrighters of
thi• feature,

(Copyright, S. A F. S. 1935)

(Seven Arts -

Pamir

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Within the next few weeks the first building ever constructed as • Hebrew

The biography of Irving G. Thal-
berg, noted motion picture pro.
ducer, vice-president and associate
of LOUIS B. Mayer of Metro-Gold-
wyn-Mayer Studios, is the story
of a brilliantly successful career
founded on unbounded energy, an
amazing capacity for hard work
and clear thinking.
Success can only be measured in
terms of success. His is measured
in the steady flow of consistently
popular motion pictures over a
period of years. They have won
him recognition as one of the ablest
production executives in the film
Industry. He wears the honor
modestly. Ever alert for new ideas,
he sifts the gems from the rubble
with astonishing success. He knows
a story that will make a picture
the moment he reads it or hears it.
His decisions come rapier-like, but
not without mature consideration,
from a penetrating mind always
at work, probing, analysing, search-
ing. In rare combination with his
sagacity and astuteness as a busi-
ness man is the wistful poetic qua-
lity of his dreams. The one makes
the other come true. His complete
understanding of the public's en-
tertainment desires is described as
uncanny.

theater will be like and reviews the

LAEMMLE'S "RIGHT-HAND"

Back from a visit to his studio
in Universal City, California, the
elder Laemmle walked into the
office and found Thalberg working
at a typewriter. His observations
of the young man convinced him
that there was a definite place in
his business for such undefatigable
worker. lie made Thalberg his
private secretary. At lad Thalberg
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Rehearse Important Plays

But Fraenkel is also flirting with the legiti-
mate drama. Ile has formed a group among the
actors who are not members of regular theaters
and has started working with them. Posters are
up stating that Esther Taube, Miriam Ben Gavriol,
Ilermann Ileuser and Horst Ladendorf are going
to perform "Oktobertag" by Georg Kaiser, He-
brew translation by J. Kopilewitsch. Other mod-
ern plays are to follow.
The Theater Chadash (New Theater) of Al-
fred Wolf, formerly of Frankfurt am Main, is
rehearsing "Voruntersuchung" by Alsberg. It
has already performed "Die ander* Seite" (Jour-
ney's End") and three short plays by Kurt
Goetz. Why Wolf should Invariably select plays
known to the majority of playgoers is something
of a puzzle. Another theatrical manager prom-
ised far more original programs: first we were
to see a play of Herzl's, then one featuring the
late Baron de Rothschild. But his enterprise
came to an untimely end before the opening per-
formance; he had been sadly lacking in sense of
responsibility.
The Workers' Theater, the Ohel, the mem-
bers of which returned a few months ago from
a highly successful European tour, is rehearsing
"Liliom" by Heiner and "Sabbatai Zwi" by the
Hebrew writer Nathan Bistritzky. These will
probably be followed by several Biblical and
modern Palestinian plays. "The Merchant of
Venice" will be the next classical play to be
staged. Messrs. lialevy and Lobe are the stage
managers.
As a rule the Matate Theater is the sole
ruler of the satirical field. It is amusing to ob-
serve written and sung Hebrew trip the light
fantastic toe.

Habimah Builds Its Own Theater

The famous Habimah is building its own
theater. This event is not only of outstanding
importance for the members of the company, who
are at long last to have a home worthy of their
are, but for the world at large, since it will be
the first building put up as a Hebrew theater

A Notorious Fourteenth-Century Pogrom Graphically
Described

Particularly timely in theme 4117)• of reamed anti-Semitic elms,. In Poland.
llonmeg, eta., Is this description of a mediesa/ patron th.t neettreed al
• time of great political and eptrituel unrest. The wither, once recog-
new
nis'
es by all Lemmas se one of their fineM imarinathe acme •
Is an mile front Ida country berm. of his Jealshams. "The Horning of
of the Jess" is taken from leoehlin . e retreat russet ..11•bylonleche Wan-
&rung .• sad le here permeated In English for the end time.

