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Readings of Torah on First Day of Rosh Hashonah,
, Thursday, Sept. 17
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 21; Num. 28:1-6.
Prophetical portions—I. Sam. 1:1-2:10.
Reading of Tom's on Second Day of Rosh
Hashonah, Friday, Sept. 18
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 22; Num. 29:1-6
Prophetical portions—Jer. 31:2-20.
Reading. of Torah on Fast of CedeBah, Sunday,
Sept. 20
Pentateuchal portions—Ex. 32:11.14; 34:1-10.
Prophetical portions—is. 55:6-66:8.

September 18, 1936

Tishri 2, 5697

A Happy New Year!

A sense of futility inevitably creeps in
this year as we are about to wet each
other with the traditional salutation: A
Happy New Year! The past 12 months
were such tragic ones for Israel that tra-
ditions have been shattered and despair
has become a dominating element in Jew-
ish life. There is evident an increase in
suicides. Hopes are being dimmed. In
many European countries where our kins-
men previously were eager for help from
more fortunate Jewish centers, hopeless-
ness has become so deep-rooted that their
cries for help are being hushed, and they
are dominated by a sense of pessimism
whenever there is talk of possible relief
in the form of emigration or mass settle-
ment elsewhere. They find it impossible
to believe that relief can ever again be in
sight for them.
The Polish-Jewish and the German-
Jewish problems have become more acute.
Whatever is done for Polish Jewry is a
drop in the bucket, and the only hope is
emigration—a solution so difficult to carry
into reality. In Germany the already tragic
conditions are becoming all the more ag-
gravated as a result of the newest decis-
ions to deprive Jews of their passports
and therefore to rob them of the oppor-
tunity for settlement outside of the Reich.
What makes the advent of the New
Year even more depressing is the spread
of anti-Semitism to democratic countries.
The experiences of Jews in Great Britain,
where Fascists staged anti-Semitic rallies
in the public squares, have been so de-
pressing as to cause the British commun-
ity to start a movement for the raising of
a public defense fund as a means of being
on guard against an increase in the dan-
gers that spring from anti - Semitism.
Other liberal countries have shown signs
of being injected with the anti-Semitic
virus, and even our own land has not
been immune from such hatred. The in-
creased evidences of the rise of Jew-bait-
ing movements during the past year give
us due cause for worry.
It is a painful business to be compelled,
on the occasion of the New Year, to search
for solution to a problem which threatens
not only our brethren in lands of oppres-
sion, but which may affect us also unless
the spread of bigotry is checked.
We are impressed by several statements
from non-Jewish leaders which have been
released on the occasion of Rosh Hashonah
by the National Conference of Jews and
Christians. These statements impress us
because they indicate a sincere desire on
the part of Christians to help find a solu-
tion for a problem which is not ours alone,
but which is also the problem of the non-
Jews among whom we live. Indeed, the
Jewish problem is a world problem be-
cause we have been singled out for per-
secution and because we are the scape-
goats of the nations of the world.
Thus, the Rev. Dr. Samuel McCrea
Cavert, general secretary of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in Amer-
ica, believes that "in 1936 there is special
reason for an active Christian manifesta-
tion of sympathy for their Jewish fellow-
citizens because of the persecution and
suffering which so many Jews, particu-
larly in Germany, are being compelled to
undergo." His interesting greeting con-
tinues to state:
The cruel injustice which is meted out
to Jews is not really due to anything that
the Jews do or fail to do. That injustice
is rather the result of their being a help-
less minority living among a majority
which has not yet learned to be fair and I
just toward a minority differing from
themselves. The Jews are not the only
group that has to suffer because man-
kind has not yet becotne civilized enough
to accord decent and brotherly treatment
to a distinctive minority, but for nearly
19 centuries they have furnished the most
continuous and widespread illustration of
the fact.
"Since in our country Christians consti-
tute the great majority of the population,
upon them rests the responsibility of tak-
ing the initiative in establishing the kind
of fraternal relationships which are en-
joined not merely by our democratic prin-
ciples but also by the religion we profess.
"A clearer recognition of our own spir-
itual ancestry as Christians would go far
toward developing a deeper appreciation
of the Jewish people. We need to remem-
ber that our Bible is a Jewish book. The
teaching that God is the creator and ruler
of the whole earth, that all men are the
children of God, and that one moral law
applies to the entire human race is a heri-
tage from the Jews. The more we prize
these profound spiritual insights, the more
we ought to esteem the historic group

