December 11, 1936
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A People's Indestructibility

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kbeeription, in Advance
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to Wove poblicetles, all correspondence and sews matter being done by the
Tuesday evening of gaols week. Miss Henrietta Szold, in Palestine. As the
west road this eta. as
wax.

Ono. waillow sotto., kindly else one Ode of the PAP.

Lights from \
Shadotrland

The Message of Chanukah

By LOUIS PEKARSKY
Reproductl.m In part or whole forbid.

The Major Problem of American Jewry As It Was Viewed
By the Late Louis Marshall

den. Without ferrulsalon of the Seven
Arts Feature Syndicate. CopyrIghtero of
hls feature.

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1936, S. A.

JACKIE HELLER OFF TO
EUROPE
The NBC tenor little Jackie Het-
ler has sailed for London to fill an
indefinite engagement at Gros-
venor House. Heller is usually
heard on the radio from Chicago.
His family lives in _Pittsburgh. At i
Grosvenor House he will succeed
Sophie Tucker as featured enter-1
tether. Jackie is climbing rapidly
in his quest for fame. lie is a
former choir boy, prize fighter,
jockey and life guard. In 1032
he was with Ben Bernie's band as
soloist and remained for two years,
winning national prominence.
IN HOLLYWOOD, WE HEAR:
Fannie Brice was honored last
Thursday
when the students o
hurs
Vveri:iitydelapreeesenoteodt
N ew

Nine years ago the man who was universally acknowledged as the leader of American
before the Jewish Education f Asso ci ati on
Jewry, the late Louis Marshall, delivered an address
A meri can
of New York in which he described Jewish education as the major problem o
Jewry. On the occasion of the 15th annual Chanukah dinner of the Jewish Education Associa-
tion of New York, which is to be held at Hotel Astor, New York, this Sunday evening, Dec.
a ssociation in a beautifully prepared
13, Mr. Marshall's address has been reproduced by the
brochure.
In the foreword to this pamphlet, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman laments the fact that "so
much of the spirit of self•consecration has departed with Louis Marshall." Judge Rosenman
declares that "without the fervor which he and a handful of others translated into action in
behalf of Jewish education, the flame could hardly have been kept alive through these

Strictly
Confidential

Tidbits from Everywhere

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

(Copyright.Mt

a. A. F. P I

NAZI BUSINESS
Add to the growing list of anti-
Semitic outfits the Order of the
Red Hearts ... It's an affiliate of
the Ku Klux Klan and is organiz-
ing in New Jersey ... Headqbar-
tern are in Union City, once the
main stamping ground of the
Friends of the New Germany.
Movie exhibitors are bringing
heavy pressure to bear on Will
Hays, film czar, to get him to pre-

