PIEVerRorr,/Emsn (11 Ror Kul
October 23, 1936
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Lights from
Sliadowland
lieve that Republican leaders will com-
pletely disassociate themselves from Fritz
Kuhn and his statement to the Nazis in
/ and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
America.
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
But equally as deplorable is the action
q PubIlehad Weekly by The Jewish Ckreakle Publishing Co., 1.e.
Littered se Second-cies. mattes Marsh 1, 1111. at the Pat- of a group of Jews in this country who, for
Reproduction I,, part or who's forbid-
entee at Detroit. Mich.. under the Let of Marsh 1, MIL
without permission of the BOY.
the past several weeks, have been issuing den,
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of alleged charges of anti-Semitism against
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Telephone Cadillac 1040 Cable Address Chronicle candidate Landon. The country has, for
Loadoa Officet
example, been circularized by a prominent THE JOKE WAS ON HIM
14 Stratford Place London, W. 1, England
For over a week, Sid Silvers,
New York Jewish leader who declared
Subscription, in Advance__ .......... --MOO Per Year
comedian who will soon ap-
that any one who tries to raise the racial the
pear in a new radio series with Al
To Insure publication. all torreepondeace and me matter
and
religious
issue
when
it
does
not
exist
Jolson,
has been slinking Irons
must reach thin olds* by Tuesday evening of each week.
Wyse mailing notices. kindly use one elite of the P•Pee •117.
"is doing a distinct disservice to ail minor- shadow to shadow. Rumors had it
that
a
government
process server
lb. Detroit Jewish Chronicle Invitee eorlespondesee es Wh- ity groups." His letter concluded with the
was after him with a warrant.
istle of Interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims responsi-
declaration
that
"it
is
important
to
fight
bill.r for an indoreemeet of the •Iews expreesed by the writer.
Sid was certain he hadn't slipped
this campaign on the political and econo- up on his income tax returns, but
Sabbath Readings of the Torah
he wasn't taking any chances. A
mic
issues
involved
and
not
inject
an
issue
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 12:1-17:27.
stranger finally caught up with
that does not exist."
Prophetical portion—Is. 40:27-41:16.
Sid and approached him at the
It is because we subscribe to the latter MGM studio entrance. Sid admit-
Cheshvan 7, 5697 statement that we so deeply regret the ted his identity and before he
October 23, 1936
necessity for issuing a statement which knew it he saw a paper pushed
his hand. With a deep sigh
does exactly the opposite of which is in- into
The Palestine Situation
he tore open ,the paper and found
tended. As a matter of fact, because no lit was an assessment for $2.98—
Temporary peace prevails in Palestine. one questions the sincerity of Governor taxes for the new defunct Friars'
In some quarters it is believed that Arab Landon, and because his record as an Club.
anxiety not to suffer even greater economic opponent of bigotry is so well known, the BOBBY WANTS AN ELEPHANT
The Maharajah of Indore, ruler
losses during the approaching orange- mere circularization of such a statement
or 67,000,000 subjects attended
picking season was directly responsible for serves to inject the religious issue in the his first broadcast as a studio
campaign.
guest of Eddie Cantor last Sun-
the caliing off of the general strike.
Only once was Governor Landon's name day night. After the broadcast the
It is evident that a great deal of provo- seriously involved in a charge of discrimi- Maharajah was introduced to
cation will yet be carried on. Arab agita- nation. It was in connection with the ap- members of the cast and home-
struck up a friendship with
tors and disturbers will seek to foment pearance of his name on the letterhead of diatey
8-year-old Bobby Breen. Bobby
trouble and to destroy the natural desire a Kansas state-supported hospital. The sang a song for the distinguished
for peace which exists in Arab-Jewish superintendent of the hospital had em- visitor and when the latter asked
ranks. The trying problems that will thus phasized in this letter that "all applicants what he could ,lo in return, Bobby
"Please send me a baby
face the Jewish leaders will demand a (for interneships) must be Gentiles." Gov- replied:
white elephant—with one of those
great deal of deliberation and care in or- ernor Landon learned about it and the penthouses on top!"
der that the aspiration for the creation of superintendent was discharged. That .
