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Sabbath Readings of the Torah

Pentateuchal portion--Ex. 25:1-27:19.
Prophetical portion-1 Kings 5:26-6:13.

Fast of Esther Readings of the Torah,
Thursday, March 5

Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 32:11.14; 34:1.10.
Prophetical portion—Is. 55:6-56:8.

February 28, 1936

Adar 5, 5696

The Highest Scale of Suffering

- When the news came that the all-Jewish
city of Tel Aviv had decided this year to
abandon the Purim Adiliada—the famous
and traditional Purim carnival—as a mark
of sympathy with the suffering portions of
Jewry, it stabbed us deeply. It was the
severest hurt that has come to us in years.
To us this decision is equivalent to the
tradition in Orthodox Jewry wliich causes
parents to sit Shivah and to observe a
period of mourning when their child in-
termarries with a Christian.
The happiest Jewish community in. the
world sits in mourning on the most mirth-
ful day on the Jewish calendar!

spreading out of Federation agencies'
meetings over a period of several days.
It will be recalled that the original
practice was to hold one meeting for all
Federation agencies, including the Jewish
Welfare Federation itself. Four years ago
and three years ago we propagated the
spreading out of these meetings, in order
that an opportunity may be afforded to
digest the reports that are being submit-
ted. The Federation followed our advice
and arranged for four Federation Days in-
stead of the original one. But attendance
remains meager, and the same few con-
tinue to attend all the meetings—and are
thus being burdened with additional taxa-
tion on their time without attracting other
and larger numbers of men and women
who should also be concerned with accom-
plishments here and with the status of our
various institutions.
We admit our error in presuming that
more people would be interested in these
Federation Days if they are spread out
over a longer period of time. Evidently
another change will have to be made.
It has been suggested that all the meet-
ings be grouped in one day which should
be divided into three sessions for the pur-
pose of a review of the year's activities.
This is a good proposal which, we hope,
will be adopted next year. By publishing
reviews of the activities of the various
agencies to be made available to all in-
terested Detroit Jews, a greater purpose
might be gained than the unnecessary
calling of too many meetings. Published
reports distributed at a full day's sessions
of all our agencies will accomplish the
needs that are imperative for keeping the
community informed on the service that is
being rendered.

All Eyes on Poland

Lights front
Shadowland

By LOUIS

Paramount Studios has ex-
tended the contract for one year
of Benny Baker, who plays comedy
parts in films. Benny, who is now
on a loan to Columbia Studios,
has gone far since he began his
theatrical career in Rochester,
New York, where he played in
stock. 'lie is native of Lincoln,
Nebraska, and folks in Omaha
also know him well . . . Jan Kie-
pure (his press agents say he is
l'olish and not Jewish) sailed for
Europe on one of Hitler's ships,
the Bremen. (We thought the Non-
Sectarian Anti-Nazi League and
other champions of the boycott of
German-made goods and services
would be interested in learning
that) ... Ernst Lubitsch is a very
nervous subject in the Paramount
Studio's photographer's gallery as
he sits fur passport photos, a pre-
lude to his trip to Europe to seek
new film talent and the relinquish-
ing of his supervision of produc-
tion at the studio here . . . Many
Jewish notables from the film col-
ony turned out in a pouring rain
to hear the Earl of Listowel give
his impressions (and they weren't
very good ones, either) of Nazi
Germany . . . Boris Morris, new
musical maestro at Paramount, is
nursing a cold. And he has plenty
of company, too, in this pastime...
The contract of Pandro S. Ber-
man, RKO-Radio producer, has
been extended for another year
from Starch 23 ...

Federation Days

Three Federation Days have already
been held, and it must be stated to the
credit of the various social service and
educational agencies of our community
that they presented their cases in most in-
teresting fashion. They were interesting
days and they provided several moments of
true inspiration to those who are con-
cerned with progress in our community.
But attendance at these meetings was so
small—the largest number at any one of
time gatherings did not exceed 100—that
we most revise our previous view on the

-

cause Jews are beginning to realize that
the plight of our flesh and blood who are
being trodden upon in the land of Endek-
ism has been ignored too long.
So horrible is the position of more than
3,000,000 Jews in Poland that a great ef-
fort will have to be made not only to pro-
vide relief for Polish Jewry but also to find
new centers in which to settle as many as
can possibly be taken out of there.
An increase in suicides, the total hope-
lessness of the position of the Jewish
youth, the despair to which Jewish leaders
are being driven—these are contributing
elements to a most aggravated situation.
Funds that are being asked for Polish
relief, even if all quotas should be raised,
are totally inadequate to cope with the
existing conditions. It is the obligation of
the wealthier elements in Jewry to strive
to the utmost to secure means for relief
within the country and to find colonization
havens for the unfortunates. We feel con-
fident that an unselfish effort will lead to
a solution of the problem.