director of the Youth Aliyah, the branch
to
of the Zionist movement which seeks
vail upon Victor McLaglen to
settle in the Jewish Homeland the children
liquidate his Fascist military troop
hard
years."
in California ... Boycott threats
The salient points of Mr. Marshall's address delivered in 1927 remain to this day im•
of Jews who are persecuted in Poland and
S•ldsatk Chanukah (Feast of Dedication)
of
against McLaglen's pictures are
portant commentaries on the problems of Jewish education, and we therefore reproduce them
Germany, Miss Szold, today holds one
Reading of the Law
being talked of.
here as an important Chanukah message to the Jews of America.
most important positions that are with-
Pentateuch' portion.—Gen. 41:1.44:17.
the
A certain Philip Vogele, a New
in the gift of the Jewish people. She holds
Prophetic"! portion--Zech. 2:14-4:7.
words. If we, a certainty that our entire system of govern-
mincing
York Nazi, is acting as the agent
There is no use in
Chanukah Readings of theLaw '
of our political ideals, hark back to
merited basis of able lead-
for a lucrative business that the
the Jewish people, ever come to the stage when ment, most
Sunday, Nom. 7:36-47; Monday, Chanukah and this post on a
German government has worked
Chodesh Tebet readings of theLaw, Num. ership.
we fail to respond to the call of Jewish edit• ancient Judea and to the ancient Jewish law.
up at the expense of the Jews ...
:1-11 and Num. 7:42-47; Tuesday, Chanukah
Miss Szold has shed much lustre upon
cation, we will have done what our enemies never Are we willing to forget what other people still
German Jews who leave the Reich
Rosh Chodeth Tebet readings of the Law, Hadassah. Only recently, on the occas-
the
people
of
the
Book,
we,
and want to sell their property
Eighth
Day
of
Chanukah
succeeded
in
doing,
what
the
Romans
and
Greeks
remember?
Are
5
em. 18:1-15; 7:48-3;
antj
her with an
ion
of
the
annual
Hadassah
convention,
d
all
the
nations
of
the
earth
were
unable
to
be
the
only
ones
who
do
not
read
that
Book,
can't do it except at sacrificial
,
Num.
7:54-8:4.
'sgs of the Law
master
of
arts,
but
master
of
interest- , ' amusements). She was selected for
whose children are to know nothing of it, and prices . . . Vogele has a list of
Kislev 27, 5697 Miss Szoid wrote one of the most
to do. We will have destroyed ourselves. We are to sink into the darkness of ignorance, and
Germans in this country who want
11, 1936
ing statements ever recorded relative to this honor after a poll con uc
our own death-warrant.
to sell their property here and go
written
will
have
are to be blind to the enlightenment which we back to Germany ... With the
the influence of Palestine upon world among the 30,000 students at the
I cannot conceive of a Jew who can truth-
have
brought
to
the
world?
Whoever
is
versed
help of the German authorities
Jewry. In the course of her message to university.
The Chanukah Festival
if he is ignorant
Sampson Raphaelson, the noted
fully call himself a real Jew
in literature knows that if you were to eliminate Vogele works out a trade between
the liadassah convention Miss Szold author,
is building a $25000 two
the Jews and the Germans ... .
The Chanukah festival, the kindling of
of Judaism, if he is not versed in Biblical lore,
from the world's classics the references which
story, 12-room home in the Riviera
Half the profits of these deals go
if he is ignorant of Jewish history, if he has
e Chanukah lights, in the present cur- wrote:
Biblical characters, to Biblical to the Nazis .. .
district of Southern California.
they
contain
to
not been trained in Jewish ethics. Such a per-
rent of events calls also for the shedding
Sol Lesser, president of Princi-
In'these serious days, when Jewries in many
Biblical ethics, to Biblical poetry, JEWISH NEWS
teachings,
to
son may, on some theory or other,• be called a
pal Productions, leaves Hollywood
countries are threatened with disintegration
there would remain a ruined torso.
A former publicity man for one
. f light on Jewish conditions and on the
soon for an European vacation.
and the Jewry of Palestine in particular is
Jew but he might just as well be called anything
of the biggeat national Jewish or-
status of our people everywhere.
