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Sabbath Restates of the Torah
Pentateuchal portion--Num. 19:1-22:1
Prophetical portion—Judges 11:1-33.

June 26, 1936

Tammuz 6, 5696

Shetzer Goes to Geneva

The selection of Simon Shetzer to be
a member of the American delegation to
the World Jewish Congress in Geneva in
a matter of more than personal pride
to him and to his family. It is occasion
for community satisfaction that one of
our young men has risen to a position of
national leadership.
The especially gratifying thing about
Shetzer's election is that Detroit will have
as a delegate a person who knows how
to use restraint in action and in word. Our
delegate is a cultured person who has a
definite philosophic view of Jewish life
and Jewish problems. His is an intelligent
outlook which is certain, in the course of
his career as a Jewish leader, to result in
sound contributions to the Jewish commu-
nity.
In congratulating Mr. Shetzer on his
election we feel that we are also congrat-
ulating the community at large.

Au International Program

Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, director of the
National Conference of Jews and Chris-
tians, proposes a program the adoption of
which, he claims, can save America from
the fate of Other countries. ,
Dr. Clincby's proposal was made at the
round table of Jews and Christians held as
part of the Northwestern University's two.
day . seminar held in the Palmer House at
Chicago. Dr. Clinchy called upon Protes-
tants, Catholics and Jews to pursue the
following program:

1. At Mot snow

measure of relief for the

Nichols met him in a restaurant and sat down
to talk. Purposely he brought up the subject
of religion. The young engineer said that he
was a Protestant. Mr. Nichols said, "I should
think you would change your name. It sounds
Jewish and you look a little Jewish." The
reply was: ''Not only am I not a Jew, but none
of my ancestors were Jews. What's more we
hate Jews. I think they ought all to get out
of this country and stay out." "Wouldn't
you at least give a Jew a fair deal for what
he is worth so an individual?" queried Mr.
Nichols. "No," said the young man.
"Do you know why you lost your job?"
asked Nichols.
"No," said the engineer, "and I would like
to. There was something queer about the way
I was treated."
"You got treated as you did because the
boys up at the company think the same as you.
You had a good taste of your own medicine.
How do you like it?"
"Gosh! I never thought of that!" exclaimed
the advocate of
No, he had never thought of the Golden
Rule as applied to life where he himself was
concerned. If only we can all acquire the
habit of thinking how our conduct toward
others would appear if it concerned ourselves
we shall go a long way toward the develop-
ment of that good will and fair dealing upon
which rests the future of our American de-
mocracy.

Lights from
Shadowland

Private Talks with France's Prophet and Premier

Reproduction In part or whole forbid- i
en, without pernilwion of the Seven
of
Arta Feature Syndicate,
his feature,

By

Prejudice Defeats Itself

Discrimination in employment is today
one of the most serious dangers facing the
Jewish youth in this country. It is the out-
growth of a prejudice which even the
American ideal could not eradicate.
There is an interesting group of Ameri-
can liberals who believe that prejudice de-
feats itself—that in the long run, if anti-
Semitism should gain ground it will even-
tually encourage other hatreds which will
similarly affect those who now propagate
their hatred against the Jews.
In his radio address delivered on the oc-
casion of Brotherhood Day by Dr. Henry
Smith Leiner, executive secretary of the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ in
America, the following interesting story
was related:

I

in their advance seemed to be the fulfillment
of an Arab tradition, so the bringing of water
to the inhabitants came to be symbolic of the
Great Restoration after the utter desolation.
The British in their administration of what
was called the "Occupied Enemy Territory"
during the war were especially mindful of
the needs of Jerusalem. Even before peace
came they led water by pipes from Solomon's
pools a few miles south of Bethelein, from
which water had been brought into the city
by King Solomon. But that supply proving
inadequate. two years ago the Palestine Gov-
ernment, facing the prospect of a water fam-
ine, began work on • new project, storing
water from a river source in the valley of
Sharon and carrying it by a relay of pump-
ing stations across the plain and up into the
Judean hills--an ascent of 2,000 feet.
The one figure seen in many parts of Pales-
tine—till lately, at any rate—was the erect
woman with the water jar balanced on her
heed (replaced in some places during and
following the war by the lighter if less pic-
turesque Standard Oil tin), or in Jerusalem
itself the water-seller with the goatskin cons.
tainer on his bent back. But these will pass,
no doubt, as the camel irains of water-carriers
during the war have passed. With the aid of
' modern engineering, water will be brought
to the doors of the city dwellers, and desert
places will blossom again as the rose, and the
excellency of Sharon" will, in a different but
in ■ very true sense, be given to Jerusalem
and the hills and valleys that are round about.

Thus, one life-giving element after an-
other is being restored to the New Jerus-
alem and the New Judaea, The primitive
is being eradicated and the modern in-
or f
stalled. The Holy Land ia eing
b
built
the living, rather than serving as a sus
sum of the dead. It is the sign of new
life in the cradleland of our people. It is
the symbol, of Israel's restoration.

SclAisrns in Jewish Life

"Old Testament
In Graphic Arts"

Detroit Leader Points to Division in Ranks Among the Unusual Collection of Illustra-
tions Issued by Viennese
"Haves" and "Have Nots" and Sees World
Author
Jewish Congress as Inevitable

By

JAMES I. ELLMANN

We are forever struggling for a fense, similar dissenters were
unified Jewish life—most unsuc- found opposing this means of com-
bat. And our enemies were most
cessfully. We are forever invok-
ready to jeer at Jewish disunity
ing the value of solidarity, but even in so simple a matter.
doing little or nothing to bring it
The Fear of Divided Loyalty
about. We sit complacently in tight,
And now when the forces in
intellectual and social compart- Jewish life have felt the need of
ments and let the world go by. On a militant opinion to meet the
occasion we note the futility of pressing problems of homelessness
our narrow position and then it is and economic and religious an-
too late
remedy
the stupid
re-
'mita
of to its
insulation.
tagonism,
there are still those who
are beginning toaet up hindrances
Like our Christian betters, we amounting to a sabotaging of the
are unconsciously dividing our- common Jewish front. There are
who fear to yea
selves in the "haves" and the "have those among
nets." Choose at random any large as a united people; who tear their
group of Jews and non-Jews. We poor relations abroad; who fear
practically have the same stand- the charge of divided loyalty.
Since the oppression from which
ard reaction towards life. Why?
Because economic motives seem our fellow Jews are suffering is
essentially
due to a difference in
stronger than all others. We ar-
gue religion and argue politics, faith, may we not frankly ask the
but on final reckoning, futile are world why? Would those of the
the arguments in the face of eco- Catholic, Protestant or Moham-
nomic considerations. Only on rare medan faith fear to ask the ques-
occasions do we find reasons for a tions under the same oppressive
conditions? Why all this nonsense,
unity of purpose and of plan.
then, at this late hour, when those
The Zionist Ideology
Say what you will, the Zionist who understand us, understand us
ideology is the only important con- fully, and the others dm.% matter?
Why mince words if several
tribution to Jewish life today. And
of the thousands of contributors million of our people in Poland are
being
slowly ground to extinction?
to the causes for the amelioration
of our people the largest number Why not step forth as fellow
Jews
and
tell the world how we
have a fair regard for the impor-
tance and influence of Palestine. view this, what we insist on, and
We thrill at its accomplishments, how it may be accomplished? Why
most of us. Some run for cover at not join the people et the Congress
the merest whiff of trouble, and are called for that purpose where they
ready to despair instantly over may speak their hearts and their
minds and their sufferings freely.
our reclamation as a people.
But as against many who are Why not counsel with them and
eager to abandon hope, other give them our moral support dur-
Prodigal sons are returning, ready ing times of greatest agony and
to accept positions on the firing peril?
we to better by making
line of Jewish life.
C
To co-ordinate world Jewish them bore t heir we y to freedom
and
decency
by secret and surrepti-
opinion, the World Jewish Con-
gross is about to meet. The Amer- tious methods? Is it better to ad-
freely
the cruelties upon
ican Jewish Committee fcrces op- vertise
posing this have been enaging in them and not the pains they cause?