PICON A HIT
genuine friendship between Jews and Mos- should have ended the issue. No serious- MOLLY
IN LONDON
lems should not be upset by the self-seek- minded person could possibly question the
sescaopes from London
Great h new
ing Arab leadership as well as the fanatic- governor's fairness. But Jewish supporters about. the ns
u" ,e
be-
ally misled Arab masses.
of the Kansan persisted in making an is- ing scored in that city y asndinl'a
by Molly Picon. Besides playing
. It is unfortunate that the general strike of of the injection of the racial and re- 11 i,t
weeks in London, four weeks
to
and the sniping from ambush should ligious elements in the campaign. Meetings
airomn,dwonithr!oxagutunirn two slid
have come not through a firm British poli- of small groups were held in Detroit, Cin- the
'rkd
turn engagements in Par
cy but rather as a result of intercession by cinnati and other cities. Jewish voters three
return bookings at the Hol-
Arab kings. It is a damaging precedent were bombarded with propaganda. What born Empire, Miss Picon is also
7irits h
a full length
which does very little credit to British might have been a passing phase in an star re d
Fiddl e. "
it
statesmanship. It may, in the future, be unfortunate situation in a Kansas hospital film,"Y1 10 with
February, March, April and
the cause of increased trouble because it was suddenly inflated and it became a na- Next
rica.
in South
l
ligy she w ill p
encourages Arabs from other lands to tional issue, to the discredit of ad those
critic
d n ay
ly
.
Picas
wos
is
is
certainly
Af
Molly
who
lent
their
names
to
such
propaganda.
writ
es:
"
meddle in affairs within Palestine. The
There is only one important thing to an artist . , She produces in
intercession of the Arab kings brings out
song landscapes with figures . . .
in a most unpleasant light the unwise remember in the present campaign: that She is a one-woman New York
political game that was played by the both President Roosevelt and Governor symphony." The Dublin Mail says:
Landon stand ready to defend the Bill of "Molly I'icon is the 0. Henry of
British authorities.
vaudeville." The London Express
The Jewish people faces a new crisis in Rights; that both are opposed to religious comments: "The loudest applause
Palestine. It detnands statesmanship. It and racial prejudice. The injection of the heard in a London theater greeted
also demands loyalty on the part of Jews Jewish issue in the campaign is a most Molly Picon." Other newspapers
refer in a similar vein to the tre-
everywhere to their brethren in Palestine fortunate occurrence. Jewish leaders have mendous
and memorable ovations
who are there to stay and whose safety erred in dignifying it. It is immaterial accorded this Jewish song and
must be guaranteed by wise action and whether they did it deliberately—in their comedy star of vaudeville fame,
desire to help Governor Landon — or who also had a brief fling at the
honest politics.
whether it was merely a political mistake. movies.
Let us hope that they will, at least, learn GAUMONT FILM DEAL
not to blunder again in the future.
The five Ostrer brothers head
fiBI)fintorr,kwisn ORONICLE
Racial Issue in Politics
Jews are disturbed.
The spokesman for the Nazis in thTs
country, Fritz Kuhn, a chemist in the em-
ploy of the Ford Motor Co., now a resident
of Detroit, has issued a call to German-
Americans to vote for Governor Alf M.
Landon for President, and the New York
Daily News interprets it as an endorse-
ment of the Republican "as the candidate
most sympathetic towards Chancellor Hit-
ler's Germany."
But our people need not be disturbed.
Three months ago it was already known
that the Nazis of this country had intended
to inject themselves in this, campaign. In
New York they are opposing Governor
Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia. They
would oppose them whether their names
would appear on the Republican, Demo-
cratic, Socialist or any other ticket. Two
years ago they placed in the race a ticket
headed by former Mayor Ilylan, with the
intention of cutting into the LaGuardia
and liberal tickets. They will oppose Leh-
man because he is a Jew and LaGuardia
because he is a liberal and an outspoken
anti-Nazi. For the same reason they would
oppose Governor Earle of Pennsylvania—
because he, too, is an anti-Nazi who bases
his sentiments on American traditions and
on his own experiences in Europe before
he became Governor.
What is most dastardly about the call
issued by Fritz Kuhn is that it injects a
racial issue in the present Presidential
campaign—an issue that does not exist. It
is on a par with the policy of Father
Coughlin to call all his opponents Com-
munists. It is similar in policy to the dis-
gusting use of the term "Red" whenever
President Roosevelt's enemies desire to
besmirch him and his opponents. It is corn-
parabie to Manager John Hamilton's
foolish insistence on calling David Dubin-
sky, New York Jewish labor leader, a
Communist, for the sin of having con-
ducted a campaign for funds to be sent for
the relief of defenders of the present
Spanish government. We are not disturbed
because we are inclined to agree with the
following Detroit News editorial which
appeared under the heading "Embarras-
sing Endorsements":
The enthusiastic Republican partisans who
have made over-much of the indorsement of
President Roosevelt by Earl Browder and
other Communists now find their chickens
coming home to roost in the indorsement
given Gov. Landon by the head of the Ger-
man Nazis in this country.
