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September 11, 193G

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

Lights front
Shadowland

current that for every Arab who is s hot
ORON
by the troops, two die of laughing at t he
Government."
ancr THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Of unusual interest because it so blun tly
Published Weekly by The Jewish Citronlde PublIelsing Co, lag
states the true facts of the existing si tu-
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Entered aa Second-olass matter March a, ISM at the Poet-
office at Detroit, Mich. nada. the Ant of Mu l% II, ISM
ation is also the following statement wh ich Reproductlids in part or whale forbid-
Tidbits from Everywhere
den.
without
permission of the Steen
A Resume on the Occasion of Harvard's Tercentenary
appears in that issue of Palestine:
Art. Feature Syndicate, Copyrightere of
General Offices and Publication Building
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
thle feature.
"The strike is run by the Arab High er
525 Woodward Avenue
By JULIUS MAYER
(Copyright, 1936. Id A. F. 0.)
(rap) right, 7936, fi A. F. )
Telephone: Cadillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle Committee but it has great support fr om
London °Meet
the younger men or Shebab, many of GEORGE BURNS AND
EDITOR'S NOTE: Mr. Mayer here traces the course of the Hebraic tradition ■ at H
14 Stratford Place, London, W. 1, England
HAPPY NEW YEAR
whom' are the sons of well-to-do pare nts GRACIE ALLEN
University, which is now celebrating the 300th
anniversary of its founding. From the
Blamer iption, in Advance
$3.00 Per Year and have been educated in the seconda ry
earliest days of the University when it
Having had no vacation this
In answer to numerous reque sts
admitted no Jews as students, to the present
To Imre publication, alleon. ..ponds.. and mews matter schools. Most of them are members of
time, when quite a number of Jews are on the H d faculty, we see that a Hebrew
year we delegated to Phineas J.
about George Burns and Gra cie
=net reach this olhve by Tu•vdey evening of nab week.
When wailing notices. kindly atm one ald• of the mew *sly. nationalistic clubs or of the so-called B oy Allen, we are taking the liberty
I3iron
3rd the writing of the New
tradition was constantly kept alive in America's oldest college.
Scout Association. • The committee h as quoting from an interview wi of
Year's column, which you will en-
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitee eorrespondettee ow sob-
th
Prete of Interns to the Jewish people, but disclaims reeponel- representatives in very village, and th ese them written for the Emanu-
joy under the title of Strictly Con.
(Copyright. 1B36, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)
bilk, for an Indorsement of the views erpressed by the writers
El
receive pay. Their duty is to see that t he and Jewish Journal of San Fra n-
jectural ... We may be a bit pre-
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
strike is kept going in their villages, a nd cites by Dorothy Lesser. In pa rt
mature, but here go a few New
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 29:9-31:30
In 1636 the elders of Massachusetts Bay Weiner, professor of Slavonic languages; and
Year's wishes . . . To Felix M.
in addition they are expected to coil ect Miss Lesser writes:
Prophetical portion--Is, 55:6-56:8; or 61:10-63:9
Colony appropriated what was then the huge Nathan Isaacs, professor of business law, are Warburg, more naches from 'Pal-
funds, which they frequently do by mea ns
"We asked him (George, who is
September 11, 1936
estine and Germany To Henry
Ellul 24, 5696 of threats. It is evident that their j ob Jewish) if he had experienced a ny sum of $2,000 for the establishment of a semi- other eminent Jews on the Ilarvard faculty.
prejudice on the stn se• nary at "Newetowne," afterwards Cambridge,
Morgenthau, Sr., that some of his
Harvard's Jewish Benefactors
can be lucrative, and in order that th CY religious
'None at all,' was his answ er. to educate learned ministers of the gospel. When But even if there had never been a single
friends stop calling hits the father
'Grade is Irish and I come fro
The New Home for the Aged shall not relax their efforts they are visit ed
from time to time by Shebab from t h e an Orthodox Jewish family. y et John Harvard, a non-conformist clergyman who Jewish student nor one Jewish professor at liar- of Morgenthau He liked it bet-
It will do the heart of Detroit Jews towns, who keep them up to the mark.