through which these insights have come THE BEGINNING
to us."
OF A LAWYER
Another interesting New Year message
comes from Dr. Ivan Lee Holt, president of
the Federal Council of Churches of Christ An Account of the Early
Youth of Louis Dem.
in America, who writes:
bitz Brandeis
"Christians are indebted to Jews and
Jews are indebted to Christians. I hope
By ALFRED LIEF
we can succeed in convincing our Ameri-
EDITOR'S N(1TE.: Though the name of
can people in villages and country towns
Louis Dendrite Hamlets to known to
every AmerRon, the details of his
what the more sympathetic and under-
early life hale remained Immtitall7
unknown to the amend pub Hr. Ur.
standing of the cities have come to see. At-
Lief, a close friend of Jo.tlee Bran-
tacks on Jews are attacks on religion. Not
del., here publisher them for the
first time, In a pow. from hig
simply in Germany, but in other lands
fortheoming book, "Mundell,- whleh
will be published by stackpole Son.
as well, anti-Semitic movements are anti-
religious movements. Jews and Christians
In the summer of 1877, home
must stand together for the defense of in Louisville for a vacation from
religious faith. The days of sentimental Harvard Law School, 20-year-old
Brandeis was called out in
approaches and of pleas for tolerance must Louis
the militia and given a "gun
be followed by days of comradeship in guard railroad property during to a
the struggle against unrighteousness. Semi- strike. Ile carried the weapon,
nars and conference discussions are still but he was sure he did not know
how to harm anyone with it. He
of value because people need more intelli- was
handier with a book—and his
gent information. Beyond such discussions eyesight was bad.
and through them we must come to a
When the violent wave of rail-
road strikes ended in that year he
sense of loyalty to one God."
the gun gladly, for
Most interesting is the statement that returned
Louisville had most peaceful and
comes from our great friend, Charles Ed- delightful associations for him. It
ward Russell, the chairman of the Pro- was his birthplace. Here he had
Palestine Federation of America, who, in enjoyed a full measure of boy-
Father's grain business
urging the convening of a Christian con- hood.
prospered, and the happy house-
ference to deal with the Jewish question, hold of four children was rich in
states that more non-Jews are committed to cultural associations. Fast horses
the Jewish cause than we ourselves can filled the stable; there were days
of hard riding, of languorous loaf-
possibly conceive. Mr. Russell writes:
ing on the banks of the Ohio River,

