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workers for Mizrachi, the Mizrachi youth
and pioneers, and the religious labor
party Ilapoei Ha-Mizrachi, jointly and
concurrently contribute in great measure
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
in the effort for Jewry's national redemp-
Reproduction In part or whole forbid.
tion.
den. without perMieslon Of the Eleven
The Mizrachi Women's Organization's Arts Peel.* Syndicate, CopYrIghter• of
"Beth Zeiroth"—the Technical School this feature.
(Col') tight, 1936, S. A. F. d
and Cultural Center for Girls in Jerusa-
lem — is one of the important agencies in JEROME COWAN IN MOVIES

Palestine and it provides educational, vo-
cational and social opportunities for ortho-
dox girls. Its curriculum is' a most com-
mendable one. There are other projects of
the Mizrachi Women's Organization which
similarly add to the important efforts of
various groups of our people in Palestine.
They deserve to be called to the attention
of the Jewish community at this time,
when the Mizrachi women are engaged
in their annual fund-raising effort in
Detroit.

Jerome Cowan, who has been
signed for his first motion picture
role by Samuel Goldwyn, was born
in New York City, but passed his
childhood and youth in liartford,
Conn. In that city his father oper-
ated a candy manufacturing com-
pany At the age of 18 he was
signed by a traveling stock com-
pany. Soon after that he enlisted
in the Navy and was in service
until the end of the World War
. . . After the war he went back
to the stage ... Became a vaude-
ville headliner in a few years, ap-
pearing in dramatic and musical
comedy sketches ... His first New
York smash hit was "We've Got
to Have Money" in which he sup-
"The very schoolchildren are living in ported the late Robert Ames ..
conditions of sheer terror," is the editorial After that he supported such
of the theater as Alice
description of the London Jewish Chron- notables
Peggy Wood, Mary Boland,
icle regarding the state of affairs of Lon- Brady,
Glenn Bunter, Fritzi Shelf, Eliza-
don's East End as a result of the attacks beth Risdon and others . Gold-
wyn was so impressed with
of Sir Oswald Mosley's Fascists.
performance in Spewack's
In his speech before Parliament on Nov. Cowan's
play, "Boy Meets Girl"
3, King Edward announced that measures Broadway
that he gave him a chance to ap-
are planned to cope with the fascist pear on the screen .. . Cowan
married Ilelen Dodge a native of
threats, when he stated:
"My ministers have come to the conclus- Sibley, Iowa, seven years ago.

A Cultural Monument

Strictly
Confidential

Tidbits from Everywhere

The Long Range Struggle for Survival

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

13t.
(CoPyright,1

By MAURICE SAMUEL

gave 25 years of his life
EDITOR'S NOTE: The late Yehoash, greatest modern Yiddish poet,
to the preparation of a modern Yiddish translation of the Bible. Maurice Samuel, the
well-known American Jewish man of letters, in this exclusive article discusses the sig-
nificance of the planned publication of Yehoash's Yiddish Bible.