whether we have worked for Jew Or died in 1638 bequeathed his library and half yard the numerous Jewish benefactions to the
ter when they called young Henry
Gentile it has made no differen
his estate to the new seminary, the general court institution would make its 300th anniversary of
much good to pay a visit to the site of
the son of Morgenthau . .. To
"The armed bands who attack the Je w They have liked or disliked us f ce.
or of the colony ordered that the institution should special interest to American Jews. The first im- Stephen S. Wise, a twin brother
the new Home for the Aged and to watch ish colonies, the troops and the convo
what we could or couldn't d 0,
the progress that is being made in the are evidently well organized, and it is Y, 8 ' rather than from any prejudic ed be called Harvard College. Such were the be- portant Jewish patron of Harvard was the late no that he won't have to run him-
self ragged in behalf of the Jews...
There is no religion in the ginnings of the oldest institution of higher learn-' Jacob II. Schiff. Interested in Harvard through
construction of the new building.
be remembered that they have been ma to reason.
arts. Talent alone is what coun ts, ing in America, which is now celebrating its ter- Morris and James Loeb, his brothers-in-law.
To Cyrus Adler, a realization that
When one looks back to the history of to believe that they are engaged in a ho de
ly and talent will out.'
secret diplomacy died with the
centenary.
n
the construction of the new building and war against the government and the Jet
nacrey. Schiff became a member of the advisory corn- Versailles Peace Conference . . .
"We have to go back some yea TB
vs.
ter of Hebraic learning from its earl- mittee of Harvard's Semitics department as early
realizes what marvelous advances have They are thus not only national heroes
To Louis 1). Brandeis, a few more
for the beginning of this story, to
been made in assuring its construction, it life, but if they are shot they beco in a time when four small bo y 5, iest days, Harvard was only 20 years old when as 1889, Through his efforts and largesse liar- liberal colleagues on the bench ...
me
hardly old enough to stand on the it the first Jews came to America. But although yard accumulated a priceless collection of Se- To Benjamin N. Cardozo, a com-
becomes apparent that the community martyrs, and are assured of Parade
and known as the 'Peeve ee Hebrew readings from the Old Testament were mitic objects which developed into the Semitics plete recovery from his illness,
spirit in Detroit is something to be genu- thereafter. It is for this reason that t se feet,
which alarms many of his friends
Quartetto,' accompanied slides in
he
inely proud of.
. To Albert Einstein, J. P. Mor-
an East Side New York theat er a part of the scholastic regimen and a Hebrew Museum, now housed in a building for which
hanging of a few, and their burial with
The campaign for a new Home for the prison walls, would be much more effet in with their singing. One of the m thesis was one of the requirements for a bac- he provided the funds. In 1905 Schiff made his gan's yacht ... To Leon Trotzky,
no stranger to the audience s, calaureate degree, the stiff-necked Puritans who first contribution to Harvard's endowment fund. a quiet homeland .. . To Chaim
Aged began at a time when economic con- ive than the shooting of many in' skir t- was
Weizmann, another T.N.T. dis-
m- for he had danced, sung and acte
directed the destinies of Harvard would not lie was also responsible for the creation of the
ditions were very distressing. Nevertheless, ishes,
covery that would make the Brit-
in saloons, clubs and at benefi ts
the leaders of the community promised
ever since they could remembe r. "brook the outcasts of Jerusalem." Consequent- Harvard School of Oriental Research, whose ear- ish cabinet sit up and listen . .
