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January 8, 1937

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Gessner would be much more justified in
everything that he has said if Russia were ac-
tually to provide a haven of refuge for Jews
from persecuted countries, but in view of the
fact that not a single Jewish family has been
saved by the Soviets and that Palestine is the
only refuge that can be counted upon by Jews,
Gessner is not only committing a wrong by mis-
representing the facts but proves himself to be
unfaithful to intellectual duty.

There are some very fine pictures in Gess-
ner's book. Next to the decency with which he
treats his father, the illustrations are perhaps
the only good thing about the book. If there is
further doubt as to the validity of the harsh crit-
icisms heaped upon the book and its author, let
the readers judge by the title itself. Lewisohn
was right when he said that the book should
have been called "I Don't Want to Be a Jew."
He might have added that the author should
have said that it was written either by a Peruvian
or a Hottentot.

Joseph Freeman's 'American Testament'

It is difficult to figure out why Robert Gess-
ner had to resort to invective and slur in deal-
ing with the Palestine issue as a means of leading
up to his proffered Communist solution. After
all, every one has a right .to his political views.
Every Jew has a right to turn Communist, if he
so chooses, or to affiliate himself with any other
political group or economic faction. But it is
beyound comprehension why a man with intellect
should have to resort to misrepresentation and to
half-truths in presenting his views.
Joseph Freeman's "An American Testa-
ment," issued by the same publishing house (Far-
rar & Rinehart), seeks to accomplish the same
end: to narrate his approach to Communism.
But Freeman is dignified, and therefore gives the
immediate impression of being intellectually hon-
est. This is not the impression one gets from
Gessner's book.

Perhap Freeman's is the more logical, the
more dignified, the more honest view because he
is more steeped in Jewish learning than Gess-
ner. The latter's footnotes reveal an ignorance
of things Jewish which is more than appalling:
it is terrifyingly grating on the nerves of the
informed reader. Gessner is quite evidently
afraid of a truth which might minimize his Com-

munism, but it is not a bit scruplous about culling
sentences he likes from statements by Zionist
leaders whose complete speeches would nullify
his brief quotations. But not Freeman.
He
even quotes opposition views to his Communist
philosophy. He speaks dispassionately and nar-
rates with a definite measure of respect the past
of his people. A comparison of the two books
proves at once that it is inconceivable that
Freeman, like Gessner, should not have a good
word for Theodor Herzl.
Joseph Freeman's more interesting book
describes his turn from Zionism to Socialism, to
Communism. The able author describes his early
youth, the pogrom in his home village in the
Ukraine, his early activities in this country. He
relates his literary work which began with writ-
ing stories for the Young Judaean Magazine.

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which we are interested."
Mr. Mittleman, upon accepting
the appointment as co-chairman
of the trade council. said:
"I am in full agreement with
the plans that the work of the
Allied Jewish Campaign should be
conducted on the basis of trade
and professional divisions. I am
especially pleased to know that we
are starting long enough in ad-
vance so as to be able to clarify
prospective contributors and thus
be able to contact every Jew in
the community who is in a posi-
tion to make a contribution."
Mr. Blumberg, who has served
in the past five Allied Jewish Cam-
paigns and has been among the
most active and the most success-

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A regrettable note is Freeman's giving valid-
ity to a prejudice which was in reality a joke
but to which he gives credence as if it were an
absolute fact. Thus he quotes the mothers of the
east side as saying: "I would rather that you
should—God forbid—marry a shikse than a
Galitzianer." Even the most gullible never gave
the stamp of reality to this fable.

At school Freeman learned of class disiinc-
tions. He was a leader in coming to the de-
fense of a Negro athlete who was discriminated
against. His radical activities actually started
at that time.

It would have been too much of a shock to
expect that Freeman should remain a Zionist
and at the same time accept Communism. lie
turns against Zionism which becomes a sem-
blance of medievalism for him. But he is not
offensive. In fact, he does not hesitate to quote
a Trotskyite. For example, he gains the con•
fidence of Tamara, who relates to him that one
of her fellow workers called her aside and apol-
ogized to her when she discovered that she was
Georgian, that she was not Jewish. Asked for
the moral, Tamara told Freeman:
"Trotsky is a Jew, and Karnenev, and Zino-
viev, and Radek."
There is a serious implication here. Free-
man belittles that charge. During the recent
massacre of the 16 Trotskyites in Russia there
were charges that there was a Jewish angle in
that issue. Freeman is strictly a Stalinite. lie
did not hesitate to quote the above story and to
tell the ascribed moral. That stamps his book
with a mark of fairness. lie did not fear opposi-
tion when he wrote his narrative.
Freeman's book is so much superior to Gess-
ner that it is painful to make comparisons. But
the sensational note that is being given Gess-
ner's pack of insults calls for a bit of debunking.
Furthermore, the anti-Zionists who did ne' stop
at anything to harm Palestine will undoubtedly
accept Gessner's views as the messianic note
they need for a justification of their bigoted op-
position to the cause of Jewish national renais-
sance in Palestine. Therefore a warning in ad-
vance is in order against the untruths that domi-
nate Gessner's writing. By comparison we com-
mend highly the work of another Jewish Com-
munist who is dignified because he is quite evi-
dently inherently prepared to know and to value
with honesty the facts about Jewish life.