8. A. F. a )

BRANDEISETTES

Virtually everyone knows the
salient points in the career of 80-

year-old Justice Brandeis . . .
But did you know that until re-
cently he was a crack canoeist?
. . . That he takes his lunch to
To Moore poloiloatios. all sorrempondenes sod oetwo matter
(Copyright, 1915. Seven Arts Feature Syndicate/
the Supreme Court's chambers?
oseh 'rook.
ooset rwee41 tido Ake by Tumday OTentOIS Of
That President Wilson wanted
Dews mai., met .. klodly pee oos olds of the plow *sly.
him to be attorney general? .. .
The Detroit Jewish Chrosiele hydros eorrospoodesoo os sub-
is not so many years since Yiddish and much. Moreover, not running side by side with
That
Dr. Charles Eliot, late presi-
It
Dow of %Wont to tb. Jewish people. but dleelsims responst.
dent of Harvard, favored Brandeis
Ilebrew, the two internal languages of the Jew- the Hebrew text, it lacked the bond, historic and
Wiles for so isdorswasst of the •leos •opreowl by the writes
as
his
successor? .. That in many
ish people, were at daggers drawn—Yiddish ac- actual, which adds significance to each of the
Sabbath Readings of the Law
small towns in Kastern Europe
other. The
curing Ilebrew of artificiality and obscurantism, languages in the presence of the
there still exist pictures of Bran-
Pentateuchal portion.—Gen. 28.10-32:3.
Hebrew accusing Yiddish of illiteracy and Galuth Yehoash publication society believes that a mini- deis describing him as "the presi-
Prophetical portion. — Hosea 12 :13-14 :10 ; or
11:7-12:12; or 11:7-14:10.
mum of 100,000 copies will be called for if the dent of the Jewish State"? , .
psychology. Today the hostility is much weaker,
for now Yiddliktecognizes that Hebrew has project can be got under way. The preliminary That he doesn't own a car and
Kislev 6,5697
November 20, 1936
always rides taxis by independent
triumphed in Palestine and is becoming a living question is whether there are a few Jews well
operators? ... That he rarely re-
influence elsewhere; while Hebrew, not as ter- enough informed, alert enough and public-spir- fers to documents? . . . That he
sends in his dues to the Zionist
rifled for itself as once it was, admits what it Red enough to have the project properly started.
Organization of America exactly
must always have known, that not Yiddish but Of course there have been "Yiddish Bibles"
The League for Human Rights of De-
the Taenu on Jan. 6, which was the day he
the Galuth made the Galuth psychology, and that before—and the most famous was
troit, which is an outgrowth of the efforts
joined in 1912? . . . And that he
attends to all his correspondence
illiteracy was not in the language but in eco- U-re-eau of our grandmothers, the women's
the Conference of Jewish organizations
himself in longhand? .. .
nomic conditions. "Teitschchumesh" of remote memory, a curious,
that was called to plan the boycott of
BITS
NEWSY
It was really an amazing sort of squabble. rather helpless folk production. There was not,
German-made goods, has come through
William Dudley Polley. Amer-
There are hundreds of thousands of Jews even until Yehoash brought to the task his immense
with flying colors from the avalanche of
ica's would-be Hitler, polled 825
in Western lands who got their first smattering scholarship and his exquisite feeling for modern
criticisms that was directed at the admin-
votes as candidate for President
of
Yiddish
and
Hebrew
in
an
indissoluble
unity.
Yiddish,
a
classic
translation
ranking,
in
beauty,
in the late election ... New York
meeting
held
recently,
and
at
a
istration
We learned Yiddish by translating the Bible into accuracy and strength, with the James and political circles are again buzzing
after all the evidence was sifted, even the
with rumors that Governor Leh-
Luther versions. The work is monumental; but
most severe critics admitted that it was
Yiddish. Admittedly it was as a perverse and im-
man will resign ... He is said to
INTER-
in the days when I was learning Yiddish by
not the work of the League that they ion that existing law requires amendment SCHILDKRAUT—AN
possible
procedure,
typical
of
the
tortuous
Jewish
be concerned over the way Leh-
NATIONAL FIGURE
working on a Yiddish newspaper—it was the Tog,
man Brothers, banking house, is
criticized but rather the fact that the in order to deal more effectively with per-
mind.
But
it
worked
as
long
as
it
was
allowed
An international figure in the
run ... Our guess is that
League did not "dramatize" the boycott. sons and organizations who provoke or true sense of the word is Joseph to work. And therefore the attempt to divide the in which were printed large sections of Yehoash's being
this tale is just plain hooey .. .