"The leaders are encouraged by t he And George Burns continued e
ly it was not until 1720 that a Jew was first ad- liest expeditions to Palestine he underwrote. To Herbert IL Lehman, a bigger
early action in the construction of the
majority than in 1934, to confound
tertaining any one who wou Id mitted to Harvard, Ile was Judah Monis, an Schiff was also a supporter of the Ilarvard Ger-
building. The promise has been fully kept, fact that they receive both moral and
the prejudice mongers in his home
listen
until
he
borowed
some
one
and it will not be long before a new home nancial support from the Arab gover n- long pants to make his first legit 's Algerian, who received the degree of master of manic Museum.
state .. ,
ment officials, and also by the belief the t, mate stage appearance,"
arts. In 1722 he also became professor of Ile-
Schiff's brother-in-law, James Loeb, also did POT POURRI
will be ready for occupancy.
"Whenever he didn't come home brew, the first Jew on Harvard's faculty. To much for his alma meter. A great lover of the
We urge Detroit Jews to visit the site because many of the British officials ha ye
Dr. Sol G. Myers is Detroit's
s
obtain this post, which he held for 40 years, classics, Loeb bequeathed $500,000 to Harvard
night I knew I'd find him trying
for the new home on Burlingathe and little sympathy with the Jews, they mu t at out
most modest medico . . But lie's
a new dance in the park;'
to establish the Loeb Classical Library Founds- going places . . . Several months
Petoskey Avenues, and see for them- therefore be backers of the Arab cause • brother, William Burns, now h tis is he had to become a convert to Christianity.
Another century elapsed before Harvard tion. By the terms of this bequest Ilarvard
ago he was named chief of staff
"Such a step as the temporary cessatio n manager, told Miss Lesser.
selves the progress that the community is
medicine at Detroit's Receiving
of Jewish immigration during the sittin g George and his partner, Billy again had a Jewish student. In 1822 Elias added to the library and aided in research in of
making.
Hospital
. . . And now he's been
of the Royal Commission, while it mig ht Lorraine, had been in big time Yulee, younger brother of David Yulee, the Flor- Greek and Latin literature. One of the greatest elevated to the post of associate
vaudeville for some months and idian, who became the 'first Jewish member of the benefactors of Harvard is another of her alumni,
appear for the moment to make thin
professor of clinical medicine at
were about ready to break up their
The Late Dr. Rubinow
University , But you've
easier, would inevitably render the situ go
a- act when they met a member of United States Senate, was admitted to liar- Lucius Littauer, who once carried the Crimson Wayne
to read the catalogues to know
Dr. I. M. Rubinow's death takes from tion more difficult in the future, for it the Allen Sisters dance team, yard. It was not until the late 19th century colors as a member of the Harvard crew. Eleven got
about it.
the American Jewish community one of would at once be taken by the Arabs as named Gracie. She and George that a Jew was once more on the Ilarvard fac- years ago he created the Nathan Littauer Profes-
The New York World-Telegram
teamed together then, and forgot ulty. It was then that Dr. Hugo Munsterberg, sorship of Jewish Literature and Philosophy carried 15 lines of Yiddish on the
the most interesting figures and depletes a sign of victory and would cause the Hi singing
and dancing to carry on a world-famous psychologist, was called to liar- which is held by Dr. Wolfson. host year he gave
front page of its Sept. 1 issue ...
later
on
to
intensify
their
efforts
to
obtai
n
the ranks of social workers for whom this
comedy act, with Gracie playing
They were a translation of the new
yard, where he established the celebrated psycho- Harvard an unrestricted gift of $2,000,000 for
charming personality was a source of in- complete satisfaction of their original d e_ straight roles.
penalties for automobile speeding.
logical
laboratory.
While
Jewish
students
and
the
establishment
of
a
graduate
school
of
pub-
mands,
whatever
the
findings
of
the
Roy
"The
gags
may
have
been
bad,
The
W. T. also printed the penal-
spiration and a guide in leadership.
al
for I wrote them myself," George professors were virtually non-existent during lie administration. •Ilarvard has also received
ties
in German, Italian and Span-
Commission
might
be.
There is hardly a movement of any im-
ish.
