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There is such a thing as the Jewish ques-
tion in the Christian message. Dr. Stephen
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baste et tattoos( be the Jewlah people, but disclaim. mooed-
S. Wise, in one of his recent sermons,
My fee ea tedoreement of the views erpremd by the writen
properly evaluated this problem when he
Sabbath Reek Chodesh Shebat Readings
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Froitateuchal portion.—Ex. 6:2-9:35;
Num. 28:9-15.
Prophetical portion.—Ezek 28:25-29:21.
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Wednesday, Jan. 13
Nona 28:1-15.
January 8, 1937
Tebet 25, 5697
Deserved Honors for Dr. Wise
Last year Miss Henrietta Szold of Jeru-
salarn, founder of Hadassah, women's
Zionist organization of America, was'the
first to be given the national service award
of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity. This year
the award went to Dr. Stephen S. Wise,
who is proclaimed to be the man "who
has made during the year the most dis-
tinctive contribution to the creative life
of the Jewish people."
So well deserved is this award that the
reasons in the citation are deserving of
quotation. This national distinction went
to Dr. Wise in recognition of his being
president of the Zionist Organization, the
inspirer of the world Jewish Congress,
president of the Jewish Institute of Reli-
gion, rabbi of the Free Synagogue of New
York, editor of Opinion Magazine, leader
in Civic Affairs Committee of New York
as well as numerous other Jewish and
civic activities. The citation further states
that the causes in which Dr. Wise is ac-
tive "if detailed, would become a roll of
all that Ls worthwhile in American Jew-
ish life."
These are no exaggerated reasons for
the honors heaped upon Dr. Wise. Even
those who disagree with him as well as
those who dislike him—and because he is
so outstanding it is inevitable that he
should have enemies—must admit his
greatness. The judges who acted in be-
half of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity are to be
congratulated upon their choice.
•
Toscanini's
Concert
So varied and tragic are the waves of
anti-Semitism and persecutions throughout
the World that when a wave of construc-
tive effort and joyous artistic interpreta-
tion reaches us we naturally accept it both
as a good omen and as a most welcome
variation from international tragedy.
The concerts of the Palestine Symphony
Orchestra directed by Arturo Toscanini
are of such great significance that it is im-
possible to underestimate their import-
ance. Bronislaw Huberman, the eminent
violinist who was responsible for Toscan-
ini's coming to Palestine, dscribed the Pal-
estine concert in this important sentence
which came over the cables to this coun-
try: "Nothing could describe this concert
except the word 'divine.'
Not only were there gathered in the
Palestine Symphony Orchestra physicians
of outstanding ability but the audiences
that came to hear them were among the
most enthusiastic. So excellent is the re-
sponse to the appeal for the financing of
the orchestra's further functioning that
more than 7,000 subscriptions have al-
ready been sold for a series of concerts by
this orchestra at $25 a subscription.
The fact that Toscanini has given as-
surances that he will return to Palestine
again, perhaps every year, is another ele-
ment of satisfaction in this new chapter
of Palestine's cultural history. Toscanini's
name will be perpetuated in the story of
musical development in Palestine.
Frau Einstein
Sympathetic expressions to Prof. Albert
Einstein on the loss of his wife and guide
are marked by sentiments of admiration
for the woman who in her own way was
as great as her husband. An able person
in her own right, she was willing to stay
in the background because she felt, as she
herself put it, that her life does not be-
king to her but to him. "Nearly every
minute of the day I give to my husband
and that means to the public," she was
quoted to have said some time ago, and
she submerged her own self in adherence
to this credo.
Her devotion was one of the great
marks of selflessness which made her
stand out among the Women of her time.
For such devotion she will be remembered
and her name will always be a symbol of
admiration.
boassoci holidays
which are used by
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Reproduction In part or whole forbid.
deo, Without Defoliation of the Seven
Art. Posture Syndicate, Copyriebtere of
We feature.