For Needy: The Best We Have

The great Maimonides, the 800th anni-
versary of whose birth was celebrated
early this year, pointed out in the course
of his commentaries on sacrifices and
ceremonials that there is a moral signifi-
cance in sacrifice and ceremony serving
to induce men to desist from certain derog-
atory acts. Maimonides wrote:

As the offering had to be perfect and of
the best of its species, the same principle
applies to everything that is done in the name
of God—it must be of the best, If a man
builds a house of prayer, it must be more
beautiful than his place of residence. When
he feeds the hungry, it must be of the finest
and most tasty that is on his table. When he
clothes the naked, it must be the last of his
garments. When he devotee a thing to a holy
purpose, it must be from the best of his pos-
session.

Here is a code of ethics framed 800
years ago which retains its moral power
and assumes greater significance as time
goes on. It is a lesson to men and women
devoted to the cause of mercy to do char-
ity as naturally as they would feed them-
selves and their children. One never
speaks of eating as a noble act. It is a
natural necessity for life. One never
speaks of feeding his children as if it were
a measure of mercy: because he is feeding
his flesh and blood. In the same spirit we
must help the downtrodden and impover-
ished: because they are our flesh and
blood. When we feed and clothe the
needy we must provide them with the best
of our possessions.
There will be important local and in-
ternational relief appeals in the coming
weeks. It is imperative that the Maimon-
idean principle should be applied in every
humanitarian effort.

Czarist Reactionaries at Work

From Paris we are in receipt of a cable
which states that:

A

violent campaign of anti-Semitic agi-
tation has been launched by the reactionary •
Czarist emigres in Paris. As part of their
propaganda they are demanding the removal
of M. Rubenstein, a Jewish attorney, as the
representative of the Russian emigres on the
Nansen Passport Bureau of the League of
Nations. The propaganda has become no vio-
lent that M. Taute, member of the French
Chamber of Deputies, has warned the emigres
to put an end to it.

Evidently t h e anti - Semitic remnant
which survived Czarism, and which has
found refuge in France, is unable to for-
get its origin, and it so steeped in ingrati-
tude that it even seeks to implant the seed
of prejudice in the country which gave
these Jew-baiters an asylum.
In this news story is, of course. reflected
the bitter hatred of these Russian "whites"
against the present Russian regime. And
it is an unfortunate lot that in the battle
against Communism, reactionaries invar-
iably select the Jew for attack, and the
blame continues to be placed on Jewish
shoulders for everything that has and is
happening in Russia.
Insofar as France is concerned we are

confident that the new anti-Semitic agita-
tion will fall on deaf ears. It is only when
such Czarist propaganda is spread in most
ignorant quarters in backward countries
that it is accompanied by damaging results.

dents, plays an extra role in a
Universal picture. Although he is
heir to one of the greatest for-
tunes in the United States and an
executive position in any one of
the many great- banking institu-
tions of this country awaits him,
Wolf prefers to carve his own
career in Hollywood.
RKO'S NEW STUDIO

MANAGER

RKO-Radio has signed Sid Ro-
gell, until recently associate pro-
ducer at Columbia, as' studio man-
ager. Ile assumed his duties this
week. Rogell will have charge of
general activities on the RKO lot
here. He was born in St. Joseph,
Mo., 36 years ago and is widely
known as i a film executive. Ile was
studio manager for RKO-Pathe
before his connection with Co-
lumbia.

GOLDWYN STAR NOMINATEb

The unerring eye of Samuel
Goldwyn for choosing outstanding
screen personalities now has re-
ceived official sanction by the Aca-
demy of Motion l'icture Arts and
Sciences. We learn that of the six
feminine stars selected as nominees
for the Academy's best acting
award for 1935, two of them are
the only women stars under con-
tract to Goldwyn. One of them is
Merle Oberon, his British discov-
ery. Goldwyn's Studio, therefore,
has a 33 per cent chance to gain
the foremost honor of the industry.

