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"ANYTHING WITH A COIN SLOT" 8625 LINWOOD AVENUE TELEPHONE EUCLID 5088 the center of anti-Jewish organiza- tions that sponsored newspapers, leaflets, meeting's and propaganda designed to arouse hostility against Canadian Jewry. It was this situa- tion which resulted in a united A Review of the Year 5696 Through the News front of Canadian Jewry as ex- emplified by the Canadian Jewish By JOSEPH SALMARK and BERNARD POSTAL Congress. The Congress, although organized two years ago, achieved the construction of a huge new WONTINUED Fruit PAGE 51 the proportions of a truly repre- synagogue in Athens. sentative body only last year. Michon Ventura, who was ap- ers were sent to prison. The im- Zionists and non-Zionists partici- position of economic sanctions on pointed Chief Rabbi of Turkey pated in the second annual ses- Italy caused economic trouble for last year, will have a number of sions of the Congress and unhesi- some Yugoslavian Jews depended problems to deal with. The tend- tatingly voted unanimous approval on trade with Italy. The number ency of Kemal Pasha's govern- of the World Jewish Congress. The of German Jewish refugees enter- nient is in the direction of reduc- Canadian Jewish Congress also ing Yugoslavia declined, while ing the influence of all religious adopted measures to deal with the those already there stabilized them- bodies. In consequence the enact- rising tide of anti-Semitic agita- ment of a making religious corn- to democratic rule. selves. tion. BELGIUM Greek Jewry had the novel ex- munity property state-owned also The English-speaking Canadians perience of passing a year free of affected synagogues and other I It would be idle to deny that in Toronto, Nova Scotia and Mani- inn g gernowtihneg Filnetnenisshityaniol f wfaeeilloo any serious anti-Semitism. The re- Jewish religious institutions. Un- t hete we toba expressed, on various occa- establishment of the monarchy, der those circumstances the Jewish sions, genuine sympathy for the the death of Venizeles and Kondy- community in Turkey will most elements of Belgium aggravated Jews of Germany. Representatives probably come under the influence the Jewish situation in a country lis, both of whom had flirted with anti-Semitism and Fascism, and of the younger element. Despite improved economic conditions had the government's hospitality to their effects on the Jewish posi- German Jewish refugees, jealously tion. Greek labor prevented Ger- on the part of native professional man-owned firms from discrimina- men gave rise to anti-Semitic agi- tion against Jewish workers. The tation which caused the 19 Ger- government raised the ban on He- man Jewish professors in the state brew in Jewish schools and took universities to reject an offer of measures to prohibit legally the new contracts. The Turkish Jew- forced conversion of Jewish chil- ish community as a whole is going dren. These encouraging develop- through a process of accelerated ments prompted the Jews to begin assimilation. The government order to drop Jewish names must be re- garded as an attempt to efface as rapidly as possible lines of demarcation between the racial and religious groups of Turkey. Greetings to Qdr Many In Bulgaria and Albania Jews form, as in the pact, too small a Jewish F lends community to provoke any sort of unfriendly reaction on the part of their non-Jewish neighbors. It would seem that even the Nazi propagandists overlooked them. German-Jewish refugees in France being retrained for occupa- It is interesting to note, however, that the grandiose scheme to tions in the building trades. LOANS settle German Jewish refugees in of all the Christian churches urged Albania evaporated into thin air. which until recently had no Jew- the government to admit German The Albanian government having ish problem. This was forcefully Jewish refugees to the Dominion, illustrated by the public reaction ton many fiscal problems of. Its own to entertain any philanthro• , which followed the appointment of Organized labor took a vigorous 1806 Union Guardian Bldg. pie projects. Bulgarian Jewry oh- I a Jewish judge. Not only did the hand in promoting the anti-Nazi served the 10th anniversary of its Fascist element decry this event as boycott, in furthering the move- CHerry 2737 ment to keep Canada out of the Jewish Orphanage and sent a dele- the beginning of Jewish control in Berlin Olympics and in protesting gation to the World Jewish Con- Belgium, but even the Bar Associa- tion, composed also of Walloons, official receptions to a visiting Ger- gress. man battleship. A particularly stronglyy objected to a Jewish BALTIC STATES jurist. One of the redeeming fea- noteworthy event of 5696 was the (Lithuania, Latvia, Esthoni•) address delivered by Lord Tweeds- Anti-Semitic disturbances, eco- tures of this rather alarming stiu- ation was the continued