Burns said, "but good or bad, it Harvard's first 250 years, Jewish benefactions to hundreds of thousands of dollars for new build-
portance in Jewish life to which the late
"It has been clearly shown by the pre 5. was Grade, with any line at all,
Anton Kaufman, publisher of the
Dr. Rubinow did not make definite con- ent events that the Jews will not be im who got the laughs; so we ex- old John Harvard's college go back at least a ings, scholarships and research from Percy and Newark Jewish Chronicle, will
century
and
a
half.
During
the
Revolutionary
Jesse
Straus,
Felix
M.
Warburg,
Julius
Rosen-
chanrd
parts."
worship
at Rosh Hashonah services
tributions. His work in Palestine as well mune from attacks until their numbe rs
a contract with RK0 dur- War Michael Hays, Boston merchant and an weld, Maurice Wertheim, Arthur Sachs and the this year in a brand new silk talith
as in' this country, his efforts on behalf approach those of the Arabs and the Y Mg After
...
The
praying
shawl is the gift
which they performed in uncle of the famous Judah Tours, and Joseph Filene brothers.
of the Jewish national movement as well are given means of defending themselve 8, vaudeville houses, and also acted
of the Budapest Congregation ...
Costa were among the leading contributors to
Sander,
the
late
duelist,
and Joseph
Other
Jewish
Interests
as for the B'nai B'rith have caused him to Then, and then only, can Arab respec t in movie shorts, they went to Lon- Ilarvard.
In other ways too Harvard enlisted Jewish Veszi, journalist, were the only
radio
for the
stand out in leadership and in devotion.
ucceed to hatred, and with respect ma Y British appear on
Attracted Thousands of Jewish Students interest. The Hebraic tradition, which is as others to be similarily honored.
The esteem and affection in which Dr. oime the possibility of constructive co - When they returned Grade was
Here's hoping that Abe Allen,
Since the 1870's, when Louis Dembitz Bran- old as the university itself, found its finest ex-
the Anglo-Jewish scribe, will not
Rubinow was held is attested to by the 0 peration. The country can bear such a n guest star on one of Eddie Can- a
deis and Lucius N. Littauer graduated, Harvard pression in the scholarly writings of the late
find
it too lonely in Rochester,
n
tor's
programs.
names of the following who were asked ncrease in population, for while man
where he has gone to take charge
Gracie's fan mail was so enor - has attracted thousands of Jewish students while Prof. George Foote Moore, the eminent author- of the editorial end of Biben pub-
to act as honorary pall-bearers: James G. J eve's want to farm, many are likely t 0
that she and George were Jewish men of learning and philanthropists have ity on Semitic languages. It was at Ilarvard that lications.
McDonald, Oswald Garrison Villard,
anufacture, and this means close settle mous
signed for
er their first Am ican done much to aid the University. So many of the Menorah movement was born. Harvard also
Abraham Cahan, Alfred M. Cohen, John ment in such areas as Haifa Bay an d rad o program.
RUBINOWIA
i That was four
Harvard's celebrated sons have been co-reli- produced one of the greatest Jewish college ath-
Haynes Holmes, Jacob Fischman, Dr. el Aviv. If the present Jewish popula _ years ago, and since that
e tim , al- glonists of Judah Monis that one can cite only
Few people knew the real Isaac
letes
in
Arnold
Ilorween,
a
though
they
have
changed
spon-
famous football star M. Rubinow . . . To the Jewish
Samuel Margoshes, John B. Andrews, ion of 366,000 can be supported, as th c
a few of the more distinguished Jewish gradu- who was later coach of the Crimson. The late world
fors
once,
they
have
never
missed
he was an executive of a
Paul Kellogg, Harry Glucksman, Abra- trike has shown it can, on 307,000 acres , a week's broadcast, except for one
ates. The most famous, of course, is Supreme Solomon Schechter, president and founder of national Jewish organization . . .
