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Prophetical portion—I Kings 7:40-50
Eighth Day of
December 27,1935
Tebeth 1, 5696
The Legislative Council
Thirty years ago Henrietta Szold already
earned the distinction of having her name
recorded in the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Which is an interesting element in a res-
ume of the life of the great woman whose
75th birthday world Jewry honors at this
time. The facts that she had made sign-
ficant contributions to Jewish culture when
she was in her thirties, that she displayed
great qualities of leadership three decades
ago and that she had won recognition
from the American Jewish community in
her youth, provide proof that it is not work
for Palestine, or the formation of Hadas-
sah, or the work she is doing to settle refu-
gee children in Palestine, that is causing
her to be looked upon as a great woman.
On the contrary, it is the good fortune of
these movements that this eminent leader
is their champion—and it is fair to con-
clude that her genius and her understand-
ing of Jewish life led her quite naturally
to devote her major interest to these
causes.
. Exactly 15 years ago, on the occasion of
Miss Szold's return from one of her trips
to Palestine in the interest of the Hadassah
Medical Organization, she was accorded
many honors, among them a rare tribute
by 3,000 women who gathered at a recep-
tion for her at Hotel Pennsylvania in New
York. A writer for the United Synagogue
Recorder, describing this great tribute,
thus evaluated Miss Szold's qualities as a
leader:
Jews— in and out of Palestine—have
survived so many crises that we would dis-
credit our long history if we were to be-
come panicky over the promulgation of
the Legislative council in Palestine, by
High Commisioner Sir Arthur Grenfell
Wauchope.
In spite of the White Papers and the
various obstacles placed in our paths in
Palestine, we have doubled the Jewish
population there in a period of five years,
trebled our possessions there and enriched
the English treasury. The regrettable
thing is that in spite of the great benefits
brought by Jews to Palestine the govern-
ment treasury which has been enriched
by our efforts uses these funds for all pur-
poses but those which would be of benefit
to Jewish reconstruction efforts; the gov-
ernment has from time to time hindered
us in our work by occasional decisions
such as the present; furthermore, the gov-
ernment has not even been appreciative
of Jewry's good-natured yielding to fate in
proceeding with our work independently,
without the aid of the British adminis-
tration in Palestine in such efforts as
health and education, in which a larger
.hare of revenue is rightfully due us.
On top of it, the Palestine government
now proposes to legislate us into a posi-
tion of an unimportant minority, despite
the dominance of Jewish efforts. Natur-
ally, therefore, the Jews in Palestine, and
the Jews outside of Palestine, reply to
the new action with the declaration that
under no circumstances will we recognize
this legislative council, or participate
in it.
Thus, Great Britain is legislating with-
out our consent and against our interests.
It is .a decision which is not only ill-timed
—in a period of our history when we most
need the encouragement of the great na-
tions of the world in solving the horrible
refugee problem—but it is tantamount to
an expression of ingratitude on the part
of the great British government to whom
we have devotedly entrusted our lot and
our destiny.
Those devoted to the cause of Pales-
tine's reconstruction must under no cir-
cumstances permit the decision for the
promulgation of a legislative council to
discourage them in any sense whatever.
It is unfortunate that this decision will
lend comfort to our enemies—to the Com-
munists who have declared war against
Jewish hopes which are built on a basis
of national reconstruction of Jewish life;
to the Revisionists who have been a de-
structive group in our midst; to those
who, because they happen to be in oppo-
sition to the present leadership in the
Zionist movement, may utilize the occa-
sion for an attack on our leaders rather
than lending their wholehearted support
for the Palestinian work in defiance of the
legislative council.
We need courage in this hour of stress
—and we are not losing hope for even a
single moment that we shall attain it in
spite of all the difficulties on the road of
Jewish redemption work in Eretz Israel.
Dr. Masaryk's Resignation
The resignation of Dr. Thomas Garrique
Masaryk as president of the Republic of
Czechoslovakia is a most regrettable occur-
rence in present-day European politics.