I have felt for many years the extreme
pathos of the Jew's position in the world. It
is a terrible indictment of what we call civ-
ilization that the Jew should have been all
these centuries the helpless victim of the sur-
viving instincts of the jungle.
When I stop to review history I am not
astonished that there has been developed in
hint his present psychology. The great wonder
in my mind is that despite these terrible con-
ditions, despite the wrong and injustice that
have been his portion, he retains his dignity
and walks his thorny path with so much
composure.
God forbid that I should ever say a word
of fault-finding or complaint that he does not
cast himself in a forlorn hope against the
overwhelming forces of bigotry.., God forbid
that I should ever say a word that might add
anything to his troubles. I want to ease his
burden, not add to it. If I felt a little im-
patient because he seemed weakly submissive
to the trick of which he is now the victim in
Palestine, let me remember his past suffer-
ings and try to reach him a hand of sympathy
instead of condemning his apparent activity.
Ile seems the world's loneliest figure, but
I must think he is not as lonely as he seems.
I mean, what fair-minded man can read his
history without deep-seated sorrow and every
impulse to respect a figure no truly heroic?
I believe that there are among the Gentiles
more that are committed to the Jewish cause
than the Jews themselves conceive. It is only
natural that they should be skeptical about
this, in view of their experiences, but I hope
to see a demonstration of their Gentile sup-
port. I am urging a national Gentile con-
ference on the Jewish situation, prompted by
the appalling developMents in Eastern Eur-
ope as well as the ugly aspects of the situa-
tion in Palestine. If we can get such a con-
ference and it acts as I think it will act, the
Jews of America, at least, may come to know
that there are many Gentiles ready to stand
with them, and eager to see the end of their
sufferings.
What shall we do with the Jews? is a
most practical world problem, and one the
world cannot much longer evade. We can-
not stand by and see them slaughtered; they
are not to be reduced in Germany, Poland
and Rumania to the state of wretched helots.
There is no possible answer to the problem
they present except to build the Jewish Home-
land in Palestine as swiftly as possible into
a nation, free and independent, and then re-
move them thither from the backwoods regions
where they are now at the mercy of hoodlums
and savages.
Easy to say; difficult to accomplish, says
sophistication. Not too difficult. Public opin-
ion in the United States can mold the whole
project into success. We do not seem to rea-
lize the position of unexampled power in which
this nation stands. With prestige and influ-
ence shattered in every direction, Great Brit-
ain is absolutely dependent now upon the
moral support of the United States. If the
United States demands that British policy
in Palestine be cleared from chicanery and
bunco, believe me, the purification will be
effected. The prompt response of British
propaganda to the Pro-Palestine Federation's
demarche sufficiently proves the sensitiveness
of the British governing class to American
opinion.
I can see plainly why many Jews must
feel reluctance to be enrolled among the
critics of Great Britain. But that fact need
not deter Gentiles from moving in the only
direction that will save civilization from the
horrible blot that now threatens it. And let
the Jews bear always in mind this certain
fact, that unless the British policy be changed,
the hope of Zion is gone, the hope of saving
the Jewish population in Eastern Europe is
gone also.
That the Jews are exceedingly sensitive
after all they have suffered is natural enough.
But in view of this crisis, is it not true that
the" must strive to overcome their shrinking
from an outspoken Jewish stand? Palestine
is their last hope and so far as I can see,
about the only light left in a dismal world.
Let no not give it up before the paper bullets
of misrepresentation.
The way I have ventured to suggest
seems to meet all the requirements of the
problem. If it brings upon the Jews accusa-
tions of ingratitude, of Communism, Fascism,
brigandage, smallpox, measles and crowding
out of the Arabs, stand up and meet lies with
the truth!

We quote • these statements because
they indicate a sincere desire on the part
of many non-Jews to help us find a solu-
tion for the very trying problem which op- I
presses us. In view of such a sincere de- 1
sire to reach a state of amity, it becomes
all the more clear to us that we must as
much as possible strive to 'work together
with liberal Christians in order that we
may unitedly work for the approach of
condition which will assure through good
will in a world that is today reeking with
hatred and venom.
If we should, during the coming year,
approach even a partial solution to this
problem and even minutely acquire the
co-operation of the Christian world in our
search. for such brotherhood. we may be
able next year to greet each other with
greater ease and more certain assurance
of justice and tolerance.
In the hope of acquiring such good will,
we greet our fellow Jews with the tradi-
tional wish that all may be inscribed in
the Book of Life for a happy year that
will be marked by the spirit of justice and
human kirA.k