Are we ready to forget that great heritage?
fly
to
New
York
for
the
under fire, I find myself penetrated by the be-
lie will
joyous
else.
He
is
not,
however,
worthy
to
be
called
a
ganizations
is now press-agenting
most
Chanukah is one of our
premiere on Broadway of his new
Are we prepared to let the children coming after
lief that what has been built up in Palestine
for the Arab political committee
Jew. Ile represents no ideals. He represents
Bobby Breen musical. In Europe
holidays on the calendar, but at the pres-
constitutes a community different from any
us forget it? Will we suffer the children of the in this big gun of the new United
nothing that is of spiritual value. lie may be a
Jewish community in the world. I do not hold
he will search for story material
ent time it is marred by events which bring
poor to forget it? If I thought that were the Palestine Appeal campaign .
for future Breen pictures. First multi-millionaire. He may be a great merchant,
it to be a better community than any in the
with them tragedy and despair. Much of
The latest organization seeking
case, I would say harsher things about the Jews
showing of Breen's picture will
wide range of Diaspora groups. It is different!
industrialist,
a
great
physician,
funds to combat anti-Semitism is
misunderstanding
a
great
he may be
this sorrow is due to
take place in 40 key cities at the
The difference is its indestructibility. The
than the worst of "Reshoim" ("Wicked Men")
Prof.
Morrie Raphael Cohen's con-
we
have
not,
as
be-
the
But
or
a
great
lawyer.
same time as the New York open-
German Jewish community was deeply rooted
by non-Jews who fail to respond to
ference on Jewish Relations .. .
in the German soil. It was intelligent and
ing, for which a $200,000 adver- lieve, been kept alive miraculously by the Al- ever applied to them. I do not, however, be-
plea for humane treatment of the cruci-
A
group
of prominent Jews are
mighty during all these centuries in order that here it. I cannot believe that the Jews of this
tising appropriation is to be spent.
economically vigorous. In part it was con-
approached to contribute
fied Jewish people. But much of the ex-
Another new convert to Cali-
sistently Jewish. Yet a political change has
termed Jewish country, of this imperial city, are prepared to being
what
is
$160,000
for a three-year program
there
may
be
men
with
isting tragedy may in the course of his-
fornia's climate is Phil Harris, or- blood, but who are without a single Jewish idea countenance such a reproach upon themselves,
all but destroyed it. Even if the German po-
of fact-finding to dig up material
chestra leader on the Jack Benny
litical trend should be reversed, it cannot be
tory be ascribed also to misunderstanding
on
the
position
of the Jews in the
in their minds and are destitute of the Jewish upon the memory of their ancestors, upon their
broadcast, who is to build a $12,000
restored unless entirely new foundations are
by Jews themselves of the problem as it
strove and labored modern world ... The material
Spanish ranch-house type of resi-
may
conceive
himself
to
be
parents
who
struggled
and
laid. History has produced a second Spain.
is to be used as ammunition against
spirit. Such a man
faces the present generation.
The Jewish community in Palestine may be
dence in Encino.
a great man, but he is really on "Am Ha-aretz." that they might give their children a Jewish anti-Semitic charges . . . Wonder
The Feast of the Maccabees calls for the
Alfred Newman, musical direc-
harassed and impeded in its progress, it can-
whether Professor Cohen and his
(Hebrew
equivalent
of
"ignoramus").
Fre-
education.
tor of Samuel Goldwyn Produc-
not be destroyed root and branch as was Span-
shedding of light not only among non-
We shall not allow such a stain to be placed
associates know that Dr. Arthur
tions, gets an average of 100 fan
ish Jewry, as German Jewry threatens to be.
quently he is nothing more than a clod of earth
Jews but also within the Jewish commu-
Ruppin has already done the job
I
am
con-
contrary,
upon our names. On the
letters per week, which provide
The political mill may grind it to fine dust.
they propose, in his masterful
with a pocketbook.
nity. We must continue to plead for un-
him with an important index of