CARL LAEMMLE, JUNIOR

The only son of Carl Laemmle,
president Universal Pictures Cor-
poration, who celebrates the 30th
anniversary of his association with
the motion picture industry this
month, is Carl Laemmle, Jr. His
son was born in Chicago, Ill.,
April 28, 1908. Ile received his
education at Ethical Culture and
Clark Academies in New York
City. Ile entered motion pictures
in 1925 at Universal City, prepar-
ing stories and supervising pro-
duction in a series of short sub-
jects. Because of the success of
these pictures, Junior was named
an associate producer and in 1929
became genral manager of Univer-
sal City. Laemmle, Jr. held this
position for five years and re-
cently became producer to concen-
trate on his own series of special
production.

GOING THROUGH THE MAIL

Cleaning up the day's mail we
find some interesting bits of hews
about Jewish personalities in Hol-
lywood that may make good read-
ing for you. Mack Gordon and
harry Revel, noted music compos-
ers, sailed Saturday for dear old
London, where they will spend the
next three months on an assign-
ment to write music for Gaumont.
British Productions ...

By

PHINEAS J. BIRON

(copyright.

By ROBERT STONE

(Fop)right, 1936, ti A F. S.)

SEEN AND HEARD IN
HOLLYWOOD

Tidbits from Everywhere

About Berek Yoselewich Who Died in Vain

Reproduction In part or whole forbid-
den, without petrol/Won of the Seven
Art• Feature Syndicate, CopYrIghtera of
tills feature.

HEIR TO FORTUNE AN EXTRA
Who will assert that this does not signify
Marion Wolf, a nephew of Bar-
All eyes are on Poland. Not because the
that we have ascended to the highest scale
tragedy is today any greater tlfere than it ney Baruch, the famous banker
of suffering?
was a year ago or two years ago, but be- and friend and adviser of presi-

Were it not for the fact that in many
democratic countries the quest for ipstice
remains a passionate ideal with veteran
defenders of liberty and human rights, we
would be forced to the belief that justice
is dead, that all fair-mindedness has been
stifled in concentration camps, and that
symbols of democracy may not even be
preserved in museums.
It is fortunate that Switzerland was
able to say to the Nazie that they may no
longer disseminate their creed of hate on
the soil of that country which has been
hallowed in democratic idealism. And
the hugest joke of all is that Hitler's Ger-
many, where only the Nazi salute and
"heil" are permitted, should now cry for
justice for its propagandists in Switzer-
land!
But the beautiful gesture of noble Swit-
zerland, which had to be the victimized
land of the murder of a Nazi by a Jew—
by a Jew who was the victim of the Hit-
lerism that is sufficient to drive even the
sanest Jews to despair—this fine gesture
is small consolation in an hour of most
dramatic, most painful' and most miser-
able affliction in our history.
Only Jews whose hearts have turned to
stone can possibly fail to recognize the
tragedy of suicide by a most revered Jew-
ish leader whose Orthodoxy has been a
preventative of self-murder among his
people for centuries. When Hirsch Ep-
stein, for 32 years president of the Kehil-
lah of Lomza, put an end to his life be-
cause he could no longer suffer the pain
of Jewish tragedy in Poland, his act in-
dicated the moral breakdown of the
strongest defense in Jewish life: our re-
fusal to die! Even in the dark ages and
during the Spanish Inquisition suicide was
unknown to the Jew. But Poland and
Germany and Rumania drive Jews to sui-
cide!
Only Jews whose minds have become
blank can possibly fail to realize that the
young Endek anti-Semitic hooligans of
Poland, the Nazi youths of Germany, the
young Cuzists of Rumania and their equiv-
alent youth organizations in other Euro-
pean lands are the future generals and
prime ministers and fuehrers and chancel-
lors and spiritual guides of the coming
generations in their countries.
What about the young Jews? What
about their future? Are we prepared to
admit that we are not even preparing them
for spiritual defense?
We have ascended to the highest scale
of suffering not only because we are
hounded by an unfriendly world, but
also because we ourselves are selling our
birthright, and are failing to make ade-
quate reply to the tragedy that is our heri-
tage in the collapse of the world's moral
standards.
The world imposes 'upon us not only
suffering; it forces us to think and to re-
evaluate Jewish values which were prev-
iously belittled. We are made the scape-
goats for every ill wind that blows every-
where and we have been forced into such
despair that we are even sacrificing out
little bit of joy even in Palestine. This
must not be! There must be a solution-
s solution that comes from auto-emanci-
pation, from self-healing, from a deter-
mined effort to free ourselves from the
shackles of falsified justice, falsified and
parodied freedom. We must rebuild our
lives Jewishly—in Palestine and in the
Diaspora, on a basis of self-respect, and
especially with an effort to prepare the
youth to face life's struggles proudly, like
free men whose heritage remains the
world's guiding spirit in the highest teach-
ings of morality.