ham Epstein, Robert Szold and Joseph here is little doubt that if it were in . holiday of three months.
a e was
a scholar,
Court Justice Brandeis. But hardly less ems- the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, worker and
a creator
in the research
sphere
Schlossberg.
reared to a 1,000,000 it could be sup
After their radio success came
nest are Felix M. Frankfurter of the Ilarvard and Albert Einstein are among those who have ofsoed
Detroit Jews who had the privilege to p orted one-sixth of the 6,000,000 acre s m ovie shorts for Paramount and Law School; Judge Julian W. Mack, one of the a most devastating
iaelwoed
sense
..
f
humor.
.a
irony Ili-
received honorary degrees from Harvard. Six finely velp
nally pictures in which they were
work with him and to hear him discuss w hich Palestine contains. Is one-sixth o f fi starred,
"We really prefer to be two Jews to sit on the Ilarvard board of over- other world fam6us Jewish scholars will be simi-
important issues will especially mourn his he country more than was intended fo ✓ featured as an act in a picture seers: Walter Lippmann, the publicist; Prof. llor- lady honored during the tercentenary exercises. ogyw
only real passion outside of sociol-
,,0rn, yas
ea rs custard
loss because they have learned to love the he National Home; and are five-sixth s rather than be starred," said Gra- ace Kellen, disciple of William J mes; Ernest
cu s
pie. e .i s IzV ihoenn a
Despite
its
conservative
and
theological
ce.
"It
gives
us
a
better
chance
to
ago the Brandeis
man.
le ss than the Arabs really need?
Gruening, chief of the Federal Bureau of In- origins, Ilarvard, the fountain-head of American
its
group
i,t
give
the
public
the
kind
of
comedy
wanted
oi introduce
indc u lf
A gr cat man and a fine leader has de-
"If no more Jews are allowed to im they like. You know we're really sular Possession ; former M
s le nioiary
a
Murray Season- culture, has given to the United States many of made Rubinow
parted from American Israel.
m igrate, Great Britain must face the obli awfully lucky. There are loads of good of Cincinnati; Jesse I. yor
p
te nt
t tiY
Straus, former the ideals that are part and parcel of the Ameri- ciency expert ..
p. Il e w as a glori-
g ation of protecting indefinitely the Jews better actors, but we just received United State Ambassador to France; his brother, can tradition of liberty and freedom. sus flop, because if
there was one
the breaks "
w
ho
are
now
there,
and
the
Arabs
have
1
Percy;
and
S.
N.
Behrman,
the
playwright,
Condemning Britain's Weakness sh
thing he hated .. it ,lie
was did
petty
Burns and Allen are as unusual h
the presidency of Dr. James Bryant Conant, management
not office
fear
Twenty years ago a census of Jewish col- Ilarvard is re-creating the liberalism of the days death because to him it was noth-
A great deal has been said since the w own us that they can keep 12 battalions off-stage as on. Their comedy is
ell
occupied.
With
things
as
they
now
their act. Once removed from the lege students showed that there were 402 Jews of Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes and James. Dr,
outburst of the outrages in Palestine about a
ing but a
phenomenon
the British government would do well stage they are quiet, serious, think- at Harvard out of a total enrollment of 5,228. Conant's uncompromising hostility to all curbs that everybody s scientific
has to experience...
the marvelous restraint of the Jewish fo re,
people. Gracie would like to
✓ the safety of the routes to the East ing
settle down and raise their two Although no official estimate of the present Jew- on academic freedom and his consistent opposi- GRAZIANI
pioneers in the Jewish National Ilome to
children, but the Jewish ish body is available, it would be a fair guess tion in word and deed to Nazism, Fascism
A great deal more could be said about of consider favorably both the increase adopted
Our boss, Joe Braining, present-
and
half of the famous team has too
the restraint of the Jewish communities th e Jewish immigration into Palestine and much vitality to rest. Ile prefers to say that it numbers approximately 1,000, all that they connote have again made Harvard ed us with a letter addressed to
formation
there
of
a
Jewish
defense
about half of them in the schools of commerce, the finest exponent of Americanism in its truest him by the Viceroy of Ethiopia,
throughout the world. Perhaps it was not fo
acting to anything else.
law and medicine.