1937, 5 A P. 5
Nazi-Inspired Arabs
The Palestine Hebrew daily Davar re-
ported an incident during the recent dis-
turbances which proves how it is possible
to inflame the minds of bigots against
even the best of friends. The Davar re-
ported:
King Carol's Anti-Semites
Rumania's anti-Semitic government has
forbidden the convening of Zionist meet-
ings, has issued an order against the hold-
ing of the annual Ile-Chalutz conference
and has permitted the raiding of Zionist
headquarters in Bessarabia. It is apparent
that King Carol's anti-Semites believe not
only in crushing the Jews within Rumania
but also in preventing them from finding
an escape anywhere else.
official Catholic organ in Vienna
approved the sponsoring of the economic
1.110sm"
of Jews, in an article in its special
i.Oiriess business which carries boycott
Christmas edition. And in their churches
with ft iatsseroes implicationd and which, these
Catholics must have read the
becomes a wide issue, will not do Psalms same
of David and preached "peace on
Certainly Jew-i
Jewii merchants any good.
to be permitted to earth and good will toward men I"
ish hadonntsen ought
A Comparison of Robert Gessner's "Some of My Best Friends
Are Jews" with Joseph Freeman's More Logical
"An American Testament"
SCENARIO WRITER?
This is really the crux of the problem.
The point is that the peace on earth and
good-will message has been made merely
a matter for polluted Christmas spiritual
intoxication and the moment the false
propagandists of this message sober up
they immediately revert to their old meth-
ods of giving ear to the dictates of big-
otry and prejudice. When the message of
Christmas becomes true in spirit as well
as hi word then it will have reason to claim
universal adherence to it.
There is an old Arab legend that tells of
the loyalty of a Jewish poet and hero, Samuel
ben Adaya Ilacohen, who lived In Arabia be-
fore the conquest of Islam. His friend, Imru
Alkis, an Arab poet and ruler, was obliged on
a certain occasion to leave for Rome on a
personal mission to the Emperor Justinian.
Before sailing he handed his shield and other
valuables to Samuel for safe-keeping. On
Imru's departure, a rival Arab ruler swooped
down on Samuel's residence demanding that
he be given Imru's shield. Samuel, however,
refused to betray his friend', trust. Not even
when the assailant seized one of his children
by a subterfuge and threatened to put him to
death would Samuel hand over the shield, and
he continued to hold out even after the other
had begun to sever his child's body limb by
limb.
Imru failed to return, being killed on the
way home, and Samuel handed the shield to
his heirs. His loyalty and integrity became
proverbial among the Arabs, who call him
"Ismuel," and to this day of a man of out-
standing faithfulness Arabs will say "as
faithful as Samuel."
A few days ago this legend was told over
the wireless to listeners to the Arabic pro-
gramme. The announcer, however, who hap-
pened to be also the director of the Arabic
Broadcasting Programme, added the follow.
ing explanation: "Samuel behaved as the leg-
end related he did from love of wealth, since
the shield that Alkis left with him was a pledge
for money that Samuel had lent him." The
intention of the announcer was thus to demon-
strate that so great is the Jew's love of money
that he is ready to sacrifice his own son for it.
A Jewish Communist Libels Zionism
DO YOU WANT TO BE A
If the Christmas message is not even for
Christians. what shall Jews expect and what
do they think of this Christmas message, the
message that glorifies the birth of another
Jewish child, which, like so many Jewish chil-
dren before and after him, blessed and exalted
the human race and brought to it messages
of light and deliverance! Peace on earth,
good-will to Men. There is neither peace nor
good-will to Jews in the world. I do not say
that every Jew on earth is the victim of the
annulment of the message of peace and good.
will and that all Christians are the violators
of the message of peace and good will. But
I do say that there are more numerous and
grave violations of the spirit of peace and
good-will than at any previous time in human
history in countries in which Jews have dwelt
for many centuries. Five of them I name
and, alas, most group together. Germany,
Poland, Austria, Hungary and Rumania, to-
gether comprising a Jewish population of one-
third of the Jews of the earth, seem not only
to have abrogated the Christian message, but
also to have annuled the moral law In their
dealings with Jews.
If there were such a thing as a Christmas
message worth hearing, the civilized world,
led by these United States, England and
France, would have said long before this to
Nazi Germany, thus far shalt thou go and no
further, that racial religious group, which in-
cluded the Nazarene child, is not to be made
the victim of the most fantastic and barbarous
injustice that men have known in a thousand
years. I know what the poor, unsatisfying
answer to the Jewish question is to my peo-
ple. There can be no Christmas message for
Jewa as long as the Christmas message is not
even valid for Christians. In a word, the
Jews are the victims not of Christianity but
of religious negation, of religious denial, in
truth by them who affirm it in words. Poor
sad, dispiriting comfort it Is, but how can my
fellow-Jews expect that Christendom will
translate the Christmas message into living
sympathy with the Jew until after Christen-
dom has been Christianized by the Christmas
message? Peace on earth and good-will to
men!