the unholy task of seeking to im-
pair, if not wholly prevent, the as-
sembling of Jewish world repre-
iou
sens
at Geneva. A few relig•
and d secular leaders are set-
ring themselves up on one side to
prevent the inroads of a few r -
e
ligious and secular leaders en the
other. And thus go our inchoate
plans to bring order out of chaos,

We Must Cry Out
Open the daily paper in every
European hamlet. Hitler's methods
of persecution have been bared
before Christian eyes at every
breakfast table. What have we
been doing for three years to offset
this onslaught against every prin-
eiple of human decency? Almost
nothing. What have we done to
We Lack Technique
present toe opposing principle?
How crude a people we e still are.
h not some common agency that
I We lack the slightest technique of t should speak for as—the poor, the
pro
weak? Were
approaching com
And
what tre- I not better that such an agency
mon
• commoway.
mentions personal pettiness!
Just
rich,
the
affluent,
the
another commit errors, than that we de•
I le
as soon as • few of our so-called : prime ourselves of the benefit of ■
leaders adopt one method,
representative clarion voice at the
group would be sure to insist on right time and under the right
another. And then we are hard put auspice.?
to rationalize our respective faire
There are times when we must
or needless divisions. Usually, the
be- I raise our cries to the heavens.
self-constituted "better" Jews
are times when sound judg-
I
There
up
ppoel
opposi-
hiinnegry go boled
gin to o s r e tf
ofacb,
eon-
ment d emand s quiet , p eaceful
bbled
fear m
lion
of our grief a t the ecn.
those whose economic misfor- sideration
Both are essential.
alto ference rmethod
tunes may hurt their social sta.'
table.
can be used ex.
itihzly.
anna you
affluent ho w ff btherri
Th le a arn
t f u ea s.r: The
Prudent use of both will
eNlues
are in your forsaken Vilna. You teach us the wisdom and timelines
might cause me to blush wizh i of each•'
high time to achieve

r

But it is

lite
eo of Jewish representation
port
your methods of reaching th em j
Do not bind me to your own !Mesita deal with world opinion. Hitler
may
rot
listen. but the world may.
•
•
fortunes"
Of some such character was the Let us have some responsible ad
boycott against Hitler. When ten- en-ship similar to that of 'the .
orally adopted as • weapon of de-
,Ps IAPS WIN .0 TEXT Pain)

Theodor Ehrenstein's "Das
AltesTestament in der Graphik"
("The Old Testament in Gra-
phic Art") is an unusual col-
lection of masterpieces, publish-
ed by junstverlag Albert Kende,
I., Kperntnerstrasse 4, Vienna.
The current work under review
is the first of a series of 10
volumes. It sells at an unus-
ually low price, the cost for
American purchasers being only
$1.20.

Besides a preface in Eng-
lish, French and German, this
volume contains 94 illustra-
tions. The four in colors are
striking photographs excellent
for framing. The 94 illustra-
tions are etchings, lithographs,
woodcuts and engravings. -

The illustrations in the first
volume belong to the first two
chapters on "The Creation"
and "Adam and Eve." The
second and third volumes are
announced for publication dur-
ing the coming two months.
They will contain the graphic
art works on the following
chapters: "Cain land Abel,"
"Noah," "The Tower of Babel,"
"Abraham," "lIagar," "Lot"
and "Abraham's Sacrifice."