The latter is a Mr. Fritz Kuhn, of this city,
who in a published statement explains his sup-
port of the Republican candidate on the typi-
cal Nazi ground that he fears a "united com-
munist front" in America.
The New York Daily News. an enthusiastic
backer of the President, prefers to interpret
Mr. Kuhn's indorsement as meaning that Goy.
Landon is "the candidate mod sympathetic
toward Chancellor Hitler's Germany."
That is nonsense.
Mr. Kahn's indorsementno more means
that Gov. Landon is sympathetic toward the
Nazis than Mr. Browder's indorsement means
Com-
the President is sympathetic toward this
as
knows
munism. And the Daily News
we do.
well
is a great deal of propaganda in
There
the present political campaign that merits
condemnation. The Nazi statement is a n
that calls
Joint Fund for Yeshivahs
the Gaumont British organization.
Isidore Ostrer vice-president
and Mark Ostrer, one of Eng-
land's leading Jews is chairman
trem
r sins agi
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Strictly
Confidential
Brotherhood Will Return
"Before My Days Are Ended I Shall See the Germany of
Leasing, Kant, Goethe and Schiller Restored to Moral
Fellowship of Nations"
By DR. WILL DURANT
EDITOR'S NOTE: The author of "The Story of Philosophy" and other bestselling books
trip to Palestine, Dr. Durant in this ex-
look. at the Jewish problem. Fresh from
clusive Seven Art. article, reviews the tribulation and views the future of the errant
■
Jew of the 20th century.
(Copyright, 1938, Seven Arta Feature Syndicate)
The history of the Jew in the last 150 years
is one with the history of democracy. Seeking
refuge from oppression, he found a new freedom
and justice in young America, and contributed
lavishly to finance our War for Independence.
In Europe itself he was liberated from religious
intolerance and political disabilities by that same
movement of enlightenment which emancipated the
Western mind, and by that same French Revolu-
tion which overthrew the Bourbons and declared
the rights of man. Throughout the last century
the Jew played a creative and stimulating role in
almost every field of European culture except
those arts which had been closed to him by the
Biblical injunction against graven images. In
astronomy, Herschel; in mathematics, Gauss,
Riemann and Einstein; in medicine, Ehrlich,
Wassermann and Steinach; in poetry, Ileine and
Bialik; in criticism, Georg Brandes; in muttic,
Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer; in statesmanship,
Disraeli and Gambottta; in a thousand ways the
genius of a brilliant people mingled with the mini!
and blood of Europe, and helped to produce the
exuberant culture and humanitarian democracy
of the 19th century. I know of no other case
in history, with the exception of the ancient
Athenians, in which a people so trifling in num-
ber has been no fertile in genius, or has con-
tributed so abundantly to science and civilization.
And now in that country to which they gave
most, in that Germany whose science, historio-
graphy, literature and music have been so en-
riched by the Hebrew mind, the Jews are today
struck down by one of the most cruel blows in
the black record of human hate. All the suffer-
ing brought to Germany by the chaos and penal-
ties of war, by the iniquities of a war-breeding
peace and by the loss of trade through the for-
feiture of the respect of the world, have been
laid at the door of the Jew; all the discontent
set on fire by the greed of the conquerors and
the poverty of the people has been laid at the
door of the Jew. Ile has been deprived of citi-
zenship in his native state, and almost of fellow-
ship in the human race; he cannot walk the
streets without danger of his life; his children
may at any moment be humiliated, beaten or
killed; the doors of the universities and the pro-
fessions are being closed against him; any day
his business may be confiscated; his life's sav-
ings are attached by the state; and though he is
taunted to leave the country, he is not permitted
to take his savings with him. For any one of a
thousand causes, or for no cause at all, he is
separated from his wife and children, and thrown
into concentration camps where brutalities are
visited upon him which America would consider
too severe for the most confirmed of criminals.
automobile traffic is forbidden, though the Jews
carry it bravely on; and any Jew who dares walk
in the streets may be shot or stabbed or atoned
to death. Here, even more than in Germany, the
Jew must hide himself lest he be killed; and
the pilgrim who fled from persecution and intol-
ance in Europe finds, in the land of his fathers
and his dreams, a passing ghetto more terrible
than any that the Middle Ages knew. Driven
from one country, not received in others, hunted
to death in his own; is there joy sadder sight than
this on the earth today?' I hear again, amid
this suffering, the voice of Jeremiah: "How doth
the city sit solitary that was full of people! how
she is become as a widow! she that was great
among the nations, and princess among the
provinces: how is she become tributary! . . .