For Jews it is particularly shocking news,
and liberals throughout the world deeply
regret his exit from the political arena.
Dr. Masaryk, aside from being one of
the outstanding political geniuses and lib-
erals in Europe, was directly responsible
for keeping Czechoslovakia's doors closed
to Nazism. He surrounded himself with a
group of able statesmen who created in
Czechoslovakia a center for liberalism and
tolerance, and the one encouraging hope in
his resignation is that his political proteges
will follow in his footsteps and will guar-
antee that their country will remain an
oasis of freedom on the European field of
reaction.
For Jews the name of Dr. Masaryk will
always be associated with the noblest in
Christendom. On more than one occasion
Dr. Masaryk staked his own career in ef-
forts to secure justice for oppressed and
persecuted. Jewish history will never
erase the name of the first president of
the Republic of Czechoslovakia, who, as
a 27-year-old professor, defended Leopold
Hilsner against a, ritual murder accusa-
tion, and on many subsequent occasions
showed great interest both in efforts to
secure justice for Jews and to rehabili-
tate refugee Jews in friendly countries.
It is encouraging that a disciple of Dr.
Masaryk, Dr. Edouard Benes, who was his
predecessor's cicsest collaborator, succeeds
him to the presidency of Czechoslovakia.
This rives us assurance that the liberal
will be fol-
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Lights from
Shadowland
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
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CHRONICLE
1935's NEW JEWISH FACES
Strictly
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhere
The Past Year's Newcomers to the Front Page
By PHINEAS J. 'IRON
1Copyright, 1036..
8. A. F. II
By BERNARD POSTAL
POLITICAL PLOT
(Copyright. S. A. F. S. 1135)
The New Deal has turned
Copyright. 1936, Seven Art. Feature Syndeute
DID YOU KNOW DEP'T?
thumbs down on Governor Henry
Jack Benny's recent increase in
Horner of Illinois .. . Roosevelt
One of the primary axioms of journalism is came active in the work of the Joint Distribu-
salary makes him top-price man
leaders in Illinois have informed
among radio stars. He gets $7,500 that names makes news: the bigger the name tion Committee, to which his father gave so
and tops Cantor's salary for broad-
many millions. Young Marshall, who had prev- the Governor they will not back
casting by $500. Joe Penner says the bigger the news. Frequently, however, men iously made a name for himself as campaign him for renomination ... But Hor-
he prefers to stay in Hollywood and women who are not what the press calls manager for Mayor La Guardia in 1933 and as ner is determined to defy the Demo-
and in the movies and is said to "big names," make big news. No day passes but
cratic bosses and intends to seek
be holding out on radio for $10,000 that some hitherto obscure person flashes into a member of the executive committee of the re-election without their backing
American Jewish Committee, continued his climb
a week . . . David 0. Selznick is
. . s Jerome N. Frank, one of the
in line for the Motion Picture Aca- headline prominence overnight by virtue of one toward the top when he was appointed to the original members of the so-called
demy Award with two productions event, deed or word. Of course many of those
"Brain Trust," will celebrate the
which he completed for MGM this momentarily catapulted to fame or notoriety are New York City board of education and the city
new year by bidding farewell to
year before he started his own in- quickly forgotten as their contribution to the charter commission.
the New Deal ... He's giving up
dependent compay, Selznick Inter-
his post as assistant counsel to the
Justine
Wise
Tulin,
daughter
of
Dr.
Stephen
national Pictures, Inc., as an- news of the day becomes a newspaper clipping
railroad division of the RFC to
S.
Wise,
belongs
among
the
new
Jewish
faces
nounced here a few columns back and is buried away in newspaper morgues. But
return to private law practice ...