POLAND'S FORGOTTEN HERO

PEKARSKY

Strictly
Confidential

Jewish students are assaulted on the streets of Poland. Jewish citizens are
being economically strangled in the land for which Yoselewich fought and died. This

1936, S. A,

F.

)

FOURTH ESTATE

EDITOR'S NOTE:

Eve, a monthly Jewish magazine
for women, will make its appear-
ance
on March 20.
historical document tells of the life and death of Berek Yoselewich, one of Poland's
Walter Winchell reports that the
greatest patriots—indeed a strange commentary on the treatment Jews are receiving
editors of Fortune magazine are
today by the liberated Poland. •
worried over the 'Fascist attitude'
of the editors of Time
magazine, which is owned by
(CoPYrIght, 1934, Seven Arts Feature Sgiallcatel
the same people. From what
we know of the Time-Fortune set-
up it appears that W. W. has been
The name of Derek Yoselewich is almost has preserved us until now, and Ile will continue imposed upon.
unknown outside of Poland and even there it is to watch over us."
Our colleague, Bernard Postal,
The response of the Jews was overwhelming. has resigned as editor of the Eco-
slowly passing from memory. Only a few of
nomic
Bulletin of the Non-Sec-
the older generation still remember that their Petty tradesmen, artisans, Talmudic scholars,
tarian Anti-Nazi League.
grandfathers spoke with awe and reverence of who had spent their lives within the confines of . When James Waterman Wise was
the Jewish hero who gave his life to free his the synagogues' walls, flocked to Yoselewich. The actually editing Opinion magazine
latter found himself at the head of a force people always winked and whis-
country from the yoke of the Russian oppressor.
pered that his father, Stephen S.
But at the end of the 18th century when which, though considerable in number, was not
the Polish people were making a desperate effort calculated by its physical appearance to inspire Wise, was the real editor. Now
that S. S. W. has officially assumed
to achieve independence, Berek Yoselewich was much fear in the enemy or even great respect the editorial reins the same people
worshipped by all lovers of liberty as a great among their comrades. But their courage and shrug their shoulders and say that
patriot, a brave soldier and a gifted military fighting ability were not long left in doubt. Jimmy is still doing the work.
There seems to have been a slip-
leader. Yoselewich was all of these and more. When Suvorov launched an attack against Frage,
up in the plan to make ex-Refugee
Ile was the man who, by the sheer strength of a suburb of Warsaw, the Jews were in the front Commissioner MacDonald Amer-
his will and the magnetism of his personality, was ranks. Finally the Russians set fire to the lower ica ambassador to Poland. Ile's
able to raise his Jewish brethren out of the depths quarter of Praga, and after many hours of fight- now set to become a member of the
of despondency into which they had fallen ing, entered the city. Suvorov reported that editorial board of the New York
Times (as we reported here some
through centuries of persecution, and inspire over 12,000 of the defenders were slain. Yosele- weeks ago). Ile will probably take
them, with the courage to march out by the wich's regiment was wiped out to the last man. over the duties of genial Dr. John
The Austrian diplomat, Anton Baum, who was 11. Finley, who is slated to becom e
side of their Polish compatriots to do battle for
sent on several secret missions to Poland, was an emeritus editor.
the cause of liberty.
COMMUNAL FRONT
Yoselewich organized the first Jewish volun- an eyewitness to this battle and he reported to
One of the big shots of the new
teer regiment in the history of Poland under the his chief in Vienna, that he had seen "with won- United Palestine Appeal was once
der and astonishment the new spirit that has an intransigent anti-Zionist.
leadership of Gen. Kusciusko, famous Polish pa-
When Alexander Troyanovsky,
triot and hero of the American Revolutionary possessed these Polish Jews. Dressed in neat
Soviet ambassador to the United
War. Its members were recruited from among uniforms of Jewish cut and armed with sabers States, attends the banquet to be
the Jews of Warsaw and vicinity and throughout and pistols, they threw themselves ihto the fight given in his honor on March 11
a long bloody campaign became famous for their with reckless abandon. Even undei the most by the American Committee for
reckless courage .and their devotion to their withering fire they never lost their presence of the Settlement of Jews in Biro-
Bidjap, he will make an announce-
leader and to the cause of Polish liberty. Later, mind."
ment in connection with Biro Bid-
Awarded High Tributes
serving under Napoleon, Yoselewich attained the
jan that will be front page stuff.
Thirty-six years after this battle, the French Incidentally the Biro Bidjan corn-
rank of colonel, fought in numerous campaigns
and finally found a hero's grave at the battle of deputy Salverte, who was another eyewitness, mittee's forthcoming fund-raising
declared in the French Chamber of Deputies, campaign will utilize the services
Kotzk.
"after the defeat of General Kosciusko, the Pol- of one of the best known fund-
raisers in the country who is also
Derek Yoselewich was born in the second
i0 patriots made a last attempt to hold Warsaw. related to one of the most illust-
half of the 18th century in the small town of
The suburb of Praga, which was defended by a trious names in post-war Jewish
Kretynga in Lithuania, which was part of the
Jewish regiment, fell to the enemy and its de- relief activities.
Domain of Mgr. Masalski, Bishop of Vilna. At an
Although the Zionists still talk
fenders perished by the sword. On the day after
early age he entered the service of the bishop the battle, the entire regiment lay dead upon the of an impending visit to this coun-
try
by Dr. Chaim Weizmann and
and later became his personal agent. His duties
field. No one attempted to save himself by escape. have placed their hope in Louis