Is it nothing,to you, all ye that pass by? Behold
and see if there be any sorrow like unto niy sor-
row."
Hopes Prosperity Will Ease Tension
How could any American with a drop of the
American or the Christian tradition in his blood
look upon this century-long crucifixion of a
people without crying out in their behalf, and
calling upon every lover of freedom and justice
to come to their defense? For all the things that
we hold dear in our American heritage are im-
periled by the same movement of dictatorial in-
tolerance which has added another bitter chapter
to the epic and Odyssey of the Jews. That same
Nietzschean ethic of ruthless power which has
destroyed four our age the humanity of a great
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
it'olyrIght. WC B. A F.
POLITICAL SEASONING
A million copies of a circular
containing statements by Jews on
Landon's record on racial and reli-
gious tolerance have been mailed
to Jewish voters throughout the
country ... A certain very prom-
inent New York Jewish industrial-
ist and good-wilier footed the bill
A New York State Congress.
man who is well known for his
friendliness toward Jewish causes
is giving his friends a headache
because he signed a letter together
with one of the country's most
notorious Jew-gaiters . . . The
Coughlin-Lemke Party in New
York ignored party lines in seek-
ing to endorse candidates for the
State election, but it hewed close
to racial lines . . , The Coughlin-
ites favored a Republican for gov-
ernor and a Democrat for attorney
general . . . Of course their Sup-
port was rejected, but just for rec-
ord's sake let it be known that
the opponents of the candidates
who could have had Coughlinite
backing are Jews ... And, speak-
ing of Coughlin, we wonder what
he said about Felix Frankfurter
that got John Barry, Boston re-
porter, so angry that the Detroit
cleric threatened to "tear him to
pieces .. A new outfit called the
'Society of Loyal Americans" is
stirring up trouble in Florida .
One of its pamphlets says: "Vot-
ers, make your own decision,
whether you wish to vote for a
party that is proselyting Jews and
Negroes or whether you will vote
for the principles of our fore-
fathers" .. Add to your list of
prominent families split on the
election the Bermans of Cincinnati
... Senator Benjamin F. is plump-
ing for the G. 0. P., while his
brother Arnold is Ohio chairman
of the Good Neighbor !ANNE.,
which is backing FDR. . . .
people toward the Jews, may in time destroy
Christianity itself, as it has already tried to do;
a nation dedicated by its leaders to hatred and
war cannot long be loyal, even in words, to the
all-embracing kindliness of Christ. That same
enthronement of racial egotism and irresponsible
tyranny which has consumed the liberties of the
German nation may, by its contagion and its
spread, put an end to freedom of mind and wor-
ship, of assemblage and speech, everywhere; and
everything that has given meaning and nobility
to America in the pageant of history may be put
out like a candle flickering in the night. We
shall never know how sweet liberty is, how mani-
fold are its works and graces, until we have sold
it away in some mad seizure of hatred or fear.