. George Cukor, who will be as- some of the newcomers do remain in the glare of 1935 because during this year she was ap- Washington's newest cocktail, the
sedated with Mr. Selznick in fu- of publicity, and by retaining their hold on pub- pointed judge of the New York domestic rela- "Virgin Island," is credited to
ture film productions, is a candi-
Mike Straus, director of public re-
tions court, the youngest judge of that rank in
date for the Academy's award for lic interest become "big names" in the sense that
lations for the Interior Department
the beet director's work during the they have important news value. Any newspaper the entire country, and the first woman in New ... Politics may go musical in •
past year ... Sylvia Sydney will reader can list several dozen people whose names York State to be given a court position more big way next year if George Gersh-
go to London after the tint of were unknown in 1934, but who through some notable than that of city magistrate. As the win is serious about his announced .
next year to appear in a single
intention to try his talented hand
Gaumont-British picture on a loan happening in 1935 became and remained front vice-president of the New York Times, Arthur
at politics ... Did you notice that
from Walter Wenger Productions
page figures. In a year studded with events of Hays Sulzberger, son of the late Cyrus Sulz-
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, author
. Hollywood today faces a seri- major import to the Jewish people, 1935 yielded berger, avoided the limelight, but he could not of the Townsend Plan, wears a
ous beauty shortage! This alarm-
escape it when the death of his father-in-law, Hitler-like moustache? . . . Out
quite
a
crop
of
Jewish
newcomers
to
the
front
ing statement was made by Mark
Adolph S. Ochs, made him (Sulzberger) publisher in St. Louis a certain William
Sandrich, director of film musicals. page.
Schneider has organized the "Moses
The shortage is in quantity, not
The following, in the opinion of the writer, of the New York Times, a positkin which entitles
Organization," which has as
ma yrk
o uan dded
.. E . Rs are those Jews who, by virtue of their achieve- him to a place in the gallery of new Jewish faces. Wing
LETT
IT ou H sA iiN tyks gieF is o , R
its motto "every man a Moses"
and its goal the guiding of Amer-
Examples
of
Previously
Unknowns
ments
during
1935,
deserve
recognition
as
the
I This column asks to be excused
ica out of the wilderness of eco-
Miss Ssold is not only a scholar; she is
for taking a few lines of space to new Jewish faces of 1935:
Louis B. Brodsky and Leo Y. Chertok are nomic depression .
not only • great Jewess and • most ardent
say "thanks" for many kind words
the perfect examples of people previously un- PERSONALIA
Zionist; she is not only an indefatigable
and good wishes from Ruch readers
Hugo Bergmann, rector of the Hebrew Cohen.);
known to fame who became internationally re-
Elsa Wise, daughter of Rabbi
worker; healing the body and the spirit of
of "Lighths From Shadowland" as:
Heart Bodmilleinter, world president of the OUT;
nowned by one utterance or deed. Magistrate Jonah 13. Wise, is to be married
her people; she is the towering personality of
Philip Slomovitz, editor, Detroit
Magistrate 1.0116 It. Brodsky; Leo, Y. Chertok, pro-
the century, the greatest influence on Jewish
Jewish Chronicle; Nathan Krems,
moter; Rudolf Graslank Italian general; Otto Ilia.,
Brodsky was a liberal attorney who had been a in January to Melville Hertzberg
New York, a banking company
womanhood in the world. Her name and work
associate editor, Seattle Jewish
aminean of the Relchtertretung der Deetechen Jude.:
New York magistrate for several years, but of
executive ... If you want to do
are echoed from shore to shore, in America, in
Transcript; Arthur Weyne, the
Maurice Leith, department store magnate; Georges
beyond the confines of New York he had attracted a mitzvah drop a card to Mrs. A.
Europe, and in Palestine. All of the tributes
Brooklyn Jewish Examiner's good-
31..1, Frank nankter of rommunIcathms; James
II. Fromenson, widow of the late
no attention until his now historic opinion that
looking managing editor; Henry
and all of homage which she has received have
Marshall, member of the New lork City Board of
Abraham Fromenson, publicity
W. Levy, New York, publicity
not affected the sweet simplicity of her nature.