A few days ago Sir Ronald Storm, for-
mer governor of Jerusalem, expressed the
belief that foreign propaganda is respon-
sible for the outrages in Palestine. This
view has been held by many other leaders
in England. Judging by the incident just
quoted, it is reasonable to believe that
the Nazi ideology has been swallowed
hook, line and sinker by Arabs for whom
even the good brought to Palestine by
Jews is not sufficient reason for displaying
a little bit of decency. But the action of
the government of Palestine in permitting
such damaging and untruthful drivel to
The Spirit of Christmas
be broadcast merely adds insult to the in-
Those who insist that the Christmas fes- juries from which the Jewish settlements
tival has lost its religious significance and have suffered.
has assumed only a civic and gift-giving
spirit will have much explaining to do in
answer to a sermon delivered by the Rev.
Dr. William Norman Guthrie, pastor of
St. Marks'-in-the-Bouwrie.
Th.. Guthrie's sermon was interpreted
as having contained a thinly veiled sugges-
tion for a boycott of Jewish merchants
who did business on Christmas Day. In
ith Demos be stated that Christians should
berme an stores that "exploited the holy
far beim purposes. Nothing is
amoselog than when people's holy
By LOUIS PEKARSKY
I
By
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
"So you want to be a scenario
writer?"
SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE JEWS. By Robert Gessner. F
& Rinehart, New
Thousands of high school teach-
York. ($3).
ers, college instructors and par-
ents have smiled approvingly as
AN AMERICAN TESTAMENT: A Narrative of Rebels and Romantics. By Joseph Freeman.
F
& Rinehart, New York ($3.).
they repeated these words to
countless eager youths and adults,
too, all aspiring to become Robert
Riskins, Lillian liellmans or Mor-
It is the unfortunate lot of the Jews that
British administration in Palestine and in de-
rie Ryskinds.
their intellectuals are concerned with everybody's scribing the rise of the Arab nationalist move-
And so, typewriters and note
sheets well in hand, thousands em- struggles but their own. Jews are considerably ment. His rabid anti-Zionism would be excus-
bark every year for the fabled more worried over the status of the Negro in
able on many grounds if only he were to deal
gold fields of Hollywood to bom- this country than they are over the conditions
with the issues dispassionately. But a compari-
bard the film studios with stories,
of oppressed Jewa in Poland and Rumania. A
son of his views on Palestine with those of Rus-
synopses and ideas. Some wisely
young American Jew has for a long time con- sia indicate at once where he stands. He went
remain at home, perform their
workday tasks in offices, stores
cerned himself more with the troubles of the
to Palestine with a preconceived prejudice and
and filling stations, write in their Indians than with the horrible declassification he also went to Russia /with a set idea of the
leisure time and enrich Uncle
of the Jewish masses.
superiority of everything that smacks of the So-
Sam's postal department with
This tragedy of our intellectuals is one of
viet. Ile speaks derisively of everything that
their Hollywood correspondence.
But invariably every instance, the symptoms of the manner in which Jews who is Jewish outside of Russia, but everything that
scripts are returned to the wait- are remote from their people seek to escape from
is inside of Russia becomes noble in his eyes.
ing hopefuls unread, unopened,
and without a word of explana- this problem which is in reality as much theirs In Palestine the Hebraism of the Jew is his sore
spot but in Russia Yiddish becomes a marvelous
tion other than a polite note stat- as it is that of the oppressed elements.
ing that such and such studio does
This is the tragedy of Robert Gessner, who national weapon, and he sees a perpetuation of
not accept unsolicited manuscripts
for several years has been known as the brilliant a Jewish culture—statistical and true facts to
As one, the youths mutely throw
arms heavenward for explana- writer of "Massacre," a work which has com- the contrary nothwithstanding—even with an in-
, yelled the United States government to inves•
tions.
crease in intermarriage which he strongly advo-
How does Hollywood expect to tigate the conditions of the Indians and make
cates and endorses.
get new blood that it cries for? provisions for their relief. Robert Gessner was
The manner in which Gessner jeers at Iferzl
Why should even a reading be re-
fused my efforts? And most im- more sympathetic towards the Indian than he is is one of the disgusting elements that makes his
portant: How can I secure a foot- towards the Jew. The Indian fared better at book degrading and insulting. It is evident that
hold as a scenario writer?
his hands in "Massacre" than the •Jew does in
he has read a lot—and that he has mutilated a
Seeking an authoritative reply "Some of My Best Friends Are Jews."
lot. He has managed to take single phrases and
to these questions, we consulted
It
is
reasonable
to
believe
that
if
wealthy
sentences from entire speeches by Dr. Chaim
Jerry Sackheim, scenario chief of
Indians
were
to
set
out
on
their
own
responsi-
New Universal Pictures. Mr.