Of interest to Jews and
Christians, "The Old Testa-
ment in Graphic Art" aims to
popularize the graphic or re-
productive arts. In the intro-
duction the author states:

"The evolutionary - iconogra-
phical method clearly illustrates
the enormous variety of poi.
.ible interpretations of any sub-
ject in art, showing how it has
appeared in the imagination of
each artist. This method of
presentation, and in particular
the repetition by chapters
which my scheme entails,
serves to sharpen the observer's
perceptions and gradually trains
him to appreciate the finest
shades of difference in the ar-
tist's methods and the great di-
versity of the vifrious tech-
niques. The layman no less
than the expert can soon grasp
the personal note peculiar to
each artist, and only when he
has learnt t, understand that
in art 'what' the artist repre-
sents is of infinitely less im-
portance than 'how' he repre-
sents it, will he achieve a full
appreciation of artistic works.'

Among the illustrations in
this volume is an unusually fine
one by the Palestinian Jewish
artist Abel Pann.
Mr. Penn,
the only Jewish artist repre-
sented in the collection, has his
illystration of Eve offering the
apple to Adam splendidly re-
produced in colors.

from Everywhere

(Copyright. MC O. A. F

PIERRE VAN PAASSEN

(Copyright. 1531. S. A. F.

Water in Jerusalem

This is most significant news, marking
the greatest achievement of the British
administration in Palestine. Water was the
are unable to make • living. Radical leaders
severest problem in Palestine, the solution
cannot carry the American people into Com-
of which brings great comfort to Jeus-
' murders, but desperate economic conditions
for the manes might.
alem. Through a 62-kilometer pipeline the
2. Preservation of a free pros, free speech,
City of Peace will now receive water from
the right of assembly and freedom of con-
science. Unless these liberties are safe-
the newly-built reservoir at Ras-el-Ain,
Russia,
guarded, America will go the way of
2,600 feet below Jerusalem.
or Italy, or Germany.
It is of more than passing interest to
3. Prevention of extreme patriotism and
nationalism. We need a golden mean in na-
note that the new reservoir supplements
tional loyalty which permits respect for other
the water supply in the Pools of Solomon
nations and groups. No member of • group
should be so blindly loyal to his own group
which were believed to have been built by
that he cannot see anything good in another
the wise King of Israel. The new reser-
group.
1. A spiritual renaissance in which organ-
voir, having a capacity of 2,000,000 kilos,
ized religion w:11 challenge the people, espe-
is reported already to be half-filled with
cially the youth of America. to sacrifice for
a great muse. Youth naturally responds to
rain and spring water.
a cell to sacrifice. Religious groups should
The creation of a new water supply in
supply this call before some irreligious dema-
Jerusalem moved the New York Times
gogue does it.
to publish an editorial under the heading
A study of these four points will reveal
that Dr. Clinchy proposed the pursuing "The Excellency of Sharon," stating:
of ideals which already form the back-
As reported in the Times, Jerusalem has
bone of the leading faiths. These prin-
begun to receive a new water supply, ending
ciples have merely been abused and ig-
two thousand years of water shortage. The
little land in the midst of which Jerusalem
nored, and if Dr. Clinchy and his ex-
stands has an annual rainfall of 30 inches
cellent group of co-workers in the Na-
or thereabout, but every drop of this rain
tional Conference of Jews and Christians
falls within less than one-half of the year.
should be successful in carrying them into
In the other half or more there is no rain
at all. The storage of water for the dry
effect, then they will be responsible for
months—delightful
as they must be when
bringing to'life again ideals which world
past and
they first come, when "the Winter
unrest and reaction unfortunately crush
the rain is over and gone • • • and the time
in a time of storm and stress.
of the singing of birds is come and the voice
of the turtle is heard in the land"—becomes
On every available occasion we are
the supreme problem of the land. In an an-
pleased to commend Dr. Clinchy and the
cient Book of Wisdom it is written that the
National Conference of Jews and Chris-
chief thing in life is water—"water, bread
tians for their consistent efforts to re-
and a garment to cover shame," but water is
"rhapsody of
chiefest. Jeremiah's
store decency to Church and State with-
the
drought" when the children come to the pits
out breaking the principle that Church and
and find no water is one of the saddest of
State must remain independent and separ-
pictures.
ate. 'Dr. Clinchy's present proposals pro-
As the piping of sweet water across the
vide opportunity for encouraging the work
desert from Egypt into Palestine during the
, war for the uses of the Expeditionary Forces
he and his conference are doing.