PkIneatlen; Helene 31uyer, fencing champion; Cliflord
the swastika was a pirate's emblem made him
wizard, who is in Beth Israel Hos-
director of the American ORT
She is the sweet, modest, tireless worker in
(Meta, playwright; William Itesenwald, philanthropist;
an international figure and the subject of diplo-
pital, in a plaster cast as a result
Campaign for $500,000, who is ex-
the vineyard of Israel. And well may the
Bele ticellg, boxer; Emanuel ShInwell. member of
matic
correspondence
between
Berlin
and
Wash-
of an accident ... Nathan Belth,
pected to be in Los Angeles this
Hadassah apply to her the well known verse
British Parlksment; Arthur Hays Sultb eeeee , pub-
former publicity director of the
winter in the interests of the big
ington.
Chertok
was
an
obscure
promoter
with
of Proverbs, "Give her of the fruit of her
lichee; Justine Wise Tulin, Jurist; lama Werfel, om-
drive; Julius Bisno, Omaha, Neb.,
hands, and let her own works praise her in
en:Lie; tee iu patents, attorney general of New no claim to fame before he startled the world National Council of Jewish Women,
is now handling press relations for
national
executive
secretary
of
the
the gates."
Jenny.
last September by announcing that he had an the Joint Distribution Committee
Fifteen years after this was written, we Aleph Zadek Aleph, junior B'nai
exclusive
concession
for
the
exploitation
of
all
the
. . . Dr. Jonah Wise is up and
B'rith order; Bernard Postal,
With the exception of Franz Werfel, all of oil, gold, silver and mineral deposits in Ethiopia, around again after a siege of ill-
doubt whether a single person will be managing
editor of Seven Arts
found who will question our being justi- Feature Syndicate and Worldwide the names included in this list were virtually an announcement that made him a figure of ness ... Judge Jonah J. Goldstein
fied in substituting for the Hadassah" News Service; Julius M. Cohen, unknown to most Jews before 1935. Some of world-wide importance in view of the Italo-Ethi- is the new president of that famous
East Side alumni group, the Grand
in the above tribute "the Jewish people." associate editor, The Jewish Ledg- them did enjoy fame in a small way, but none opian war.
Street Boys Association . . . Jus-
Rochester, New York; Yasha
She has not only served her people well, er,
Frank, Publicity Director, Los had ever made the front page in the literal or
Last year the sporting world's contribution tice Brandeis brings his lunch
but has been the inspiration of outstanding Angeles Tuberculosis Sanatorium figurative sense of the term. The list includes
from home to the Supreme Court
educators and leaders in American and at Duarte, Calif.; Miss Muriel people from the United States, Great Britain, to the gallery of new Jewish faces were Henry every day . . . It consists of two
Greenberg,
the
baseball
star,
and
Max
Baer,
sandwiches made by Mrs. Brand-
Palestinian Jewries. Among those who Vernon, Max Reinhardt's personal Italy, Austria, France and Germany. It also
in Los Angeles and
world's heavyweight champion. In 1936 Green- eis Josef brae's, II, son of the
have served in various capacities under her representative
contains
the
names
of
two
women.
Among
the
late Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, Al
Hollywood. and many others.
tutelage, when she was the director of MORE HONORS
"new Jewish faces" are two who are the sons berg retained his place on the front page while
Smith's one-woman brain trust,
Sid Grauman, veteran showman of men who were "big names" in the Jewish Baer became a has-been. The Jewish newcomers has gone his mother one better ...
the Department of Education of the Zion-
to
1935's
sporting
front
page
were
Helene
Mayer
She was only director of publicity
of
Hollywood,
is
the
newest
Ken-
ist Organization of America, were Miss
world throughout their lives, one who is the
colonel in America's film
and Eric Seelig. Miss Mayer has been in the for a governor and potential presi-
Jessie Sampter, eminent poet, now in Pal- tucky
capital. The governor of that state daughter of a "big name" in Jewish life and limelight since 1928, when she won the woman's dent, but her son is now "publica-
estine; Dr. Alexander Dushkin, distin- has just sent a commission tied another who is the son-in-law of a "big name."