Weizmann and Miss Henrietta • Szold—the only
Sackheim is a former writer and
bility to search for relief of their kinmen, that
two Jewish leaders for whom he apparently has
producer himself, and not so long Mr. Gessner would not expect them to devote
any respect at all—and has used them like the
ago was struggling for recogni-
more time towards the solution of the problem
traditional devil to quote Scripture for his pur-
tion in this creative department
of
impoverished
white
or
Negro
neighbors
of
the
of the motion picture industry.
pose.
Officially Jerry Sackheim is execu-
Indians than of the Indians themselves. But his
Perhaps the only commendable portion of
tive assistant to Charles Rogers, visit to Palestine has brought young Gessner
the entire- book is the respect with which he
studio and production head, and
back
to
this
country
with
an
atrocious
and
vi-
in charge of Universal Studio's
speaks of his father and of his father's benevo-
writers. He knows the writing cious book in which he sets forth the idea that
lence but even that paragraph is considerably
field thoroughly, its pitifalls and Jewa. who are pressed with the responsibility of
marred by his reference to his father as a
barriers, and is in sympathy with
saving many millions of impoverished and per-
the movement for youth and new
"shnek." In a footnote• he mistranslates this
(secuted members of their people ought to spend
blood in the industry.
term as meaning "good fellow." In reality it
Sackheim smiled in recognition. as much time in behalf of the Arab as they do means "sucker." But this is not the only mis-
Ile had encountered these inquiries for the Jew.
translated term for which he is to be blamed.
before. From university officials
What makes Gessner's idea even more fan- The ignorance which marks his Jewish references
and clubwomen, from anybody
tastic
is
the
fact
that
he
knows,
and
quotes
the
and everybody who had an inter-
is evidenced in practically every footnote that
est in the unborn scenario-writing fact in his book, that comparatively little money
is to be found in the book. For instance, in ex-
careers of friends and relatives.
has gone into Palestine through the Jewish Na-
plaining the meaning of the term "cantor" he
"I'll try to be brief," he stated.
tional
Fund
and
the
Keren
Ilayesod.
Yet
he
"Despite the desire in Hollywood
wrote: "A cantor is another unusual character,
for new writers with new ideas, would have us save the Arab even before we holding an ambiguous office in the house of Is-
one of the staunchest rules of the save the Jew, at a time when we are pressed for
rael. He is too religious to be an opera singer
studios is that no material shall
every moment and for every penny in providing and too artistic to be a rabbi. He is neither and
f rom
3el sources relief for our needy.
or r unknown
a
nwriters.
lk1w
yet both. In the theological hierarchy he ranks
It would take as much space as Gessner has
is the fear of plagiarism and its
above a shammos, but below a rabbi."
heavy financial toll, as well as the used for his entire book to point out all the sins
This reviewer read Ludwig Lewisohn's re-
inconvenience and embarrassment he has committed and all the misquotations and
view before he read the book. He -felt that a
of law suits.
"Among unknown writers there misrepresentations which make his book a miser- grave injustice was done to Gessner's parents
are two types of plagiarism criers able libel against the Jewish people. Gessner mis- by Mr. Lewisohn. But then he read the book,
we fear. One is the would-be au- represents the fact that Arabs were unemployed
thor who Is low enough to copy a in the tens of thousands before Jews came to and he came to the conclusion that Lewisohn
could have been even more severe in his criticism
story from an old magazine and
try to sell it se his own. Should Palestine, whereas now, as has been ascertained of the author and his book, although he still feels
at the hearings of the Royal Commission, only
It be bought and put on the screen
that the eminent critic erred in his references
this naturally brings the real about 2,000 of them are unemployed. He mis-
author or his heirs down on our represents the fact that the Arab population has to Gessner pare.
The Seven Arts Feature Syndicate invited
necks with legitimate complaints
increased, not as he says by 28 per cent since
and demands. The author is in the
Gessner and his publisher, John Farrar, to reply
1921,
but
by
approximately
90
per
cent.
