March 6, 1936
TROATROIVEWIMI ORM ICLE
Hitler—Torturer of Children
Lights from
Shadowland
THE ART OF STORY-TELLING
Strictly
Confidential
Is Hitler a statesman and the "savior"
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
of his people," or is he, as public opinion
Tidbits from Everywhere
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Pahlished Weekly by The Jewish C ► re•kte Publishing Ce, Inc.
in liberal countries brands him, a brutal
Reproduction In part or whole forbid.
A.
H.
Friedland
of
Cleveland
Captures
Imagination
of
Jewish
suppressor of human rights and the insti- den,
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
without permission of the Soren
Femur. Syndicate Copyrighters of
gator of butcheries which have been re- Arts
Children with His "Sipurim Yofim," Children's Stories
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Now that Sirs. Calvin Coolidge,
Load. OfRot
purges instigated not only against his ene- GETTING INTO THE MOVIES
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
widow of the late Silent Cal, has
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The best way to get into the
mies but also against his friends whom he movies
gone
to Europe on a Nazi ship,
is to steer clear of them.
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we can tell you that a feminine
Subscription, in Advance
This bit of advice is by no means
kinswoman of another President
To Menn publication, all correspondence and news emitter
"Der schoene Adolf," as many house- a new method, but as an effective
of the United States recently
test reach This Ogee by Tuesday e•enIng of each week.
to screen fame it can be
maids in Germany call Nazidom's dictator, approach
When mailing notice., kindly use on. side of the MN . MO.
Abraham II. Friedland of Cleveland is es- of Ilebrew to our children. Here are examples forced a German steamship line to
vouched for by many of those
cease using her picture in its ad-
did not rise to power without bloodshed, holding contracts at various film sentially a teacher, an educator. As a peda- of the encouragements that have come to him:
The Detrcit Jewish Chronicle in•Ites correspondence on eals-
vertising.
Jetts of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
Bernard Isaacs, superintendent of the United
Its he himself and his followers maintain. studios in and around Hollywood. gogue he ranks among the leaders in cultural
real reason for the mysteri-
► ide, for an Indorsement of the .leis expressed by the writer.
Revelations of occurrences in coneentra- Statistics prove that producers circles in this country. With one very marked Hebrew Schools of Detroit, wrote Mr. Friedland: ous The
visit of King Carol of Ruma-
tion camps, in the Brown Houses and as a like to do their own choosing. element of difference which is making his name "Mutzlochiml Ha•P'utim Bil•u Osomr "You have nia to Dr. Serge Voronoff, the fa-
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
There
are
very
few
stars
who
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 27:20-30:10;
result of purges—see Prof. Friedrich Schu- broke in by trying. Most of them legendary among the Jewish children in Hebrew succeeded! The youngsters devoured them!" In mous Jewish rejuvenation expert,
Deut. 25:17-19.
mann's "Nazi Dictatorship" for proof— had Hollywood furthest from their schools on three continents: his magic way of it subsequent letter Sir. Isaacs told the author is that the 22-year old wife of the
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 15:2-34.
66-year old professor is a first
show that the contrary is true: that a trek minds when the big break actually telling a story and his almost uncanny manner of of these children's stories that he is the provider cousin
Portion of the Torah to be read on Purim
of Magda Lupescu, Carol's
of blood followed Hitler to his dictatorial came. Either they had never tried, fascinating our boys and girls.
of great joy among the children who read "Sipu- paramour.
Sudsy, March 8
or had tried once before and given
Ex. 17:8-16.
Dr.
Leroy
Hartman, the Colum-
throne.
rim
Yofim."
The legendary power of the Pied Piper,
it up as a bad job.
bia University professor of den-
Ben Edidin, director of the Bureau of Jew-
One of Hollywood's classic cases whose music charmed children, had nothing on
Is it possible that the world is becoming
Adar 12, 5696
March 6, 1936
who discovered a formula
accustomed to the German bestialities and in Sylvia Sidney. Her first movie the magic power of Mr. Friedland—with the ish Education of Buffalo, believes that Mr. Fried- tistry
for making dental drilling pain-
came in a picture which
land has at last provided Ilebrew schools with less, is denying that he's Jewish
oppressions? The dark side of the Nazi chance
didn't go over very well and she difference, of course, that Friedland's charm is
Purim Is Inevitably Joyous
but his landsmen in Victoria,
situation is being played up less and less was denied any further chance of of the constructive type which has helped to exactly the type of material they need.