took him on frequent and sometimes extended These people well deserve to have been French- I.ipsky's convincing the Zionist
trips all over Europe and brought him 'into con- men."
president to come, we're telling
you know that Weizmann will not
tart with many persons of high rank. Ile mas-
After the fall of Warsaw, General Kosciusko come. And what's more, Lipsky
tered the German and French languages and was taken prisoner and Yoselewich, together with
won't even get a chance to talk
generally reached a degree of general culture the Polish General Zajonchik, fled across the to Weizmann because the latter
which was rare among the Polish Jews of that Austrian border, where they were interned. They won't reach London until after
period.
Lipsky has left.
made their escape and after many hardships
One of our most distinguished
When, in 1791, the Great Polish Parlia- reached France where they joined the Polish rabbis
reports that several years
ment took up the Jewish question, it dealt with legion under Napoleon. Yoselewich was given ago he met David Frankfurter,
it in a spirit of great liberality and tolerance. the rank of colonel, and placed on the staff the young student who shot Wil-
In the constitution which was adopted on the third where he served with many members of the old- helm Gustleff, in Vienna and was
of May of that year, the Jews were granted equal est Polish nobility, and was treated by them with struck by his brilliancy. The rabbi
is Solomon Goldman of Chicago
civil rights with all other residents of Poland. great cordiality and respect. With Napoleon he who, incidentally, has recovered
But this new constitution which nearly achieved traversed half of Europe, serving with great dis- from his recent illness.
the regeneration of the unhappy Polish people tinction, and was decorated with the "Virtuti TRANSATLANTIC
The new head of the unofficial
was a thorn in the side of Russia. The Russian Millitar" cross, the highest French military honor.
Paris committee caring for the
party in Poland organized the so-called Confeder-
In the war between Napoleon and Emperor Czarist emigres in France is Jacob
ation of Torgowica which aimed at the restora- Francis, the Polish army under the command Rubenstein. It must be tough for
tion of the old anarchic form of government of Prince Poniatowski was placed in the danger- the die-hard Russian anti-Semites
which had brought the country to ruin. Imme- ous position of advance guard. After several to accept charity from a Jew.
Of the 538 Jewish students still
diately after that, a Russian force under the hard fought battles, which were won by the enrolled in German universities
command of General Suverev invaded Poland Poles, the commander divided his forces into two 323 are foreign citizens.
and the long drawn out and bloody conflict began columns, placing himself at the head of one and
The new $10,000,000 palace now
occupied by the League of Nations
which finally culminated in the second and final Yoselewich at the head of the other.
as its headquarters was designed
partition of Poland.
Several weeks after he was placed in com- by Julien Flegenheimer, a Swiss
mand of his column, Yoselewich received the news Jewish architect, who is related
His Call to Arms
Prince Josef Pontiatowsky and General Kos- that the enemy was reported to be in the vicinity to Edmond Fleg, the French man
ciusko hastily organized a Polish army and Berek of Kotzk which was about 25 miles from his camp. of letters.
Anna Friedman is the boss of
Yoselewich, who by that time had settled in Hurrying there with his troops, he was able to all women's sports activities in
Warsaw) and as a merchant had amassed con- surprise the enemy. In the hot conflict which Soviet Russia.
Maxa Nordau, daughter of Dr.
siderable wealth, was fired by the spirit of pa- followed, Yoselewich received a saber cut in his
Max Nordau, is now regarded as
triotism and a desire to prove that the Jews were head and died on the battlefield.
one of France's outstanding paint-
worthy of their newly granted privileges. He
His funeral was attended by all of the high ers. her recent exhibit in Paris
applied to General Kosciusko for permission to ranking officers of the Polish army and the elite wan hailed as a great artistic
form a Jewish regiment. The general, in a long of Polish society. The official Warsaw News re- event.
manifesto in which he praised in glowing Ian , ported, "Ile died like a true knight after serv- PRODIGIES
If you're wondering why you
gunge the bravery of the Jews and their loyalty ing his coantry for more than 15 years on nearly haven't seen much lately of Sybil
to Poland, granted permission to Yoselewich and every front in Europe ... His was a fine example
(Jacobson) Jason, Warner Broth-
his colleague Josef Aranowitz to organize the of soldierly courage and gallantry."
ers' Jewish rival to Shirley Tem-
A truly high tribute was paid to his mem- ple, we're telling you that she's
regiment.
When this permission was received, Yosele• ory by the Warsaw Scientific Society at a session recuperating from a tonsil opera-
tion. Rumors that her speaking
wich lost no time in issuing the following call
held on Dec. 22, 1809, at the Saxon Palace in
voice has been affected are cock-
to the Jews of Poland: "We, the Jews, who more
Warsaw. The President on the Council of State, eyed.
Minneapolis is rooting for young
than any other people have suffered persecution County Potocki, speaking before that body, said,
and oppression, must now take up arms in de- "The heroic death of Colonel Derek Yoselewich Alan Hubert Rice who has been
given a role in The Little Red
fense of liberty. The Jews of Poland now enjoy has plunged the entire country into sorrow. His Schoolhouse."
equal rights and privileges with all other citizens comrades have avenged his death, but he himself
Sybil Summerfield of London is
of Poland and we shall not lag behind anyone can never be replaced. His country will always England's Shirley Temple. This
12-year old Jewish girl has been a
in defending these rights. The Almighty God remember his bravery and unselfish devotion."
sensation in British films.