(Cop)right, 1915, Soren Arts Feature Syndli eta)

threatened, reviled the Pope and
the priests. Some stood on wagons.

strolling scholars who talked down
to the people like ambulant den-
tists or quack doctors, telling them
that Emperor Frederick was still
alive, had net died in Sicily but

was journeying through his lands

Marseilles, it travelled up the
Rhine, killed with the swiftness of
Along the highway from Schil-
tigheim came singing and rolling
of drums. Deep silence over the
crowds. A sequence of solemn sim-
plicity resounded, a few voices in-
toning, a huge, as yet invisible
mass rumbling the responses. Now
the vanguard approached. They
wore white robes, huge red crosses

stitched on back and front. Each
pair of marchers held up a banner.
A brother at the head of the col-
umn bore a metal drum which he

beat now loudly, now softly. Peas-
ant children from nearby villages

had joined the procession, carry-
ing burning candles and twigs.
Then hosts of Flagellants, all bare-
foot and bareheaded and bare-
armed, girt with their scourges.
Their faces were coarse and hard
as those of all the people there-
about, not • priest or learned man
among them. Some of them came
from far away. Marching in the
train were Walloon penitents too,
recognizable by their banners and
strange songs.
The bells of the imperial city
clanged mightily, all the populace
was preparing a welcome. The
marchers halted, lay down in the

in disguise, accompanied by two
ahieldbearers and a learned man mud. The perjurer lay on his side
the
who kept a record of all evil-doers. and stretched out three fingers,
the
Frederick would provide protection murderer lay on his back, these
against all oppressors. Ile would adulterer on his belly. Yet

prosecute the hypocritical and pro-
fligate clergy an that they would
be driven to picking up the row-
dung from the roads to cover their
tonsures.
Pestilence was advancing. Ships
had brought the Black Death to

human beings just like those who
swarmed at the roadside and,
shuddering, watched them. What
eyes regarded them—what flames
were kindled! The penitents sank
to their knees. Many lost their

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Palestine. Mr. Gottgetreu tells what this

Hebrew stage.

Arts Feature get/tin - ate

JERUSALEM: Curiously enough the large
German immigration of the past two years has
been almost completely ignored by the Pales-
tinian Ilebrew Theater. While every other pro-
fession has absorbed a number of the German
newcomers, the doors of the Hebrew Theater .•
have been closed against them though they did
open just a little for the stage managers.
No moral issues are involved. The Hebrew
theaters are a collective unit. so to speak. The
artistic stamp of the German-Jewish actor is
totally different from that of the actor deriving
from Russia; and to a still greater extent does
he differ from the actor who stems from Yemen.
Possibly, even probably, the gradual process of
assimilation to Palestinian life and conditions
may be the stepping-stone onto the Hebrew stage.
The language employed in this most subtle
of professions certainly constitutes a distinct
handicap for the newcomers from Germany. Ad.
mittedly, they all speak Hebrew fluently. But
very naturally their Hebrew sounds different
from that of the members of the Habimah or the
Ohel, the native Hebrew theaters. Not that He-
brew is the mother tongue of the latter, but it
is, so to speak, their grandmother tongue; from
childhood onward it has been more familiar to
them than to their colleagues from Western
Europe. And contrary to the Westerners, they
have a kind of Hebrew subconsciousness.
But there is dramatic talent among the
newcomers. Jointly with the singers, Benno
Fraenkel created the chamber opera. Its per-
formances, of a high standard throughout, are
well patronized. So far, Offenbach, Gluck and
Pergolese have filled the programs; Mozart's
"Seraglio" is in course of preparation.

By ALFRED DOEBLIN

in

achievements of the

Copyrislit, 1935, Seven

The Burning of the Jews

Emperor and Pope were em-
broiled in a bitter feud. The Pope
had taken up official residence at
Avignon, in France, he had issued
a terrible proscription against the
last emperor ,had called upon all
world to rise up against him. The
people saw no hope of relief,
churches and appointments could
be bought for shining gold or
bartered away for lewd women,
abbotships were valued so highly
that they could be won or lost at
dice. To whom did human life and
eternal bliss still matter? What
could bring deliverance? Flagel-
lants passed through the lands.
Wicked the world, hard the life.
They approached Strasbourg.
Before the rampart-ditch swarmed
the mob of people who had come
from all directions, • concourse
from everywhere. A veritable field-
encampment. Inflammatory clam-
orings. They complained and