Canada, are shouting it from the
Dr. Jacob S. Golub, nationally prominent
Is it possible for Jews to rejoice this by our foreign correspondents, and Hitler proving her ability. She returned build Hebrew culture and in turn to destroy educator, wrote: "I need not tell you what an housestops.
is now hailed as a leader whose power is to New York to make headway on ignorance. Friedland's name is known today on
Purim?
One of the best known Jewish
the legitimate stage. It was when
urgent and long felt need your booklets are
Palestine appears to have given a nega- increasing and whose strength is growing. she was in "Street Scene" that the widely that the list of cities, states and countries filling. Our children have come to look forward women in America recently got a
which
he
has
invaded
with
his
children's
stories
terrific
shock when she learned to
But occasionally a brave writer comes to company which bought the story
tive answer by cancelling the annual car-
her amazement that she was re
her to play the part in the in Hebrew — "Sipurim Yofim" — reads like a to them as Shabbos reading and if you could
nival out of deference to the millions of the fore to condemn the atrocities and once asked
lated
to
Emmy Sonnenmann, who,
again to reveal the true conditions in Ger- picture. Miss Sidney had been World's Gazetteer. The 78 children's stories he only carry them far enough to lead up to some in case you're' forgotten, is the
suffering Jews throughout the world.
burnt by Hollywood once, and has already published have thus far been sold in of the available literature, one of our major
many.
Westbrook
Pegler
of
the
Scripp-
didn't relish a second time. It took approximately 75,000 copies, and they are now, objectives of the Jewish school will have been wife of General Wilhelm Herr-
But the cancellation of the Purim Adil-
mann Goering.
iada in Tel Aviv is qualified by the reser- Howard newspapers first resorted to ridi- some persuasion to get her, but next perhaps only to the Bible, the world's Jewish achieved."
WE'RE TELLING YOU
cule
in
describing
the
Nazi
methods
of
when she did come back on the
vation that children's celebrations are not
The memory of the late Bernard
Similarly laudatory are the scores of other
public opinion at the Garmisch- silver screen It was with a ter- best seller. Thus, Isaiah's prophecy of a Mes-
to be interfered with and are to be carried placating
S. Deutsch will be kept alive in
sianic ear of peace, when "a little child shall letters from coast to coast, including M. Frank,
Partenkirchen winter Olympics. In his rific bang.
the
Bronx where a part of Univer-
out as heretofore.
DELILAH'S
DOLDRUMS
lead them," finds its counterpart in the book principal of the Toronto Talmud Torahs; Simon
cables from Czechoslovakia, since he left
Just to reassure the breathless world, with the Jewish children's story among Bugatch, Baltimore Hebrew school principal; sity Ave. has been renamed Ber-
Which helps us to provide an answer Germany, he minces his words even less
nard
S. Deutsch Place.
that Cecil 11. DeMille has
to the question whether rejoicing is pos- in condemning the Nazi outrages. Espe- public
Shalom Mizrachi, principal of the Dayton school;
Clifford Odets, playwright, and
not dropped preparations for the the world's most popular books.
Tess
Slesinger, novelist, are said
Eliyahu
Maier,
director
of
the
Hebrew
Edu-
sible.
cially with regard to the Nazi attitude to- filming of "Samson and Delilah,"
Is a Nationally Prominent Educator
to be more than platonically in-
A study of Jewish history reveals that word the German-Jewish children Mr. Peg- the noted director says he merely
Friedland is the superintendent of the Cleve- cational Society of Parur, S. India.
terested
in each other.
shelved the idea temporarily,
we had not one Purim but many Purims; ler condemns the tragedy in no uncertain has
The Praise of a Child
Who is the person that adver-
while he scans thousands of photo- land Hebrew Schools and director of the Bureau
not one occasion to, rejoice over our vic- terms. Cables Pegler:
But the best proof of the effectiveness and tised in the New York Times for
graphs from American girls who of Jewish Education of Cleveland. Ile first at-
tories against Hamans and our would-be
proffer themselves for the big role. tracted nation-wide attention when he founded popularity of these stories comes not from the etchings and paintings of Zionist
personalities and traditional I'al-
It will be impossible for the Nazi Germans
destroyers, but legions of such opportun-
the National Hebrew School in New York, an teachers but from the children themselves. From estinian life?