ful solicitors, similarly expressed sional organization will, I ant sure,
satisfaction with the advance work be recognized as a step in the
now being conducted by the cam- right direction."
paign planning committee.
The campaign planning com-
"I am more than happy to serve mittee under the chairmanship of
on the campaign planning com- Mr. Stutz includes the following:
mittee with Mr. Stutz, and as co-
Harold C. Allen, Sidney J. Al-
chairman of the trade council len, Maurice Aronsson, Ilarry II.
with Mr. Mittleman." he stated. Bielfield, Irving W. Blumberg,
"I am confident that Mr. Stutz Joseph II. Ehrlich, Mrs. Joseph
is doing a great service by pro- H. Ehrlich, Clarence H. Enggass,
posing the plan for the spreading Samuel Frank, Marvin B. Gingold,
of the work of Allied Jewish Cam- Fred A. Ginsburg, Mrs. Samuel R.
paign workers over a longer per- Glogower, Harvey H. Goldman,
iod of time than the three or four Harry S. Grant, Julian II. Krolik,
weeks prior to the campaign, and Mrs. Walter Laib, Henry Levitt,
I feel that the development of M. A. Mittleman, Gus D. Newman,
this plan will be a boom to our Meyer L. Prentis, Louis Robinson,
community. The element of co- Alex Schreiber, Simon Shetzer,
operation which is being consid- Harry It. Solomon, Abe Srere,
ered for the campaign among Sidney Stone, Joseph M. Welt,
various chairmen and the advance Melville S. Welt, Henry Wine-
work to cover every possible per- man. Mrs. henry Wineman, Julian
son through a trades and profes- L. Zemon.

Seminary Exhibit Presents Panoramic
View of Fifty Years of Jewish Life

e um o f
countr, t h e A rue hC omp let
Dr. Alexander Kohut and the
original call to organize the sem-
inary in 1886 are among some
of the rare documents to be ex-
hibited.

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plomacy. This common basis
of interests is drawing Musso-
lini out of the temporary ar-
rangement of collaboration with
the Reich. Germany will have
to look elsewhere for allies. For
the moment Hitler faces isola-
tion.
Certain newspapers in the
United States which but yester-
day branded Mr. Roosevelt a
Communist are going to be fur-
ther discredited in the public
eye for their false and mislead-
ing interpretation of the back-
ground of Spanish events. For
whoever says that it is a fight
between Fascism and Commu-
nism in that country simply
does not know what he is talk-
ing about. When General
Queipo de Llano, the rebel-
broadcaster at Seville, states
that Spain, having saved Europe
three times—once front the
domination of the Moors, the
second time from the Jews, the
third time from the poison of
Protestantism—now makes a
supreme effort to break down
the stranglehold of Marxism, he
is deliberately lying insofar as
the position of the Marxists is
concerned in Spain. The Com-
munists are the smallest group
on the Frente Popular.
Democracy is going to be vic-
torious in Spain Madrid not
only becomes the Tomb of Fas-
cism in Spain, but the superb
heroism of the Spanish people
in defending their capital
against the hordes of profes-
sional killers of the Tercio will
come to be looked upon in the
near future as the turning-
point in Europe's drift towards
the abyss. For the first time
the world has seen how Fascism
must be combatted. It is now
realized that compromise and
the principle of give and take
when it comes to Fascism are
disastrous to the democracies.
The lesson of Spain will not be
wasted on the liberals and
workers of France, Belgium,
Holland and Britain. The slo-
gan of the Spanish Frente Pop-
ular, No Pasaran! becomes the
rallying cry of all forward-
looking men and women the
world over.