Field Marshall Rudolf() Graziani.
rce sufficient to protect the Jewish settle-
restraint at all but was rather a display m ents.
The number of Jewish professors and in- sense. The Harvard of 1936 bears as little resern- The letter, written in Italian and
Following the lead of the B'nai
of despair and a lack of initiative. At
postmarked Addis Ababa (we man-
"The obvious duty of the government nab Messenger of Los Angeles structors at Harvard has of course never been blance to the modest seminary endowed by John aged to steal the stamp), says
any rate, the usual expression of protest
and Hollywood, Lights from Sha- large. Several years ago it was put at about Ilarvard as American Jewry today has to those quite definitely that all of us, in-
was at first lacking, and Jews throughout is to protect peaceable citizens and to dowland
nominates Paul Muni for
cluding ourselves, were all wet
the world continue to hope that Great suppress crime. The terrorists are grow- the leading role in the first motion 40, including tutors and special lecturers. But pioneers who came to these shores 281 years about the Jewishness of Italy's
these have been some distinguished fig- ago in search of religious liberty. Both have
Britain will display sufficient determina- ing bolder and more blood-thirsty. Is it picture about the historic Captain among
war hero . .. The Field Marshal
urea in science and scholarship. Mention has grown mightily. To Ilarvard Jews have given says that he's descended from an
Dreyfus Case, which Warner Bros.
tion in order to surpress the murders and reasonable to suppose that Jewish re- has
announced as one of its ma-
old
Roman family and that it is
already
been
made
of
Professors
Frankfurter
of
their
means
and
talents
and
genius.
To
the
the organized destruction which domin- straint will be indefinitely maintained? jor productions for the coming
"pretta Cristiana" . . . which, ac-
Such outrages as those at Safed and Tel season. Work on the script of the and Munsterberg. Dr. Milton Rosenau, former Jews Harvard has been the training ground of cording
ated the situation.
to our dictionary, means
this tercen-
film play about this famed Jewish director of the Ilarvard School of Public Health; some of the greatest sons. To both me
he's a simon-pure Christian Aryan
During the past week, for the first time Aviv are proof that the government can martyr
Harry
A.
Wolfson,
professor
of
Hebrew;
Leo
tenary
is
anoccasionof
is
expected
to
begin
soon.
of Mediterranean stock without the
great
since the outbursts, we have begun to not effectively protect the lives of the
slightest tinge of Jewish blood ...
hear some protests and expressions of law-abiding. Who can blame the law-
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indignation against the present occur- abiding if they now take the law in their
Behind the Scenes
A
Poetic
Discription
of
Palestine
Salman Schneour's Great Novel
ances. At last the voice of world Jewry own hands?" . •
In Rural Palestine
is being heard, and our people in this coun-
We feel that it is not only about time Dorothy Ruth Kahn's "Spring Up, 0 Well," is a Charm-
"Noah Pandre" is His First Book to Appear in English
try as well as throughout Europe, includ- that the voice of Jewry was heard in the
ing Description of the Efforts of Jewish
By JULIAN L. MELTZER
Translation
ing England, are letting themselves be present situation but that our liberal
Pioneers in the National Home
heard in condemnation of the 'indiffer- Christian friends speak up in condemna-
Prof. Joseph Klausner, in his
The story is interesting not only
JERUSALEM. — A story is
ence of the British administration in Pal- tion of the outrages and in criticisms of
"History of Modern Hebrew Lit. from the point of view of the plot
One of the most fascinating interest because Miss Kahn proves
estine to live up to its obligations as the the laxity of the British administration, stories about Palestine and the to be a very able journalist. She to be found in every sot of erature" makes the following in- itself but also because of the life
knows how to describe situations figures: a human 'story, pos- teresting reference to the works of it portrays and because of the in-
mandatory power.