What the critics want is a public demon- cause disturbances to the public peace. A Schildkraut, who is cast in Selz- two languages and set them by the ears was it- translation—I would read the installments of
Circulation
of anti-Semitic
nick's technicolor film, "Garden of
stration and they suggested mass meet- bill for strengthening the law without in- Allah," just previewed in Holly- self an artificiality. It was a matter of tempor- the work for the sheer simplicity and charm of literature under the signature
ings. It was evident that what was wanted terfering with legitimate freedom of wood. He was born into the thea- ary emphasis. Hebrew, emerging into living use, the style. It is an old adage: If you want to of Henry B. Joy, former presi-
dent of the Packard Motor Car
by the critics was a public show, a mani- speech or assembly will be submitted to trical profession. Of Turkish-Jew. had to elbow Yiddish off the field while it got learn a language read its version of the Bible.
Company, drew • statement
ish ancestry, his birthplace was
festation of resentment, a glamorous spec- you."
established. Once established it can — and It is truer of Yiddish than of any other language,
from the company that he was
Austria He spent much of his itself
tacle in order to interpret in dramatic
It would be sheer folly for Jews to lose early career in France and Ger- should and will—remember that it was probably and truer because there is the Yehoash trans- no longer connected with it
But his obituaries (he died •
form that which, as they admitted, is faith in liberal governments like Great many His first wife was a New through Yiddish that Hebrew retained a living lation.
few days after the statement
Strengthening the Cultural Treasures
Britain and to become panicky over the York actress, his second a society flavor in its long dormancy; and it will remember
being done anyway.
was issued) said he was one of
best
But if this word "monument" is still the
from London. His present
Hebrew of Palestine has
Those of us who thought the work of Mosleyite threats. But when the growth girl
Packard's directors.
home is Hollywood, but he has no also that the spoken
that can be applied to the Hebrew-Yiddish edi-
boycott
in
Detroit
was
not
carried
on
of
anti-Semitism
in
the
land
that
boasts
of
been
as
deeply
influenced
by
the
Yiddish
in
the
FAMILY ALBUM
permanent address. During his
with sufficient force realize as a result the Magna Charta begins to affect the chil- outstanding career as an actor he which it was partly preserved as living Yiddish is tion which is to be produced, we must think
As a prophet we're in a class
of it in a forward as well as in a backward with Jim Farley ... We predicted
of the attempted criticisms how magnifi- dren, then we are justified in entertaining has played characters of many by the Ilebrew with which it is permeated.
His father, Rudolph
sense.
Who
knows
for
how
many
hundreds
of
that
Mrs. Bernard Postal, wife of
cent a piece of work has actuually been fears that perhaps the Nazi terror may nationalities.
Vitality of Both Languages
Schildkraut, was one of the most
our managing editor, would have
accomplished. The critics deserve a vote possibly also find root elsewhere.
Now there are many of us who, in child- years Ilebrew and Yiddish will continue to carry a boy, and she did, on Nov. 10 ...
famous character actors in silent
Nothing in the entire German situation motion pictures, appearing promi- -hood, were given the feeling that actually both the major substance of our specifically Jewish Elaine Barrie, who is now the
of thanks for having brought out in true
light the wisdom of the policy employed by is as tragic as the condition under which nently as his son did after him, languages were unreal, both dead or moribund. living values? Who knows for how many cen- fourth Mrs. John Barrymore,
in many Cecil B. DeMille epic
changed her name from Jacobs to
the organization in avoiding rather than the Jewish children live today. Their posi- films.
Only, one was dying in priestly vestment, and the turies we will have to say that the man who Barrie to honor her husband-to-be
In 1921 Joseph came from
emphasizing dramatics and in being rea- tion is horribly frightening. A correspon- his native city of Vienna to this other in workaday clothes. Hebrew was what does not know both Yiddish and Hebrew is cut when she first met him . . . Inci-
listic in an effort to secure the co-opera- dent of the London Times recently de- country. lie was signed for the the Rebbe wanted us to know, Yiddish was what off from the principal sources of the creative dentally, there'll be another wed-
role in the Molnar father and mother spoke at home; neither had
life that is specifically Jewish? The curious ob- ding ceremony for the Barry-
tion of all local stores instead of demon- scribed the tragic plight of the Jews and now famous