waiting for the steamboat Fanny
Brandeis to glide up to the wharf.
There were adventurous evenings
with English literature in a room
above the drugstore on Walnut
Street, where a young bookeeper
had formed a library club.
Mother laid down a taboo; no
mention of money or other grub-
by matters at meals. The family
group talked instead of person-
alities and books, of music and
the arts. His older sister Fanny
was the musical impresario and
the instigator of his career as a
violinist. Father entertained with
stories garnered on frequent trips
through the countryside. Uncle
Lewis Dembitz, a learned lawyer
in town, was a constant caller
and represented the intellectual
interests of the family. They
had no pew for religion; forebears
on both sides of the house had
long since broken through the
walls of orthodoxy, out of the
mental ghetto as well and into
the arena of Polish and Bohem-
ian revolt. Such were the spiri-
tual roots of the home. The
Brandeises aimed to cultivate the
art of living, and the cultural
values that made living worth
while. And their big house on
Broadway became a rendezvous
for musicians and other gifted
friends.
Hi. Eearly Schooling
Despite this, Louis was a boy's
boy, running barefoot in hot
weather, ringing doorbells at
night, teasing girls and little Lord
Fauntleroya, coaxing doughnuts
from Lizzie the cook, and riding
—always riding—for he loved
horses. With his brother, Alfred,
three years older, he enjoyed a
rare companionship; in quieter
moments together they taught one
of the colored servants to read.
Louis' education began at the
age of six, when he was taken to
a small private school conducted
by an Englishwoman. Two years
later he entered the German and
English Academy, profiting by a
new system of pedagogy brought
over from Germany. Here a mark
of 6 denoted perfection; he re-
ceived 6 in penmanship and 6 in
everything else. On the margin
of his report card the principal
wrote "Louis deserves commenda-
tion for conduct and industry."
But on July 4, 1864, his conduct
was not strictly exemplary. In-
stead of keeping trim and neat
for a holiday visit Mother was
planning to make with them. he
and Al played with some damp-
ened flaring powder. They burn-
ed their faces black and soiled
their clothes. When he was 10,
the Websterian Debating Society
made him it member. The main
concern of this youngest member
was not the political issues of the
day, but the accuracy of the
treasurer's accounts. Wiry Louis l

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September 11, 193G

THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

section 5) I

Blow the Great Horn for Freedom

America's Outstanding Jewish Man of Letters Dedicates This
Article to His Thoughts on the New Year

By LUDWIG LEWISOHN

(Copyright, Mk Seven Arts Feature Syndicate)

It is the virtue and the pathos of man that
he aspires endlessly toward a better world; it is
his weakness and tragedy that he does nothing to

bring such a world even one step nearer. No one
not wholly bereft of any critical sense will deny
that, though air-planes have flown faster and all
machines become more efficient, the sum of
human mercy, tranquillity and both moral and
physical well-being have been immeasurably
diminished during the last 20 years. Upon each
Rosh Hashonah we observe a world more torn
and riven, more filled with hate and pain, more
scorched by suffering and conflict. Utopias are
proclaimed and are found upon impartial exam-
ination to produce over again all the classical
vices and miseries of mankind: injustice and
need, oppression and hatred, conflict and greed
for power. "God bath made man upright," said
Koheleth, the preacher, "but they have sought out
many inventions." The world in the original
for upright is yashar, from a stem meaning
"straightness," "the right direction" and in con-
nection with the word for heart "sincerity."
Man was meant, according to Koheleth, to guide
his life in a certain fashion. Instead he invents
machines, contrivances, systems, methods. Ile
renounces the government within and builds
pyramids or sky-scrapers and engines of war and
deadens the inner voice with the danger of his
material achievements.

This process of the substitution of outer
activity for inner change can be defined and
explained in the terms of Koheleth and other
classical moralists; it can also be defined and
explained in terms of the Freudian psychology.
The psyche has its own economies; it seeks to
have itself trouble; it chooses the easiest way.
Now to hustle and bustle in the outer world of
material things is not only easier than to change
the heart and achieve the correction of the will,
it also deflects the attention from that other and
more difficult duty. Doing is so much simpler
than being. Activity brings a glow and the
leader of a revolt may feel the ecstasy of mass
leadership and the consciousness of being a
liberator the while he plunges his fellowmen into
a still darker oppression.