Tidbits

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

EDITORS NOTE: Did the powerful Jews of France want Blum to accept the premiership?
ZIONISMIA
Does Blum understand the personal risks of his position? What brought Blum, son of
When a delegation of Zionist I
coders called on Dr.sStephen S.
■ wealthy Lyon silk manufacturer, to Socialism? What ■ are Blum's views on Judaism?
Vise to accept the nomination for
Pierre Van Paassen, No. 1 of Europe's foreign correspondents, tells of his personal
he presidency of the Z. 0. A., he
conversation. with the Premier of France and his daughter, Suzanne Blum. A real
concluded his acceptance speech
inside view of the soul of that man Blum.
with the following words: "Gentle-
men, may Providence be with
you!" ... In case you've forgotten,
(Copyright, 1930, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
the Zionist convention, which will
vote on Dr. Wise's candidacy, will
be held at Providence, R. I. . . .
Suzanne Blum, the Premier's daughter, who is a
For the first time in many years, almost as
Wise's absence from the convention
well-known lawyer in Paris.
far back as middle-aged men seem to remember,
will have a dramatic effect if one
All at once Leon Blum, who had guarded
an entirely new crew has taken possession of
considers that at the same time he
a thoughtful silence, spoke up and asked: "To
the ship of state in France under the captaincy
will be sitting at a conference table
what fortuitous circumstance may we attribute
with the highest officials of the
of M. Leon Blum. Although he is a Jew, it
British Government together with
your sudden concern for the Jewish masses,
cannot be said that M. Blunt represents the un-
Dr. Weinnann, David Ben Gurion
messieurs? You are always asserting that the
animous choice of the Jewish community of
and Prof. Felix Frankfurter .. .
Jew is free and the full equal of every other
France. That would indeed be too much to
To give you an idea of his work-
citizen in France. Why should I now seek to
ing capacity (incidentally \Vise
expect. As a matter of fact an incident occurred
escape the natural consequences of my life's
was the founder of the Z. 0. A.
in Paris shortly after the electoral victory of the
and
insisted
at
that
time
that
the
It is fortunate that men like Dr. Leiner
work as a citizen of France? And as a Jew, do
Socialist party, which showed that a good many
late
Professor
Gottheil
take
the
—who belings to that group of Christian presidency) we will tell you that Jews, the richest, the most powerful in France, you really think that I must step aside now, in
liberals whom Jewish tradition has labeled his ship, the Berengaria, sailed at look upon Leon Blum'a premiership as nothing this moment when I believe that I can extract
a small ration of well being and a large ration
"Chassidei Umos Ha - Olom," the benevo- 11 A. M., and that Dr. Wise dic-
less than a disaster. A committee composed of
lent among the nations of the world—hold tated campaign letters to his secre- several rabbis, a director of the Nord Railway, of hope out of the present regime? I think of
such views and constantly and consistently tary in the UPA from 8 A. H. to the administrateur-general of the Banque des the Jews of Alsace, my forefathers, who were
warn their fellow-Christians against the 10:30 ... Few people believe that Pays-Bas and some other magnates, all of them massacred by the crusaders. When a new cru-
Rothenberg will be a can-
indencency of prejudice and anti-Semit- Morris
sadewas on the way once, there was a debate in
prominent Jews, called on M. Blum at his home
didate against Wise . . . Rothen-
ism. In principle we believe with them berg knows too well that Wise's on the Quai Bourbon and did their utmost to dis- the synagogues of Alsace and the Rhineland as
that prejudice defeats itself, and that an prestige with the Jewish and non- suade hint from assuming the premiership of to what course of action to adopt. The majority
anti-Semitic wave brings in its wake dan- Jewish world make him second France to which his party's victory called him. said that it was the Jew's duty to hide and so
to Brandeis as the outstand-
gers of loss of freedom also to other peo- only