I am hopeful that the rapid restoration of
prosperity will ease the tension of these problems
in America, if not throughout the world. We
are fortunate that within our own borders our
civil liberties have been bravely preserved; never
have men been so free to think and to speak, to
meet and to worship, as they are in America
today. There are many abuses of that freedom,
and many violations of it; but one need only
travel abroad to lift up his heart in gratitude,
on his return, that the conflicts of interest that
divide America are still fought out on the hust-
ings or with ink, rather than on the battlefield
with blood. How pleasant it was, after seeing
Palestine in the grip of the Arab terror, and
Greece surrendering to a military dictatorship,
and Italy darkened with poverty and fear of
war, and Spain half destroyed by the struggle
of rich against poor, to come back home and
find the rival leaders of profoundly divided par-
ties eating together, exchanging generous compli-
ments and conducting their campaigns like gen-
The Allied Jewish Camp,
at n, which is ri
to be conducted in Flint from Oct. 22 to rector and David and HagrIrnyg Os-
26, includes in its budget the interesting trer are head of the overseas de-
p , easrptemcetinvtel a ndo Xeurd i comptroller,
The Jew Embarks for the Holy Land
item for appropriations to 30 Yeshivahs in
Picture him at last escaping, almost penni-
Europe and Palestine. This is a commend- alities assyo'ciated Gapuermsoo n t less, from the Hell, and seeking some bearable
able appropriation because it marks the British in England and this coun- life in an unfamiliar land. Very probably he
are: Jeffrey Bernard, distribu-
initiation of a step for the elimination of try
pirolic7enenutcihviee;f; i s loiculLaeLerBalcon,
I cannot go to England—the English quota has
duplication of appeals for various causes. t
been filled; he cannot go to France, or Italy, or
There is also an influx from time to time sical director; A. P. Waxma
Waxman,
yn,m 4-
America, for their quotas too have long since
d i:
E i rd evyertis
of "meshulachim" who canvass Jewish rector of publicity anda
been filled; perhaps, however, he may be ad-
communities, and this is a step in the right irneftocr'""Cleial idoMali 1 d
n a s i s o aa
i rnt e
mitted, after long anxious negotiations, into Pal-
direction to include all such causes in one producer; Mute. Greenbaum,
a u
cam
estine. Ile embarks for the Iloly Land, heavy-
fund which should care for them and as- eraman; Arthur Caesar, Writer, hearted and yet full of idealism and hope; there
sure them a certain income and at the Siegler, Goodhart and Hoffman, his people, longing for some home of refuge, has
rs under
same time eliminate excessive expenses,
criTtprosscetrsi.neil:(reittle'lrayi
dared try to transform a desert into a land
From time to time the Congregation via Sidney and Pamela OsrtrreerSY1- flowing once more with milk and honey. Ile
ot.h eorpoBrraittij oshn will
Shaarey Zedek of Detroit took steps to go Control l of
disembarks,
a grateful immigrant, at lovely Haifa; tlemen! How proud we may be that when Ger-
Assoc i ated
many exiled the greatest living scientist and con-
sponsor a similar effort in behalf of all t
t Corporation. It is estimated
he passes through a hundred miles of land re-
Yashivah appeals. It is to be hoped that h
hat he combined assets of the
deemed from the sands by Jewish irrigation and fiscated his modest property, America received
him I dly gave
his a better home in
f airer
corporations will be
r $120,-
the local leade s will not abandon this two
•
000,000 when the deal is finally Jewish energy. and converted into orange groves
city, and never dreamed of limiting his liberty
movement both for the good of the insti-
as fair as California's; he stares in wonder at
completed. John Maxwell, chair-
tutions soliciting Detroit Jews as well as man and managing director of the the city of Tel Aviv, grown from a hundred as a scieentist or as a frank defender of his
people!
A
.Th .ese things are in the finest tradition
the local communities.
Associated British, said the an-
ettlers to a hundred thousand population in 20
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Communists in Palestine
THIS AND THAT
William Mendelssohn, a first
cousin of Felix Mendelssohn-
Bartholdy, the composer, is living
in Santa Monica, Calif.... Ile has
just celebrated his 102nd birthday
. . . Elenora von Mendelssohn,
great-granddaughter of Felix, has
made her debut on the English-
speaking stage in "Daughters of
Atreus," in New York.
A mid-town New York syna-
gogue lost some money when 25
o 1 America; they belong to that heritage of
nounced agreement 'assures" Gnu-
years, admirably governed by an able and honest
members of its ladies' auxiliary
mont-British from passing "under.
man, flourishing through all the world depres- humanity and freedom which we shall not will-
were hauled off in a police wagon
foreign control." in the transaction
ingly let die.
on a charge of gambling ... The
Maxwell interests acquired 250,-
s'on and enriching Palestine with the fruits of
ladies were arrested when police
I trust that before my days are ended I
000 class B shares of the Metrop.