"Liliom." In six months
stinacy, of the Jew may very well find a new mores, this time by a rabbi . . .
strating wildly a resentment which is "non-Aryans" in the Reich, and devoted play
Schildkraut learned English and anything to do with reality. That erroneous im-
Speaking of names reminds us to
natural, but which demands coolness in several paragraphs to the status of the made a sensational hit which pression is not so wide-spread as it was 20-odd vent in a faithfulness to Yiddish as singular (it tell you that Magda Lupescu got
dealing with a serious situation affecting children, giving us the following depress- marked the beginning of his career years ago; yet it still exists. And it is there- can of course never be as long-enduring) as the her name by translating her real
on Broadway. He often returns
faithfulness to Hebrew. Let those who will see name of Wolf into Rumanian, the
a government that is cruel and oppressive. ing facts:
to Austria to attend the Salzburg fore not irrelevant to assert that the project now
Rumanian word for wolf being
only the diversive significance of the two lan-
Simon Shetzer, chairman of the board of
on foot to publish in popular form Yehoash's
Summer festival, where he played
lupo.
guages;
let
them
prophecy
two
kinds
of
a
Jew-
Owing
to
the
1.5
per
cent
regulation
a
directors for the League of Human Rights,
prominent roles in past years.
Yiddish Bible, side by side with the Hebrew text,
Clarence Low, the dynamic
Jewish or "part-Aryan' child may be alone in
ish
people,
one
perhaps
in
the
interior
of
Russia,
the
person
primarily
responsible
for
in-
treasurer of the New York State
TESS SCHLESINGER GETS A
is not an act of piety and not a throw-back to
is
its school, and the isolation from which it then
another
on
the
shores
of
the
Mediterranean;
GOLDWYN
Democratic
Committee, is a grand-
CONTRACT
fluencing a realistic program, and he and
must suffer is very bitter. Part of the school
a disappearing past, but a reflex of living needs
Tess Schlessinger, a famous
nephew of Siegfried Marcus, the
one pursuing Yiddish with a far-off memory of
his associates are deserving of the highest curricultfm consists of anti-Semitic diatribes,
in the Jewish people.
Austrian
Jew
who invented the
motion
picture
writer
and
novelist,
Hebrew, the other Hebrew with a far-off memory
and the child is compelled to listen to the
commendation. His critics accomplished a
When the Hebrew-Yiddish dispute was at its
and wife of Frank Davis, MGM
automobile.
and most shameful accusations leveled
of Yiddish. The aivug between the two lan-
marvelous feat by their admission that grossest
producer,
has'been
signed
by
Sam-
most acerb each foretold the early demise of
against its Jewish forbears. What must be the
guages can actually never be broken. They can THIS AND THAT
uel Goldwyn to prepare screen
the League's program has been excellent
other. Hebrew could not be revived be.
effect on a "non-Aryan" child of being the
plays. Goldwyn also reports that the,
never be torn wholly apart without an internal
Wonder where the Young Ju-
object-lesson
of
such
teaching?
And
what,
in every way, except in the lack of "dra.
anise all the odds were against it, said the- one;
William
Wyler's
magnificent
di-
ultimately, the effect on the "Aryan" child of
rent. And if the two languages exist in separate daean got the cockeyed idea that
malice."
rectorial work on "Dodsworth" Yiddish could not survive for exactly the same
Mrs.
Wally Simpson is Jewish ...
being the witness of it? Gentleness, justice
parts of the world, apparently unconnected, they
has already brought him favorable reason, said the other.' Both were wrong. It
In its October issue the organ of
and mercy are contaminated at their source.
mention
from
leading
critics
as
a
will
nevertheless
constitute
a
link.
Young
Judea says that "an Amer-
The future is very dark for these children.
may be that the odds are heavily against Yiddish
possible Academy of Motion Pic-
These are days so heavily laden with bitter ican Jewish woman, a Mrs. Simp-
Even where they have the courage to sup-
in America; they are not so in Poland, Russia
ture
Arts
and
Sciences
award
port their schooldays, a cramped and hostile
practical problems that one wonders how Jews son from Baltimore, moves freely
Jewish youth must mobilize. More im-
winner. Ile has been assigned to and Rumania. Nor is it disappearing as rapidly
in the royal court of England" ...
environment awaits them. Though a "part-
can possibly give themselves up to what seems
direct "Dead End," for which Miss
portant than mobilization of our youth
as some believe in America. Hebrew, which has
Sounds funny to have the Young
Aryan" may not be a doctor, a lawyer, a
Schlesinger is writing the script.
so
unworldly