Role of National Funds in Palestine

Illi tg lir Stronger
Economics

Sephardic vs. Ashkenazic Havarah

A Statistical Analysis of the Part Palestine Plays in the
Spiritual Integrity Is Moat Shall We Substitute the Palestinian Pronunciation for
Solving of the Jewish Problem
the One Currently in Use in the Hebrew
Powerful Social Factor,
Schools in This Country
Says Gov. Lehman
Figure. made public loot week showed that • total In rots". of 5 10 .600 . 000 had

been spent he Paleetine by the national fund, The report woe ,Noland 10
•how the backgroned of the United Paleetine Appeal. which repreggents the
Foumlation Fund and the Jest1•11 D.Ianal Fend In the 1904
gutrapalge to rel. 113,500,000 for the settlement. In 1..10.1.111. of a gnatImont
ther
o Ia.'. The tattooing
anther of the Jew. of Germany. Poland wet
In s en angUyst•f the relationohip between the notional fonds end the re-
building of the . gewish Rallying Horne.

In 1936 the Jews of America
will be asked to give $3,500,000 to
the United Palestine Appeal, which
represents the Palestine Founda-
tion Fund (Keren Hayesod) and
the Jewish National Fund (Keren
Kayemeth), the two basic organi-
zations for the creation in Pales-
tine of conditions ensuring the ab-
sorption of the largest possible
number of Jews from all lands.
The United Palestine Appeal
does not regard itself as merely
another branch of America Jew-
ry's philanthropic work. It con-
siders the cause which it serves
the major constructive task before
the Je•irh people, the only known
certain means of assuring the
physical and spiritual survival of
Jewish life as we traditionally
know it. It rests its claim not on
sentiment but on inescapable facts.
Jewish community chests, inde-
pendent campaigns for overseas
purposes and individual contribu-
tors will be asking themselves;
how much shall we allot to the
United Palestine Appeal? Because
Palestine is • small country, there
has been a fallacious tendency in
some quarters to regard Palestine
as but • small fraction of the
whole world scene. The facts are
far otherwise.