DID YOU KNOW DEPARTMENT
of the present time to deny the atrocities
Merle Oberon is crazy over fur institution which was a landmark in Hebrew edu- many cities come reports that children write Julius Tuteur, Cleveland Jewish
ities.
which are being perpetrated on the children
coats! The charming young Brit- cation in this country. Under his direction this essays about "Sipurim Yofim," singing their philanthropist, got a shock the
Purim provides occasion for the Jew
of the Jews under the orders of Adolf Hitler
ish star says that for years her school was for 12 years regarded as a mecca for praises to Mr. Friedland. One of these essays, day when he received from Ger-
who draws deductions from historical ex-
Si a policy of the German Government today
secret ambition has been to pos-
many a photograph of a swimming
. It is absolutely certain that their (Jewish)
periences to retain courage in the face of
sess a coat of every fine fur to be Jewish education. When he left this school it written by Emanuel Feigin, young son of Dr.
pool built in his native town with
childhood, the few hours of innocence which
tragedy. We have survived our adversar-
had. With the purchase of a was divided into the elementary classes of the S. Feigin of Chicago, deeply touched Mr. Fried- the $100,000 he gave the city
are given to all of us and which civilized peo-
handsome sable wrap, this ambi- National Hebrew School and the High School land and he asked for and now has that essay fathers. The picture shows signs
ies so often that it is reasonable to as-
ple try to invest with beauty and joy, has been
tion is very nearly realized for she which is now widely known as the Ilerzliah Ile- among his prized possessions. Young Feigin con- reading "no Jews allowed."
sume that we shall not only survive again
destroyed by • man with a mustache (adapted
can now boast of one of the finest
A Mr. Gentile is the money order
but shall emerge stronger than ever be-
from the makeup of a famous comedian) who
collections of furs in Hollywood. brew Academy and is directed by Friedland's cluded his essay with a call for more stories:
clerk in the garment center post
has been seriously nominated by some of his
In case you are interested, Miss brother-in-law, Moses Feinstein, the well-known "Mr. Friedland is the friend of the children and office where 99.9 per cent of the
fore.
followers not for king, not merely for ruler,
Oberon owns a chinchilla coat, Hebrew poet and educator.
he knows their secrets. Every child asks: 'An-
customers are Jewish.
That is why the children's observances
but for God, the redeemer of the German
two mink coats, an ermine wrap,
His general pedagogic training was ac- other story, Mr. Friedland, another story.'"
Nazi enemies of Propaganda
in Palestine are not proscribed. The child's
race. It would be • mistake to call him •
a silver fox cape, a broadtail coat quired by Mr. Friedland under John Dewey, E.
"Sipurim Yofim" had their inception in Minister Goebbels call him "Ma-
baby-killer. You can't torture • dead child.
joy in this great festival—although it is
with a silver fox collar, a blue fox
hatma
Propagandi."
cape and a coat of baby lamb. She L. Thorndike, Kilpatrick and other outstanding mimeographed form, and the demand for them
a minor one on our calendar — is un-
The Jewish Forum, once a
It
is
reported
that
the
American
Olympic
educators at Teachers' College of Columbia Uni- from more than 80 cities made it possible for strictly Orthodox organ, is going
evidently
is
the
kind
of
customer
checked.
Committee is still 90 per cent short of the every furrier prays for.
versity. But in more than one sense he has Mr. Friedland to have them printed. Every story to broaden its scope to appeal to
For the adult who knows his history, needed $250,000 to send an American team
A cycle of outdoor pictures exceeded in fame and accomplishment even the produced thus far is now available in printed all elements of its Jewry. Its new
the lesson of Purim similarly provides him to the Berlin summer Olympics, and that filmed in natural color is certain best of his teachers. Since coming to Cleve- form. The stories range front 10 to 20 pages editorial board, when annotinced,
with inevitable joy, even though public the United States may be asked to finance to hit the motion picture industry land 15 years ago he has become the dean of each, and are beautifully illustrated—thus add- will read like a who's who in con-
the next 12 months as a re-
temporary literature.
demonstrations are avoided. Such is the the trip of those who desire to participate within
sult of the success of Sylvia Sid- the Ilebrew teaching profession and what causes ing to the child's interest. Mr. Friedland's sec-
Fortune magazine's survey . of
spirit of Purim—that it serves as an en- in the games under Nazi direction. From ney's newest film for Walter Wen- him to stand out in ranks of Jewish teachers and retary, charming Mildred Candid, herself a prod- Jewish
economic and political
couragement to us and as a warning to Paris comes the report that not a centime ger Productions.