a
task
as
this.
One
may
indeed
Judaean and the Nazi press agree-
forces is the necessity for youth's train-
teacher, or professor, he may, unlike the Jew,
Miss Schlesinger had for a long lifted the weight of mountains to emerge to a wonder, but one should recognize that if we ing, because, as you know, the
sit
for
the
examinations—an
ironic
conces-
new life, has proved its own vitality beyond
Mg for intelligent leadership.
time
been
on
the
late
Irving
G.
sion to his "part-Aryan" blood. But he may
permit the frightful physical needs of the mo- Nazis also say that Mrs. Simpson
• It is no longer possible for American
Thalberg's staff. After the latter's all dispute.
is a Jewess The Non-Sectarian
not join the Hitler Youth, and by this one
ment
to throw us into a complete panic, so Anti-Nazi League is again look-
death
she
resigned.
Jewry to be able to sit by idly and to say
disability he is almost certainly debarred from
To Learn a Language: Read the Bible
INTERESTING BITS ABOUT
that
in
the
scramble
to
survive
we
forget
our
ing for an executive secretary ...
all opportunity in his adult life. For in all
that we are the chosen of God and that
It was not, then, a scholarly whim which
THE STARS
enterprises, even those not legally closed to
raison d'etre, we shall have lost also the strongest The latest occupant of that office,
among the Jewries of the world we alone
drove
the
great
Yiddish
poet
Yehoash
to
give
Did
you
know
that
Chico
Marx
Lawrence Craner, is out . . . We
sine
qua
non
that
pre-
"non-Aryans," it Is a
i3 one of the best pinochle play-
are immune from persecution. Even the
25 years of his life to the production of a mod- bulwark of our defense. There is the short range
predict that Dr. Abram Sachar
ference must be given to members of the
ers
in
the—yes,
the
world?
And
struggle
for
survival,
and
the
long
range.
Both
will be the new executive secre-
marvelous triumph of democratic forces
Ilitler Youth.
ern Yiddish translation of the Bible; it was
that Harps Marx is equally pro-
tary of Bnai Brith B. B. could
There
are
children—the
full
number
will
is
not
sufficient
cause
at the polls on Nov. 3
ficient at backgammon? And that rather a sensitive responsiveness to a historic are needed. But of the two phenomena—the
never be known — who, finding their life in-
need. The Yiddish Bible of Yehoash may prop- Jew raising funds to take care of the stricken, do lots worse ... Remembering
for leading us into a state of lethargy. The
isn't all—both are recognized as
his phenemonal success with I. J.
supportable, have sought the only means of
bridge experts, too.
fact is that there are symptoms of bigotry
Singer's play, "Yoshe Kalb," Mau-
escape open to them. There are others who
erly be called a monument, but the word must and the Jew strengthening his cultural treasures
After a five-months visit to his
not be given, in this connection, its cemetery in the heart of a pogrom—it would seem that the rice Schwartz is having Singer's
have found within themselves the courage to
on every : ront. If we are to be able to
native
Vienna
Erich
Wolfgang
novel, "The Brothers Ashkenazi,"
endure.
But
many
of
the
children
share
the
connotation.
second
is
more
significant
from
the
practical
meet them with equal power we must be
Korngold, world famous musical
dramatized . . . In Baltimore the
state of mind of a little girl of eight who said
There are, in the East European countries point of view. It is by the existence of this American Jewish Congress branch
composer, is back in Hollywood to
prepared intelligently to combat the is-
to her mother: "Pray God that Ile will make
compose the score for Max Rein-
I have mentioned, and in America too, hundreds second phenomenon that we have survived; it and the American Jewish Commit-
discriminations in order that we
me very ill or let me die. I cannot bear this
sues
hardt's next film.
tee get along famously . . . The
of thousands of Jews who want and need such would be evidence that we can not longer pro-
may succeed in our efforts rather than be any longer."
Both Luise Rainer and Paul
Congress uses quite a lot of the
a Bible. Hitherto the Yehoash Bible has been duce it if the means which are needed for the
relegated to the status of second-grade
Muni
are
hiring
Chinese
interpret-
The moment anti-Semitic threats begin ers because they are receiving so
publication of the Yehoash Bible are not easily Committee's material for mailing
inaccessible to the masses for which it was pro-
citizens.
to its non-Jewish friends ... It
affect the lives of our children, our tac- many fan letters written in Chi- duced. Printed in eight volumes, it cost too forthcoming.
can be done, gentlemen .. .
Young Israel happens to be one of the to
tics in fighting anti-Semitism must change. nese.