',„
d '
. ' ustry
and trade. He arrives at last at Jeru-
raided the apartment in which
olis and Bradford Trust which --
Belem, and is amazed to see how beautiful this shall see the Germany of Lessing, Kant, Goethe
they were playing . The accused
controlled Gaumont-British, while
and Schiller restored to the moral fellowship of
„sa d the game „WEIS for the benefit
the
Holy
City
is,
that
a
generation
ago
was
hardly
be completed by the
of a synagogue,
frth
u de ea r l pu rchase o 5 ,10
more than an Arab village, poor and desolate on the nations; and the Jewish people living once
0 class A
The l'erlsteins of Chicago, im-
shares held by the Ostrer broth-
its rocky hill. Ile is impressed by the great num- more in peace and honor with Germans in Ger-
portant contributors to the Anti-
ern. The Ostrer brothers hold 51
ber of comfortable homes that line the outer many and with Arabs in Palestine; and the
Defamation
League, were ember-
per cent of the class A shares,
avenues; they are the residences of Arabs who American spirit weighed in the balance and not , rassed when the advertising de-
while 20th Century-Fox Films
partment of the Pabst Brewing
hs eit,li dne theR. reKrneanitning 49 per cent,.
grew rich by selling their lands or products at found wanting, tested and tried by the challenge
Company, which they control, let
rent
high prices to the immigrating Jews. But of of despotism and prejudice, and coming through
out a piece of copy showing the
latter} American pc en')
osfehti)Ch
Jews in the streets he can see none. these times, that try men's souls, without debase- ' body of a man twisted in such a
had been reported negotiating for
For here, too, there is w•ar against his peo• ment or surrender, but with the flog of freedom
way as to form a swastika . .
Gaumont-British control, asserted
We give you one guess as to what
pie. Ti,, Arabs, fearful of these returning wan- and brotherhood still showing the way to a saner
that part of the sale hinged upon
I happened to the fellow who cre-
a consent by 20th Century-Fox,
.
derers, are threatening their lives at every turn; and happier world
ated that advertising.
which had not yet been given.
Communists in Palestine can no longer
deny that they have done damaging work
in Palestine in preventing rather than
helping the cementing of Jewish-Arab
friendship.
The moment that the general strike was
called off by the Arabs, a leaflet was im-
mediately distributed by the Communists
in Palestine, criticizing the Mufti of Jeru-
salem and his associates for putting an end
to the existing disturbances. These circu-
lars were distributed in Haifa and urged
the Arabs not to disarm but to continue
their campaign of terror against Zionists
• •
and Great Britain.
At the same time, five non-Jewish Corn-
1
munists were arrested in Jerusa em an d
were charged with fomenting trouble.
Three of these Communists are said to be
members of the Cheka, a Soviet secret po-
Prof. Paul J. Tillich of Union Theological Seminary Finds
litical police.
It Is a Protest Against Distortion of
In view of such continued trouble mak-
Christianity
ing by Communists, their work in connec-
tion with the current Arab outbreaks in
Palestine will form a chapter in itself in
By DR. PAUL J. TILLICH
Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York
emphasizing the most disgusting and dis-
graceful part played by radicals—Jews
(Copyright, 11131. V C. J. C. News Service)
among them—in fanning racial and reli-
gious hatred.
and brothers and makes them
Emigration Has Religious Meaning,
States German Christian Refugee
An Insult to Gentiles
From an eastern contemporary, we
quote the following paragraph:
"The Nazi influence in Pennsylvania:
From the classified columns of a Scranton
paper: 'Learn to Ride at 3 Horsemen Rid-
ing Academy. Attendant always available.
Gentile horses.' "
We always did marvel at the gullibility
even of anti-Semites who make such idiots
of themselves by believing all the nonsense
that comes from anti-Semitic sources.
Studied objectively, Christians will find
that the acceptance of an anti-Semitic pro-
gram is as much an insult to Christianity
TRANS-OCEANIC
A quiet movement is under way
in Poland to do something about
the secret meshumadim, Jewish
converts to Christianity who con-
tinue to maintain their social con-
tacts with Jews ... Jewish lead-
ers in Poland are said to be ex-
ercised over the report that some
of the meshumadim hold positions
in Jewish communal agencies .
Speaking of converts reminds us
that the sponsors of the Palestine
Symphony Orchestra are being
criticized for engaging Bruno
Walter, German-Jewish conductor,
because he is a convert ... Fool-
ish, because Walter is a persecuted
exile . . . The London Jewish
Chronicle is carrying advertise-
ments warning Jews to stay away
from streets where the Fascists
hold meetings ... Orthodox rabbis
in Europe are saying prayers for
Catholic priests and nuns in Spain
. . . If the Hungarian Fascists
have their way Premier Koloman
Daranyi, successor to the late
Julius Goemboes, won't last long
. . . They don't like him because
he refused to name a Fascist as
minister of the interior . . . The
Hebrew World Union is planning
to establish circles of Hebrew
readers throughout the world .