The very dust, I hold, will retain the char-
vinced that as soon as we understand the prob- book The Jews in the Modern
I
I
never
undergo
a
great
emotion
when
derstanding and for truthful evaluation of
popular taste in music.
acter of the structure reared in Palestine by
do our utmost to make amends for World."
hear
that
some
Jew
is
worth
five,
10,
or
20,
or
lam,
we
shall
An
old
woman
in
Nebraska
wrote
a fragment of the eternal people, borne on
Jewish needs. Constructive effort must be
Midtown New York is being
do, however, feel an any neglect of the past, and shall see to it that
an indignant letter of protest to
the shoulders of the vital elements in world
even a 100 millions. I
emphasized and that which the late Louis
Warner Bros. Studios in regard to
hear of a Jew in this community every Jewish child shall have treated to the sight of a sandwich
Jewry. Its character springs from two india-
I
man advertising Yiekor and Kad-
emotion when
Marshall called the major problem of
Mervyn LeRoy's picture "Three overwhelming
putable facts: The Jew has an historic claim
who lives the Jewish life, who has the Jewish an opportunity to get some kind of a Jewish edu-
dish services at the Temple and
Men on a Horse." She claimed it
upon Palestine as Eretz Yisrael, and he has
American Jewry — Jewish education —
Center of Times Square . . . The
spirit,
who
brings
up
his
children
as
Jews,
even
ration.
As
long
as
there
is
one
child
in
this
a
load
was
inhumane
to
put
such
validated the claim by the volume and the
must again be placed on the agenda for
community who needs religious training, r rabbi of the temple is Dr. Nathan
on one animal . . . LeRoy, by the
solidity of his achievements in the economic,
cent piece,
if
he
does
not
possess
a
five
Wolf, who makes the front pages
major` consideration.
shall
have
such
way, has just purchased a recent
the social, and the cultural field in Palestine
We must make a new appraisal of values. whose parents desire that he
every election day because he's the
Unless Chanukah can shed light on the
novel, "Death in the Deep South."
in the course of less than 20 years. The na-
take stock and equip ourselves with training, and it is not forthcoming, we will have only voter in his district .. .
Ile is beginning his career as an We must
ture of his achievement testifies to the fact
darkness that surrounds us it can not pos-
AND THAT
THIS
new
ideas—and
after
all
they
are
old
ideas.
The
sinned
against
our
ancestors,
against
our
tradl-
independent
producer.
that the genius of the Jewish people during
sibly be a day of happiness. It will be a
llendrik Willem Van Loon's sug-
Myrl Alderman, who arranges moment anybody offers me new ideas and I in- tion, against Judaism, and against our country.
the many centuries of dispersion was not
gestion
that Americans erect a
true feast of lights when we have suc-
I
the musical numbers of Irvin
estranged from the genius of the land of his
they are often the One thing is certain: it is only those who statue to Felix Mendelssohn-Barth-
Cobb's show bids fair to make him vestigate them, I find that
national origin. The achievement is not an
ceeded in adopting a program which will
of
our
ancestors
of
20
centuries
ago,
or
have
enjoyed
some
religious
training,
who
are
oldy
and
keep it here until Ger-
I one of America's most sought- ideas
adaptation to another people, to a host cul-
brighten the position of Jews everywhere.
possessed of religious sentiments, who have a many has been cured of the Aryan
after musical arrangers.
ideas formulated by our ancient sages in the
ture. It is a revival of the land in the spirit
Chanukah, therefore, calls for action and
jitters
has
brought him a flood of
sense of spiritual values that are to be ranked
Harry Cohn with his Jobella
demanded of the Jewish people by its legis-
Talmud, or even by those who dwelt in the
for the discrediting of every semblence of
checks from interested people • ..
Stable has four horses from which
lators and prophetic leadera, during the cen-
I care not what they
citizens.
But Van Loon has returned all
indifference towards things Jewish.
he hopes to develop a candidate much-decried ghetto. We have grown accus- among the best
turies of its early history, in agriculture, in