strength in the United States has
leaders is that he is equally as fascinating to uct of the Cleveland Hebrew Schools, is a val-
our enemies. We have survived them be- has been raised thus far to send the French NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
taken
the
wind out of the sails
the adult as well as to the child.
uable assistant in inserting the Nekudos, the of important "unofficial" Repub-
Walter Wenger, one of the out-
fore and we shall survive them again. No team to the games, and that Premier Sar-
vowel
points
in
the
stories.
independent producers
lican groups that were preparing
Able Leader, Witty Orator
greater satisfaction is necessary at this raut has made it plain that if France par- standing
in the film industry, has been
The publication of these stories is a most to•launch an undercover attack on
As a Zionist leader—he has served as presi-
time.
ticipates in the Olympics it will be only for granted a franchise to release his dent of the Zionist District of Cleveland—and interesting departure from previous Hebrew edu- the "Jew-deal" in Washington.
political reasons. It is clear that the Ger- future productions through United as lecturer he has been in demand not only in cational Methods. Heretofore emphasis was And you might be interested to
Artists distributing organization.
learn, too. that Radom House will
Traditional Mo'os Chitim Drive man Olympics are not having easy sailing Wenger, a native of San Fran- Cleveland but in dozens of communities in Ohio, placed on conversational Hebrew. Mr. Fried- publish the Fortune article in
and
that
efforts
will
be
made
to
force
sup-
strong believer in Ilebrew book form in the middle of April.
a
land
is,
however,
cisco,
formerly
produced
plays
in
Michigan,
Pennsylvania
and
New
York.
In
Eng-
Detroit's Mo'os Chitim Committee has is- port for the games which are being uti- London and New York. A new
lish and in Yiddish as well as in Hebrew he has reading as a factor in learning the language. GERMAN EXPORT
sued its annual plea for funds with which lized for Nazi propaganda.
company has been formed, to be
In an office on the 14th floor of
He is in agreement with M. Marcell who believed
to provide relief for needy (luring Pass-
known as Walter Wenger Produc- held his audiences spellbound with his wit, his
New York skyscraper sits a
Libertarians everywhere are thus faced tions, with Wenger as president charm of delivery and his rich language. It is that the only way a foreign language can be a middle-aged
gentleman who bears
over.
Samuel Goldwyn, Nathan this wit and charm of language which he has in- studied successfully is through voluminous read- a striking resemblance to Felix
It is of great importance that this ap- with the renewed responsibility of being and
Burkan, Mary Pickford, Charles
started at as early an age as possible is a M. Warburg (with the exception
peal be heeded and that a warm response on the lookout lest supporters of the Olym- Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks troduced into his children's stories that have so ing
that he has hair on his head).
pics should secure help from various as financial associates.
completely captured the imagination of tens of student's introduction to the language. Accept-
should be forthcoming.
ing Mr. Marcel's views, Mr. Friedland declares When he gazes at the roofs of
Sally Filers has recovered suf- thousands of children who are studying in He-
Especially on an occasion as important governments under false pretenses. Those
New York and in a dreamy voice
the major aim in teaching Hebrew is cer-
speaks of yesterday few people
as Passover it is essential that the Jewish who are concerned over the defense of ficiently from a recent illness, brew schools in this country and in other lands that
prevented her from accept. where the "Sipurim Yofim" have found an audi- tainly not Ilebrew conversation. He insists that realize that this gentleman was
community should provide the guarantee free institutions and the defeat of reac- which
ing an offer to appear in British
the major aim is to propare the child for an in- less than three years ago one of
of food necessities for all those who are tion and movements which tend to rob films, to report to Paramount to ence.
the big names in German news-
human beings of their just rights, must not play the leading feminine role in
In the files of the official publishers of telligent appreciation of our vast literature.
among the less fortunate in our midst.
paperdom. He's none other
Stories Are Used as Textbooks
A tradition is at stake every time a cam- slow up their efforts in the fight against a new picture. Sam Hearn, the Friedland's children's stories, the Sipurim Yofim
than Dr. Kurt Simon, ex-publisher
Nazism
for
even
a
single
moment.