tion counsel" to an emperor—Em-
guished educator, who was recently called with lovely ribbons to Grauman, How many of these 18 will be "big names" so fencing crown in the Olympic Games of that year peror Haile Selassie ... Dr. Joseph
but
in
1936
she
achieved
international
promi-
Rosen, head of the Agro-Joint,
manager
of
the
world-famous
to an important post by the Hebrew Uni-
far as Jews are concerned in 1936 remains a
Theatre, whose accomplish-
nence for the first time as a result of the ques- slipped into town without any fuss
versity in Jerusalem; Dr. David de Solo Chinese
ments in the motion picture busi- question, but for 1935 they are the new Jewish tion which arose over whether Germany would being made about his arrival ...
Pool, former national president of Young ness make one of the most thrill- faces.
invite her to join the German Olympic Committee POTPOURRI
Judaea, rabbi of the Spanish-Portuguese ing success stories that has ever
If you get some matzoth with a
In the United States
and
whether she would accept the invitation when smoky
come
out
of
Hollywood
...
Great
Synagogue of New York; Emanuel Neu-
smell you can be sure they
In the United States the most important and if extended. Eric Seelig, who was exiled came
Britain's mighty, new submarine
from the Horowitz-Marga ,
mann, able leader and scholar, former has
an honorary "shipmate" in the Jewish newcomer to the front page was un-
factory in New York, which
member of the Palestine Zionist Executive, person of lovely Merle Oberon, questionably dapper, youngish David T. Wilentz, from Germany after being stripped of his title reten
was the scene of a fire recently ...
who is also making his home in Palestine, English star appearing in Gold- who, by virtue of the fact that he was attorney as Germany's light-heavyweight champion, re- Gordon Selfredge, London depart-
places Max Baer as the most important new Jew- ment store magnate, boasts that he
gyre Studio Pictures. Notification
and many others.
•
of this honor came to the Londoner general of the State of New Jersey, had the spot-
The Palestine that benefited from Miss in the form of a large photograph light thrown on him as the chief prosecutor of ish personality in boxing because of his successful once bought a Chicago department it
store from five Jews and sold
Szold's services and which in turn con- I c the undersea fighter, with of- Buno Richard Hauptmann, convicted murderer record in this country.
to seven men at a profit ... Eric
Overseas the number of new Jewish person- Seelig, the German-Jewish refugee,
tributed to the elevation of Miss Szold to ficers and crew lining the decks, and kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby. Prior to
inscribed "To Merle Oberon,
alities was even more meager than in the United who is the latest boxing sensation
an undying place in Jewish history, rises and
with sincerest admiration—from the sensational Hauptmann trial, Wilentz was
to honor her on her 75th birthday. And her shipmates of IL M. S. Sub- unknown outside of New Jersey, although he hue States. Notwithstanding the phenomenal prog- in America, always visits a rabbi
he goes into the ring .. .
the Zionists throughout the world, whom marine Oberon." This nautical a brilliant record as an attorney. As a result of ress of Palestine, the only really important Jew- before
Must be a good idea because he
Miss Szold helped to inspire in their work friendship began when Merle was his key role in the IIauptmann case he has be- ish newcomer to the front page in that country hasn't been defeated yet ... Gov-
London recently and received a
was Dr. Hugo Bergman, the new rector of the ernor Herbert Lehman of New
for Eretz Israel, are making this celebra- in
request from the sailors of the come as well known as the principals of that
tion a worldwide holiday. For American Oberon for an autographed picture. cause celebre, and therefore unquestionably be. Hebrew University, who climaxed a lifetime of York is getting a Christmas tree,
Zionist service by becoming the administrative whether he likes it or not The
Jewry the occasion becomes an event of The star responded, not only send- longs among the new Jewish faces of 1935.