policy of muir, g overnor -general, at the nomic dislocation and emigration New Year Greetings tolerance emanating from the royal opening of the Canadian United continued to be the chief problems . . . to our . . . family. King Leopold did not hesi- Palestine Appeal drive. The re- of the Jews in the Baltic lands tate to accept the chairmanshipof election of Peter Bercovitch and Many Jewish Friends during 5606. Intensification of the Belgian Palestine Levant Fair Joseph Cohen to the provincial anti-Semitic agitation in Lithua- I Committee, and on more than one legislature of Quebec had unfor- nia forced the Jews of that coun- occasion manifested his unprej- tunate repercussions in allegations try to organize their own self-de- udiced attitude toward all of his of irregularity in both their cam- fense corps. The steady invasion paigns, allegations which undoubt- of various fields of trade and in- people. Because of the prevailing eco- edly contributed a great deal to dustry by the government drove the intensification of anti-Semitism nomic depression the German Jew- increasing numbers of Jews to the in Quebec. On the other hand, the brink of starvation and stimulated ish refugees continued to bo a reelection of Samuel Jacobs, Sam- emigration to Palestine and South serious problem. Although in uel Factor and A. W. Heaps to America. When Lithuania went off many instances measures to curb the Canadian House of Commons the gold standard withdrawal of the activities of the emigres gave proved that the calibre of Jewish 12751 MEYERS the impression of being motivated funds by Jews going to Palestine representation in the Dominion HOgarth 2078 was blamed. The only Jewish judge by chauvinism, a closer study Parliament is of a high order. in the country was removed by the proved that the necessity for pro- CZECHOSLOVAKIA tecting t h e native population Eduard Bones, who succeeded against competition was solely responsible for these restrictive Thomas Masaryk as president of steps. The same applied to the Czechoslovakia last year, gave no- more or less unassimilated East tice to the world that he would HAPPY NEW YEAR European Jews living in Brussels continue the democratic and hu- SEASON'S GREETINGS and Antwerp. Yet there can be no manitarian policies that had made doubt that Belgium was also con- his country a shining example of taminated by the Fascist germ in a land surrounded by dictatorships no lesser degree than her neigh- that yet remained loyal to democ- bors, the Republic of France. The racy and free from racial hatreds. admission of Jews to membership Taking its cue from the govern- in the Catholic Party for the first ment party, the clerical party time was overshadowed by the eliminated anti-Semitism from its AND COCKTAIL BAR election of 37 parliamentary depu- program. The government itself ties by the new Fascist Rexist not only prohibited anti-Semitic Party. In the instance of Belgium agitation and took vigorous steps however, the Fascist growth is to curb Nazi propaganda, but . Baltimore at Second somewhat slowed up because of formally protested to Germany 4418 WOODWARD TRinity 2.9006 the definitely conservative trend of against discrimination against TEMPLE 1-4004 the strong Socialist party. Unable Czech Jews in the Reich. ROY SPEARS, Mgr. to exploit the so-called Communist The continued flow of German danger, the Fascist are necessarily ref u g e e s into Czechoslovakia short of poltical ammunition. created economic hardships. With the best of intentions the govern- CANADA Anti- Semitism continued to ment found itself forced -to curb flourish in the Province of Quebec, illegal immigration, and established New Year's Greetings to Our Many Jewish Friends where anti-Jewish propagandists frontier guards for that purpose. found a rich field among the un- The Jews as a whole had a con- educated rural French-Canadian structive year They contributed population. 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HOYT'S LAUNDRY FINEST WORK BEST SERVICE Brede and Schroeter, Inc. for the New Year — Together with our Appreciation us during the past year. • MODEL HOME EQUIPMENT CO. & Auto Supply New Year's Greetings new Fascist regime. Two Jews however, were nominated for par- liament, and a number of Jewish veterans of the Lithuanian war of independence received decorations. Laws were enacted forcing rabbis to take examinations in secular subjects, and the new army service law obliged rabbinical students in all but three yeshivas to lake mili- tary training. Similar conditions existed in Lat- via, except that there the govern- ment took steps to prevent attacks on the Jewish population. In Esthunin a government census re- vealed that the Jewish population was 4,129, every last one of whom cheered the return of the country H. G. Woodruff Co. Wayne Lacquer 300 BATES ST. 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