He
right and the studio is in the
to Lewisohn. Gessner's statement proves how
wrong, for it is our businesa to does not show the truth that Jews have brought
dispassionate a writer can be in replying to at-
know what we are buying.
prosperity to the Arabs and have raised their tacks but
how ridiculously unfair he can be in
"The other amateur writer who
standards
of
living.
Perhaps'
the
worst
libel
is
has caused unwarranted trouble
the book itself. The lack of temper in Gessner's
to the studios is not quite as un- his misrepresentation of the status of the Hints-
answer to Lewisohn does not correspond with
scrupulous as his brother. He is druth and of the fact that the Jews have actu-
the type who unsuccessfully sub- ally organized Arabs into labor unions and that the vicious and prejudiced attitude he adopts to-
wards Palestine and whatever smacks of Jewish-
mits stories to the picture plants
and several months, even years, Arabs have frequently co-operated with Jews.
ness in the efforts for national rejuvenation. His
later, witnessing a film similar to
Proof of Arab Workers' Friendship
publisher comes to his defense willingly, but we
his In various respects, virtually
Only a few days ago, on Dec. 29, a cable doubt whether he would have published the book
rises in his seat crying 'Stop,
was
received
from
Jerusalem
quoting
an
appeal
thief!' Needless to say, no studio
if he had known the actual facts as they were
would consciously use an idea or to the Arabs of Palestine to work in co-opera- mutilated by Gessner.
story to which it wasn't entitled. tion with the Jews issued by the Arab Workers'
The Biro Bidjan Farce
There are too many good scenarios Club of Haifa which is affiliated with the Arab-
and playa to be bought from estab-
It is of importance also to make reference
Jewish
Workers'
Federation.
This
appeal
charged
lished authors.
to Gessner's super-enthusiasm for Russia and
"And so these two chiseling Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascists,
Biro Bidjan. Gessner did not go to Biro Bidjan,
types, rare as they were, have with fomenting anti-Jewish activities among Pal-
but he tells us in his book that the moment he
forever deafened motion picture estinian Arabs. It charged that Mosley's anti-
executives to the earnest and de-
got to Russia he learned that Jewish masses were
serving pleas of their brother as- Semitic material was distributed among the
enthusiastically prepared to greet the Biro Bid-
pirants.
Arabs. It denounced "the incitement which is
"Which brings us," Sackheim ruining the country" and appealed for "a com- jan miracle. The truth of the matter is, as it is
related to us by people who travel through Rus-
continued, "t o the question:
'Where do we get new blood?' and mon life, peace and labor."
sia, that the Jews in the Soviet do not even know
This is only one of the actual proofs of the
'How can I break into film writ-
much about the Biro Bidjan plans and the fact
ing?' The answer is: magazine truth in a case which is so grossly misrepresented is that not
a single Jew outside of Russia has
fiction, novels, plays and radio. by Gessner. If he were only to look back to the
been settled in Biro Bidjan during the past year.
These are the training grounds
through which every scenarist days of previous anti-Jewish outbursts by Arabs
The further truth is that Russian Jews themselves
must pass. If you succeed in pub- he would find that they invariably concluded with
stay away from there and that the young
lishing a novel, several magazine peace feasts between Jews and Arabs, with de-
Jews in Soviet Russia are moving away from the
stories, or broadcast a number of termined efforts on the part of Arabs to live
small communities and the agricultural centers
radio dramas, you are eligible for
Hollywood. Your stories and harmoniously with the Jews. Only the machina- and are going to the big cities. The Biro Bid-
scenarios will be accepted and tions of the effendis have caused rifts between
jan Jewish population remains below the 12,000
read by studio officials in addition Arabs and Jews.
mark and the admitted fact is that not a
to the systematized readings your
single
The book does paint some very true pic- Jewish
family from Poland has gone to Biro Bid-
published writings receive in our
tures relative to the position of the Jews in
constant research for good dia-
jan during 1936 in spite of all the ballyhoo and
Poland, with regard to the unfairness of the
logue and plot constructors.
(Mien TURN TO
MIXT PAGI)
Jewish Frontier Community
Still Thriving in Oregon
Shades of the old West and the regular pogrom every other day
inevitable Jewish pioneers of early with Sugarman as the victim,"
frontier communities have been I Rabbi Berkowitz remarks. "Now,
after 30 years, he is one of the
conjured up by reports from the kings of Klamath Falls, and today
"last frontier" which have just he is showing off a rabbi, the first
been received by the Commission one in the town's history to make
on Synagogue Activities of the a speech here."