"Sam
Schlepperman"
of
the
Jack
Publishing
Co.,
with
headquarters
in
the
Cleve-
Mr. Friedland's children's library is already of the Frankfurter Zeitung and
paign is launched for Mo'os Chitim funds.
Benny
radio
programs,
has
also
land
Ilebrew
School
and
Institute,
10323
Su-
We are impressed and encouraged by been signed for a part in this film.
proving an important factor for such an intro- one of the foremost publishing ex-
It is an established custom for Jewish com-
perior Ave., Cleveland, 0., are deposited dozens duction of the child to our vast literature be- perts in the world. One day Mr.
munities at all times to provide for the less the attitude of men like Oswald Garrison THANKS, MR. LAEMMLE
Goebbels gave him the generous
The following letter was re- of letters from educators in this country, Can- cause no many of his stories deal with historical
fortunate, and especially at Passover time Villard who continue to shout as loudly
advice to accept a 100 per cent
ceived
this
week:
ada,
India
and
South
Africa,
commending
the
as
they
can
against
the
continued
ruthless
subjects.
One
of
his
stories
deals
with
the
life
Aryan partner in his newspaper
it has become a sacred obligation.
Universal City, Calif. author for his great contributions to the chil- of the Gaon of Vilna. Others have for their business, explaining to our non-
It is important, therefore, that all should policy of the present criminal German gov- "Dear Mr. Pekaraky:
Aryan that it would be unthink-
dren's
llebrew
library.
Incorporated
in
these
ernment.
Mr.
Villard's
column,
"Issues
themes
the
Spanish
Inquisition
and
the
expul-
give liberally to the Mo'os Chitim fund.
"Mr. Carl Laemmle, President
that such an institution as the
and Men," in the current issue of the Na- of Universal Pictures Corporation, letters is a compliment of which very few writ- sions from Portugal and Spain. "From Portugal able
Frankfurter Zeitung should he
tion which appears in new garb, is de- has asked me to thank you most ers and educators can boast: in more than 20 to Holland" deals with the migration from a coun- controlled by an alien. Dr. Simon
• Deserved Honors
voted to a discussion of the German-Jew- sincerely for your fine article of the commendatory letters from teachers and try of oppression to one of freedom. Many of the is reported to have lost his pa-
about Mr. Laemmle's 30th anni- principals occurs the identical pharse: "Ha-Ye.
Palestine is showering deserved honors ish situation. Pointing out that there is no versary
stories deal with traditions and with holiday tience at that interview and to
in the motion picture in-
have countered sarcastically: "I
upon Miss Henrietta Szold. In addition to let-up in the torture of the Jews, that the dustry which was published in the lodim Bil-u Osom,"—the children devoured observances.
understand that I must be thank-
being made a Freewdman of the Palestine dreadful situation continues and that the B'nai Brith Messenger of Los An- them (the stories)."
Many schools have already recognized the
ful that you address me in Ger-
grnews pap ers
Tributes From Many Educators
Jewish community, this eminent woman souls of the German youths are being pois- geles
man. In any case, Dr. Simon was
advantages
offered
by
"Sipurim
Yofim"
and
are
affiliated
with
Seven
Arts
Feature
So
great
is
the
popularity
of
these
stories,
permitted
to take along with him
leader has just been given honorary citi- oned, Mr. Villard makes this significant Syndicate. In fact, he enjoyed it so
using them as textbooks, for obvious reasons:
into exile only one of his posses-
copy, that the children
zenship by the city of Tel Aviv. A purse statement :
much and is no proud of this which sell at 10 cents a
1. The subject is attractive to the child.
sions—his brain.
of $17,500 has been raised in her name
recognition in the English-Jewish attending the schools of Chicago, at their last
Well, I hear it asked, what is the use of
press that he wants me to obtain year's annual conference decided to contribute 2. The numerous repetitions help in the acquisi- PERSONALIA
for important Palestinian work among
You will be glad to know that
rehearsing this horror? The use is that as long
tion of the Hebrew vocabulary. A count of
50 copies of the article so that he 15 per cent of funds available from the chil-
Jews in Palestine, and every element in
Mrs. Albert Einstein is now hold-
as these things go on there must be protests
can sent it to as many of his Jew- dren's contributions for the wider distribution
the first 23 booklets shows that while the total
ing
her own in a fight against
the population of Eretz Israel has joined
against them if we are to keep our self-respect.
ish friends. Will you, therefore,
number of words with their repetitions num-
heart disease. But she's had to
in honoring her on her 75th birthday.