By

Correspondent)

theatre, the permanent home of the Habimah, will Ise dedicated in Tel Aviv. In this

informative review of the Hebrew theatre

Irving G. Thalberg's life is an
inspiration. lie was born May 30,
in an old-fashioned brownstone
house in New York, the son of a
lace importer. After finishing his
public school education, he elected
to train himself for business and
found employment in his grand-
father's store. There he taught
himself typewriting, wrote adver-
tisements for the Brooklyn Daily
Eagle and found time to study
shorthand and Spanish in night
school.
His facile mind rapidly grasped
the fundamentals of both studies.
In four months he felt that he had
exhausted his opportunities in the
store. Thalberg's ambition has
never let him stagnate. Feeling
that his equipment would find him
a better position elsewhere, he
sought further employment.
He put a situation want ad in a
newspaper for a position as secre-
tary-stenographer. He accepted one
of four jobs offered. His next po-
sition was stenographer to Hugo
Windner, export manager for a
N. Y. firm. His employer left a
lasting impression on Thalberg.
All executive, his demand for
meticulous accuracy instilled in the
young stenographer a remarkable
zeal for precision characteristic of
his work today. Thalberg rose to
the position of assistant manager
of the firm in a year's time.
Chance determined Thalberg's
future. One holiday he visited his
grandmother, who had a cottage
near the beach of Edgemere, Long
Island. Carl Laemmle lived next
door. Thalberg immediately real-
ized that Laemmle was a man from
whom he could learn a reat deal.
After a meeting, Laemmle offered
him a job. Thalberg didn't take
it because it seemed too simple.
Seeking another position, Thal-
berg found himself on Broadway,
N. Y. He was attracted to the
Universal Films executive offices.
He went In and sold himself as
secretary to D. B. Lederman, as-
sistant to the president. The asso-
ciation proved a great education
to the boy. He delved into the film
industry from every angle and
found it the outlet he had sought
for his ambition and talents.

Tidbits from Everywhere

PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyrirht. 1131. bee S. A. It /11

IRVING G. THALBERG

NATIVE OF NEW YORK

Strictly
Confidential

not merely in Palestine, but anywhere. And it
will be the first building owned by Jewish peo-
ple solely to be devoted to art.
If the length of the period of waiting be
any criterion of success, this should be the most
beautiful of all theaters. Seven years ago the
Tel Aviv municipality promised the Habimah a
location on land reserved for public buildings.
When the city architect showed the plan to the
actors he came in for a good deal of criticism.
It was asked whether he intended to make fools
of them; and it almost seemed so at that time.
Not a house was to be seen anywhere near the
proposed site of the theater. The Theater
Square was to far even for the Sabbath promen-
ade of the Tel Aviv residents. What good was
it to go out as far as that anyway? Sand and
sand again. And the plan, too, seemed to be
built on sand—at that time.
Tel Aviv grew. It numbered 60, 80, 100,-
000 inhabitants. Asphalt roads had long taken
the place of the sand dunes. Huge white blocks
of houses towered up to the sky. No longer
did anyone speak contemptuously of sand. On
the same spot which years ago seemed a mirage
the Habimah Theater is now being built; and
next to it, in time to come, will be erected a
new Town Hall, a museum and a municipal

library.

The Theater's Building

Wear Kaufmann, the creator of the model
People's Theater (Volksbuhne) in Berlin, and
now engaged on a large Workers' Theater in
Haifa, is building the Habimah Theater. His plan
provides for a seating capacity of 1,050. The
Theater Square makes possible mass perform.
ances before an audience of 25,000 people. The
stage is being constructed along the most mod-
ern lines. Side, botton and backstage will per-
mit rapid change of scenes. There is room for
an orchestra of 25 players. Workshops of var-
ious kinds, a meeting hall and • small theatri-
cal museum are also provided for. The facade
will rest on elliptical columns. The foyer will
have a gigantic window that will throw myriads
of light into the night. Even one of the famous
cedars of Lebanon of which Solomon boasted
will not be lacking. This will be the first cedar
to be reintroduced Into Palestine for centuries.
This first Hebrew theater will cost 035,000.
In order to train a second generation of
actors the Habimah has founded a studio. Sixty
of the most gifted candidates have been given
a course of training. A second examination to
be given shortly will sift the candidate still more
carefully. A two-year course will prepare the as-
pirants in all the subsidiary subjects the com-
mand of which is indispensable to the modern
actor. Great hopes are being entertained for
these youths. Although the older Habimah ac-
tors are strongly rooted in the Russian tradition,
a highly admirable one in itself, these young ac-
tors, imbued with the pulsating rhythm of mod-
ern Jewish life, should evolve a new Hebrew
theatrical style—a style which cannot possibly
exist as yet.
Parallel with this development the public
is being educated in the theatrical sense. The
Habimah youth group is very active, primarily
in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. It members have
instituted a kind of seminary, in which the
plays acted by the Habimah are dealt with in lec-
tures and debates. The authors, their period
and the performances themselves are discussed.
Their last object lesson was a masterly perform-
ance of Gogol's "Reviser." Cultural functions
of all sorts and the excellent illustrated Habim.
ah magazine, Bernell, give evidence of the zeal
to promate the development of a new Ilebrew
thespian culture and to awaken the interest of
Palestine's Jewish population in this culture.