Majority Go to Palestine

Between 1928 and 1935 there
were 300,000 Jewish emigrants
who escaped from their pestilen-
tial European homelands and fled
to other lands overseas, including
the United States, South Africa,
Canada, Argentine, Brazil and
Cuba. But of that total number,
162,000—more than half — found
their way to Palestine. What pro-
portion then, does the United Pal-
estine Appeal deserve in any con-
sideration of the needs of Euro-

pean
aster
Thejedwisry?

overwhelming the

German y uppermost
in
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today. Of the 45,000
who have been ail e to leave Ger-
many and find permanent homes
(this does not include the transi-
ents who are given only temporary
domicile), mime 30,000 have been
absorbed in the expanding life of
Palestine. Can American Jewry
ignore those figures if it wishes to
be realistic in helping to solve th e
German Jewish problem?
Paleetine cannot be judged by
physical size or prejudged by Kn.
nomic law,. For the factors of so-
cial idealism and pioneering vision
have proved more than glowing
phrases. They bays confounded
every self-styled expert who has

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By HERBERT H. LEHMAN

By BERNARD ISAACS

A good deal has been said of of the Bible. For instance, in the
late about the advisability of Book of Judges it is told that the
:adopting in the study of modern people of Ephraim, who lived in
1Iebrew, the Sephardic Havarah, the fruitful Shomron, could not
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accent and pronunciation, the pronounce the 'Sh'; instead, they
•
Havarah which has become is hissed it like an 'S'. This is
During the past quarter of popular and has such a fine pho-
where the 'Shiboleth' comes from.
a century civilization through- netical sound and is so pleasing Again, when we notice in the
out the world has been shaken to the ear when you hear it spok- Bible changes in the spelling of
en in Palestine. I personally
to its foundations. Great po- , have been approached on this different words of the same mean-
litical, economic and social !matter by many friends who have ing, like Kovah (helmet or hat)
changes have occurred which , returned from a visit to Eretz spelt either with a Kaf or Koof,
, or Oloz (which means to rejoice),
have, almost unbelievably, lYisroel. Daniel Persky, a Hebrew spelt with the letter Z at the end,
author of note and a steady con-
changed the lives of men and tributor to the Hebrew weekly , with the letter S, or with the let-
threatened the stability of civ- Hadoar, published in. America, ters TZ at the end, we must con-
ilization. During the past sev- and to several literary periodicals clude that these changes simply
i has this to say on ,signify variations of pronuncia-
Palestine,
eral years, because of the tre- :in
tion in different localities.
subject in a recent i ssue
mendous economic pressure in this
M ust Avoid Synagogue Breach
Hadoar:
• large part of the civilized
"There is no spoken language s "At the time of the second com-
world, we have laid emphasis on whose Havarah does not change monwealth, the people of Galilee
the effects of economic disloca- with the locality. Such ch anges, were quite distinct and different
just to so o m r e der o , dyl , in the manner of forming their
tion, almost to the exclusion of
words from the people of Judaea,
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all social factors. We have :1: , "Icerr o' iddi g to
ideas and whims. The study of and the rabbis said, the reason
forgotten that social factors, ; the changes of the Havarah of the Galileans did not retain the
too, have played a substantial any language is very much invol-, studies of the Torah was because
red.
they were not particular and ex-
role in the world upheaval.
"There is a mistaken concep-, act in their speech. Even today
In seeking the remedy, man-
tion that at the time of the first you can easily differentiate by the
kind has tried out many new and second commonwealths the form of pronunciation between
kinds of economics, social and ; Jewish people 'from Dan to Beer- , the elite and cultural Tel Aviv-
political organization but, than sheba' pronounced their words ex- lens and the simple people of
Ekron.
far, has met with substantial actly in the same manner, in the
"We must bear in mind that
disappointment. It is apparent same form and the same tone., the Hebrew spoken word is yet in
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