Around each document, there
is a story. Take, for instance,
Louis Marshall's letter to Mr.
Rosenwald. Written on Aug. 6,
1929, aboard the S. S. Majestic,
when Mr. Marshall was returning
to this country after a trip abroad
for his health, the letter is a plea
to Mr. Rosenwald to lend financial
assistance to the seminary. It is
a plea that Mr. Rosenwald ac-
cepted and which only his own
death shortly thereafter kept him
from fulfilling.
On the death of Mr. Marshall,
Mr. Rosenwald undertook to give
$500,000 to a Marshall memorial
fund on condition that the semi-
nary raise $5,000,000 for that
purpose. But the depression in-
tervened and before Mr. Rosen-
weld could take steps to amend
his conditional gift, he died. In-
teresting in this connection is a
letter from Mr. Rosenwald to
Prof. Louis Finkelstein of the
seminary, written just a few days
before the financial bubble of
1929 burst, in which he urged the
professor. who was then president
of the Rabbinical Assembly, to
move the alumni to do their share
toward raising the Marshall fund
while it was still possible.
The Baron Guinabarg Deal
There are other stories in these
documents. Perhaps the most col-
orful and romantic is that of the
Baron Guinzborg Lib r a r y in
which war and revolution con-
spired to keep the seminary from
adding another notable collection
to its already famous library of
Hebrew books and incunabula.

Prof. Alexander Marx and Louis
Ginsberg, acting for the seminary,
ry,
had negotiated for the purchase
of the de Guinzburg Library and
on July 21, 1914, Baroness Mathl-
de de Guinzburg signed an agree-
ment providing for the sale of the
library to the seminary for 200,•
000 rubbles. But war broke out
and it was impossible to make
delivery; then in 1917 the Russian
Revolution intervened. The semi-
nary, as a result, gave up its
claims to the library, never turn•
ing over the purchase price to
Baroness Guinzburg. Since then,
the library has been purchased for
the Hebrew University in Jerusa-
lem which, though having already
paid for it, has been unable to
get it out of Russia because of the
unwillingness of the Soviet gov-
ernment to allow it to leave the
country.
Other amusements and docu-
ments tell other stories. episodes
in the life of the Jewish Theo-
logical Seminary and American
Jewry.

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Affairs which were sponsored
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ganization during the past year to
obtain funds to carry on this work
included luncheons, a play at the
Jewish Community Center by mem-
bers of the Flint Community Play-
ers, n dramatic reading by Mrs.
Herbert Metz of Detroit, a garden
party at the home of Mrs. Louis
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year, the seventh annual donor tea
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speaker.
Officers include: president, Mrs.
Louis Le b a t e r; vice-presidents,
Mrs. Gilbert Fienberg, and Mrs.
Hymen Leff; secretary, Mrs. H. II.
Keston; treasurer, Mrs. Maurice
Rotenberg. Committee chairmen
include: Membership, Mrs. Leff;
infant welfare, Mrs. Fienberg;
Palestine supplies, Mrs. Nathan
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His later efforts in the Poole Zion, his associa-
tion with Emanuel and Joshua Neumann who
were for years very prominent in Zionist work,
and with their father who was their Hebrew
teacher, are given Prominence in the early pages
of the book. Then follows a lengthy introspec-
tion which provides a view into his innermost
soul and into the reasons for his Communism.
The book is important for the description
of the numerous associations with Communist
leaders and workers, There is a vivid narra-
tion of the years he spent in Soviet Russia. On
the whole he builds up an excellent case for him-
self. The chief regret is that he does not corn.
plete his work up to the present—that it ends
before 1930 and does not tell how he would re-
act to a Palestinian solution for the masses of
Jews oppressed who, even if they wanted to,
could not enter Soviet Russia as settlers.

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the coming month are: Detroit
Service Group. Hebrew Free Loan
Association, House of Shelter,
Jewish Community Center, Jewish
Old Folks' Home. United Hebrew
, Schools, Jewish Children's Home.
Agencies wh i ch
their own memberships and which
will hold their annual meetings
in conjunction with the Federa-
tion are: Fresh Air Society, Jew-
ish Child Placement Bureau. Jew-
ish Social Service Bureau, Jewish
Unemployment Emergency Coun-
cil, North End Clinic, United
Jewish Charities.

Educational Meetings

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the auspices of the Detroit Serv-
ice Group of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit.
Harry L. Jackson will preside
at the meeting of the recreation
and education committee of the
Detroit Service Group to be held
on Jan. 10 at the Jewish Com-
munity Center. Ray Johns, state
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and
director of NYA guidance work,
will conduct a panel of club lead-
ers bringing out the problems of
club work. A summary of the pro-
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and require adult decisions.
The initial meeting of the non-
local agencies committee of the
Detroit Service Group will be held
in the form of a symposium on
Wednesday, Jan. 13, at 8:15 p.
m. in the Men's Club room of
Temple Beth El. The symposium
will deal with the work of Pales-
, tinian agencies which are sub-
sidized by the Jewish Welfare
Federation through the Allied
i Jewish Campaign. They are as
follows: United Palestine Anneal,
IMizrachi, Jewish National Fund,
the Hebrew University and the
Rothschid-Iladassah U n i v e rsity
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