State Conservation department.
her picture, but a case of rum as
head of the famous institution on Mount Scopus. has cut a handsome balsam for the
great significance.
It is rather unusual for a playwright, espe-
well ... The third film notable to
The tragedy of German Jewry was equally unpro- executive mansion ... Mrs. Dionne.
hit the headlines with honors this cially a new playwright, to become a national ductive of new Jewish leaders, although Dr. Otto mother of the famous quintuplet',
week is LeRoy Prinz, Paramount sensation overnight, but that's exactly what Clif-
has nothing on Mrs. Minnie
studio dance director, who has been ford Odets did to crash the front pages in 1936. Hirsch, head of the Reichsvertretung der Deutsch- Schwartz. Mrs. Schwartz gave
Reporting on the address delivered in named a member and major of the Not since Eugene O'Neill set the critics shout- en Juden, the representative body of the German birth to a baby girl four months
Internationale des Aviateurs,
Jews, made the front page when he was arrested ago that weighed only 23 ounces,
Berlin by Adolf Hitler upon the inaugura- Ligue
an international group of aviators. ing hosannas more than a decade ago has Broad-
less than Marie, the smallest
tion of the National Socialist winter propa- Membership in the league gives the way acclaimed a new playwright with such encom- for signing a Yom Kippur manifesto read in all five
quintuplet . . . They said the
ganda campaign in Germany, the corres- pilot permission to fly in and over iums as greeted Odets after the presentation of German synagogues.
Schwartz baby couldn't live, but
nation in the world. Prinz was
The halo-Ethiopian war introduced to world she's still very much alive, and
pondent of the New York Times cabled the any
attached to the Lafayette Esca- his "Awake and Sing" and his two one-act plays
now weighs 4 pounds, 6 ounces ...
following observations of the reaction of drille during the World War.
"Waiting for Lefty" and "Till The Day I Die." fame General Rudolf.) Graziani, the Italian Jew- Lena Levy, sister-manager of
ish
general
commanding the southern front in
speech:
the audience to the Fuehrer's
CAN'T GET AWAY FROM IT
One of the most vigorous personalities
Kingfish Levinsky, the boxer, has
Once you are stamped with a
Perhaps the most interesting phase, how-
Ethiopia, where Mussolini's forces have made been committed to an insane soy-
trade mark, you never lose it, Joe among the new Jewish faces of 1935 is Maurice their greatest progress. Georges Mandel, minister lum ... The bust-up of the United
ever, was the reaction of the mass to his
Penner has discovered. The former Levin, who won dual fame by his striking
mention of what he called the three main
Jewish Appeal will be hotly de-
Detroiter hasn't used his "wanna achievements in the business world and in Jew- of communications in every French cabinet dur- bated at the January pow-wow of
achievements of his regime. There was •
buy a duck?" line for a year now, ish philanthropy. As president of Hearn's De- ing 1935, and a veteran of French politics. the National Council of Jewish
sprinkle of applause when he referred to the
but he is still known as the "duck
destruction of "Marxism." Exactly one pair
Store in New York he became the talk entered the gallery of new Jewish faces by virtue Welfare Funds in St. Louis ...
man" to everyone at Paramount partment
of hands clapped when he mentioned the anti.