sab•
The Detroit Jewish Chrookle la•Its. eorreepondense on
Jewish people. but disclaim. novelist.
40 tint
Iwo d %tared
toderoweeat
of the •Iews erpressed by the writers
for

Dr. Weizmann's Testimony

law, in social thinking, in civilization. The
tang of Judaism and of Jewishness meets the
senses of the student-observer of the Jewish
development in Palestine. It will cling to
whatever vestiges of the building will remain
if catastrophes should be decreed. The dust
to which it may be ground by untoward po-
litical events will be the living seed of an-
other Phoenix-like structure.

for the $100,000 Santa Anita
Handicap race this winter. This
will be the first time that an active
representative of motion pictures
will have a starter in the world's
richest horse race stake of the Los
Angeles Turf Club. •
Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld is the mu-
sical director of Bobby Breen%
"Rainbow on the River." Dr. Rei-
senfeld, you remember, conducted
the first motion picture symphony
orchestra at New York's Rialto
Theater.
Mischa Cefkin, former member
of the Rochester, N. Y., Eastman
Philharmonic Orchestra, is di-
recting a new Jewish American
Youth Chorus at the Jewish Com-
munity Center in Los Angeles. Mr.
Cefkin hat' conducted similar large
groups in Carnegie Hall, New
York, and Jordan Hall, Boston.
Ruby Keeler takes a recess every
three hours to run home and see
Al Jolson, Jr.
Julian Shapiro, a Baltimore boy
who at one time did radio work,
has been signed by Paramount to
write scripps. Ile is now known
as Jack Sanford.

tomed to hearing this word uttered with a slur, believe, so long as there is some spiritual con- the money pending the organisa-
jorgetting that if there had been no ghetto, there tent in their lives. Every group of our vast tion of 'a committee to carry out
his idea.
would be no living Judaism today. It is because population that has the background of some
If you were excited over that
the Jews of the Middle Ages lived their own tradition and cherishes that tradition, Is the bet- operation which successfully sev-
ered Simplicio Godino from his
lives, even though they often were the lives of ter for it, because every individual member of
Siamese twin, Lucie, who died of
the martyred, that we have survived with the it is left in touch with something outside of him-
pneumonia, let us remind you that
self. He ceases to be a self-sufficient egotist.
richest heritage that a people has ever possessed
the doctor who performed it was
lie is not the be-all and the end-all of existence.
H. M. Wertheim, one of unsere
on earth.
leite . . . Incidentally, Wertheim
Now we are prosperous. There no longer Without a background, man amounts to very
has refused big money to be a
exists a ghetto, unless perhaps a gilded ghetto, little.
star on a number of im-
this is par excellence the greatest guest
I
think
portant radio programs . . . A
a new ghetto without the spiritual values of the
old ghettoes that have passed away. What we problem of the Jew of today. I have the great- friend of ours who is a Hebrew
ought to do is to hold on to what we have de- est sympathy for those who need hospitals, or scholar has shown us a book print-
ed in Venice in 1547 which tells
rived from the past that is precious. It is those homes for the aged, or the alleviation of their about a pair of Jewish Siamese
things that have made our contributi9n to civil- physical needs. But compared with the necessity twins who were born in Turkey...
e the finest that has been made by any that exists of giving religious and spiritual food According to this story one of the
p. to the children of Israel, all them other philan- twins wanted to get married, but
the other objected ... And the first
peopl Read the history of our country—the United thropies pale into insignificance.
died of anguish . . . A few days
Let me on this inspiring Chanukah festival later the other one also died.
influence?
It
States. What is the most potent
Joseph Beck, the Polish foreign
And what was their close with the memorable words which Matta-
is that of the Puritans.
minister who is urging mass emi-
story, their message? It was the story of the thias addressed to the glorious Maccabees:
gration of the Jews, is of partly
of our Bible. Read "Wherefore, ye my eons, be valient, and show
Jewish origin, we are told by Rob-
Old Testament, the gal ,
Straus yourselves men in behalf of the Law; for by it ert Cosner in "Some of My Beat
the book written by the late Oscar S.
Friends are Jews."
on the American Commonwealth. He proved to shall ye obtain glory."