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most important elements in the fight for
intelligent Jewish leadership because it has
a definite program and because it knows
exactly what it wants. We believe that
that, more than anything else, is this or-
ganizations greatest asset: The fact that
it knows what it wants. It is, therefore,
a force to be reckoned with and a force
that must strive ever to attain even greater
influence as a power for good in the Ameri-
can Jewish community. Above alt, it must
strive to keep its members informed on
what is happening in Jewish life. A prac-
tical educational program aimed at train-
ing the members for leadership will re-
dound not only to the benefit of Young
Israel but of the entire American Jewish
sound not only to the benefit of young
Israel is striving for a program leading to
that end, and we greet this movement on
the occasion of its Detroit convention.

We cannot possibly sit by idly and merely
hope for a new wave of liberalism to wipe
out the hatred and bigotry that has been
implanted in the hearts of non-Jews. If
that which is happening in Germany An Important Statement Defining Obligations of Amer-
should spread to England; if the fear that
ican Jewish Youth, Written on Occasion of
terrorizes the children of East End of
Young Israel Convention Here
London should also spread to this country,
then we shall be faced with problems that
By DR. LEO JUNG
will not only immediately bring back the
Rabbi of the Jewish Center of New York
conditions that existed during the dark
middle ages, but will make living intoler-
What is our problem? The non- ebb of its national history, It was
able. That which the London Times cor- Jewishness
of our youth. What is the German youth re-inspired by
respondent called "the only means of es- the solution of the Jewish prob- their study of its national litera-
that lived for its national
cape" for Germany's Jewish children lem? Judaism, the rise of the Jew ture,
glory, steeled the national will for
means the end of hope—and without hope, to the heights of his religion. survival and brought about the
Not anti-semitism in any form is
and faith Israel cannot survive.
our danger, nor is the attitude of Renaissance of Germany. When
Jewry must be prepared for the worst the Gentile of basic significance in India groaned under the oppres-
measures of Lord Kurzon, it
even when it hopes for the best—and even the Jewish problem. The very sive
was the Indian youth inflamed by
chapter in the Bible which the sight of national misery that
in the most democratic of countries. Our first
speaks of the Jewish people re- abandoned individual pleasure for
methods of constantly battling for our cites
also Pharaoh's anti-Jewish
common cause, and achieved
rights as citizens and human beings will legislation. Our haters have ac- the
companied
.as on our historic the miraculous change in the af-
"In the Spirit of the Torah"
certainly have to change. The new method
fairs
of their people. In the Ameri-
as the hyena walks around
have to be an aggressive one. It will march,
the camp. We should have been ac- can scene, we need our youth more
In time of national crisis it is natural will
than
ever.
American Israel has ex-
have to be a positive and not a negative
after 2,000 years of suf-
for Jews to feel that we have too many one. It will be our duty to disseminate the customed
fering, to anti-semitism as the panded and must now assume a
certain
measure
of
parties, and that a
Jewish aspect, as the effect on wider and higher role.
unity is necessary to guarantee the truth about ourselves, to re-emphasize the Jewry in particular, of a general American Israel by now has out-
grown its earlier function of send-
great contributions we have made to civil- anti-alienism.
goal
for
the
recon-
achievement of our
ization, to demand the recognition that is
Hitherto, by dint of his idealism, ing gifts to Europe and receiving
struction of Jewish life. The tension that due us. We must not wait until the anti- his courage and his pride. the Jew inspiration from the Old World.
greater task of
dominates Jewish life with regard to Pal-
has always been able to conquer Today ours is the of
a source Jewish spirit,
estine has especially strengthened the de- Semite strikes us. Our educational cam- the forces of prejudice and wicked- becoming
a
reservoir
of
Jewish
learning and
paign to build up a defence must begin at ness The only danger comes from
sire for dnity and for all-inclusive co-oper-
within, fross the indifference of Jewish living, that might send
ation. Nevertheless, even those who are once.
its life-giving influences to
A change in the method of fighting anti- our youtn. There were few periods forth
most outspoken in favor of unity will ad-
in the history of our people more our people all over the globe. For
is impossible as long as differing
critical than these years Three- this greater work emergent from
mit that every party in Zionism makes a Semitism
in varying directions. The fourths of Israel are being perse- its spiritual crisis, with our lead-
contribution toward Palestine's groups pull
borne down by the magnitude
definite
Jewish Congress, the American cuted, denied the right to life and ers
upbuilding; that every group has its share American
in and complexity of local, national
Jewish Committee, the B'nai B'rith Anti- liberty. In countries again be-
and
international problems, it is
and
Israel's
re-
has
the Gentile world
in the country's progress
Defamation League, the labor groups must which
come more humanized, we are af- essential that the American Jew-
ish
youth
become aware of Its po-
rally
under
one
banner
to
inaugurate
a
birth.
flicted by the scourge of • Jewish
that are being
and train Itself for
There are some causes
new method of attack. Even if the other generation unaccustomed to free- tentialities
not
receive
the
at-
worthy
participation
In Jewish
unappreciative of its ideal
minimized and that do
groups dislike it, they must eventually at:o- dom,
obligations, our youth gamboling work.
tention they deserve. The Mizrachi ortho-
the
principle
for
the
democratiza-
Ile
New
Aisteriss•ism
to
mit
away, utterly unaware of their
is one of them. Al-
must our local obligations
dox Zionist movement
for the re- tion of Jewish life and for the unifying of importance in the scheme of Jew- be Nor
forgotten. In the new connota-
ish life.
such
efforts
as
will
tend
to
improve
the
es its claim that it strives
the
spirit
of
Is-
tion
of
American patriotism. the
Mast
Assure
Highor
Rol.
"in
self-
binding of Palestine
because position of the Jew on the field of public
We cannot continue to hold our historical assets of the Jew, cul-
defence. Sooner or later, Jewish
tivated
with freshness of method
banner
aloft
unless
we
regain
our
roars Torah* is a bit exargerated
tradi- opinion must force all elements to unite
on Jewish
youth. When In the first decade and Integrated with Intelligence
no ape hos a monopoly
must,be
given
a
place
and
esthetic
meticulousness, are
of
the
19th
century,
the
German
if
we
are
to
have
the
needed
strength
to
tiono, tido toovement s...iht•rs of Zion. The
elation found itself at the lowest (PLEASE TURN TO NEXT PAOK)