A Birds-Eye View
Of Jewish History

A Review of Dr. Cecil Roth's

Latest Book

By DR. HENRY SMITH LEIPER

A historian who has deliber-
ately attempted to write a
story of the world's most gifted
and creative religious people
in a "secular spirit" present us,
in "A Bird's Eye View of Jew-
ish History," with the fruit of
his labors. Whether Dr. Cecil
Roth has been secular I am not
sure; 1 am not certain what he
means by this term. If he means

that he has played down any
interpretations that might be
considered peculiarly spiritual,
perhaps he is right: but he him-
self admits in his final sentence
that in the preservation of the
Jew through all the centuries
there has been something far
from casual. "lie has endured
through the forces of s. certain
ideal, based upon the recogni-
tion of the influence of • high-
er power in human affairs."

The viewpoint of Dr. Roth
may be discerned from his
statement that he sees in the
development of Israel through
the long past "a record, not of
the cataclysmic revelation of
the Deity to man, but of the
gradual discovery by humanity
of the Divine." The montheis-
tie principle which has been be-
ak in all Jewish history went
through a slow and gradual evo-
lution. The first of the five
books into which this volume

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Visitors to the Tomb of Rachel
in Palestine have been stunned to
find that picture post cards show-
the inside of the tomb offered for
sale are made in Germany .. It
is also a fact that picture post
cards almost anywhere in Palestine
bear a made-in-Germany mark ...
And this has nothing to its with
the transfer agreement, either ...
Speaking of post cards reminds us
that the Nazis are now destroying
hundreds of thousands of cards
showing a blonde little Aryan boy
posing with Hitler ... Selected by
Hitler's advisors as the finest spe-
cimen of Aryan childhood, the
youngster turned out to be the
grandson of a Dusseldorf rabbi,
and the son of a mixed Aryan-
Jewish marriage . .. One of the
conditions in the settlement of the
libel suit of Putzi Hanfstaengl,
Hitler's press agent, against Lord
Beaverbrook's London Daily Ex-
press was a promise that all but
one of the Beaverbrook papers
would look with a more kindly eye
at the Nazi regime . . . Only the
fact that he's a Jew keeps George
Mandel, French minister of corn-
munications, from being a certain
successor of Pierre Laval as pre-
mier ... Although a conservative,
Mandel is persona grata to rights
and lefts ... To keep peace in the
family Hitler has ordered Propa-
ganda Goebbels to make up with
his frau, whom he recently ousted
front his bed and board .. .
THIS AND THAT
If you're wondering why you
haven't heard from Rabbi Solomon
Goldman of Chicago these last few
months, we're telling you that he's
suffering from a throat ailment ...
The real reason why Vice-Investi-
gator Dewey of New York discon-
tinued using the term "Shylock"
to describe the loan-shark racke-
teers is the fact that he remem-
bered he paid his way through
the University of Michigan by
singing in a synagogue choir
Hazel toys are due Abe Goldberg,
Zionist orator, on the marriage of
his daughter, Natalie, who is a
physician . . . Superior Court
Judge Joseph Sabath of Chicago is

celebrating his 25th anniversary
on the bench ... During that time

he handled 46,000 marital rifts
and reconciliated 3,000 couples ...
Did you know that the word
"Reich," the Ethiopian term "Ras"
and "Re," "Roi" and "Rey," the
Italian, French and Spanish
words for king, all stem from the
Hebrew word "Rosh," meaning
first.,.

SPORTSTUFF

There's a rumor current that
Benny Leonard has been asked to
come to Palestine to help the Jews
there develop athletics on Amer-
ican style ... While we're on the
subject of rumors we might say
that all the talk about anti-Sem-
itism being the cause of that free-
for-all during the N. Y. U.—Ford-
ham game is a lot of hooey .. .
Incidentally, Bob Smith, the star
of the N. Y. U. eleven, who is non-
Jewish, is a brother-in-law of Bob
Pastor, one of the luminaries of
last year's N. Y. U. team, and now
a promising heavyweight ... Bob's
manager, Mike McTigue, predicts
his protege will be the number one
challenger within a year ... Among
the boldest race track betters are
Izzy Silverman of Indianapolis and
Benny Silverman of New York ...
Maxey Rosenbloom, ex-light heavy-

weight king, is planning to marry
Mary Campbell, the soup heiress
. . . Ernest Lee Jahncke, Amer-

ican member of the International
Olympic Committee, issued his re-
cent statement against American
participation in the Olympics from
the University Club in New York,
which is strictly Aryan and doesn't
permit any Jews as members or
visitors . . . A hot anti-Olympics
blast will be Jimmie Walker's first
public statement since his return
to America ...
BROAD WAYSIDE
Despite all denials to the con-
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The Book as a Chanukah Gift