try to escape the cruel fate that seemed inevi-
They warned him cautiously, tactfully, with long
ing Jewish personality in this
ples. There are some who doubt this con- country •
table otherwise. I am not of that opinion, mes-
and circumlocutions speeches that an eventual
clusion, and many will say that Dr. Leip- WE'RE TEI.LING YOU
sieurs. I believe that a Jew, precisely because he
failure of the People's Government under his
er's story is pure fiction. But in principle
is a Jew, conscious ols.bis Jewishness, should fight
The mysterious big shot of the
leadership would entail very disagreeable con-
Black
Legion
is
the
same
wealthy
he is right, and although Jews always
for justice and righteousness, and this ! intend
sequences to the Jewish community in France.
stand to lose more than other peoples from industrialist who subsidized the Not the Socialists, they told him (as if he did to do."
Klux Klan ... Iles also said
prejudice the ultimate result is that others Ku
Has Support of Millions
not know), but the Jews will get the blame. Not
to be the chief financial backer
also suffer from the spread of the germ of of Nazi propaganda in this coun- the Socialist party will be the butt of criticism
That was the end of that interview, but not
discrimination. It is fortunate that a small try.
the
end
of
the story, for I note that besides
and the object of attack, but the unfortunate
group remains loyal to the ideal of brother-
Orthodox Jews can eat at the
having the vilifications of the German Nazi and
co-religionaires of the Jewish premier will be-
hood and tolerance, and the National Con- same table with Seventh Day Ad- come the scapegoat as they are in Germany and the Italian Fascist press heaped upon his head,
ference of Jews and Christians is espe- ventists because the latter also ab- everywhere else where an easy victim had to be Mr. Blum is now also designated as "an enemy
from eating ham and pork.
cially to be commended for its valient ef- stain
of Israel." Le Flambeau, organ of Colonel de la
found for the sins of the governments. Would
When the delegates to the Re-
forts to assure the perpetuation of such publican National Convention at not M. Leon Blum reconsider? Would he not Rocque's Fascism is full of lettera from Jews,
Cleveland were not whooping it up
said to be prominent Jews, who point out that
idealism.
think of his people? The very class of Jews,
for their candidates, they were
they do not share Leon Blum's ideas, that he
the poorest in Israel, who looked upon him as
storming the theater where Clif-
does not represent that which Is best in Judaism
their champion, would be the worst sufferers if
ford Odets' play of Jewish life in
and that he is under the influence of sinister,
the People's Government ("which God forbid")
the Bronx, "Awake and Sing" is
alien interests. Senator Charles Maurras, the
being given.
should fail in the task it has set itself : namely
A 2,000-year-old problem is solved.
Since Al Smith has already de-
monarchist-fascist leader, who has just been
to bring the masses bread, liberty and peace. So
termined
not
to
attend
the
Demo-
Jerusalem, parched for drink, will now cratic National Convention his they argued for two hours, alternately cajoling sentenced to a term in prison for instigating an
have her thirst quenched, and her inhabi- vote will tie cast by Bert Stand, and flattering, squirming in their chairs all the armed attack in the streets on Leon Blum, an
tants will receive a supply of water every Tammany ► lall's Jewish secretary, time, It is not a pleasant thing for princes of attack which was short of fatal just by a hair's
who is Al's alternate.
breadth, generously admitted in his paper Action
finance to ask favors of a humble politician. Such
three days instead of every seven, as here-
Rosa Ponselle, the operatic star,
Francaise the other day that there are Jews and
men are in the habit of commanding. It was
will shortly marry Pepe Russo, an
tofore.
an embarrassing interview. I have the story front
(PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAGEI
Italian insurance magnate.

millions skin are in economic distress. It is
daemon tdtg111 a large number of people In
any eoustry 'become desperate because they