If there is no criticism, these horrors will
please advise me how I may ob- of Sipurim Yofim.
give
up for good all her domesic
ber
more
than 13,000, the actual vocabulary
spread; they are already well under way in
From outstanding educators have come com-
tain these 50 copies?
American Jewry can feel justly proud that
activities.
Poland. More than that, we are getting reflexes
is not more than 800.
John LeRoy Johnston,
mendations which must have heartened Mr. Fried-
it has given Henrietta Szold to the Home-
Mrs.
Rebekah Kohut is slowly
in the United States. I know that Archibald
Publicity Director
land to continue his excellent work which is 3. The natural and colloquial style and the easy recovering from the effects of a
land.
MacLeish has written encouragingly in For.
Universal Pictures
‘
The Kerr Bill
More liberal than any other bill that
has been reported upon favorably by the
House Immigration Committee is the so-
called Kerr Bill.
While this measure would permit the
deportation of a larger number of aliens
who belong to the gangster and racketeer
class—violators of narcotic laws and aliens
who smuggle other aliens into this coun-
try—it has the great advantage of pro-
viding for the humanizing of existing legis-
lation. The Kerr-Coolidge Bill gives the
Secretary of Labor greater discretionary
powers over exclusions and deportations
and would make it possible for the uniting
rather than the breaking up of immigrant
families whose status is affected by tech-
nical and not criminal grounds.
The endorsement of this bill by 1,000
clergymen, who presented a petition to
Congress urging charges in immigration
and deportation laws, is an encouragement
that a certain amount of relief will be
forthcoming soon and that many immi-
grant families will be helped by human-
ized legislation.
The Kerr Bill assumes greater signifi-
cance by virtue of the fact that its rival
bill—the Dies measure—is the most re-
actionary and most vicious bill on record,
demanding as it does the deportation of
unnaturalized residents in this country
whose numbers reach approximately 22,-
000,0 0 0. Compared with other proposed
legislation, the Kerr Bill is the most de-
sired t ft r before Congress today.
tune about the American situation; still there
are plenty of signs of underhand and insid•
ions propaganda. I have here on my desk a
pamphlet, widely circulated here. which sol-
emnly asserts that the blood of the Jew turns
yellow when spilled—curious that that phe-
nomenon wasn't noticed in the World War. I
confess by dismay that there is so little indig•
a•nt reaction to the growing anti-Semitism
here. It makes me want to get out on the
street corner on • soap-box and beg my fellow-
countrymen to realise that to go on with this
sort of thing will pollute and befoul their souls.
Perhaps when I use such words as "poi.
lute" and "befoul" I shall be charged with
writing immoderately. I had an ancestor who
was denounced for using violent language
about human slavery and advised to be less
He replied: "On this subject I do not
wish to think, or speak, or write with moder-
ation. Nol no! Tell a man whose house is on
fire to give • mod tarns, tell him to mod-
erately rescue his wife from the hands of
the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually ex•
tricot. her babe from the fire into which it
has fallen; but urge me not to use moder-
ation in • cause like the present." I echo these
words when it comes to the persecution of any
group and today, especially, the Jews.
If a non-Jew can feel so rebelliously on
the subject, how much more outspoken
ought Jews to be?
Just as there is no let-down in anti-
Semitic propaganda, so must there be no
slowing up of Jewish efforts in fighting
discrimination, whether it is in Germany
or in Poland or even in this country.
Where our human rights are at stake,
we ran not be charged with being immod-
erate. We must fight to a finish for the
preservation of our liberty as Jews and
as citizens.
proving a distinct contribution to the teaching
_
Some Revolutionary Purims
Corp."
By LOUISE WOLK ANTICK
When the sun sets on March 7, the communities themselves, have
Jews all over the world will begin disappeared. "However," he adds,
a 24-hour observance of the de- "the records and the Liturgies of
liverance of Israel from the per- the events to which to much im-
secution of ancient Persia as it portance was attached at the time
has been indelibly recorded in the still remain, as a reminder of the
Book of Esther. anxieties of that distant age and
This festival takes precedence of the intense religious spirit with
over all such joyous Jewish ob- which the crises were faced."