In a brilliant presentation of the Jewish
case before the Royal Commission which
is now holding its hearings in Jerusalem,
Dr. Chaim Weizmann took occasion to
blast the libel against settlers in Pales-
There is an historic lesson in this fine
tine to the effect that they are "the scum statement.
Men and women alike have
of Eastern Europe." It i" to the credit of
from her, and Hadassah
the great leadership of Dr. Weizmann that much to learn
in particular owe an obligation to
be should have told the commission em- members
phatically: "I would be proud to be count- the founder of their movement to follow
in her footsteps and not to yield on any
ed among these pioneers."
Those who have followed the history of front which leads to progress in Pales-
the present migration movement to Pal- tine's reconstruction. Interest in Palestine
estine will appreciate the significance of demands all-year-round devotion to every
this statement. The Jewish pioneers in branch of the Zionist movement, because
Palestine are not only the builders of a what the Chalutzim in Palestine do to de-
great future in the Jewish Homeland, but fend the Jewish position depends in large
are most constructive in setting a rapid measure upon what we, in the Diaspora,
pace towards the revivification of do to encourage them and to strengthen
Jewish culture and idealism. It was truth- their hands.
fully pointed out by Dr. Weizmann that
unlike the settlers in different lands who The Tragedy of Polish Jewry
invariably seek to shut doors to other im-
Elsewhere in this issue we present an
I DEMOCRACY
migrants, the Jewish pioneers constantly
clamor for additional certificates to be article by Rabbi J. X. Cohen, chairman of
the commission on economic problems of
How Hitler is Preparing the Two Plays to Be Acted by Children at Home or in the
By RABBI .1. X. COHEN
granted to new pioneers.
Schools — Make Your Own Extempor•
Next War
It is interesting to note that Moshe the American Jewish Congress, who re-
aneous Chanukah Party
NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a lecture de-
Shertok, head of the political department views the conditions of Polish Jewry as he EDITOR'S
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
livered by Rabbi J. X. Cohen, who Is the chairman of the cow
of the Jewish Agency in his testimony be- found them on his recent visit there.
By THE LATKE FRESSER
mission on economic problems of the American Jewish Congress"
The horrors which are described in this
fore the British Royal Commission advised
at the Free Syeagegue, 40 W. 65th St., New York. Rabbi EDITOR'S NOTE: Pierre Tee Reser.,
standing to nere correepoodeet
Cohen's lecture was band en his observations during a visit to
battle! Remember when those
the English officials that 250,000 Jewish article prove the warning that has been
FOR
CHANUKAH
and authority en European affair; ALL LIT UP
Syrians sent elephants against
Poland last simmer.
I. no In thio tenantry for • teeters
young men and women in 24 countries are issued to the Jews of the world that even
having seen for hitnealf
THE
SHAMES
SPEAKING
TO
tome,
after
us! And how we went right next
the Ethiopian and Ppitnish anus and FIRST CANDLE:—Why are you
organized for settlement in Palestine and in our wildest imagination we could not
Poland was a land of promise to
to them and stabbed those animals
the
nor
preparstiose
being
made
If
we
think
that
conditions
are
are awaiting the opportunity to leave conceive of the type of suffering to which bad for Jews of Germany, we European Jews for many genera-
throaghoot Enrope, ro this article so happy tonight? Why are you and made them drop to the
he alfalfa« the present Dermas sit- all lit up and act as if this is a
and that accounts for the
ground!
their lands of oppression and to begin a our people in that country are being sub- ought to learn something of the tions
totting and lays hare Illtleto plan
concentration of Jews in
mitted. Not only the native Poles but the hell there is for Jews in Poland. heavy
for the eonseseet eat only of Enrole holiday? It is so cold out, it is
FOURTH CANDLE:—I have to
new life in Eretz Israel.
Poland and adjacent Slav areas.
snowing and wintry, and you're laugh every time I think of those
but of Amadei, toe.
plight of the Jews in Ger- Poland became the world Jewish
No one can possibly foretell what the American Poles who are returning to Po- The
acting like you are having a swell fat Syrians who could not run
many
is
terrible
but
the
plight
of