The sensual and the dark rebel in vain,

Slaves by their own compulsion! In mad

game

They burst their manacles and wear the

name

Of freedom graven on • heavier chain.

' Coleridge wrote those lines in 1797. They
might so easily according to their sense if not
according to their manner have been written
yesterday. The sensual and the dark, the care-
less and the uncritical even, the unredeemed of
heart and mind cannot bring about a better
world or a better way of life for men in spite
of inventions of power and fair appearance. For
even when their ultimate proposed ends are good,
they will by reason of being sensual and dark,
uncritical and unredeemed, feign to themselves
that any means are justified by that end and
forget that evil means alter the end by corrupt-
ing the character and will of the proponents of
that end until they themselves are the last who

could conceivably accomplish it.

This is no council of quietism or inactivity.
Over and over again our sages condemn the
"fugitive and cloistered virtue." Virtue must
be active; it must issue in action; it must change
the world. Thus is he condemned who "learns"
Torah and does not teach it. But it must be
virtue that issues in action; it must be Torah
that is learned and taught; it must be a pure
and redeemed will that seeks to change this
world into the better world that is to come.
The center is the inner life; the great decisions
are to be made between the soul and its God. If

The Lone Eagle of Science

they are not made there first, the actions that
spring from them will not alter one whit the
character of the moral world. And unless that
is altered nothing is altered; unless the heart
and will are changed all changes are but shuffl-
ings of the same old elements of chaos. Unless
each soil achieves its teshuvah and men collect-
ively act out of a purged and sanctified will we
shall go on aspiring after a better world feebly,
futilely and in vain.

The Example of the Yiahub

But men can act out of a will thus purged

and sanctified. Of that fact the shining example

not only for us but, if it will be heeded, for all

mankind is now being offered by the people of

our Yishub in Ereta Yisrael. They have been

beset by bandits, by incendiaries of trees and

crops, by assassins of little children. They have

not retaliated, they have committed no act of

vengeance and reprisal. Young, strong, fiery,

sufficiently numerous, they have brought to a

stand-still the ancient evil pendulum which

swings from injury to retaliation and thence
back to new injury and repeated retaliation.
They have achieved an inner freedom; they have
set an example to the world. Their reward may
be delayed. Their example will be incorporated
in the experience of Israel, in the larger exper-
iences of mankind.

It is fitting that Jews should act thus. It is
lamentable that to all Jews this truth concerning
the necessity of an inner change before action
can shape a better world is not an instinctive
and self-evident one. We have forgotten so
much; we have borrowed and substituted for our
own the perishable brittle wisdom of the pagan
world, and fallen victim to its trust in devices
and inventions. For to our sages and to our
tradition this central mystery of life has always
been clear and they have carried it to the cen-
ter of the universe itself. In the tractate of
the Talmud that deals with Rosh Hashonah we
read this strange and apparently exorbitant pas-
sage: "The Congregation of Yisrael spoke before
the Holy One, Blessed be Ile: Lord of the Uni-
verse, I am dear to Thee then, when Thou Near-
est the voice of my beseeching." God Himself is
not frozen into an eternal rigidity of righteous-
ness; in Cod Himself there is a fluid element that
allies Him to His children. When he hears the

beseeching of Yisrael and on account of that
beseeching His justice becomes mercy— then is
Yisrael dearest to Him. The universe in other
words is, according to the Jewish conception, a
universe of moral dynamism, of a continuous
vivid moral life. Changes in circumstance, de-
vice, technique are of no avail unless they are
the outward and visible embodiments of moral
change, of spiritual vision, of justice, truth and
peace suffusing the inner being of men. There-
fore it is forever true that these three—din,
emeth, shalom—are, as Shimon ben Gamliel de-
clared them to be, the pillars on which the world
rests. But they are the inner pillars of man's
moral nature. For the outer world is but the
mirror of that inner world of man's • moral
being. More than ever before we need, as Jews
and men, to strive for freedom. But it must be
first an inner freedom if from it is to spring an
outer one. We must first will purely and loyally
the redemption of Yisrael and the redemption of
mankind before we can latest the world of mat-
ter and of circumstance. Let each remember
that through the great words of the liturgy:

"TEAa b'shofar gadol Fcheruthenur

Blow the
great horn for our freedom—for our liberation
front that sloth of the will, that trust in ma-
chinery and devices, that substitution of inven-
tions for the erectness of the inviolable soul that
keep the days of the Meshi ■ ch from being this
day in our lives and the lives of our children.

KEDUSIIA

An Exclusive Interview With Fraeulein Freud

The Story of a Sinner Who
Remembered

By RENEE STRAUSS

By LOUIS LIPSKY

EDITOR'S NOTE: hirrnund Fermi hoe Sol AT••••• any Interview for ma..
Ali. straw, %lent. rorreepondent of the Mien A rt. 15 orld-wide Service,
mempried In Interviewing the great Freud via hl. daughter Anna. An
important and highly Interroting dos
of Sig- mond Freud's view. in
.nit-semillern le given in this story.

Thin short .troy la by Louis LlimIty.
ontetandIng Jewish leerier, who l•
also one of our moot dieting...Med
writere, and tribe the tale of ow
%real. It le • free adaptation from
the Yiddish of that roaster Way
teller, S. J. Rabinowitz.

p. oP) right. I934. Seven Arts Feature Yyndicatc)

VIENNA—Sigmund Freund, the she answered: "Father has a bad
lone eagle of the science of the day today. He was informed that
human mind, is an old man today. a number of friends, among them
He is eighty, and looks it. His II, G. Wells and Stefan Zweig, are
voice is feeble and his movements preparing to Celebrate his 80th
slow. Ile sits in the study of his birthday. That makes him nerv-
modest Vienna apartment for days. rms. He wants to be left alone."
Sits without motion. Just ponder-
late eeeee d in Jewish Affairs
ing on the infinite stupidity of
"Why should it dISturb your
human beings we suppose.
pose.
father," I insisted, "that a com-
What the newspapers and medi- mittee of outstanding men of let-
cal journals write about his person ters wish to honor him as one of
or his work interests him but little.
geniuses
our time?"
His sad but still penetrating eyes the Anna,
who of
resembles
her father
give one the impression that he no
longer is concerned with the prob- mind
very the
much,
smiled:
"Ile doesn't
honor but resents
the ,
terns that disturb us common mor- bother. You know there is no
tabs The creates of psychoanaly- honor without discomfort in this
his has done his work and now world of ours."
rests his case. Silent and solitary, wo ' T; Is your father much interested
he !Matte the verdict of posterity. in Jewish affairs?" I continued,
, ed en-
In solitude but in confidence.
couraged by the carefree tone of
In spent an hour in his Vienna Anna Freud's answers.
apartment recently as • guest of
"Very much so," said Fraeulein
the family. One of the friends of Freud. "At one time he was an
Anna, daughter of Dr. Freud, took active member of t h e B'nai
Inc along. I am mentioning this B'rith. Even today he keeps him-
because there is one strict rule en- self posted on every phase of Jews
forced in the Freud home: "Re- ish life. lie has, as you know, de-
orters not allowed." Sigmund voted much time to the study of
inr te eu rvi
d e t r Tu ot ri ff 1 , ;setri h :1 single
le dec
dia reic , t anti-Semitism 1111 • psychosis. He
has published articles on that sub-
Nothing will make him last so, not
ject"
even the most imprudent provoca-
0 1115 the advent of Hitler in
tion by new opponents of his school Germany confirmed his theory on
of psychoanalysis. lie won't talk. anti-Semitism?" I queried.
When I remarked to Anna Freud
Fraeulein Freud's outhful but
that reports in the newspapers had serious face became t. oughtful "I
made me expect • mach more as-
never really asked papa this clues-
tire Freed than the old rentlem
-
an tion. Let's ask him. I'll be right
staring into space without
appar-
•

eat interest in his ourroundings,

m. tem in page a.