It is to be hoped that the voice which is manner in which a young lady, who and
how to analyze causes. Her
terest and attitude toward the
We are impressed by the statement now letting itself heard on the subject was brought up in an extremely book reveals that she has managed sibly involving a family's vicis- Selman Schneour: "Schneour dis- crude
for us Hebrews new re- author. subjects pictured by the
which appeared in a recent issue of Pal- will force a complete change in present assimilated home has become an to fall Into the spirit of the life situde and sacrifice. The files covered
Zionist, has just been pub- of pioneers of Palestine and for of the American Economic Com- gions of poesy, and conquered for
estine, the organ of the Parliamentary tactics and the alleviation of the horrors ardent
There was a time when Jews,
lished by Henry Holt and Co., 1 this reason the volume assumes mittee in Tel-Aviv are crammed us new worlds by the flight of his
pro-Palestine Committee in England, which prevent progress and bring about Park Ave., New York. It is Doro- added
rich imagination. If Bialik is the even in most oppressed communi-
value as a poetic description full with them,
ties,
were known for their prowess
these infinitesi- poet of the country town and
which declares that, "As has been conti- destruction.
thy Ruth Kahn's "Spring Up, 0 of pioneer life.
mal narratives in the upbuild- Tchernicho•sky the poet of the and for their defensive art in be-
Well." ($2.75).
nually pointed out in these columns, the
Attitude of the English
ing of modern Palestine. And village, Schneour is the poet of the half of their people. The hero of
Miss Kahn appropriately enough
firm measures which are invariably neces-
In addition to the excellent set
city. While Bialik'a affection is for "Noah Pandre" is just this type
opens up the volume with a quota-
no historian will ever find the Jewish past, and Tchernichow- of a fellow—a blustering, ignor-
An Anti-Fascist Play
sary in such cases were not taken at the
of
illustrations
included
in
the
tion from Numbers XXI, 16-18,
them;
they
must
remain
anony-
y's longing for the Jewish fu- amus who is despised by the cul-
start. Emergency regulations were indeed
The announcement of the forthcoming which informs the reader of the book, there is an important in-
ture, Schneour is the embodiment ture(' but who is nevertheless pre-
promptly issued on April 19, and on June presentation of Sinclair Lewis' "It Can't source of the type of her book. The troduction to it by Henry W. mous.
the Jewish present Shneour is rented in a most sympathetic and
quotation reads: "And from thence Nevinson. From Mr. Nevinson's
The committee's central bu- of
12 a number of crimes were made punish-
on the level of the greatest English favorable light by the author, The
they went to Beer; that is the well introduction we cull the following reau for economic information poets."
Happen
Here"
by
the
Federal
Theater
giant Noah gets into many scrapes,
able by heavy penalties, including death
whereof the Lord spoke unto Moses, quotation which may throw light on
This statement is of particular The son of a butcher, he forsakes
in certain cases; but there has been a divisions of the Works Progress Adminis- gather the people together, and I the attitude of the English towards as been conducting a survey
in rural economics. The figures interest at this time in view of his father's trade to became a
curious tardiness not only in the applica- tration is of unusual importance. It will will give them water. Then Israel the Jews:
Icoachman. He marries his master's
sang this sing, Spring up, 0 well;
”for can he (the author) take much
are needed for the elucidation the appearance of one of Mr. daughter and lands in jail after
tion of these very necessary penalties but be recalled that this very important anti- sing ye unto it: The
Schneour's works. Author of nine a
In
ferret
In
the
reserved
and
chilly
atti-
princes digged
of
some
problems
of
broader
tude
of
the
Argils!)