We can promote brotherhood by develop-
ing the habit of seeing others from what I
like to call the Golden Rule Angle. Sena-
tor Dwight Morrow often used to say: "Judge
others by their intentions. Judge yourself
by your arcompliehmonte" That is applying
the Golden Rule. You feel instinctively that
you Ishmael be judged by what you purpose
even when you fail to live out that purpose.
I heard once of • coacrete ease which demon-
straits the and ether principles which I have
been trying to outline. It was told to me by
an engineer is New York named Nichols. lie
said that in the company where he worked
there was a strong prejudice against Jew.. A
Wm. engineer came to work who looked
Jewish. Iramedietely be was the object of
all kind. of eabUe discriminations. He was
misinformed on wary points by his associates
he unwittiagiy broke the rules of the
io
;lace ar.4 w..s won discharged. Later Mr.

THE JEW IN LEON BLUM

By LOUIS PEKARSKY

Strictly
Confidential

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Ram-
bling 'round the town in Holly-
wood, your correspondent on the
hunt for news for this week's
paper garnered a few items here
and there that may interest you.
First comes news of the signing
of Miss Fanchon, of the well-
known firm of Fanchon and Marco,
by Paramount to work in an ad-
visory capacity on musicals. Her
long-term contract also provides
that Miss Fanchon will produce
musical films later on at this stu-
dio.
The name of Fanchon and Marco
stands for high quality in the en-
tertainment field of the United
States. With her brother, Miss
Fachon has taken an active part
in nearly every branch of activity
in the theatrical business. This
famous couple has produced stage
units which have played more
theaters than any other form of
entertainment using living actors,
operated theaters, presented elab-
orate stage prologues and produced
short films.
Sam Hearn (that's his real
name) has been cast in a new pic-
ture with his radio colleague. Jack
Benny, and Burns and Allen.
Samuel Goldwyn is out of Doc-
tor's Hospital (N. Y.) and he has
wired friends here that he is feel-
ing fine and fit again and ready
to begin the most rigorous film
production campaign of his quar-
ter of a century of film making.
"Mr. Schleppermann" of the
radio, is a new Hollywood arrival,
Eddie Buzzell, director, has
moved into a suite of offices and
started to work on the Paramount
lot,
Ricardo Cortez is displaying a
long-term contract from Warner
Bros.
June Travis is back from a trip
to Chicago, her home town, and
is cast in the same picture with
Cortez.

SAVE YOUR OLD CLOTHES

Arthur Levy, wardrobe man at
20th Century-Fox Studio, says that
clothes of 1925 and 1926 vintage
are so scare that collectors list
this item. At the costume compa-
nies you can find fine replicas of
the clothing worn in any period in
history, except that of 10 years
ago. Since he needed this old cloth-
ing for a new picture, Levy dug
up 1926 fashion periodicals and
patterns and had the entire ward-
robe and millinery especially made
up for the hundreds of people used
in the picture.