•.41.•

I,

The synagogue was filled
with worshippers. A little to
the right, pressed against the
wall, stood a small, bent man
with a Tallith veiling his face.
Ile himself was rigid except
for a shudder which often ruf-
fled his Tallith. Ile had stood
in this posture for some time.
The Psalm preceding the Sho-
far blowing had been chanted;
the silent prayer had been pass-
ed; the Chazan was beginning
his song; but the man was ob-
livious to his surroundings.

A deep thundering note
broke forth from • thousand
voices, followed by a silence in
which the soft voice of the
reader intoned T'kiyoh, and
then the Shofar thundered
forth its reminder that divine
judgment was about to be
sealed. When he heard this
note, loud and shrill, the man
drew himself together with a
shudder.

lie seemed to be transported
to the High Court. There
were the angels, hurriedly
floating by, prostrating them:
selves, and then circling about

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There's talk about a world Jew-
ish boycott against the North Pole
Industries, Inc.... The movement
is being advocated by the World
Jewish Congress because of the in-
tense activities of the Polar Bear
Shirts, who are flooding the Arctic
with icicles bearing the legend
"Freeze out the Jews" ... Cyrus
Adler, Jr., president of the Amer-
ican Jewish Committee, insists
that a mass meeting be held in the
Newest Madison Square Garden to
protest against the Eskimos . . .
Stephen S. Wise, second, a grand-
son of the founder of the World
Jewish Congress, issued a confi-
dential statement objecting to any
public demonstration . . . (If
Grandfathers Wise, Adler and
Bison could read this they would
stage a revival of the famous hit
"Bury the Dead") . • . It has been
confirmed that the Palestine Jews
have launched a United Arctic Ap-
peal for the victims of the Arctic
freeze-out movement ..

ABOARD THE
CHAIM WEIZMANN

The invitation front the Hebrew
Universitfr at Jerusalem, for the
celebration of its 62nd anniversary,
to the International Yiddish Uni-
versity at Biro-Bidjan was re-
jected ... Sentiment in Biro-Bid-
jan is running high against the
Jewish Commonwealth of Pales-
tine because the latter won out in
the bidding for the 25th biennial
World Jewish Congress ... Which
reminds us that George Bernard
Show, now in his 131st year, has
promised to deliver the main ad-
dress at the opening session of the
Congress . . . The American dele-
gates have chartered the dirigible
Chaim Weizmann for a direct trip
to Tel Aviv . . The delegation
will be given a farewell breakfast
in New York and a dinner in Tel
Aviv the same day ... The Chaim
Weizmann has been divided into
two sections, one to house the
elected delegates of the American
Jewish Committee, and the other
to accomodate the representatives
of the American Jewish Congress
. . . This was done to avoid un-
toward incidents . . . Meyer W.
Weisgal, Jr., son of the producer
of "The Eternal Road," which ran
for 15 years at the old Madison
Square Garden, will be on board
.. • It is said that he paid $500,-
000 for the exclusive world rights
for television broadcasting of the
Congress ...

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

If we are to believe our sleuths,
the descendants of Hitler, Goer-
ing and Goebbels have asked and
obtained, from the Biro-Bidjan
legislature, permission to settle
permanently in Biro-Bidjan . . .
You will remember that the Ger-
man Government recently outlawed
all living members of the Hitler,
Goering and Goebbels families ...
Did we ever tell you that Emir
Jabs of Transjordania is a lineal
descendant of Vladimir Jabotinsky,
the famous Zionist leader? ... Be-
lieve it or not, we just discovered
that Abdul Hussein Mufti, presi-
dent of the National ConterenCe
of Jews and Arabs, is the grand._
son of that Grand Mufti who was
responsible for the Palestine riots
of 1929 ... It is true that Moses
Sokolow, grandson of Nahum Soko-
low, is slated for the post of Pal-
estinian ambassador to the United
States ... The Soviet League for
the Strengthening of Religion is
sending .a commission to the United
States to inaugurate a revival
campaign among the remnants of
Orthodox Jewry ...