Union of American Hebrew Con- I
"I Ain't Mad at Nobody" is Su-
gregations. The frontier town is garman's
slogan which he displays
Klamath Falls, Oregon and It num.;
on
his thriving store end uses in
ben 15 Jewish souls among Its, all his
advertisements.
Indicative
colorful inhabitants.
Klamath Falls has all the ch•.-- of his courage and Jewish con-
sciousness
was
the
prominently-
acteristics of the towns which displayed "ad" which appeared in
figure in moving-picture "West-
erns": ten-gallon hats, Indians, the town paper just before the
of Atonement. It read:
open gambling and picturesquely' Day
"In observance of the sacred
crowded streets. Last month a Jewish
holiday, Yom Kippur, this
rabbi made a speech in Klamath store will
closed Friday at sun-
Falls, the first speech by a rabbi down until be sundown
Saturday. To
in the history of the town. Rabbi our friends and customers who had
Henry J. Berkowitz made the 350- I planned on shopping here we are
mile trip from Portland upon the sorry for the inconvenience this
invitation of tt4 leader of the closing may cause you—but we
little Jewish community, K. Su- I can't
help it!"
german.
Sugarman is a Rumanian Jew;
who came to Klamath Falls when
Charles Angoff, ex-editor of the
its population consisted of 100 American Mercury, and Louis
cowhands and 400 Indians. Having Weitsenkorn, former Sunday edi-
built up ■ flourishing business, AP' tor of the New York World, will
ter three decades he is now one of be co-editors of • new weekly
which will rip the lid off every-
the community's leaders.
"Klamath Falls used to hold •I thing and everybody.
OFF MY CHEST
The Lesson of Spain
By PIERRE VAN PAASSEN
Strietlg
Confidential
Tidbits from Everywhere
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
lOopyrighl, 1517, 8 A. P
COMMUNAL. NOTES
None of the gentlemen promi-
nently mentioned as candidates
for the executive secretaryship of
the Bnai Brith will get the job.
That merger between the New
York and Brooklyn Federations
of Jewish Charities is an ac-
complished fact ... The announce-
ment is due any day ... We hear
that the blending came about when
some of the Brooklyn institutions
were tottering fianacially . . . It
is said that 22 of New York's
wealthiest Jews kicked in with
$400,000 to finance the merger
after a breakfast pow-pow In the
home of Felix M. Warburg.
Dorothy Waring, ace anti-Nazi
prober, tells us that the yarn
about her being hired by Jacob
Ruppert, beer magnate, for a
special anti-Nazi job is hooey ...
And she also says that Ruppert
has nothing to do with any anti-
Nazi outfit.
Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of
the Jewish Theological Seminary,
reveals that he earned his first
money as a reporter on the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger ... His as-
signment (which he called to the
editor's attention himself) was to
cover the settlement of Jewish
farmers at Vineland, N. J. . . .
Incidentally, did you know that
the Jewish Theological Seminary
once held classes at Cooper Union?
The Cohens and their relatives,
the Kahans, Kahanes, Cones, etc.,
still take up the most space in the
New York telephone directory
They fill 26 columns ... The Levys,
Levis, Levines and Lewises are
runners-up, with 20 columns . , .
The Smiths and Browns are poor
thirds and fourths, having only
14 and 13 columns, respectively.
NAZI NEWS'
The American Federation of
Labor ought to look into the mat-
ter of Nazis and Hitler agents
serving as scabs on American-
owned ships against which the
seaman are striking.
You haven't heard the end of
that invitation to Germany to par-
ticipate in New York's World
Fair . . . Some of the biggest
backers of the fair may cancel
their contributions if the swastika
floats over the fair grounds.
If U. S. Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., of Massachusetts finds
the anti-Semites hot on his trail
he ran blame it on the fact that'
he has named Jacob Spiegel of
Boston as his secretary and Max-
well Rabb of the same city to his
secretarial staff.
Leonard Lyons, keeper of the
New York Post's Lyons Den, in-
sists that one of the most popular
songs in Nazi Germany was writ-
ten by Joseph Rumshinsky, East
Side Jewish composer, and sold
there under a pseudonym , And
Lyons also roars that the German
delegation of the Noblemen's Club
had the best time when the club
held Its annual outing at a kosher
hotel in Lakewood.