center, and it helped to maintain
(Copyright. 1134. 8, A. T. 2 )
time?
results of the hearings before the British land and the American officials in Poland the Jews in Poland is horrible.
fast enough to get out of our way.
and spread Jewish culture every-
FIRST CANDLE:—You're just My name Is Simon, and I was
Royal Commission will be. This, however, have apparently been drinking from the
The Jews are 10 per cent of the where. The Jews In Poland who
Nazi propaganda seeks to fooling, my boy. I think you just right in line with Judas and Jona-
cup
of
prejudice
which
appears
to
have
In
cities
like
already
certain:
that
the
progress
for
urban population.
had come from Germany carried
is
want me to tell you the old story than in that big battle. And Our
out an old sociological law: they present the new German Reich over and over again, because you generals here, the other candles
which Jewry is responsible in Palestine no bottom in the land which only a short Lodz and Warsaw the population
runs in excess of 30 resisted abandonment of their low of Adolf Hitler as • model of are also having • swell time.
will become evident and will be placed on time ago was itself enslaved but which proportion
who follow us—they sure did a
per cent. They came into the new German dialect which gradually social stability, an unshakable
Well, let me tell you. I am the good job too.
record in certain and definite terms. This does not know the meaning of decency in Poland from old Austria through became the Yiddish of today.
rock
in
the
midst
of
the
eco-
oldest of all the candles and I am
FIFT11 CANDLE: —Yes,
from the old Germany
Following the distressing Chmiel-
is in itself a welcome fact and it is to be dealing with an important minority of her Galicia;
through Posen, from old Russia nicki massacres in the middle of nomic tempest that is blowing therefore first to be blessed. I am Sireee! I was right there. And we
hoped that out of the good which we are population.
father
of
the
Mac-
Mattathias,
the
sure
were glad to win.
through
the
Warsaw
district.
the
17th
Century
and
the
persecu-
through this world. To hear
Unpleasant as it is to dish out such un-
bringing to the desolate land there will
I am the man who refused
SIXTH CANDLE:—And it cer-
There is little question that the tion that ensued at that time, the the admirers of the German cabees.
happiness
as
is
described
in
Rabbi
Cohen's
to
let
the
Syrian
Greeks
spoil
our
come
a
recognition
of
our
just
rights
tainly made our daddies and mam-
also
Jews are thoroughly integrated in tide of Jewish immigration re-
articles, we feel nevertheless that the Polish economic life and have been versed and has continued so with totalitarian state, Herr Hitler synagogues and force us to , eat mas feel good, because they did
in Palestine.
food. I am the father not want to see the temples and
Jews of this country should know the for many, many years. There is a gradual decline in the import- is the genius who has found forbidden
of Polish Jewry. After the the key to the solution for who told his sons to organize an synagogues more filthy, and they
facts in order that they may prove merci- ne question also that there is a ance
campaign now In pro- partition of Poland at the end of which democracies look in vain. army and to drive the Syrians out refused to eat Chazir. And after
of the country.
New Chief Rabbi of Palestine ful when the occasion comes to help their systematic
the
18th
century, most of the Polish
gress to eliminate the Jew from
we won we sure celebrated.
SECOND CANDLE: — And I
brethren.
business, social and political life. Jewry fell under the oppressive He has discovered the formula
SEVENTH CANDLE: — And
The long-delayed selection of Chief unfortunate
to
end
the
social
unrest
and
am the oldest of the sons. That's what
rule
of
the
Cars,
and
this
tradi-
It is not only in the field of philanthropy JEWS ENJOYED FREEDOM
goodies we got when we came
tional oppression and persecution revolutionary ferment which why I am all lit up and ready for back from that war against the
Rabbi of the Ashkenazic community of but particularly in the field of political ac-
CENTURIES
AGO
became implanted in the Poles and
a party.
Palestine was apparently justified because tion that we ought to deal wisely with the
are
inevitably
bound
up
with
Syrians!
And the Latkehsl Boy,
Crusades made persecution is in full flourish today.
My name is Judas, and they
of the desire to choose the ablest leader present situation. Rabbi Cohen quotes a of The