What Is Our Task?

Brandeis the Jew

MACCABEE
STATISTICS

By JAMES I. ELLMANN

By IRV KUPCINET
(Bertram Jonas, Pinch-Hitting)

Now that the 5Iaccabee soc-
cer players are on their way
back to Palestine, it's time to
trot out the old record book
and regale you with official sta-
tistics of their North Ameri-
can tour. The blue-shitted
hooters from Palestine played
10 games in the United States
and one in Canada. In Can-
ada they were held to a tie
by the United Ulster team of
Toronto. In the United States
they won 5, lost 4 and tied 1.
They won their first three
games in New York, Philadel-
phia and Brooklyn by the scores
of 6-0, 1-0 and 1.0 respect-
ively. The United Ulster play-
ers were the first to score on
the Jewish invaders. In Detroit
they were held to a 2-2 tie.
They won in Chicago 1-0, and
then dropped two straight
games in St. Louis and Boston
by the identical scores of 3-2.
In Newark they won 7.1, piling
up more tallies than in any
previous game. And in their
farewell game in New York
they bowed 4-1.
All told, the Maccabees
scored 24 points, an average of
better than two • game, as
against 11 for all their oppon-
ents. The leading scorer was
flip Westerman, 23-year-old
center forward, who rang up
seven goals. Tied for the run-
ner-up place were Natan Pam
outside right, and Edmond Her-