servances but it is not unique in When Napoleo n's victorious
its symbolism. Jewish history re- troops penetrated Italy in 1796,
cords many such holidays in an- the Jews were offered rights and
dent Italy which commemorate, privileges that they had never be-
not only escape from the ravages fore enjoyed in that district. Nat-
of floods, earthquake shocks, fires, orally, they were enthusiastic
and plagues. about the new order of things and,
Dr. Cecil Roth of London, au- as a consequence, when the reac-
thor of the latest Jewish, historical tion came, they suffered accord-
work "A Bird's-Eye View of Jew- ingly.
ish History," which has just been In spring of 1796 when the French
published by the Union of Amer- were laying siege to Fossano,
ican Hebrew Congregations, has south of the Alps, the Jews tele-
contributed a great deal of illumi- brated Passover with their tradi-
rating material on the subject in bona! ceremonies. The other resi-
an article entitled- "Some Revolu- dents of the city were incensed;
tionary Purims," which appears they believed this was a sign of
in the last issue of the Hebrew sympathy for the enemy. On the
Union College Annual.
fourth night, when the French at-
tack was bringing more disastrous
A Peps. is 1796
The practice of holding these results than usual, they seized any
observances became most common weapon they could find and cle-
at the time of the French Revolu- scended upon the Jewish quarter.
tion and during subsequent events,
"The Miracle of the Bomb"
Dr. Roth explains. In many cases
Hacking down doors, pillaging
all recollection of them had died homes and shops, they brought
out in the communities in which havoc and destruction with them.
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broken leg.
Why Finance Our Doom?
Things About Purim You 1
The Dangerous Political Implications of Exodus Plan
Don't Know
By Rabbi Abraham H.
Israelite's
These believe•it-or•not paragraphs
about Purim will interest you.
They have been compiled for
your education and entertain-
ment by a scholar who vouches
By WILLIAM ZUKERMAN
London Correspondent of the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate
The exodus plan propowd lit the Iteliish deification to the tailed Mateo is
Nati scheme toys IV 1111am E•kermen, ?mete. commentator on the JetrInle
scene. Thai the pdltlral implientions of this plan aro fraught with grave
dance, Is the t...dim of this eminent foreign correopmident, who., sisati
roincidewith thaw of Valhi Abha 11111e1 Nilo, of lloodand, Nhother yea
acre. with Itilliont 7.kerman and Its14.1 silver or not, you most react this
• rticie if too wool to undentand the Import of the forthcoming Interna-
tional london conference an the German Jewish problem.
for their
Joseph Judah Chorny, Rus-
sian-Jewish traveler of the last
century, relates the following
concerning the Jews of Cau-
casia: On Purim, when the men
return home from reading the
Scroll of Esther in the syna-
gogue, the women prepare a
black piece of wood in the
kitchen. When the man comes
into the room, he asks his wife
what it is, and she says "It is
Haman." At once the man
gets angry and begins to scream
at his wife that ale should burn
it. After kicking it, they all
throw it in the fire.
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In France and the Provence,
a medieval Jewish writer in-
forms us, it was the practice
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The Resignation of Mr. gave rise to such a scheme is
James McDonald, the High Com- faulty and fraught with grave
missioner for Refugees from Ger- dangers to the Jewish position the
world over.
many and the plan of the prom-
The official announcement of the
inent British Jewish delegation to
the United States for the financing British - Jewish mission to the
United States refers to this scheme
of a big Jewish mass exodus from but briefly as a scheme to pro-
Germany brings the problem of mote the emigration of Jews from
German Jewry once more to the Germany." But in London where
forefront of international public the plan originated, more than
opinion. that is known about it. It is not
There can, of course, be no dif- • new scheme by any means. It
ference of opinion about the need has been advocated vociferously
of relief for the German Jews, ever since the advent of the Nazi
both inside and outside Germany. regime and has been trumpeted
If ever there was a collective hu- about in Geneva, London, Paris
man tragedy calling for the sym- and New York as the only con-
path) and aid of humanity at structive plan for solving the Jew-
large, it certainly is that of the ish problem in Germany. It calls
German Jews. But there is one for the removal from Germany of
aspect of the Jewish exodus plan 200,000 to a quarter of a million
which is causing grave anxiety to Jews, mostly young people;—the
a great number of Jews in the older generation, it is cheerfully
whole of Europe, and particularly added, will die nut. Thus Germany
in Germany. It is being felt here will become "Judenrein" within
that the entire evaluation of the one generation, and the veted
German-Jewish situation which (PLEASE TURN To NEXT PACS,