of the country by converting a virtually bank- of the fact that France expects him to be the next FOR READERS
Studios. The radio star has just
Jewish racial laws although • few more hands
New York's Zionist Club is plan-
completed a picture here. He ar- rupt business into the most progressive and premier because he is the only leader acceptable
got busy when he added that these laws had
rived without any ducks and de- unique department store in the country. At the to both Left and Right wings. Emanuel Shin- ning the publication of a series of
the overwhelming majority of the German
pamphlets, the first of which is to
termined to let by-gones be by- same time he succeeded in galvanizing Jewish well's sensational defeat of former Prime Minister
people behind them. But when he came to
contain Prof. Franz Oppenheimer's
gones. But to no avail. He is "duck
rearmament behind which, he said stood the
lecture on "Race" delivered at the
man" to everybody—including the fund-raising efforts by his uniquely successful Ramsay MacDonald in the British Parliament
whole German people, the entire hall shook
fan
mail
dinner recently tendered him by
he
gets—and
now
he
is
achievements
in
behalf
of
the
Jewish
National
elections
stamped
him
as
one
of
the
coming
po-
with the evening's biggest ovation.
resigned to his fate.
the Club ... We hear that Amer-
Fund
and
Yeshiva
College.
litical
figures
in
England.
No
stranger
to
fame,
Here is exceedingly interesting proof SHE'S PARTICULAR
Will Rosenwald and James Marshall, the sons Franz Werfel clinched his place among the new ican Jewry is soon to have a new
that all Germans do not approve of the
monthly journal, to be edited by
Marta Eggerth. Universal's bril-
Nazi anti-Semitic program; that, in fact, liant Hungarian-Jewish opera and of Julius Rosenwald and Louis Marshall, respec- Jewish faces of 1935 by the phenomenal success Stefan Zweig, Dr. Abram Coral-
nik and Dr. Rudolf Kayser, former
movie
star,
who
is
now
at
work
tively,
are
included
among
the
new
Jewish
faces
of
his
novel,
"The
Forty
Days
of
Must
NO,"
the vast majority may at heart be op-
on her first American film, refuses of 1935 because they made their public debut, and by his monumental dramatic work, "The editor of "Die Neue Rundschau,"
posed to it.
which under his guidance wen Ger-
to sing any musical composition,
But Germans are determined to build except opera, introduced by an so to speak, during the past year. As one of Eternal Road," shortly to be produced by Max many's finest literary magazine
. . It seems to us that we have
up again a military power, and in its in- artist other than herself. She has the national co-chairmen of the United Jewish Reinhardt. Henri Bodenheimer, world president
had 140 songs written for her voice Appeal, young Rosenwald, the youngest son of of the ORT, is a real newcomer to the front been hearing of this new monthly
terests are prepared to sacrifice all hu- by
composers of nine different the famous philanthropist, appeared in many parts Page, because it was not until he visited this off and on ever since Zweig's visit
man elements whom their leaders hate.
countries and she can sing any of
to these shores last year—let us
It is apparent that the Germans are these numbers in seven different of the country in behalf of the German-Jewish country in 1935 that the Jewish public learned hope that it actually is approach-
relief and Palestine reconstruction. He also be- of his achievements in Europe in behalf of ORT. ing realization ...
today, more than ever, submissive to the languages.
What Do Germans Approve?
rule of the dictators who are out to ac-
complish their ends at all costs. Nazi
bigots and perverts know that in order
to retain the country's interest in their
program it is easy to stir up hatred against
the mythical enemy: the Jew. And the
Germans, even when they demonstrate op-
position to the anti-Semitic program, are
lacking in courage to demand a cessation
of the campaign against the Jews.
Germans may at heart disapprove of
anti-Semitism. But their leaders dictate
otherwise: therefore submissive Germans
approve of anything to which Hitler and
his cohorts ask them to shout: Ja.
A Nazi Truce
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
has ordered a one-month truce in the Nazi
fight against the "enemies of the Third
Reich." Thus, the propaganda machine of
the Hitler government will not go into ac-
tion until Jan. 15. The reason for this
ac tion is not given, but we suspect that it
is a desire to stop propagandizing in the
hope of stimulating holiday business. Per-
haps even the Nazis will soon begin to see
that the more they spread Nazi hatred the
less trading is done by Germans, in and
Has Your Home a Jewish Book Shelf?