THE WORLD'S WINDOW

By LUDWIG LEWISOHN

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learn—if it will—that Jewish
rights and universal human rights
Libraries will of course be writ- are inseparable." Or, as he puts it
ten on that resurgence of I'agan later: "The liberty of no individual
barbarism which, among many can rise higher than its source;
other destructive effects, has over- and this source is the general lib-
Whelmed the Jews of Germany. erty of man." In a word, the tragic
They themselves, this compara- catastrophe to which G e r nt a n
tively minute group of human be- Jewry has been subjected means
ings, will be for many centuries a break-down of the central mech-
to come symbol, mystery, organon anism of human civilization itself.
or tool for apperceiving the his- Every Jew who would, for the sake
toric processes and the meaning— of all mankind, resist that break-
if they have any—of these proces- down for the civilization within
ses. For the temper, the achieve- which ho lives, must battle va-
ments and the fate of this group liantly for his right to be within
of Jews were indeed extraordinary. that civilization what he was
The majority of them dedicated meant to be and must stand
themselves utterly to the civiliza- shoulder to shoulder with other
tion of their adopted country and cultural minorities, seeing that the
produced within that civilization fate of these minorities is the most •
values more illustrious than any exact gauge of humanity and de-
comparable group has ever in all cency.
• •
history produced within the sub-
stance of an adopted civilization.
Arnold Zweig's book is totally
A minority of them, however,
different in character from Lowen-
clung to the faith, tradition, cul- thal's. It is not history;
. it is
ture of their fathers and under the
treatise. It is an analysis of the
general name of Wiaaenacha t
German Jewish situation as part
'des Judontums
produced from and example of the general prob-
Zunz and Geiger on to Buber and lem of the psychology and the in-
Rosenzweig the greater part of ter-relation of human groups. It
the apparatus which made possible
the modern Jewish renaissance. illustrates once more the fact that
groups as well as individuals are
They destroyed and saved their
subject to both neuroses and psy-
people at the some time. Whether
choses, to ill-balance or to com-
they lived primarily as Germans
plete disequilibrium of the emo-
or as Jews they lived with the
tional and intellectual life. These
highest degree of fruitfulness. Of
group diseases are caused, pre-
these achievements no adequate
cisely like diseases in the individ-
account has yet been written.
ual, by an unwillingness or in-
On the general history of the ability to face reality as it has
Jews of Germany up to and be- actually shaped itself. The disease
yond the tragic year 1933 there consists in flight from fact, in the
are now before me, in addition to substitution of myths glorifying
others noted earlier in this column, patient, throwing his guilt upon
two books of signal excellence: a fictive enemy. Da final results
"The Jew of Germany: A Story in the case of either an individual
of Sixteen Centuries" by Marvin or a group are utterly destructive
Lowenthal (Jewish Publication So- and pretty completely predictable.
ciety of America) and Blinn: doe Thus Zweig shows that for post-
deutsche,, Juderheit (Balance- war Germany the Weimar Repub-
sheet of GermanJewry) by Arnold lic was and represented harsh and
Zweig (Querido-t.'erlag, Amster- tonic reality. Millions of Germans
dam).
could not endure this reality. A
• • •
psychical infection set in with the
For the American reader, Jew force of an epidemic. It will rage
or Gentile, Marvin Lowenthal's until it is spent or succumb to
book is by far the most valuable some violent and catastrophic
that has hitherto appeared or is purgation.
For us it is, according to Zweig,
likely to appear for a long time.
Lowenthal Wag always a clear and to be strong by virtue of this in-
felicitous writer. In his work the sight; to hear witness to sanity
greatness of his subject has taken a and liberty; to see to it that the
a deep hold on him; his style has future shall belong to those sane
risen with this subject; the gravity historic human insights which have
of the substance treated has caused prevailed before and will prevail
him to drop the antiquated Vol- again; to recognize these mon-
tartan humor to which he was strous psychical infections for
formerly addicted. His book has what they are and to continue in
admirable dignity and poise; he our all but eternal way to wring
writes with calm judgment, with cosmos from chaos and so fulfill
impecable taste, with sober elo- the meaning of human life.
quence. The most excellent feature
Written according to different
of his book is his thorough mas- methods in different languages and
tery of his enormously complicated quite independently of each other
material. For as every page shows these two books, Lowenthal's and
and the bibliography further illus- Zweig's converge curiously in Inner
trates he has written on the basis temper and ultimate conclusion, In
of broad and origin- , research. self-discipline and sobriety of
Hence his volume is not only in- temper. A great part of the world
valuable to the general reader but has gone saving mad. Our his-
■ distinguished achievement in torians and analysts survey that
historiography.
madness and remain sane and h"-
Lowenthal's conclusion, which mane. That in itself is no small
will at once be asked for, is somber achievement; that circumstance
enough and altogether irrefutable. alone can help us to work and to
It is this, that "the world can hope.

'CATASTROPHE BECOMES
'HISTORY"

o'cpyrIght.

A. P. a )