A List of Appropriate Selections for the Coming Gift-

Giving Season; A Specially Selected List
of Children's Books

There is nothing more appropri-
ate as a gift for Chanukah than

a book.
A Biltieft EYE VIEW tor JEWISH
There are excellent selections for
HISTORY. Re Hr. ('ern Roth. Union

of American Hebrew I ongregatione,
Cincinnati
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the adults. The classics published
by the Jewish Publication Society
as well as recently published works
by Ludwig Lewtsohn, Lion Feucht-
wanger, Dr. Cecil Roth, Harry
Sadder and others are excellent
choices which will be prized by
those who know how to value fine
writing.
It is more difficult to select the
gift for the child, and for this
reason the selected list of appro-
priate books for Chanukah gifts
for children from 4 and older, com-
piled by Rabbi $. II. Markowitz of
Fort Wayne, Ind., is of particular
value. This list is published in the
pamphlet issued by the Special
Committee on Child Study and Par-
ent Education oft he National Fed-
eration of Temple Sisterhoods, with
offices in the Merchants Bldg., Cin-
cinnati. The selection is part of the
pamphlet on Chanukah in the series
"Adjusting the Jewish Child to his
World," and suggests the following
books:

Ages1 to I
Altman--Jewish Cbillte
Stories
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Calisch--Itible Tales fee the Yee,
Tonne
Cohen, Lessons-Bible Tales for the
v ery Ymor Children
5 CC
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1.01
Ara I to 5
Ass) StemoL-Jessish Fairy Tales
sad Fables
1.011
Friesliendm--Jewish hiry Tele

Puente, — Armand the Year la AO
Rhyme.
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Agee 5 to 15
Gaer—The lIternim Ileah
1.75
Itevisrve—Jewil ► Ifoiyelay Marten 1.06
A...Meer-14ml Jew, Mace Bible
Tame
1,2%
Larle—The Gyms Nam%
LIS
Agee IC Its It
Field — Jewitsh Legman ef the
Middle Ares
1.5A
Immlarre—Playassies Is ► 4711
1.05
Levine-m-4a Natty lemds
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lervImer--Tlbs New lamed
1.10
Lirder—Old Temansma Helms
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Melts--4i, 4 Men Is Isesei
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Reset Tien $11.i.
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ISO
Caser—Tbe tesemersensd
1.71

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Geer — Floe the Weal Religions
310
Regan
Ile
Levinger—Tales Old and New
Levinger-111story of the Jews l•
the galled States
1.00
ISO
Enelow—A Jewish View of Jess
Stimellogleotte
Risher—The Heaven on the Sm.
Gaer—The Irread Called Madmen.
sire—The lifeof Solomon.
alerts
Book or Jewish Theaghln
Gehriel—The Seven Branched Cancroothil
Raisin—Twice Told Talmud Tale
Imaler—Salhan The Nt..
Feldman—Sabbath Spies and Feedivsl
Fare.
Parklamon—Joseph the flower.

These books are available through
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations in Cincinnati, pub-
lishers of a number of the listed
volumes, or through the Bloch Pub-
lishing Co. or any reliable book
dealer.

Jewish U. S. History

Among the books listed is the
History of the Jews in the United
States by Dr. Lee J. Levinger. The
volume presently suggested is the
revised edition of the history pub-
lished in 1930. Aside from being •
well written review of American
Jewish history, Rabbi Levinger's
book takes into consideration the
economic as well as political posi-
tion and opportunity of U. S.
Jewry.
The 1935 edition brings this his-
tory up-to-date. It includes appen-
dices to chapters dealing with
American Jewry's reactions to the
Nazi persecutions, the settlement
of refugees in the United State's,
educational activities in various

American Jewish communities.
Jewish relief efforts at home and
abroad, the movement to combat

Nazism, through the boycott as
well as the quiet work carried on
by the American Jewish Commit-
tee and the B'nai B'rith; Jewish
cultural achievements, in art, sci-
ence and literature; Jews in pol-

itics, including Jewish appoint-
meats by the Federal administra-
tion; efforts to attain Jewish unity.
Dr. Levinger comes to the con-
cluaion that "anti-Semitism is act

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