By J. SOLIS.COHEN, JR.,
President, The Jewish Publication Society of America
A love of books and learning has the principles of the Jewish reli-
always been • distinguishing char- Rion, history and literature.
The Jewish Publication Society
acteristic of our people. Today,
perhaps more than ever before, we zation
is • non-profit
educational
organ-
supported
by nominal
dues
need the epiritual stimulation of from its members and by funds
our own rich tradition and eternal donated by individuals in sympathy
faith In this direction few organi- with its aims.
Because the publication of books
rations have contributed more than
the Jewish Publication Societ of upon distinctly Jewish subject's of-
y
fered only limited distribution and
America which during the forty- little possibility of profit, Jewish
seven years of its activity has authors writing in this field had,
made available in the English Ian- before the formation of the Society,
gunge books of inestimable value. almost no opportunity to have their
Since its formation in 1888 the writs printed except by private
Society has published many note- subscription.
In America as well as in other
worthy volumes and has made
available in the English language English-speaking countries there
outstanding classical and hi.tori- were almost no translations of the
cal books. It has encouraged re-
search, stimulated creative e.Tort Jewish literature which was (mei-
and provided an organizetion liar to our forefathers either in
through which both translations the original Hebrew or in their
and original works have beed die- native tongues. And original works
tributed throughout the world. It of fiction, poetry, essays and his-
was organized for the publication tory could not be expected to inter•
and dissemination of literary, est commercial publishers. It was
scientific and religious works, and the realization of these facts that
AN ALMANAC FOR 1936
Zionism's First Lady
Jewish Anniversaries of the
Coming Year
A Biography of Henrietta Szold on Her 75th Birthday
By TAMAR DE SOLA POOL
By BERTRAM JONAS
Annher.riee ...label with great men
and esent• in Jewish history ill be
plentiful In 1934. In thin limeir m-
ina of the forthcoming mlebms-
'ions Mr. Jonas present. a Jewish
almanac for the rowing /esr.
The year of 1936 will be a
full one for those interested in
Jewish anniversaries, which, for
the purposes of this review may
be defined as commemorative
observances or celebrations of
a day separated by 10, 25, 60,
75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300,
or 400 years from some past
event of special import in Jew-
ish history. The coming 12
months will be the occasion for
scores of celebrations marking
the anniversaries of the births
or deaths of famous Jews and
of great events and landmarks
that loom large on the scroll of
d sad concluding part of Mrs. David de Sola Pool's
brilliant biographical study of Henrietta Szold, whose 75th
This is the
birthday is being celebrated throughout the world.
The year is 1895. In the court,
yard of the Ecole Militaire in
Paris, in the presence of a jeering
throng, the stripes are ripped from
the uniform of an innocent man,
his sword is broken in dishonor,
and the innocent victim of ugly
forces is exiled to Devil's Island,
hearing the cross of his people,
Israel. The curtain falls upon the
first act of the Affaire Dreyfus.
The drama reopens upon a world
rent and confused. But above the
turmoil and the din, two cr ystal-
clear voices ring out. One is Zol a's,
the voice of justice and honor of
France, the other is Herzl's, the
voice of prophecy and age-old
vision of the Jew. Herd entered
the court-room along the banks of
into, litterateur, Bohemian boule-
vardier; he emerged • statesmen
and of his assimilated existence.
With dazzling lucidity, Ilerzi ap-
prehended the agonizing anomalies
of the position of the Jew in a
heartless world. With equal clarity
his master mind came to grips with
the Jewish problem and with
Promethean courage he wrested
from the hands of history the
torch of Zionism. In 1894, Ilerrl
sees Dreyfus hounded, he ?learn
the whip of anti-Semitism crack
ACM. the face of the Jew. In 1897,
Herzl presides over a world Zionist
Congress, defies the bitter opposi-
Nun of the sseimilationists among
the Jews, and sky-writes the Mogan
of the Basle platform. With the
dexterity of a diplomat and the
vision of a prophet, he launches