when,
quarrel with a drunken police
na-
volumes of collected writings and
even in the bringing to trial of Arabs to Fascist volume was intended for filming the well, the nobles of the people tural tendency le to Medal,. all -natives"
agricultural policy and invest- one of the outstanding figures in official. The simple plot has so
if anything, to fa, or Arabs as being
whom they might be applied. So far, the in Hollywood. For reasons which may digged it, by the direction of the but,
many
human-interest angles that
pimple,. more primitive, and easier to
with their staves."
ment. It seemed to me that Jewish literature, it is rather sur- the novel
m • n•re than the crowding j e ss I sss
death penalty has not once been inflicted, or may not be surmised, the picture was lawgiver,
assumes huge proportions
prising that Mr. Schneour's works
Acquire Spirit of the Land
Immigrants. for the most partbighlY-
the
human
element
should
not
entvrprising, ard
and in general the punishments imposed never made, and liberals throughout the
should not previously have been as a great story and as an ex-
This volume is significant for edue•ted.
arose aggressive if alighted or controlled
tremely
fine
descriptior of life in
be
lost
when
Rehabiah
Lewin-
published in the English !enrage, a
have shown themselves ineffective as de- country were naturally upset by the fact several reasons. In the first place, The trouble One been Weil much in-
Russian-Jewish village,
it gives an excellent approach to crealsed by the vast Indus of the German Epstein, Palestine director, and for this reason the appearance
terrents. Where fines are ordered, they that an anti-Fascist voice was to be stilled. the
from
Om
degrada-
cower
to
aware
Naturally,
the author's sympa-
Je
Palestine 'problem from the tion and tortures to which the Hitler told me of his committee's of the current English work an-
comes even greater significance.
thiesare with the oppressed and he
are often paid by • the committees; im-
By sponsoring the presentation of the point of view of • Jewess who was el...routes! has isubjerted them—• treat. work.
flavors
the
story
with interesting
meat unparelled e en In the appalling
"Noah Pandre" Is the Schneour
prisonment is no great hardship, and it theme of this book in play form, the WPA remote from Jewish interests but Watery
of Judaism since Jews Were Ark
to native Russian life.
novel which has just been pub- references
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at least has the advaroage of securing definitely aligns itself on the side of dem- who, in the course of life, became reeagnised
There
is
an
Invigorating whole-
to the ideal of the upbuild- to he -assimilated ''
There was the case of the lished by Lee Furman, Inc., of 381 someness about the story that de-
bodily safety. According to the Arab press ocracy and against the European reaction devoted
log of Palestine when she realized
4th Ave., New York City ($2.50),
Perhaps it is true as is implied
the collective fines on towns and villages, which threatens to invade America. When the, value of the contributions that by Mr. Nevinson that the reason ti's, widow and two daughters. Translated by Joseph Leftwitch, serves for it a place of permanence.
Schneour began to write
though objected to, have not affected the the play makes its appearance in Detroit, are being made by the Jewish Na- why the British are not as friend- They, too, felt the call of Pal- o ne of the best-known English Jew- at Salmon
the age of eight lie attracted
tional Home as contrasted with the
ish writers who has been known
to the Jews as they are to the estine in a period, three
determination of the strikers. ,British we are confident that it will have an au- agonizing diseriminatione that are ly
the
interest
years
for
a
number
of Chaim Nachman
Arabs is because they prefer the
of
for his
nrestige has suffered a blow from which dience that will be vitally interested in being felt even by assimi.sted Jews humbleness of the Arab natives as ago, which marked the birth journalistic work in years
London, this Malik and of Judah Leib Perez,
the world, liberal coun- compared with the proud bearing of "Hitler"-Zionism. It was a novel will undoubtedly stand out who employed him as • secretary.
it will not readily recover. The authori- an important theme which discusses a most throughout
tries not excepted,
of the Jewish pioneers.
"Noah andre deserves to have
brave venture for this 50-year an eve of the hest translations from a very
ties are openly flouted, and a saying is important issue confronting mankind.
The volume has another angle of
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Yiddish available to the English

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