an era of economic transition. called me Maccabeus. You know oh boy oh boy oh boy! Were they
Jews endemic in Germany so ANT1-SEMITISM PUSHED BY
swell! Mother made them. And
The Fuehrer has established why, don't you? Because Maccabee
for the post.
prominent Polish leader as having told that many Jews came to Poland POLITICAL LEADERS
Dr. Isaac Herzog,who has been him "philanthropy is not the answer," and when King Bolealav in the 13th I m et Dr. Paul Super, an Amer- that elusive condition which al- means the Hammerer. I was the she is the best cook in the world.
EIGHTH CANDLE:— But say,
Century
gave
Jews
•
charter
of
known for many years as a man gifted that "the answer must come from enlight- social and economic opportunit T.l Iran, director general of the Y. M. together escapes the efforts of Hammerer. I did not let those don't
forget that miracle Remem-
In the 14th Century came Casimir C. A. in Warsaw. He hkes the parliamentary regimes in the Syrians get away with any of their her how we looked around for oil
in scholarship and leadership, having
monkeyshines. As soon as they
public opinion."
the Great. Casimir the Great real- Poles. He told no so. He snobs
been educated in English universities in ened
presence
of
a
devastating
crisis;
started to bother our people when to light the Menorah? And how
By revealing the true facts, Rabbi Cohen ly promoted liberal treatment for I about the tolerance of the Poles
addition to his possession of great Hebraic makes it possible for Jews everywhere to the Jews and in the 16th Century for the Jews hut it was very else be has brought Germany sur- they wanted to go to Shul and to there was just a little bit left? But
his 5
pray, or when they wanted to force God made the oil last for eight
and Talmudic learning, is the type of become politically-minded and to realize Sigismund Augustus issued an our from from
cease
from
strife
and
class
war-
his statements to
them to eat chazir, I hammered days and that's why we have such
leader who is needed to act as spokesman that some solution may be found in politi- edict which permitted the Jews to where—not
holiday. I wish the oil had
that he is as anti-Semitic as fare. What is more, he has away. I gathered all the brav
their a r long
us
Palestine.
elect their chief rabbi and their the event of Poles in Warsaw, and united the German people, en-
community
of
lasted for • 100 days because I
boys together
her and we blocked
for the religious
action
because
only
by
resorting
to
judges.
Its
gave
them
autonomy
cal
!love
Chanukah. But I am satisfied
an unusually
that he is preaching Nazi doctrine
dowed it with • new faith in roads in the hills. We chased them with eight. We sure have funl
The selection appears to be be hoped
available means may we possibly in all matters concerning Jewish in P-lend.
that it every solution
and chased them, until they had
and
it
is
to
life
and,
in
fact,
issued
a
document
of
Polish
life
its
destiny
and
given
it
an
un-
for the problem of the most
Another figure
SECOND CANDLE:—(Judas)
wise one
find a
is known as the Magna Char- who is r•ey anti-Jewish is a lead- bending collective will to forge to leave Palestine. Yes, sir, we Say boys, we didn't tell this here
will be marked by a new era of happiness oppressed Jew in all history—the Polish that
just made them beat a retreat
ta of Jewish self-government in •• of the Eedeks, Professor Stresn-
for the Jewish people during the new
Shames
and all the people what
itself
a
place
in
the
sun.
The
And you should have seen them
Poland. From the early part of the sky. I was astounded to learn of
Jew.
happened in Jerusalem. Remem-
Through the American Jewish Congress 17th Century the Jewish Council
Chief Rabbi's leadership.
eAeoe•-y of Nazi doetrines and attention of the Nazi govern- run!
ber
how
we
got to the Temple a nd
will be praying for the Rabbi Cohen is rendering a great service. ruled Jewish life in Poland as a could n• 5 •orrelate it with the fact ment is no longer diverted by
THIRD CANDLE:—And that's
World Jew,'
parl:sment• with full row- that both his grandmother end hi,
• true story, yes sirl Because I how the Syrians thought they
of Its people by Rabbi We hope that it will prove its worth Jewish taxation.
geld
strikes,
protest-movements
and
anee
education
and
eon-
was right there in the battle with would kill us and make us bow
g m/este!
ers
him, we enter-
._ of
tife. Nowhere In the rer—or•t ► ., had been Jewish.

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