FOURTH ESTATE 1986

The 65th anniversary of the
Seven Arts Feature Syndicate was
celebrated at a banquet at which
Albert Einstein Landau, son of
the late Jacob Landau, president
of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
was the principal speaker ... The
venerable Joseph Brainin and
Bernard Postal, for over 60 years
eidtor and managing editor, respec-
tively, of the Seven Arts, received
an ovation when they were brought
into the dining hall in wheel chairs
. . . The Tel Aviv Hebrew daily
Haaretz just passed the million

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A New Year's Message

By RABBI STEPHEN S. WISE

The year has been, and con-
tinues up to its close, too dark and
tragic to record. As one sums up
in memory one's general impres-
sions of the year, one almost feels
carried back five or six centuries
—to the day of the Crusades in
Germany, or, two centuries later,
to Auto da Fe in Spain. On the
eve of 5696, the hideously and , it
may yet he suicidally, unjust
Nuremhurg Laws were enacted, in
any event promulgated. As the
year passes into the shadows, the
existence of Jews in Spain and
across the Straits of Gibraltar in
Spanish Morocco and Algiers is
imperilled by the treasonable and
hellish revolt of the army chiefs
and their followers of Fascist
faith or hire. And these are ready
to plunge the world into war, if
the nations they serve find the
hour propitious for a world-wide
conflagration. Thus do Germany
and Spain loom large and ominous
again on the horizon of Jewish
history.

The year has been drab and
dreary almost throughout its un-
happy course. Things are at the
year's end as they were at its be-
ginning, save that one vast Jewish
land has been added to the area
of Jewish misery and another
Jewish land, that of light and hope
and achievement, has come under
the shadows. One year ago there
were mutterings and little more of
Jewish difficulty and distress in
Poland. Quickly and sadly the
acme changed, and by December
and January Polish Jewry, still
the world's second !arrest, had
come under the pall of bitterest
attack from two Quarters. These
were the Erdeks, Nazi Germany's
Polish allies, and the university

student groups, who, alas, are the
ringleaders of every reactionary
movement.
Things switfly worsened, and in
the spring months pogroms took
place, notably in Przytyk, which.
if not state-sanctioned, were state-
condoned. More than state-con-
domd, for in a so-called court of
law, the pogromists were all but
exonerated, and Jewish defenders
were condemned to severe punish-
mnt. The lot of Polish Jewry must
he seen to he believed. Polish Jewry
may somehow politically survive;
economically, it is being crushed,
humanly exterminated. One of the
few glimpses of light on the Polish
scene appeared in the manful de-
claration of the Polish delegates to
the World Jewish Congress. 'What-
ever may have been done for
Polish Jewry since the war, the
Jewish world must fix its atten-
tion upon the Jewish status in
Poland. Let there be an end
forthwith of idle talk by Jews or
non-Jews with respect to super-
fluous Jews in Poland. The three
million Polish Jews are no more
superfluous than any othere ele-
ment of the population, whatever
its faith or race. Or Is civilized
mankind to assent to the verdict
of "superfluous" with respect to
a segment of the population which
through economic discrimination
and disabilities bas been ground to
the dust? The task of saving
Polish Jewry from extinction—
net merely of bringing relief to it
—becomes one of the main items
of the Jewish agenda. Polish
Jewry may not be permitted to
perish. If it perish. Israel will be
widowed indeed. Recovery there
could hardly be from the loss of

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