Hand the palm for this crack
to Harold A. Henry of the Los
Angeles Press . . . Says Henry:
"Wonder if Wally Simpson could
dig up a girl friend in Baltimore
who could make Hitler abdicate."
In Photoplay Magazine George
Jesse' quips that he has had an
offer from Hitler—three weeks'
personal appearance in Germany,
with all funeral expenses paid.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Morton Feigen, the American
correspondent of the Zionist Rec-
ord of South Africa, works at an
open-earth furnace in the mills of
the Inland Steel Company in the
Middle West . . . At night he at-
tends law school.
When Governor Lehman was in-
augurated for his third term he
became the fifth of New York's 45
governors to win three successive
terms.
If you want to make funny
cracks about Henri Bernstein's
play "Promise," just remember
that he has been challenged to
fight more duels than any other
man of letters . . . Incidentally,
he's also France's most popular
dramatist and a fellow • whose
plays stir up excitement among
Jews and anti-Semites alike . .
Benjamin and Raymond J. Lepow
of New York have names that fit
their business perfectly ... They
are the world's leopard kings.
When Dr. Bernard D. Marton
gets tired of being the rabbi of
Shaarev Zedek Congregation in
Coney Island he can be a professor
at Brussels University in Belgium
. . . lie's just had the honorary
degree of professor conferred upon
him.
Council Publishes 80-Page Pamphlet
"Proposed Roads for American Jewry"
Prof. Morris Raphael Cohen, American Jewry can find
re-
Prof. Erich Gutkind and Marvin newal of its forces in the tradi-
Lowenthal have collaborated in a tional beliefs of their forefathers.
symposium entitled "Pr op osed ' Professor Gutkind has been con-
What is taking place today Roads for American Jewry" which j sleeted with the faculty of the
National Council of Jewish !New School for Social Research
in Spain is of vital significance the
Women has just published under since the spring of 1934
and is
to the whole world. For the the auspices of its
committee on also a professor
of modern phi-
first time Fascism is not having contemporary Jewish affair of losophy at the Yeshiva
College. He
• walk-over. The Spanish peo- which Mrs. Maurice L. Goldman came to the United States from
New York is chairman. , Germany where he was professor
ple are giving the French and of Originally
delivered as addres- , of philosophy at Berlin
Univer-
the Germans and the Austrians ses in connection with the thir d
sity.
an object lemon how Fascism annual institute on contemporary
Prof. Cohen takes issue with Dr.
Jewish
affairs
held
in
must be combatted. For the
New York Gutkind in his paper entitled "As
City last June, the symposium was a
Liberal Views It." He declares
first time bourgeois liberals published as a result of the inter-
' th "there may
no final and
have understood that they must es t aroused by the discussion
of complete solution be of the Jewish
stand together with the work- the problem "The American Jew problem. We Jews can make the
at
the Crossroads," according to most effective contribution to civil-
ing class organizations if the
an announcement made by Mrs.
ization by being our own selves and
road to the marauders of hu-
Goldman
who is chairman of the not mere slavish copies of others.
manity is to be barred.
executive committee of the council. , What is required of us today is
The Fascist bloc Italy-Ger-
The American Jew at the cross-; to face more of the realities and
roads is the theme of the three !
many is disintegrating, falling essays,
not to be misled by traditional
each of which tries to pre-; phrases and common illusions." In
to pieces. Duce Mussolini, no sent answers
to
the questions , concluding his essay Prof. Cohen
more than France or England, "Wha
ar
t are we to do?" "What
the Jewish communities in
can afford to tee Germany in- course are we to pursue?" and urges
the country to make more ade-
stalled on the Mediterranean "What alternatives exist?"
quate
provisions for systematic
"Germany of Yesterday and
and on the Pyrenees. Italy's America of Today" is the subject study and research in the Jewish
supreme task in Europe is to of Mr. Lowenthal's essay, the field and points to the contribution
by the German and Polish
prevent Germany from gain- first in the booklet which com- made
Jews in this direction and con-
prises 80 pagest•
ing the supremacy in Central
trasts this with the large gifts for
Prof.
Gutkind
presents
in
"The
trLEAsE TURN To NIXT PAGE Road of the Spirit" the thesis that purely philanthropic par poses
made by American Jewry.
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