(ME A PA '

It is so much easier to discuss
Brandeis the justice, the social
engineer, the analyst and inter-
preter of economic forces, than
Brandeis the Jew. As if a man
could be born in Tibet, breathe
its air, adopt its customs, move
in its life, and emerge some other
personality than a Tibetan. For
Brandeis the Jew is in essence
the American.
We are destined to carry the
burden and the privilege of a sort
of double allegiance. But many
other people share such allegi-
ance. Every European who has
come to sow shores retains a con-
nection of some sort with his nat-
ive hearth. The Jew gripped by an
historic association with a tradi-
tional Homeland clings the more
tightly to it when his fundamen-
tal rights are threatened. Then,
more than ever. does the Home-
land represent a revived commun-
ity of feeling, and hoping, of
faith and historic endurance. But
our primary attachment, to be
sure, is to native soil here, where
we live, thrive and pass on.
Born among the hospitable
folks of Kentucky, reared in the
traditionally free air of Harvard,
Justice Brandeis could not even
for a brief period endure the
cramped space of Prussia whence
he wrote home:

line night ((online home late and
online I had forgotten my k•y. I
whlt.1.1 up to •waken my roomrn•te.
and for t:. I way( reprimanded by the
Ttie made me homesick. In
Sento, ou ould whietle . . . I
went./ to en back to Amerb • and 1
emoted to stilly law My uncle. the
alw.110.1.1. woo • lawyer, and to me
with., elm
Worth
Mt [1104
really

w hile

By what strange alchemy did
he first acquire a feeling for that
masterly approach to social, eco-
nomic and legal problems? Some

of it must come, of course, from
the Jewish home with its loving
parents, its friends, and the in-
filtration of a racial heritage.
To his uncle, Louis Dembits.

who had written much on the
law, Brandeis, no doubt, owes his
love of the law. To a father,
outcast of the Vienna Revolution
of 1848, he should be indebted
for his deep love of liberty and
his attitude generally. To his
university he owes the develop-
ment of his career as a legal and
social thinker. And to a great
opportunity to become immersed
professionally in the interests of
the common people he owes his
rare and rich wisdom.
How justly he comes by this
Inheritance. Newly arrived in
America, his father wrote home:

already lo,• our new country no
mm Sr that I reJoi. when I can Mon
its pralm . . . This week I have been
reading of the progress made in Wisah•
Ington• dal'. and I felt its proud and
happy about It •• though It had all
I feel my
been my one doing • •
pelt- 1011nm growing
•ry ear.
ever,' day I tears to know the aplen•
did Institution. of this eountry better

The son reproducing this sen-
timent later on in one of his
own powerful dissents:
—rho. who won our Intlependen ,

by revolution were not et:tempts The('
did not fear political emit , They
Aid not exalt order at the coitt of
liberty. .

Listen to the familiar sound
of what he wrote - in 1912:

Arnoric • n
- Them la no hope for
denloorsoy solos. the A toorWILO work.
Ins man I. permitted to combine. end.

through combination and rollectly• bar.
g•InIng. Neiore for himself the He ,
of Industrial liberty...

Can we isolate Brandeis out of
the atmosphere in which he
moved? Can we isolate anyone?
He is the product of America as
it was during the period of his
intellectual growth. What he
gave is perhaps what we bring
as a people everywhere—a great-
er susceptibility to culture, to so-
cial feeling and sympathy.
It is not so difficult to under-
stand why Brandeis should be-
come aware of his relationship to
Jewish life. Nor did he come to
it by the Orthodox or Reform
route but rather by a transcen-
dent sense of belonging to his

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