The members will pledge them-
selves to buy a number of Ilebrew
books each year ... In other words
they are forming the first Hebrew
book-of-the-month club . . . Gen-
eral Goering, number two Nazi,
must have forgotten that the late
Otto Lilienthal, German -Jewish
aviation pioneer, was non-Aryan
... Goering has become the patron
of the Otto Lilienthal Society for
Aeronautic Research .. .
This history of Revelation, the
center of which is Christ, begins homeless with Christ and home-
less as apostles in the world. lie
with an emigration. Abraham
separates the Christian church
receives the divine commandment:
from Judaism and paganism and
"Get thee out of thy country and
makes the Christians members of
from thy kindred and from thy
community across all nations
father's home unto the land that •
and races.
I will show thee. "
Reminded of Emigration
The story of Abraham's emigra-
But man likes to forget the
tion is the illustration of a fun- human and Christian fate of emi-
damental element in the relation
ation- The forefathers were
of God and man: God separates gr
exiles actually or spiritually and
men, if he elects them. Ile sep- the descendants make exiles by
arates Israel from the nations and persecuting those who struggle
makes her an exile in Egypt, in
like the forefathers struggled.
Babylon, in the Hellenic. in the Therefore, the prophetic word
Roman Empire, and now in the always reminds nations and
occidental world and its nations. churches of their past period of
lie separates the prophets in Is-
'emigration. The Jewish prophets
rael from !Israel and makes them spoke again and again of Abra-
emigres, persecuted, killed in
h am.. separation from the Gods
their own country.
of bit kindred and the notion's
.se follower'
lie
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A REF ON PARADE
AKIBA: A GREAT BIOGRAPHY
By AL SEGAL
Dr. Louis Finkelstein Writes Important Biographical
Study of Scholar and Saint Who Became a
Martyr for His People
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I was one of the eight who
were carrying the scrolls of
the Torah up and down the
aisles of the temple. The oc-
casion was Shemini Atzereth
and the temple was making
quite an event of it.
Not only were the newly-
enrolled children of the tem-
ple's Sabbath school conse-
crated by the rabbis but the
temple also had taken an old
custom of the Orthodox: A
procession of the scrolls of the
Torah was had to celebrate the
fact that the last chapter of
Deuteronomy had just been
read and the scrolls had been
rolled back to the first chapter
of Genesis. Immortality of
Torah!
So I was one of the eight
marching with the Torah in
their arms and I should have
felt full of holy and historic
inspirations Was I not one of
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A
REVIEW BY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
This is a renaissance period in
English-Jewish literature. Leading
publishing houses are not only
willing to publish worthy Jewish
works but are actually looking,
for good copy. Some truly fine
publications have thus made their
appearance, and Jewish culture is
constantly being enriched.
But what is even more gratify.
ing is that classics of a Jewish
historically traditional nature are
finding publishers and a reading
public. Only ■ short time ago
Covici-Friede 1412 Fourth Ave.,
New York) published the superb
novelized biography of Rabbi
Simeon ben Yohai under the title
"Festival at Meron." This im-
portant story deals with the re-
volt of Bar Kothba against Rome
and with the period that was en-
riched by the teachings of Akiba.
Now Covici-Friede wisely add
to the number of great titles they
have published by issuing another
important biography —• volume
which bids fair to be ranked
among the very best books issn•d
in many years, Dr. Louis Finkel-
stein's "Akiba: Scholar, Saint and
Martyr" ($4.) will be given first
rank in importance because it is
more than biography: because it
records the history of the Jews
in Palestine for a period of more
than 200 years preceding the last
heroic stand made by Jews in
Palestine against Rome; because
it is a record of Jewish learning
during that period; because it
reconstructs discussions by rabbis
and scholars on Jewish law and
gives y concise picture of debates
In the academy at Yabneh from
Jochanan ben Zakkai down to
and including Akiba.
Dr. Finkelstein's foreword to
"Akiba" is in itself a classic. It
Is Impossible to conceive of any-
one putting the volume down
without completing it after read-
ing this remarkable essay. In it
the hero of this narrative, Akiba
ben Joseph, is ranked "in depth
of Intellect, breadth of sympathy
and clarity of vision with the fore-